Jonathan Zwickel

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April 29, 2013 | by Jonathan Zwickel

Don Rickles at Snoqualmie Casino

At this point in history, certain people take Don Rickles very seriously. “Every time I see him I feel like the luckiest person on earth,” a friend said to me as I...
April 26, 2013 | by Jonathan Zwickel

Standing Out in the Sea of Bizarre

Tracking the music video’s compulsory creativity.  These are strange days for the music video. Its YouTube-borne renaissance, set in motion in 2006 with OK Go’...
April 26, 2013 | by Jonathan Zwickel

The Death of Fun

Making a documentary about the last days of a beloved punk-rock dive is harder—and more meaningful—than anyone expected. The news spread through the Seattle music...
April 26, 2013 | by Jonathan Zwickel

Smalltime

Appreciating the joys of Seattle’s 
nanobrew revolution. Have you heard Mudhoney’s new single, “I Like It Small”? It’s an over-revved ode to understated existence...
April 26, 2013 | by Jonathan Zwickel

Taste Test with Catharina Manchanda

After arriving in her “dream city” almost three years ago, Catharina Manchanda landed a dream job as SAM’s curator of modern and contemporary art. Now the German-...
April 26, 2013 | by Jonathan Zwickel

'Buzz' by Robert Zverina

Buzz is an imperfect novella about an imperfect character, an equation equally elegant and frustrating. As an experiment in literary pop quasi-memoir, it fails...
April 26, 2013 | by Jonathan Zwickel

Flagship at the Market

Rachel’s Ginger Beer expands. “Have you ever seen photos of Thomas Edison’s lab in Florida? It’s as minimal as you can get as a mad scientist.” Rachel Marshall...