On this page the following entries were made in the “April, 2009” time-frame.
Archive for “April, 2009”
New Star Anna album
Here’s a guest blog on Star Anna from Seattle music writer Mikel Toombs, a former colleague of mine at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
It was a crooked path that took Star Anna Krogstie from Ellensburg to the record-release show for “The Only Thing That Matters” last Saturday at the Tractor Tavern.
“We went through a lot of stuff,” [...]
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Out-of-state plates
Mississippi may soon have the coolest license plate in the country.
The Elvis Presley Fan Club in Tupelo, Miss., Presley’s birthplace, last year lobbied the Mississippi Legislature to offer a specialty Elvis plate to state residents, according to the Associated Press. The club must now collect 300 applications to make it happen (120 have already been [...]
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Dow Constantine fundraiser
High-profile members of the music community are rallying around King County Councilman Dow Constantine, who is running for King County Executive.
Providing the music at a fundraising party Thursday, April 23, at the Crocodile Cafe are John Roderick, Carrie Akre, DJ K-NOw, Kristen Ward, Shawn Smith and Dave Dederer.
Hosts of the fundraiser include, among many others, [...]
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A newspaper thriller
Despite its unmemorable title, “State of Play” is a thoroughly engrossing newspaper thriller that explores new and old journalism in the context of a stop-the-presses political scandal.
Starring Russell Crowe, perfectly cast as a world-weary veteran investigative reporter for the Washington Globe, and Rachel McAdams, as the young blogger who learns the ropes from an old [...]
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Ben Ratliff on the Coachella festival
Those who missed the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival last weekend in Indio, Calif., will want to read critic Ben Ratliff’s thoughtful, detailed review in the New York Times.
Ratliff writes the festival “exists in two time zones: the event itself and its digital afterlife” on cameras and blogs and Twitter and video-sharing sites.
Ratliff begins [...]
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