Seattle, January 2011

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Peter Mountford's Travels

This month's Ampersand contributor has been all over the world, and his travels became the inspiration for his soon to be released novel A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism.

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Featured Stories

CultureMakers

From deep-digging DJs to brave book nuts to gallerists with gall – and a whole bunch of adventurous directors – City Arts takes a closer look at fifty people working behind Seattle’s scenes to make our favorite art possible.

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Lost in the Supermarket: 7 for ’11

Throughout the holidays, it seemed like every local band I ran into was either putting the finishing touches on a new release, wrapping up tracking in the studio or making plans to enter the studio in early 2011. Here’s my guide to the best of the bunch.

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First Up

Around Town: Again, with Art

City Arts ends 2010 with a big bash at Sole Repair and a big check to one local artist.

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Art Walk Awards: Whittle Guy

Last month's Art Walk Award winner tells us how he's spending the $1,000.

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At the Movies: Student Becomes Master

A film teacher shows his students how to win. (Read this story now in our Eastside edition.)
Entanglements

Entanglements, is a series of quirky and semi-autobiographical drawings, sculptures and video. Red lines run throughout the work as if an attempt to stitch together a broken past, or set it on fire.

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Fast Fact

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

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Grief Sings: Angels Appear at the Tractor

The healing power of music

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Home Sweet Tent

A poet in residence sets up shop at Tent City. It is the Sunday after Thanksgiving, and Lantz Rodland stands in a parking lot amid rows of blue tents at Seattle’s Tent City 3, where he is a resident, chatting with newcomer A. K. “Mimi” Allin about poetry. “I don’t dislike poets,” says Rodland, who has been homeless for fifteen years. “I’m extremely well read and love plays – but even song lyrics turn me off.”

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How to Wright Right: Less Is More

How to Write Right says farewell

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In Store: Two Worlds Collide

Inside the Pioneer Square shop that started with one fateful photograph taken more than a hundred years ago.

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Jealousy Is a Mother...

What’s killing the local arts scene is simple: jealousy. And I believe we are all at fault.

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Style Scholar: Gotta Be Me

Lessons on winter looks inspired by 101 Things I Learned in Fashion School.

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The Pig

Excerpted from A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism.

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Your Crooked Neighbor: Part 4

So I sat on that concrete wall with both hands behind my back and my face against hers while holding my mouth closed as if my life depended on it.

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