"...In other news, the Seattle City Council today accepted a preliminary draft final report from its subcommittee on What Seattle Can Do To Help Save The Woolly Mammoth ..." It's election time again. The smell of blue-ribbon panels is in the air. The city of Seattle is renowned - OK, notorious - for "the Seattle Way," an approach to decision making that at times seems to value the journey a lot more than the destination.
Beauty meets buffoonery in Seattle Repertory's season opener, Shakespeare's "Twelfe Night: Or What You Will." The production is not quite as glorious as its visual elements - stunning combinations of dazzling costumes and breathtaking lighting. It's oh-so-chic, but occasionally superficial and off-putting. From the time Duke Orsino utters his infamous opening line, "If music be the food of love, play on," "Twelfe Night" (the spelling in the First Folio) should be a frolic of disguise, deception and desire, whirling toward a delirious conclusion.
In comedy, they say, timing is everything. In romance, and dating, I say timing may not be everything, but it may prove more important than a charming smile or sexy T-shirt.Last year, I dated a guy we'll call Steve, to protect the not-so-innocent and highly litigious. By our second week dating, Steve had pledged undying devotion to me. Charming, right? He talked engagement and marriage, and while I basked in a rose-colored glow, it felt too soon to get that serious.
■ AUDITIONS: The North End-based Northwest Boychoir will audition boys age 6 to 9 on Oct. 13. No prior musical training is required.■ PLAYWRIGHT AUCTION: Seattle Dramatists will have its third-annual Playwright Auction and wine-tasting party at North Seattle Community College, 9600 College Way N., on Oct. 6.
Tristan Edwards (at near right), 8, tries to send his zucchini car back up the track after a race Sunday, Sept. 23, at the annual Fremont Oktoberfest.
■ HONORS: Foss Home and Village, 13023 Greenwood Ave. N., honored three North End residents for their service to the community before and after retirement: Bitter Lake's Vivian Harlan and Arlene VanderKlomp and Phinney's Relta Gray. GROUNDBREAKING: Merrill Gardens broke ground on its new retirement and assisted-living community at 5115 25th Ave. N.E., on Wednesday, Sept. 26.
PERMIT DECISIONS: 8926 Roosevelt Way N.E. (3004849) on a Land Use Application to allow a four-story, mixed-use building with retail at ground level, administrative office and five apartment units above. The following appealable decisions have been made based on submitted plans: Design Review conditionally granted; Determination of Non-Significance with conditions...
b> 8926 Roosevelt Way N.E. (3004849) on a Land Use Application to allow a four-story, mixed-use building with retail at ground level, administrative office and five apartment units above. Parking for 17 vehicles will be located below grade. Existing retail building to be demolished. The following appealable decisions have been made based on submitted plans: Design Review conditionally granted; Determination of Non-Significance with conditions (no Environmental Impact Statement required).
By focusing on modern clientele and architecture, the firm Pb Elemental continues to reclassify the sense of home for many in Georgetown."We feel that Modern architecture fits into any neighborhood since it is honest in reflecting today. The MTV generation are now the home purchasers," said Pb Elemental co-founder and Principal Chris Pardo.
Mayor Greg Nickels recently announced that the city was awarded two U.S. Department of Justice grants totaling nearly $1million to help victims of domestic violence. The two grants, from the Justice Department's Office of Violence Against Women, have a start-up date of Oct. 1."These federal funds will enhance our city's ability to provide top quality services to some of the most vulnerable members of our community - victims of domestic violence and their children," Nickels said.
Seattle Parks and Recreation is seeking nominations for the Denny Awards, which honor volunteer service to the city's parks system. The deadline for nominations is Oct. 15.The awards will be presented at the second annual recognition ceremony to be held at the Olympic Sculpture Park on Tuesday, Nov. 13.
SouthEast Effective Development (SEED) in collaboration with King County Superior Court Community Programs (KCSC) and Seattle Public Utilities is launching the Paint-it-Out graffiti removal program for business and property owners in Southeast Seattle. The goal of the Paint-It-Out program is to help eliminate graffiti in South Seattle by painting it out as soon as it goes up. Graffiti clean up alone costs United States cities tens of thousands of dollars each year. These are funds that could be used for art programs, schools, roads, parks, and other community improvements.
The magazine salesman who allegedly choked an Eastlake woman Aug. 31 until she was unconscious and then stole her phone and laptop computer, is in jail. He was arrested in Oregon on Sept. 12 as a member of a crew of magazine-subscription salesmen working for Michigan-based Urban Development Solutions.
y Queen Anne author Jack Hamann's reckoning in "On American Soil," 28 African-American service men stationed at Fort Lawton were railroaded at a court-martial in the summer of 1944. Published in 2005, the book caught the eye of fellow neighborhood resident and U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott, who vowed last year to correct what is widely believed to be an injustice. McDermott wanted to get the convictions overturned if warranted, but he faced a daunting task because normal channels would have involved multiple layers of bureaucracy at the Veterans Administration.But the liberal McDermott was able to enlist the aid of Rep. Duncan Hunter, a conservative Republican who was the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee at the time. The unlikely alliance cleared the way for the convicted soldiers or their descendents to use a single point of contact at Army Board of Correction of Military Records.
They went and pulled another equinox on us, which can mean only one thing: Seattle Art Museum film curator Greg Olson is primed to celebrate the autumnal rite of the SAM film noir series. He has two additional things to celebrate. The series' 2007 edition sold out about five minutes after Olson announced his 10 feature selections, to be shown at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays from Oct. 4 through Dec. 13 (skipping Thanksgiving). And this year's slate of Hollywood's blackest art is the 30th such program Olson has assembled for the museum, and for a devoted corps of Northwest noiristes.