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Friday, October 23, 2009

Stranger Suggests Today The Stranger Suggests

Posted by The Stranger on Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:00 AM

Reading

Rebecca Brown is Seattle's smartest writer, and Seattle is home to tons of smart writers. If you've ever read one of her essays—which effortlessly bounce between Nathaniel Hawthorne and transubstantiation and the Beach Boys and sex—you're excited about this event already. Tonight, Brown and two other smart writers, poet Eric McHenry and playwright Keri Healey, will read brand-new pieces on the theme of "truth or dare." And for the first time ever, Hugo House has commissioned a hiphop artist—the up-and-coming Macklemore—to participate. Come for Brown, but expect to find a favorite new artist or two. (Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, 322-7030. 7:30 pm, $15–$25.)

PAUL CONSTANT

Art

Mapplethorpe Party

Before Robert Mapplethorpe started pissing off the religious right—hell, before he even really knew how to be a gay man in the world—he shot Polaroids. They're nothing like the formal, neoclassical images he made later; these are raw, exploratory, sexily unsteady. Imagine the shivers that went through photo scholar Sylvia Wolf when she rediscovered them. Later, Wolf became director of the Henry, which is also celebrating four other new shows with this party. (Henry Art Gallery, 4100 15th Ave NE, 543-2280. 8–11 pm, $6–$10.)

JEN GRAVES

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Rebbecca Brown looks like Harry from Night Court

http://www.nationalacts.com/comedians/co…

Posted by Rotten666 on October 23, 2009 at 11:49 AM

Rebecca Brown taught an amazing creative writing class at UW Bothell several years ago, and I'm so lucky to have taken it. If you have a chance to read her limited-edition book Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary, do. She's a great writer, but a really good teacher, too--and she has awesome taste in music.

Posted by kj on October 23, 2009 at 12:30 PM