A low-key Thursday at Capitol Hill’s choice Cha Cha lounge proved to be the ideal spot to sit down with local up-and-comers Yuni in Taxco. Amidst the heavily saturated Lucha Libre motif, piñatas and Mexican beer bottle cap décor, the band merely a year old shed some light on their “Yuni”que name and not so signature sound.
After years of admiring each others’ work in various projects, the five consisting of brothers Ross (vocals, guitar) and Bryce (drums), Sean (vocals, guitar), Jim ”the Guru” (bass, slide guitar) and Isaiah (backing vocals, …

Remember a point in time before Nirvana’s Nevermind had changed the world, Pearl Jam was called Mookie Blaylock, and Soundgarden had yet to record Badmotorfinger? Delve deeper into Seattle’s rock history and one will uncover the true catalyst to what we now know as the grunge movement…

If you only have time to visit one art gallery on first Thursdays, make it the Seattle Art Museum. The SAM has two, sometimes two and a half floors of fascinating art, and this month is no exception. It’s Warhol and Cobain in July; it’s hard to describe Warhol’s work in print, as the man was just so eccentricly brilliant at times, when he wasn’t being ridiculous. Both of these sides are on display in his exhibit. In contrast, Cobain is much more of a love letter to the man’s life, with all of the art having a distinct feel towards the reverent, making the juxtapositions of the two exhibits very interesting, particularly considering Warhol’s views on fame…

It was as gray as the Seattle skies and as massive as the mountains that surround western Washington. Merely 24 years old when it was demolished to make way for purpose built stadiums. …The Kingdome.

Not only was The Kingdome used to entice the NFL and MLB, it also brought some of the greatest rock n’ roll bands of our lifetime to Seattle. The Kingdome was loud and proved to be difficult for sound men, but there was nothing like filling it up with 70,000 fans to see your …

City Year is an organization that has been around for 22 years; founded in 1988 by two Harvard Law roommates who believed that if you get young people to focus on a social issue you can make a greater impact. The Seattle location started 10 years later, in 1998, and has been making a differences in our city ever since.
City Year’s name comes from the idea that each individual should take a year out of their life to give back to their city, or their country. Bill Clinton used …

With the ultimate celebrity-spotting rave known as Coachella already under the festival belt, the rest of the summer’s music and arts destinations lay out before you. The festival season is picking up steam and this weekend 30,000 lucky people are heading to Sasquatch, one of this country’s premier music festivals – and it’s in our own backyard. Just around the corner is Bonnaroo with its always stellar lineup, and the late summer’s city romps at Outside Lands, Bumbershoot and many others in-between are still to come. Most of the festivals …

If you have never heard of the American String Project, you are not alone, though we have less company than you would think: the Project has been around since 2002 and the audience was pretty dense. The American String Project is a nonprofit organization based in Seattle that organizes string musicians at the top of their field into a 15-musician, conductorless chamber music ensemble. I am no chamber music expert, but I have been to several string quartets and thought the idea to be fascinating: Artistic Directors Barry Lieberman and …

What is God?
“God is human.”
“God is bi-polar.”
“God is on my shitlist.”
These are just some of the answers given from The Thin Place, the new play now receiving its world premiere at the Intiman theatre at Seattle Center.
Described as “a play with one actor” and starring Gbenga Akinnagbe from the HBO series The Wire, it’s a lovely tale based on Dan Savage’s podcast “Return to the Scene of the Crime” (This American Life, May 2009) and actual interviews from Seattleites discussing their feeling and beliefs about God, religion and spirituality. The …

Normally when I go on the First Thursday art walk around Pioneer Square, I go straight from Howard House to SOIL, passing the space on the corner of Washington and Third. But last week, a friend of mine suggested we check out what Gallery4Culture had to offer for the month of May.

Open until May 27th, Amy-Ellen Flatchestedmama Trefsger showcases photographs and clothing items from a month long performance piece that she has been dedicated to for the past three years. Beginning in 2007, Trefsger began Monochromatic May: 31 days in …