Seattle, November 2011

Wild Flag’s first concert was less than a year ago in Olympia. But this is no band of rookies.

The Occupy Wall Street protests addressing the gap between rich and poor have inspired Seattleites to take to the streets. Occupier and MC Kathleen Kassis tells City Arts how art plays a part.

Playing Words with Friends on the bus or pinball at Shorty’s is one thing, but much more space is required for the collaborative, in-home weekly games of many local geeks.

Last month, the third annual Gregory Awards filled ACT Theatre with tears of joy and a boisterous (and fashionable) audience as Western Washington’s theatre community honored its best. 

In Seattle, where literary minds and culinary hearts meet, the cookbook has become a work of art in and of itself. When Book Larder, the city’s first bookstore dedicated solely to culinary literature, opened in Fremont last month, that art finally found its venue.