Roberta Cruger

Works

Hungry? Seattle
"Insider’s" guide to great $10 meals at Seattle neighborhood spots highlighting local eats from fish’n’chips to artisan bakeries.

Also contributed to Moon Metro Seattle (Avalon Travel Publishing)—slick weekender’s guide to sights and essentials, and edited London Moxie (Metropolis)—clever itineraries for art aficionados, history buffs, fashionistas, and perambulators.



“TV’s Ad-time Jukebox”
Following are more links to published stories:

“Where’s Comedy Central?” (world’s funniest cities)
http://magazine.continental.com/122006/content/explore/the-list.jsp

“Vanishing Americana” (newsboys to barbers)
http://msnbc.com/modules/take3/apr/default.htm?s=1&p=1

“Class Reunions: The Way We Were – Or Are?
http://msnbc.com/modules/take3/aug/default.htm?3

"Dance Crazes Through the Ages"
http://msnbc.com/modules/take3/aug/rewind.htm

“Spirits Find Refuge” (Holocaust Museum exhibit)
http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=6057

”Losing the Alien Lottery” (immigration)
www.dfire.org/x2092.xml



Rock She Wrote
Rock She Wrote (Cooper Union Press), chapter contributor, “Flashbacks to Boy Howdy’s Pre-pubescence,” a 1970s view on staff at the seminal rock rag Creem Magazine.

Other music writing from Salon:

“Eve of Deconstruction” (EMP’s Pop Music Conference)
http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/music/feature/2003/05/05/pop_conf/index.html

“Mash-up Revolution”
http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/music/feature/2003/08/09/mashups_cruger/index_np.html

“The Big Bangs” (Lester Bangs revisited)
http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/music/feature/2003/09/03/bangs/index.html


Selected Works

Articles and Essays
“TV’s Ad-time Jukebox”
Variety of features, profiles, columns, and round-ups for magazines, websites, in-flight publications, and weeklies.
Music Writing
Rock She Wrote
“Intelligently compiled, wide-ranging volume... ”
--Publishers Weekly
Travel
Hungry? Seattle
“First-time visitors can feel like natives with the handy Glove Box Guides.”
--Bon Appetit

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