Before he was famous, Jack Kerouac was writing about his first impressions of wet, gloomy Seattle. Drug withdrawal, burlesque dancers and the deafening quiet of the wilderness all left their mark on the beat while he navigated the Northwest.
Rachel Flotard has emerged from a year of great loss with great gains. Her band, Visqueen, has released a fantastic new record that managed to bump the Beatles from their number one spot at Easy Street. She started her own label, Local 638 Records, named after the union to which her late father belonged. Oh, and she is still one of the best interviews in town.
After an eleven million dollar renovation, the University of Washington’s newly named Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse — home to early, controversial black and Marxist theatre — is open and ready to roll.
Since launching a series of in-depth interviews with artists on his blog, Best Of, illustrator and painter Joey Veltkamp has gone from artist cheerleader to art scene player. City Arts presents a candid guide to what the city’s most exciting artists are telling him, with some commentary from the interviewer himself.
Filmmaker and painter Karl Krogstad has made as many confusing career choices as he has films. We love him though, especially when he shares his crepes at Capitol Hill’s Joe Bar with us.
As Federal Center South, once a home for affordable studio space, shuts down, artists search for new spaces to work. A follow up to Suzanne Beal's feature story in the Seattle August 2009 issue.
