Featured Stories

  • A Mind on Fire

    Tim Appelo

    Tacoma Art Museum made painter Michael Brophy’s name. And after he almost burned to death in his bed, the blaze consumed his imagination, and he became the star of the Northwest Biennial.

  • In Natasha’s Ballroom

    Nancy Rommelmann

    Would you care to dance? You will once you've walked into the whirling world of Studio 6, the former pool hall that Natasha Thayer turned into a swing and salsa center (with a bit of help from her dachshund, Rumba).

  • The Year According to Nikki McClure

    Tim Appelo

    How Nikki McClure carved herself an empire with an X-Acto, cutting paper into bestselling works with subversively uplifting messages.

  • The Brains Behind the Cover

    the Editors

    Photographer Andrea J. Walker takes you behind the scenes of this month's cover photo shoot.

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  • This month in City Arts Eastside

    February 8, 2010 at 4:40 PM  |  Corey K
    This month, the Eastside is literally on the cutting edge of expression: The Best Named Dance Event Ever: Chop Shop puts sensuality and sense into modern dance. Woolly Mammoth Handles: Kirkland's Epicurean Edge displays expert kitchen knives and hunting blades as works of art. Physics Meets Art: Julian Voss-Andreae's new sculpture at The...
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  • Where will the Internet take you next?

    February 8, 2010 at 3:15 PM  |  Bond H
    Today's random Internet search term: New Orleans To some it's the best party destination in the world. To others, it's a deserved, glorious Super Bowl Champ. To others still, a lost bet. And for those looking a little farther down the road: New Orleans and its surrounding wet lands are "Ground Zero for climate change." This video, from a...
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  • 5 Illuminating things from the weekend

    February 8, 2010 at 10:10 AM  |  Bond H
    1. Paul Rudd looks fantastic in a Paul Stanley costume. Paul Stanley, front man for KISS 2. It's a lovely thing to watch Frank Sinatra on DVD with someone (who saw him in concert several times when she was younger) — and to notice she's smiling the whole way through. 3. If you think a high school student can't rock a recitation of...
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  • Night School with Garry Wills

    February 8, 2010 at 10:00 AM  |  Bond H
    Today in local conversation One Pot and the Sorrento Hotel have partered to bring you Night School: a year of creative and stimulating programming, from Drinking Lessons, to chamber music, to books to Midnight Symposiums, which is what's on this evening. It's too late to buy tickets online for tonight's event (try your luck at the door...
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Now In Print

  • Seattle

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    Seattle Author Brenda Peterson // Zach Carstensen on the State of the Seattle Symphony // Get to know Jon Kertzer

  • Eastside

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    Brenda Peterson Has a Different Take on the Rapture // Bellevue's Chop Shop Dance Festival // Kirkland's Sharpest Knife Shop

  • Tacoma

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    The Next Warehouse Scene Begins in Tacoma // Tacoma Historical Society, Where Did You Go? // August Wilson Plays at Broadway Center