The Seattle branch of the English Speaking Union held its 22nd annual high school Shakespeare competition March 8 at the Frye Art Museum. Fifteen schools from Seattle, Bellevue, Bellingham and Everett participated. Each contestant had already won their own school competition and presented a 22-line long monologue from one of the plays and a sonnet of their choice.
As a nation embroiled in the debate on healthcare reform, audience members found neurosurgeon Benjamin Carson's words of advice on how to truly create successful health-care reform inspiring, invigorating and spot-on.
A Queen Elizabeth Dress and a Toinette dress from "Invalid" both sold for $1,000 at Seattle Reparatory Theatre's costume sale last week.
Amid echoing chatter and paper airplanes zipping through the air, the thumping of drums and repetitive chanting from the boys in blue and yellow signaled the start of the Boy Scouts spring round-up.
Your choices for the evening are grilled sirloin steak with a classic béarnaise sauce or grilled chicken breast with a mandarin orange sauce, followed by what is seductively described as an indulgence in signature desserts. No, this is not a quote from a five-star restaurant menu. These are meals currently offered by United Airlines as part of its first class dining service. We are talking airline food here.
Pacific Publishing Co., the parent company of the Queen Anne News and Magnolia News, has hired Jessica Van Gilder as its general reporter.
Seattle Storm players Ashley Robinson and Janell Burse prepare to serve pizza slices at the Queen Anne Pagliacci Pizza on Wednesday, June 3 as part of a publicity tour to promote the Storm's 10th Anniversary season, which kicked off at KeyArena on Sunday, June 7 vs. the Sacramento Monarchs.
Ken McBride was a silent giver with a larger than life presence that has not faded since his passing on April 13.
The Social Venture Plan Competition at Seattle Pacific University stepped up to a new level of innovation and excitement this year.
On May 6, in Maggie Larrick's review of Mozart's "ingenious" opera, "The Marriage of Figaro," praise is given to Christine Brandes for doing justice to a "masterpiece" that first premiered in 1786.
Linda of London, as many readers will know, wrote a column originally titled The Anglophile for the Queen Anne/Magnolia News for many years.Linda passed away April 27. She was 85. She had amassed hundreds of columns and made a name for herself in the community. Her final column was about Easter in England.
With the sun just poking above the horizon, more than two dozen nature enthusiasts gathered in front of the Woodland Park Zoo last Saturday hoping to catch a glimpse, not of the zoo's newly celebrated meerkats, but rather, migratory birds that are making a pit-stop at Seattle's hub of animal conservation.
In Renaissance tradition, when a painting was completed, the artist and the commissioner of the painting would gather with all of their patrons, friends, etc. to witness the unveiling of the painting.
More than 20 years ago, Jeff and Kay Benesi were strolling along Sixth Avenue and saw that the beauty shop at 1959 Sixth Ave. at the corner at West Crockett Street in Queen Anne, was gone and the space was vacant.
Steve Schimmelman took a couple of pictures of the weekend's Memorial Day events in Magnolia.