]]> http://seattletwist.com/2012/05/21/lushy-at-vitos-4/feed/ 0 http://seattletwist.com/2012/05/15/bdx-drum-line-exposition-comes-to-seattle-saturday-may-19th/ http://seattletwist.com/2012/05/15/bdx-drum-line-exposition-comes-to-seattle-saturday-may-19th/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 06:25:17 +0000 Marlow Harris http://seattletwist.com/?p=11858

Join us for a high-powered concert and Drumline competition featuring nearly a dozen different drumlines from around the state that will be performing at Garfield High School on Saturday May 19th from 5pm until 9pm at Garfield High School located at 400 23rd Avenue.

Featuring the Seahawks Blue Thunder Drumline!

Also appearing and performing, the PNW DRUMLINE!

And joining in with the fun, the Seattle Drum School.

Drumlines from the following schools will also appear in a pounding smack down of snares, quads and bass!

Washington Middle School
Garfield High School
Roosevelt High School
Moses Lake High School
Tahoma High School
Graham Kapowsin High School

Song from super hit Suspense Thriller Gumnaam (1965)

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The Atlas Obscura is the definitive guidebook and friendly tour-guide to the world’s most wondrous places. User-generated and editor curated, the Atlas is a collaborative compendium of amazing places that aren’t found in your average guidebook.

And this month, Saturday, April 28th is Obscura Day, an international celebration of unusual places, full of expeditions, back room tours & explorations of the hidden wonders around the world. And Atlas Obscura notes two places in the Seattle area that are weird and wonderful enough to be included in the official Atlas Obscura Day celebration, the Official Bad Art Museum of Art and a tour of the Inscape Building and the Northwest Museum of Legends and Lore.

Tour #1: Atlas Obscura Day at the Official Bad Art Museum of Art, sponsored by Hendricks Gin, a “Gin made Oddly”.

All day is Atlas Obscura Day at Cafe Racer and the Official Bad Art Museum of Art.

Doors open at 10AM Saturday, April 28th. Have breakfast, peruse the Bad Art in the OBAMA, enjoy some “Hendricks Obscure Punch”.

Schedule is as follows:

2:00pm View in amazement an incredible array of bugs, marine invertebrates, isopods and lepidoptera from “Bug Man” Don Ehlen.

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3:00pm Musical performance by Operadisiac, a surreal opera comedy duo that is sure to delight. Can I share a sample video of what you may expect?… How about Operadisiac performing their own version of the Prince classic, Little Red Corvette!

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4:30pm Performance by God’s Favorite Beefcake, featuring Shmootzi The Clod of Circus Contraption fame, with music and sword swallowing and God knows what else???  Eeeek!  Check out JoDavideo’s cool videos of them performing on the very same stage last year right here. I guarantee this music will warm your heart, and scramble your brain, or your money back.

Everyone loves Shmootzi The Clod, because Shmootzi The Clod is so perfectly odd!

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6:00pm (or thereabouts) the Nu Klezmer Army will entertain with their honkin’ versions of old time favorites.

… The hijinks continue until 1am.

Tour #2: Tour of Inscape building and Northwest Museum of Legends and Lore
Peek into Seattle’s past with a tour of the city’s 77,000-square-foot former Immigration and Naturalization Services building, plus a visit to the Northwest Museum of Legends and Lore for rare D.B. Cooper, UFO, and Bigfoot-related artifacts.

Sponsored by Hendrick’s Gin, a most unusual and obscure beverage.

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You may have read about the Gauguin show at the Seattle Art Museum that is open now. Consider this the anti- or counter-Gauguin show, the opening of an art show of paintings by Edgar Leeteg, known as the “American Gauguin”.

Just as Paul Gauguin went to live in French Polynesia in 1891 to paint and be inspired by native culture, so did Edgar Leeteg.

Both men have been the subject of much interest both then and in modern times due to alleged sexual exploits and both were suspected to have had trysts with several native girls, some of whom appear as subjects of their paintings.

Now, for 3 days only, Seattleites will be able to view both Polynesian Masters, within walking distance of each other.

The Edgar Leeteg show will be open for viewing April 27th-29th, coincidentally the last weekend of the Paul Gauguin show at Seattle Art Museum, and close enough to view both shows on the same day.

The Leeteg show is located at 1016 Alley Arts located at 1016 1st Avenue. Use the alley entrance behind Hotel 1000 (between 1st and 2nd, Spring and Madison), just two blocks South of the Seattle Art Museum.

The show opens Friday April 27th, from 6pm until 10pm. Music by the 9-piece band The Ukadelics.

Also open Saturday April 28th and Sunday April 29th, noon till 5pm. Stop by before or after you visit the Seattle Art Museum. This weekend will also be the last weekend of the Gauguin show. Say “good-bye” to Tahiti in style.

Leeteg left the United States and went to French Polynesia and stayed there and painted until his death in 1953. He lived in Cook’s Bay, Tahiti, using the dark skinned women of the island as his models. His main subject was beautiful Polynesian women, and he painted them amidst their background, their culture and their history. The eroticism, colour and detail of these paintings made him famous.

Leeteg’s popularity soared following a fortunate meeting with Honolulu art gallery owner Barney Davis, who became his patron. It was with Davis’ help that Leeteg built his great Villa Velour estate in Moorea. Davis worked as Leeteg’s agent and they had a fruitful and profitable relationship together. His paintings were popular in bars in America and Polynesia.

This collection of over 25 Edgar Leeteg original paintings is owned by local collector David Price, and this is the first time they’ve been seen publicly since 1999.

David Price is the owner of Green Room Decor, and specializes in props and furniture for concerts, shows, exhibits and events around the Seattle area.

Price will also be displaying a number of paintings by the black velvet painter Burke Tyree.

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.

Kelly Hogan (photo by Neko Case)

Kelly Hogan with Puddles Pity Party at Triple Door

MONDAY April 2nd

On April 16, 1970, a federal grand jury indicted the Seattle Liberation Front (SLF) leaders for conspiracy to riot in planning a February 17, 1970 demonstration in Seattle.

One of the members, Jeff Dowd, went on to be a big Hollywood agent. He goes by the name “The Dude”.

The Coen Brothers made a film about him called “The Big Lebowski”.

It became an underground hit. Now it has a cult following and a group of fans have festivals and film screenings and bowling and costume parties all based on the film.

Jeff Dowd, the actual real live “Dude” and one of the original Seattle Seven, will be appearing Thursday, March 29th, here in Seattle at the NWFF. Here’s an opportunity to join Jeff for a conversation about three decades of film independence, assessing the industry’s evolution and its dynamic future. Discussion will also include contributions from other Seattle film community members. 7-9pm, tickets at the door ($10; $6 for members).