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Ry’s Ru-minations: The Empire Strikes Back
What do you get when you take Ruth Bader Ginsberg, put her in a Chicago jail for 10-15 to take the fall for her husband’s crimes, and then fly her off to Xanadu? You get RuPaul’s Drag Race, Season 8, Episode 3. Children, this week’s RPDR was a goddamn TREAT. On the...
Watch This: Treating Homeless People Like People
There’s a group of South African guys who hang out in the park outside my apartment drinking, and police dump their beers out multiple times a week. Usually the bicycle cops do it—they ride across the park at a leisurely pace and surround the guys, write them tickets...
Christine Deaver: This Comedy Queen is a Lady
This week, an interview with one of the alternating star attractions in the enduringly popular Teatro Zinzanni production at their Spiegeltent in Lower Queen Anne, the zaftig and zesty, Miss Christine Deaver! David-Edward Hughes: I'd call you reigning queen of Teatro...
Gay Comic Geek: Falling In Love With Comics And Cosplay
The world of entertainment has changed vastly over the past several years. No longer does fame require an agent and television air time. If you have compelling video content and market yourself well, you can get plenty of viewers, whether as hobbyist, as a career, or...
Local Music In A Global Age
In case you missed the memo, we live in an increasingly globalized world. No realm is safe–least of all music. In a lot of ways, this is a really good thing. The ease with which artists and culture creators can now create and share content, even across thousands of...
Bobbi Kotula Perfects Mrs. Warren’s Profession
An original East coaster from Bethlehem, PA, Bobbi Kotula chose to come live in Seattle but took the hard way here. She married a man who wanted to live here, so she moved with him. She later let him go but couldn't do the same to Seattle. Two decades plus later, she...
Critical Condition: Southern Discomfort Powerfully Set to Song
Parade is a historically based musical produced in 1998 on Broadway. It's a Tony Award winner for composer/lyricist Jason Robert Brown and librettist Alfred Uhry. It also has 7 other nominations, including Best Musical, plus 6 Drama Desk Awards. A national tour of the...
Ry’s Ru-minations: Double Jeopardy
Well Ho. Ly. Shit. ladies and gentlemen. Even if Season 7 wasn’t a god-awful disappointment in Drag Race herstory with non-stop group challenges and lackluster personalities, Season 8 has already taken the cake within just 2 episodes. Willam take the wheel! If you...
Watch This: Journey to the Center of Joe’s
An ongoing search for forgotten parts of the Seattle Underground led my friend Jack and I to Joe’s Bar on King Street. The bar was first described to me as “the bar you go to the night you get out of prison,” though I’ve had nothing but pleasant interactions with...
Leslie Jordan: The Little Thespian That Could
Leslie Jordan’s so good he could even give an interview while chasing down his mother’s dog after it had secretly slipped the bonds of the condo Leslie had bought for his mother. Like he did with me.
What’s The Deal With ReedPOP And Emerald City Comicon?
Seattle’s premiere comic book convention, Emerald City Comicon was acquired by ReedPOP last January. Last year’s convention was relatively unaffected by it, as it was well into planning at the time of acquisition. While the original organizers are continuing to run...
Le1f Live: I Could’ve Whirled Away Into Forever
Writing about live music in late 1980s New York, Kim Gordon once offered the observation that, “People pay to see others believe in themselves.” At the risk of disrespecting one of my greatest heroines, I think Ms. Gordon misses the point a bit. The joy of being an...
Ry’s Ru-minations: The Once and Future Queens
Hello hello hello! Welcome to the glittery-est corner of Jetspace Mag, where you can see weekly ru-caps of each episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race. This is where you can catch up on the T throughout Season 8 of one of the gay community’s most beloved, most...
Anne Allgood Returns to Seattle Rep in Luna Gale
I make no bones about the fact that I adore Anne Allgood. I’ve been a fan ever since I sat at the audition table when she was brand new to town, auditioning for Showtunes Theatre’s very first show, Anyone Can Whistle. She wasn’t cast, but it had nothing to do with her...
Jon Lutyens Pulls Out the Lucky Charms in Finian’s Rainbow
Though once a staple of the American Musical theatre canon, the musically rich, lyrically lithe, and satirically sassy Finian’s Rainbow has all but vanished from the schedules of theatres, even those like the 5th Avenue that take pride in bringing back “lost musicals”...