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The Sky’s The Limit: Sam Lansky And Life After Addiction
As anyone who’s struggled with addiction knows, the process of hitting rock bottom, admitting there’s a problem, and ultimately journeying through recovery looks different for everyone. On Sam Lansky, Deputy Culture Editor at Time magazine and author of the just published memoir The Gilded Razor, being sober for seven plus years looks pretty damn good.
Critical Condition: Believe In The Book of Mormon
When even the very folks being satirized, in this case The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly known as The Mormon Church) decide to advertise in the program of the raunchily irreverent yet sweet-natured, Tony award-winning, Broadway musical The Book...
One Last Inning For The Double Header
At 5:00pm on Wednesday, December 30, 2015, I walk into the Double Header (407 2nd Avenue Ext S.) in Pioneer Square. It is 39 degrees outside. The bar top is clean, as are the hardwood floors. Patrons play classic rock from the jukebox. There’s a wreath of wine corks...
Full Disclosure: Gender Diversity In Electronic Music
I trace my love affair with women and electronic music back to one definitively haunting and timeless record, Portishead’s Dummy. From there, I developed a passion for abrasive beats, experimental synths, and the pervasive passion of female vocals. As my taste...
Full Disclosure: My Year In Review
My year began with an overwhelming sense of nausea and a frightening feeling of purposelessness as a result of the pressure from an absurd and amorphous, yet very tangible world. Instead of running away from it into the safety net of society’s roles and realities, I...
Critical Condition: Picking the Best of the Best
I’m making my list, and checking it twice, for my Theatre Highlights of the Year. I must preface this by saying a big thanks to ALL the theatres, big and small, for entertaining, amusing, evoking tears, laughter, and even outrage, and for taking us out of our reality...
Pup Bolt’s Taking The Kinksters To School
If you’re curious about getting tied up, being paddled, or any other ways to express your sexuality beyond what’s considered vanilla, even in this day and age there are limited resources available to learn. There are some great books out there, but that’s quite a time...
Nick Sahoyah is the Poster Boy
Nick Sahoyah, a regular in the Pacific Northwest standup comedy scene, and frequent guest at comedy nights and festivals all along the West Coast, is excited to debut his brand new short film, Poster Boy!. At least, once he’s finished making it, that is. “Yeah, I’m...
Critical Condition: Go to Sleep and The Great Parade
Having holiday shopping woes for particular friends this year? Never fear. Uncle David has a couple winning suggestions you can order and receive just in the St. Nick of Time! A trio of my most beloved, talented, musical-theatre gal pals, Frances Leah King, Maggie...
Full Disclosure: Setting The Bar
A year ago, I joined the staff of a grungy little alternative bar/theatre/nightclub known as Re-bar. Since it’s inception, it has been a place that has welcomed artists on the fringe of normalcy. It’s a spot where in one evening you can snuggle up and see the surreal...
NSFW: Birds, Bees, And Educated Fleas
If Cole Porter were alive and writing today, his educated fleas would be mainlining online porn. And that's why birds do it, bees do it. Even educated fleas do it. Let's do it, let's fall in love. – Cole Porter, 1928 That was some clever-ass songwriting nearly a...
Full Disclosure: Overcoming The Stigma of HSV
Contracting a sexually transmitted infection is not only taxing on your body, but your mental and social health. Over the summer I was exposed to my first STI, HSV-1, without my knowledge. My partner was a cis-female friend, and our encounter included a lot of mutual...
Support Queer Artists: #QueerArtistBecause
Late last year, I had the honor to design the cover for Gay City Vol 6: UpClose Personal, to 6th in a series of anthologies published by Gay City Arts representing the best in local and national queer writing, poetry, photography, and visual art. I wrote the following...
Kooky Choirmaster Scott Warrender Brings Back The Washingtonians
For many years, Seattle audiences guffawed to the chorale spoofery running amok in concerts by the Washingtonians, a group created and run by Seattle superstar composer and lyricist Scott Warrender (“Das Barbecu”). After too many years and too much laughter,...
Critical Condition: I Could Have Danced All Night
The holidays came early for musical theatre mavens this season with two superlative, locally produced musicals; one of which is most assuredly destined for Broadway, and one which is rumored for a revival with Colin Firth in top-billing. Both shows clearly demonstrate...