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Today is the birthday of Ezra Pound , born October 30, 1885, the poet generally considered most responsible for defining and promoting a mod...

Greil Marcus made his reputation as the thinking man's Rock critic. For more than 30 years he has cast a highly intuitive ear toward mu...

For the 9th (non-consecutive) year, bike messenger Matt Messman is throwing down his annual " Messquerade " scavenger hunt, bike r...

Between March and November 2006, Richard Howe photographed every street corner in Manhattan - roughly 11,000 of them - from all four sides....

Yesterday , I touched on Coleridge's " Rime of the Ancient Mariner ," in which a seaman brings a curse upon himself and his sh...

Today is the birthday of the poet, literary critic and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge , born October 21, 1772. Even as a child, Colerid...

Last April, author George Saunders stayed for one week in a 300-person homeless tent city in Fresno, California. His 12,000 word piece on t...

This weekend brings the first ever Seattle Anarchist Bookfair to the Underground Events Center. To say the least, it's an event that ha...

Today is the feast day of the Patroness of Bicyclists, the Madonna del Ghisallo. Medieval legend has it that a certain Count Ghisallo was tr...

This video has been circling the web for a couple of weeks but it bears repeating. “COMBO” is the newest animated graffiti film from Blu , w...

Today is the birthday of Thelonius Monk , born October 10, 1917. Known primarily as a jazz innovator, the utterly unique Monk has long been ...

The last week has brought an absolute explosion of new street art at the Underground Events Center . Incredible new pieces appeared from som...

Two unusual and potent puppet shows currently playing in Seattle, from two of the last great puppeteers still creating work in this town. Bl...

Poster artist and controversial folk hero / capitalist pig Shepard Fairey has created a new poster featuring Nobel Peace laureate Aung San...

I missed Montreal turntablist Kid Koala when he was in Seattle recently, so I'm doubly glad that he just posted his newest album, The ...

Poem in October by Dylan Thomas         It was my thirtieth year to heaven     Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood         An...

A guest post from my friend Brooke. __________________________ I work at the Seattle Children's Theater , and I don't normally try t...

A few gallery shows in town featuring local artists which are well worth your time. Sculptor Scott Fife uses shredded cardboard, paper pulp...

Seattle's Book-It Repertory Theatre , well known for their theatrical adaptations of assorted literary treasures, is partnering with 4Cu...

Nat Damm is a Seattle native and poster-designing wunderkind who has been designing posters for the Northwest music scene since he was a wh...