fiddlercrab

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Mind sex and 'Tristan'

Posted Wed, Aug 4, 5:26 p.m.

I concur in all the main points here. As well, the final "Liebestod" scene seemed strangely anti-climactic from the musical perspective. Was this fatigue on Isolde's part or merely that of the audience? The minimalist staging and costuming had the probably unintended effect of removing most of the mystery and ...

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Michelle Malkin’s journey from ideas to tribes

Posted Thu, Nov 12, 7:43 p.m.

Hacknflack says, Malkin lost me when she tried to prove Internment of 130,000 Japanese Americans was a good idea. She writes this stuff to sell print, even if it means denying her own family history. I don't know what that family history is, but are we aware that her background ...

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Time to trade Ichiro?

Posted Mon, Jun 1, 8:05 p.m.

But Guys nos. 2 & 3 appear to write for the Seattle Times, where they have been busy trying to shoo Erik Bedard out of town in return for a power hitter or two. In my humble, unathletic opinion Bedard is one of the more extraordinary pitchers yet to turn ...

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A great musical tradition gone missing

Posted Tue, May 26, 4:57 p.m.

Thanks to David Brewster for mentioning the NY Festival of Song; I was unaware of this. However this seems oriented toward opera, where we are well represented in Seattle. The problem is with solo singing outside of opera. Vancouver is doing a whole lot more in this direction, with both ...

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Transit train wreck: The case against more light rail

Posted Wed, Jun 25, 7:24 p.m.

It's not a case of diesel OR electric.: A very thought-provoking thread. I have 3 comments: 1. There's an assumption here that light rail will run on electricity, while buses will run on diesel. This is a crucial question, given the prognosis for various energies in the coming years. But ...

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Transportation decision-making: What if Proposition 1 fails?

Posted Sat, Oct 13, 5:44 p.m.

Another capacity-booster: It has been conventional wisdom for decades that HOV lanes are a beneficial and efficient away of getting people around on freeways. The sentiment is nice: motivate folks to pool together, avoid solo freeway driving at crowded times, and so forth. But in fact this plan has never ...

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The Seattle Symphony closes a $2 million budget gap

Posted Wed, Jul 25, 9:40 a.m.

Which version is correct?: This is indeed good news for the Seattle Symphony. The administrative drift over the past few seasons was worrying for its supporters and now appears to have been corrected. The stories in Crosscut, the Seattle Times, and the P-I differ in some important details. Which is ...

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