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  KUOW's Marcie Sillman highlights standout September arts offerings from small organizations.

  September ushers in the Seattle area fall arts. KUOW’s Arts and Culture reporter Marcie Sillman highlights some of the most promising offerings from smaller organizations.
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  What happens when an arts reporter heads to the Washington State Fair in Puyallup?

  People have been “doin’ the Puyallup”—the Washington State Fair—for more than a century. What started as a showcase for livestock and agricultural products is now a three-week festival featuring live entertainment, carnival rides, and deep fried fast foods.
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  It's September! Time for the fall arts season

  September ushers in the Seattle area fall arts. This week, KUOW’s Arts and Culture reporter Marcie Sillman highlights a few of the notable offerings this month from large organizations. Next week she’ll turn her eye to smaller arts groups.
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  Marcie Sillman's Labor Day weekend culture picks

  Labor Day weekend has arrived, and with it a slew of late-summer festivals.
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  Bumbershoot is more than a music festival

  When Bumbershoot started in 1971 as the Mayor’s Arts Festival, organizers envisioned a grass roots civic celebration of Seattle culture and the city’s resilience. It was the middle of the Boeing bust, local residents were fleeing the city in search of new jobs and then-Mayor Wes Uhlman wanted to create some reason for optimism. 125,000 people showed up to sample theater and dance, visual and literary artists, and, of course, music of all kinds.
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  The ‘doularina.’ A ballet dancer becomes a doula in Seattle

  Sarah Orza has spent 20 years as a professional ballerina; now she pirouettes into a new career working with new moms
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  How design impacts your life: A Seattle festival

  So, you’re rolling your large, plastic compost bin to the curb, and you wonder ‘who decided to make this thing so heavy with such a tippy lid?’” That’s just one example of how designers can effect your daily life. From sidewalk curb cuts to how seats are arranged on buses and light rail trains, designers make decisions that we love, hate or just put up with.
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  Marcie Sillman's weekend culture picks August 9-11

  You say you don’t know anything about opera? Chances are you’ve heard some of the art form’s most famous melodies, from Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” to “Figaro, Figaro, Figaro,” one of the show-stopping arias in the “Barber of Seville.”
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  Seattle Art Fair is the shiny new kid on the block this weekend

  The Blue Angels roared into Seattle this week, ushering in the 70th annual Seafair weekend. But for the past four years Seafair has shared the civic celebration spotlight with the shiny new kid on the block: the Seattle Art Fair, the brainchild of the late philanthropist, Paul Allen.
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  Marcie Sillman's weekend culture picks, July 26-28

  The last weekend in July has arrived

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