The Overnight Desk
One of the fringe benefits of a packed music and arts festival is the inevitable overflow. There's just too much pork for Bumbershoot's proverbial fork, and other venues are dishing up the leftovers.
August 28, 2008
The Overnight Desk
Sambar's drink sheet is gorgeous -- printed on heavy stock, and filled with golden-age cocktails like the Jasmine, the Petit Zinc and the Vesper. The first drink listed on it may well be its best.
August 28, 2008
While you're kicking back this Labor Day weekend, Ryan Henry Ward will be out creating murals. He's well into his mission of painting 50 murals around Seattle; by now, there's probably one or two near you. If you have time between barbecues this weekend, see if you can't get a picture of one of those murals. Send it to us and we'll post it to the photo gallery for your neighborhood.
August 28, 2008
The Overnight Desk
Through the end of today -- Tuesday, August 26 -- you can get two tickets to TOTR's Saturday, September 6 show at the Showbox SoDo for the price of one.
August 26, 2008
The Overnight Desk
Should you grow weary of the crowds at Bumbershoot this Labor Day weekend -- and grow weary of them you almost certainly will -- you might consider walking across 5th to the Funhouse, for an evening of skateboading and skull-splitting punk.
August 25, 2008
The Overnight Desk
In the course of planning my Bumbershoot 2008 assault -- using the nifty scheduling tool on the festival's official website -- I have come to the same conclusion I come to every year around this time: There is no freaking way on this planet that I can do everything I've got planned. There's just too much good stuff to see and hear.
August 25, 2008
As you read these words, a superhero cat has saved a pit bull. A goat has learned a new song on his guitar. And Ryan Henry Ward has probably created another mural.
August 25, 2008
In the past week, we've launched three -- count 'em, three -- awesome new blogs on NWsource. Alison Brownrigg goes shopping in Minding the Store, Cody Ellerd samples the local restaurant scene in Table & Contents, and I haunt Seattle's bars and clubs in The Overnight Desk. Check them out!
August 21, 2008
The Overnight Desk
Sure hope you're into bruising. On Saturday, Sept. 20 at Magnuson Park, the Derby Liberation Front and the Sockit Wenches will fight for the Rat City Rollergirls' league title, while the Throttle Rockets and Grave Danger -- both NWsource fan favorites, by the by -- will face off in a "grudge match" for third place.
August 20, 2008
The Overnight Desk
They would seem to have little in common. Mark Growden composes music for ballet. Duckmandu has recorded with Mr. Bungle. Amy Denio has worked with Chuck D. And Jason Webley is a much-beloved local troubadour with a thing for aardvarks.
It doesn't add up ... until you factor in the squeezebox thing.
August 19, 2008
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