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From the editor’s deskDear Reader,

What is it we love so much about dual lives?

Last year, 10.3 million American tele-vision viewers tuned into AMC to watch a milquetoast family man and chemistry teacher complete his descent into the life — and death — be� tting a drug kingpin. It was a number that had only grown over the course of Breaking Bad -- just two years before, the fourth sea-son � nale’s 1.9 million viewers had been considered a ratings milestone. People had responded to -- nay, embraced -- this story of a normal man, Walter White, who had reinvented himself as the criminal Heisenberg.

It was a success that series creator Vince Gilligan said repeatedly in interviews was, at times, disturbing. He had set out to create a character who would gradu-ally become reprehensible to his viewers -- instead, they cheered on his atrocities and booed his wife any time she tried to restore sanity to a dissolving family.

Chalk it up to the American fascina-tion with reinvention. It’s hewed dark of late, but it’s hardly new. Almost 50 years ago, TV viewers could watch a harrowed advertising executive hide the fact his wife was a witch, then � ip the channel and watch an Air Force major do pretty much the same thing with a 2,000-year-old genie. Heck, even Fred Flintstone hid � e Great Gazoo from Wilma. And, of course, America is the home of the superhero -- the � rst of whom, Super-man, began as a power fantasy for real life Clark Kents Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster.

Duality is the most intimate expres-sion of the self-made mythos: the ability to pull our identity up by its bootstraps. We don’t just fantasize about it, we do it every day. Duality is the personality we

present to our friends at work, versus the one for our friends at the bar. It’s the train set we tinker with in the basement and it’s the guitar we strum every night in our apartment. It can be as simple as our weekly round of golf or our Satur-day night reading group.

For Queenie O’Hart, one of the subjects of this month’s cover story, it’s the ability to transform herself from a health care worker by day in Issaquah to a vivacious burlesque dancer by night in Seattle.

I’m honored to present the October issue of � e Eastside Scene. In addition to our cover story (page 6), we have another installment of our new Don’t-Miss List (next page), an interview with comedian Jared Logan (page 9), two delicious food and drink recipes from John Howie Restaurants (pages 5 and 8) and we’ll wrap it up with a guide to gory makeup for that most duolicious of holi-days, Halloween.

Best wishes,

Daniel NashEditor


October

DO | The Issaquah Zombie WalkSomeone should really airdrop copies of Max Brooks’ Zombie Survival Guide into Issaquah — the poor city has been overrun by the undead for years. � e Issaquah Zombie Walk, � rst organized by Tom Gotuzzo in 2009, will infect downtown Front Street just two short weeks before Hallow-een. But the intended e� ect is less George Romero than John Landis: � e walk will culminate in a � ash mob recreation of the music video to Michael Jackson’s � riller outside City Hall. � e organizers will have free basic makeup, or you can plunk down $10 for the hard stu� : in this case, “ultra zombie” makeup from Illusions by Melanie.Where: � e historic Shell Station, 232 Front Street, Issaquah, WA 98027. � e event will move to City Hall on Sunset for the dance.When: Prep from 2:30-4:30 p.m., Flash mob 4:30-5 p.m.

PLAY | Alien: Isolation� e past � ve years haven’t been kind to the

Aliens franchise. First, Rebellion’s 2010 Aliens Vs. Predator remake failed to live up to the shining multiplayer system delivered by its predecessors. � en Gearbox’s Colonial Marines arrived with ugly graphics, nonexistent AI and animations that turned fearsome xenomorphs into Miley Cyrus’ backup dancers.

But the audacity of Alien: Isolation is promis-ing. � e game eschews straightforward action in favor of the tense survival horror atmosphere of the original Ridley Scott � lm. Instead of mowing down waves of enemies, players must evade a single unkillable alien that can hunt, learn — and be deceived.Platform: Windows, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox OneRelease Date: Oct. 7

WATCH | Kinky BootsBased on the 2005 � lm of the same

name, the Broadway adaptation of Kinky Boots earned 13 Tony

nominations and six wins in 2013, including Best Score for Cyndi Lauper.

Now the story of a straitlaced shoe factory owner who partners with a

drag queen to revitalize his business is coming to rock Seattle.

Where: 5th Avenue � eatre, 1308 5th Ave., Seattle, WA 98101

When: Oct. 7-26

The Don’t-Miss List

LISTEN | Blood Moon: Year of the Wolf� e Game is out for blood on his latest solo album.� e rapper and G-Unit turncoat told Power 106 in July: “I just feel like this year I got a lot to get o� my chest. And with this album, man, I’m going in on a lot of people. A lot of issues. A lot of stu� . I got very angry artists that I’m signing … Basically, what I’mma do is I’m exposing everything. Everything, every-body get it. It’s like one of them tell-all books … in music form.”� e repeated Billboard chart topper has gone all out on this project, formerly titled Blood Money La Familia. Recording wrapped in

early August and � e Game crowdsourced the album artwork from fan entries over the course of the month. He revealed the winning cover, by Ruben Ramos, on his Instagram page Sept. 4. It depicted � e Game’s daughter, Cali, with the eponymous pack hunter.“In the end it was the concept,” � e Game wrote. “� e world sees me as a big bad wolf but to my daughter … I’m just dad.”Release date: Oct. 14

LAUGH | Jon LovitzCelebrated SNL alum, underrated Critic voice actor and Hol-lywood comedy club mogul Jon Lovitz comes to Parlor Live’s

Seattle club. Lovitz gained notice on SNL from ‘85 to ‘90 for his comically inappropriate gravitas and general sadsackery.

A� er leaving SNL in 1990, Lovitz graduated into regular work as a comic actor in his own right (though the less said about

High School High the better). Lovitz � rst cracked into standup at the Laugh Factory in 2003. Four years later, he opened the

Jon Lovitz Comedy Club (now the Jon Lovitz Comedy Club and Podcast � eatre).

Where: Parlor Live, 1522 6th Ave., Seattle, WA 98101When: Oct. 2-4

DRINK | LifeSpring’s Wine At It’s Best� is year’s LifeSpring wine blowout, Le Vin A Son Apogee will feature selections from 80 di� erent coun-tries, each rated at 90 or more “Parker Points.” Addi-tionally, lead sommelier Rina Bussell will present her selections of the best wines in the Paci� c Northwest.� e event is pricey at $200 for tasting entry and $250 for VIP status — which doesn’t even touch the cost of wines bought at auction — but money raised will support Breaktime-Mealtime, a LifeSpring program that provides 1,500 children with meals during breaks from school.Where: Hyatt Regency Bellevue, 900 Bellevue Way N.E., Bellevue, WA 98004When: Oct. 11

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A cure for what ails youFeeling in the dumps? Who could blame you? After a summer of sun and fun the onset of fall is an anticlimacti-cally slow slide into the nine-month drizzle that darkens life in the Pacifi c Northwest.

Fortunately, Erik Liedholm, the wine director for John Howie Steak, has his own solution to chase away the blues.

Appropriately named The Panacea, this cocktail uses a base of gin from Howie and Liedholm’s Wildwood Spirits Company, combining it with Campari, vermouth and other liquers to create a fl avor that is subtly sweet, without overpowering the natural fl avor of the gin.

Wildwood Spirits Company blends the ‘farm to table’ and ‘vineyard to bottle’ concept using fruit and grains from local farms. Ninety percent of those produced are used for distilling their spirits. The winter wheat, Brae-burn apples, and Douglas fi r, is all grown here in Washington State.

Liedholm’s Kur Gin, (kur is, inci-dentally, the Swedish word for “cure”) is not only produced in Washington but is also fi lled with an array of sweet green herbs and elaborate spices.

With the London Dry style double bubble shot glass, also known as a quaffer, fi lls the mouth with the fl a-vors of juniper aromas, subtle citrus, Douglass Fir and Braeburn apples from Liedholm’s back yard.

Bottoms Up!


by Yekta Aarabi

The Panacea

Ingredients: • 1 ounce Wildwood Spirits Co. Kur Gin• .7 ounce (about 4 teaspoons) Campari• .7 ounce (about 4 teaspoons) Carpano Antica

Sweet Vermouth• .375 ounce (about 2 ¼ teaspoons) Yellow Char-

treuse• .375 ounce (about 2 ¼ teaspoons) Luxardo Mara-

schino Liqueur• .375 ounce (about 2 ¼ teaspoons) lime juice• 1 orange peel as garnish

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ART &BUSINESS OF

BURLESQUE

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Commonly mistaken for little more than

strip tease, burlesque has deep roots in

vaudevillian parody. Performers Queenie

O’Hart (le� ) and Tootsie Spangles dish on the true trials and

tropes of the art form.

Story by Celina Kareiva

Photos by Josh Stilts and Daniel Nash

For as long as Queenie O’Hart can remember, she’s been taking o� her clothes. “Just ask my mom,” she says wryly. “I have always been an exhibitionist ... I have no problem being naked in front of 200 people.”O’Hart has been performing burlesque for the past two years in stage acts she calls “musical theater with tits.”“You have your foundations, your blushes, your eye-shadows and your fake lashes,” she says, ri� ing through a makeup box � ecked with glitter. “It’s insane what you have to do [to get ready].”

O’Hart got her start in burlesque in August of 2012. She had done plays in high school and, a� er graduating, worked for a Boston theater company called Big Colony Productions. But O’Hart took a break from the stage when she � nished massage school. She found her heavier, Ruben-esque � gure kept her from getting cast in certain roles.It was sheer curiosity that led her to enroll in Miss Indigo Blue’s Academy of Burlesque, in Seattle’s Central District. Burlesque allowed her to play characters theater never of-fered. And as she learned the various elements of the genre — tassel twirling, walking in heels and overcoming stage fright — she became hooked.“� ere is a serious high [from performing on stage],” O’Hart says. “� ere’s nothing as exciting as getting up there and getting to do something you really love. It’s like everything else goes away. You go completely blank.”

Burlesque is commonly mistaken for little more than another form of strip tease. But the art form has deep roots in vaudeville, a satirical genre of theater that o� en poked fun at high society. Early bur-lesque leveled its sights on upper class culture, parodying hoity-toity literature, � ne art and theater with performances that were silly, bawdy and o� en set to music. Performer Lydia � ompson and her troupe of British Blondes, popularized the performance art in the U.S. in the late 1800s. By the early 20th century burlesque acts began to adhere to a certain structure and convention built up over the years — a showcase emceed by a master of ceremonies and adopting elements of the striptease. “Some people will say it’s just ‘low art,’” says Tootsie Span-gles (her stage name), who has been performing burlesque for the last two years in and around Seattle. “‘Low art’ or not, burlesque can be sexy, weird, political, emotional [and] sad ... In the end, we’re all adults playing pretend in some capacity.”� e performers Tempest Storm and Blaze Starr in the 1950s, introduced the headdresses and big costume glam-our that burlesque is best known for today. It has since splintered o� into genres as diverse as clowning and “nerd-lesque,” full of pop culture references.And it’s making its way onto stages across Seattle and the Eastside. Seattle’s Re-Bar, the Can Can and � eater O� — to name a few — regularly host shows.But O’Hart, who lives in Bothell, says most venues are still concentrated in Seattle because strict regulations — de-signed to curb strip clubs or bikini barista stands — make it di� cult to secure performance venues outside the city. What little exists of Eastside nightlife is centered around DJs and dance clubs, she explains. Seattle’s community of burlesque, on the other hand, is incredibly diverse. “� e greatest thing about burlesque is that there’s no body

type or age limit,” says O’Hart. “I’ve seen shows with per-formers who are 84 and in wheelchairs or walkers.”

Two years ago, when Spangles was � rst introduced to burlesque, she had just moved to Seattle. Dance classes o� ered her a window of opportunity to meet new people. Spangles had already been performing for about a decade in children’s musicals and circus acts. Burlesque may seem worlds apart from her earlier pro-ductions, but Spangles found that many of her lessons in clowning could be applied to this new performance genre. � e big, exaggerated movements served her well on stage.“It totally changed the trajectory of my performing career,” she says.Like many dancers, Spangles performs in the evenings but works full-time as well: “Just like actors or musicians, many burlesque artists hold day jobs. We work as lawyers ... nan-nies, accountants, stay-at-home parents, doctors and hair stylists.”Spangles is a teacher by day and likes to think of her stage persona as an exaggerated version of herself. Most people overlook the fact that burlesque acts are full productions, she says. Makeup alone can take more than an hour and a half to apply.

Lights, costumes, props and music all have a role to play. And, like many art forms, its practi-tioners draw inspiration from other arenas — as the saying goes, “Good artists copy, great art-ists steal.” O’Hart regularly takes ballet classes, which teach her discipline, precision and poise.A single show can run the gamut of performing arts, from dance to narrative theater. O’Hart cra� s her performances around an ever-evolving storyline.“When I started, I came up with this backstory full of reincarna-tions and all this crazy stu� . Each time I perform, I narrow it down a little,” she says. “I like to think of

myself as [a performer of] musical theater … I’m jumping, I’m happy and I’m really emotive.”Sometimes everything will crystallize around a catchy song that has been stuck in O’Hart’s head. She’ll then build a storyline around that tune. Her � rst performance was as an adaptation of the character of Ophelia, the tragically insane noblewoman from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. “� e sweetest, most so� -spoken people can be really loud and crazy on stage,” says Spangles. “� e persona depends on the individual.”O’Hart and Spangles still get stage jitters. But that’s part of the appeal of performing, they say.“I forget all my lyrics. I forget all my moves. I forget what I’m wearing,” O’Hart says, laughing. “[It happens] every single time and I’ve been performing since I was seven.”She and Spangles are currently touring across the region on their maiden voyage of the Fine Frenzy Tour and O’Hart is also experimenting with production. She recently launched a monthly revue at the Bal-Mar in Bellevue.As for the future, both performers would like to see bur-lesque assume mainstream popularity. “Like any artistic venture, there’s no end goal,” says O’Hart, “I just hope in � ve years I’m still doing the same stu� and touring as much as I can.”For more about Queenie O’Hart and her upcoming pro-ductions, visit her website at: http://www.queenieohart.com. To learn more about Tootsie Spangles and her perfor-mances, visit: http://www.tootsiespangles.com.

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“The sweetest, most soft-spoken people can be really loud and crazy on stage. The persona depends on the individual.”

- Tootsie Spangles

Northwest � avor, made at home

Eating well

by Yekta Aarabi


Autumn is the perfect time to add a new recipe to your collection. For the party organizers among us, soon enough the holidays will bring visi-tors into our homes.

This year, why not show off your culinary prowess? You can treat your out-of-town guests to a Northwest meal from Bellevue’s John Howie Restaurants, fi xed in your very own kitchen.

Chef John Howie has a mouth-watering recipe for Zucchini Lin-guini, a variation on the pasta dish that takes advantage of the harvest season.

Zucchini has a mild fl avor and a smooth texture. Harvested in June through October it is one of those wonderful fall vegetables that makes a great dish for the family.

Howie’s recipe replaces traditional pasta with the squash itself, sliced into long and thin noodles.

Zucchini Linguine

Servings: 2 (Multiply ingredients as needed for your party)

• 1 pound (about 2 cups) zucchini, sliced 1/4” x 1/4” x 5-6” long

• 2 tablespoons fi rst press‚Ä®extra virgin olive oil• 1 tablespoon & 1/2 teaspoons fresh and fi nely

minced shallots• 1 tablespoon shaved slices of garlic • 1/4 teaspoon crushed red chili fl akes• 1 cup Roma tomato, diced in half• 1 tablespoon & 1-1/2 teaspoons vegetable stock• 1/2 cup artichoke hearts, sliced into 1/4” wedges• 1/4 cup Kalamata olives, pitted and quartered• 1-1/2 teaspoons pink sea salt• 1/2 teaspoon black ground pepper• 3 tablespoons fresh basil, julienned 1/16”• 2 tablespoons toasted pine nuts

Heat the olive oil over medium heat, then add the shallots, shaved garlic and crushed chilies. Sauté for two to three minutes with light browning.

Add the Roma tomatoes, salt, and vegetable stock, cook them until the tomatoes are tender and the sauce thickens a bit.

Add the artichokes and olives, warming them through. Add the zucchini and cook them until warmed through but do not overcook. Remove from heat and toss in the basil.

Mound high evenly in pasta bowls and sprinkle with pine nuts, the serve.

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West Virginia native Jared Logan grew up as the artsy odd duck in a “good ol’ boy” town. Today, Logan’s happy-go-lucky com-edy style has gotten play on Comedy Cen-tral and he’s preparing to release his debut album, My Brave Battle.

I understand you just recorded an album in Nashville. Your � rst?

Jared Logan: In May. And, yeah, it is. It’s coming up soon: Oct. 14 it will be out. I think preorders are already available on iTunes. It will be called My Brave Battle. I just thought it was a funny, sarcastic name that illustrates my extremely complicated artistic process. I got the idea from Larry King, who named his memoir My Remarkable Journey, which I thought was hilariously melodramatic for a nightly talk show host.

You grew up in the South yourself, in a West Virginian coal mining family. Yet you were interested in the arts. What was it like growing up?

JL: � ere are many wonderful things about West Virginia: It’s beautiful, people are nice. But like a lot of comedians, like a lot of people, because I have those interests I was occasionally bullied. It’s not that di� erent in other places. I lived in Tennessee as well for a little bit, which was another rural good ol’ boy area. But I think that’s just misunderstanding for the most part. A lot of times kids don’t understand what that means, to want to read a book that wasn’t assigned to you for class. � ey don’t have a vocabulary for it. So, “that’s gay” becomes the vocabulary. “Hey, he’s reading a book... I guess he’s gay?” � at’s the only term they can come up with.

� at must have been di� cult at times.

JL: I got picked on, but I made really good friends. But now that I’m older, I’m glad I grew up in that culture. I got some growth. I got a lot of material. And, you know what? � ere are a lot of good things that come out of that redneck culture, out of the country culture in general. It’s friendly. People know each other and they genuinely care how they’re doing. In New York and L.A., people are all ambition, they’re sophisticated, but they don’t necessarily have compassion

You joke a lot about how used your full scholarship to obtain a � eater degree. Did you see yourself becoming an actor?

JL: I didn’t know exactly what I was going to do. I knew I wanted to perform. Acting was something that came with growing up as a drama geek, so it made sense going into college, but I didn’t know that I wanted to be an actor. I had a sketch group in college and that was my � rst taste at comedy. We loved it, but our professors would tell us “You guys should stop focusing on that and start focusing on plays we cast for you in the theatre department.” But the sketch group, that’s what we really wanted to do.

Is that why you moved to Chicago a� er school?JL: Chicago was where I was like, I’m really going to try to do standup as a job. I had so many horrible theater jobs to support myself during that time. I did a job taking tickets at a theater that played a show Naked Boys Singing. Which is exactly what it sounds like. I didn’t have a problem with that — I actually enjoyed seeing other men’s penises so I could feel more secure about my own. (laughs)But the thing was, part of my job was to deal with rowdy people in the audience. And, like every weeend, these bachelorette parties would come to this show — that was really more about the gay experience than anything else — and they would scream like it was a Chippendale’s club and reach up and try to grab the performers. So I had to boot women from this show every single week.

Wow. � at must have prepared you for hecklers, at least.JL: Yeah, you know, it did in some ways. I guess that experience meant I was never really shocked later when I saw how some people behaved at live shows. Which isn’t always their fault, per se. A lot of people go to one live show their entire life, it will be their third time getting drunk for the entire year. And then they ruin the show by shouting at the performer. But they don’t go to shows, so they don’t know how you’re supposed to act.

Being in Chicago at the same time as comics like Pete Holmes and Hannibal Burress, how important are the friendships you make with other comedians?JL: � at’s absolutely crucial. � at’s because your whole career is really your buddies in comedy, your friends in comedy, because they help you out. Without them and their support, I wouldn’t be working in comedy for a living. And the way this business works, you’re always keeping in mind how your buddies help you. Pete Holmes is a friend and he brought me on to perform on his talk show. � e old cliche is it’s who you know, not what you know — but in comedy that’s 1,000 times as true.Jared Logan performs with Kara Klenk at � e Comedy Underground in Seattle Oct. 9-11.

by Daniel Nash

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Looking to get that scratch, bruise or gushing wound just right for your next Halloween costume?

One of the toughest things to get right in theatre is special e� ects. Whether for the stage or for your next Halloween costume, a little makeup and a little time may be all that’s needed to take your ap-pearance and persona to the next level.

Give yourself a shiner you can be proud of

How to...

Black Eye Begin by using a black eye pencil to smear around the entire eye socket, giving special at-tention to the area between the eye and the bridge of the nose. Highlight the area below the eye and the line that forms a crescent shape in the skin, as these areas get puffy when hit.Over the eye pencil, apply a coat of matte, dark purple eyeshadow. Highlight the edge of the nose where a fi st would hit, as well as the area below the eye where the last knuckle would connect. Using a stipple sponge and a little bit of dark red eyeshadow or lipstick, apply a small amount of color to mimic a scrape. Focus on the corner of the eye, near the tear duct, and the top of the cheekbone near the eye’s outer edge.Apply dark blue or dark maroon eyeshadow to the inner corner of the eye, as well as along the eyelid. Finally, blend in yellow or light green along the outer corner of the eye, the orbital bone and the lower edge of the bruise, to simulate fading.

LLooking to get that scratch, bruise or gushing wound

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ScratchesAs with the black eye, scratches can be eas-ily simu-lated using a stipple sponge and maroon or dark-red makeup. Accent the scratch mark with a black makeup pencil, using broken lines for a more realistic effect. Finally, using the fake blood recipe above, apply a few thin, broken lines. If a brush is not available, the same effect can be achieved spreading the fake blood with a popsicle stick.

Bloody MouthFor this effect, you will need to make fake blood. A simple recipe is as follows.• 1/2 cup warm water• 1 1/2 cups corn syrup• 1/4 cup corn starch or

fl our• 6 tablespoons of red

food coloring• 1 1/2 tablespoons

powdered cocoa (optional)

Mix together the corn starch and water. After eliminat-ing clumps and getting a smooth consistency, add the corn syrup and mix. Once smoothly blended, gradually add the food coloring until the desired color is reached. If you want, add the powdered cocoa to give the mix a realistic bloody brown tinge. Apply this mixture to your mouth as desired, keeping some in a disposable vial with a small applicator brush.

Rotting SkinFor this effect, you will need:• Gelatin• Baking Powder, Corn

Starch or Flour• Water• A large mixing bowl• Food Coloring (red,

green and yellow)• Makeup (whichever

colors you feel you need for your costume)

• Fake blood (see left)Mix the gelatin with a small amount of water, slowly adding more until a desirably thick consistency is reached.Apply the mixture to the skin wherever you want to simulate rot, blending the edges with the skin for a more realistic effect. Apply makeup to color the wound and help blend the gel with the skin. Finally, apply the fake blood, using less on areas where you want to simulate exposed muscle and bone. Allow to dry completely before touching. This take awhile, but drying time can be cut in half using a hair dryer on low heat.

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Swipe, tap, kick back.You just set the mood.With Hunter Douglas motorized window fashions, ambiance is at your fingertips. Use our remote control, wireless wall switch or Platinum™ App on your Apple® mobile device to automatically operate shades throughout your home.** Light control, privacy, comfort—with a few easy touches. Ask for details.

* Manufacturer’s mail-in rebate offer valid for qualifying purchases of Hunter Douglas window fashions with the PowerRise® or PowerGlide® motorized system made 6/14/14 – 9/15/14 from participating dealers in the U.S. only. Rebate will be issued in the form of a prepaid reward card and mailed within 6 weeks of rebate claim receipt. Funds do not expire. Subject to applicable law, a $2.00 monthly fee will be assessed against card balance 7 months after card issuance and each month thereafter. Additional limitations apply. Ask participating dealer for details and rebate form. **Additional equipment is required for app operation; ask for details. ©2014 Hunter Douglas. All rights reserved. All trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners.

June 14–September 15, 2014

$50 REBATEON ANY OF THE FOLLOWING PRODUCTS WITH THEPOWERRISE® MOTORIZED SYSTEM:

Designer Roller Shades, Designer Screen Shades, Duette® Honeycomb Shades and Solera™ Soft Shades.

$100 REBATEON ANY OF THE FOLLOWING PRODUCTS WITH THEPOWERRISE OR POWERGLIDE® MOTORIZED SYSTEM:

Luminette® Privacy Sheers, Pirouette® Window Shadings, Silhouette® Window Shadings, Skyline® Gliding Window Panels and Vignette® Modern Roman Shades.

PER UNIT*

PER UNIT*

43942

The Blind Alley14102 NE 21st Street Bellevue WashingtonM-F: 9:30-5:00 Sat: 9:30-5:00 Closed Sunday425-644-7181www.blindalley-bellevue.com

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custom drapery & window blind specialists

14102 NE 21st Street, Bellevue, WA 98007425-644-7181 • 1-800-642-5176 www.blindalley-bellevue.com • [email protected] hours: 9:30 to 5:00 Monday – Saturday. In-Home Decorator appointments available daytimes Monday through Saturday and evenings Monday through Thursday.Serving the Eastside and Seattle since 1984.

Designer Roller Shades

Swipe, tap, kick back.You just set the mood.With Hunter Douglas motorized window fashions, ambiance is at your fingertips. Use our remote control, wireless wall switch or Platinum™ App on your Apple® mobile device to automatically operate shades throughout your home.** Light control, privacy, comfort—with a few easy touches. Ask for details.

* Manufacturer’s mail-in rebate offer valid for qualifying purchases of Hunter Douglas window fashions with the PowerRise® or PowerGlide® motorized system made 6/14/14 – 9/15/14 from participating dealers in the U.S. only. Rebate will be issued in the form of a prepaid reward card and mailed within 6 weeks of rebate claim receipt. Funds do not expire. Subject to applicable law, a $2.00 monthly fee will be assessed against card balance 7 months after card issuance and each month thereafter. Additional limitations apply. Ask participating dealer for details and rebate form. **Additional equipment is required for app operation; ask for details. ©2014 Hunter Douglas. All rights reserved. All trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners.

June 14–September 15, 2014

$50 REBATEON ANY OF THE FOLLOWING PRODUCTS WITH THEPOWERRISE® MOTORIZED SYSTEM:

Designer Roller Shades, Designer Screen Shades, Duette® Honeycomb Shades and Solera™ Soft Shades.

$100 REBATEON ANY OF THE FOLLOWING PRODUCTS WITH THEPOWERRISE OR POWERGLIDE® MOTORIZED SYSTEM:

Luminette® Privacy Sheers, Pirouette® Window Shadings, Silhouette® Window Shadings, Skyline® Gliding Window Panels and Vignette® Modern Roman Shades.

PER UNIT*

PER UNIT*

43942

The Blind Alley14102 NE 21st Street Bellevue WashingtonM-F: 9:30-5:00 Sat: 9:30-5:00 Closed Sunday425-644-7181www.blindalley-bellevue.com

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