Gentle Snark
We want your pictures. We want your pictures of fun nights on the town. We want your pictures of your favorite neighborhood haunts. We want your pictures of your fuzzy-wuzzy pets. We want your pictures so we can place them in a gallery for all to enjoy. And we're gonna hold our breath until you send those pictures, so if you please, hurry.
By Geoff Carter | March 6, 2008
Gentle Snark
This week brings a fount of pleasant diversions. A Robert-Frippin' fount, I tell you.
By Geoff Carter | February 18, 2008
Gentle Snark
Monday: Physically she may be all woman, but in spirit, transgender singer-songwriter and harpist Baby Dee occupies a place halfway between Rufus Wainwright and Joanna Newsom. Her pillow-soft falsetto may strike you as comical at first, but then the emotion of her delivery begins to stick and the brilliance of her songwriting becomes readily apparent. Tonight, she visits the Triple Door, a perfect venue for her affecting cabaret ballads. The fine local folksinger David Karsten Daniels shares the bill.
By Geoff Carter | February 11, 2008
Convergence Zone
There's something vaguely panic-inducing about Valentine's Day, the "Hallmark holiday" that prompts a spike in chocolate sales, flower purchases and dinner reservations -- but ends up leaving some of us a tad cold. Here's the thing: It doesn't have to be that way.
By Neal Schindler | February 1, 2008
Gentle Snark
Monday: Look, I can't pretend to like everything that's coming
out of England these days. Editors are a case in point: While I concede
that the Mercury-nominated Birmingham indie-rock band has a punchy and
expansive sound, they also bore the living hell out of me. I don't get
how the kids can dismiss old-timers like U2, Simple Minds and The Call
while embracing younger bands that sound exactly like them. Must be a
MySpace thing; I swear to God that this whole social-networking trend
is gonna end in tears. Anyway, Editors play Showbox at the Market tonight with Hot Hot Heat, Louis XIV and ... and ... I drifted off for a moment, sorry.
By Geoff Carter | February 4, 2008
Convergence Zone
Big cities aren't just for big people. This week, NWsource is happy to introduce Little Kids, Big City, a new family-activities blog by local writer and West Seattle mom Lilium Pierson. Learn new ways to explore Seattle with children and to have fun as a family. Check in throughout the week as Little Kids, Big City knocks Seattle down to size.
By Geoff Carter | January 17, 2008
Convergence Zone
In between solo runs at CHAC, renowned monologuist Mike Daisey has found time to involve himself in yet another storytelling project, a Feb. 5 collaboration with local theater artist Troy Mink and others that will deal with the theme of family.
By Neal Schindler | February 4, 2008
True confessions from Vancouver, B.C.:
I may be the only person to have swiped a menu from the Elbow Room cafe with my body intact and without having suffered the well-practiced insults which accompany every dining experience (I promise to bring it back).
I may be the only person ever to have curled up and laid on the heated marble floor in the bathroom of room 2108 at the Westin Grand just because it felt so good. (Hint to future travelers all rooms ending with 08 have heated bathroom floors at the Grand.)
By Terry Tazioli | February 3, 2002
