The Ninth Annual Stories of the Sea poetry and spoken word competition will be held Thursday, May 10, from 8 to 10:30 p.m. at the Highliner Tavern at Fishermen's Terminal, 3909 18th Ave. W.
Seattle letter carriers will be collecting food donations from local residents to donate to Food Lifeline during the National Association of Letter Carriers' 15th annual Stamp Out Hunger! food drive on Saturday, May 12. All donations will benefit people at the greatest risk of hunger in an effort to fight starvation.The Letter Carriers operation, the nation's largest one-day food drive, locally benefits Food Lifeline, Wash-ington's largest nonprofit hunger-relief agency.
You can't cure the woes of the human race and world in one day. Or one play. But Thornton Wilder ponders them in his 1942 Pulitzer Prize-winning tragicomedy "The Skin of Our Teeth."Way back when, what turned Wilder's satirical work into an avant-garde, play-within-a-play sensation seems old hat by today's devices. Stage directors interrupted the action, while actors time-hopped, broke character and spoke directly to the audience, even talked trash about the play. All de rigueur for contemporary theatergoers.<br
You can't cure the woes of the human race and world in one day. Or one play. But Thornton Wilder ponders them in his 1942 Pulitzer Prize-winning tragicomedy "The Skin of Our Teeth."Way back when, what turned Wilder's satirical work into an avant-garde, play-within-a-play sensation seems old hat by today's devices. Stage directors interrupted the action, while actors time-hopped, broke character and spoke directly to the audience, even talked trash about the play. All de rigueur for contemporary theatergoers.
There's an overarching narrative for at least the past year in how Seattle's local political and media establishment have been portraying the Seattle School District. It goes something like this: Seattle's public schools are in a terrible crisis. That crisis is due primarily to incompetent leadership, particularly on the School Board. What we need is fiscally responsible adults running the district, and everything will be better. br>The problem is that this narrative is not only untrue, but a calculated and self-serving agenda designed to restore to power the same unaccountable Old Boy (and Gal) network that left Seattle's schools in such a fiscal mess several years ago.
It's May, it's May, that glorious time of the year, when the earth wakes to the spring sunshine and the gardens of Queen Anne and Magnolia are lush and green, a blaze of color with blossoming trees and flowering shrubs.May, when this side of the Atlantic celebrates Mother's Day on May 13. In Britain, Mothering Sunday, as it is called, is celebrated on the fourth Sunday in Lent, on whatever date it happens to fall, but always before Easter. The celebration, like many old customs, dates from medieval times. Originally in honor of the mother church, it later developed into people honoring their own mothers with gifts of flowers and simnel cake, made from the ingredients left over from Shrove Tuesday's pancakes.
Today's perfect graphic description of Queen Anne would be a hill with a gigantic crane perched on top, with many smaller ones cascading down the sides, while Magnolia would be presented as a calm oasis, surrounded by quietude and still waters. Quite a contrast.Is the lack of rampant development in Magnolia due to the careful neighborhood preservation work of its citizens, or are the developers wary of a significant economic downturn when the Magnolia Bridge restoration project finally gets underway?
Today's perfect graphic description of Queen Anne would be a hill with a gigantic crane perched on top, with many smaller ones cascading down the sides, while Magnolia would be presented as a calm oasis, surrounded by quietude and still waters. Quite a contrast.Is the lack of rampant development in Magnolia due to the careful neighborhood preservation work of its citizens, or are the developers wary of a significant economic downturn when the Magnolia Bridge restoration project finally gets underway?
Nick Shiflet isn't as whacked as you think he might think he is.Shiflet - a.k.a. The Shifter, a.k.a. Cookin' Kitty, a Capitol Hill-based artist with an hourlong show on public access television - says he vacillates on the subject of his own perceived weirdness and idiosyncrasies."I go up and down thinking I'm strange," he says with just the hint of an ironic smile. "Sometimes I think I'm weird, and sometimes I just think I'm a normal person and everybody must think this way."
Nick Shiflet isn't as whacked as you think he might think he is. Shiflet - a.k.a. The Shifter, a.k.a. Cookin' Kitty, a Capitol Hill-based artist with an hour-long show on public access television - says he vacillates on the subject of his own weirdness and idiosyncrasies."I go up and down thinking I'm strange," he says with just the hint of an ironic smile. "Sometimes I think I'm weird, and sometimes I just think I'm a normal person and everybody must think this way."This from a 41-year-old man who shows up on television wearing a skintight cat suit, drinking gin and tonics and munching pine needles right off the tree.
Capitol Hill Times editor wins awardsCapitol Hill Times editor Doug Schwartz received two awards from the Washington Press Association. Richard Hugo House welcomes National Book Award winnerTim O'Brien will be at the Richard Hugo House for an onstage dialogue on May 15 at 7:30 p.m.Mother's Day screening of camp classic filmIn celebration of Mother's Day, Three Dollar Bill Cinema and Gay City Health Project will be showing Mommie Dearest on Sunday, May 13.Holocaust survivors speak at SCCCTwo Holocaust survivors and the daughter of the daughter of the late Dr. Feng Shan Ho will share their stories in "The Power of One: A Symposium on Resistance to the Holocaust. The event will be held at the Broadway Performance Hall at 1625 Broadway on Thursday, May 10 from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m.Capitol Hill Stewardship Council seeks new applicantsThe Capitol Hill Neighborhood Plan Stewardship Council invites interested members of the community to apply to fill one open at-large position.
"Christine," Lyle breathed as he strode toward her. His deep, penetrating, blue eyes showed the agony he'd endured during their interminable separation. His thick, dark hair ruffled in the breeze he created with his brisk stride. The crowd in the packed ballroom parted before his fierce but determined gaze and bold step....What? Did you want something? Oh, I know. It isn't great literature - that's kind of the point.
May 10 marks the kick-off of "Celebrate Urban Birds!" - an event looking to raise awareness of city birds and to fuel scientific studies on how birds use urban habitats.The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is sponsoring the event which hopes to activate citywide participation in gardening and bird watching.
The Rainier Little League season passed its midway point with exciting games and play around the South End. This week's recap features the following games:
The following information was provided by the city's Department of Planning and Development. The project number is in parentheses. For more information, call 684-8467.PERMIT DECISIONS 780 S. Michigan St. (3006261) on a Land Use Application to install a double-sided, externally illuminated billboard (one 14-by 48-ft. face westwardly and one 12-by-24 ft. face easterly) with an overall height of 50 ft. on a new monopole. The following appealable decision has been made based on submitted plans: Determination of Non-Significance with conditions (no Environmental Impact Statement required). Environmental review completed, and project conditioned as applicable. The hearing examiner must receive appeals of this decision no later than May 14.