A Conversation With Seattlish
Thursday, July 9, 2015 10:29 — 0 Comments
If you follow Seattlish on Twitter, you know how funny, conscience and insightful the feed can be. It was through Twitter that I contacted the folks behind Seattlish – which turned out to be three badass ladies (Alex Hudson, Sarah Anne Lloyd, Hanna Brooks Olsen) with wonderful senses of humor, a great love for each other and a passion to make politics and city workings understandable to their followers. To get to know the ladies better, I asked if we could do a chat. Graciously, they agreed! Jake Uitti: How do you remember Seattlish beginning? Was it a drunken conversation at […]
A Chat with STACKEDD’s Ma’Chell Duma LaVassar
Thursday, June 18, 2015 10:34 — 0 Comments
STACKEDD magazine is a new Seattle publication focusing on the triumphs of female-identifying persons, places and things. They are also in the midst of a fundraiser in the hopes of putting out a print version of their publication.  We had the chance to chat with “Editrix-In-Chief” Ma’Chell Duma LaVassar to talk about the magazine’s origin and who they want their audience to be.  Who was there and when was the moment STACKEDD was born? What was the aim at that second and inspiration? The idea for STACKEDD was born one afternoon over many tequila sodas at Horses Cut Shop (which would […]
NBA Finals Predictions Game 3
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 13:30 — 2 Comments
Willie Fitzgerald, Spike Friedman, Shaun Scott, Leah Baltus and I (Jake) love basketball and the NBA. We’ll be riveted tonight watching the third game of what could be one of the greatest Finals matchups in recent history. Leading up to the show, we couldn’t help but offer our predictions. Here they are:
NBA Finals Predictions Game 1
Thursday, June 4, 2015 17:53 — 0 Comments
Willie Fitzgerald, Spike Friedman, Shaun Scott and I (Jake) love basketball and love the NBA. We’ll be riveted tonight watching the first game of what could be one of the greatest Finals matchups in recent history. Leading up to the show, we couldn’t help but offer our predictions. Here they are: Willie Fitzgerald: Right off the bat: who ya got in this series? This game? Let’s preserve our foolishness for posterity. Spike Friedman: This interminable week of pre-Finals hype has revealed this to be amongst the lowest stakes NBA Finals for me as a neutral. Both of these franchises […]
Monarch Podcast #15 – Reginald Andre Jackson
Wednesday, May 20, 2015 11:56 — 0 Comments
Actor and playwright, Reginald Andre Jackson, stops by Monarch studios to talk Shakespeare, working with inmates at prisons, and his new play about Buddy Bolden that he’s working on with members of Industrial Revelation.
Monarch Podcast #14 – Shelby Earl!
Thursday, May 14, 2015 9:02 — 0 Comments
Seattle musician Shelby Earl drops by to chat Steve Earle, writing, her album “Swift Arrows,” working with Damien Jurado and playing her first show (where she was super nervous) at an ice cream social.
A Sandwich for John Osebold
Monday, April 27, 2015 15:15 — 2 Comments
I love making sandwiches. I love making sandwiches and I think I’m really good at it. I also like talking with interesting people. In this column, I make sandwiches and talk with interesting people.
One Super Important Question for Dawn Trudeau
Friday, April 17, 2015 13:50 — 0 Comments
The Seattle Storm – our WNBA team – just picked 1st in the 2015 draft. Who did they select? Jewell Loyd, a 20-point scorer and the census best college player, from Notre Dame. Given the Storm’s poor finish last year and their recent coup in the draft, I wanted to ask team co-owner, Dawn Trudeau, one super important question.Â
Talking Mariners Baseball with Spike Friedman
Sunday, April 5, 2015 10:57 — 0 Comments
Spike Friedman is that rare fellow invested personally and professionally in both art and sports, a quality we here at The Monarch find very endearing. Also MONDAY IS OPENING DAY FOR THE MARINERS! Given Spike’s background writing about sports for The Stranger and Grantland.com, we thought he would be the perfect person to talk with about the upcoming season.Â
Monarch Podcast #13 – Andrew Joslyn!
Thursday, April 2, 2015 11:32 — 0 Comments
Andrew Joslyn – composer, musician and all around badass dude – drops by Monarch studios to chat about the myriad of albums he’s working on, what it was like touring with Macklemore and Dave Bazan and how he and his girlfriend are recuperating from a fire that burned everything they owned.
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
