• Last Saturday, 80-year-old electronic-music innovator Morton Subotnick and visual artist Lillevan filled Town Hall with a panoply of otherworldly Buchla synthesizer emanations and surreal digital imagery. It was the best show anyone's ever seen. But an altercation erupted between two white males with a lot of gray hair, one of them—wearing a Utilikilt—taking issue with the other's shooting video of the performance. They took their fight outside, where police broke it up.
• Jason Lajeunesse and David Meinert have signed a lease for the Comet and plan to reopen it early next year, with live music, pool tables, pinball, karaoke, and, for the first time ever, food. They also co-own Big Mario's and Lost Lake. If these guys can turn a gay bathhouse into a diner, they can probably get the Comet clean enough to serve food.
• The best-selling local artist at this past weekend's Affordable Art Fair at Seattle Center was relative unknown Joe Rudko. His ($300ish) transformations of old photographs into graphic puzzles kept disappearing from the shelves like missing teeth. They were displayed with Jared Bender's wall sculptures made of wood and pressed denim, also lovely, at Sharon Arnold's "Recent Grads" booth. Dealers overall gave mixed reports, some celebrating, others glumly calculating losses. Hearts broke to see lingering unsold art by Jeffry Mitchell (puppy painting!), Claire Cowie, Emily Gherard, and Timea Tihanyi, while lesser stuff was carried off. Then again, if you want justice, don't go to an art fair.
• Congratulations to local author G. Willow Wilson, who in one week managed to win a World Fantasy Award for her debut novel, Alif the Unseen, and also set the internet ablaze with the news that she's creating a teenage girl Muslim superhero for Marvel Comics.
• Stranger managing editor Bethany Jean Clement has an essay in the just-published Best Food Writing 2013 that originally appeared in A&P, our art and performance quarterly, about the increasingly obsolete cloak-and-dagger conventions of restaurant reviewing. It begins, "Long ago, in a time before Facebook, anonymous restaurant reviewers roamed the earth," and it contains the saddest scene of a restaurant employee trying to mix a tableside Caesar salad ever committed to paper. This is the fifth year Clement's work has been selected for Best Food Writing.
• A fire last month in an apartment above C Art Gallery—the anchor tenant in the Artspace Hiawatha Lofts—activated the gallery's sprinklers and dumped tons of water, damaging art and forcing the gallery to close. Gallery director Cheryl Shaw hopes to restore the space, reopen in January, and reimburse the artists for lost work; donate to the cause by searching for C Art Gallery on indiegogo.com.
• Throughout the city, emerging artists continued to emerge. From public restrooms, from elevators, from hot tubs. From large, green, speckled eggs nestled below freeway overpasses. From fog and from alleyways and sometimes straight from the ether, they emerged. 
