Results tagged “thebeat”

When John Moe let us know he was leaving KUOW, our first question was, "What about The Works?"

Her-own-drum majorette and alt-boy dream date Neko Case was interviewed on NPR's World Cafe today.

The latest chapter in the singer's story is a solo album, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, which serves as one of those rare pleasurable paradoxes: offbeat but faithful to the classics, artsy but accessible, emotional while remaining intriguingly playful.

We don't think it's airing on KUOW -- NPR's website says it airs Sundays from 7-8 pm, but KUOW's weekly schedule doesn't have the show at all. (As we recall, sometimes it's repurposed and shows up piecemeal on The Beat.)

Even though today is Wednesday, as far as we're concerned, yesterday was Hump Day, since that's when submissions were due for The Stranger's first annual amateur porn contest. Public viewing of the, um, entries will be the evening of August 20th at the Northwest Film Forum, with the awards party later that night at Chop Suey.

Twenty-five days and 348 films later, the 31st Annual Seattle International Film Festival came to a close yesterday. This was a big SIFF---over 150 actors/filmmakers were brought to town for the fest (we do so love the Q&A), and organizers are reporting an approximate 5% increase in ticket sales from 2004's record year. Additionally, Sunday's live movie poster auction raised nearly $7000 for the SIFF Group.

Seattle's greatest living cartoonist/visionary/genius Jim Woodring will be interviewed on KUOW's "The Beat" this afternoon at 2PM, also available for your listening pleasure via the "information superhighway", to talk about his new book, Seeing Things, which includes work seen in slideshow/music performance collaborations with that other Seattle genius, jazz guitar great Bill Frisell.