In the Streets with Craven Rock
Friday, November 13, 2015 12:01 — 0 Comments
Last year was a high watermark for Seattle’s anti-police brutality movement. Catching the wave of resistance that started in Ferguson over the murder of Michael Brown, and continuing in New York, over the killing by asphyxiation of Eric Garner and what came to be known as Black Lives Matter, Seattle activists took over the Westlake Center Shopping Mall in protest of police violence everywhere. Disrupting business as usual, the mall was closed three hours early, enraging of lot of Americans camped out with a hard-on for bargains. Steam had already been building in 2014, as Seattle activists attempted to take […]
It’s Not Good for Anyone to Have a Body of Work Denied: An Interview with Stephen Wood
Tuesday, November 10, 2015 10:47 — 0 Comments
Stephen Wood is a Vancouver-based musician who spent a good portion of this new century, as well as the end of the last, leading a band called the Battles, which he later renamed Giantess (for more on the Battles/Giantess – grab a comfy seat and read this). Wood also served as a sideman, playing guitar in the classic, pre-Merge Destroyer lineup that gave the world City of Daughters, Thief and Streethawk: A Seduction. His latest project, which serves as the jumping off point for this interview, is an instrumental duo called Kensington Gore (named after the famed recipe for fake […]
Capitol Hill Season 2
Wednesday, November 4, 2015 1:01 — 0 Comments
The spiral of subversion suffused in the Wes Hurley creation known as Capitol Hill manifests itself mostly in two topics: the treatment of Portland, Oregon, where NO ONE SHOULD GO WATCH OUT IT’S A TERRIBLE PLACE OH MY GAWD! and in Marc Kenison’s acting, which is superb, as a rube gender-matrix. The ever-manipulated interplay between masculine and feminine, between sex and novice, between understanding and disbelief that runs through the Capitol Hill storyline and its characters pushes the webisodes forward with such a, well, thrust that it’s impossible not to want to watch more to try and understand what’s at the […]
Fine Prince at Timbrrr!
Tuesday, November 3, 2015 7:59 — 0 Comments
Jamie Henwood plays in a band you’ve never heard of, until now. He’s a quiet fellow who prefers, above all things, to sit on his porch contemplatively, sipping a mug of coffee or a pint of beer (depending on the hour of the day) but he’s also the sort of person to pick up a guitar (he plays a hollow body Epiphone ES 339) and write a song rich with electricity and synths with his new band, Fine Prince. The group, which will be playing Timbrrr Winter Music Festival this year, got together in 2014 when Henwood, who has been […]
At the Allegro – Alex Gallo-Brown
Monday, November 2, 2015 11:18 — 0 Comments
On the eighth anniversary of my father’s death, I come to the Allegro for coffee, the last, best hope for remembering my father in the cafés and restaurants of this city. I have never had much love for the Allegro. But I do have love for a memory. I was twenty-one then, living in an apartment off the Ave. when one morning I met my father for coffee. Six weeks later, I would leave Seattle for college and never see him alive again. But on the morning that I remember it is a normal day in Seattle circa 2007 and we are sitting together in […]
Two Poems – Benjamin David Scott
Tuesday, October 20, 2015 16:56 — 0 Comments
Naturally icehouse, parking-lot, icebox he gave me a thumbs up from the front of the classroom chewing cud and corn and wheat in the maize at Chickory Hills, Oklahoma I played a game about where I’d like to die I told myself anywhere but Michigan I have a cut on my lip and its blood stained my blouse and this toothache is keeping me up Papergirl She told me about when she was a child, and was evicted from her home. It must have been mid-November. All of her belongings were strung in the front yard, and under […]
Three Songs To The Head vol. 35 + 36
Tuesday, October 13, 2015 11:55 — 1 Comment
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 two installments of the same gimmick – so prepare yourself for tunes from Lemolo, La Luz, Spekulation + Jesse Dangerously, Susy Sun, Sendai Era and Grace Love. Enjoy! –Jake Uitti The music of Lemolo is the wind through the trees, their branches. The sort of wind on which owl wings fly. Lead singer, Meagan Grandall, is a wound up power house who delivers her strength in […]
November: Hip-Hop History Month
Wednesday, October 7, 2015 9:42 — 0 Comments
Did you know that November is recognized by many as National Hip-Hop History month? Did you also know that on November 1st at The Crocodile there will be a huge kick-off event celebrating Seattle’s rich history of rap music, B-boy and B-girl dance crews, DJ’s and street art? Well, now you know! “It is a hip-hop old school reunion with an incredible roster of special guests who were essential to hip-hop’s inception here in Seattle,†says 206 Zulu founder and rapper King Khazm. Founded in Seattle in 2004, 206 Zulu is a non-profit community organization that uses hip-hop culture and art […]
Three Poems – Hannah Jove
Tuesday, October 6, 2015 9:51 — 0 Comments
Riddled You bring home a carpeted cat tower even though we don’t have any pets. It stands by the window and smells faintly of potpourri. After a few weeks I stop asking about it and new acquaintances are too polite to question it as if it’s a vacant crib and not something you found on a curb. Your love turns into inaccessible stairwells in a building that the city knocks down. I try to pull you back into the hemisphere of our story where we were always wet and forgiving and dizzy but you can’t look me in the eyes […]
Three Poems – Johnny Horton
Monday, October 5, 2015 11:42 — 0 Comments
Lovebirds What we declare often sounds bizarre. Cowbirds sing titi, titi, titi. European starlings laugh out loud. As mother of Imperial Rome, Livia kept nightingales caged. Captivity inspires beautiful songs. The New Zealand kakapo digs an amphitheater in the hills, transmits beat-boxing for as far as four miles. Most passionate singers will not fly off. Elvis gurgled like a meadowlark, shook his pelvis for the chicks. Certain chickens hatch without a cock. Let’s talk turkey: Great tits eat bats. We make cocktail hour happy. Spread the word by tweet. My turtle dove knows the way home by heart. […]
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
Book Release and Reading Feb. 6
January 6th, 2016
Hello fellow readers, travelers and Monarchians! Our first book, Traveling Light, written by Seattle author, Jim Brantingham, is now for sale! And we will be throwing a release party for it Feb. 6 at 6pm in Ravenna Third Place Books (on the corner of 65th and 20th NE). Jim will be reading from the book and there will be guest readers accompanying him. Space is limited, so we suggest you come early. Books can be bought through this link here or at Ravenna Third Place Books (which just ordered it’s second wave of books). We are super excited for this release and […]
