The reality is setting in over at Catharine Blaine K-8 School in Magnolia.
Sixty students from Seattle high schools finished up a tough, three-week summer-school language program Aug. 22 at Seattle University. The program was tough because students in the daylong classes were only allowed to speak either Mandarin Chinese or Arabic.
Motor scooters used to be seen on American streets mainly around college campuses. But with the price of gasoline at record levels, as well as crowded city streets, the number of scooters on the road has increased dramatically.
Antique shopping means lots of things to lots of people, but the shoppers who seem to have the most fun are the treasure hunters. The treasure hunters cruise for sport, adding those perfect pieces to their collections, and sometimes something new - to them, at least - for their homes.Antique shopping comes in several distinct styles depending on the shop. At one end are junk stores (and junk is not a pejorative here).
A month after David and Linda Hiller suffered the death of their dog Sophie in January, they found themselves looking at the profile of a 120 pound female Leonberger on the Pet Finders website.
Gunshots exploded as the day fell into night in the heart of Hillman City near the corner of Rainier Avenue South and South Mead Street on Wednesday, Sept. 3. The dispatch call record indicates a prompt police response. According to Seattle Police Department spokesman Mark Jamieson, several 911 callers reported hearing "multiple shots being fired" at 7:32 p.m.
Business at the Kwik Cup coffee shop in Holly Park came to a crashing halt on Aug. 25 - literally. It was around noon, and a man who'd just bought coffee at the shop pulled an illegal U-turn in his minivan on South Othello Street when it was hit from behind by a compact car, said Kwik Cup owner Allen Jefferson.
Lola's South City Bakery is not your ordinary bakery. For one, it is located in up-and-coming Hillman City, owned and operated by Russell and Janet Battaglia, with input from their daughter Lola, the bakery's namesake. For another, the focus is on creating products that go beyond gustatory delight: foods as much about how we live rather than just about what we live.
The nature of catastrophe
Central Area resident Patricia Valentine was recently honored for years of dedicated and innovative service to the community by King County Councilman Larry Gossett during the Wright's Night With Fashion, a gala fashion and hair show featuring designs by Glenn Wright, master tailor and designer.
The Shakespeare committee of the English Speaking Union (ESU) met recently on Queen Anne to finalize plans for Shakespeare Alive Workshops for local high school English and drama teachers. These will take place at the Seattle Center House Theatre on Sunday, Jan. 27, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. In addition, the committee undertook the important task of awarding a fellowship to a local high school teacher to study Shakespeare through performance at the Globe Theater in London, July 7-25. This fabulous, $4,500, fully paid scholarship is offered by the ESU British Universities Summer School (BUSS) program and is open to high school English and drama teachers with five to 15 years experience.
Bill Evans didn't start out to be an artist. In fact, he got a degree in architecture from the University of Washington in 1960 and worked in the field for a few years, he said. But then Evans got married, spent a year living like a hippie and traveling around Europe with his wife, he said, and discovered his true calling. The couple averaged 30 to 40 miles a day in a used van they bought, and Evans started doing drawings and sketches at each stop, he added. "And I decided that was what I wanted to do."
"Some Thing has found us," goes the tagline for "Cloverfield," an original but not-entirely-successful horror film in which practical questions about the identity, purpose and provenance of the Thing that has found and is wrecking New York City are essentially irrelevant. We're all conditioned to expect a certain amount of exposition in a film, giving us bearings vis-a-vis the who, what, when, where and why of a story. In a monster movie, it's usually a good idea at some point to let viewers know what kind of creepy thing we're dealing with. But "Cloverfield" disrupts expectations, leaving most essential questions unanswered about the origins of a Godzilla-like creature wreaking havoc on New York City. All we know is that, after plunging into an intentionally messy set-up that looks like something out of a primetime television series about 20-something Manhattanites, "Cloverfield" takes a sharp turn toward the unexpected and unexplained.
Queen Anne residents Lucy and Herb Pruzan have been collecting a diverse range of contemporary art for 50 years, art made predominantly by Northwest artists. A small sample of their collection, "NO JOKE: Selections from the Pruzan Collection" is currently being exhibited at the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner, Wash. As collectors, the Pruzans have been guided by their aesthetic sensibilities, as well as their commitment to quality and craftsmanship. No connoisseur-steered acquisition decisions: Their collection is a testament to their own discernment and their regard for an artist's intentions and skillful use of materials.
"The Breach" has lofty aspirations. The surrealistic play attempts to present the heart-wrenching, emotional devastation of the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe. Sorry, the best we can hope for from this flawed drama is a renewed social conscience. The biggest problem? The whole world watched the 2005 tragedy unfold on live television. And it was far more dramatic on CNN than the theatrical offering now playing at Seattle Repertory Theatre.