Posted Tue, Apr 24, 9:44 a.m.

As a long-time FFF (Fred Friendly Fan) I was so pleased to hear that Douglas was involved in this project. It's a topic that gets discussed in our household on a regular basis, and so we talked back to the television as well -- the quality of the material coming ...

Posted Fri, Apr 20, 8:56 a.m.

There's a new book out about Dick Clark and American Bandstand, "The Nicest Kids in Town," with a generous collection of images and video clips from the show on their promotional website. http://scalar.usc.edu/nehvectors/nicest-kids/index

Posted Mon, Apr 16, 12:26 p.m.

We were both chagrined and queasy to find a Starbucks in the Cairo airport a couple of years ago. But that didn't stop us from buying a coffee.

Posted Thu, Apr 5, 4:31 p.m.

"visitors could view sea creatures from an underwater plastic tunnel." Like the Undersea Garden at Shilshole Marina, or the underwater viewing room at the current aquarium?

Posted Wed, Apr 4, 3:12 p.m.

Oh dear, this sounds like good intentions gone awry. "others smaller and carved in dish shapes to contain water." Are these plumbed, in that they have a source of water running to them, and a drain to take water away, or are they designed to catch and hold standing water ...

Posted Mon, Feb 6, 1:26 p.m.

Re the Komen Foundation's appallingly flat-footed actions last week, it's ironic to see that local groups were supposed to start planning over the weekend for the next Komen "Run for the Cure."

Posted Mon, Jan 30, 10:45 a.m.

Since I live in the neighborhood, I cannot claim to be totally impartial in this discussion, but I would like to point out that, if the first goal in this process is to increase density, perhaps we should turn our attention to the Sound Transit station itself, which does not ...

Posted Mon, Jan 16, 12:15 p.m.

I may be reading this online, but I used my phone book this morning.

Posted Fri, Jan 6, 10 a.m.

Re your comments on the current Asian art show at the Seattle Art Museum ("Seattle Art Museum’s exhibit, Illumination: The Art of Asia, which otherwise is like any other collection of old objects — interesting, but usually not too evocative.") You don't have to like it -- you do have ...

Posted Thu, Dec 29, 10:51 a.m.

These are some fascinating changes, and I think they'll have a few unintended consequences over time, but last night's dinner table conversation was all about "what actually is your community?" If it's not defined geographically -- "logical districts that have urban centers of gravity, with related suburbs and employment zones" ...

Posted Fri, Dec 16, 8:47 a.m.

"White Christmas" is in the rotation on AMC right now, so you can see an example of Astaire's film work. I've often thought it was ironic that, even though his insisted that he be filmed in a kind of documentary style, the dances themselves had no life outside of the ...

Posted Fri, Dec 9, 7:57 a.m.

Seattle may only be #4 in the sunless survey, but if I'm reading the list correctly, the top 15 locations are all in Washington state. No wonder Stephanie Meyer set her vampire novels here.

Posted Wed, Dec 7, 8:25 a.m.

I saw the same works last weekend, and was also struck by how full and yet how distinct each choreographer's style was, and how beautifully they were developed onstage. The fundamental commandment from the beginnings of American modern dance was to "dance who you are," and I thought that each ...

Posted Fri, Dec 2, 9:31 a.m.

Mark Morris at the Moore -- not only a great evening in the theater, but alliterative as well.

Posted Tue, Nov 15, 8:55 a.m.

Am plugged into the UW website and listening to some of these recordings right now -- this is such a treat!

Posted Tue, Nov 15, 8:20 a.m.

Are his minutes from these meetings available anywhere online?

Posted Fri, Nov 11, 1:02 p.m.

"a fan, dressed as a comically fat Michael Jackson," An inadvertent reference to the Weird Al Yankovic parody of "Beat It" -- "Eat It?"

Posted Mon, Nov 7, 8:17 a.m.

A mixed bill program like this is unusual for PNB, but was a staple for touring ballet companies from the 1930s on, where the costs of hauling the program-length version of works like Sleeping Beauty was financially onerous. And as Kaderlan points out, a program of five different works gives ...

Posted Thu, Oct 27, 8:23 a.m.

I grew up in Skyway, and the 107 bus in and out of Seattle drove by the garden. In the 70s it felt a bit like an old, well-loved garden that had fallen on hard times, and we were worried that it might be cleared away so that the land ...

Posted Wed, Oct 12, 7:49 a.m.

"must confess a childlike glee in being one of the first to board and making a dash up the narrow staircase to nab the very front seat on the upper level." Lucky!

Posted Mon, Oct 3, 7:49 a.m.

I'm wondering if this renewed discussion about size, masquerading as a discussion of health, is just one more aspect of our shift from private to public. In a Facebook world, it seems that all aspects of our lives are open to comment.

Posted Fri, Sep 30, 11:57 a.m.

re: the door handles at the Aurora/Shoreline Sears "I don't think even the door handles have changed" I was there last week, and loved seeing those door handles, because they were such a distinct example of their period. Design is in a constant state of evolution (from new to mainstream ...

Posted Mon, Sep 26, 1:41 p.m.

"Husky football coach Steve Sarkisian at $1,982,918.28" While I agree that there are some professors and research staff at the UW and elsewhere in state higher education that earn substantial salaries, please don't characterize a football coach as a member of the faculty. There may indeed be a football "class" ...

Posted Fri, Aug 12, 4:25 p.m.

My family has a standard tour we do for out-of-town guests that does a bit more than your suggested itinerary, but it's the apples and oranges part of your argument that I would really disagree with -- there's a huge difference between promoting a country and promoting a city. But ...

Posted Fri, Aug 12, 12:14 p.m.

"The biggest discouragement in all this, of course, is that it is so extraordinarily and disastrously expensive to wait until pavements are really bad to fix them" Not to mention the big disruption. The city is finally, finally, rebuilding 15th Ave NE -- last year between Pacific and NE 45th ...

Posted Wed, Aug 10, 10:53 a.m.

"Martins and Woetzel challenged again and again the veracity of Balanchine’s famous quote that “ballet is woman,” insisting that his male roles, including the solo in the Divertimento from Le Baiser de la Fée (which Martins called the “most beautiful male solo ever”) are unforgettably demanding and powerful." And lucky ...

Posted Mon, Aug 8, 5:05 p.m.

Raising my hand for smacgry's comments -- "In many European countries, such as Germany, people get married twice: once legally, usually before a notary, and if desired once religiously in a church. People who want religious weddings still have to get legally married, often the day before the big religious ...

Posted Tue, Jul 26, 9:44 a.m.

As someone who grew up in the suburbs, and used Metro to come into town, I have very powerful memories of the 107 route, timing my 15 minute walk to the bus stop to match the once-an-hour bus schedule, racing to 1st and Pine to catch the last bus of ...

Posted Fri, Jul 22, 11:29 a.m.

In response to Benjamin Lukoff, I've only gone a couple of places based solely on tourism advertising, but I've used tourism websites frequently to get ideas about what I might do in a particular place.

Posted Fri, Jul 15, 9:48 p.m.

I'm a parent, and read all but the last two out loud to my child, so I feel very invested in the wizarding world. It's been a great ride, and a thrill to see new generations as besotted with books as I've been most of my life. (and yes, as ...

Posted Wed, Jul 13, 4:45 p.m.

I agree wholeheartedly about the connections you saw between Mark Morris's choreography and early modern dance work -- I see them all the time in his material. Don't know if it's a deliberate choice or a 'great minds thinking' item. After having seen PNB in Jerome Robbins' West Side Story ...

Posted Sun, Jul 3, 3:22 p.m.

"With fewer open landfills, you don't see quite as many seagulls as you used to. I well remember the huge clouds of them over Union Bay." I remember hearing them -- whenever I've been far away from Seattle, I like to get down to the waterfront when I come home, ...

Posted Wed, Jun 22, 10:18 a.m.

I still think that the football stadium should be named after Gary Locke, so that the three big venues in Seattle would be the Safe, the Locke, and the Key.

Posted Mon, Jun 6, 9:14 a.m.

I don't want to get embroiled in the tunnel-or-not argument, but do want to say that if it is going to be torn down, can we please take a day (better yet, a weekend) to close the viaduct to traffic and open it up to people. No matter what side ...

Posted Thu, Jun 2, 11:10 p.m.

I miss the old Hidden Harbor -- it was our family's special occasion place. Thanks for the reminder!

Posted Wed, May 18, 9:59 a.m.

Your comment on the siting of the Tsutakawa fountain at the downtown library -- "a knickknack at the door of Jor-El’s Krypton palace." -- ouch! Beyond the snappy patter, though, I appreciate the attention you've given to the small park/public spaces we've managed to accumulate. Since many of them are ...

Posted Mon, May 2, 7:21 p.m.

"Another way to admit more in-state applicants is for the UW to decrease the number of community-college transfers, making up the difference with freshman admissions, which the UW prefers." I find this an interesting statement, since I'm old enough to remember when the UW thought that perhaps the community colleges ...

Posted Wed, Apr 6, 10:36 a.m.

"Some artifacts find their way to museums, though often in deep storage" And some museums, like the excellent state historical museum in Tacoma, are in danger of being put in deep storage themselves. My family is a bunch of history geeks, and we often visit history museums as we wander ...

Posted Fri, Jan 21, 11:32 a.m.

I've heard many references in these conversations about online learning to "the sage on the stage" -- implying that a lecture course is next to useless. I would bet that the people who show up for Michael Sandel's lecture at Temple de Hirsch next Monday, and the thousands of students ...

Posted Tue, Jan 11, 9:52 a.m.

My family has been going to Totem House for many years, but I didn't know about the history of the building. We're sad to lose the fish and chips, but will be much more distressed if the city loses the building.

Posted Mon, Nov 1, 9:37 a.m.

The contest looks like great fun, and I hope they will post all their clues and locations when it's over, but the treat right now is the look at Canlis' original menu. The cover art is an excellent example of its time -- Seattle before the Fair.

Posted Mon, Oct 25, 12:41 p.m.

Erm, back to the topic of the original article, the current Harry Potter exhibit at the Science Center. I haven't seen it yet, and so cannot comment on how well they do with the subject matter, but as for the connection between the Wizarding World that Rowling has created and ...

Posted Mon, Oct 18, 8:57 a.m.

Alas, the workshop is already full -- next year, they should offer a pair of them!

Posted Thu, Oct 7, 2:31 p.m.

Read the headline too fast and thought you said "the smell that shaped a city."

Posted Wed, Jul 28, 9:11 a.m.

At one point Freeway Park was supposed to supply some of that downtown green space. I know that it's become a kind of 800 pound gorilla (observed but not talked about) but I think it still has the potential to be a great public area. The last time my partner ...

Posted Wed, Jun 9, 9:38 a.m.

Or the Meydenbauer Center, for that matter, where Bellevue Opera performs and the Seattle Opera Young Artists did a great show this spring. After watching several of the combination public/school theaters being developed (like those at Eastlake and Shorecrest High Schools) I've wondered what those smaller stages would mean to ...

Posted Tue, Jun 8, 1:24 p.m.

This is sad and disconcerting news -- I hadn't realized that the Board was in such a precarious position. What can we as citizens do to fix this big mistake?

Posted Sun, May 16, 5:21 p.m.

"I thought it would have been appropriate to have a listing of the groups that died on the battlefield this year," So run one here.

Posted Wed, Jan 27, 12:58 p.m.

Whatever the deficits of this article might be, I'm glad to see Sacred Harp music getting attention, and so pleased to learn about the February event. Doug Fullington's Tudor Choir made a recording of Sacred Harp music in 2001 -- "The Shapenote Album" is a more polished, choral example of ...

Posted Thu, Dec 31, 1:33 p.m.

Malamute is right -- UW football does indeed underwrite other parts of the school's sports programs, but the proposed stadium rennovations do not fall under this category.

Posted Thu, Dec 31, 1:07 p.m.

Seattle movement artists have been swinging in the air since the 1980s, when Robert Davidson taught low-flying trapeze skills as part of his work with Skinner Releasing Technique, and incorporated it into his choreography. "Airborne: Meister Eckhart" was a big success for him, and for On the Boards, who produced ...

Posted Thu, Dec 31, 12:52 p.m.

Thanks so much for reminding me of grocery stores past -- I grew up in Skyway and we shopped at the Market Basket for years, and then the Lucky's. I do miss the vibe at the older stores, but I have great fondness for the little, neighborhood markets that have ...

Posted Mon, Dec 21, 1:51 p.m.

What you might have missed, in smaller print on their brochure, is that this is the last year Intiman will be performing Black Nativity at their Seattle Center theater. They are looking for another, larger venue, but I'm not sure they've found anything yet for the 2010 season. Most of ...

Posted Tue, Nov 10, 9:11 a.m.

It's my understanding that for Szeinblum and her colleagues, working in Argentina, part of the resonance of Alaska is that is was about as far away as they could imagine -- a bit like the South Pole for those of us living in the Pacific Northwest.

Posted Thu, Nov 5, 10:37 a.m.

I'm afraid I don't agree with ymehdi's comment -- Queen Anne and Magnolia families deserve a school in their neighborhood.

Posted Wed, Sep 30, 12:04 p.m.

Group Health, upstairs where the breast cancer screening clinic is now. My partner was born at Cabrini. Our son was born at Group Health, in the swanky "Family Beginnings" center. I love the diversity here, but sometimes I do feel like the only person in the room who remembers Captain ...

Posted Sat, Aug 29, 3:12 p.m.

When Deborah Jacobs first instituted a closure to help meet the library budget a few years ago I was irritated, and then frustrated when I couldn't get the materials I wanted right away, but now that I've seen other communities gradually erode their library services in an attempt to stay ...