Seattle Repertory Theatre's Teenspeak: Playwriting Project, in collaboration with Roosevelt and Woodinville high schools, will present two evenings of staged readings featuring nine 10-minute plays written and performed by Roosevelt and Woodinville students and directed and produced by Seattle Rep staff and Teaching Artists. The Roosevelt cast will be on Jan. 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the Leo K Theatre; the Woodinville cast Jan. 22.
Let us now praise Tommy Lee Jones, who not only personally made the best movie of 2005 (the little-seen "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada") but has had the best of 2007 - Joel and Ethan Coen's film of Cormac McCarthy's "No Country for Old Men" - stolen out from under him by the uncanny Javier Bardem and the who-knew-how-good-he-was Josh Brolin.
The Uptown Neighborhood Center has shifted from 157 Roy St. to 160 across the street, but it continues to offer the valuable resources we rely on. You can avail yourself of these simply by walking in, any weekday between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Alarm raised over constitutional privacy concerns The Seattle City Council voted 6-3 on Monday, Dec.17, to pay for a $50,000 study that would determine how all rental units in the city could be inspected for housing-code violations.Outgoing council member Peter Steinbrueck, who cosponsored the legislation with council president Nick Licata, framed the argument for an inspection program as a way to tackle substandard housing in the city. But the inspection program raises constitutional concerns about privacy rights at both the state and federal levels, according to the Queen Anne-based Rental Housing Association of Puget Sound. "We [already] have an inspection program in Seattle," noted association president Julie Johnson in a telephone interview.
How do you identify a city that works? Endless magazines and Web sites make lists of livable cities, all of them different, all of them using different criteria. What do they have in common?
A patrolling officer spotted a speeding car in the 2800 block of Rainier Ave. S. and began following it. The driver stopped for a red light at Martin Luther King Jr. Way S. and South Walden Street, and when the light changed and the car sped off, the officer activated his emergency lights. But the car kept speeding along, causing the officer to turn on his siren.
It's January and you know what that means: If you're a working parent in Southeast Seattle with a little one due to enter preschool in the fall, it's a perfectly appropriate time to start panicking.
"Attention must be paid," says Linda Loman, widow of salesman Willie Loman, who committed suicide in Arthur Miller's drama "Death of a Salesman." I always wanted the word to be "ought" rather than "must" because I think there is very little that must be done.
Hi, I'm Chris Prutting. I'm 9 years old and go to St. Jude School. I am in fourth grade.
I intend to buy a pickup for my cello to make it electric. Elisabeth Brose, Magnolia
First it was to be trapped, then it was to be shot, and then the coyote in Discovery Park was to be assessed to see if it poses a danger to people. There have been reports that the animal isn't afraid of people, which could make for a close encounter of the painful kind for adults or children. But the animal certainly poses a threat to house pets, according to neighborhood resident Paul Merz, who saw the coyote loping through the neighborhood last week with a large cat in its mouth. He tried unsuccessfully to get the animal to drop the cat, Merz wrote in one of numerous coyote-related e-mails appearing in Magnolia's growing cyber-community.
Seattle Pacific University women's soccer coach Chuck Sekyra has been named the 2007 Division II National Coach of the Year by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. Sekyra's team went on a string of 23 consecutive wins in 2007, carrying them to the NCAA Division II semifinals for the second time in three years.
It may be 30 degrees outside, with the temperature dropping, but the Magnolia Little League (MLL) is preparing for the 2008 season. A huge part of MLL is the fast-pitch program. Since it began 1996, Magnolia Fastpitch has grown to be a competitive asset to District Eight, while at the same time encouraging fun and fairplay with all girls involved. "I have bee
Joe Geivett from Emerald Bay Equity said he didn't want to go into too many details because of the presence of the press, but he outlined some preliminary ideas for developing the Metropolitan Market site on Queen Anne Hill on Monday, Jan. 28. Speaking in front of a large crowd at a combined meeting of the Queen Anne Community Council's Land Use Review and Planning committees, the Magnolia resident said he hadn't yet closed on the deal to buy the property from Christina Cox and her two aunts. That should happen this spring, and the deal is in escrow for the time being, he said.
By Gigi YellenWeeknight classical music host at 98.1 KING FM, streaming at www.king.orgA Northwest Focus perspective from the other side of the radio Did you go to the symphony? Did they play a symphony? What's the difference between a "symphony" and an "orchestra"? Truth? Sometimes, there is none. "Seattle Symphony," for instance: that's an orchestra that makes its home downtown in Benaroya Hall. Seattle Symphony was once called "Seattle Symphony Orchestra," but they dropped that last word some years ago. In some cities, the biggest classical band in town is called "orchestra" (Philadelphia, Cleveland); in others they've fallen for the word "Philharmonic" (New York, L.A.).