Tacoma, September 2010

Editor Mark Baumgarten reflects on the challenge of this month's feature package - and the challenges of making an art magazine every month. (Read this in our Seattle edition now.)

Every hipster's nightmare: a hairy creature that raids homes, collecting hair to add to his own glorious whiskers. Imagined by artist Jessica McCourt.

A 9-1-1 operator fields a plea for help from Franz Kafka, who has fallen into the very creepy situation to which he doomed the famous Gregor Samsa.

How the Graffiti Garages put Seattle to shame, and Tacoma in the vanguard of the Northwest trend transforming vandalism into art.