Seattle and Beyond--Art & Culture

Pacific Northwest Ballet School Professional Division students in Lily Wills’  As If Apart , presented during the 2025 NEXT STEP choreographers’ showcase. Photo © Lindsay Thomas. ___________________________________________ That's great! It starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes. An aeroplane. Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn. World serves its own needs, don't misserve your own needs. Speed it up a notch, speak, grunt, no strength The ladders start to clatter with fear fight, down, height Wire in a fire, representing seven games. And a government for hire and a combat site. Left of west and coming in a hurry with the Furies Breathing down your neck. Team by team, reporters baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped. Look at that low plane, fine, then! Uh-oh, overflow, population, common food But it'll do, save yourself, serve yourself World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed Tell me with the rapture and the reverent in the r...

  Of Failed Interviews, Failed Landscapes, Die Antwoord and Nostalgia–We live in an era of terrible beauty and pop conceptualism. By xavier_lopez_jr     Originally posted on July 1, 2014 | By xavier_lopez_jr Sometimes interviews just go completely wrong, something gets said, misinterpreted or misheard, either the artist is in a foul disposition or as in the case with this one that I had not too long ago–the artist, in this case–me–was just in a wacky mood and probably shouldn’t have agreed to an interview at all that day. Partially, I think it was a combination of me being in a smart-assed state-of-mind and partially it had to do with the fact that for awhile before and after the Sasquatch concert, where-in I and several local artists including Ryan Henry Ward , Andy Miller, TNGLR, the amazing Jonathan Wakuda , Hera Won , Blink, Curt Ashby, Sarah Jorgenson, Jack Shersky, Jan, Melissa Crosetto, Brandy Tomlin (basically, the regular gang!) and tons of other under...