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“The idea came out of my general frustration with poetry readings,” says poet Brittany Dennison. “You talk to poets around town and even they don't like going to readings.”
The “idea”? This afternoon's Face Time with Brittany...
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Hugo House's literary series flipped its format for last night's performance, entitled “Brief Encounters”: the writing center featured three musical acts, kicked off with a reading from high school senior Hannah Hynes-Mumford and...
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Fremont Place Books is the latest independent book store slated to close its doors, Fremont Universe reported yesterday, with owner Henry Burton citing slow sales as the reason for the shop's closure. The neighborhood mainstay's last day is...
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Tonight culture will commence in the Penthouse Suite of the Sorrento Hotel when acclaimed playwright, actor and essayist Wallace Shawn and Seattle's less-acclaimed-but-certainly-noteworthy writer, musician and filmmaker Sean Nelson will have...
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More engaging than Metro Transit's tweets, less morbid than the police department feed, the Seattle Public Library joined Twitter earlier this month to post on all manner of library-related things. (Books! Remember those?)
Faceless...
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King's Books is the largest used and new independent bookstore in the South Puget Sound, and they are placing much needed books into the classrooms of Tacoma. Owner Sweet Pea Flaherty began the Books For Schools Program in October of...
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Over in our Ampersand section, the online only serial Your Crooked Neighbor continues into part four - "Don't Tell Me How It Ends." Dry and witty, the semi-autobiographical series documents a man trying to navigate Seattle's...
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Part 3 of our original serial, Your Crooked Neighbor, is here! Check it out now in the Ampersand section online.
In this episode, the narrator goes on a first date with Justin, the guy who randomly asked him out while helping a friend "...
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What would you do if you had a time machine? If you were at all like the characters in Charles Yu’s “science fictional universe,” you would most likely pay wads of cash to “relive [your] very worst moment over and over again.”
And it would...
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As it does every year, the Richard Hugo House is asking would-be, could-be, should-be writers (as well as already-are writers) to submit poems, short stories and essays for the opportunity to be a part of the Capitol Hill writing center's...
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Every so often, while trolling the micro-arts-funding site Kickstarter, we find a project we deem worthy of your cold, hard cash. This go round, we are imploring you to give a little cash to the folks at Capitol Hill's Pilot Books for their...
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Even if grunge nostalgia quite eludes you, don't miss Peter Sillen's first-rate documentary on Steven Jesse Bernstein, I Am Secretly an Important Man (October 22-28 at Northwest Film Forum).
Who was this guy? Porn actor and Seattle's Best...
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Cartoonist, columnist and war correspondent Ted Rall appears at Elliott Bay Book Co. today at 6:00pm, promoting his latest book, The Anti-American Manifesto, which is being called one of his most radical works yet.
That's saying...
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Last night, James Howard Kunstler almost lost me.
Read on after the jump.
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Whenever Gordon Gekko went down town,We people stoned on Wall Street looked at him:He was a man bespoked from suit to crown,A Master of the Universe, shark-skinned. And his lapels were always high worsted,And he was always Sun Tzu when...
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Dear Rick,
How could you not tell me you were going to be in Seattle again?!? I had to find about it from a friend who sent me this link, a mere four hours away from the reading. I'm so hurt. I know I've been distracted with work a lot...
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When Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections and How to Be Alone, walked onto the stage at Benaroya Hall Tuesday evening, he produced a few papers from a bag he brought on stage, like a professor about to teach a class.
“I’m just going...
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Frances Johnson must decide whether or not to go to the annual dance.
She must also decide whether or not to leave her confining small town life and strike out on her own. Mired in doubt, she must choose between acting on what others want...
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Here is the trailer for the new movie, Age of Dragons.
Within the clip, a tag line reads "Herman Melville's 'Moby Dick' told like never before." I'll say. It should be telling that the title Moby Dick is actually in quotes instead of...
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Last week I learned that Microsoft, in ribbing its competitors in the Silicon Valley, claims to be the originators of starting sentences with "So...."
While researching the phenomenon, I found that Anand Giridharadas over at the New York...
