Seattle, June 2010

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News & Notes
How to Write Right
Around Town
Events calendar
The Curator's Eye

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Style Scholar: Inspiration Board

Clippings, color swatches and collage that informed the look for June's Style Scholar page.

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Behind the Scenes: The Cover Shot

Creative director André Mora describes the journey he took to find this month's cover design.

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First Up

&: The Art You Make

Visual Art Période de clownisme IV and III by Amanda Manitach | Fiction An excerpt from The Soloist by Sean Clemmons | Poetry “CAP O’PIE” by Susan Parr, “Sonnet #5” by Carrie A. Purcell

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A Chat with the Art Walk Awards Winner

Anna Wetzel won the big prize at the May installment of the Best of Art Walk Awards. Joey Veltkamp quizzes her in the winner's circle.

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Around Town

The Best Of Art Walk Awards take over Pioneer Square’s Caffé Vita on First Thursday.

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Bullseye Blues

Why Seattle Art Museum’s contemporary curator Michael Darling quit for a top job in Chicago. Plus: local luminaries float six names to fill his huge shoes.

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Editor’s Note

Executive editor Mark Baumgarten juggles his enjoyment of the road, and the guilt over his gas-guzzling means of traveling it. A preface to the June 2010 issue.

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Hangout: Punch Drunk

At Fremont Coffee with Matthew Inman, comic illustrator of 5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth.

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In Store: Tales for Tots

Kids find a wild rumpus at Wallingford’s Alphabet Soup Children’s Books.

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Janitors and Auteurs: How David Russo Cleaned Up

Seattle janitor David Russo turned his late-night fantasies into a bizarre award-winning film that conquered Sundance, reached up to 40 million viewers, and got a job directing the Blue Man Group’s 3-D IMAX movie. Here's how:

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My Father, Myself: Appetites for Destruction

How Kurt Cobain’s dealer earned $1,000 a day, lost his band, mind, and nearly his life, got clean, and rediscovered his long-lost father – Seattle’s mad addict/genius painter Jack Stangle.

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Rumor Squashers: Death Stalks the Galleries

City Arts squashes rumors of the demise of Lawrimore Project and Martin-Zambito – and tells what big changes are really happening.

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Scarecrow Picks

Five new & notable DVDs from the friendly folks at Seattle's number-one film emporium.

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Style Profile: Turn the Lens Around

Audrey Tautou meets Catherine Deneuve in the look of photographic project manager Kristeen Wurtele.

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Style Scholar

Accessories inspired by Swiss Alp-dweller Heidi.

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The Curator's Eye

Seattle Art Museum director Derrick R. Cartwright judges the twentieth-anniversary Best of Gage show at Gage Academy of Art.

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Trickster Treat: Ancient Tales in Modern Comix

Local artists turn ancient Native American folktales into a graphic novel using a 21-inch Wacom Cintiq touchscreen. Why? “Because nobody’s going to sit around a campfire nowadays and listen to an elder tell a story.”

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Seattle, June 2010

In Every Issue

Online Stories

Style Scholar: Inspiration Board

Behind the Scenes: The Cover Shot

Featured Stories

Toast of the Town

Commercial Verse

State of the Arts

Art of Darkness

First Up

&: The Art You Make

A Chat with the Art Walk Awards Winner

Around Town

Bullseye Blues

Editor’s Note

Hangout: Punch Drunk

In Store: Tales for Tots

Janitors and Auteurs: How David Russo Cleaned Up

My Father, Myself: Appetites for Destruction

NOW

Rumor Squashers: Death Stalks the Galleries

Scarecrow Picks

Style Profile: Turn the Lens Around

Style Scholar

The Curator's Eye

Trickster Treat: Ancient Tales in Modern Comix

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