April 2007

FEATURES

MOVIN’ ON UP
Brandi Carlile weathers the heights of major-label success without ever leaving home too far behind.

ROCK IN A HARD PLACE
Stuck between a legacy of bad music and a secular city’s misinformed intolerance, Seattle’s Christian musicians soldier on.

SONIC BLOOM
According to T.S. Eliot, April is the cruelest month, but to see this spring’s new fashions, you might be tempted to disagree.

LIGHTS, CAMERA, PASSION
Jorge Suarez scratches his way up from the popcorn stand to the director’s chair.

OPEN UP AND SAY OUCH!
Behind the statistics lurk the real stories of the health of Seattle’s indie music scene.

SPOTLIGHT
American Idol hopeful Blake Lewis heads up Puget Sound’s reality-TV invasion. Seattle Symphony and Starbucks join forces for a classical mash-up. A lawyer and a speed demon, Woodinville’s John Eltringham rides both sides of the law in high style.

COLUMNS
So Near, Yet So… Near: Ballard Jazz Festival preview with John Gilbreath
Bygone Sounds: World music field recordings with Darek Mazzone
Spiritual Bluegrass: Laura Love marries old and new roots
Graze Moments in Baseball: Eats for the Season with the Mariner Moose

DEPARTMENTS

AT THEIR WORD
A roundtable with the Saturday Knights

CALENDAR
Spring is here. Now get out of the house.

AROUND TOWN
A pictorial glance at the month that was

NIGHTLIFE
The sacred and the profane join forces in resurrecting the spirit of spirits. Don’t pass over these religiously themed nightspots and entertainment options.

REVIEWS
Calvin Johnson’s …Sons of the Soil, plus our monthly hitlist and 18 CD, DVD, film and book reviews

CODA
Bryan Mandronico’s “Chumba”: The Maestro of Multi-instrumentalists