Two years ago, during Winter Music Conference, the now-defunct Snatch almost burned to the ground. Oh, there wasn’t a fire. But there was a hell of a lot of heat. And it all sprang from a gang of ...

I discovered Riz Rollins not too long after I settled in Seattle in the early 1990s. He lived in a mother-in-law cottage (which is now gone) that was near the Harvard Exit theater (now gone) right ...