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May 17, 2008
Alley Man by lachance This slightly creepy, very awesome image was plucked from the always awesome Seattlest Flickr Pool - thanks for sharing!...
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| May 16, 2008
That's what opener Anna Ternheim dubbed the Ternheim-Li-del Mar lineup at the Triple Door last night, the "Swedish girls tour." She was the solo singer/songwriter of the night, with a throaty, room-filling voice, a setlist stuffed with love and anti-love songs, and a guitar. (She also took over the grand piano.) "That one was about a girl who's a stalker," she mentioned off-handedly. "Any stalkers here tonight?" Her songs often ended surprisingly, in mid-flow. Twice...
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HUGE AMOUNTS OF CHEESE: The Cheese Festival is upon us! This is one of our top three favorite events of the year (#2: our birthday, #3: Christmas). Several reasons: a city block full of cheese, friendly vendors, wholesale prices on bottles in the wine garden (don't buy the red wine that says "bacon" three times in its description, we made that mistake last year), and (it bears repeating) a city block full of cheese. 10...
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This weekend, Seattle's prodigal dance son returns, as the Mark Morris Dance Group performs the 20th anniversary of Morris' epic classic, L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato. Yes, it is unseasonably sunny and warm out there, and you can simply extend your gorgeous day outside by taking in an evening of transcendant dance. Morris' inspirations are humble, really: the poet Milton, the composer Handel, and the painter William Blake. This is his capstone work, widely...
Continue Reading "Get Out: Mark Morris Dance Group"Random favorite moments from the show at WaMu theater last night, in no particular order: Mark McKinney's Chicken Lady projectile egg laying while having phone sex with Scott Thompson. Bruce McCulloch's annoying little boy character sabotaging the Jehovah's witnesses lecture. Did you know that you can get free rides on the bus if you tell the driver your mom died? Dave Foley uses a time machine to make happy hour his bitch. A salesy presentation...
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May 16, 2008
"Goose Family and the Barge" by seattlerealtorgal The slightly washed-out colors, graininess, and hazy skyline make Seattle look like some busy, grimy, Pacific-rim, port town with its fair share of insane scooter traffic, plentiful street-corner smokables, bawdy merchant marine conscripts, and bargain-priced sodomy. Dare to dream, Emerald City, dare to dream!...
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Heading to Portland this sunny weekend? If you answered, "Why yes I am," then you're no doubt also paying a visit, as per usual, to Powell's Books. While you're there, be sure to head up to the Pearl Room (where the Rare Book Room is located), where you'll be met with a visual treat sure to please your campy, polyester-wearing soul. Portland's Velveteria Museum of Velvet Paintings has taken over the art gallery space...
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HOT! SHORTS! SUNBURN! SPRING!: Or should we say "SUMMER!"? It's going to be hot and sunny and clear today. You can do something with that, or you can sit under a tree and do nothing. Just put on some shorts and a tank top while you do whatever it is you do to revel under father sky. We wanna see some skin in Cal Anderson Park today. Also, skin will likely be visible at...
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"Seattle Center in Miniature" by rgeorgi This and other weird/wonderful toy versions of our world can be found in our weird/wonderful Seattlest Flickr Pool....
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DJ Rare Groove spins for the crowd before Atmosphere's set. Slug's tidy ponytail gleams, silhouetted against changing red, green and aqua lights. He moves his body like he's got something to clarify. "Oh, you know this one too?" he asks the deliriously excited crowd, and of course the answer is yes. In Seattle, Atmosphere's emcee Slug--dark, emotionally tortured, pensive Lothario Slug--is a god. We seem to prefer our rockstars on the brooding but safe...
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POLAR BEAR APPRECIATION: If you’ve heard about global warming affecting the polar bears, you’ll want to head down to the Point Defiance Zoo for Bear Awareness Week. Learn more about the plight of the polar bear and watch the resident polar bears, Blizzard, Glacier, Kenneth and Boris, frolic. 9:30 a.m.- 5 p.m. // Point Defiance Zoo // $11 (adults) HUNGRY: In the not-so-starved neighborhood of Ravenna, author Mark Winne reads from his book, Closing...
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"Angular Shadows" by Ray Tracing It's entirely possible that these condos will never be more beautiful than they are in this picture. And all that beauty's on display in the Seattlest Flickr pool. Thanks for sharing!...
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DARK, CRAZY MEMORIES: Augusten Burroughs has a new memoir out—A Wolf at the Table. We don't have it yet, but a friend who does says it's exquisite. He'll be hitting Town Hall tonight to read from it. The Town Hall site sums up the story quite well: "Burrough’s dark story follows the radical pendulum swing between love and hate—stunning psychological cruelty, and ultimately, the redemptive power of hope." 7:30 p.m. // Town Hall // Free...
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We seem to be covering the benefit beat lately--Wednesday night David Schmader takes over the Triple Door to "annotate" Paul Verhoeven's "film" Showgirls. It's to raise money for the the Urban Rest Stop, a "hygiene center" downtown. We're for a free place for people to freshen up, don't get us wrong. It's just funny to have the Showgirls tie-in, in that the one and only time we watched it we had to take a long...
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Last night's show at Chop Suey was solid. Sure, they threw an extra band on the bill (meaning that it was doors 8, show 8:30), but both Ra Ra Riot and The Little Ones delivered with tight sets. And yet, there was something troubling in the air. What was it? Two words: Nag Champa. We have discussed this before: venues burning incense at a show is a no-no. Look, our seasonal allergies have been...
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May 13, 2008
"late night revision" by ChrisB in SEA Seattlest Flickr pool contributer ChrisB in SEA wonders if anyone else ever wanted to do marquee duty as a kid. Or an adult. Seattlest, for one, would still volunteer for the job. Anyone else?...
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Nas--NAS, people--is playing Showbox SoDo this Friday, and there are three possible reasons why tickets are still available. (1) No one knows he's coming (an unintentionally secret show?); (2) Word's gotten sufficiently around about Nas' weak live performance (but still... Nas!); or (3) Everyone's blown their ticket budgets on hipster-friendly Atmosphere, playing Tuesday at the same venue (for $20 less a ticket). Needless to say, Atmosphere and Nas don't really bring out the same crowd....
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Just before lunch we were bicycling down Broadway and this guy on the sidewalk asked us where the place was you can buy pizza by the slice. "Pagliacci," we called back. "What's to-day, my fine fellow?" he asked. "To-day!" we replied. "Why, Christmas Day!" That last part was not quite true. But it's like Christmas because Pagliacci Pizza is hosting a concert benefit, “A Night for Elise," at Neumo’s tonight, and that seems really nice....
Continue Reading "Pagliacci Benefit Tonight at Neumo's"We don't really know what can be said about Kate Walsh, other than we're not talking about the hottie from Grey's Anatomy/Private Practice. We're talking about the other Kate Walsh. The one who makes us want to bawl our eyes out with every single damn note she sings. Take this song "Tonight," for example: Also at the Tractor tomorrow are Brandi Shearer and Quincy Coleman. 9 p.m. // Tractor Tavern // $10 adv, $12 dos...
Continue Reading "Get Out Tuesday: Kate Walsh at the Tractor"As we have mentioned approximately nine million times before, Ra Ra Riot is a band you must see live. The Syracuse-based sextet has guitars, a cello, a violin, and energy to spare. Their music manages to be both uplifting and catchy, and their high-minded brand of articulate, orchestral pop always goes over well. Once again (as with every time we've seen 'em), they're an opening band on the bill, which makes things a little...
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What? What'd we say? We just heard that Starbucks has chosen a book by Seattle novelist Garth Stein to distribute wherever its grande americanos are sold. Titled The Art of Racing in the Rain, the novel has also won the hearts and minds of U.S. independent booksellers, who have made it their No. 1 Booksense recommendation for June. See, the story's narrator is a dog named Enzo (an idea Stein lifted from a Billy Collins...
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READING: We love to eat fish, but have been struggling with the morality of it since A) we don't eat other meat and B) we know commercial fishing is often environmentally unsound. In our research to discover if any fish is okay for a tree-hugging, animal anthropomorphizer to eat, we found Taras Grescoe and his book Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood which Salon says tells readers to ask the...
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This jumble of modern infrastructure masquerading as an Escher drawing was added to the Seattlest Flickr Pool by frequent contributor Slightlynorth....
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Don't call it a comeback, but the Cherry Poppin' Daddies have a new album out (Susquehanna) after a nearly ten-year hiatus. The '90s swing revival band plays two shows tonight at the Triple Door. Seems like local quartet Lucy Bland play a show every weekend. Tonight the blip-happy electro-pop band are at the Comet, and coming up at the High Dive, they're on the bill for the one of the many Noise for the Needy...
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When we walked into the Bagley Wright Theatre last night, we had absolutely no expectations from Aurelia's Oratorio. We'd seen the publicity photos and figured it had something to do with playful illusion, but that was the extent of it. What we saw was astounding. Curtains alive and in love, violent clothing, puppets watching a show starring Aurelia's head, and Aurelia's leg disappearing right in front of us, as a thread-hungry creature unravels the lace...
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May 9, 2008
If there's one thing you can say that the artists whose shows opens tonight at Roq la Rue have in common, it's that they both really like women. Esao Andrews, an NYC-based artist, likes to contort the feminine form into the oddest situations: stuck inside the bowl of a flower vase, riding a giant swan, or with a head blasting hot air into the sack of a hot air balloon. Japanese artist Fuco Ueda is...
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Someone named Shilo Urban at Seattle-based CultureMob claimed yesterday that: It’s going around the streets of Seattle like wildfire that Johnny Depp is going to buy the old Crocodile Cafe and make it much, much cooler (and hotter) than it ever was before. Apparently Seattlest isn’t in touch with "the streets," cuz we haven’t heard a thing. Or maybe we’re just not hanging with the right drunks. This is from several unreliable sources, some...
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READING: This weekend, 2008 Seattle Reads author Dinaw Mengestu is making the rounds to the city's libraries to read from The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears. This novel about immigrant life in D.C. has gotten so much love from so many corners that we're kind of ashamed we haven't read it already. If you don't want to purchase this book, sign up now on the Holds list at the library: we're currently Hold #424....
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"Norton at the Record Store" by seattlerealtorgal We've been sweet on square format photographs lately, but what really got us about this one was the brilliant splash of color—such fabulous colors in our beloved Georgetown to rival the colors in any other neighborhood. Show us your colors in the Seattlest Flickr pool. Thanks!...
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Get your dose of the Northwest’s latest and greatest performing artists at On the Boards Northwest New Works Festival the next two weekends, May 9-11 and 16-18. The festival showcases 20-minute sections of eight groups/artists’ works in progress, four on the mainstage, four in the studio. The segments include music, theatre, puppetry, dance, and drag. Whether you’re watching a simple solo narrative or a twenty-person musical extravaganza (and we’ve seen them!), you’ll be placing...
Continue Reading "On the Boards Showcases Northwest Talent"Attention all you videographers, long photographers, phonographers, experimental photographers, and media-ographers of all stripes... Given Flickr's recent implementation of video, your Seattlest photography komissars sequestered themselves to ponder thoughtfully on the possible implications of YouTube-style videos of last Saturday's kegger, say, or 90 seconds of impertinent poodle tricks on the purity of the photography pool. In the end, the passive voice stepped in and decisions were made. It was decided to make the photo...
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LIVE MUSIC: If you're looking to start your weekend a day early, why not head to the Showbox Downtown for Minus the Bear. Fresh off the hottness of Coachella, the band's back in town to rock you hard. 8 p.m. // Showbox Downtown // $17.50 adv, $20 dos // all ages ART & WINE: Personally, we can think of no better pairing than art and wine, when it comes to nights out. The Frye will...
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