by Splabman | Jan 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
Thanks to a grant from 4Culture, the archive of interviews I have done over the years is being organized. Summaries of past interviews, going back to December 1990, are going up weekly here: https://splab.org/listen/ The non-profit organization I founded in December...
by Splabman | Feb 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
(Huge thanks to Marcus Green for publishing my essay on the success of the Rainier Avenue South Road Diet. Click on photo to see it on the South Seattle Emerald website along with some other interesting stories.) It’s a regular part of the soundscape from the swinging...
by Splabman | Feb 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
Last Friday I saw, for the second time, the Raoul Peck masterpiece “I Am Not Your Negro.” A very astute New York Times review by A.O. Scott suggests that the film utilizing the words of James Baldwin, many from an unfinished bit of writing near the end of...
by Splabman | Apr 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
One of the great delights of the Internet Age is that the local newspaper, now all but gone in our society, has been reimagined as the neighborhood blog. I envisioned this 20 years ago while living in Auburn, Washington, as a portal that would include micro-local...