Three days left until the Strangercrombie one-of-a-kind art piñatas go up for bid.
Susanna Bluhm's beautiful, big piñata is called Minimalist Sacrifice.
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Three days left until the Strangercrombie one-of-a-kind art piñatas go up for bid.
Susanna Bluhm's beautiful, big piñata is called Minimalist Sacrifice.
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Smash Putt!I hadn't been to putt-putt golf since Billy Taylor's stuffy birthday party in fourth grade—until last weekend, when those metal-working freaks at HazardFactory (they of constant calluses, Band-Aids, and singed eyebrows) opened their appropriately named Smash Putt! The temporary nine-hole warehouse course isn't just [...]
Four days left until the Strangercrombie one-of-a-kind art piñatas go up for bid.
WANNA SMASH THE VIADUCT? Vaughn Bell has made it so you can. Here's her viaductñata under construction.
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[...]Five days left until the Strangercrombie one-of-a-kind art piñatas go up for bid.
Here's Jenny Zwick's me-ñata, complete with creepy fake hair and cute reflective pants, just like Jenny has. Smack her and all her fears come spilling out, printed on little pins (from this series of prints by [...]
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You can be thankful you're not having Thanksgiving dinner with Marney.
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Booze
Bars on ThanksgivingYou can't choose your family, but you can choose to leave your family shortly after the last scraps of dessert go down. They'll be belching and patting their guts, and you'll need a sanity-restoring drink. Some of our favorite bars keep the not-at-home' [...]
From your column this week: "...what do you think the chances are that a guy who blows strangers he meets online has an STI?"
Very low, if that individual cares enough about himself to go get tested regularly. I give blow jobs to guys I meet on-line, in [...]
sea kay / Stranger FlickrEither he's eating regular dog food, or he's not picky about the seven courses touching each other.
West Seattle Dawg—providing "daycare [pawprint] bakery [pawprint] ice cream" [...]
Art
Akio Takamori, Danny LyonSeattle artist Akio Takamori made small porcelain figures from images by Danish photographer Rigmor Mydtskov, then made large photographs of the figures that hang behind them on the wall. Each face, each outfit, goes through multiple translations. Another strategy of capture-and-release takes [...]
Bonus: Your family (probably) won't be there.
You look like a person who eats food. What? You also drink drinks? Now, especially for you, food-eater and drinks-drinker: The Stranger's Chow Calendar, with all the info on every important food and beverage event' [...]
Tonight at the Sunset Tavern (9 pm!), 2009 Genius Award shortlisters Kevin Clarke and Travis Vogt will be presenting a live show: One Nite Only Part 3.
Recent Stranger Genius Awards short-listers Travis Vogt and Kevin Clarke return to their beloved Sunset Tavern to conclude the run of their "One" [...]
This from Ellen Forney, which ran in The Stranger a while back.
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The BooksNYC duo the Books write the kind of songs that give McSweeney's readers mindgasms; who else sings words like "therein" and "capitulate"? Beyond clever lyrics and track titles, the Books generate a distinctly arch yet oddly moving strain of folktronica. Their gently ruptured, collagist [...]
Film
'Precious'Over the next few months, you'll be reading a lot about Precious, Lee Daniels's stylish, shocking drama about a New York teen making her way through a life of violent abuse and oppression. Don't let the "Oprah-endorsed Oscar bait" hype stop you from experiencing a [...]
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Burning Fuse FestivalAll this week at the Grand Illusion, it's Burning Fuse, a touring film festival composed of six documentaries, including Pussycat Preacher (a stripper turns evangelical), Sliding Liberia (Liberian surfers, brah!), Soldiers of Conscience (how we condition our children to bypass their morals and [...]
On NPR's On the Media. (The Stranger's story about the project is here.)
Paul Mullin accompanies this announcement with his usual broadside.
There’s a stereotype about Seattle, and especially its artists, and even more especially its theatre aritists, that we have an inferiority complex. We have trouble believing that [...]
JoanJeffryThe foundation isn't yet listing this year's winners on its site, but our 2009 Stranger Genius is now a 2009 Joan Mitchell winner, too. He gets $25,000. Here are last year's winners.
For Strangercrombie, we asked six local artists to donate one-of-a-kind piñatas—but we had no idea they would do it up like this. The piñatas are starting to come into the office today, and they are Seriously. Freaking. Amazing.
Here's a sneak peek at one of them, [...]
JeanineAnderson / Stranger FlickrThanks, Fish Fry!
It's back, tonight and every third Friday of the month forever and ever!
Free fries and $2 Fat Tire pints: Happy hour is especially happy this evening from 5 to 7 p.m. at Pike Street Fish Fry and [...]
Film
'Stingray Sam'The American Astronaut is the world's best space-Western movie musical. A black-and-white masterpiece, the movie is like Jules Verne with a rock 'n' roll soundtrack, where space is filled with roughnecks and kooks, and men and women are segregated to their own planets. Cory [...]
In honor of Rev. Ken Hutcherson's speech at this morning's Microsoft stockholders meeting, here's a column The Stranger published on the occasion of Hutch's previous Microsoft speechifying.
(Bigger print version here.)
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JabonSeattle sound engineer Scott Colburn has gained notoriety for his studio sorcery with Animal Collective, Mudhoney, and others, but his most interesting work occurs under his Jabon guise. Dressed in a "dark wizard robe and weird harlequin mask" and manipulating a stack of analog keyboards, [...]
mraaronmorris / Stranger FlickrCalming.
At least according to a husband-and-wife team of assistant professors of marketing at the University of Utah's David Eccles School of Business.
The researchers approached study participants between 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. on a Thanksgiving holiday and asked them to fill out [...]
People are already swinging at each other (and at me) over my article in this week's Stranger, Swinging at the Speaker, which reports on progressive discontent with Representative Frank Chopp in his home district, Seattle's 43rd—and relays threats from labor to back a lefty Chopp challenger in 2010.
Says commenter [...]
Joe Newton has been doing charming, hilarious, creepy, and sometimes charmingly hilarious and creepy illustrations—or are they hilariously creepy and charming illustrations?—for "Savage Love" in the Stranger for years now. Joe recently created an online archive of all of his "Savage Love" illos, with links back to [...]
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Anti-Pop ConsortiumAnti-Pop Consortium are to indie hiphop what Sonic Youth are to indie rock. The quartet formed in NYC in 1997, at the very moment hiphop split into an upper world and an underground. AC have always been faithful to hiphop's founding principles: no [...]
Los Angeles joins neighboring cities in banning cat declawing.
g e o ff r e y / Stranger flickr"I'll cut you!"
Thanks, Leslie Dean.
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'We Live in Public'Nearly a decade before Big Brother, internet entrepreneur Josh Harris was playing Big Brother, presenting a series of outlandish and extreme "human experiments" as entertainments for what he dreamed would be an ever-growing audience of round-the-clock viewers on the internet. In the [...]
