Seattle, December 2010

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Most Memorable Creative Impacts of the Decade

Or, how technology has invaded our lives.

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Handmade, without the Making

Ten great gift ideas from our favorite local crafters on Etsy.com.

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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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Featured Stories

Anatomy of a Booooooo!

Mad Rad’s polarizing emcee, Buffalo Madonna, tells us how it feels when his art inspires ire, while a handful of critics, artists and fans recall Seattle’s most memorable boo-fests.

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Cocaine Blues

Knut Bell's hard living almost killed him; now it's just a story he tells. The second in an original series of columns by Hannah Levin.

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Unplugging the Machine

Following the midterm elections, City Arts catches up with preeminent comic voice and social critic Harry Shearer to chat about talking heads and his current Henry Art Gallery show, which shuts them up.

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First Up

An Excerpt from 'A Wild River'

A play by John Longenbaugh in which a new, female pope is interviewed by a rock journalist.

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Around Town: The Gregory Awards

Washington theatre honors its own and Nick Garrison dons a dress at this year’s Gregory Awards.

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Art Walk Awards: Giving Us the Finger

Last month's Art Walk Award winner tells us how he's spending the $500.

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Blowing

Searching for Seattle's new jazz movement.

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Editor's Note: New Tradition

Executive editor Mark Baumgarten reflects more fully on the impact of the inaugural City Arts Fest.

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F-Bombs Away!

How many f-bombs in Fences' "Girls with Accents"? Not as many as there could be, apparently...

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Fast Fact

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

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Food Stuff: Burnin' for You

Wood-fired ovens put the heart back into dinner as Seattle’s restaurants build on a warming tradition.

With winter comes the undeniable urge to hibernate. When the sky turns black at four p.m., the only sensible thing to do is head inside and get cozy by the fire. Or the heater. Or, if you’re hungry, the oven.

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Hoax Alert: Save the hood. Live Better.

Early in the morning on October 23, Georgetown residents and business owners awoke to an unsettling sight. Rattling on the chain-link fence at the entrance to a parking lot in the south Seattle neighborhood was a sign carrying an ominous message: “Coming to Georgetown in 2011: Walmart...Save money. Live better.”

Georgetown's Walmart prankster speaks.

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How to Write Right: Might Makes Right

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

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In Store: The Odd Ball

Space Oddity Vintage Furniture Gallery: Keeping Ballard weird since 2006.

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In the Works: Whim W'him Rehearsals

A look behind the scenes at locally grown choreography that you won't want to miss.

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Northwest Passage: Andy Kotowicz

In memoriam.

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Style Profile: Unamerican Apparel

Humanities professor Charles Malody will go to the ends of the earth to find his threads – literally.

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The Art of Gifting

City Arts’ surefire guide to the perfect present for the art lover on your list, featuring fifteen great gift ideas and two shops you have to hit.

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The Cover: December 2010

Behind the scenes of this month's cover photo shoot.

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Time-Proof

A series of photographic collage by Seattle artist, Serrah Russell.

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Your Crooked Neighbor: Part 3

In he walked, wearing tight neon plaid pants, a purple tank-top and a fedora. I tried to ignore something my gut was telling me, something useless and unproductive about traditional values.

He looked good. I stood to give him a hug. He kissed my cheek.

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