Come to the Marcus Eaton show at Egan’s on Saturday, July 31st to find out why David Crosby, Dominic Miller, Warren Haynes and Tim Reynolds are fans, and why he is endorsed by Baden Guitars and Fishman.

You can see lots of professional videos on his website, but I was lucky enough to attend a house party earlier this year where Marcus entertained us with his amazing guitar.

The party will start at Ola and end down at Avalon Glassworks 2914 S.W. Avalon Way on Thursday 7/29.

Food will be provided by Luna Park Café (French Fries and Milkshakes)
plus an Elvis Cover Band and the fabulous Mighty Elvis Mobile!

~Ola Salon
~Beer and Wine from OLA Salon
~Live Music- Acoustic Sets by Sid Law and Nathan Adams
~Tarot Readings
~Chair Massage by healing roots
~Complimentary services and products furnished by OLA Salon

~Java Bean will be offering coffee samples
~West Seattle Produce will have organic fruit and veggie samples
~Avalon glassworks will be doing a glassblowing demonstration and offering discounts

Stop by and say hello, have a beer and listen to some great live music in the sun.

This is the last week for Bette Burgoyne’s show at Vermillion Gallery at 1508 11th Avenue on Capitol Hill.

Here’s a review of the show by Laura Macomber at Visual Art Source:

Bette Burgoyne’s latest exhibition of pencil drawings channel a deep, dark, and mysterious mythos: with titles such as “Whisper Vapor,” “Sacrum,” and “Primordia,” they’d better. Each drawing, a veritable webbing of wispy white lines that merge, plait, and even throb across their surfaces of coal-black paper, offers a new and semiopaque supernatural vision of worlds – of creatures, of material, of flora – that only our imaginations can rightly access.

Burgoyne’s work, however, is rooted in the natural world: “Each drawing,” she claims, “is a reinterpretation and combination of observations made from looking at many things: clouds, rocks, erosion, light, mammal ears, leaves, fur, waves, lichen and science illustrations of electromagnetic fields.” But where we might think we see echoes of birch trees, outlines of sand dollars and bird beaks, so do we sense the decomposition latent in them. Burgoyne’s pencil-tip latticework is as equally redolent of severed brain tissue and bone, snapped spinal columns and ashes and dust. Any of these drawings might inspire loneliness or sublimity or repose. Their exquisite pencil work will simply inspire.

Each piece, an exercise in meditation, is elaborate and complicated and is made using white Prismacolor pencil on black paper.

The show is up at Vermillion Gallery until July 31.

July 27, 2010 – Seattle, WA. The Mystic Sons of Morris Graves, a beneficent fraternal order dedicated to celebrating the legacy of its revered namesake, is commemorating the centenary of Graves’ birth with an invitational art exhibition and séance in August at the Tashiro Kaplan artists cooperative in Seattle’s Pioneer Square.

The art exhibition will feature dozens of homages to Northwest master Morris Graves by accomplished members and friends of Seattle Lodge No. 93. The show features work in all media from established and emerging artists including Chris Crites, Charles Krafft, Stephen Rock, Aaron Murray, Ries Niemi, James Dykes, Kelly Lyles, Peter Santino, Tim Silbaugh, Tom Francis, David C, Kane, Art Garcia, Eric Nelson, Galen Garwood, Tom Francis, John Ohanessian, Augie Pagan, Matthew Kangas, Robert Hardgrave, Larry Reid, and countless others. Also included in the exhibition will be seldom-seen artworks and artifacts created by Morris Graves specifically for the Seattle Lodge.

The Morris Graves Centenary exhibition opens with a festive reception on First Thursday, August 5 from 5:00 to 8:00 PM at 3 galleries in the Tashiro Kaplan compound: Rock?DeMent, the Corridor, and Angle galleries at 306 S. Washington St. Following the reception, the exhibition will remain open for public viewing on Saturdays from noon to 6:00 PM through August 28.

On Saturday, August 28 at 9:00 PM – Morris Graves’ 100th birthday – members of the Lodge will conduct a séance in the community room of the Tashiro Kaplan Building. Presided over by master medium Kirk Charles with a special Theremin performance by Aja West, this event is sure to be both entertaining and enlightening. For membership information gaining access to this unique experience, attend the exhibition on opening night or visit the Nancy boutique at 1930 2nd Avenue, Wednesday – Saturday 11:00 to 6:00 PM.

The Swedish Housewife Presents the first annual Seafarer Follies! An aquatic cabaret to make Flo Ziegfeld fall off his boat. Just like in the olden days when “The Aqua Follies” rocked Greenlake, the Seafarer Follies! is the perfect Seafair antidote to loud boats, loud planes and suburban parades.

For our first commemorative year, Captain Bloodbeard aka performance artist Bradford Scobie (NYC) will be at the helm. With acts by Moisture Festival favorites: Trixie Little and The Evil Hate “Sea”-Monkey (Baltimore) and Seattle debut of  Bambi The Mermaid (Coney Island), Seattle all stars Waxie Moon as King Neptune, The Shanghai Pearl, The Swedish Housewife!!! Of course, a Real Live Band with Bandleader Michael Musburger will be rockin’ the boat!

Come dressed to the nine fathoms in your most outrageous nautical, aquatic, flyboy, flygirl, sailor, sea captain, mermaid, merman, or “you make it up” costume to win prizes and the prestigious year long title of The Royal Sea Urchin!

That’s right, more flotsam and jetsum than you can shake a stick at… more crustaceans than you can put in a pot! You can’t throw a catfish on this stage and not hit a mermaid! Packed full of Sardines and Sailors!!! Blue Angels, Red Devils, and not your average Chicken of the Sea!

Guaranteed to be Off The Hook!

The First Annual Seafarer Follies

August 6 & 7

Show: at  11PM

Door: at 10PM Friday and 10:30 PM Saturday

Tickets: $22 Advance/ $25 Day of
21+
Box Office: 206-838-4333

The Triple Door
216 Union Street
Seattle WA

This Friday Night! Georgetown is gonna be a Twisting and a Frugin, as The Soul Hole throws down with a “Summer BBQ Edition” at The Georgetown Ballroom.
7 sets of music to be played by DJ’s: Greg Vandy, Miss Lilli, Nipper, Cruddy, Self-Administered Beatdown, Chilly and Johnny Horn, with a live music by The Basements.

If that don’t make you wanna jump up and dance nothing will!   If the party gets to crowded just do the Cavern Stomp!

Georgetown Ballroom
5623 Airport Way South

8PM

$5/ 21+

Food and Drink available

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A Luau Birthday Celebration at the

Official Bad Art Museum of Art

Wednesday, August 4th, 7:pm – Cafe Racer/OBAMA
5828 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle WA 98105

Cafe Racer specials featuring Food and Drink of the Islands

Music by The Ukadelics

Wednesday August 4th is the birthday of President Obama, and because Obama is a native of Honolulu, Hawaii, and because we at O.B.A.M.A. are looking for an excuse to have a party, and celebrate the Hawaiian and Tiki Culture, we’re having a Luau inspired party to celebrate OBAMA! Wear a muu-muu or Aloha shirt, have a fruity cocktail, get lei’d!

On Sunday, July 25, from 2 -5PM ,

Full Tilt Ice Cream in Columbia City is invites you to join them  for an afternoon of homemade ice cream and hometown music – an inaugural event that is being made possible by so many wonderful friends of the Rainier Valley food bank.

It’s all free – with donations accepted to benefit the Rainier Valley Food Bank (RVFB).  RVFB provides food assistance to low-income residents in southeast Seattle, with a focus on seniors, families, individuals with disabilities and the homeless.  No one is turned away who meets the food bank’s broad criteria for assistance.  They have a commitment to honor clients by offering an abundance of healthy, nutritious food.

Come see music by  The Femurs, Big Sur, Shenandoah Davis, Jace Krause (Friday Mile) and  Kaylee Cole .

Come have some ice cream, listen to some amazing music, and make some money for the food bank!

Friday July 23rd at 1 p.m, Teatro ZinZanni opera diva Juliana Rambaldi and gentleman juggler and accordionist Sergiy Krutikov perform in the lobby and entrance of the MarQueen Hotel at 600 Queen Anne Ave. N. on lower Queen Anne near the theater.

If Cher, Boy George, Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury got busy and created a love child, it would be Adam Lambert. Tuesday night he brought his Glam Nation Tour to Seattle to the Showbox Sodo for an incredible evening of camp, dance-pop and -rock and gave it all a light coating of goth.

The audience was an unusual blend of middle-aged women, younger fag hags, sexually confused young men and a few bewildered parents accompanying their children to the sold-out show.

Adam performed about an hour of dance and music — some of it big and loud with heavy beats, some of it soft and acoustic. His set included covers of Johnny Cash (“Ring of Fire”) and Led Zeppelin (“Whole Lotta Love”), proving that nerve and audacity are not two of his deficiencies. The band was tight, as were the incredible dancers, and the crowd swooned with each costume change.

The set list comprised over a dozen songs, mostly from his “For Your Entertainment” album. But the performance and costume changes, including a laser show, and the dancing were as much an attraction as the songs.

Even though he came in 2nd in the American Idol competition, it’s obvious that Adam Lambert is the number one winner in the pop/glam/goth/gay/dance category!

The Shanty Tavern, Saturday, July 24

The Moonspinners open the show at 9:30 with Thee Sgt. Major, and Sugarsmacks!

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Northwest Puppet Center is honored to become the home to this internationally acclaimed collection.

“The World of Puppetry: Treasures from the Cook/Marks Collection” will be the first opportunity for a portion of this massive collection to be displayed in Seattle.  Don’t miss your chance to see the world through wooden eyes with puppets from Bucharesti, Palermo, Bali, Athens, Osaka, Rio de Janeiro, Bamako, Bursa, and many more points on the globe.

Included on display are stunning examples of Sicilian opera dei pupi, Indonesian wayang and Japanese bunraku (some of the puppet traditions recognized by UNESCO as “Intangible Cultural Assets to Humanity”).  You will even see vaudeville marionettes returning to the limelight after making their original appearances on Seattle stages a century ago!

Northwest Puppet Center presents

The World of Puppetry: Treasures from the Cook/Marks Collection

Location:
Seattle Center Pavilion B (next to the skate park)

On View July 23-Aug. 1, 2010
6pm-9pm on Fri. July 23
11am-4pm on weekends
11am-3pm on weekdays

Admission is FREE but donations to Northwest Puppet Center are welcomed to help continue NWPC’s expanding museum efforts.

Exhibit sponsored by The Jacqueline S. Marks Fund at the California
Community Foundation and Seattle Center.  General support provided by ArtsFund and Washington State Arts Commission.

To learn more about the Cooks/Marks Collection:
http://nwpuppet.org/worldofpuppetry.html

Get a double-dose of puppets by combining your visit with the regional festival, Puppet-O-Rama,
organized by members of Puppeteers of Puget Sound, to be held at Seattle University July 30-Aug. 1.  International Puppetry Museum and Northwest Puppet Center will be hosting a reception at the regional festival on July 30 to celebrate this new collection and would like you to join in their celebration.   Come learn more about puppetry at the festival:  http://www.puppet-o-rama.org

Not a puppeteer and want to see puppet shows all around the area?

Find out where the Northwest Puppet Center will be performing this summer  http://www.nwpuppet.org/summer.html

After this exhibit at Seattle Center, more of the collection will be on display when the 2010-2011 season opens in November. Northwest Puppet Center will feature two exhibits each year and The Cook/Marks Collection will be a major portion of the Puppet Museum at the Northwest Puppet Center for generations to come.

To find out more about the Northwest Puppet Center’s 2010-2011 season performances: http://nwpuppet.org/weekend.html

We at Seattle Twist support Thunderbitch, a very cool project our friend Daniel R. Smith is putting together. Support Thunderbitch if you can, and you’ll get the exhibit catalog and have fun at the associated events, and get to see me there having fun too. Can’t go wrong! Just announced a super live music lineup for the opening, Aug. 5th. How about a set by VISQUEEN (7pm), plus BARBARA IRELAND + STONE GOSSARD (6pm) PLUS show by DAMIEN JURADO (8pm) to celebrate his new album St. Barlett…? Not to mention an appearance by the PISTON PACKIN’ MAMAS, Seattle’s all-girl vintage car & motorcycle club.

Thunderbitch: Women Designers in Northwest Rock 1966–2010 

From DIY Xerox flyers for bands you’ve never heard of to big budget rock albums that sold in the millions, women designers have shaped the visual identity of music in the Pacific Northwest since at least the late 1960s. Some never considered themselves designers, simply making Xerox posters out of necessity to promote their bands. Some are artists and illustrators synonymous with various music genres and some are career graphic designers. Thunderbitch is the first attempt to document these women artists and their work. Taking its name from a pseudonym for Catherine Weinstein, an early rock poster maker in Portland, this exhibit spans the emergence of psychedelic rock, DIY punk and new wave, grunge, riot grrl and today’s contemporary silkscreen gig poster movement from Washington and Oregon.

The Exhibit Catalog 
With so many previously undocumented Northwest posters, flyers, etc. in this exhibit, I want to share the full-color images, plus some of the unexpected stories gathered along the way. Like the life story of Catherine Weinstein, who raced cars in Portland in the ’60s, created psychedelic posters and in 1984 was convicted of attempted manslaughter. Like Seattle’s Judith Bissell, member of the Weather Underground who spent time in federal prison for two attempted bombings, and who created a precursor to feminist riot girl fanzines. And Kim Kalliber, founding member of the Piston Packin’ Mammas, Seattle’s all-girl, vintage car and motorcycle club, who designs rock posters and pinstripes hotrods.

Funding 
Tether (tetherinc.com) has generously provided graphic design support for Thunderbitch, including the exhibit catalog. Mohawk Paper (mohawkpaper.com) has donated paper to print it on. Seattle’s woman-owned print shop, Girlie Press, has offered a deep discount on printing the 40 page, 7.5 x 9.75″, full-color catalog. All I have to do now is cover the remaining hard costs, $4,000 for the printing. Donate $20 or more and receive a copy! Or donate more and get great stuff, including recognition in print.

See the Exhibit 
The exhibit runs August 5th – 28th, 2010, at Tether Design Gallery, 323 Occidental Ave South, Seattle, 98104. www.tetherdesigngallery.com

Exhibiting Designers 
Lynda Barry, Judith Bissell, Deborah Brown, Rachel Carns, Neko Case, Chelsea Conboy, Cindy Crangle, Shari Critchley, Louise Crowley, Katha Dalton, Dotty DeCoster, Ellen Forney, Candy Fowler, Sharon Gannon, Marianne Goldin, Kathleen Hanna, Chanda Helzer, Jane Higgins, Lucy Huntzinger, Barbara Ireland, Kim Kalliber, Eva Lake, Molly Neuman, Lisa Orth, Tammy Packs, Gina Papen, Cielito Pascual, Emily Pothast, Robynne Raye, Mary Rivard, Helena Rogers, Rachel da Silva, Helene Silverman, Clara Sims-Mulligan, Heidi Snellman, Dana Squires, Kim Stringfellow, Ashleigh Talbot, Tobi Vail, Jeanne Wasserman, Joanna Wecht, Catherine Weinstein (aka Hedda Goldspace, aka Thunderbitch), Alice Wheeler, Bon Von Wheelie, Allison Wolfe

Please read more about Thunderbitch here.

Object sculpture by Kim Kalliber of The Piston Packin’ Mamas.

Rydell High’s most famous graduating class is going back to school, and back to movie theaters, when “Grease” comes back as a singalong movie to Pacific Place Theater.

This is a newly restored version with lyrics printed across the bottom of the screen and an open invitation to audiences to sing themselves silly.

I am so excited! What shall I wear…. Bobby sox and a petticoat or black leather?

Pacific Place, 600 Pine St., 652-2404, greasemovie.com. $10. 7 and 9:45 p.m

This is a sweet event featuring cupcakes, kisses and bombshells, both blonde and brunette.

Westside Yoga Doga Studio blends traditional Ashtanga and Doga (Dog Yoga) together for an exciting mix of pet & human interaction and there’s a benefit closing party Thursday, July 8th from 6pm to 9pm. Westside Yoga is located at 6417 Fauntleroy in West Seattle.

Come to this benefit for “Dogs Deserve Better” and join the staff of Westside Yoga Doga and doggy photographer Emily Rieman for an evening of art, music, beer, wine, snacks and dogs. Also, enjoy loungey, punky, surf music by Mercury Four Lite.

Emily Rieman has been doing commissioned portraits of dogs and cats in and around Seattle since 1997. She comes to your home and sets up her studio right there, since that’s where your pet is the most comfortable, and she will have her pet portraits on display July 8th, 6-9pm at the closing party at Westside Yoga Doga.

Transillumination by Bette Burgoyne at Vermillion Gallery, opening July 8th 6-11pm

The show runs July 8 – July 31, 2010 at Vermillion Gallery on Capitol Hill 1508 11th Avenue.

By definition, the word Transillumination is the transmission of light through tissues of the body.

Transillumination is a series of work by Bette Burgoyne where she uses white Prismacolor pencil on black paper to create an ethereal landscape of shapes. She says, “Each drawing is a reinterpretation and combination of observations made from looking at many things; clouds, rocks, erosion, light, mammal ears, leaves, fur, waves, lichen and science illustrations of electromagnetic fields . The lighting in the drawings is oblique, like the light during sunset or moonrise. It is a time filled with portent and possibility, just before the night begins. Each new piece of black paper is a little dark night that I beam some light into.”

Bette Burgoyne was born in Seattle in 1959. After graduating from Cornish College of the Arts in 1986, she moved to San Francisco and spent 10 years practicing and teaching art. Bette earned an MFA from Mills College, California. She taught at several places, including San Francisco Art Institute and California College of the Arts.

Bette’s solo exhibitions at New Langton Arts, Southern Exposure, Mincher/Wilcox and Headlands Center for the Arts were reviewed positively by art critics Kenneth Baker and David Bonetti. Her work has been featured in many group exhibitions, including A Labor of Love at the New Museum NYC and the touring exhibition New World (Dis)Order. Among Bette’s awards and residencies have been the Veronica di Rosa Residency Award at Headlands Center for the Arts CA, Tread of Angels Fellowship at Djerassi Foundation CA, Watkins Award at New Langton Arts SF, and the Boudreaux Cadogan Scholarship at Mills College.

After her return to Seattle, Bette purchased a giant roll of black Canson paper and has been cutting it and drawing on it ever since. The current exhibition at Vermillion, Transillumination, is a presentation of drawings made within the last 12 months.