January 2008
Uneeda Burger is Addictive
Burgers and more with an eye on every detail.
I’ve been waiting since deep, dark winter, when Uneeda Burger opened, to plant myself on its sunset-facing patio on a warm summer night. With a burger made from local meat topped with, say, roasted chile relish, pepper jack cheese and cilantro (that’s the Sonora, $8) and a pint of Odin’s ruby ale, it’d be tough…
Our Top To-do’s for July 21 – 27
Get your Star Trek on this weekend in the Central District.
Must Geek OutOutdoor TrekSaturday (7/23) – Hello Earth Productions is bringing back their ode to trekkies everywhere with another round of live performaces of classic Star Trek episodes. On this weekend’s docket is “This Side of Paradise,” an exercise which one cast member described aptly: “It’s like performing Shakespeare for a group of Elizabethan-focused English…
Grilled Vegetable Salad with Sweet Poppy seed Dressing
Grill baby grill
(Darrell missed the talk)Sun promised for the weekend. FInally grilling weather, eh? Sear some zucchini, portobella mushrooms, eggplant and red pepper. Toss with fresh salad greens, feta and a mustardy sweet dressing for pleasing summer meal. Printable recipe? Click here. Cookus Interruptus is devoted to educating viewers about how to cook fresh local organic whole foods…
2010 Spotlight Award: Macklemore
Mr. Clean: Hip-hop artist Macklemore makes the personal lyrical.
If traditional hip-hop lyrics are to be taken at their word, a rapper’s true nature is embodied in his car. So what does Macklemore drive? A Prius. Though the 28-year-old Seattle native, whose legal name is Ben Haggerty, jokingly worries it’ll ruin his street cred, the eco status symbol on wheels is an apt reflection…
2010 Spotlight Award: Cherie Priest
Time Bandit: Writer Cherie Priest is building a future on the past
In the 1880s, a brick wall encircled downtown Seattle. A safety measure, the wall was 15 to 20 feet thick, in places rising as high as 200 feet. Inside, zombies ran amok. Or, that’s what we’re told in Boneshaker (2009), local author Cherie Priest’s multiple-award-winning “alternate history” steampunk novel. At 35, Priest is at the…
2010 Spotlight Award: Debra Baxter
Rock Star: Sculptor Debra Baxter is carving her own niche
Remember that scene in Superman: The Movie when Clark Kent travels to the North Pole and ends up discovering his life’s purpose in the crystalline Fortress of Solitude? So does Debra Baxter. But the impact the film made on the local sculptor as a young girl lay dormant until adulthood—when she realized her own superpowers….
2010 Spotlight Award: Drew Christie
Old Soul: Animator/illustrator Drew Christie makes everything old new again
Popularly, the phrase “animated movie” usually translates to teams of Pixar employees working on bleeding-edge computers housed in climate-controlled studios. For Drew Christie, it means drawing flipbooks on the pages of old paperbacks in the front seat of a truck. But this local animator and illustrator prefers doing things the old-fashioned way—everything from making art…
2010 Spotlight Award: Jody Kuehner & Ricki Mason
Cringe Theater: Jody Kuehner and Ricki Mason blur the boundaries of gender, dance, comedy and comfor
An alien force landed in Capitol Hill’s Oddfellows Building last winter, when every Friday for seven weeks, a sparkly yet mysterious duo known as The Cherdonna & Lou Show performed an unclassifiable act—a series of skits involving lip syncing, tap syncing, piano syncing, modern dance and celebrity impressions. It was a cabaret as if performed…
2009 Spotlight Award Winners
In case you just emerged from 12 months of living “off the grid,” we’re sorry to be the first to tell you: It’s been a rough year for the arts. (Also: Michael Jackson is dead. Seriously!) Not surprisingly, when the economy takes a dive, so do theater and arts attendance numbers. But it’s not all…
2009 Spotlight Award: Ray Tagavilla
Actor Ray Tagavilla steals the show on small stages.
NAME: Ray TagavillaART FORM: TheaterWEB SITE: Look him up on Facebook.comNEXT UP: Tagavilla may perform at Capitol Hill’s Balagan Theatre in October; check balagantheatre.org Anyone who saw Washington Ensemble Theatre’s exquisite production of The Mistakes Madeline Made last February knows Ray Tagavilla—even if they don’t remember his name. The 31-year-old actor played Wilbur, the weird,…
2009 Spotlight Award: Karen Finneyfrock
Poet Karen Finneyfrock is queen of the spoken word.
NAME: Karen FinneyfrockART FORM: PoetryWEB SITE: finneyfrock.wordpress.comNEXT UP: Regular appearances with the Seattle Poetry Slam (seattlepoetryslam.org) at Spitfire downtown, 2219 Fourth Ave. Wednesdays, 8 p.m. $5 Anyone still unsure of exactly what spoken word poetry is should ask Karen Finneyfrock, the Seattle poet who, in 2006, was honored as a slam “Legend” at the National…
2009 Spotlight Award: Ellie Sandstrom
Dancer Ellie Sandstrom takes moving and shaking to the max.
NAME: Ellie SandstromART FORM: DanceWEB SITE: sandstrommovement.comNEXT UP: Performing with Locust and AMYO/Tiny Rage at Portland’s TBA Festival 9/3–9/13; see her Web site for additional appearances Watching Ellie Sandstrom dance is like watching a spider wrap a fresh kill in its web—it’s fascinating and a little frightening to witness something so precise, innate and powerful….