Nancy Guppy
Coffee with Guppy: A Woman of Vision
Nancy chats with eyewear entrepreneur Arlene Phillips.
ARLENE PHILLIPS owns Ottica Seattle, an eyewear boutique she opened 15 years ago at First Avenue and Lenora Street in downtown Seattle. Starting this business was a great risk, she confides, because Id never owned a business before. I was in between kids and decided that rather than go find a job, I would give…
Coffee with Guppy: Drawing Fire
Cartoonist David Horseys job is to elicit a reaction.
Editorial cartoonist David Horsey spent 30 years at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, where he won two Pulitzer Prizes for his biting political commentary. He has worked as a cartoonist and columnist for the Los Angeles Times since 2012. What is the job of a political cartoonist? Its similar to a columnist or an editorial writer: Observe…
Coffee with Guppy: Raising the Bar
A chat with musician/restaurateur Val Kiossovski.
Val Kiossovski co-owns the Solo Bar on Lower Queen Anne and Saint Johns Bar and Eatery on Capitol Hill. Since 2000, he has played lead guitar in the gypsy punk band Kultur Shock, which mixes rock, metal and punk with traditional music of the Balkans. Nancy: Describe your philosophy of running a bar. Val: My…
Coffee with Guppy: Taking Care of Artists
Nancy sits down with gallery owner Gail Gibson.
Gail Gibson owns G. Gibson Gallery in Seattle. Initially specializing in 20th century photography, Gibson has since expanded to include contemporary artists working in a variety of media. After 25 years in Pioneer Square, she relocated to a new space in Lower Queen Anne (104 W Roy St.) last fall. Whats the most important thing…
Coffee with Guppy: Cynthia Lair’s Recipe for Living
Nancy Guppy chats with the educator/actor/author.
Nutritionist Cynthia Lair (cynthialair.com) is a faculty member at Bastyr University, an actor and improviser, star of the web series Cookus Interruptus (cookusinterruptus.com) and author of two cookbooks: Feeding the Young Athlete and Feeding the Whole Family, whose fourth edition came out last November. Nancy: The fourth edition of Feeding the Whole Family just came…