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You're too late - registration for the 13th Annual Dead Baby Downhill race is now CLOSED. This legendary event, staged each year by th...

Jazz musician and composer George Russell died two days ago, on July 27th. Russell was a hugely influential (and criminally under appreciat...

This has received plenty of coverage, but with the weather the way it is , I think it's an idea well worth promoting. David Belt, a rea...

My God it's hot out there. Here's a poem for right now from Carl Sandburg. Ice Handler I KNOW an ice handler who wears a flannel shi...

Your humble Gurldogg is beyond flattered to be included in an upcoming street art group show. I was invited in by the righteous stencil arti...

People who haven't spent time in Buffalo, New York probably don't know about the Queen City's potent media arts community with ...

Today is the 110th birthday of poet Hart Crane , born July 21 1899. Crane was born a poet, famously writing poems from his early childhood i...

More than books, Chris Hedges writes polemics. Hedges began his career reporting on the conflict in El Salvador , spent seven years as the M...

Jen Bekman will be in Seattle on Friday, giving a talk at the Seattle Art Museum at 7 PM. Bekman founded the terrific website 20X200 , whi...

Having a new baby around isn't particularly conducive to reading thick novels or delving into lengthy essays. Baby Nico adds to my life ...

It was a sad day for Seattle when Outsider Art superstar Anne Grgich packed her bags last May and moved south to Portland. Grgich had been ...

Woody Guthrie was born on this day in 1912. Guthrie is perhaps the single most important American folk musician, with a musical legacy that...

On April 27, 2009, the poet Craig Arnold went missing on the Japanese island of Kuchinoerabujima, where he was working on a book on volcan...

Here's a blast of hot colors in deference to the long, slow, summery days here at Gurldoggie world headquarters. Rafaël Rozendaal is th...

Today, July 4th, is the 126th birthday of sculptor, author, engineer and cartoonist Rube Goldberg . Goldberg, who received a 1948 Pulitzer P...

Are you feeling it yet? I'm here to help. This is a beautiful website , featuring the artwork from hundreds of firecracker labels from a...

Writer and critic James Marcus interviewed novelist Philip Roth about his latest novel, Indignation , for the LA Times last September. Du...

Seattle puppeteer Brian Kooser is currently in London, researching locations, costumes and period language for his upcoming epic "Bloo...

A little something to get us in the mood... Rosemarie Fiore's firework drawings are created by setting off and controlling firework exp...

Linguist Arika Okrent has been making the rounds of brainy talk shows promoting her book " In the Land of Invented Languages ," ...