The Scene - July 2014

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Arts and entertainment for the Eastside July 2014

Downtown Art 30 sculptures come to Bellevue as Bellwether 2014 returns through Oct. 12

Also inside:

■ Tasty pastry ■ Eastside beaches ■ Comedy: The ‘Guy Code’ guys

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Sweet Stuff

FOOD

FIND YOUR YUM

Tasty treats to start your morning

You know the feeling. It's Saturday morning, you've eaten oatmeal and yogurt for breakfast all week.

Well, ban the bran. You need a pastry. We can help.

Northwest Cappuccinno Cupcake Fresh Fruit Tartlet Belle Pastry Old World Bakery There are a number of places around here — some well-known, some The French Bakery not — that have just the thing to go with that morning latte. The Scene coffee.

■ Love the dark staff bought bags of delicious items from a sampling of pastry shops and chocolate coating. Love the ■ Can't believe this was bakeries. Next, we did a blind tasting and jotted down comments from bought in the states. This is bitterness of the chocolate. others in the office. Everyone seemed more than willing to sacrifice their Creamy. Rich. Not too what I imagine a morning waistlines for the cause. in Paris feels like. sweet.

Here is a selection of items and taster's comments. To try these pastries, ■ Chewy. Not too sweet.

■ Delicious. Decadent and more, see our list of Eastside bakeries and pastry shops on this page.

A bit dry. treat.

Northwest (Belle Pastry) ■ Mouse tasting that's Almond Croissant ■ Love it. Fruit is fresh ■ Crusty on the outside, ■ Rich, but not overly light and semi-sweet.

(The French Bakery) with light, puffy cream. soft inside. Not overly sweet.

Raspberry fresh.

Perfect with coffee.

■ Delicious, light and sweet.

■ Perfect summer ■ Light, creamy and favorable. dessert.

■ I like the crunchiness, Coconut and walnut pastry tasty with coffee.

■ Terrific! Very light, but don't think I'd want a ■ Not overly sweet.

(Old Country Bakery) ■ Heavy cake juxtaposed tasty and semi-sweet. lot of it.

Crust is perfect, fruits ■ Sugary, crunchy and with airy topping.

■ A bit chewy for a fresh.

Nutella Bread creamy.

Napoleon (Belle Pastry) croissant. Perfect balance (G.A. Bakery, Bosnian pastry) Cream-filled doughnut ■ Love the baklava-like ■ Creamy; a little sweet of sweetness.

■ Great after a light (Fuji Bakery, Japanese pastry) layers and the creme brûlée ■ If you like your pastry dinner. Sweet, but not Fresh Fruit Tartlet ■ Superb dessert along top.

Very original. Yummy. sweet, this one is for you. too much. Gorgeous with (The French Bakery) with coffee.

Cappuccino Cupcake ■ Fabulous, and tasty (Old Country Bakery) without being too sweet.

The French Bakery 909 112th Ave. N.E., Bellevue, WA 425-590-9640 15600 N.E. St., Bellevue, WA 425-747-0557 219 Kirkland Ave, Kirkland, WA 425-898-4510 Belle Pastry 10246 Main St., Bellevue, WA 425-289-0015 Old Country Bakery (European) 900 160th Ave. N.E., Bellevue, WA 425-649-2171 Fuji Bakery/ G.A. Bakery Asian and Bosnian 1502 145th Place S.E., Bellevue, WA 425-641-4050

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JUNE 27–OCTOBER 12

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OUTDOORS

Get in the swim of things this summer Beaches dot the Lake Washington shoreline It's often said that "life's a beach." That’s still true here on the Eastside where the pricy waterfront is mostly privately owned. But from Mercer Island to Kirkland, public waterfront parks and swimming exist. So grab your flip-flops and let's take a tour of some of our favorites.

Luther Burbank Park: You can't say Mercer Island and beach without thinking of this park. The 77-acre park sits on threequarters of a mile of Lake Washington waterfront. There are lifeguards on duty from June 25 through Aug. 27 along with picnicing, a barbecue area and playground for kids. 2040 84th Ave. S.E. Drive north into Bellevue and you'll find lots of options.

Chesterfield Beach Park: Here's a fishing dock, play and picnic area, restrooms and swimming at this approximately .6 acre park just north of Beaux Arts Village.

2501 100th Ave. S.E. Chism Beach Park: This waterfront park features a dock, picnic and play areas, restrooms, and large picnic areas suitable for group events or weddings. The 18-acre park is handicapped accessible. 9600 S.E. 11th St. Clyde Beach Park:This conveniently located beach is great for a lazy day by the water.

Ample parking, restrooms, boathouse, playground and a roped-off swimming area make this a family pleaser. 2 92nd Ave. N.E. Enatai Beach Park: This beach park is partially hidden under

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the I-90 Bridge, but it's definitely worth looking for. The waterfront park features swimming and a spacious patio with scenic views overlooking Lake Washington.

Take in the wildlife on a canoe or kayak trip through nearby Mercer Slough. 3519 108th Ave. S.E. Meydenbauer Beach Park: Located near the heart of Downtown Bellevue, this bustling beach offers a playground, volleyball area and swimming area. The park is handicapped accessible. 419 98th Ave. N.E. Newcastle Beach Park: This is the largest and most popular beach park in Bellevue with opportunities for swimming, sunbathing and strolling on a nature trail. A 300foot dock, colorful children’s play area and convenient picnic facilities make it a popular family destination. Parking is limited and carpooling is encouraged.

4400 Lake Washington Blvd. S.E. In Kirkland, beach parks are dotted all along Lake Washington.

Houghton Beach Park: This park has a

children's playground, swimming area, beach volleyball, fishing area, picnic area, benches and an open lawn area. 5811 Lake Washington Blvd.

Marina Park: This park in the heart of the city's downtown has something for just about everyone. There's picnic tables (gas-fired barbecues are OK), an amphitheater, fishing area, a boat launch and boat morrage. It's a perfect place to soak up the sun from one of the many benches. 25 Lakeshore Plaza Drive Juanita Beach Park: This nearly 22 -acre park has a beach with an enclosed swimming area (with changing rooms and an outdoor shower in summer), a children's playground and even beach volleyball. 9703 N.E. Juanita Drive

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COVER STORY

A brief guide to Bellwether 2014 A

BY DANIEL NASH

nother two years has passed, which means its time for downtown Bellevue to transform, once again, into an outdoor art gallery.

Bellwether 2014: Connect will bring in more than 30 sculptures to decorate a three-quarter mile walkway from City Hall to Downtown Park.

The City Arts Program has sponsored an outdoor sculpture exhibition every two years since 1992. It was rebooted and renamed Bellwether in 2010, when city officials decided to turn the exhibit into a stepping stone toward a permanent downtown art walk.

The 2014 sculptures include works made of materials as sturdy as aluminum and as ephemeral as newspaper, and styles ranging from realist statues to abstract found materials work.

Elizabeth Gahan, an artist working out of Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood, creates colorful geometric “shards” she installs on existing structures. Amazon featured her installation “Graphic Plume” in its South Lake Union headquarters storefront windows during the winter.

Over summer 2013, “Chromatic Crystallization” sat wrapped around the Westlake Park arch.

Gahan began building her sculptures out of corrugated plastic – the material often used for election season yard signs – when she discovered the sturdy textile couldn’t be recycled. Print shops were more than willing to give her their extras and misprints.

In some of her work, she also works in repurposed advertisements, recycling their familiar parts to add to the overall aesthetic beauty of her sculptures.

“Chromatic Crystallization” and many

Above: Sculptor Elizabeth Gahan in her office at her office in Equinox Studios, in Georgetown. Gahan repurposes old advertisements and corrugated plastic to create geometric sculptures that are often installed on existing structures.

Photo by Daniel Nash At right: Bill Vielehr’s “Unconcealed Column” (depicted on the cover of this issue) will be on display in Downtown Park. The Colorado artist takes advantage of reflecting light to ‘color’ his aluminum sculptures.

Photo courtesy of Bill Vielehr of Gahan’s other projects, create a specific feeling about the structures they attach to. Though technically additive to the constructions, the installations create the sense that everyday surfaces are coming apart at the seams – like living inside a video game and tilting the camera just right to see the polygons clip. It’s not like seeing the world come apart in an unsettling way; it’s like seeing a previously unknown part of these mundane objects that has held everything together all along, sight unseen.

By contrast, many of Bill Vielehr’s metal-cast sculptures look to be coming

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apart at the seams quite literally. Work like “Unconcealed Column” (pictured above right and appearing in Bellwether) adopt the appearance of building components in a state of ruin.

Geemon Xin Meng’s “Jim Green Portrait Sculpture” is a fiberglass statue of a former Vancouver city councillor – a man Meng has never met. The statue is an exploration of the personal projections artists make on their work, he wrote in a statement on the piece.

The city will host an open celebration for Bellwether at from 6-8 p.m. June 27 at Bellevie City Hall, 450 110th Ave. N.E.

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LAUGHS

The Guy Code

Damien Lemon

Photo by Briana Heard

BY DANIEL NASH Comics Chris Distefano and Damien Lemon will come to Parlor Live Comedy Club Bellevue for shows on “The Code Tour,” from July 31 to Aug. 2.

Both men are longtime contributors to MTV’s “Guy Code,” a comedy reality series that explores the alleged unwritten code of conduct between men. They also act as enforcers — and sometimes transgressors — of “the guy code” on spin-off series “Guy Court.” Distefano is a contributor to female-oriented spin-off “Girl Code” and Lemon appears on the game show“Hip Hop Squares.”

Distefano, 29, was born in Brooklyn, New York and has remained in the New York City metro area performing at clubs like Caroline’s, Gotham and The Comic Strip. And New York City has remained an influential part of his material.

“I have no idea what my dad does for a living,” he said, opening a 2013 appearance on Letterman. “I’ve never known. He’s just a big, tough Italian dude from the Bronx.

Never had a job and he’s always had money. Everything’s paid for in cash, always. College tuition: ‘Here, here’s a

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$100,000 in a briefcase. Paid for two extra years ‘cause you’re an idiot.’”

The wise guy is also a smart guy: he earned a doctorate in physical therapy in 2010.

Lemon was raised in Ossining, N.Y., and performs throughout New York City. He made VIBE magazine’s list of “20 Comedians to Watch in 2014” for his style of “emotionless insight.”

That insight caught him in a comic’s worst nightmare at the Hot 97 2013 April Fool’s Day show at Madison Square Garden, where he was booed off stage for telling a joke about the love given to dead rappers. The same joke, which goes on to discuss the pleasures of breaking the news of celebrity deaths, had gotten big laughs a year earlier on an episode of “Russell Simmons Presents: The Ruckus.” But he kept a positive outlook on the incident when recalling it on the Power 105.1 Breakfast Club.

“The cool thing about being booed is, immediately if you get off stage, they tell you ‘Everyone else has been booed,’” Lemon said. “‘Listen, don’t worry about it. They booed Chappelle... they booed Martin Luther King.

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