Holiday 2006
Once you've started keeping a yearly top 15 list of your favorite albums, it's impossible to stop. I haven't been a proper music critic since 1999 and yet I dutifully compile a top 15 every year, and will probably do so until the end of the music industry itself – which, by my estimates, should happen any minute now. When society falls down, the ice caps melt and bands no longer release "albums" purchasable in "record stores," I imagine I'll adapt with the times: a list of the top 15 downloadable album-like units in a given year, or perhaps a list of the top 15 most interesting lists from preceding years.
December 18, 2006
Holiday 2006
Say, here's an idea: Why not give a present that has to be experienced? Seattle is nothing if not an active town, and its residents love to go out and enjoy its natural and man-made attractions. They love spa days, live theater and interacting with nature. Why not give holiday gifts that enable your fellow Seattleites to do what they do best?
November 9, 2006
Holiday 2006
On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me a Holga from OKOK Gallery. The Holga, a cheap plastic camera that shoots medium-format film, is not a precision instrument; you could shoot the same photo with a hundred different Holgas and not get any two shots that resemble one another.
November 9, 2006
Seattle Style File
Owner/esthetician Danielle DeCanti provides a broad array of services, and her upbeat attitude and punky charm are half the reason to visit Helle.
November 1, 2006
Stuff & Junk
Despite the fact that he's a polite and wholly upstanding family man, Krysztof Nemeth knows a few hundred girls. And they're not exactly Girl Scouts, either. Some have devil horns poking out of lacquer-black hair; some carry whips and knives; some tie up other girls and leave them in compromising positions. It seems the naughtier the girl is, the more affection Krysztof has for them.
February 27, 2006
Convergence Zone
With the opening of Ballard's Wild at Heart, thousands of secretly kinky Fremonsters, Wallingfordians, Green Lakers and Ballardites who don't want to make the trek to Capitol Hill can enjoy an equal — and in some ways, even more relaxed — adult shopping experience.
January 24, 2006
