Friday night Seattle gets a new art gallery -- BLVD, dedicated to urban contemporary art. (Note to the uninitiated: that's "boulevard," not "beloved.") We talked with gallerist Kirsten Anderson, who also owns Roq La Rue, the neighboring lowbrow/pop surrealism gallery, about urban contemporary art and what to expect from BLVD. You've said that, in a nutshell, lowbrow and pop surrealist artists grew up listening to punk and new wave, while urban contemporary artists grew up......

Seattlest sometimes has a hard time reading on the bus because we're too busy checking out what everyone else is reading. The 48 had a great vibe to it today, must be the increasingly yummy weather but everyone seemed happy and there was lots of reading to surreptitiously sneak a peek at. Kafka--We didn't catch which title, as the gal had it clutched to her with only the top of the book showing. Maybe this......