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Ballard HS takes it up a notch with 'Secret Garden'

Ballard’s music program earns more recognition

The Ballard High School performance community has quite a list of accomplishments, whether it be for the orchestra or one of the many choir groups. So tackling a Tony-Award winning musical such as "The Secret Garden" probably seemed like the next step up.

Scouting for Food

On Saturday, March 20, the Queen Anne Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts from troops 70 and 72 will walk the neighborhood to gather donations.

She's no Jason Bourne

Jolie's unthrilling 'Salt' lacks spice

Who is Salt? Is she a Russian spy? Are Russian spies setting her up? These are the central questions in Phillip Noyce's newest film "Salt," which turns Angelina Jolie into a female Jason Bourne, without the memory loss.

'Dragon Tattoo' is long movie yet goes by too fast

I recall a cartoon of two people leaving a movie theater where one of Cecil B. DeMille's Biblical spectaculars was showing. The caption has one person blithely assuring the other, "The book was better."

Rock-n-rollers

Catharine Blaine K-8 fourth-grader Reed O'Neal, and sixth-graders Aisha Carpenter, Jannah Amaly and Mitchell Bowen rocked the school cafeteria at Blaine's annual March talent show. The young O'Neal was stellar on lead guitar, while Amaly thumbed her bass and Bowen banged the drums that could be heard throughout the school building. Carpenter fronted the band singing, "It's Just Me."

From Vietnam to Detroit

Storytellers regale crowd with wild tales at Magnolia nightspot

It was quite a night at the Serendipity Café in the Magnolia Village where writers, storytellers, musicians and comedians gathered Saturday for the first annual Seattle Stories show.

The Few, The Proud, The Republicans

Little-known Jill England and Leslie Klein are determined to keep the GOP hopes alive in the 36th District

While the 36th District Democrats enjoyed another primary landslide on Aug. 17, their Republican challengers continue a determined campaign to wave the conservative flag.

SPU women continue tear

Senior class leads SPU from indoor championship to strong outdoor performances

After clinching first place in the GNAC Indoor Championships, Seattle Pacific University's women's track team hasn't slowed its performance, proving they can qualify strongly in both realms.

Seattle's Joshi tackles Lovecraft

The celebrated horror writer H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) conceived of a hideous cosmic menace he called Cthulhu, replete with octopus-like tentacles descending from its lower face. Seattle's own S.T. Joshi, one of the premiere living Lovecraft scholars, has almost as many projects going as his longtime subject's creation had tentacles.

Art program teaches youth photography, community

A picture may be worth a 1,000 words the viewer but for Youth in Focus students, photography presents a new lens for experiencing the world and exploring their creativity.

A family affair

'The Joneses' is a reality check on materialism in American society

Neighbors not thrilled about Nickerson 'road diet'

The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) is moving forward with a proposal to implement a "road diet" on West Nickerson Street.

Elsie L. Cole

Elsie L. Cole, born Sept. 15, 1913 in Chehalis passed away peacefully on May 25.

Book signing today at Magnolia's Bookstore

Glenn Rockowitz will read from and sign his book, "Rodeo in Joliet" from 7-9 p.m. today at Magnolia's Bookstore in Magnolia Village.

Into another dimension

Sci-fi authors to read Saturday at Queen Anne Library

This weekend be prepared for sci-fi, fantasy and the queen - or rather, sci-fi and fantasy at the Queen Anne Library.