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ART Interviews with Mary Ann Peters, Luis Croquer, and NKO Rey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 4 Lego installation in a random window . . . . . p. 7 Farewell to Western Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 9 Thirteen artists redesign the waterfront . . . p. 11 PERFORMANCE Interviews with Amy O’Neal and Zoe Scofield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 4 ACT’s very ambitious Ramayana . . . . . . . p. 23 CLASSICAL MUSIC What the inventor of the atom bomb said to the composer of Pines of Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 9 TV Nancy Guppy interviews Nancy Guppy . . . . p. 9 PHOTOGRAPHY James Baldwin in exile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 15 POETRY K. Silem Mohammad’s anagrams of Shakespeare sonnets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 17
DINING Should a food critic always be undercover? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 24 FILM Anatomy of Gloria Grahame’s face . . . . . . . . p. 7 David Schmader on queer film . . . . . . . . . . p. 29 FICTION “The Girl Who Cried Wolf,” by Rebecca Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 27 FALL CALENDAR Visual Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Classical & Opera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jazz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Readings & Lectures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
p. 31 p. 39 p. 43 p. 45 p. 47 p. 49
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OPERA Anarchists write an opera about WTO. What could possibly go wrong? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 19
Genius Juice If You Don’t Already Have a Bottle, It’s Too Late
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here was going to be an article in this issue all about Genius Juice. This wine is a blend of cabernet (45 percent), syrah (45 percent), and mourvedre (10 percent) made by Sparkman Cellars, a Woodinville winery that has a solid and growing reputation. The first vintage of Genius Juice got five different labels, each telling the story of a different Genius Award winner: the artist Jeffry Mitchell, the writer Rebecca Brown, the musical group Shabazz Palaces, the filmmaker Lynn Shelton, and the performance venue On the Boards. We were planning to tell you to buy some, actually, and not just because that case of Lynn Shelton sure would go great
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ART DIRECTOR Aaron Huffman SENIOR EDITORS Bethany Jean Clement (dining) Paul Constant (readings and lectures) Jen Graves (art, classical music) Brendan Kiley (performance) Charles Mudede (jazz) David Schmader (film) OPERA EDITOR Rebecca Brown POETRY EDITOR Heather McHugh CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Sherman Alexie, Trisha Ready STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Kelly O COPY EDITORS Gillian Anderson, Anna Minard WEB EDITOR Megan Seling SHIPMATES Dominic Holden, Cienna Madrid, Emily Nokes, Dave Segal, Eli Sanders, David “Goldy” Goldstein
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October 5th & 6th @ 8 & 10pm at your Oscar party whenever she becomes the second woman director ever to win best picture. No, we were going to tell you to buy some because the sale of Genius Juice fully funds the $5,000 Genius Award in visual art this year. But it turns out that 25 cases of wine can sell pretty fast. Like, um, all of it was gone by the day after it was bottled. If you are already sad about missing it, get happy—we’ll make some next year. (If you want to find out about it before it sells out next year, e-mail geniusjuice@thestranger .com.) And if you weren’t one of the lucky ones who got their hands on some, well, here’s the good news: The Genius Award in visual art this year is fully funded. Join us for the Genius Awards on September 22 at the Moore Theater to see which amazing visual artist wins all that sweet, sweet wine money. Q
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Haruko Nishimura as “Gracie” / photo: Bruce Tom
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Panda with Honey Tree, by Jeffry Mitchell, 2006. His retrospective at Henry Art Gallery, Like a Valentine: The Art of Jeffry Mitchell, runs October 27 through January 27 (see p. 31). He also shows work this season at James Harris Gallery (see p. 35) and SOIL (see p. 37). And he’s mentioned on at least two other pages of this issue of A&P—see if you can find them!
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