As musical families go, none can touch the name Bach.
Seafair’s King Neptune and Queen Alcyone (Jonathan Poneman and Jennifer Roth, respectively, this year) have dubbed their first 2013 knight in a black blazer, and it’s former Queen Anne and current Magnolia resident Mark Christopher.
A 12-year-old boy has been arrested for allegedly setting a fire to a carport in the 2800 block of 22nd Avenue West in Magnolia on June 20.
Nikos Gyros’ “12 Months/12 Causes” campaign for 2013 continues Sunday, June 30, with proceeds from that day’s sales benefiting Rainbow of Magnolia Fountains of Life.
Some days it seems the world is chock-full of killing grounds, some known, always more to be discovered. Filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer digs one up for our edification in Indonesia, where gangsters and paramilitary types massacred a couple million Communists and ethnic Chinese in 1965.
Summer turned out to be catastrophic for bloated big-budget flicks. Overhyped fare like After Earth, The Lone Ranger, Pacific Rim, Man of Steel, The Wolverine, et al., bombed with a vengeance. That won't stop these Hollywood follies from racking up record box-office overseas, where big, bad CGI'd action needs no translation. But American audiences may well be signaling a desire for smaller, well-written, character-driven stories—like the superb long-form fictions crowding cable TV these days.
The Seattle Department of Transportation came in for some heavy pounding at the Nov. 13 Magnolia Community Club meeting for its decision to set up Business Access and Transit lanes along the Elliott and 15th avenues west corridor.