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Later this month, when Ryan Adams takes the stage at Benaroya Hall for City Arts Fest, he will be doing so as a solitary artist coming off a two-year respite from performing that ended earlier this summer when he took a brief tour of the...
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If you'd rather get tickets to the specific Fest shows that really ring your bells—instead of buying an all-access wristband for the entire festival—you can. As of today, single tickets are on sale! Helio Sequence at the Laser Dome? Yes....
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As of today, you can get your all-access wristbands to the Oct. 20–22 Fest for $69. The lineup includes headliners Ryan Adams, Robyn, Built to Spill, Crystal Castles and Ozomatli, please tons more bands and some really stunning arts events...
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1. A box of fifty plus gift bags is too heavy for me to lift. (But not for our vice president!)
2. DJ Riz Rollins is a profound man, who rocks a backpack and profoundly awesome blue suede skater shoes.
3. Musical theatre doesn’t get enough...
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Belle and Sebastian
At Heineken City Arts Fest 2010 I found out that Belle and Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch (shown above) can freaking move! Justin Timberlake would have been impressed by Murdoch’s cross-stage capering. Even if none of the...
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Broadway great Oscar Hammerstein died fifty years ago, yet his influence on musical theater hasn't dimmed. NPR takes note of a new book written by Oscar Andrew Hammerstein, a fifth-generation Hammerstein, that tracks his family's influence...
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guerrillacandy: "Tonight I went from Zooey Deschanel shaking a tambourine to Big Boi singing "Shake it like a tambourine" A pretty good night. #cityartsfest"
Photo by Flickr user yoraps relapse
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Reflections from the Inaugural Heineken City Arts Fest
I’m still reeling from all the great music and art I saw this weekend (Dum Dum Girls! (shown above) Vaselines! Brother Ali! Poet Jason Whitmarsh!). Here are a few favorite moments in...
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The Sound of Music dueling with Cabaret? A drunken, drag “Send In the Clowns”? God on a stick? These were just a handful of the demented sights and sounds that bombarded me in rapid succession at “Dolls ’n’ Guys” at the Century Ballroom...
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City Arts contributor Kirk Michael (@thewhitetanktop) tweeted during the Highly Opinionated Tour of Picasso at SAM, led by artist Eli Hansen: "Lol at Eli in answer to a tourgoer's question: 'Yes, I've done some pretty important paintings...
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Dave Matthews (above, right) was spotted at the Crocodile last night during the City Arts Fest Weepies show, chatting with members of opening band the Head and the Heart, who are apparently one his new favorites.
City Arts Fest-goer kalekim...
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A live stream of our favorite scenes from Heineken City Arts Fest (Oct 20 - 23, 2010) in Seattle.
Photos by Rachel Vernon-Cole, Sarah Jurado, Heather Olson, Nate Watters and members of the City Arts Fest Flickr group.
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As part of the ongoing Fireside Chat series at Heineken City Arts Fest, City Arts editor Mark Baumgarten is sitting down with Chase Jarvis today to talk about Seattle 100, the exciting new book of Jarvis' photography that celebrates over...
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Seth Kolloen, writer for City Arts and the Sun Break tweets: "Attractive couple having a huge fight between sets. Start Maldives! Start! #cityartsfest"
Maldives band member Jason Dodson rocking out at Neumos during City Arts Fest. Photo by...
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A thinly veiled spin-off of Illuminating Things
1. Handing my debit card to the door man (when he asked to see my ID), and looking at him like he was crazy when he didn't take it.
2. Artist Don Fels' round, red spectacles.
3. The crowd's...
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From Sarah Jurado (who also happened to take this photo of Macklemore being showered with love by the crowd at the Paramount last night):
"Got choked up during @macklemore's set at #cityartsfest - so proud of that rad guy for all he has...
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Indie rock stars often make cameos in my dreams. As a music journalist by trade, I consider it my version of the boardroom nightmare. The only difference being that, instead of having swear words inexplicably show up in the middle of my big...
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Start your engines! Tonight our own inaugural Heineken City Arts Fest begins, and plenty of folks have taken notice.
Take, for instance, Seattle Metropolitan. They've actually taken notice, not once, but twice in the last couple of...
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This is the best music video I have ever seen.
Okay, maybe not the best. But it is definitely one of the most entertaining.
I think it's safe to say that the members of Forró in the Dark were making things up as they went along here, dancing...
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Did you know it takes around three minutes to bike between the Paramount and 5th Avenue Theatres?
Or just about sixteen minutes to walk between Washington Hall and Neumos?
Well, according to our helpful guide that estimates walking and...
