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"Awesome"Part 2 of 6: (Not So) Boring Storiesby Eliana S.The band "Awesome"'s lively characters were a delight to chat with. When asked to tell a boring story, each band member put their own twist on their answer, and revealed a little bit about their distinctive personalities. Basil (specifically pronounced Bah-sil) skipped the boring part of the question and told me that he was the funniest member of all the mates. He claimed that Rob is the easiest one to pick on, and he mentioned his warped social life since the birth of his daughter, who is now two. John specifically outlined his day, from the burning of his CD, his walk to the Ballard Library, his Tom White CD that was on hold, and the gardening that had to be done. He also mentioned his visit to SNACKS, a shop with tasty treats, which was unfortunately closed, and shared that his favorite snack is Barbara's Jalapeno Cheetos.Eliana interviews the indispensable Rob WitmerDavid, the banjo player, described his adventure in the bathroom, where he stuck his hand down the bathtub's drain, and pulled out a large hairball and then disposed of it. He also told me about his favorite musical artists, the Talking Heads, and the Anchors. Rob depicted his search on craigslist for a car. He also mentioned that he is a Mercer Island High School Alumni, and in fact, knows comedian Joel McHale! Evan, who works at the University of Washington, explained how he had to switch the plane tickets of some student earlier that day. He also noted that he is not a native Seattleite, but actually hails from Iowa. Kirk told me of the poor heating conditions in the rehearsal space/art studio that the band uses. As we began to talk about other things, he declared that Gross Pointe Blank is his favorite movie."Awesome"'s new show WEST runs April 22 - 25 at On the BoardsCheck back tomorrow for part 3!

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Pick of the Week

RoboPop! @ Washington Ensemble Theatre"a must see event for anyone who loves innovative and original live theater." - Seattle Gay Scene

The Ensemble Presents: RoboPop! TEASER # 2 from Washington Ensemble Theatre on Vimeo."Seeing RoboPop! at WET was an eye-popping experience. It's sort of a music video come to life...Robot dancing, fight choreography and a pulsing electronic sound track keep things moving towards a climactic finish featuring... well, you just need to see it!" - Rob Witmer of "Awesome""an 80-minute music video onstage that threatens to be too esoteric (there’s no dialogue), but manages to appeal to everyone with its sweet—not saccharine—storyline and outstanding tech elements...the sound-and-video team...keeps the play moving like a well-timed Lady Gaga concert." - Seattle Metropolitan

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Crush of the Month

"Awesome"Part one of six: The Crushiest of Them Allby Joshua G.One question asked of the 6 (of 7!) members of "Awesome" is to identify which bandmember deserves the true and rightful honor of the prestigious title of Teen Tix Crush of the Month! The general consensus of the band being that, Evan (trumpet/vocals) is THE total stud of the band. (With his "rocking of the beard" says Rob and "indy rock attitude" according to Basil.) In response, Evan blames his unmarried status and "in-between hair" (compared to the SUPER long John O's) Evan, “like all theater geeks secretly do...” dreamt of being a rock star.

The "Awesome" boys and the Teen Tix reviewers having a blast at prom.The band's latest performance is set to "take the [band] into new places ... really unexpected," John A. (mandolin/keyboard) says with modest hype and anticipation. According to him the band seems to have two modes: "clubs and theater," the upcoming On The Boards show tending to follow the latter.Creatively the band is trying something very different from last year's shows at ACT. John says there latest outing is “more structured,” but David (banjo) says that the two years allowed them to “dick around.” David goes on to connect “Awesome”'s whimsical tone on the band's history as an improv comedy team."Awesome"'s bass guitar player Basil says "Awesome" is influenced heavily by They Might Be Giants. “There is a feeling they could do anything,” Basil said with a childlike glint in his eye. Growing up as a "Drama geek," Basil was struck primarily by They Might Be Giants' "aesthetic," a feeling, he says, that comes across in their music.The impact of They Might Be Giants is also seen in conversation with Rob (accordion/saxophone). “I met the band through a They Might Be Giants Tribute.” But when asked of the band's rather pretentious name, he just laughs. When asked, "Whats a good band name?" “Awesome” was the name that emerged. “Yeah, it kinda stuck...It's in quotes.”The band members seem like the best of friends. Want proof? Basil and Kirk(fashionably balding drummer) grew up going to high school together.- Josh G"Awesome"'s new show, WEST, runs April 22 - 25 at On the Boards.Check back here tomorrow for part 2!

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Passport to the Arts

If you hate money, stop reading.Okay, the rest of you: the Teen Tix Passport to the Arts contest is on right now. It works like a coffee card for art: everytime you use your Teen Tix pass in the next 5 months, get your card stamped. When it's full, send it in. If we pull your card, you win. You win money. First prize is $200 (yes, two hundred dollars).What's the catch, you say? We applaud your wise skepticism, but there is none. Seriously. We just thought Teen Tix wasn't quite awesome enough already. Last time we did this, three actual live teenagers won actual dollars.Okay, we do have an ulterior motive: to get you to see more art at different places. The more different places you go and different kinds of art you see, the more money you can win. Passport to the Arts. Get it?Okay, go download your passport from our website and start collecting stamps. You have until July 9th, 2010 to fill up your card. Go go go!

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crush x seven

Our April Crush-of-the-Month comes out on Thursday, but we wanted to give you a little taste, for the building of the excitement. Yay!

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“I don’t think the point is to LIKE or be COMFORTABLE with all of it”

Review of Morgan Thorson/Low: Heaven at On the Boards by Kaya P.My brother elbowed me in the arm “seriously” he mouthed directing his gaze towards the man onstage in a flowing white skirt. I may have told him we were going to see a live band....with some dancing, but how else was I to coerce my 20 year old brother into accompanying me to a modern dance show? The dancers moved around an almost bare stage. Everything from the floors to the costumes was in shades of white. Two of the dancers who are from the band low; would break away periodically to play the instruments on stage. Even while playing they remained part of the dance. The group came together for choral arrangements that were indeed heavenly! Usually the singing would come forth slowly from silence.Overall I thought the piece was beautiful and fun to watch. The dancers seemed to bring the notes to life. While watching I thought the tantrums the dancers would break into destroyed the harmony of the piece; until afterwards I was milling about the lobby and, my brother said “there were some parts that were really nice to watch” “really?” I asked “yea” he replied. “I don’t think the point is to LIKE or be COMFORTABLE with all of it” I was surprised to hear this coming from him. He’s right though. There are parts which make you squirm, but who is totally comfortable with the idea of heaven? The concept leaves so many questions unanswered. I guess I can see why the thought of it would make you want to scream. I say this is a must see! Bring someone you normally wouldn’t think to; you might be pleasantly surprised by the perspectives they have to share.- Kaya P.April 2nd, 2010Morgan Thorson/Low: Heaven runs through Sunday at On the Boards. The show has been selling out, but if you want to see it, don't give up! There will be a wait list every night and people on the wait list usually get in. Go! More info at ontheboards.org

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Mykaila’s Glimmer Journal

Post # 3: We’ll Give Ourselves New Names(Wait! What is this? Skip to the bottom for an explanation.)It’s hard to put my experience into palatable prose… I don’t know where to start and I don’t know where to end. I mostly ended up with a bunch of questions. I’m going to use one of the notes that Bianca gave me at the beginning to structure my response.

Photo by Anne LawrenceAs I approached the site for my solo, I was pulled intensely toward the experience but I also felt like running away. I couldn’t leave, though, as much as I wanted.When I arrived, Bianca gave me letters. Letters are a huge part of my life, and reading them soothed me. She gave me an iPod, and asked if I was ready. HA! Ready as I could ever be. We sat down back to back, heads touching, and listened to the sounds of the skate park, which I love. I was nervous, but I don’t know why—I felt like it was my first day in a new place.

Photo by Anne Lawrence

Bianca knew that I love singing along to my favorite songs. Despite my love of singing along, I'm very self-conscious about it… which is why when Bianca said she was going to sing her song to me, and I could choose any song from the playlist (a list of my favorite songs) on the iPod to sing to her, I realized exactly how far off in the distance my comfort zone was. We faced each other and we sang, displaying ourselves unabashedly for each other. I was surprised by how effortlessly I could let go of my fear and my discomfort. It was uncomfortable and perfect.The next song I chose was for her to dance her dance. She danced another introduction, encouraging me to feel where I was and what I was doing much more strongly. Our roles became clear: Without one of us, this wouldn’t be happening.Watch the video of Bianca's dance for MykailaThen she danced me. She showed something stunning to me—it was something I had never seen before but that I somehow knew. She ran away, and I stood up. I had intended to follow her, but curbed that impulse as soon as it came to me. I stood there, not sure what to do, until I realized that I didn’t have to hold back—I could follow my whim: it would be honest. Dodging and turning, we circled the skate park. Nobody knew what was going on—maybe not even us.Bianca certainly (though I’m not TOTALLY sure how) figured out my inhibitions and confronted them with me. After she presented my dance she said, "You go behind that tree, and I’ll stay behind this tree, and we will both dance. Dance party style." I couldn't say no, no matter how freaked and self-conscious I felt. HEY EVERYBODY COME SEE ME CONFRONT MY FEARS!I am so grateful for Bianca and her role in this project. I’m not sure how to appropriately thank her for the openness, kindness, love, and honesty with which she treated me and approached the solo… but I’m working on it.

Photo by Anne Lawrence

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Passport to the Arts

If you hate money, stop reading.Okay, the rest of you: the Teen Tix Passport to the Arts contest is on right now. It works like a coffee card for art: everytime you use your Teen Tix pass in the next 5 months, get your card stamped. When it's full, send it in. If we pull your card, you win. You win money. First prize is $200 (yes, two hundred dollars).What's the catch, you say? We applaud your wise skepticism, but there is none. Seriously. We just thought Teen Tix wasn't quite awesome enough already. Last time we did this, three actual live teenagers won actual dollars.Okay, we do have an ulterior motive: to get you to see more art at different places. The more different places you go and different kinds of art you see, the more money you can win. Passport to the Arts. Get it?Okay, go download your passport from our website and start collecting stamps. You have until July 9th, 2010 to fill up your card. Go go go!

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SAM Sunday

SAM Next: Heide Hinrichs @ Seattle Art MuseumGerman-born Seattle-based artist Heide Hinrichs makes art out of stuff--everyday stuff, like dead soccer balls and string. In so doing, she makes the stuff transcend its ordinariness. She makes the stuff turn itself inside out and whisper its stories. "Stagger out into the light after losing everything and there are her sculptures on the floor, the flayed skin of soccer balls hung up on a wire or deflated inner tubes curled as if smoked in a fire." - Regina Hackett Through June 13th, 2010 at Seattle Art Museum seattleartmuseum.orgSAM Next: Heide HinrichsSeattle Art MuseumThrough June 13th, 2010Hours: Wednesday–Sunday: 10 am–5 pmThursday & Friday: 10 am–9 pmMonday & Tuesday: closed

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Passport to the Arts

If you hate money, stop reading.Okay, the rest of you: the Teen Tix Passport to the Arts contest is on right now. It works like a coffee card for art: everytime you use your Teen Tix pass in the next 5 months, get your card stamped. When it's full, send it in. If we pull your card, you win. You win money. First prize is $200 (yes, two hundred dollars).What's the catch, you say? We applaud your wise skepticism, but there is none. Seriously. We just thought Teen Tix wasn't quite awesome enough already. Last time we did this, three actual live teenagers won actual dollars.Okay, we do have an ulterior motive: to get you to see more art at different places. The more different places you go and different kinds of art you see, the more money you can win. Passport to the Arts. Get it?Okay, go download your passport from our website and start collecting stamps. You have until July 9th, 2010 to fill up your card. Go go go!

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SIFF Saturday

The Horse Boy @ SIFF CinemaHow far would you travel to heal someone you love? For one Texas couple, it means a spiritual journey halfway around the world to Mongolia. When their son is diagnosed with autism, they seek the best treatments but nothing works… Until they discover their son’s connection to horses and the effect it has on him. Part travel adventure and shamanic quest, this is the story of how one family found a gateway into understanding their son’s life.Watch the trailer:Saturday, March 27th at 1:00 PMSIFF Cinema

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cure for boredom

Opera, Undressed @ Cornish College of the ArtsIf you think of opera as lavish, overwrought spectacle that relates to actual life sort of not at all, you should check this out. Soprano Natalie Lerch performs two stunning one-woman operas: Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine (1959) and Judith Weir’s King Harald’s Saga (1979). Here's the description of La Voix Humaine (The Human Voice) from Cornish's website:"Before the ubiquity of overheard cell phone conversations made the private-life details of passersby an everyday occurrence to our public ear, Francois Poulenc and Jean Cocteau constructed an opera comprised of only one side of an overheard telephone conversation. Their tour de force opera for solo soprano, La Voix Humaine (The Human Voice) brings the audience into the heroine’s bedroom to eavesdrop on her side of an emotional telephone call. Poulenc’s jagged, lush, and emotional score and Cocteau’s allusive and seductive libretto chart the soprano’s anguished search for strength as we listen vicariously to the story that unfolds."Um, yeah. That sounds kind of awesome, right?Natalie Lerch Opera Undressed – Three Acts, One WomanSaturday, March 27, 8:00 pmPONCHO Hall, Cornish College of the ArtsMore info at cornish.edu

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Pick of the Week

Ching Chong Chinaman @ SiS Productions"Great laughs...unexpectedly moving" - Examiner.comMeet the Wong family: as all-American as apple pie. Ed likes to play golf, Grace wants another child, Desdemona is desperate to get into Princeton, and Upton is working towards gaming superstardom. When Upton gets an indentured Chinese servant to help him with his homework, life in the Wong household takes an interesting turn . . . Flipping every cliché about Asian American identity upside down, this award-winning play by Lauren Yee is an "exhilarating send-up" of the American dream.Watch the preview video for Ching Chong Chinaman, in which cast member Kathy Hsieh points out "It..deals with 4th & 5th generation Asian Americans...and there's a sensibility about it that I think will really be important for 20-somethings, teenagers, and college students."Follow the Wong family on twitterFan Ching Chong Chinaman on facebook.Ching Chong ChinamanPresented by SiS Productions at Richard Hugo House on Capitol HillMarch 16 - April 24more info.SIS Productions is a production company that strives to create, develop and produce quality works that involve Asian American women, their themes, and Asian American issues. SIS Productions encourages opportunities and support for Asian American women to be involved in all aspects of the production of artistic endeavors.

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cure for boredom

Poet Linda Gregg @ Seattle Arts & LecturesPlums Failing Wellby Linda GreggSo what if plums fallout of the tree, to liesquashed and decomposingon the earth? So what ifthe only attention they receiveis from the ants and birdswho find something in themto feed from still,all spayed and color changed?If they could breathe,do you think they would saymore than so what?This is good, to liveto the end as somethingto get taken. What wasthe ripeness for anyhow?Why should chromosomes blinkand twitch inside the seed,the pit at the middle, the vastearth-shaped center of allof this? So what if we liehere or there as pithin the cold night where the owlhoots at the stirring that willcompute into the dark colorof that calling and the groundwe leak into,small piece by small piece.Linda GreggSeattle Arts & Lectures at Benaroya HallThursday, March 25th @ 7:30 PM

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Passport to the Arts

If you hate money, stop reading.Okay, the rest of you: the Teen Tix Passport to the Arts contest is on right now. It works like a coffee card for art: everytime you use your Teen Tix pass in the next 5 months, get your card stamped. When it's full, send it in. If we pull your card, you win. You win money. First prize is $200 (yes, two hundred dollars).What's the catch, you say? We applaud your wise skepticism, but there is none. Seriously. We just thought Teen Tix wasn't quite awesome enough already. Last time we did this, three actual live teenagers won actual dollars.Okay, we do have an ulterior motive: to get you to see more art at different places. The more different places you go and different kinds of art you see, the more money you can win. Passport to the Arts. Get it?Okay, go download your passport from our website and start collecting stamps. You have until July 9th, 2010 to fill up your card. Go go go!

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