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Marker in hand, the director of Seattle's new Youth Violence Prevention Initiative, Mariko Lockhart, stood patiently at an easel at a city council "town-hall" meeting in West...
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Dear Dategirl,I've got the typical Friends With Benefits situation happening. I met him through mutual friends about a year or so ago. After a quickie the other day, he said...
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When a copy of local singer-songwriter Andy Werth's debut LP, Burn the Maps and Bury the Compass, arrived in my office a few months ago, I ignored it at first. But after I was...
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Back in April 2004, Sage Van Wing, then a grass-fed-beef rancher and chicken farmer in northern California, read Gary Paul Nabhan's Coming Home to Eat, a chronicle of his...
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"They're all about where people come from. Nobody seems to wonder where somebody's going." So says the Depression-era bank-robber-cum-folk-hero John Dillinger upon surveying...
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Everything is always about us, or so we believe.Nearly a century ago, Freud posited that most people relate to the world primarily as it impacts them, and that's why Oprah,...
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THURSDAY 7/2Cartoons: Nearly ErasedIn an industry substantially built on Hearst's The Yellow Kid and Little Orphan Annie, it's a cruel irony that struggling newspapers are...
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Take a look at any review of The Rural Alberta Advantage's debut, Hometowns, and the ready-made witticism “what's the advantage to living in Rural Alberta?”; is sure...
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While it’s definitely a pleasure to listen to the recently released Never Going Back, or the handful of other discs Shemekia Copeland’s put out over the past decade,...
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In 1990, when the legendary Camper Van Beethoven broke up, it must’ve seemed inconceivable that singer/guitarist David Lowery would ever front a band as initially...
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Will Smith defends the Earth against alien invaders in this 1996 special-effects smash. And, in the process, probably became the biggest movie star on Earth. Borrowing...
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“Not a composer, but an inventor of genius” was Arnold Schoenberg’s description of John Cage, and the phrase is even more apt for Seattle-based, German-born...
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Infected Mushroom has the kind of genre-spanning sound that finds critics deploying so many hyphens that their copy looks like a wrinkled-carpet portmanteau. (See what I...
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Let’s set the record straight: as much as famous metal musicians would have us believe otherwise, the rise of Nirvana did not precipitate the demise of thrash metal, the...
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Frantic Chi-town DJ Robert Armani spins pulsating techno jams all night long.
Sat., July 4, 9 p.m., 2009
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Yet another cult commodity from Baltimore, Double Dagger has finally been doused in the national attention it deserves with the May release of More on the ever-trustworthy...
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With 2004’s American Idiot, Green Day executed a near-genius punk rock opera with balls, intellect and genuine heart. It spoke eloquently to the generation unlucky enough...
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Bill Patton claims that he is a “sad bastard singer-songwriter who lives in Seattle, as so many of them do.” True, the Emerald Shitty has produced a rather large and...
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Grand Hallway is a name that evokes eminence, a kind of timeless grandeur. Such is the quality of the octet’s sprawling orchestral pop music – it is stately without...
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The Hacienda Brothers were sweet. They could achieve these peak moments (“A Lot of Days Are Gone” is my personal fave) when cofounders Chris Gaffney and Dave...
