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« Sunday August 01, 2010 »
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Start: 2:00 pm
Part of the late Seattle Post-Intelligencer's post-existence diaspora, journalist Dan Raley is now newsroom editor at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. While the P-I existed, he was for three decades one of its key players in the sports department. He is out of the southern heat and back in the hometown for this visit, which includes appearing here to discuss the colorful history of SoDo—the area 'south of downtown,' and south of where the Kingdome once stood. His book, Tideflats to Tomorrow: The History of Seattle's SoDo (Fairgreens Publishing), examines the ongoing transformation of this core historically industrial area, once known for its Hooverville, and now, increasingly, for its sports stadiums, clubs, design firms, and corporate headquarters.
Start: 7:00 pm
Comics artists Stasia Kato and Kevin Boze's Virgin Project, which began as part of the "Comic Biography Theatre" at Bumbershoot, and as a performance piece at the Seattle Erotic Comics Festival, is now a two-volume book project. The Virgin Project 2: More Real Stories from Real People (Fanny Press) collects more true stories about first sexual experiences—straight, queer, funny, unusual, and sometimes terrifying—illustrated by a variety of local comics artists. Kevin Boze, who received a Meritorious Service Medal for his comic, Corp. Kev, which ran in the European edition of Stars and Stripes, is also the creator of the online comics, Roll Call and Camille. Stasia Kato is a fine-art student and illustrator.
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