Nabucco at Seattle Opera

“Zeus isn’t real,” my daughter confided one day when she was four. “How do you know?” I asked. “Yesterday I told a lie on purpose...

Live on KEXP

Kevin Cole interviews Einar Orn of Ghostdigital live on KEXP during Airwaves 2012....

The Kindness of Strangers

We were walking from the Tsingtao Brewery to Taidong Shopping Street. Beer Street fizzled out after the giant neon rainbow arch anchored by beer bottle...

Við erum HAM

Once upon a time, sandwiched between two bands I had come to see, the stoic Icelandic crowd suddenly went wild for a band I’d never...

Qingdao Shopping: Atrium City and Taidong

When you’re 10 years old, the most important part of traveling is buying souvenirs for your friends, so we spent our first afternoon in Qingdao...