2016 — The Monarch Review
Three Songs To The Head vol. 44
Saturday, December 17, 2016 14:03 — 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 Mindie Lind, Gems and Owuor Arunga. Enjoy! Mindie is a longtime love of The Monarch. So when she releases new music, we perk up. She’s an energetic human whose lyrics are spare and mysterious. She is the wind rushing through a falling barn. She is the breath that puts out the candle and moves on to the next. On this tune, she is joined by fellow spelled […]
The Misadventures Of Billy: The Irredeemably Iconoclastic Goat
Friday, December 2, 2016 1:18 — 2 Comments
Once upon a time there was a goat named Billy. Billy was sad, Because Billy didn’t fit in. Billy had hopes, And Billy had dreams. Billy could see yesterday, and imagine tomorrow. People made fun of Billy, and they imagined nothing. Billy wrote, and Billy drew. But no one read and no one knew… That today is based on yesterday, And tomorrow is based on today, And “now” is only fleeting.
Seattle Superheroes: Manny Chao
Tuesday, November 1, 2016 11:53 — 0 Comments
Georgetown Brewing might make the finest beers on the west coast and one of the people behind the brewery’s success is Manny Chao, for whom Manny’s Pale Ale is named. Chao, when he’s not brewing some of the world’s best beer, fights crime, keeping the city safe from those who would try to hurt its most vulnerable (like this creature he’s secured in a beer bubble). In his work life, though, Chao and Georgetown make beers that are smooth, crisp and always on point, whether that’s their Chopper’s Red Ale, Manny’s Pale Ale or their award winning Bodhizafa IPA, which […]
Three Songs To The Head vol. 43
Wednesday, October 19, 2016 12:24 — 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 Annie Ford, Scarlet Parke and Deep Sea Diver. Annie Ford has a couple new songs she’s going to release Nov. 5th at the Sunset. They are called “Crocodile Skin” and “White Needles.” Annie Ford is one of our favorite songwriters – she’s a dynamo on the violin (she can sway a room liek a drunken pirate ship). While I would love to post her haunting […]
Seattle Superheroes: Mary Lambert
Monday, October 17, 2016 12:46 — 0 Comments
Mary Lambert is the lovely singer made famous for her chorus on the M&RL song, “Same Love.” She also helped The Monarch raise some $12,000 to benefit victims of the Oso Mudslide. She also has a badass tatoo that can come alive when she whispers her superpower magic words, “She keeps me warm.” Mary is funny, beautiful and generous and we’re glad to call her friend (and a former Monarch Drinks With feature). Art by Jill Denkmann.
Protecting The People: Copwatching With Mike BlueHair
Thursday, October 13, 2016 11:27 — 10 Comments
After nearly five years of being filmed and observed by him, Portland police know he can’t be intimidated… they also he’s not going away. We’ve seen his videos in The Oregonian, The Portland Mercury, and in Willamette Week, showing him standing between chaos and bloodshed when a gun was pulled on BLM protesters downtown. But have we ever really seen Mike BlueHair? I met up with the local copwatcher for an interview, a ride-along, and a closer look at the man behind the camera. Not everyone knows what copwatching is, so I asked Mike to define the term in his own words, “A copwatcher,” he said, […]
Art From Adam Rousseau
Tuesday, October 11, 2016 23:54 — 0 Comments
Adam Rousseau’s art is striking, charming and, despite its intricacies, is easy on the digesting eye. As such, we wanted to feature some of his drawings here and ask him three important questions. Enjoy! Jake Uitti: When you sit down to draw, what goes through your head? Adam Rousseau: Most of the time when I’m working I’m really just trying to shut out any extraneous thought and focus on what’s happening on the page/wood panel. It’s very meditative for me in that sense. Music is essential for me getting anything done as well, and I think sometimes what I end […]
Three Songs To The Head vol. 42
Friday, September 30, 2016 12:57 — 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 The Good Wives, Chris King and the Gutterballs and Khingz. The Good Wives’ song “Lonely Again†is like what I imagine a lullaby on Mars 3,000 years in the future sounds like. There is a considerate quality to the music, a repetition that conjures blankets and soothing, but the whole thing is also beat-driven, electric and mechanical. The song gets stuck in your head – particularly […]
Baby and Gorilla – Lynn Levin
Thursday, September 29, 2016 11:00 — 1 Comment
A new Spiffycuts has opened in town. They need someone to walk around the shopping center in a gorilla suit to spread the word, and I am the man for the job. Pay is off the books, less than minimum wage, a temp job, but I’m not choosy. My drug arrest makes it hard for me to pass a background check, and Spiffycuts hasn’t asked too many questions. On my first day, I shuffle to the back room where they store the towels and shampoo. The manager suits me up in my fur costume. One of the stylists fastens the […]
Seattle Superheroes: Kshama Sawant
Tuesday, September 27, 2016 11:26 — 0 Comments
Seattle Superhero, Kshama Sawant, has been doing her Robinhood thing in the Emerald City for years as a member of the City Council. She helped spearhead the $15/hr minimum wage campaign that city voters adopted and has been pushing for income and housing equality, as well as police oversight in the wake of the absurd proposed youth jail and police bunker. Sawant, in this time of ugly Presidential debating, is a politician worth celebrating. Art by Jill Denkmann
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
