I met a mother of a jazz drummer last night during the amazing performance by Thomas Marriott and Joe Locke at Tula's and, as I was explaining my enthusiasm for photographing artists in performance, realized that a lot of my jazz work is not present on this blog. So I'm rectifying some of that. (NOTE: …
Category: The Arts
My Best of SIFF 2013
The Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) ended two weeks ago, I know, but I gave up six weeks of my life to the festival and had some catching up to do! SIFF started a little rough for me, as I was embroiled in an effort to get SIFF to release a privacy policy for data …
The Rite of Spring
This is the centennial of Igor Stravinsky's iconic The Rite of Spring, and our friend Jürg Koch, an assistant professor at the University of Washington Dance Program, choreographed a piece to commemorate. In addition to creating a chilling and often dark piece, Koch used an interesting combination of professional dancers, students and community performers, all …
Game of Thrones, Mid-Season 2 Grades
Way back in another career, I covered the NBA and an annual rite was assigning grades to players at mid-season. Nowadays, the only seasons I obsess about are those of HBO’s Game of Thrones or as the late, great Khal Drogo once put it, “Trrhones.” Had I been swept up in the show last season …
The Buzz: Glenn Nelson 