November — 2018 — The Monarch Review
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
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