A "Recreational and Cultural Assessment District" could help fund cultural facilities as well as an interlinked necklace of parks and trails in Seattle's North Downtown.
Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancer Mara Vinson (center) as Princess Aurora falls into a deep slumber after pricking her finger on a cursed spindle in Ronald Hynd's <i>The Sleeping Beauty</i>.
But the show could be more relevant if it tapped into the digital tools of the 21st Century. Maybe even cellphones, seeing as they were ringing in the audience anyway.