Her Own Sweet Time

By Claudia Rowe

There’s a recession on. So why are more people than ever buying cakes from Tobey deChristopher and flying thousands of miles to watch her teach the art of sugar?

The Cheap Guide to Fall Arts

You don’t have to break the bank to paint the town red — in fact, you don’t even have to break a twenty. Here are dozens of tips on steals, special deals, half-price nights and total freebies from the biggest arts groups in Seattle.

Tweet Charity

By Mark Waldstein

How the locally created play Next to Normal hit the Broadway jackpot by using Twitter in ways nobody ever had the audacity to think of before.

Obsessed with the Wild West

By Nancy Rommelmann

At ninety-one, the great cowboy painter Fred Oldfield is still cranking out a masterpiece a week. Boot Hill will have to wait — “There’s always one more I want to do.”

 

By Stacey Levine

What’s your jewelry budget? $28,950 or $7.50? Either way, you can find the glittering object of your affection at the two stores that face each other across Factoria Boulevard: Dacel’s and Claire’s.

Hangout

By Bond Huberman

Painter and curator Cable Griffith is so tough he’s named after a Sam Peckinpah character. He talks to our reporter in one of Kirkland’s coolest beer pubs and dreams up an Eastside arts oasis.

 

City Seen

Seen and Overheard

Day + Night

Curator’s Eye

Rick Eiber, Graphic Designer

Selected by Daniel R. Smith, curator, The Seattle-Moscow Poster Show