2015 — The Monarch Review — Page 4
Fashion Fascist Drawings – Allen Forrest
Thursday, September 17, 2015 9:52 — 0 Comments
These drawings express the frustration felt by many in the current consumer culture, which says citizens have all the power but really it’s the few uber-rich who hold the cards. Says the artist, Allen Forrest, “I came up with the drawing style for this piece by combining influences from William Steig and Robert Crumb and [offering] my own take.”
Three Songs To The Head vol. 34
Thursday, September 17, 2015 9:43 — 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 Spekulation + Ayron Jones, Stereo Embers and Jamil Suleman. Enjoy! –Jake Uitti It’s always exciting to see who Spek will remix next, by the time things are all said and done he’ll have quite the, er, rap sheet of all-star collaborators. Today’s installment is the freaky-fingered fret board prince of Seattle guitar solos, Ayron Jones. It’s the type of song to get listeners pumped, perfect for […]
Changes In The Ravenna/Roosevelt Neighborhood
Sunday, September 13, 2015 10:09 — 1 Comment
The Ravenna and Roosevelt neighborhoods are largely unknown outside of the people who live there. They’re small, mostly residential areas with a few shops and no major outpost – until now. Smack-dab between them is an ambitious construction process, one of several happening in the city: an 80-foot deep light rail station, which aims to provide a main jugular for the city. It’s widely understood that Seattle is growing fast – The Seattle Times reported that 15,000 people moved to the city’s metro area last year, bringing our total population to 668,342 in 2014, with no sign of slowing. This […]
CHOMP!
Sunday, September 13, 2015 10:03 — 0 Comments
Today (Sunday), King County officials, Artist Home and a myriad of Washington’s finest are coming together to bring the nearby community a brand new event focused on local food, art and sustainable living. The all-ages festival, dubbed CHOMP!, is slated for Sunday, September 13 from 10am – 6pm at King County’s Marymoor Park new Redmond. On hand will be cooking demonstrations from guest celebrity chefs, workshops aimed to make folks better backyard farmers, kids activities, live music, bike expos and much more. “We wanted to celebrate the local food economy,†said King County’s Lee Anne Hughes, “we have such a […]
Two Poems – Rita Banerjee
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 9:53 — 0 Comments
Please Listen and Do Not Return (after Nick Carraway and Tom Joad) East She, portrait in miniature, she I said I had found in my youth a her, a when men built dreams with hands still, I saved a lock of hers, kept her like the harbor lights, ship sounds at night, I knew light, green-back and otherwise could bring me closer— to that mind daffodil colored— I wondered again the meaning of East, the mean, what emotions went with living, with home things travel through valleys of ash, I walk in gray and dead houses, her eyes porcelain undirected […]
Sour Cream Girls – Gen Del Raye
Monday, September 7, 2015 8:28 — 0 Comments
The TSA agent doesn’t know how much a Port Ellen 1981 costs, and he doesn’t care. All he knows is that the bottle is more than three ounces. That much is clear.
Three Songs To The Head vol. 33
Thursday, September 3, 2015 9:16 — 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 Raz Simone, The Honorable Chief and The Bad Tenants. Enjoy! –Jake Uitti Raz Simone has a kingly quality. He’s somehow supremely reserved and uber-powerful. He has keen judgement in production, courage to say what’s on his precise mind (even if it goes against the Emerald City’s most well-known rapper) and, at the same time, the ability to move people with strength of heart. There’s an effortlessness […]
Talking Writing with Adrian Ryan
Tuesday, September 1, 2015 14:57 — 0 Comments
Flat out, Adrian Ryan is one of The Monarch’s favorite writers. He’s quick-witted, sharp, funny and throws himself into every topic he’s involved in. He’s written some of our most popular Drinks With features and he’s appeared on our podcast. He’s a chum of a swell fellow! Since he’s one of our faves, we thought it smart to ask him about writing and what’s next for him.Â
Love at First Swipe with Maggie
Thursday, August 27, 2015 10:46 — 0 Comments
Maggie MK Hess is The Monarch’s resident online dating (read: Tinder) expert. She is throwing a galla event called Love at First Swipe Sep. 17. In honor of the event, we asked her a few questions to see whaasssup?!!
Shin Yu Pai’s Poetry Orchard
Wednesday, August 19, 2015 9:40 — 1 Comment
Shin Yu Pai’s latest project, HEIRLOOM, is a site-specific public art project where she printed language on antique apples in Piper’s Orchard in Carkeek Park, Seattle.Using vinyl stencils and the light of the sun, she “burned” words into the peels of ripening apples. The words on the apples, she says, represent the titles of individual sections from a long poem (below) written in the form of an abecedarian, or alphabet poem, which explores the history of it and our human connection to it. (Image above by Thendara Kida-Gee) Jake Uitti: So tell me about your latest project! Shin Yu Pai: I just […]
What am I?
Bioluminescent eye
That sees by the shine
Of its own light. Lies
Blind me. I am the seventh human sense
And my stepchild,
Consequence;
Scientists can't find me.
Januswise I make us men;
Glamour
Was my image then—
Remind me:
The awful fall up off all fours
From the forest
To the hours…
Tick, Tock: Divine me.
-- Richard Kenney
