Ben Chasny, Chris Corsano, and Richard Bishop live at the Sunset Tavern in Seattle (photo by Joe Mabel)

Floating World Comics is proud to offer original artwork by Al Columbia.��� Every week or so we plan on making a new piece available for sale.��� We’re down to the last dozen copies of the limited edition ‘TOYLAND’ giclee print.��� Be sure to order one before they’re all gone!��� Also we want to remind you [...]

“one for jack” jack rose was one of those guys with whom one feels an immediate bond he wasn’t a physical giant or anything but he had an immense presence something, perhaps, more spectral than tangible which filled a room easily enveloping you in a kind of bear hug that could seem either threatening or comforting depending on the look in jack’s eyes and on [...]

After an absence of what feels like a gazillion years, Sade is returning February 8th with a new CD, Soldier of Love. The title track was released today, and it's got a surprising little thump to it, almost a strut. Nice to see that they're mixing it up a little, even at this late stage in their career. ("Smooth Operator," the band's first global smash, is 25 years old. Can you believe it?

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The three women in front of me were talking about the big demi-anniversary sale at Walmart and how they’d gotten time off from their cleaning jobs and were going down together. “Is it that big?” I asked. “Oh yeah,” they said, “50% off all children’s clothes, shoes and school supplies.” Everything...

DECEMBER 8 — DIEGO RIVERA Great Mexican muralist, Marxist, agit-prop conspirator. DECEMBER 8, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS BUDDHIST BODHI DAY: ROHATSU. FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION.������ TAKE IT IN THE EAR DAY. ALSO ON DECEMBER 8 IN HISTORY… 1810 — World peace advocate Elihu Burritt, the...

DECEMBER 7 — ANTONIO MACEO “The Bronze Titan.” Cuban revolutionist, anti-imperialist. DECEMBER 7, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS FESTIVAL OF PRIMORDIAL BEINGS. ALSO ON DECEMBER 7 IN HISTORY… 1872 — “Ludentologist” Johan Huizinga born, Groningen, Holland. 1896 — Cuban revolutionist, military hero...

DECEMBER 6 — TAIJI YAMAGA Japanese anarchist theorist, Esperantist. DECEMBER 6, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS ST. NICHOLAS’ DAY: Nicholas became a Bishop when quite young.��� From this fact arose the old European tradition of Boy Bishops, who reigned from December 6 to 28, in a cold Burlesque church...