Gurldoggie

We have set a date for the next Punk Rock Flea Market . It'll be on March 22, in the same great basement in Belltown. We have space for...

I went to see the Luis Bunuel double feature at the SIFF Rialto series last night, and was deeply impressed, again, by the violent surreali...

I don't know what to make of this, but I wish I was there to see it. Ben Katchor is the genius behind the comic strip Julius Knipl:Real ...

I was up all night on the 25th, writing the press releases for the Annual One Night Count of the Homeless , and transcribing the stories of...

Having trouble understanding the impact of the National debt on the volatile economic situation? Here's Laurie Anderson in a PSA from th...

Gurldogg is one of the 700 volunteers who will be out on streets on the early morning of January 25th in an attempt to count the number of h...

A few months ago I asked for any evidence of the continuing existence of Seattle poster/graffiti artist Heck. This new sticker appeared the...

The dynamic musical duo Miles and Karina have been commissioned by the Northwest Film Forum to compose a new score for The Adventures of ...

Beginning on January 25, the SIFF Cinema is running a a great series of classic films as restored by Rialto Pictures. Rialto came into be...

Patti Smith has been hosting an excellent series of short podcasts exploring the career of Bob Dylan. This series, now up to 13 episodes, ha...

Local scribe Clark Humphrey, the redoubtable Seattle scholar behind Loser: The Real Seattle Music Story and the essential Seattle blog misc...

One of my favorite books published last year was the collection "Novels in Three Lines" by Felix Feneon. (shown above in an 1890 p...

Charles Simic (shown here with his father in 1942) is currently the U.S. Poet Laureate. Unlike many of the past Poets Laureate, Simic has n...

This grey landscape, courtesy of Piet Mondrian lets you know that I am once again muddily ensconced in Seattle.

One place I always enjoy in Barcelona is “Los Encants,” an outdoor thrift store and flea market on the edge of the Eixample . The market cov...

Underground circus is alive, but not particularly well, in Barcelona. After some persuasion, we went to see a circus show by "Las Feas...

Difusor is a loosely knit "organization" in Barcelona dedicated to the art of the street stencil. Despite being in Catalan, the s...

Late night Spanish TV is pretty interesting. It seems like the networks know that their pre-dawn audience is drunk, adventurous, or both. St...

More splendid art from the streets of Barcelona.