Culinary Change Agent
Saturday, June 1, 2019 12:02 — 0 Comments
Below is a story that appeared in Alaska Beyond magazine in June 2019 For Los Angeles-based chef Roy Choi, who is often credited with spearheading the modern high-quality food truck movement, and who has dedicated his life to feeding people of all walks of life, real societal change happens with each basket of produce sold and each plate of food served. Choi’s TV show, Broken Bread, which launched in May, aims to prove this point. In the show, Choi, who was born in South Korea and grew up in the Los Angeles area, highlights restaurants and organizations that are implementing social progress through […]
A 30/30 Vision
Wednesday, May 1, 2019 12:03 — 0 Comments
Below is a story that appeared in Alaska Beyond magazine in May 2019 Seattle music producer Ryan Lewis, one half of the Grammy-winning rap duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, remembers telling his elementary school class that his mother was HIV-positive. Julie Lewis, now a 35-year survivor, contracted the virus in 1984 from a blood transfusion during the complicated birth of her first daughter, Teresa. Julie wasn’t diagnosed until 1990, after she had given birth to Ryan and a second daughter, Laura (both fortunate to be free of the virus). The disease has been a part of the Lewis family’s narrative […]
Three Poems – Richard Kenney
Saturday, April 13, 2019 15:30 — 0 Comments
The Arcturan Vivisectionist Explains This specimen’s common name is Mirroreye. Observe (retractor, please) just here—a rare non-adaptive anomaly in the so-called “third lidâ€â€”common enough, of course, in lizards, birds, sharks, et al., all perfectly unremarkable, save that the nictitating membrane is silvered inside, enabling these creatures to see themselves reflected everywhere: in wood-grain, in moon, in clouds, in others of their kind, even; also imparting an odd, not uncrabwise aspect to their gait, backing hell-bent, headlong, as it were, into what’s already happened. Global Citizen, I think my sins are mostly only mostly just ridiculous. Ridiculous I am to […]
HUMP, SPLIFF, Love And Advice: A Conversation With Dan Savage
Friday, April 12, 2019 17:36 — 0 Comments
Dan Savage, bestselling author and nationally syndicated sex advice columnist, likes to laugh. The pleasant outbursts were sprinkled throughout our conversation. He laughs when praised and he laughs when asked to offer up his thoughts on a grand idea like love. His is a comforting laugh, not one of nervousness or deflection. Rather, it’s a laugh of largess and enjoyment. A laugh in response to the very real, very odd world looming all around us. I recently caught up with Savage to talk about his touring amateur pornography festival (HUMP), his new cannabis-inspired film festival (SPLIFF) and to ask, yes, […]
Lavender Country’s Patrick Haggerty On Music, Love And Life, Itself
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 19:19 — 0 Comments
I didn’t have the heart to tell Patrick Haggerty, front man and songwriter for Lavender Country, the first openly gay country band to release an “out” album, that I wasn’t gay, though he lovingly assumed I was during our conversation. But not telling Haggerty about my sexuality is beside the point, of course. As you’ll see in the interview, it doesn’t take sexual orientation to make for kinship. By the end we were saying “I love you” to one another. Haggerty’s is a story of artistic success devoid of financial gain. But, later in his life, after a series of […]
Poems & Short Stories: Telenova, Thinking Twice, Sarah, Hubcaps Were Shiny, Indiana, The Women With No Legs, Fart Date, Plans For The Night, In Need Of Help, Famous Magazine, Memory
Tuesday, February 26, 2019 18:01 — 0 Comments
Telenova Telenova has lied to me. She smiles while she would have me believe in love. She has sent me notes to tell me how she likes my stride, how I walk across a room like an elephant. She has spent the night. I have found a hair of hers on my jacket more than once. She has borrowed my books and taken my magazines. She says she is in love with poetry but I have never seen her write. She keeps a trunk locked in her small apartment and I have never seen inside. Telenova. She has only one […]
‘The Story Of A Shooter: Two Weeks In Phoenix’ & ‘The Rat Collection’
Tuesday, February 26, 2019 15:03 — 0 Comments
The Story Of A Shooter: Two Weeks In Phoenix  by Jake Uitti  May – June 2007  2003 Honda Civic  For deadly heat, alien cacti and the freeway.    The flowers of death grow purple mournful melancholy  a moon dangles like a pendulum as a man falls into water      It’s been weeks since I’ve seen you I hear you’ve been sick in bed, small and frail broken as if you lost someone, but now, I hear, you are feeling marginally better? there has been lots to think about and I am somewhere here in Phoenix with my 73 […]
Opportunities To Succeed
Friday, February 8, 2019 16:39 — 0 Comments
Below is a story that appeared in Alaska Beyond magazine in February 2019 San Francisco Mayor London Breed knows the importance of community support at the right time. A native of the Bay Area, Breed grew up in the Western Addition housing project in San Francisco. However, an internship with the nonprofit Family School when she was a teenager helped change her life. Breed, who was elected mayor in June 2018, is partnering with Alaska Airlines and other businesses to give that same opportunity to thousands of low-income young people in the San Francisco area. The mayor’s new initiative, Opportunities […]
Artists In Residence: Macklemore Helps Seattle-Area Youths Gain Experience In The Music Industry
Monday, January 7, 2019 17:41 — 0 Comments
Below is a story that appeared in Alaska Beyond magazine in January 2019 WHEN BEN HAGGERTY WAS 7 YEARS OLD, he already knew what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. The Seattle-based emcee/rapper, now better known as Macklemore, was aware even at this young age that he wanted to be onstage with a microphone, hearing his voice boom through speakers as he shared his music with an audience. Now, 28 years later, in the midst of his Grammy-winning career, Macklemore is helping to make similar dreams come true for young musicians through The Residency, a music-education […]
LOVE OVER HATE
Thursday, December 20, 2018 15:13 — 0 Comments
Below is a story that appeared in Alaska Beyond magazine in July 2018 Talking about the Holocaust is difficult, especially if you’ve lived through it. Yet, that’s precisely what 92-year-old survivor Sonia Warshawski does every day. She talks with people about the details of her time in concentration camps and being freed. It’s one of the many remarkable aspects of her vibrant daily life, which includes running a small tailor shop in Kansas City, Kansas, and, more recently, advocating her message of “love over hate” to the U.S. Congress. It was seven years ago that Sonia’s granddaughter, Seattle-based filmmaker Leah […]
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- 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 […]
