Seattle, July 2010

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Style Scholar: Inspiration Board

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

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A Natty Bard

Our Style Profile subject shares poems from his new manuscript, Somewhere a Clown Dies Laughing.

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The Cover: Seattle, July 2010

Our creative director describes the journey he took to find this month's cover design.

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Questions for Freehold's Robin Lynn Smith

The director of Freehold's Engaged Theatre program discusses the rewards and heartrending realties of bringing arts into local prisons.

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Excerpts from Ignotus Fuego

Pieces of an original play authored by inmates of Washington Corrections Center for Women.

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Behind Greg Boudreau's Deepwater Horizon

Inspired by BP's exploding oil rig, a Seattle painter makes his most powerful work to date.

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Featured Stories

Art of Conversation

Most artists hate writing and do it badly. But Matthew Offenbacher’s brilliant zine La Norda Specialo turns artists into art writers – and makes Seattle art better, too.

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Book Case

Mark Lindquist made it in Hollywood as a novelist and is now the star prosecutor of alleged murderers. The secret of his success is always the same: riveting storytelling. (Read this story now in our Tacoma edition.)
Future Imperfect

In his latest novella, Ted Chiang paints a future that is more realistic and more riveting than anything Hollywood could ever come up with. (Read this story now in our Eastside edition.)
The Band That Got Away

Seven years dead, Carissa’s Wierd comes back to life with its trademark heartache intact and a fan base that never really knew them.

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First Up

Around Town: Casual Consensus

SIFF rolls out the red carpet for its opening gala.

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Art Walk Awards: Slicin’ It Up with Darin

Darin Shuler, winner of June's Art Walk Award, tells Joey Veltkamp how Gary Panter inspired his art.

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B.C. (Before Coffee)

One of the first Starbucks baristas in history spills the beans on Howard Schultz’s voodoo power and gives his opinion of the place’s metamorphosis.

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Drugstore Cowboy Redux: Will Fogle’s bust save his career?

Drugstore Cowboy author James Fogle gets busted locally – just as the Drugstore Cowboy Rides Again sequel heats up in Hollywood. Will jail save Fogle’s career?

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Editor’s Note: "Basking"

"I am beginning to regard glimmers of hope with a cynical eye, looking upon good news as so much spin."

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Food Stuff: Feast Master

In the belly of Tamara Murphy’s Burning Beast cookout.

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Hangout with Greg Lundgren at Vito's

Greg Lundgren gives a tour of Seattle’s Goodfellas bar, Vito’s.

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How to Write Right: Series Business

Lessons and advice in grammar and style from City Arts' own copyeditor.

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Humor vs. Hate

How City Arts cartoonist Molly Norris spoofed South Park censorship, got Facebook banned in Pakistan, enraged millions, then used her art to combat hatred.

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In Store: Roughing It

If John Steinbeck were alive, he’d shop at the Field House in Ballard.

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Letter from Hell: Down and Dirty at the BP Disaster

City Arts contributor Bruce Barcott, covering the BP Gulf spill for National Geographic, sends a heartfelt e-mail from the belly of the oily beast.

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Movie Moguls Make Good: Out from the Shadows

SIFF 2007’s Best Film, the lost-job comedy Outsourced, becomes an NBC sitcom on after The Office, bumping Tina Fey’s time slot and getting Amy Poehler fired.

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NOW

Your month in music, theatre, dance, visual arts, film and literature.
Style Profile: Winging It

Bohemian? Dandy? Romantic? Poet? Josie Markiewicz is four in one.

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Style Scholar

Clothing and accoutrements inspired by forever-young Aubrey Beardsley.

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The Curator's Eye: Henry Art Gallery

The Henry Art Gallery’s nationally noted director Sylvia Wolf explains the hallucinatory allure of digital photography.

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