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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Julia Massey on UMBC
Saturday, March 17, 2018 11:10 — 0 Comments
UMBC is in Catonsville, MD. It’s the university (and on-campus library) that all of us kids at Catonsville High School went to to feel like we were “really researching†stuff, and where there were ample fields to host regional lacrosse tournaments in which we participated. It is the home of the Retrievers where I’d gone to see a game or two with my former high school coach and totally-obsessed-with-college-basketball father. It’s where Sugar Ray came for a festival once and a classmate got pulled on stage during a song. As a practice, I like to catch at least a few […]
Dinner Delivered
Thursday, September 1, 2016 17:13 — 0 Comments
Below is a story that appeared in Alaska Beyond magazine in September 2016 I open my front door and find a square cardboard box with the words PeachDish emblazoned on the side. With a sense of anticipation, I pick up the heavier-than-expected delivery and take it to my kitchen to see what tonight’s dinner is going to be. Atlanta-based PeachDish, which offers recipes with a southern flavor, is among the dozens of companies contributing to one of the hottest trends in dining today: meal-kit home deliveries. While the services vary greatly, many of the bands allow you to choose savory dishes from […]
Shaun Scott, Millennial Mouthpiece
Monday, August 8, 2016 12:58 — 0 Comments
Shaun Scott is a writer, director and contributor to the Monarch as well as other Seattle publications. His keen insight and his strength in tackling difficult subjects like race, politics and pop culture have him writing some of the most impactful prose in the Emerald City. On top of all that, he has a new book coming out, which he’s been working on for either a year or his whole life, depending on how you count. We talked with him about his process. So you just got a book deal. First question: HOW THE HELL DOES SOMEONE GET A […]
CHANNEL Seattle Record Label Fest
Tuesday, July 12, 2016 13:55 — 0 Comments
On Saturday, the inaugural CHANNEL Seattle Record Label Fest takes over Fred Wildlife Refuge all afternoon and into the night. Over 30 record labels from throughout the region will be showing their wares, with live performances from Hibou, Gaytheist, SSDD and Roladex. While Seattle boasts internationally known independents like Barsuk and, of course, Sub Pop, CHANNEL Fest is focused on highlighting smaller upstart labels found throughout the winding catacombs of the local music scene. Participating labels run the gamut from Help Yourself, who’ve made waves with releases from Chastity Belt, Dude York and Childbirth to Neon Sigh, which is a […]
Ten Quick Questions For Chuck Klosterman
Tuesday, June 21, 2016 22:02 — 0 Comments
New York Times Bestselling author, Chuck Klosterman, who we wrote a Monarch Drinks With feature about in 2012, has written a new book called, But What If We’re Wrong? It’s a close examination of concepts that society holds to be obvious but maybe aren’t quite as clear as they seem. And in the spirit of the question, we caught up with Klosterman to ask him a few quick ones of our own. How has the age of new media – Facebook, podcasts – change how you think about writing a book? It hasn’t really changed the writing process at all. […]
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
