Local illustrator Chandler O’Leary and printer Jessica Spring have created a poster in honor of the upcoming election and a woman’s right to vote. The new broadside features a quote by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a social activist and champion of women’s rights in the 19th century.

From the Anagram Press press release:

The broadside is printed from hand-lettered typography, on 10 x 18-inch archival, recycled paper, in an edition of 44 (coinciding with the number of the next president), and is priced at $30. For more information, check out the

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Call this a case of doggies redux. A canine comeback. A big wet sloppy cinematic pooch smooch.

It’s the movie Tacoma can’t seem to get enough of. It’s “Wiener Takes All: A Dogumentary,” and it’s returning the the Grand Cinema … yet again.

The hilarious documentary about the peculiar world of professional dachshund racing was THE hit of the just-concluded Tacoma Film Festival, selling out two scheduled shows at the Grand Cinema and prompting the festival’s head honcho, Philip Cowan, to add yet another screening to accommodate the demand.

And now, even though the festival is

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Philip Mazaud, “Women & Men.” Image courtesy Artist Trust.

State funding body Artist Trust, in collaboration with the Washington State Arts Commission, has announced its 2008 Fellowship recipients–and they include two Pierce County artists. Philipe Mazuad (see above) now lives in Tacoma, but has shown his stark landscape black-and-white photographs in New York and Paris, as well as Rebecca V Gallery in Tacoma. Nicholas Nyland (see below) of Lakewood is quietly on the up-and-up in the Northwest, showing in local galleries as well as the Tacoma Art Museum‘s last

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Rosalind Plowright (Klytämnestra), Kimberly Giordano (Confidante), and Dana Johnson (Trainbearer), with supernumeraries and actors in Seattle Opera’s “Elektra.” Photo Rozarii Lynch.

I went to the opening last night of Seattle Opera‘s “Elektra”–and it was worth every wait in the Seattle traffic.

Written by Richard Strauss, “Elektra” premiered in 1909, and though it had a hugely successful run it frightened a lot of people. It tells the tale of Elektra, daughter of King Agamemnon of Mycenae, who had been murdered by his wife Klytemnestra and her lover. Klytemnestra then banished her

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The Academy of St Martin in the Fields will play at the Pantages tonight. Photo courtesy Tacoma Philharmonic.

"Cowgirls" ride in to Theatre on the Square

The stage adaption of Tom Robbins’ girl-love novel "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" is coming to Theatre on the Square, courtesy of Book-It Repertory Theatre. Opens 7:30 p.m tonight, then 7:30 p.m. Oct. 18, 23, 24, 25, and 3 p.m. Oct. 19 and 26. $34/$22. Theater on the Square, 915 Broadway, Tacoma. 253-591-5894, www.broadwaycenter.org

Lush string chamber music at the Pantages

Thanks

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Re-ART features “untrashing America” by Mrs. Seberson’s 3rd grade class at Washington-Hoyt school.

Americans create the most trash of any country on earth. We make up 5 percent of the world’s people, and create 40 percent of the world’s trash. That’s around 1600 lbs of trash per person, per year.

So what to do about it?

Well, one solution is to turn it into art. Gallery Madera is opening Tacoma’s first recycled art show this Saturday (though you can sneak-peek Thursday night at ArtWalk), and the show–”re-ART ’08″–has attracted 130

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Dancers from Barefoot Collective in rehearsal. Photo courtesy Michael Hoover.

Things are getting busy for arts in Tacoma. This Friday alone I have four events that I could be (and wish I were) going to: “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” at Theater on the Square (which I *am* going to), the Second City chamber players, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields at the Pantages, and the Barefoot Dance Collective.

Not that I’m too sorry about missing the last, because I’ll be making it to their Sunday

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Cat lovers will be saddened to learn that Harriet, one of the resident felines at King’s Books in Tacoma, has passed on to that great catnip patch in the sky. The store mascot, beloved by many readers, was unable to eat in her last weeks of life and declined rapidly.

Meanwhile Miko, the store’s other cat, has also been ailing. He’s been diagnosed with fatty liver disease, but has undergone treatment and is due back at King’s any minute now.