Weird Deer

One hundred years is a strange amount of time. A century. A long human life. A container for an era or two, some history, a house. A hundred years is still in the air, like a family story, or the taste of rhubarb. Forgotten for a time, but not by everyone, and not for long. [...]

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Osama Bin Laden’s name sounds almost quaint now, doesn’t it? After the Bush Administration has submerged and supplanted it in favor of Hussein, Zarqawi, Moktada, and countless others? After the Bush Administration itself has lost Osama’s highest profile analogues, Donald Rumsfeld, John Ashcroft, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, etc.? And yet, Osama Bin Laden’s name still [...]

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After a seven year stretch at the Richard Hugo House, the Seattle experimental poetry collective Subtext moved on up to the Good Shepherd Center in Wallingford last week, where they celebrated the twelfth (or thirteenth) anniversary of their reading series. A truncated oral history appeared in last week’s Stranger, but, really, it wasn’t enough. So [...]

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The following is the second part of a conversation between artist Melissa Scherrer and curator Katie Geha. Buddhism, contact lenses, and trees all figure prominently. Part 1 appeared last week. Katie: I think there’s this interesting tension between the natural, the artificial, and the supernatural in your photos—whether it’s a nude or a picture of [...]

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