The Magic Red and Blue Pin – Jim Brantingham
Wednesday, December 10, 2014 11:40 — 1 Comment
I was minding my own business having a quiet beer in a busy tavern. A woman with a strong Russian accent approached me with boxes of jewelry. The jewelry was allegedly made by Russian orphans presumably in Russia. She was an exceptionally beautiful woman with long gorgeous black hair, so I mistakenly engaged her in conversation. I’m a lifelong sucker like that.
Three Songs To The Head vol. 21
Tuesday, December 9, 2014 11:20 — 0 Comments
Hello and welcome back to Three Songs to the Head where we share three songs that moved us, three songs we love, three songs we can’t get out of our heads! Today, we’re featuring Ahamefule J. Oluo, Catskills and Rik Wright. Enjoy!
Intruder Comics with Marc J. Palm
Monday, December 8, 2014 11:30 — 0 Comments
Marc J. Palm is one of the many talented comic artists in Seattle. He also has a special place in my heart because he’s been working on a secret Monarch project. In the mean time, I wanted to talk with Marc about Intruder Comics, a Seattle-based “party zone” that puts out a free, quarterly, co-op, comics newspaper. Intruder began in March of 2012 and consists of 16 Seattle-based, “darkly comedic cartoonists,” according to their Facebook page.Â
Enemies Like You – Shaun Scott
Thursday, December 4, 2014 13:41 — 0 Comments
With ratings revenue securely in hand from last week’s pilot episode, CNN’s as yet untitled smash hit television series revolving around dead black bodies in the street was renewed for another week. On Wednesday night’s installment, the setting was moved from rural Ferguson to New York City, where main character Eric Garner was left breathless on the hard, hot sidewalk by a gaggle of police officers back in July of 2014.Â
Fires – Jason Sposeto
Tuesday, December 2, 2014 11:07 — 2 Comments
Years ago, in another life, I woke to look out the smeared window of a Greyhound bus I had been riding all night. Ahead of us on the horizon, there was a red pinprick of light. We were traveling through the countryside on a long two-lane highway and the night was pitch dark—the light was like a match struck in a basement or the glint off an animal’s eyes as it circles a campfire. Several of the passengers from the opposite side of the bus had gathered around and were looking out at the light. One of them, a large, […]
Bigass Boombox 2015
Monday, December 1, 2014 11:58 — 0 Comments
Seattle’s Bigass Boombox festival is on its second year. The free, all-ages music celebration, slated for Jan. 2nd and 3rd at the Crocodile (primarily) and sponsored by Tom Douglas Restaurants, will feature dozens of musical groups, as well as a literary stage hosted by us, The Monarch Review, and Poetry Northwest. To kick things off, I wanted to reach out to some of the festival’s main players: organizers Adam Prairie, Christina Ellis, Jared Cortese, Caleb Thompson and performer, Robb Benson, in order to get a sense of what they’re thinking leading up to the show!Â
Leftovers – Joseph Giordano
Wednesday, November 26, 2014 16:25 — 1 Comment
It was a rowdy night at the steakhouse, Groppa del Manzo. Teddy “Sawbuck†Foster invited a dozen colleagues to celebrate his closing the merger of two Fortune 500 companies. Teddy was the firm’s chief investment banker and arbitrage trader; his pores oozed money. He earned his nickname for the daily tip he gave the white-haired grandmother who pushed the coffee cart at the office and buttered his bialy. It was after eleven when I walked outside with a chunk of Dolores Castillo’s New York strip in a doggy bag. I raised a goodbye palm to her and Teddy. We’d lingered […]
Thieves on the Cross – Shaun Scott
Tuesday, November 25, 2014 13:45 — 1 Comment
It’s better that Michael Brown was clearly imperfect, clearly flawed.Â
Jason Parker’s “Homegrown”
Monday, November 24, 2014 12:33 — 0 Comments
We at The Monarch love this concept: bringing a group of Seattle musicians together to celebrate jazz, music, and the Seattle scene. Jason Parker is one of the best at this – he is a galvanizer of talent, which is one of the best artistic qualities someone can have, in my humble opinion. Jason writes, “The Seattle jazz scene is bursting with talent and is a true hidden gem of the jazz world. Seattlites know how special it is, but word is only now starting to get out to the rest of the world. I decided to shine a spotlight […]
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 […]
