Stories for Dec. 3, 2007

Classical music that mates with folk

Mon, Dec 3, 6 p.m.

Two concerts, one by a string quartet and the other by a vocal trio, show how this music can be dramatic and accessible again. Maybe Seattle, too, is joining the parade to music that is contemporary, well staged, and far from routine.

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Record rain, landslides, flooding ...

Mon, Dec 3, 12:45 p.m.

By Chuck Taylor

Pretty much all hell is breaking loose and sliding downhill throughout the region today. The best place to get an overview of what's going wrong in metro Seattle is at the Regional Public Information Network site, a clearinghouse for official news – an Emergency Broadcast System of the Web. The Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer both have stories posted that are being updated, and the Times has a Google Maps mash-up of flood reports from readers.

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We don't call it P-Town for nothing

Mon, Dec 3, 9:18 a.m.

By Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett

The changing of the guard at Powell's Books, Portland's venerated six-store empire, is under way, and worried murmuring is coming from all sorts of business experts, according to a front-page story in the Los Angeles Times. We Powell's worshipers can't imagine life without the place, so we're hoping that it continues to be blessedly out of step with its industry.

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Northwest wind-gust forecast for 10 a.m.

Mon, Dec 3, 6:59 a.m.

By Chuck Taylor

The numbers on this image from the National Weather Service, which forecasts wind gusts for 10 a.m. Pacific time, are in knots. Quick conversion: Oregon and Washington coast: 71, 78, and 82 mphBellingham: 54 mphSeattle: 50 mphPortland: 44 mph Current weather warnings for: Western Washington, Oregon. Metro Puget Sound Regional Public Information Network with government-issued warnings and other news.

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