Though Seattle is still a young city, growing and changing, much of its short past is already lost-but not forgotten. Generations of Seattleites have fond memories of restaurants, local television shows, stores, and other landmarks that evoke a less sophisticated, more informal city. This new book explores Seattle at a time when timber and fish were more lucrative than airplanes and computers, when the city was a place of kitschy architecture and homespun humor and was full of boundless hope for a brighter future. These rare and vintage images hearken back to the marvels of the 1962 World's...
Though Seattle is still a young city, growing and changing, much of its short past is already lost-but not forgotten. Generations of Seattleites have ...
The Seattle music scene burst onto the world stage as the 20th century ended. Despite what clueless media said, there never was one "Seattle Sound." But there was a Seattle attitude. The best of our bands weren't trying to break into the corporate rock pantheon but to demolish it. The Seattle Scene was about decentralizing culture, about honest heartfelt expression. You don't have to be from NY, LA or SF to make music or art. "You're the superstar," as Krist Novoselic says. This is the tale I relate in LOSER: The Real Seattle Music Story. Achingly detailed and lavishly illustrated, it...
The Seattle music scene burst onto the world stage as the 20th century ended. Despite what clueless media said, there never was one "Seattle Sound." B...
The Seattle music scene burst onto the world stage as the 20th century ended.
But most accounts of this phenomenon, from Time magazine to MTV to uncountable "Cobain-sploitation" books, sucked.
Despite what clueless media said, there never was one single "Seattle Sound." But there was an overall Seattle attitude. The best of our bands weren't trying to break into the corporate rock pantheon but to demolish it.
Like the Web, the Seattle Scene was all about decentralizing culture, about putting the means of production and distribution into more hands, about honest...
The Seattle music scene burst onto the world stage as the 20th century ended.
But most accounts of this phenomenon, from Time magazine to M...
A clean-cut, seemingly ordinary teenage boy is on the run. He just wants to get back to his suburban family. But so many different people want him: As a centerpiece of occult rituals. As a model patient for an experimental healing therapy. As a nature boy. As a sex toy. Along his journey, he meets many friends and/or enemies (he isn't always sure which is which). As he goes from one danger to the next, the boy learns things he'd never known about himself, his past, and his hidden ability to end the world as we know it. (Confused by all this? So is he ) MEET YOUR CAST OF CHARACTERS (all odd;...
A clean-cut, seemingly ordinary teenage boy is on the run. He just wants to get back to his suburban family. But so many different people want him: As...
