Rachel Shimp
City Arts copy editor Rachel Shimp’s first byline was in an issue of Betty & Veronica when she was 9. As an adult, she’s been writing about music and culture for 12 years. Shimp looks forward to these summer activities: SIFF, getting her motorcycle license, drinking rose in the park, and starting a nonfiction book project about music and love.
Recent Articles
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Last weekend’s ONN/OF: a light festival
ONN/OF is a light festival—but what kind of light? Whether by accident, design or collective unconscious mind-meld, the second annual festival suggested light winking from distant stars, light on the bodies of deep-sea creatures, light defined by...
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The Proprietress: Diana Adams
Age Classified Neighborhood Capitol Hill Hometown LA, upstate New York, Flagstaff, Seattle Favorite restaurant Pettiroso Go-to karaoke song “Islands in
the Stream” by Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers Childhood nickname Jellybean Recent...
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‘Lovers’ by Hans-Peter Feldmann
Are they married? Courting? All we know for sure about “Lovers” comes from the title. To create this image, conceptual artist Hans-Peter Feldmann used an old photograph and removed most of its identifying features, replacing them with wood grain....
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Borgine by Robert Hardgrave
Like the punctuation of slick orange rain boots or a bright scarf against fall’s environmental palette, Robert Hardgrave’s paintings offer a visceral pleasure. Smudges of color beneath networked black lines create a fluid pattern in much of his...
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City Arts Fest Lit Crawl Seattle
I don’t like readings unless they’re happening in bed. Lit Crawl Seattle changed that. Historically for me, attending a reading is like going out for sushi. When someone suggests sushi, I think, well, there are California rolls, and there was that...
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‘Small Voids’ Mini Galleries on Thursday
If you’re going to First Thursday art walk in Pioneer Square this week, keep your eyes peeled on the street. Along a city block near the Tashiro-Kaplan artist building, Small Voids will feature 110 mini “galleries” each containing the work of a...
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Decibel Festival Wrap-up
At the Triple Door during Sunday night’s ambient-focused Optical Showcase—there were 5 (!) this year—a fellow Db long-timer made an insightful comment: “It used to be that people would have a similar Decibel experience, but this time, nobody...
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Decibel Day 2
Orbital? As in, are you going? As if that’s a question you ask every day.
A Seattle visit from the renowned figures of British acid house, rave and techno is something to celebrate. The group dropped “Halcyon” two songs into last night’s...
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Decibel Festival Day 1
"Demdike Stare re-score surrealist Jean Rollins’ 1970 erotic horror film, La Vampire Nue.”
So read the description of Decibel Festival's opening performance, and I was sold. I was one of a couple of hundred rapt, ready nerds at the Broadway...
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NEPO 5K: Last Saturday’s Epic Art Walk
Opening the second annual NEPO 5K Don’t Run art walk, the Vis-à-vis Society reprised their registration booth by posing the question: “How will you go down?” A sampling of numbered verbs—to be chosen and worn by non-racers—includes...
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Bumbershoot Sunday: Catharsis, Radical Theatre
Sunday’s Bumbershoot was all about fascinating stories and eye-popping theatre. I took advantage of the festival’s come-and-go-as-you-please freedom to deal with the overlapping timeslots of a reading and a comedy show. It feels strange at first...
