Seattle, November 2010

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Online Stories

Remembering City Arts Fest One Tweet at a Time

An entertaining digest of what festival goers "Tweeted" from the ground during City Arts Fest 2010.

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Behind the Scenes: The November 2010 Cover

Our creative director describes the journey behind this month's crafty cover design.

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Liberated Is the New Black: Inspiration Boards

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

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Featured Stories

From Paris with Love

The Picasso Museum sends its treasures to Seattle Art Museum and snaps SAM out of its Black Period.

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Full Steam Ahead

Welcome to the strange new (yet old) world of steampunk, the Victorian sci-fi alternative scene that’s inspired bands, artists and prizewinning writers to throng Gas Works Park, Georgetown’s 1906 steam plant and this month’s nationally noted convention, Steamcon.

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Just Like Heaven

A Madrona supper club will teach you everything you need to know about what makes Seattle music great.

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The Best Revenge

With a jar of leeches and a seventeen-foot claw, Implied Violence returns from a prestigious New York residency with its first museum show, at the Frye.

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First Up

A Different Way

Culturati take back Seattle’s alleys.

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Amped: The Ben Verellen Sound

A local artist combines his electrical engineering degree with his long-time love of music.

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Around Town: Heineken City Arts Fest

The sights and sounds of the first-ever Heineken City Arts Fest.

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Art Walk Awards: Art with Nine Lives

The winner of October's Art Walk award, sculptor Ed Wicklander, tells us what he's spending the money on.

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Curator's Eye: Winston Wächter Fine Art

Edward R. Murrow’s grandson Ethan Murrow shows off the totally untruthful work that has won over collectors like Harrison Ford and Sheryl Crow.

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Disturbing Surface

Poetry by Nico Vassilakis

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Editor's Note: Aloha!

Our editor welcomes a new voice and bids farewell to two hard workers.

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Fact Check: Five Myths about the Chihuly Museum

Five misconceptions about Chihuly at the Needle illuminated.

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Fast Fact

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

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Food Stuff

Brackish is beautiful at Frank’s Oyster House & Champagne Parlor, the Walrus & the Carpenter and Anchovies & Olives.

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Great Escape: Mr. Killoren Goes to (the Other) Washington

Obama hires our culture czar Killoren.

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In Store: Left Field Hit

Where does Larry Mizell Jr. shop for old-time lettermen’s jackets? Officials Vintage, of course.

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Letter Constructions

Nico Vassilakis’s visual poems aren’t just inspired by the iPod, they’re created on one.

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NOW

Your month in music, theatre, dance, visual arts, film and literature.
Questions: Fashion Weak

Fashion rebel Steven Paul Matsumoto sounds off

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Style Profile: Fit for a Queen

Elfee Duquette of online mag Stylelikeu reveals her safest and most daring looks and names her ultimate idol: Audrey Hepburn.

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Style Scholar: Liberated is the New Black

Fashion, etc., inspired by Colette’s novel The Vagabond.

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Your Crooked Neighbor: Part 2

"Puke and Rally"

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