It’s as if Maki Tamura transformed the baroque, crawling universe of the Porcelain Room at Seattle Art Museum into an installation entirely made of painted paper. Lovingly inspired by the Victorian decorative arts, Tamura has created little paintings of wild animals (in delicate, 19th-century European pastel colors) within ovals on wallpaper, which itself is painted to look like it’s peeling at “aging” edges. There are chandeliers—as festive as miniature amusement-park rides—with dangling chains made of painted paper. Paintings hang from them like pendants, their ornate frames just more painted paper glued together. It’s a whole paper history. (James Harris Gallery, 312 Second Ave S, 903-6220, 11 am–5 pm, free)
Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male... More by Jen Graves
I’m curious… was the budget for LCB enforcement reduced in the recent budget? If so, by how much? How does that compare, as a percentage, to the cuts in education, health services and child protection? Would the Stranger staff find out? It might be an interesting article…
I was at the eagle last weekend “doing my part.” It involved lots of cocktails and the cage upstairs.
Deja Vu also shows hardcore porn. Why aren’t they getting cracked down on, huh?
@3, they can’t serve booze.
Damn…another classic leather bar about to get run out of town by the moral crusaders, huh?
I’ll do my best to get to Seattle to drop by before the Inquisition gets its way.
Frizzelle forgot to mention the third way the Eagle is getting fucked. It keeps fucking itself, as well.
Why do people keep calling the Seattle Eagle a leather bar, anyway?
Once upon a time, a short 4 years ago it was my favorite place to go in town. It would be packed with dudes a little more edgy, a little more rough around the edges, and a hell of a lot furrier than the guys at the other bars. Some leather. Some rock ‘n roll. Some porn. Some pool. Some really fun bartenders, DJ’s, barbacks, and door guys.
Now? It keeps the famous leather-bar moniker, but it’s a Cuff-light. No leather. No rock ‘n roll. Replaced the pool table with a dance floor. No large, sexy crowd (but there sure is a cover to get in to find that out). No more fun contests (undie nights used to packed!!). Only one or two staff members remain due to bartenders/DJ’s getting fired or just getting fed up and leaving and there seems to be a lot of attitude now. As for promotion and community involvement? The website was just a placeholder for years. Really does anyone EVER know what is going on there unless a blog talks about it?
Treat your customers and bartenders/staff well. Have a good inexpensive selection of drinks. Play good music (different from the Fluff and Neighbors) and make it a fun environment. Put some work into the bar. Clean it up a bit. Get involved in the community and promote your nights. That is how a bar makes it in Seattle. Not desperately clinging to woe-is-me the WSLCB busted me again.
i hope some church wakko burns the dump down ! dejavu is a strip club and doesn’t sell alcohol you idiot, if you ever went some where non gay like it you would know that. no straight bar is allowed to show porn , or have glory holes, or the kack me off deck. just because you are gay doesn’t give a pass to do what ever the fuck you want. deal with it.
It’s pretty clear that someone in city government … or holding the strings … has plans to make downtown Seattle resemble Singapore and Disneyworld ASAP.
75% of every splash of color the downtown had 10-15 years back has been surgically removed in favor of eternal drab. Well shit, just look at the changes in the Hill in five years along.
Unless someone starts a Sealeaks before long, there won’t be anything left.