2014 — The Monarch Review — Page 2
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!
One Super Important Question For Dr. Sarah Ballard
Tuesday, December 9, 2014 11:01 — 0 Comments
I continue to be interested in what other people think about the movie Interstellar – how did they process the film, the scientific data and facts presented, how did people appreciate, or not, the narrative? You can check out this interview we posted with a Stanford lecturer about the movie. To keep the conversation going, I reached out to Sarah Ballard, who, among other accomplishments, has discovered four planets before the age of 30. I asked Sarah One Super Important Question.
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
Joshua McNichols’ Day Job Podcast
Tuesday, December 2, 2014 11:15 — 0 Comments
I first found out about the Day Job podcast through the show’s episode with Spekulation. They went behind the counter with Spek, the rapper/producer, focusing on his job as a barista. The show was SO WELL DONE CLEAR AND CRISP that I had to find out more information about it. So, I reached out to founder Joshua McNichols and asked him a few questions about the series!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 […]
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
