The Friends of Old Hay invite the community to celebrate the beginning of summer with an informal chess festival and neighborhood gathering on Saturday, June 16, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The free, family-friendly event takes place at the original John Hay School site, 411 N. Boston St.
Retrospective programming at the Seattle International Film Festival is rarely either imaginative or well-informed, and sometimes suggests no one has been paying attention even to the local film scene. Given two film noir slots to fill, you decide to present, out of myriad possibilities, Joseph H. Lewis' "The Big Combo" - a stunning movie, to be sure, but also one showcased in last fall's Seattle Art Museum noir series.
Showers of rose petals fell on the stage as Patricia Barker received one final standing ovation from her admirers. To end her amazing 26-year career with Pacific Northwest Ballet, Barker performed a selection of her favorite pieces with various partners on Sunday night.
Pacific Northwest Ballet's Choreographer's Showcase was created to encourage the dancers in the company to try their hand at creating new works. The 2007 Showcase further matches the future of ballet choreography with the future dancers by having the choreographers create new works to be danced by the professional-level students of the Pacific Northwest Ballet School.
Isabel Allende's "The House of the Spirits" provides a panoramic sweep of about 100 years of Chilean history experienced by members of a sprawling and somewhat odd family. Adapting it for the stage offers monumental challenges, and Book-It's current production doesn't overcome all of them.
Retrospective programming at the Seattle International Film Festival is rarely either imaginative or well-informed, and sometimes suggests no one has been paying attention even to the local film scene. Given two film noir slots to fill, you decide to present, out of myriad possibilities, Joseph H. Lewis' "The Big Combo" - a stunning movie, to be sure, but also one showcased in last fall's Seattle Art Museum noir series.
Magnolians have followed the making of a new book of Magnolia history over the past year through this column in the Magnolia News. We are happy to have the Queen Anne audience join us in the making of more Magnolia history.
Magnolia resident Sam Barnes was honored by Troop 80 for attaining Eagle Scout rank in a ceremony held June 4 at Magnolia United Church of Christ. Lakeside School junior Barnes earned Eagle status by planning, organizing and facilitating a cleanup of the beach at Discovery Park on May 27, 2006, during an extreme low tide.
The end of the school year brings change for many - not just students, but teachers as well. At local schools, various educators are moving on to new opportunities or retiring. Doug Clawson, current Catahrine Blaine School librarian and an educator for more than 40 years, has chosen (with his wife's input) to finally retire.
Members of the Ballet Program at Magnolia Community Center will perform Friday, June 15, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in a Spring Recital in the Catharine Blaine School Auditorium, 2550 34th Ave. W. The public is invited and admission is free. Program director is Marilyn Johnston. Ballet I students seen here are: Front, left to right: Lucy Penfold, Emma Fjermedal, Bella Parkhurst, Lia Freeman, Isabella Warshaw. Middle row, left to right: Sophie Bea Zucker, Kristina Anderson, Hanna Uselding. Back row, left to right: Julia Haworth, Caitlin Moore, Kristina Johnson.
The McClure Middle School PTSA has launched a "Bucks for Books" campaign to raise $10,000 to refresh and renew the school library. Money raised will be used to purchase new books and periodicals for the library, and to improve the library to make it more inviting to students.
Megan Lamb, a seventh-grade student at St. Anne School, and Daniel Ryan, a sixth-grader at Whitman Middle School, are among 24 middle-school students in the greater Seattle area honored by the Mayor's Scholars Awards Program for service to their schools and communities. Each of the students received $500 that can be used for education or donated to a charity. They also were presented with a letterman's jacket and certificate. Mayor Greg Nickels presented the awards on May 30.
Eleanor "Ellie" J. Peterson, a sixth- and seventh-grade science teacher at Seattle Country Day School, was one of four Washington educators to receive this year's Amgen Award for Science Teaching Excellence. The recipients were honored at a dinner at the Columbia Tower Club on May 10.
A mammoth mixed-use QFC grocery and housing project at 40th St. and Stone Way Ave. N. has been shelved indefinitely, leaving a huge hole in the ground where a Safeway once stood.QFC put the project on hold because of skyrocketing construction costs, according to spokeswoman Kristin Maas. allingford and Fremont residents are steamed about the development. But Queen Anne Neighbors for Responsible Growth are wondering if the same thing could happen to plans for a similar mixed-used project that would replace the Metropolitan Market on Upper Queen Anne Hill with a new QFC and housing, according to group member George Counts.
BRENT SOLE "Do not make your passion your career."