Floating Bridge Review #4

from former Bulldog news agent, Gerry Mcfarland: 

Floating Bridge Review 4 is now available!

In the first section, the editors of four significant local publications from the past—Chrysanthemum, Duckabush Journal, Fine Madness, and Heliotrope—select representative poems. The Pontoon section is made up, as always, of local poets who submitted their work for the annual Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award. Many names will be familiar to those who have been reading Seattle area poets for decades. James Bertolino, Michael Daley, Alice Derry, Joseph Green and many others prove that Northwest poetry remains lively and interesting.
Gerry McFarland
Co-editor
Floating Bridge Press



You can read a previous post about Gerry and It's About Time.

Summer Travels: Wend and Lonely Planed

Wend does adventure travel, all over the world, even the US.

Lonely Planet did a road trip feature for the inland West.

 

New Edition of COLORS: Transportation!

Hey assorted readers, we have a new issue of Colors in, this time on Transportation.  I have not even properly checked it out or taken a picture for your delectation. If you are reading this post in the store, you could rush right over to the Pop Culture section, check it out, and post a comment for your humble editor to preview.

If you are afar, you can preview the cover on the mymagstore site or visit the Colors site.

Magazine - Washington Monthly

With all the big issues going on in world and national politics, it's easy to forget the local.

Road Trip Fun - Bust, Sunset, American Road

Bust -- Hurry in for this one, we won't have this issue on the shelf much longer, the new issue is due any day now!  This issue has a short section with a fun map of suggested Bust Road Trip destinations.  Places like Thelma and Louise's Dead Horse Point,   Minnesota's  On the Banks of Plum Creek (how many times did you read the book?),  the Harriet Tubman House,  Cleveland's History of Contraception Gallery, Burlesque Hall of Fame (guess where),  National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame...

Sunset does a western Foodie tour, and the American Road is always a great source for classic road trips.

You can order the most current issue of American Road on our sister site, mymagstore.com.  Be sure to check that the issue of the website is the issue you are looking for.  We currently only carry the current issue.

The Economist: The Future of News

This week, The Economist has a 14 page special on the Future of the News.

 

You might also want to read Kai Nagata's essay on why he left his rising career as a news reporter at the CBC.  I jumped to a wrong conclusion about why after reading a snippet of his piece, but then read his whole essay.

New Issue of Port - Summer 2011

Port bills itself as The Magazine for Men.  But I honestly don't see anything about it that makes it particularly for men.    A photographic essay on a remote village in South Africa, words and photos on the young assassins of Columbia, Nicholson Baker on David Remnick, sculpture, good design items (shelves, cups, tables), an interesting article about 85 year old green building visionary Harry Gesner, Joana and Joseph model clothes, something by Martin Amis, and interview with Sylvia Whitman, the (young) woman now in charge of the  Shakespeare & Company. 

And then a few words from Hunter S Thompson.

"I'm a romantic junkie both to the love and adventure ethic -- cursed and burdened and stooped all my life from carrying the albatross of the "Romantic Sensibility" -- like Shelley and Keats and Lord Byron and Big Sam Coleridge and Keith Richards and Bob Dylan.  Let me plan a killer dinner party ... and let me invite all these guys"

You can order it online here.

July 9 -- Summer Fun

Now there is a new issue of WASHINGTON TRAILS in for summer fun outside.  If you check in our Regions & Travels section, you might find fun tips in AMERICAN ROAD, SUNSET (which has more fun local info than in days gone by), NORTHWEST TRAVEL, or places further afield -- Montana, Alaska, New York, Italy.

Meanwhile, you could check out a few new arrivals.

Brick is all about Lego, it is the Summer Music! issue from The Believer, a Writers Digest special on writing for Kids, Hi Fructose in the Pop Culture section but mostly about edgy art,  Foam is becoming more about fashion for Surf Girls but their models are girls who can swim and surf.  Or check out  Cooler, with a little more surfing.

July 16th - Ravenna Park Work Pary

Come volunteer with Bulldog!

In April we did a work party at the Arboretum.

It's July, and we will be just up the street at Ravenna Park. 

A few years back, a community group mobilized to restore Ravenna Park.  At the time, there was talk of routing storm runoff from Green Lake through Ravenna Creek, and the ivy was taking over, driving out native plants and strangling the trees.  A lot of work has been done, but there is still plenty to do.



The famous Ravenna Park Erratic


If you were listening to NPR this morning, you might have hear the relevant interview with Justin Martin on Frederick Law Olmstead and the Genius of Place.  I hope to post more on the origins of Ravenna Park later on this week, so stay tuned.

Date: Saturday July 16
Time: 10am - 1pm
Goal: Removing invasive plants, planting native trees, and having fun.

Meet in the kiosk inside the park where the trails come together north of the ballpark (NE 55th & 25th NE).  Easy access from the Burke-Gilman Trail. 

See your barista for more details!

Bring appropriate gear for the weather and prepare to get dirty.

JULY 4th!

Hey!  We will be CLOSED on July 4th, but we have plenty of reading material for your picnic or barbecue!

Or you can read politics and history!  TIME has its 10th Annual History Issue, asking Does It Still Matter? (The Constitution in constant crisis since 1787).  UTNE asks, Patriot Acts, What does it mean to love your country?

Paris Review is always a winner with people who come in to Bulldog, and this issue has several fun writers. 

Once a wild young man of science fiction, now a venerable figure who is openly scatological, Samuel R Delany is interviewed on the Art of Fiction along with William Gibson.  Jonathan Lethem writes a short story, and there is poetry too.  I'm hoping that there will still be a copy left when I get back from the 4th!

Twice a Year Hobo

Twice a year, our neighbors up north in Vancouver put out the awesome HOBO

It wanders between our photography and our pop culture sections.

It does have text and poetry, a number of interviews, photos of Michelle Williams, what Hobo calls a "portfolio" of photographic self-portraits, several photo/fashion essays, Justine Kurland's personal history photos of her road trips as a photographer and mother.

It is a brown issue, Dogimont's color fashion are outdoors brown, Tyler Udall's are simply brown and white.  Hobo has the classical art view of the human body, so the magazine is not afraid of full nudity.

You can come into the store or just jump on in and order a copy from mymagstore.com.