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2013 Spotlight Award Winner: Lacey Leavitt
Filmmaker Lacey Leavitt captures the sparkle of the Emerald City
You could say Lacey Leavitt is OK with getting hit from all angles—especially since the shy and steady Ballard-based filmmaker has spent time as a local roller derby skater for the Tilted Thunder Rail Birds and Rat City Rollergirls. Her competitive name, Rambo Connection, says it all: On the track and on the set, Leavitt,…
2013 Spotlight Award Winner: Klara Glosova
Multimedia artist Klara Glosova makes the mundane remarkable
Klara Glosova makes ceramic sculptures that look like tube socks. She flattens clay with a rolling pin from her kitchen, cuts it into sock shapes and fires it in the kiln in the basement studio of her Beacon Hill home, then precisely paints the forms in colors that look straight off a soccer field. In…
2013 Spotlight Award Winner: Jerick Hoffer
Performer Jerick Hoffer is ready for his close-up
On a sweltering day in June, Jerick Hoffer is carefully stretching a second pair of nude-colored dance tights from his toes up to his waist. The Portland-raised, First Hill–based drag performer customarily wears four pairs of these thick pantyhose on stage, plus a couple of Spanx undergarments to make his form more feminine. But for…
Haiti Babi Turns One
!–paging_filter–pOne year ago this week, Seattleitenbsp;Katlin Jackson launched a href=”http://local.seattlemag.com/article/helping-haitian-families-one-blanket…“Haiti Babi/a, a Haitian-based organization that teaches the women there a skill (knitting and crocheting) and offers them a chance to use that skill to provide for themselves and their children by making cotton baby blankets that are then sold a href=”http://www.haitibabi.org/” target=”_blank”online/a and in retail…
The Must List: PhinneyWood Festival and One Sublime Sale
What to do this weekend
!–paging_filter–pstrongMust Hit the Streets/stronga href=”http://\/\/seattlemag.com/events/phinneywood-summer-streets-festival“strongbrPhinneyWood Summer Streets Festival/strong/abrFriday (8/9, 6 to 10 p.m.) — Walkers and wheelers reign supreme during this evening-long closure of Phinney and Greenwood avenues (between 67th and 87th streets). A celebration of the season’s long, warm nights, the temporary pedestrian paradise will be punctuated with art, live music, circus performers—and, of…
W Seattle’s Wear Wednesdays
!–paging_filter–pa href=”http://www.starwoodhotels.com/whotels/index.html” target=”_blank”W Hotels/a have three passion points: music, design and my personal fave, fashion. Starting in August, the a href=”http://www.wseattle.com/” target=”_blank”W Seattle/a is launching a new monthly event aptly called Wear Wednesdays (WW)./ppI’m thrilled to report that emSeattle/em mag is a part of the inaugural WW on Wednesday, August 21 where our Seamless in…
Amazon Opens Fine Art Store (Wine and Cheese Not Included)
The Seattle megaretailer is crashing the fine art party
Amazon Fine Art (beta) launched today, right on the heels of the gigantic news that Jeff Bezos purchased The Washington Post (not a copy of the newspaper, but the entire newspaper). The timing has many people fretting about Bezos becoming king of the world, but until that happens we might as well explore the new…
Choke Shirt Company Makes Totes
!–paging_filter–pIn a continuation of our a href=”http://\/\/seattlemag.com.239elwb01.blackmesh.com/nautical-nature“nautical-themed summer/a, check out these tote bags by Seattle-based a href=”http://www.chokeshirtco.com/products/extinct-tote” target=”_blank”Choke Shirt Company/a. Made out of durable cotton canvas, with sturdy webbed handles and a contrasting lining and adorned with three of the company’s most popular designs (an anchor, a dodo bird listening to a Walkman and an…
Shop Rivet Sway’s New Fall Collection Today
!–paging_filter–pI don’t need glasses, but with today’s (August 6) release of the new fall collection from local eyewear brand and online boutique Rivet Sway, I might have to inquire about fake lenses./ppSix of the 10 frames in its line have been unveiled (expect the rest in October), and each style has quite the cheeky name:…
Space-Travel Agent Stefan Bisciglia
A local space-travel agent aims to rocket your world
Stefan Bisciglia is selling tickets to space, and if you’ve got the cash, you’ve got a seat. The 27-year-old from Gig Harbor is one of only three accredited “space agents” in the Northwest trained by Virgin Galactic, the world’s first “commercial spaceline,” spearheaded by Richard Branson. Having begun his career working for his family’s luxury…
Achtung Launch at Essenza
!–paging_filter–pFremont’s scent super-store, a href=”http://\/\/seattlemag.com.239elwb01.blackmesh.com/essenza“Essenza/a, is hosting a launch event on August 8 from 4 to 8 p.m. for a href=”http://www.achtungseattle.com/” target=”_blank”Achtung/a, a collab between local perfumer a href=”http://www.matriarch.biz/” target=”_blank”House of Matriarch/a, artist Rick Barchenger and emerging designer Aronhix who has created textiles based on Barchenger’s black and white mandala-style drawings./ppHouse of Matriarch perfumer Christi…
Gorilla Perfumes At Lush
!–paging_filter–pThe Westlake Center a href=”http://www.lush.com/” target=”_blank”Lush/a is one of nine US stores receiving a visit from a href=”http://www.gorillaperfume.com/” target=”_blank”Gorilla Perfumes/a Album 2, nine new unisex scents from British father and son team Mark and Simon Constantine. From August 10 through 31 Seattle fragrance lovers will get the chance to sniff the supremely weird scent combos…
The Must List: Seattle Opera’s Ring and Outdoor KEXP Concerts
Seattle magazine top picks for your weekend
!–paging_filter–pstrongMust Bravoa href=”http://bit.ly/17jxNEU” target=”_blank”brThe Ring Cycle/a/strongbr(8/4 to 8/25, times vary) — Running times for The Ring might make your blood run cold (the four mini-epic operas are Das Rheingold: 2.5 hours; Die Walküre: 4.5 hours; Siegfried: 5 hours; and Götterdämmerung: 5.25 hours), but the pros know all this tush time is worth it. There’s simply…