Instant success quickly turned into precipitous decline for Ben Haggerty. Now, four years later, the hip hop emcee better known as Macklemore is back, only this time without the craving, aversion and ignorance.
Why should rich folks get all the best art? Three West Seattle artists collected as many pieces as they could from artist friends and started a library where anybody can check out art more easily than you can rent a car.
As musicians become more and more comfortable selling their music to commercial interests, the shouts of “sellout!” have given way to another charge: game changer.
Like a kid saving pennies to buy baseball cards, Dave Lewis collects art. Save ten bucks here, tuck away five bucks there, fast-forward a few years, and presto, you get a killer collection in the most modest house you could imagine.
When Seattle’s best-selling authors gather, what do they talk about? Bad backs. So this one went on a quest for the ultimate mattress and came back with a saga.
