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Weekend Must List: Yoga in the Sculpture Park, Auction of WA Wines and Century Ballroom’s Flea Market
Must Om OutdoorsYoga at Olympic Sculpture ParkSaturday (8/20) – Combine your art intake and your exercise with free yoga in SAM’s Olympic Sculpture Park. Teachers from 8 Limbs Yoga will take you through the poses—all you have to do is bring your own mat and water. After your workout, explore SAM’s second annual On-Site summer…
How to Catch Pink Salmon in Puget Sound
Seattle is the epicenter of pink salmon fly-fishing. Here’s how to angle in on the action
The news is like a siren’s call to fishermen: pink salmon, which surge into local waters for just a few weeks every two years, are here right now. Where pinks go, anglers are sure to follow, and they’re coming in droves; some even taking a road trip in from Oregon to target the fish in…
Viaduct for Dummies: Voters Surprise Themselves, Tell Mayor: ‘Bore Me!’
That tunnel vote has been fodder for spirited talk ’round Seattle Mag World Headquarters of late (though it’s curiously quiet today). But it’s less about which camp you’re tunneled into (dig it or ditch it) and more about what the whole morass says about Seattleites and that over-used (but overly apt) term, “the Seattle Process.”…
Coming Soon to Bellevue: Madina Vadache Couture Boutique
Bellevue is about to have a new couture queen: Famed Eastside bridal and evening wear designer Madina Vadache has returned home after several years in the other East and will open her new couture fashion boutique in the Elements Building next month. Last weekend, the designer wowed guests at her “Film Noir” fashion show with…
Infused Water Cocktails Quench Summer Thirst
It’s almost just a cruel and torturous thing to start enjoying these now, when the summer dresses have already been replaced by fall arrivals on the racks and we’re trying to face facts that we’re in the final sunny stretches of summer already. But I’m going to milk it for every last drop of Vitamin…
Fashion + Style Friday: Late summer sales + a local twist on Fashion Night Out at Neiman Marcus
Snag some late summer wear at the following local sales this weekend: Menswear retailer Road is offering up to 60 percent discounts on madras shirts, blazers and chic men’s shorts this month at both their Bellevue and downtown locales. Extra bonus: select denim and pants are buy one and get one free. Get thee to…
Fall Arts 2011
Our guide to the very best arts events of the season, plus our 2011 Spotlight Award winners.
Fall. It lands with a sudden, resounding clunk, causing a city-wide knee-jerk reaction: We lament the fact that summer was (way!) too short, and we begin the hunkering-down process, bracing ourselves for winter. But we’re here to suggest another response to the season: Rejoice in the fact that dance, film, music, theater and visual arts…
Seattle Magazine 2011 Spotlight Award: Garrett Fisher
NEW ARIA CODE: Composer Garrett Fisher is creating a new genre of note
Sitting on the living room floor of his modest Capitol Hill home, a cup of tea in hand and a large cat lounging nearby, Garrett Fisher hardly seems poised to upend opera as we know it. But he might just do so. The acclaimed composer has earned accolades nationwide for his fresh approach, blending ancient…
Seattle Magazine 2011 Spotlight Award: Kyle Loven
MASTER OF PUPPETS: Kyle Loven performs a magical hand jive
At Kyle Loven’s studio space in Belltown, the worktable is littered with ears—latex ears, which he’s been perfecting for his recent work, When You Point at the Moon. The spooky story is based on Chinese moon mythology that warns, “Don’t point at the moon, or the moon will cut your ears off.” Loven, a skilled…
Seattle Magazine 2011 Spotlight Award: Troy Gua
POP EYE: Troy Gua turns pop culture into high art
Visual artist Troy Gua wants to be famous. His deadpan stare and signature slicked black topknot are unmistakable at local art gatherings—and often the subject of his own artwork. He’s hung large-scale photographs of himself, fashioned a small sculpture of himself urinating (after the famous “Manneken Pis” in Brussels), and even translated his face into…
Seattle Magazine 2011 Spotlight Award: Mandy Greer
HIGH IN FIBER: Installation artist Mandy Greer weaves dreams from detritus
“This is my eight-year-old dream come true,” says Mandy Greer, surveying her home studio, which her husband (artist Paul Margolis) recently built with a friend in a space adjoining the laundry room. Countless clear plastic tubs are packed to bursting with colorful fabrics. Sparkly garments hang from hooks, as does a furry wolf head and…
Seattle Magazine’s 2011 Fall Arts Preview: Must-See Events
40 MUST-SEE FALL ARTS EVENTSDANCEPilobolus Part gymnastics, part pantomime and part Slinky, Pilobolus Dance Company always entices with its physical contortionism and brainy bravado. The Connecticut-based troupe got its start 40 years ago, using the shape of the human body to make statements about sexual politics, personal relationships and societal mores. Though it has since…