Whether you’re growing out a pixie cut or just want to gain a few inches on your medium length hair, as soon as people know that you’re trying to adopt a longer hair style, you’re going to be bombarded with advice. While some hair-growing tips are tried and true, others are nothing but hype. Here …
In case you missed it: Richard Marx hates my guts I made a snarky comment about the 1980s soft-rock balladeer on my blog. And now he won’t leave me alone. Really. BY EDWARD MCCLELLAND http://www.salon.com/2013/01/19/richard_marx_hates_my_guts/ Highly entertaining, the Salon comments section every bit as much as the piece per se! Interesting how calling someone “shameless” for hawking a “special …
Seattle’s magnificent hip hop fusion ensemble Staxx Brothers has announced that one of their songs will be included in the upcoming horror and revenge flick, The Anniversary. Here’s the plot description, “On the anniversary weekend of the death of a young women’s husband, five girls head out to a cabin to help their friend move …
“I have heard the big music, and I will never be the same.” Understatement of the decade. I was just saying the other day… one of the great things about being young in the 1980s is that it seemed that every week you’d hear something new and wonderful that you’d never heard before. The Waterboys’ …
It doesn’t matter how old they are or what time of year it is, parents are always planning for the summer. When you’re working long hours, you don’t want the kids to stay home all day when they could have a chance to exercise their minds, build social skills, and enrich themselves with new experiences. …
Man, I got it tough having to look at these views every day.
Singer-songwriter, producer, and dedicated activist Erin McKeown has released her seventh studio album, MANIFESTRA, on her own TVP Records. The album was funded by McKeown’s enthusiastic fan-base via PledgeMusic and brings together her political and musical selves. Album single “Proof” is a soft, sweet ballad straight from an opening heart. Its accompanying video marks the …
The soundtrack for the upcoming motion picture, A Glimpse Inside The Mind Of Charles Swan III will feature an original score by Liam Hayes, a songwriter who has made music under the name Plush since the early 90’s. The soundtrack is available February 5th for digital download and March 19th on CD and LP on …
When a big game is about to be played, it is fun to go online and scan for tickets, even if you don’t plan to attend. It is an effective way to see how the business of sports works, and it can be a pleasant reminder of how far short most of us have fallen …
I had the honor to go see Buddy Guy play at his own club recently. I am ashamed to say that I hadn’t ever done this before. Here are some random thoughts. Scott Holt, who used to play guitar with Buddy warmed up. He led a very tight three piece group through blues originals and …
Killer Show by John Barylick is a great Bugliosi-style book about the Great White concert fire in Rhode Island that killed 100. This book describes how a group of head-bangers, suffering from various degrees of chemical dependency, and with a collective average IQ of maybe 80, gather, balls to the wall, in a wood-frame roadhouse, …
From Wikipedia, “Panis Angelicus is the penultimate strophe of the hymn Sacris Solemniis written by Saint Thomas Aquinas for the Feast of Corpus Christi as part of a complete liturgy of the Feast including prayers for the Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours.”
This eloquent trad-rocker is a gem from George Ivan “Van” Morrison’s later career. First released on the full and excellent 1991 recording, Hymns to the Silence, this many-layered tune offers numerous wise and poetic turns of phrase such as Van’s characterization of his audiences, “there were hypocrites and parasites and people that dream” and his …
In the beginning, this video of an alleged Bigfoot sighting in Oregon’s Christmas Valley looks like outtakes from the old Bonanza program. Little Joe rode through terrain like this every week on his way to getting beaten up in Virginia City. Then Hoss would ride through the same terrain on his way to save Little …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObJbi4mK35k I’ve been outta the loop re: many of my favorite magazines for a spell, especially those I normally buy at the newsstand. So I missed several iterations of Greil Marcus’ “Real Life Rock Top Ten” (A MONTHLY COLUMN OF EVERYDAY CULTURE AND FOUND OBJECTS) in THE BELIEVER, which ranks 10 seemingly-random items from around the popular culture …
Part of my job is to listen to a lot of music. Rough life, I know. So I like to share some gems I run across. Here’s Jason Isbell, formerly of Drive-By Truckers, with a song he wrote about his father’s advice. – John Moe is the host of the stellar NPR show and podcast, …
A television spot is incredibly expensive to produce and broadcast, so companies want their advertising to be memorable. The reason Super Bowl commercials go viral is because they are designed to do so. You cannot shell out $3.5 million for 30 seconds of air time without making it count. Here is a look at 10 …
Most of you probably know that January 22, was the 40th anniversary of Roe v Wade, but what many probably don’t know is one of the attorneys who argued in front of the Supreme Court for Roe v. Wade, is a woman named Sarah Weddington. In honor of this groundbreaking anniversary, Seattle’s Planned Parenthood hosted …
Recently, in a nearly unanimous vote, the staff at Seattle’s Garfield HS decided to refuse to administer the district’s Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test. In doing this, educators at Garfield HS have struck out against the overuse and misuse of standardized tests. Seattle Schools spt. Jose Banda had this to say in an e …
It is virtually impossible to get your business off the ground without being able to process credit cards, not to mention without developing your online presence. That means choosing a merchant account is one of the most important things to think about when you’re starting out. It shouldn’t be something you rush through, either. Researching …
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Since the implosion of London’s King Blues, singer and main songwriter, Itch, has released a new solo EP Manifesto Pt. 1- How To Fucking Rule At Life. The EP begins with the track “London Is Burning” (yeah, where have I heard that title before?), an angry anthem that simply repeats the same angry words about …
Going into this season’s playoffs, the biggest weakness of Jim Harbaugh’s San Francisco 49ers seemed to be an inability to play from behind. This had rarely been a problem over the last two years, as the 49ers usually combined their defense with a strong running game to keep control of the ball, avoid mistakes, and …
On a cold and foggy January 19th, Seattle’s legendary Showbox at the Market hosted Canada’s Sum 41. I had seen Sum 41 once before at EndFest 2001 when they were still teenagers. Now, barely into their thirties, they have as much energy as ever. Front man, Deryck Whibley came out with his hair dyed bright …
Here’s a complete guide to STD testing from STDTesting.org. There is useful information there for anyone of any age and here’s a list of Free STD Testing Locations and Resources in Portland, Oregon. No one wants to think of their parents, much less their grandparents, getting frisky. No matter what we like to think, sex …
Classically trained pianist. Introspective singer-songwriter. Soul-pop tour de force. And now, mermaid. Portland’s Sara Jackson-Holman keeps revealing more facets as she introduces her latest album, Cardiology, to the world. Playing a fin-footed Siren in the new video for her single, “For Albert,” wasn’t an exercise in revelation, however; the supremely photogenic singer says the shoot …
It’s a fact that 90 percent of small business start-ups fail within the first year. While there are many factors that contribute to this failure, one of them is the lack of hiring business services. While you may have a fantastic idea and the ability to get your company off of the ground, you don’t …
Sorry I’m just not buying the Sandy Hook cover up video. With all due respect, that guy should have put his energy into the next (fraudulent) Holocaust denial video. Sometimes horrible things happen and we weep for the right reason. Sometimes we try to make sense of chaos, confusion and conflicting reports. I can dig …