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Big Ass Boombox 2016
Monday, December 28, 2015 11:39 — 0 Comments
On January 8th and 9th, the third annual Big Ass Boombox festival will take over the Crocodile Cafe and the Upstairs downtown and host it’s massively well attended free, all-ages music and literary festival. Featured bands this year include Ever So Android, Julia Massey, The Great Um, Gibraltar, Furniture Girls, Bigfoot Wallace, Electric NoNo, Abraham, Chris King & The Gutterballs and about two dozen more. Featured readers include dating guru Maggie MK Hess, City Arts music editor Jonathan Zwickel, poets Michelle Penaloza and Rebecca Hoogs, Seattle Weekly music editor and VICE contributor Kelton Sears, prose writers Shaun Scott and Adrian Ryan […]
Three Songs To The Head vol. 37
Wednesday, December 23, 2015 11:07 — 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 Chi Turner, Greet the Sea and Chris King & The Gutterballs. Enjoy! Sometimes you need a really smooth souled-out jam to kick the morning off and Vancouver, B.C.’s Chi Turner has just the thing for you. This track, “Am I Dreaming,” is like the moment when you put the needle down onto the record and you know moments of bliss are about to come. But on […]
Adele’s Hello Video
Wednesday, December 9, 2015 13:45 — 0 Comments
Adele’s “Hello†has, at the time of this writing, 651,735,775 views on YouTube (and inspired this SNL video with nearly 12,000,000 views). That means millions of people have had their heart broken and turned, just in the last few weeks, to Adele to feel their pain again. Adele has proven herself over the last handful of years to be the best breakup songwriter in the world and has brought more tears to eyes than sliced onions. To help process the heartfelt tone and tenor of “Hello†I imagined what five halves of ex-couples must have gone through when seeing the video for the […]
Jim Brantingham’s Traveling Light
Wednesday, December 9, 2015 11:47 — 0 Comments
Hello! Welcome to the announcement for the first book produced by The Monarch Review (available to buy below!). We are thrilled to say we’ve completed the editing, laying out, printing and production of Traveling Light by Seattle author, Jim Brantingham. Â You may remember Jim’s work in the first print edition from us, Monarch #1. He was the only author in the anthology to write a piece of fiction and a poem. Jim was also the first fiction writer we published on the Web site some five years ago. Traveling Light is a beautiful book filled with stories, memories and analysis […]
A Very Alan Thickemas
Thursday, December 3, 2015 11:40 — 1 Comment
Whether we know it or not, we’ve all had at least a minor obsession with the actor, TV host and songwriter, Alan Thicke. We’ve seen him on middle-class sitcoms, hummed his tunes and sung his cheesy lyrics. The man who was famous for the fatherly role of Jason Seaver on Growing Pains is also responsible for the theme songs for shows like Diff’rent Strokes and The Facts of Life. Thicke, though, is also the star and basis for the Seattle-based movie – and my new holiday season obsession – A Very Alan Thickemas, produced by Seattle-based film collective, The Beta […]
What Seattle Could Learn From Vietnam Dining
Wednesday, November 11, 2015 11:35 — 2 Comments
Driving into Hanoi, the capitol of Vietnam, after passing banana trees and people sitting under the overpasses having tea, you immediately fix your eyes on the sidewalks teaming with life: small food carts with sandwich fixings, little cauldrons steaming with soup, people sitting on low plastic stools around small, kid-sized plastic tables all while thousands of motorbikes zoom by. At night the streets team with people drinking bottled or keg beer (what they call “fresh biaâ€), eating bowls of stir-fried noodles with vegetables and beef or plates of spring rolls before walking to the frantic night market to get tapped […]
Capitol Hill Season 2
Wednesday, November 4, 2015 1:01 — 0 Comments
The spiral of subversion suffused in the Wes Hurley creation known as Capitol Hill manifests itself mostly in two topics: the treatment of Portland, Oregon, where NO ONE SHOULD GO WATCH OUT IT’S A TERRIBLE PLACE OH MY GAWD! and in Marc Kenison’s acting, which is superb, as a rube gender-matrix. The ever-manipulated interplay between masculine and feminine, between sex and novice, between understanding and disbelief that runs through the Capitol Hill storyline and its characters pushes the webisodes forward with such a, well, thrust that it’s impossible not to want to watch more to try and understand what’s at the […]
Football Anger: Why The NFL Is Evil
Tuesday, November 3, 2015 12:22 — 0 Comments
The image of a crumbled Ricardo Lockette on the field during Sunday’s Seattle Seahawks game crystalized – yet again – the disgustingly violent nature of football. It’s a game that puts its workforce in peril every single week, a workforce that’s nearly 70% black. But the NFL’s teams, it’s no surprise, are owned and coached by whites in the vast majority (in fact there is no black majority NFL owner). It’s a league that values the strongest and the fastest, caring little about the result of those two forces meeting in collision on the field. With Lockette’s unconscious body laying […]
Fine Prince at Timbrrr!
Tuesday, November 3, 2015 7:59 — 0 Comments
Jamie Henwood plays in a band you’ve never heard of, until now. He’s a quiet fellow who prefers, above all things, to sit on his porch contemplatively, sipping a mug of coffee or a pint of beer (depending on the hour of the day) but he’s also the sort of person to pick up a guitar (he plays a hollow body Epiphone ES 339) and write a song rich with electricity and synths with his new band, Fine Prince. The group, which will be playing Timbrrr Winter Music Festival this year, got together in 2014 when Henwood, who has been […]
November: Hip-Hop History Month
Wednesday, October 7, 2015 9:42 — 0 Comments
Did you know that November is recognized by many as National Hip-Hop History month? Did you also know that on November 1st at The Crocodile there will be a huge kick-off event celebrating Seattle’s rich history of rap music, B-boy and B-girl dance crews, DJ’s and street art? Well, now you know! “It is a hip-hop old school reunion with an incredible roster of special guests who were essential to hip-hop’s inception here in Seattle,†says 206 Zulu founder and rapper King Khazm. Founded in Seattle in 2004, 206 Zulu is a non-profit community organization that uses hip-hop culture and art […]
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
