Kristen Rau One Night Only!
Friday, February 13, 2015 13:28 — 1 Comment
The improvisor Kristen Rau will be playing tonight at Unexpected Productions at 10pm. Traveling all the way from Chicago, Ill-A-Noise, this international woman of mystery will be gliding over the dimly-lit stage performing film noir prompts, crying baby prompts, smoking mom prompts and, inevitably, pretending she’s a flamingo fishing spawning trout from the stream after a shrimp cocktail appetizer. In other words, KRISTEN IS A BADASS IMPROVISOR AND CHECK HER OUT TONIGHT! Here is but a small sample of her work you can indulge in:
One Super Important Question For Robin Crookall
Thursday, December 11, 2014 15:51 — 0 Comments
The Big Apple is Mecca for artists. It’s where the action happens. It’s the destination. At least that’s what New Yorkers think, and a lot of artists gazing east. Visual artist Robin Crookall moved from Seattle to New York this fall to pursue an MFA at NYU. We published a few of her pieces in our print edition, Monarch 2, and I’ve been a fan since. I caught up with her over Thanksgiving weekend and took the opportunity to ask her one super important question. CT:  What have you found is the biggest advantage, if there is one, to making art in the […]
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
Spending the Holidays with Dina Martina
Monday, October 27, 2014 9:46 — 0 Comments
Dina Martina is one of Seattle’s most brilliantly shining treasures and the glint on her drag gem gleams most brightly during the holiday season calendar. Martina, who always brings “jifts” for her fans in winter, offers one of the most sought after shows in the Emerald City, whether at “Re-Bar Place” or ACT Theater, during a time when car traffic is at its peak and Jack Frost nips at your toes most regularly. To bring you a respite from all this societal freezing clutter, Martina showcases her, well, singing prowess, of sorts, and her comedy that wows in its hysterics. […]
On Pacific Aggression – Elizabeth Colen
Monday, October 6, 2014 10:03 — 0 Comments
PACIFIC AGGRESSION is first and foremost a smart film, a well-researched film that engages articulately both metaphorically and literally with the history of place and history of cultural violence, the history of how people just going about their lives contribute to and move these aggressions forward. Filmmaker Shaun Scott shows our digital age of loneliness not as something new, but as something we have always been working (against ourselves) towards. And he shows all of this through the communicationally challenged, yet budding relationship between main characters Frank Ulysses Waters (played by Trevor Marston) and Meryl Applegate (played by Libby Matthews, […]
Waldron’s Pond (aka Aquarium)
Monday, September 8, 2014 14:17 — 0 Comments
Steve Waldron and Darcy Barry are opening a new, beautiful aquarium in Roosevelt complete with exotic fish, plants and vines. We wanted to chat with Steve about this new beautiful place – enjoy!
White Girl Wasted – Amanda Manitach
Thursday, August 14, 2014 12:39 — 0 Comments
Amanda Manitach is one of The Monarch’s favorite people, visual artists and thinkers. Over the past few months, Amanda has been posting hand-drawn pictures of drunk girls with graphic t-shirts that we absolutely adore. She writes, “These were inspired by (among other things) some t-shirt companies based in LA, vibrators, found phrases on dumpsters, the fact I have always had penis envy and don’t love my pubic hair but don’t think that makes me a bad feminist. (My list of ten things that suck about having a dick probably does, but to be fair, that list was generated by a […]
The Home of the Mighty
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 23:01 — 0 Comments
Solidarity is weird stuff. It belongs to no one. It’s between us. It means you’d die for your people. It means you have nothing to believe in but those people. Things used to be about the ruin porn and welcome to fold city, now it’s welcome to the Home of the Mighty. We used to live in a culture that told us to be ordinary, to be ok, to hate our jobs, to get by. Nobody was telling us to be great. Corporate advertisements told us we could be great if we bought their shit, but their shit was just that, and […]
An Interview With Liza Keckler Of Screaming Flea
Wednesday, August 6, 2014 11:28 — 0 Comments
Screaming Flea’s VP of program development, Liza Keckler, graced The Monarch with some time to chat about her company’s strategies, how they work with the city of Seattle to produce content and how Skype is ruining her day!
Three Videos – Brett Hamil
Tuesday, July 22, 2014 12:27 — 0 Comments
Brett Hamill writes for City Arts magazine, is a comedian and wrote this story for The Monarch. In his spare time, he made some videos, which we are happy to share!
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
