Seattle, September 2010

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City Arts' Bumbershoot Picks

The music and art events we don't plan to miss at Bumbershoot 2010.

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Dear Mayor McGinn, Do This! Sincerely, Anonymous: PART 1

While researching his “fake Mayor’s speech” for the September issue, Tim Appelo surveyed the arts community to hear what people want from their Mayor. Here’s what they said.

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Dear Mayor McGinn, Do This! Sincerely, Anonymous: PART 2

Suggestions from an arts administrator, a smarter-than-average Stranger Genius Award winner, an influential theatre person in a bad mood and a major public artist.

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Dear Mayor McGinn, Do This! Sincerely, Anonymous: PART 3

Suggestions from a popular culture blogger, a major Seattle nightlife player and a visual arts leader.

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Dear Mayor McGinn, Do This! Sincerely, Anonymous: PART 4

Suggestions from well-known newspaper critics, a documentary filmmaker, a major art blogger, an important art curator, a popular publicist and a major tech thinker.

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Dear Mayor McGinn, Do This! Sincerely, Anonymous: PART 5

Last but not least, suggestions from a longtime art curator, a major literary leader, an important TV personality and a noted playwright.

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Extra Photos from The Perfect (Mis)Match

Our Style Profile subject this month, Paul Pierce, invited us into his Ballard home for the photoshoot. We couldn't not show you the airplane.

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Behind the Scenes: The September 2010 Cover

Our creative director describes the journey behind this month's crafty cover design.

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The Great Oom-inspired Style Board

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

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Featured Stories

Pay It Forward

Presenting the brilliant winners of the Mayor’s Arts Awards, from the Cuban refugee to the dancers whom McGinn personally escorted to their new home. Plus, the winners tell us who they would give awards to if they were mayor.
The Rake: A Preview of Fall

Our critics sort through the autumn harvest of good times: Mark Baumgarten on five main events (most notably the new Heineken City Arts Fest), Seth Kolloen on must-sees of the stage and Gerard Schwarz’s last symphony season, Joey Veltkamp on art to come, Robert Ham on the invasion of eleven reunited bands, Kirk Michael on the two big trends in movies and more.

First Up

Around Town: Dozens

Twenty-four famous musicians and authors take over the Sorrento Hotel for Bumbershoot Night School, lecturing in drawing rooms and bathrooms.

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Art Walk Award: The Klara Winner

Joey Veltkamp interviews Klara Glosova, winner of the $500 prize at our monthly Art Walk Awards.

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Editor's Note: Art on Art

Editor Mark Baumgarten reflects on the challenge of this month's feature package - and the challenges of making an art magazine every month.

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Fast Fact

Bizarre, obscure and entertaining trivia special to the cultural history of Seattle.

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Food Stuff: A Long Tradition

What’s the secret at three top Seattle restaurants? Handmade noodles.

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How to Write Right: Dashed Hopes

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

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I Spent Memorial Day with Gertrude Stein

Christine Walsh's poem that is best understood, perhaps, when you're closing in on the end of a summer vacation.

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In Store

At Phinney Ridge’s Chocolate ShoeBox, you can feed your face and fit your feet in style.

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NOW

Your month in music, theatre, dance, visual arts, film and literature.
Our Broadway Babies: The Glimmer Twins

How did the 5^th Avenue and Village Theatre score forty Tony nominations and make millions? Together! Why it took a two-headed beast to conquer Broadway.

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Putting Arts in the Mayor’s Mouth

Mayor McGinn vows to house artists in unsold condos, save 4Culture, and never cut arts funds – an imaginary speech drafted with help from real Seattle arts figures.

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Style Profile: The Perfect (Mis)Match

Architect and musician Paul Pierce and ombudsman Mary Fogh go eclectic in Ballard.

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Style Scholar: A Style of Being

Accessories inspired by Robert Love’s The Great Oom.

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Symphonic Shift: The New Maestro’s Moment

What insiders say about the pros and cons of Seattle Symphony’s new maestro Ludovic Morlot – and why his disadvantages are actually advantages.

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The Curator's Eye: Counterculture Comix

Larry Reid's thirty-year Bumbershoot history of alternative comics, featuring a poodle named Bob Barker.

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