Seattle, October 2010

See the bizarre photo that won artist Andy Reynolds the $500 City Arts Best of Art Walk Award – and hear how he plans to spend it.

Seattle shocks citizens and tourists by locking shut its libraries to save $650,000 (.097% of our $67 million budget shortfall). The real cost? Our cultural reputation.

City Arts executive editor Mark Baumgarten soothes one very angry actor and clarifies why we're producing City Arts Fest.

The secret gardens that feed the city’s discerning diners.

If you write acronym-abusing things like “1/10^th,” our How to Write Right columnist will report you to the Department of Redundancy Department.

A poem by Seattle writer Steven Dold.

"Nana’s necklace brushing against the soft tummies of her babies as she diapered them, then the tummies of her babies’ babies."

Your month in music, theatre, dance, visual arts, film and literature.

Are the Head and the Heart the Fleet Foxes of 2010? They just graduated from the Tractor to the Paramount and signed with Neko Case’s agent.