IT’S A BRIGHT EVENING, and a dozen spirited anarchists, activists, and artists at Sunnyside park belt out the old Woodie Guthrie song, “Union Maifd.” A few more arrive to sing the next tune in their zine-like songbook. It’s in German and English and a woman instructs the newcomers to “sing the German part in an […]
Ariel Gore
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Sure Beats Lilith Fair
Music and Fun at Ladyfest 2000
GRRLS FROM ALL OVER the country will descend on Olympia in August for a week of bands, spoken-word artists, authors, visual artists, workshops, panels, and dance parties. Nope, it’s not the Lilith Fair–it’s Ladyfest 2000, which is being billed as Olympia’s largest women’s art festival. This ambitious hoe-down, sponsored by Kill Rock Stars, showcases and […]
Posted inBooks
Nothing but the Truth
A Chat with Valencia Author Michelle Tea
THE LAST TIME I saw Michelle Tea, she was chain smoking outside a bookstore on Market Street in San Francisco. Tiny and beautiful, with cat-eye glasses and little hearts tattooed on her knuckles, she was talking about the safe house she planned to open for writers after her latest memoir came out. I could stay […]