When my family arrived from Canada, I was eleven, and was very naïve and ignorant to the ways of the world. So, my first memory was moving into a small apartment on Lower Queen Anne Hill. Eventually I would become a high school student on the hill’s top at Queen Anne High School, the same place where I first met my lifelong friend, T-Boy editor Ed Boitano.
Darren and Jim are in the Emerald City for a walk around town with stops at The Space Needle, Pike Place Market, Post Alley, and Capitol Hill, taking in a Seattle Kraken NHL hockey game with The Calgary Flames plus a visit to Jimi Hendrix’s Memorial.
Nestled on the far eastern border of Washington State, Spokane was originally the home of The Spokans ("children of the sun"), who were drawn to the hunting grounds and abundance of salmon in the Spokane River. This changed with the arrival of the first European settlers who established a trading post and eventually a railroad industry that built the city.
Traveling to Locations Close to Home is the theme of our latest T-Boy Society of Film, Travel & Music’s poll. ‘Close to Home’ can mean by foot, car, scooter, motorcycle, skateboard, drone, skis, surfboard, blimp, parasail, parachute or human cannonball. It’s always fun to see our many T-Boy writers – writers who have been regularly delivering original content that cannot be found anywhere else on the globe – address joyful, memory-filled locations, which are in their own backyard.
The T-Boy Society of Film & Music’s first poll for 2021 is dedicated to favorite domestic destinations: Cities, Towns and Sites. We felt this would be an appropriate theme as traveling to domestic destinations is slowly opening up.
On May 15, 2020, the T-Boy Society of Film & Music met via Zoom for the final vote in members' favorite Architectural Wonders. This easily turned out to be our most popular poll. There were virtually no repeats in members’ top selections, with no clear winners.
Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) could read and compose music, plus play the violin and piano, when he was five years old. Born into a musical family in Salzburg, Austria (then the Holy Roman Empire), he had a unique ability for imitating music, which first became evident when he recited a musical piece by simply observing his father conducting a lesson to his older sister.
Turns out that Seattle is now the place to go for amazing Southern food at a restaurant run by Edourado Jordan who scored the most coveted loot at the 2018 James Beard Awards, taking home Best New Restaurant for Seattle’s buzzy JuneBaby and Best Chef; Take a look at 8 bucket-list-worthy sights that also happens to be some of the worst places for air pollution.