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Teenage Hitchhikers
Do this tonight:
The Central District Forum, a local organization that puts on community panels (I went to one once about 1850s abolitionist terrorism and it was awesome) and hosts a local African American film festival, is putting on a “Rent Party for the People of Haiti” tonight. It’s a funny conceit, and the event is a little different than the recent stream of local Haiti fundraisers (which is just now starting to peter out).
The CD Forum event features Paul Rucker, who makes interactive videos, where viewers can manipulate the music being played by a musician displayed on the monitor by pressing buttons or dragging their finger across the screen. He also made an animated map of the United States prison system.
From “Four Score.”
The event also features local DJ crew Sun Tzu Sound. All proceeds from the event go to Partners in Health and Doctors Without Borders.
Tonight, 7 pm at The Crocodile (2200 2nd Ave). $10 suggested donation.
Do this tomorrow:
1. Peter Hessler has been living in China for the last decade or so, sending out dispatches via the New Yorker and writing a couple of books detailing the progress of China's giant stride out of forced pre-industrialism and into its new role as the fastest-growing economy in the world.
His narratives take the form of travelogues—in his new book, Country Driving: A Journey Through China From Farm to Factory, he exchanges stories with the teenage hitchhikers he picks up as they make their way out of rural villages and toward burgeoning factory towns, and has roadside conversations with the elderly relatives they leave behind to take care of small children.
In all, he travels 7,000 miles across the country for the book—from Beijing's roaring streets to the growing silence of the rural provinces. His thesis, I think, has something to do with the tenacity of Chinese, compared to the Americans, as China transitions fully into the world economy.
Tomorrow at 7 pm, at Elliott Bay Book Co. (101 S Main Street). Free.
2. Southern hip-hop legends Goodie Mob are back together and here in Seattle tomorrow night as part of their reunion tour.
The first Goodie Mob album, 1995's Soul Food, might be the soulful rap music ever recorded. And while the rapping is superb from all involved, it's hard not to find yourself waiting for Cee-Lo Green to hop back on the mic, singing or rapping about an octave and a half above everyone else (pre-Gnarls Barkley, duh).
Featuring Helladope and Q Dot. Tomorrow at Neumos (925 E. Pike Street), at 8 pm. $20 advance.
Proceed with caution:
Joanna Thomas, an artist from Ellensburg, makes collage art by pasting old photographs of women from '50s and '60s gentlemen's magazines onto ads for exhibitions by artists from the same period, like Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock. Thomas makes her point well—the adolescent male worship of magazine girls juxtaposed with the establishment worship reserved for famous male artists.
Still, it can all come across as a little heavy handed and belabored. But Thomas' execution is great, and the works are being exhibited at Punch, a cool little gallery.
Showing until February 18, at the Punch Gallery (119 Prefontaine Place), open from noon to 5 pm, Thursday through Saturday.
The Central District Forum, a local organization that puts on community panels (I went to one once about 1850s abolitionist terrorism and it was awesome) and hosts a local African American film festival, is putting on a “Rent Party for the People of Haiti” tonight. It’s a funny conceit, and the event is a little different than the recent stream of local Haiti fundraisers (which is just now starting to peter out).
The CD Forum event features Paul Rucker, who makes interactive videos, where viewers can manipulate the music being played by a musician displayed on the monitor by pressing buttons or dragging their finger across the screen. He also made an animated map of the United States prison system.
From “Four Score.”
The event also features local DJ crew Sun Tzu Sound. All proceeds from the event go to Partners in Health and Doctors Without Borders.
Tonight, 7 pm at The Crocodile (2200 2nd Ave). $10 suggested donation.
Do this tomorrow:
1. Peter Hessler has been living in China for the last decade or so, sending out dispatches via the New Yorker and writing a couple of books detailing the progress of China's giant stride out of forced pre-industrialism and into its new role as the fastest-growing economy in the world.
His narratives take the form of travelogues—in his new book, Country Driving: A Journey Through China From Farm to Factory, he exchanges stories with the teenage hitchhikers he picks up as they make their way out of rural villages and toward burgeoning factory towns, and has roadside conversations with the elderly relatives they leave behind to take care of small children.
In all, he travels 7,000 miles across the country for the book—from Beijing's roaring streets to the growing silence of the rural provinces. His thesis, I think, has something to do with the tenacity of Chinese, compared to the Americans, as China transitions fully into the world economy.
Tomorrow at 7 pm, at Elliott Bay Book Co. (101 S Main Street). Free.
2. Southern hip-hop legends Goodie Mob are back together and here in Seattle tomorrow night as part of their reunion tour.
The first Goodie Mob album, 1995's Soul Food, might be the soulful rap music ever recorded. And while the rapping is superb from all involved, it's hard not to find yourself waiting for Cee-Lo Green to hop back on the mic, singing or rapping about an octave and a half above everyone else (pre-Gnarls Barkley, duh).
Featuring Helladope and Q Dot. Tomorrow at Neumos (925 E. Pike Street), at 8 pm. $20 advance.
Proceed with caution:
Joanna Thomas, an artist from Ellensburg, makes collage art by pasting old photographs of women from '50s and '60s gentlemen's magazines onto ads for exhibitions by artists from the same period, like Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock. Thomas makes her point well—the adolescent male worship of magazine girls juxtaposed with the establishment worship reserved for famous male artists.
Still, it can all come across as a little heavy handed and belabored. But Thomas' execution is great, and the works are being exhibited at Punch, a cool little gallery.
Showing until February 18, at the Punch Gallery (119 Prefontaine Place), open from noon to 5 pm, Thursday through Saturday.
