Arts

Win tickets to Grey Gardens at the 5th Avenue Theatre

KPLU — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:00:00 +0000

Seattle Symphony, Opera musicians approve contract

Ashley Gross — Tue, 14 May 2013 23:25:23 +0000

Labor disputes have shut down performances across the country, but Seattle Symphony and Seattle Opera fans don’t have to worry about cancelations anytime soon. The musicians have agreed to a new contract.

SIFF 2013 tickets on sale today

Vicki Ferguson — Thu, 02 May 2013 16:55:56 +0000

Tickets go on sale today for the 39th annual Seattle International Film Festival. SIFF is set to feature more than 300 films, special guests, and film workshops.

Seattle's Macklemore & Ryan Lewis to perform at MTV Movie Awards

Vicki Ferguson — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:20:00 +0000

Last month, it was Saturday Night Live. This month, Seattle rap duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis will perform at the MTV Movie Awards.

At WSU, an ex-cigarette machine that sells art

Martha Kang — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 21:18:47 +0000

Washington State University now has its own cigarette machine, but it doesn't sell smokes.

Instead, the Art-o-mat vends artworks at $5 each. The machine aims to make art more accessible and affordable.

A final gift for Seattle from philanthropist Bagley Wright

Florangela Davila — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:00:00 +0000

If you’re a Seattle arts and culture lover, you owe a lot to a man named Bagley Wright.

The Space Needle, Benaroya Hall, Seattle Repertory Theater — Wright helped build or create all of them.

Then there’s the art he’s given to the city.

Laura the Luthier kept Gibson strumming during WWII

Tom Banse — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:00:00 +0000

During World War II, a popular song called "Rosie the Riveter" turned female assembly workers into icons. Women filled in at places like the Boeing airplane factory in Seattle and the Kaiser shipyards in Portland while the men went off to war.

But one famous guitar company allegedly tried to hide the fact that it was using female replacements to keep making its musical instruments. Now, seven decades later, a Portland guitarist is helping tell that story.

Last call for artworks to adorn vacant storefronts

Martha Kang — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:30:08 +0000

A nonprofit arts group is looking for art installations to feature around town.

Storefronts, a program which showcases artworks in empty storefronts, is accepting applications for the year.

Teens have voice heard at Young Playwrights Festival this weekend

Katherine Banwell — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:00:00 +0000

Teens will be the first to complain that no one listens to them. But Seattle's ACT Theatre is doing precisely that.

For a dozen years now, the theatre has been offering playwrighting classes to young people, in and out of school time. From some 400 submissions, eight young playwrights were chosen to have their words heard in the upcoming Young Playwrights Festival.

Vivian Maier, a reluctant genius photographer

Jennifer Wing — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 07:53:37 +0000

Vivian Maier is an artist who is considered one of the greatest street photographers of our time. She was a nanny who lived in Chicago. She never talked about her work when she was alive and became famous for it after she died. That’s when thousands of her negatives were discovered and developed. Some of her work is on display right now at The Photo Center Northwest in Seattle.

Jeffrey Goldstein is a collector and owns the negatives of the photos that are on the walls. We are looking at a black and white picture taken by Vivian Maier. It shows girls, young women, laughing and playing in the shallow waves of Lake Michigan near Chicago in the late 1960's. You can almost feel their joy as they splash each other in the hot sun.

“And this is the north shore, with wealthy households and girls who have most things that they want and they are having fun, with bikinis and they are splashing water and here is Ingar, looking out towards the water and she’s the only one with a white bathing cap on."

Ingar Raymond is a chubby girl. She’s about six or seven years old and Vivian Maier was her nanny. In this picture, Ingar is the only person with her back turned to the camera.

"The lightest areas in the photograph are the clouds and Ingar’s cap. And she’s almost like one of these clouds. Just floating out there in the water by herself."

How Seattle rapper Macklemore got 'Thrift Shop' to number one

Zoe Chace — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 18:45:44 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes

The number one song in the country right now is "Thrift Shop" by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, a rap group out of Seattle.

Their claim to fame: They got the song to the top of the chart by themselves, without being signed by a major label.

Tina Fey: '30 Rock' Star And Creator Moves On

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:32:39 +0000

This interview was originally broadcast on April 13, 2011.

Tina Fey grew up in a household with parents she has described as "Goldwater Republicans with pre-Norman Lear racial attitudes."

But, she says, her parents were always supportive of her career, even when she told them she was moving to Chicago to start a career in improv.

"To their credit, they never said, 'You like entertainment.

Alec Baldwin Bids Goodbye To Jack Donaghy

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:32:34 +0000

This interview was originally broadcast on June 25, 2012.

For seven seasons, Alec Baldwin has starred as the TV executive Jack Donaghy on the NBC hit sitcom 30 Rock, which will have its final episode on January 31.

Tracy Morgan: '30 Rock' Let Him Be Himself

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:32:30 +0000

This interview was originally broadcast on Oct. 22, 2009.

You'd be forgiven for confusing Tracy Morgan with his character on 30 Rock — which has its series finale on January 31 — Tracy Jordan. Jordan stars in a sketch comedy show on NBC; Morgan starred on Saturday Night Live for seven seasons.

Tina Fey: Sarah Palin And 'Saturday Night' Satire

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:32:26 +0000

This interview was originally broadcast on Nov. 3, 2008.

Tina Fey's impersonation of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin helped draw record audiences to Saturday Night Live in the fall of 2008.