Seattle, August 2010

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Contributors
News & Notes
How to Write Right
Around Town
Events calendar
The Curator's Eye

Online Stories

I’ll Never Live This One Down

Members of New Century Theatre Company reveal their most memorable onstage moments.

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The Cover

Our editor describes the journey we took to execute this month's cover design.

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The Doing and The Teaching

One of Seattle’s most prolific performance artists considers the bittersweet reality of the artist’s double-life. A continuation of the Soapbox Artist series, in which local artists sound off on...whatever they like.

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Style Scholar: Inspiration Board

Clippings, color swatches and collage that informed the look for August's Style Scholar page.

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Featured Stories

Fwd:

The members of the New Century Theatre Company take a break in the middle of their sophomore season to offer insight into the risky high wire of success and the future of theatre (their own and everyone else’s).
Renew

A year ago, nine golden figures suddenly appeared in Gas Works Park and then mysteriously disappeared. We discover their fate and celebrate public art that was never meant to be eternal.
Team Quileute

Seattle Art Museum tells the true story of the Native American wolf legends that Twilight made famous (and got wrong).
Not Fade Away

Tom Price helped the U-Men and Gas Huffer remake Seattle music. Now he defies Parkinson’s and rocks for his life.

First Up

&: The Art You Make

Erin Shafkind’s thirtieth-anniversary essay in honor of the Olivia Newton-John movie Xanadu, with visual art by Troy Gua and Klara Glosova.
Around Town

Forty years’ worth of Bumbershoot poster art (and cupcakes) invades City Hall.
Art Walk Awards: Digging Derrick

Derrick Jefferies wins the First Thursday Art Walk Award with macabre anatomical work, and promises “more ick to come.”

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Editor's Note: Believing

Editor Mark Baumgarten wanted to be an actor once. He reveals why it didn't quite work out.

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Fast Fact

Bizarre, obscure and entertaining trivia special to the cultural history of Seattle.

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Freedom Behind Bars

Famous choreographer Pat Graney busts into the Gig Harbor women’s prison and frees everybody through the magic of theatre and video.

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Hangout

Blogger Abbey Simmons breaks out of her day job and makes a big noise at Columbia City Theater.
How to Write Right: He Said? She Said?

Lessons and advice in grammar and style from City Arts' own copyeditor.

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Howard’s Not in the House

Why Billy Howard quit his famous gallery to be a financial advisor.

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Impenetrable Forest, Creative Solution

Gorilla tourism booted pygmies out of Africa’s Impenetrable Forest. Seattle artists plan to save them by teaching them to make art that tourists will buy.

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In Store

Unfolding the long history of Metsker Maps.
NOW

Your month in music, theatre, dance, visual arts, film and literature.
Shock of the New

Bumbershoot shocks traditionalists by adding pop topics to the literature mix: vampires and veterans of The Office, McSweeney’s, Letterman, Cartoon Network and Saturday Night Live.

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Style Profile: Not Blue

The vintage discoveries of No Depression publisher and Hattie’s Hat co-owner Kyla Fairchild.
Style Scholar: Happy Camper

Accessories inspired by Louise Erdrich’s woodsy book Jacklight.
The Curator's Eye

Five artists invade SAM’s Olympic Sculpture Park with installations as ephemeral as a summer butterfly.