We’ve posted a W HOTELS Symmetry Live presents LP RECAP of the EVENT page CLICK HERE

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We recently posted on Seattle Twist about an event, linked here, W HOTELS Symmetry Live presents LP, here at W SEATTLE, which happened on 5/10/12, and we extended the invitation to our readers to join us for an evening of complimentary cocktails while experiencing an intimate performance by LP, one of music’s hottest rising talents.

The event was a huge success, and we want to share some of the evening’s entertainment with you. I’ve posted videos of LP‘s set below, and also videos of interviews with LP, legendary rock and roll photographer, Mick Rock, and Michaelangelo L’Acqua, who serves as the Global Music Director for W Hotels Worldwide.

We asked author, Maria Dahvana Headley, to join us for the interviews posted in the videos below. Thank you very much, Maria!   – jd

Here is a sample video I took of LP‘s performance, the whole set is posted HERE!

LP performs Levitator at W HOTEL in Seattle 5/10/12

W HOTELS Symmetry Live presents LP – Recap of the event is HERE.

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You are invited to an intimate performance by LP

Hosted by W HOTELS Global Music Director, Michaelangelo L’Acqua

Sip Complimentary Cocktails while experiencing one of music’s hottest rising talents

05/10/2012

W SEATTLE

Doors: 7pm  -  Performance: 8pm

Please RSVP:  wseattle.rsvpevents@whotels.com

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Above: LP at SXSW in Austin, TX 3/17/12  - photo: Phil Butler

This video below is an example of what to expect from an intimate live LP performance

LP, now an LA-based singer/songwriter on the rise, recently performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and was included on Paper magazine’s list of the 20 Most Beautiful People. She is one of Esquire magazine’s Artists to Watch in 2012 and was a breakout performer at this year’s SXSW, creating a buzz playing in clubs and busking on the streets of Austin. During GRAMMY Week in February, LP performed at the One Night Only: A Celebration Of The Live Music Experience — the GRAMMY Foundation’s 14th Annual Music

Coming to shoot the action of LP at Symmetry Live is legendary rock and roll photographer Mick Rock, often referred to as “The Man Who Shot the Seventies.” Rock is perhaps best known for his iconic images of David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust, Debbie Harry, Iggy Pop, Syd Barrett and Queen. He has also published a series of books including Glam: An Eyewitness Account (foreword by David Bowie) (Omnibus Books, 2006), Picture This: Debbie Harry & Blondie (foreword by Debbie Harry) (Omnibus Books, 2004), and, most recently, Exposed: Faces of Rock n Roll (Chronicle Books, Autumn 2010). His recent subjects include Black Keys, The Gossip, Lady Gaga, Michael Stipe and Kate Moss. For more information, visit www.mickrock.com.

Update: Fantastic! I see from today’s press release announcements that LP will also be a featured performer at Bumbershoot 2012 – Seattle’s Music & Arts Festival this year, September 1 -3, 2012.

…and also that LP will be a featured performer along with Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, and many more great acts at Music Midtown – Atlanta’s Music Festival - September 21 – 22, 2012

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Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Seattle Center, the Space Needle and the Seattle World’s Fair and Century 21!

Schedule of Events

With soldiers returning from long deployments following World War II romance was in the air. The superhero comics that served to inspire patriotism leading up to the global conflict began to lose appeal. Joe Simon and Jack Kirby seized on these emerging sensibilities to create one of the most popular comic book series of all time. Unlike previous comic book genres, the work appealed primarily to women readers. Kirby’s work from this period was mimicked by pop artist Roy Lichtenstein and others, and has become emblematic of mid-century American aesthetics.

Curator Michel Gagné will discuss his delicate restoration process at the opening reception on Saturday, April 14. The exhibition will feature enlarged panels from Simon and Kirby’s romance comics together with the original work that followed, as Kirby helped formulate the contemporary comic book genre. The book and exhibition carefully examine the creative process of these uniquely American masters.

Fantagraphics Bookstore is located at 1201 S. Vale St. (at Airport Way S.) just minutes from downtown Seattle. Open daily 11:30 to 8:00 PM, Sundays until 5:00. Phone 206.658.0110. This event coincides with the colorful Georgetown Art Attack featuring visual and performing arts presentations throughout the historic arts community. See you all soon.

The eclectic line-up features musicians that have ties to the Georgetown community. Rock, jazz, electronica, lounge, punk, bluegrass, alt country, folk and just about everything in between will be heard in spaces along the Airport Way business corridor. Performers include the Tom Price Desert Classic, Panabrite, Bang Sha Bang, Rat City Brass, Moonspinners, Adam Hicks Trio, Spirograph, Faith, Leif Totusek, Steve Kim, Andre Feriante, Rats in the Grass, Earl Brooks, Lonesome Shack, Tamlin, Creeping Time, Dolly Rottens, Aja West, Tony Diaz, Brian Bullock, Kayla and the Dangerous Flares, and more.

Maps and schedules for this early evening event will be available at participating venues including Georgetown Liquor Company, Two Tartes Café, American Pie, Calamity Jane’s, The Firm, Jules Maes, Georgetown Trailer Park, the Stables, Georgetown Records, All City Coffee, 9 Lb. Hammer, the Mix, Via Tribulali, Ground Control, La Catrina, Georgetown Music, and Fantagraphics Bookstore.

The Georgetown Music March is a production of the non-profit Georgetown Merchants Association. For more information on the GMA visit: www.georgetownmerchants.org.

Kirtley examines the influence of Lynda Barry’s youthful experiences on her diverse creative output through personal interviews and rigorous analysis of published work. Kirtley’s thought-provoking conclusions invite readers to reassess Barry’s body of work though the lens of an often-tormented adolescent girl. Kirtley is associate professor of English at Portland State University. University Press of Mississippi’s Great Comics Artists Series includes critical assessments of the work of cartoonists such as Chris Ware, Alan Moore, Carl Barks, Jack Kirby, Garry Trudeau, and Walt Kelly.

The author will be joined in conversation by Cathy Hillenbrand of Real Comet Press, publisher of Lynda Barry’s first four books. “From Comix to Critiques” was the slogan of Real Comet Press, which is the subject of the current retrospective exhibition at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery featuring original art, graphics, and book works by Lynda Barry, Michael Dougan, Art Chantry, and Ruth Hayes. An informal reception and book signing will follow the discussion.

Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is located at 1201 S. Vale Street (at Airport Way S.) Phone 206.658.0110. This event coincides with the inaugural Georgetown Music March featuring free performing arts presentations throughout the historic arts community.

As owner of the Comet Tavern in the late 70s, Hillenbrand became an advocate for Seattle’s avant garde artists. In 1980, Lynda Barry won a contest to design the Comet’s matchbook cover, beginning a long association with the young Capitol Hill cartoonist. A year later, Hillenbrand published the text to “Propagandists Lament,” a performance work by Seattle artist Annie Grosshans. She soon sold the tavern to devote full time to publishing. Real Comet Press went on to publish four books by Lynda Barry – Girls + Boys, Big Ideas, The Good Times Are Killing Me, and Naked Ladies, Naked Ladies, Naked Ladies – as well as East Texas by Michael Dougan, Instant Litter by Art Chantry, and a series of animated flipbooks by Ruth Hayes. In addition, Real Comet Press published catalogues, criticism, and feminist theory by artists, curators and critics such as Lucy Lippard, Jo Spence, Douglas Kahn, Rini Templeton, Ernst Friedrich, James Turrell, and countless others. Many of Hillenbrand’s books and memorable marketing materials were designed the brilliant graphic artists associated with The Rocket magazine.

Join us on Saturday, March 10 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM to fete the former publisher. Real Comet alumni Hayes, Dougan and Chantry will host the celebration, which includes an exhibition of art, books and ephemera from the Real Comet archives. A limited number of out-of-print Real Comet Press titles will be available for sale (including the iconic Lynda Barry poster “Poodle with a Mohawk”). This reception coincides with the colorful Georgetown Art Attack featuring arts presentations throughout the historic neighborhood.

On Saturday, March 24 at 6:00 PM Fantagraphics Bookstore presents Susan Kirtley, author of Lynda Barry: Girlhood Through the Looking Glass from University of Mississippi Press, in conversation with Cathy Hillenbrand. This enlightening discussion will be followed by an informal reception and book signing.

On Friday, March 30 at 6:00 PM, Hillenbrand joins cartoonists Ellen Forney and Jim Woodring, and Fantagraphics associate publisher Eric Reynolds on the panel discussion “Northwest Noir: Seattle’s Legacy of Counterculture Comix” moderated by Fantagraphics Bookstore curator Larry Reid at Emerald City Comicon at the Washington State Convention Center.

Join STart, Sound Transit art program, to meet the artists for Brooklyn Link Light Rail Station

Friday Feb. 17, 2012 | 6 – 8 p.m.

Henry Art Gallery auditorium

University of Washington

15th Ave NE and NE Campus Pkwy (entrance on east side of pedestrian bridge)

Lead Pencil Studio was commissioned through a national call-to-artists process, organized by STart, Sound Transit public art program.  The artists will discuss their previous work and how they will prepare for creating public art at Sound Transit’s future Brooklyn Link light rail station in Seattle’s University District.

Meet the artist:

Lead Pencil Studio creates an interdisciplinary overlap of architecture and site-specific art. With training in ceramics, photography, sculpture and drawing as well as architecture, Han and Mihalyo explore spatial conditions in the built environment. Lead Pencil Studio recently completed the empty billboard sculpture near Peace Arch Park on the Canadian border.

Learn more

For more information about this event, contact Mylinda Sneed at (206) 689-4978 or mylinda.sneed@soundtransit.org. Find more information about STart, Sound Transit public art program at: www.soundtransit.org/start

To stay informed about the North Link Light Rail project, visit our website at www.soundtransit.org/NorthLink or contact Ellen Blair, Sound Transit Community Outreach, at 206-398-5043 or northlink@soundtransit.org

To celebrate the publication of Fantagraphics’ retrospective Jack Davis: Drawing American Pop Culture, a stellar group of cartoonists, visual artists, graphic designers and illustrators are exhibiting “Funny Valentines,” inspired by the card sets he produced in the late 50s and early 60s, and other influential works. The show includes Peter Bagge, Nikki Burch, Art Chantry, Tom Dougherty, Jesse Edwards, Ellen Forney, Art Garcia, Roberta Gregory, Charles Krafft, Jason T. Miles, Pat Moriarity, Tom Neely, Joe Newton, Ries Niemi, John Ohannesian, Augie Pagan, Eric Reynolds, Bob Rini, Johnny Ryan, Frank Santoro, SHAG, Matthew Southworth, and Jim Woodring, as well as original pieces by Jack Davis himself.

Guests will be honored with a virtual visit by Davis via Skype promptly at 6:30 PM. Bring your Valentine, or find one, at this memorable event. The exhibition coincides with the festive 4th anniversary edition of the Georgetown Art Attack featuring visual and performing arts presentations throughout the historic district.

Cartoonists will want to arrive early for a free workshop on comic book layout conducted by cartoonist and Comics Journal columnist Frank Santoro at 5:00 PM. Fantagraphics is located at 1201 S. Vale St., just minutes south of downtown Seattle. Phone 206.658.0110.

While researching this book project in Oakland, archivist Pat Thomas discovered rare recordings of speeches, interviews, and music by noted activists Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Elaine Brown, and others that form the framework of this definitive retrospective. Listen, Whitey! also chronicles the forgotten history of Motown Records’ Black Power subsidiary label, Black Forum, which released politically charged albums by Stokely Carmichael, Langston Hughes, Bill Cosby and Ossie Davis, among others. Obscure records produced by African-American sociopolitical organizations of the period are examined, along with the Isley Brothers, Nina Simone, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Watts Prophets, Roland Kirk, Horace Silver, Angela Davis, H. Rap Brown, Stanley Crouch, and others that spoke out against oppression. Thomas will give a slide and music presentation, and limited number of advance copies of the book will be available to the public. Also making its debut is a companion CD of the same title from Seattle-based Light in the Attic records. The album features rare tracks from African-American activists like Dick Gregory, Eldridge Cleaver, Last Poets, and others, with protest music by Bob Dylan, John and Yoko Ono, Gil Scott-Heron, Roy Harper, and more.

The Silence of Our Friends is the semi-autobiographical tale of Mark Long. Set in 1967 Texas against the backdrop of the civil rights struggle, a white family from a notoriously racist suburb and a black family from its poorest ward cross Houston’s color line, overcoming fear and violence to win the freedom of five black college students unjustly charged with the murder of a policeman. Co-authored by Jim Demonakos (founder of Seattle’s Emerald City Comicon), and drawn by award-winning cartoonist Nate Powell, The Silence of Our Friends is a new and important entry in the body of civil rights literature.

Join these remarkable authors on Saturday, February 4 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery, located at 1201 S. Vale St. (at Airport Way S.) in Seattle’s colorful Georgetown neighborhood. Phone 206.658.0110.