Growing up in Huntington Beach, Calif., a young Rick Hoberg sat captivated in front of the television, admiring the great Tarzan as he leapt from tree to tree. As he grew older, Hoberg never lost his admiration for heroic characters like Tarzan, and he maintained a mixture of respect and fascination for superheroes and mythology in general.In 1975, Hoberg broke into his professional career when he began doing assistant work for Tarzan Comics. He also worked for such renowned names as Marvel Comics and Hanna Barbera, creating comic-book covers, penciling and inking. In 1977, Hoberg got his "big break" when he began working for Lucasfilm. As a freelance artist, he worked on the original first six issues of the "Star Wars" comics.
If you live in Wallingford and have a pear, apple or plum tree you're not using, you may be interested in the Wallingford Community Fruit Tree Harvest.As part of a pilot program, two Seattle organizations, Lettuce Link and Seattle Tilth, have developed a program to collect unwanted fruit from Wallingford fruit trees for distribution to local food banks.
Many years ago, I became infatuated with Bucatini all' amatriciana (Ah-ma-TREE-chee-ah-nah), a pasta dish so beloved in its native land that two Italian cities - Rome and the smaller Amatrice, about 80 miles northeast - lay claim to its origin. In mid-August, this wonderful dish is traditionally served throughout Italy for the holiday of "Fer Agosto," when most factories and stores close and the Italians relax and feast. Amatriciana is a somewhat spicy, tomato-based sauce with a uniquely complex flavor for a dish of such few and simple ingredients. Its richness comes from the addition of sautéed, cured pork cheeks, called guanciale (gwahn-CHAH-lay), which have a wonderfully intense and concentrated flavor, despite their low fat content relative to other cuts of pork.
After learning that I had accumulated enough mileage credits to fly to virtually any destination imaginable, it took me only a few seconds to say aloud the word Paris. Years ago I'd visited the city, like so many other hippie kids with a backpack and a hundred bucks that needed to last me. It wasn't the right time to experience a city as culturally alive as Paris, yet its contrasts to the American aesthetic, how it felt to weave through its ancient-ness, poured into my psyche and took root, lodged in me ever since.On the way to the airport, the thought of sitting in a wicker bistro chair while sipping a glass of vin was enough to transport me, and as my taxi sped by Boeing Field, my gaze fell over the skyline until the rise of hangars became the hills of Montmartre, Harbor Island the Left Bank of the Seine ... et voilà! Paris unveiled itself again.
t's as simple as a mathematical equation: The Depression-World War II generation is passing away; therefore, Boomer kids are undergoing the loss of their parents, a universal experience that remains one of life's most intensely private ordeals.Not everyone is a poet who can both live and utter it.John Marshall is one.Marshall, Queen Anne High School, Class of 1970, has written "Taken With," a series of 26 poems about the decline and death of his mother, Eleanor Wallace Marshall, a lively, gregarious woman with a sharp wit who lived on Queen Anne's north slope.The letterpress edition has just been issued by Wood Works, which published Marshall's previous chapbook, "Blue Mouth," a finalist in the Washington State Book Awards in poetry in 2001.Marshall and his wife, Christine Deavel, live near Maple Leaf and operate Open Books in Wallingford, the one poetry-only bookstore this side of Boston.
Harry Brock, the boorish businessman at the center of "Born Yesterday," has money, lots of it. He boasts that, with his money, "I can run the men who run the country." Money and politics - one of America's enduring love stories. Although the play, currently on stage at ACT Theatre, is half a century old, it's still pertinent today.But it's not a political diatribe. It's a rollicking comedy built around an almost naïve belief in the democratic process. Its author, Garson Kanin, had an idealistic view of our country. In "Born Yesterday" the struggle between the selfish and the unselfish is won by the good guys.
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Ever read the neighborhood association articles in the Kirkland Courier and thumb through the pages looking for information on the Norkirk neighborhood? My husband and I have, so we attended a Norkirk Neighborhood meeting and I volunteered to put Norkirk in print.The first agenda item was the approval of next year's board. The new slate of officers are Eric Eng, chair; Mary Redmayne, vice chair; Mike Nykreim, secretary; Becky Klinicke, treasurer; and Peter Bartnick, Judi Radloff and Jeff Blumer as members at large.The second item was the picnic.
I can offer no greater proof of devotion than this: For the screen name on my personal e-mail account I took the moniker of a minor, but oh so memorable, character in Preston Sturges' "Christmas in July."Sturges was an American original, a Renaissance man for the 20th century who - in between inventing kissproof lipstick, running a grand but money-losing Hollywood eatery and going into short-lived partnership with Howard Hughes just as that fellow American original took a definitive turn toward whacko - wrote and directed eight of the most remarkable movies ever released in a stretch of barely five years (1940-44).
Kirkland's Nature Vision team won a bronze medal at the 2005 Destination ImagiNation Global Finals held May 28 in Knoxville, Tennessee. The four eighth-graders, Emily Andrews, Hallie O'Brien, Ryan Flanagan and Russell Yamamoto, competed in the "IMPROVing Along" middle-school division against 59 teams representing other states and foreign countries
The International Community School held its fourth graduation ceremony at the Kirkland Performance Center on June 16. The class of 2005 consisted of 46 very motivated students! They received their diplomas from their principal Cindy Duenas and assistant superintendent Dr. Cindy Meilleur. The following is a list of the graduates and where they will be going next year, which is all over the world
The National History Day (NHD) organization announced on June 7 that Andrew Ivy, international studies (history) teacher at International Community School was one of eight finalists for the 2005 Richard T. Farrell Teacher of Merit Award for outstanding success in teaching history. On June 16, at the NHD awards ceremony, they announced that he had won the award!
Rose Hill Elementary conducted its first comprehensive all-school emergency drill. The students were instructed to go into their safety positions under their desks for the earthquake drill. After teachers checked to see that the students were correctly in position, they were evacuated to the playground.
38 graduates said good-bye to BEST High School, finishing their secondary careers. Gayle Cudworth, principal, introduced each graduate with a glimpse into the individual's tenure throughout high school, proclaimed their dreams and led the audience in applauding their congratulations and wishing them well
A comical spoof of the classic "The Ugly Duckling," "Honk Jr." was recently staged in a collaborative effort of Carl Sandburg Elementary and Discovery Community Schools and Studio East. The play is a junior musical of the Hans Christian Andersen classic.