April 19, 2010
By Heidi Broadhead at 9:21 am
Remnick is speaking tonight at Town Hall, so we’re moving Heidi’s interview—originally posted on Friday—into today’s mix. For the last two weeks, David Remnick has been touring with his new book, The Bridge, a comprehensive account of Barack Obama’s early life and ascent to the White House. He’ll be making his last stop here in [...] read more →
March 26, 2010
By Heidi Broadhead at 2:34 pm
This week, Velocity Dance Center—one of the arts organizations displaced after the sale of Capitol Hill’s Odd Fellows Hall in 2007—is taking over the main floor of what used to be the Capitol Hills Art Center (CHAC). The changes the space has gone through are pretty amazing (see video, below the jump), and their story [...] read more →
March 25, 2010
By Heidi Broadhead at 3:01 pm
Stella Cafe finally got their liquor license! Last night I walked into my favorite coffee shop (1224 First Ave., across from SAM), and immediately noticed the liquor bottles and gigantic “Diller Hotel” sign behind the counter. Then I noticed the “Diller Room” sign in the First Ave. window, where a little orange pending liquor license [...] read more →
By Heidi Broadhead at 2:42 pm
If you haven’t had a chance to see Pacific Northwest Ballet’s 3 X Dove, a triptych of works by the late choreographer Ulysses Dove, I definitely recommend checking it out this weekend. “Dove didn’t deserve to be lost,” Boal says in this video. “He was a choreographer that deserved a future and I believe that [...] read more →
March 19, 2010
By Heidi Broadhead at 2:03 pm
Phillip Lopate is one of the best known essayists in the country. And one of the most well-regarded. Check out the blurbs: “‘The Stoic’s Marriage’” is a mordantly funny brickbat tossed at every diarist egged along by big publishing dreams.” –Jan Stuart (New York Times, review of Two Marriages) “Lopate is a storyteller. He is [...] read more →
March 10, 2010
By Heidi Broadhead at 1:44 pm
A dancer rams her head into a microphone. A skinny dude in a peach dress comes out with a gargantuan ghetto blaster dancing in his socks to Michael Jackson. Another guy in a white t-shirt talks about real estate and spies. Yep. This is a performance festival. Based on what I saw during the first [...] read more →
By Heidi Broadhead at 11:38 am
Macgregor Card took the title of his debut poetry collection Duties of an English Foreign Secretary (winner of the 2009 Fence Modern Poets Series) from an essay written in 1852 by the Spasmodic poet Sydney Dobell (above). Spasmodic was a term used (often pejoratively) to label a type of poetry popular in the 1850s, verse [...] read more →
March 8, 2010
By Heidi Broadhead at 9:18 am
During her packed talk at Kane Hall last Thursday night, feminist artist Kiki Smith joked that her new photography exhibition, opening at the Henry Art Gallery this weekend, has been more involved than anything else she’s worked on. That’s a pretty astonishing statement coming from a world-renowned sculptor, a MacDowell Medal winner who has been [...] read more →
February 24, 2010
By Heidi Broadhead at 3:42 pm
At first glance, David Shields’ latest book, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, is daunting. First, you have 618 numbered passages—some written by Shields, along with many appropriated from other artists and writers, from Borges to Godard to Charlie Parker—compiled neatly into alphabetical chapters. Then you have whatever prejudice that you might bring to anything called a [...] read more →
February 18, 2010
By Heidi Broadhead at 12:21 pm
At a recent open rehearsal for Spectrum Dance Theater’s new production, farewell, artistic director Donald Byrd was asked how he creates his pieces. His terse, absolute response: “I have an idea about something, and the dancers have to figure out how to do it.” The full name of the show, which has its world premiere [...] read more →
February 13, 2010
By Heidi Broadhead at 9:03 am
Like Valentine’s Day, dance performances can sometimes be painful. Break a Heart, playing this weekend at On the Boards, is not. Billed as an antidote to V-day woes, this group show of Seattle dance regulars (9 choreographers and more than 25 dancers and musicians) is a big dance party put on by a big group [...] read more →
February 4, 2010
By Heidi Broadhead at 4:47 pm
During First Thursday art walks, I always try to make at least a quick stop at Flatcolor Gallery. Their openings are always a good time—calm, interesting people, a mix of aesthetics, PBR—more like a party that you might actually go to than the high-end wine and crumbly cracker openings up the street. And they have [...] read more →
