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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 […]

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LOVE OVER HATE

Thursday, December 20, 2018 15:13 — 0 Comments

Below is a story that appeared in Alaska Beyond Magazine in July 2018 Talking about the Holocaust is difficult, especially if you’ve lived through it. Yet, that’s precisely what 92-year-old survivor Sonia Warshawski does every day. She talks with people about the details of her time in concentration camps and being freed. It’s one of the many remarkable aspects of her vibrant daily life, which includes running a small tailor shop in Kansas City, Kansas, and, more recently, advocating her message of “love over hate” to the U.S. Congress. It was seven years ago that Sonia’s granddaughter, Seattle-based filmmaker Leah Warshawski, […]

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Spin Doctors Front Man, Chris Barron, Talks Comfy Sweaters, Befriending John Popper And Writing Songs

Monday, December 3, 2018 18:18 — 0 Comments

Growing up in Princeton, New Jersey, residents heard a lot about Chris Barron, the fun-loving, golden-voiced front man for the famed 90s rock band, Spin Doctors. From rumors spreading about the blond singer crooning from his window atop Farrington’s music shop near the library to hearing about his myriad poems depicting odd characters and indelible, quirky turns of phrase. Barron, whose band has been making music for thirty years, has seen and done a great deal in the business. Of course, everyone knows Spin Doctors from their two hits, “Two Princes” and “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong,” from the 1991 […]

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A Changing Of The Guards

Wednesday, November 7, 2018 18:25 — 0 Comments

Below is a story that appeared in Alaska Beyond Magazine in May 2018 In the final home game of the 2017 season, the WNBA Seattle Storm caught a promising glimpse of its future. Although the Storm lost that game to the Phoenix Mercury, the Storm’s young star guard, Jewell Loyd, scored a career-high 33 points and raised many eyebrows, including those belonging to teammate and shoo-in Hall of Fame point guard Sue Bird. “Jewell had an epic game that night,” recalls Bird, a two-time WNBA champion and the league’s all-time assists leader. “There were times when she had these moves that […]

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Springtime with the Decemberists

Wednesday, November 7, 2018 18:18 — 0 Comments

Below is a story that appeared in Alaska Beyond Magazine in March 2018 For their new album, “I’ll Be Your Girl,” released in March, the members of Portland-based rock band The Decemberists set out to challenge themselves. The group hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with its 2011 LP “The King Is Dead” and has built a following for creative sounds and lyrics. But fresh tactics, says frontman Colin Meloy, had to be taken to keep making invigorating music. “I just had this suspicion,” Meloy says, “that we were falling into some old habits. I felt like I was doing […]

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Traveling Musician

Wednesday, November 7, 2018 18:12 — 0 Comments

Below is a story that appeared in Alaska Beyond Magazine in Feb. 2018 While visiting nashville, Tennessee, singer-songwriter Aloe Blacc found something he did not expect. Inside the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Blacc stood before a large mural depicting the origins of the museum’s central genre. The painting showed a cultural mashup of players with West African banjos, as well as fiddles and other harmonic and melodic elements that originated in Europe. “It was a wonderful visual to capture the spirit of country music,” Blacc says. The artwork, by painter Thomas Hart Benton, speaks to the kaleidoscopic cultural […]

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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 […]