Oh boy, here I go again. Why can't we all simply age gracefully instead of indulging in bizarre personal gymnastics trying to disguise our natural features, only to end up looking like something out of a Saturday Night Live skit? The classic example of this has to be the male comb-over. Who can forget Ohio congressman James Traficant, with what can only be described as a wedding cake on top of his head.
It was the kind of news that sends a chill down your spine. As word of the stabbing death of Shannon Harps spread a palpable feeling of disbelief could be felt among emotions that included shock, horror and sadness.As just about everyone knows by now, Harps, 31, was stabbed by an unknown assailant shortly after 7 p.m. on Dec. 31 as she was walking back to her apartment at 15th Avenue and East Howell Street.
Capitol Hill actress Emily Chisholm's resume ranges from the performance art group Implied Violence to ACT Theatre. Most recently, the 26-year-old Cornish graduate can be found at Seattle Children's Theatre (SCT), where she plays a variety of roles in the company's new adaptation of "The Neverending Story." "It's a truly inspiring story. The hero, Bastian, is the kid who is always picked last for everything, but the story says that having imagination is important and it can save a whole world of people," said Chisholm. "I saw the movie when I was in first grade and that experience just stuck with me. The idea that what you imagine can become real."
Remember, in addition to being a dandy meeting place, the Uptown Neighborhood Center at 157 Roy St. (intersection with Warren) offers some valuable, ongoing resources. You can avail yourself of these simply by walking in, any weekday between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Maple Elementary School on Beacon Hill is more than a school, it's a place of high academic achievement with ethnic diversity that adds to the learning and sharing experience.On Dec. 18, video crews from the U.S. Department of Education spent a day documenting the school and interviewing the staff.The K-5 school was chosen as a "success story" for the department's nationwide television show "Education News," after it received the No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon Award for Educational Excellence in September 2006.
During the month of January, Seattle Shakespeare Company will run "CHAMBER JULIUS CAESAR" and "SWANSONG" in rotating repertory at the Center House Theatre, Seattle Center. "Chamber Julius Caesar," a fresh, condensed look at Shakespeare's play, is on Thursday-Sunday, Jan. 3-27. "Swansong," a play about the friendship and rivalry of Will Shakespeare and Ben Jonson having its West Coast première, runs Sunday-Wednesday, Jan. 7-23. Tickets: 733-8222.
New Seattle Parks and Recreation Superintendent Tim Gallagher, 54, says that standing out in the crowd is the key to landing a new job. For the former Californian, that involved having his first interview for the Seattle position when he was in Oregon during a 2,600-mile, five-month trek along the Pacific Crest Trail, which stretches from the Mexican border to Canada.A lean, weathered-looking man, Gallagher said he also went through a second interview when he was taking a break at Snoqualmie Pass.
On Jan. 25, Scots all over the world will observe the birthday of their immortal poet, Robert Burns, with the traditional Burns Supper. The simple menu consists of cockaleekey soup (chicken soup made with leeks) and haggis tatyes and neeps (the haggis is a kind of sausage made with offal, onions, oatmeal and spices cooked in a sheep's stomach; tatyes and neeps are potatoes and turnips and, of course, great quantities of good Scots whiskey to toast the immortal memory).
For a solid year now, people have been asking me who I'd like to see become president in 2009. For most of that time, I've offered the same unsatisfying response: it's far too early, a lot can happen between now and then. But as the fascination with the race among local political types I know has heightened leading up to the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primaries, I have slowly begun to embrace a different response: why do you care?
I read John V. Fox and Carolee Colter's article ["A look at life after Proposition One's demise," Dec. 26
The belligerent sense of entitlement by certain dog owners is very disheartening, especially given the lack of compliance with, and enforcement of, Animal Control ordinances: at times it seems a hopeless cause.
I was disappointed with Russ Zabel's article regarding the City Council's decision to study a rental housing inspection program in Seattle ["City Council okays study of rental-housing inspection program," Dec. 26].
BU11 Team USA played an inspired match Tuesday, Dec. 11, against the Thunderbolt Flames in the SYSA BU11 Semifinals at Interbay. The game was well played by both teams with a lot of back-and-forth attacking. However, two free kicks by the Flames proved decisive in this tightly contested match.
Longtime Queen Anne resident Richard "Dick" James Savery passed away January 31 Mr. Savery was born in Tacoma in 1915. He attended Moran Boys School on Bainbridge Island, Stadium High School in Tacoma and then went to Menlo College in California on a football scholarship. He was injured playing football and came back to the Northwest, eventually graduating from University of Puget Sound in 1938. Mr. Savery moved to Seattle and met his wife of 63 years, Betty Jane Dignan, a graduate of West Queen Anne Elementary and Queen Anne High School. The couple lived on Warren Avenue for more than 60 years. Their four daughters-Janet, Marilyn, Marsha and Carolyn- attended Queen Anne High.
A young woman let her Chihuahua outside in her gated yard in the 3300 block of 35th Ave. S. to use the bathroom. Soon after...