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Star Anna’s “Go To Hell”
Tuesday, August 27, 2013 12:06 — 0 Comments
I remember hearing about Star Anna not long after I moved to Seattle some five years ago. We ran in similar circles, but had never actually hung out. We still haven’t, really, though we’ve played gigs together in the same clubs on the same nights. In fact, I watched her one night, maybe six months ago, at the Tractor Tavern, sitting in a chair, hair wild, her faithful dog by her feet. She might as well have had a cigarette in her mouth, as she sang, belting lyrics along with a hard-strummed acoustic. Hundreds of people in the audience. This […]
The Monarch Drinks With John Roderick
Monday, August 19, 2013 3:11 — 0 Comments
John Roderick stood center stage at the Alberta-Rose Theater in Portland, OR, telling jokes, stories and, later, playing his acoustic guitar, singing to the hundreds in the audience for NPR’s Live Wire show. A tall man, bearded, with glasses and a booming voice, John entertained. I was in the audience, having been given tickets by mutual friend and host of the show, Luke Burbank. I stared on attentively, listening to John’s stories and quips as he went back and forth with Luke.
Macklemore At The ACT Theater
Tuesday, August 13, 2013 10:51 — 0 Comments
Growing up in Seattle, Ben Haggerty wasn’t a fan of school. There was one class, however: a visual arts class with a teacher who, one day, offered an assignment. She had a super hero character still in its box. It had a cape, was dressed up, the whole nine yards. But the hero had no emblem. The assignment: create a moniker for this hero. Ben had always been a good artist and so he came up with his answer: Professor Macklemore. Ironically, in high school, the rapper would go to thrift stores and buy the most outlandish outfits – golfers […]
Review Of Jane Wong’s ‘Kudzu Does Not Stop’
Thursday, July 25, 2013 10:52 — 0 Comments
Jane Wong’s voice comes off the page like that of a mother’s reading a cautionary story to her children. In her new book of poems, Wong uses her voice to make a point: that, as people, we are like the kudzu vine: we take and we are taken.Â
The Monarch Drinks With Christopher Frizzelle
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 12:20 — 0 Comments
I’m a big guy, but Chris Frizzelle is bigger. His presence loomed over me the moment I met him. We were in Vito’s on First Hill. I was late to The Stranger’s Silent Reading Series held at the Sorrento Hotel, having got caught up in a conversation at work about music. I raced to the Sorrento, asked someone sitting in a chair if his name was Chris, to which the man said, “No, Tim.†Feeling sort of defeated, I sipped down a gin and tonic in the hotel bar. I left. I walked to The Hideout on Boren, thinking maybe […]
Seattle Music: Syked Out – Jake Uitti
Thursday, November 17, 2011 13:50 — 14 Comments
Response to City Arts article by Jesse Sykes Jesse Sykes is a wonderful musician, a wonderful singer. Somehow, someway she learned the art of music and how to project it and share it with others. That education, however, seems to have not been applied to all aspects of her artist-life.
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
