Stories for Jan. 30, 2008

Living American composers! In Seattle!

Wed, Jan 30, 10 p.m.

A stunning weekend festival by Seattle Chamber Players demonstrates the great vitality of contemporary classical music. And also how much Seattle lags the West Coast in serving up such excitement.

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The semiotics of campaign buttons

Wed, Jan 30, 2:58 p.m.

By Knute Berger

I've been fascinated with presidential campaign buttons all my life--or at least since I was a tyke who ran through the house wearing an Eisenhower flasher hollering "I yike Ike!" in 1956, a campaign junky at age three. Every four years, I find myself scrutinizing TV coverage of campaign victory (and concession) parties to see how the faithful are expressing their political passions on their blouses and lapels.

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The (political) pause that refreshes

Wed, Jan 30, 10:16 a.m.

By Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett

Like everyone I know, I am spending hours watching the presidential-campaign tangos on TV, stopping only when my eyes roll back in my head. But now, when I'm getting too tired, too worried, or too angry, I know it's time to take a break and click on the one campaign ad that anyone, of any party, can appreciate.

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Downtown condo developers, beware of too many towers too close

Wed, Jan 30, 8:32 a.m.

By Peter Steinbrueck

Seattle Post-Intelligencer architecture critic Lawrence Cheek makes some excellent observations about the new urban renaissance of residential high-rises in downtown Seattle, praising design qualities of the recently completed 5th and Madison Tower, one the first residential high-rises to be completed after the new downtown code was adopted by the city in 2006. "5th and Madison confirms that we're back in a healthy and agreeable phase of high-rise fashion," Cheek writes. But he also raises some very legitimate issues about tower spacing and separation:

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