Essays - Monday, July 1, 2019 13:53
Inspiring Hoops In Seattle
Below is a story that appeared in Alaska Beyond magazine in July 2019 Seattle native and 19-year NBA vetera ... Read More
Visual Arts - Wednesday, June 26, 2019 16:05
Former Portland Trailblazer Announcer Bill Schonely Talks The Team’s Early Years
Bill Schonely is the beloved former voice of Portland Trailblazer radio. Today, he speaks fondly of the team, ... Read More
Visual Arts - Wednesday, June 26, 2019 12:49
Ken Burns On His New Country Music Documentary
The documentarian, Ken Burns, is one of the most decorated and beloved filmmakers of all time. He and his team ... Read More
Essays - Saturday, June 1, 2019 12:02
Culinary Change Agent
Below is a story that appeared in Alaska Beyond magazine in June 2019 For Los Angeles–based chef Roy Choi ... Read More
A 30/30 Vision
Wednesday, May 1, 2019 12:03 — 0 Comments
Below is a story that appeared in Alaska Beyond magazine in May 2019 Seattle music producer Ryan Lewis, one half of the Grammy-winning rap duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, remembers telling his elementary school class that his mother was HIV-positive. Julie Lewis, now a 35-year survivor, contracted the virus in 1984 from a blood transfusion during the complicated birth of her first daughter, Teresa. Julie wasn’t diagnosed until 1990, after she had given birth to Ryan and a second daughter, Laura (both fortunate to be free of the virus). The disease has been a part of the Lewis family’s narrative ever since. […]
Three Poems – Richard Kenney
Saturday, April 13, 2019 15:30 — 0 Comments
The Arcturan Vivisectionist Explains This specimen’s common name is Mirroreye. Observe (retractor, please) just here—a rare non-adaptive anomaly in the so-called “third lid”—common enough, of course, in lizards, birds, sharks, et al., all perfectly unremarkable, save that the nictitating membrane is silvered inside, enabling these creatures to see themselves reflected everywhere: in wood-grain, in moon, in clouds, in others of their kind, even; also imparting an odd, not uncrabwise aspect to their gait, backing hell-bent, headlong, as it were, into what’s already happened. Global Citizen, I think my sins are mostly only mostly just ridiculous. Ridiculous I am to […]
HUMP, SPLIFF, Love And Advice: A Conversation With Dan Savage
Friday, April 12, 2019 17:36 — 0 Comments
Dan Savage, bestselling author and nationally syndicated sex advice columnist, likes to laugh. The pleasant outbursts were sprinkled throughout our conversation. He laughs when praised and he laughs when asked to offer up his thoughts on a grand idea like love. His is a comforting laugh, not one of nervousness or deflection. Rather, it’s a laugh of largess and enjoyment. A laugh in response to the very real, very odd world looming all around us. I recently caught up with Savage to talk about his touring amateur pornography festival (HUMP), his new cannabis-inspired film festival (SPLIFF) and to ask, yes, […]
Lavender Country’s Patrick Haggerty On Music, Love And Life, Itself
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 19:19 — 0 Comments
I didn’t have the heart to tell Patrick Haggerty, front man and songwriter for Lavender Country, the first openly gay country band to release an “out” album, that I wasn’t gay, though he lovingly assumed I was during our conversation. But not telling Haggerty about my sexuality is beside the point, of course. As you’ll see in the interview, it doesn’t take sexual orientation to make for kinship. By the end we were saying “I love you” to one another. Haggerty’s is a story of artistic success devoid of financial gain. But, later in his life, after a series of events […]
Opportunities To Succeed
Friday, February 8, 2019 16:39 — 0 Comments
Below is a story that appeared in Alaska Beyond magazine in February 2019 San Francisco Mayor London Breed knows the importance of community support at the right time. A native of the Bay Area, Breed grew up in the Western Addition housing project in San Francisco. However, an internship with the nonprofit Family School when she was a teenager helped change her life. Breed, who was elected mayor in June 2018, is partnering with Alaska Airlines and other businesses to give that same opportunity to thousands of low-income young people in the San Francisco area. The mayor’s new initiative, Opportunities for All, will place […]
Artists In Residence: Macklemore Helps Seattle-Area Youths Gain Experience In The Music Industry
Monday, January 7, 2019 17:41 — 0 Comments
Below is a story that appeared in Alaska Beyond magazine in January 2019 WHEN BEN HAGGERTY WAS 7 YEARS OLD, he already knew what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. The Seattle-based emcee/rapper, now better known as Macklemore, was aware even at this young age that he wanted to be onstage with a microphone, hearing his voice boom through speakers as he shared his music with an audience. Now, 28 years later, in the midst of his Grammy-winning career, Macklemore is helping to make similar dreams come true for young musicians through The Residency, a music-education program born […]
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
Book Release and Reading Feb. 6
January 6th, 2016
Hello fellow readers, travelers and Monarchians! Our first book, Traveling Light, written by Seattle author, Jim Brantingham, is now for sale! And we will be throwing a release party for it Feb. 6 at 6pm in Ravenna Third Place Books (on the corner of 65th and 20th NE). Jim will be reading from the book and there will be guest readers accompanying him. Space is limited, so we suggest you come early. Books can be bought through this link here or at Ravenna Third Place Books (which just ordered it’s second wave of books). We are super excited for this release and […]
