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Posted on Thu, 06/28/2012 - 3:30pm

Spectrum Dance’s “Love” Introduces 50 New Shades of Grey

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Nate Watters

Donald Byrd and his company Spectrum Dance Theater have gone to great lengths for love this season.

In the  fall, the reprisal of Byrd’s earlier work The Beast terrified with too-real visions of domestic violence. In spring, Petruchska admonished against futile obsessions; and in Miraculous Mandarin…whoops! Didn’t see that one. Read more »

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Posted on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 7:43pm

Pop Life: Seattle Artist Troy Gua Builds an Icon

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Troy Gua
Le Petit Prince in the "flesh"

Seattle mag Spotlight Award winner Troy Gua continues to experiment with his most enticing muse: manufactured fame. Inspired by his childhool idol the artist (formerly? currently?) known as Prince, Gua constructed a doll that looks just like the pop star, if he were to land a cameo role on the marionette-puppet TV show Thunderbirds. Read more »

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Posted on Fri, 06/22/2012 - 7:30pm

What’s New at Canopy Blue, HomeGoods Arrives and Bell Square to Expand

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Courtesy of Canopy Blue

If there is any solace in a rainy June weekend, it’s in the great shopping to be had (all indoors!). Here’s what’s a buzz this week:

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Posted on Fri, 06/22/2012 - 7:02pm

Modernist Cuisine Meets Social Justice

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Cynthia Nims
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Cynthia Nims
Not your typical quail egg

He had me going there. “We keep quails on the roof at the labs,” chef Maxime Bilet told the table of Modernist Cuisine aficionados on Thursday night. “And we’re playing around with feeding them different things to see how it effects the flavor of their eggs.” Before us sat a small plate with a lovely little nest of straw in which sat a speckled quail egg shell with the raw “egg” inside. Read more »

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Posted on Fri, 06/22/2012 - 6:05pm

Fist Bumps to High 5 for Pride Pie

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Leslie Kelly
High 5's Pride Pie

I never need an excuse to dive into a slice of pie, but the folks at High 5 are making it extra special this weekend, letting the Pride show with free rainbow-colored whipped cream topping on each order. LOVE that!

Might be a bit over-the-top on its brand new bacon cream pie, but then again, every color in the rainbow goes with bacon, right? Read more »

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