"The new building's metal skin looks like the shining surface of a jet," wrote Claire Enlow in a story about the then-new Experience Music Project building for Architecture Week. "Yet it ripples and floats freely, inviting historic references to sculptural drapery from Nike of Samothrace to Claus Sluter's Fourteenth Century carvings (Gehry's favorite). Ribbons of translucent 'roof sculpture' add another undulating layer." The ballyhoo about Paul Allen's proposed high-tech museum, the Experience Music Project, at Seattle Center raised great hopes among Seattleites in 1996 when famed architect Frank O. Gehry was retained to design the building. Unfortunately, as the building took shape, faces grew longer and longer, until even the glowing praises of professional architects and architectural journals could not convince Northwesterners that they were just being provincial.
Three Magnolia girls are performing in in Pacific Northwest Ballet's "A Mid Summer Night's Dream." In order of appearance is Katharine Grimm (Our Lady of Fatima), Eileen Kelly (St. Anne) and Ashley Ochsner (Our Lady of Fatima). Performances run through April 13 at McCaw Hall. For more info go to www.pnb.org.
The Fire Monkeys have won the Gold Division Championship of the Amateur Athletic Union league in Magnolia. The team of 10-year-olds won by a forfeit by Bitterlake. Magnolia and Bitterlake were tied for first in the regular season but Bitterlake bowed out of the final cementing Magnolia's championship.
What if taking action to green the earth was as easy as taking a walk? In Queen Anne, that may not be too far away as neighborhood leaders are meeting about ways to green up the neighborhood.Progressive ideas already being discussed by Queen Anne neighbors include converting the lot adjacent to the Farmers Market into a fully functioning garden, turning parking strips into vegetable gardens and urban sharecropping in which backyards are made available to community members for gardening projects.
Local business donates $225,000 to Counterbalance Park Precision Earthworks LLC has gotten a good start on Queen Anne's newest green space: The Counterbalance Park: An Urban Oasis. Designed by Iole Alessandrini from Murase Associates, recently begun work on the park was expected to take 90 days, said Jean Sundborg from the Uptown Alliance, the community group spearheading the project. "It's definitely on schedule and maybe a little ahead of schedule," she said.
Non-traditional high school avoids cutting teachers but cuts intern program and planning The Center School, the eight-year-old, non-traditional high school affixed to the Seattle Center, has had a rough year as its enrollment dropped slightly forcing the school's principal to cut an internship program and teacher training and planning programs. Center School enrollment dropped from 282 last year to 270, that's only 4.2 percent, but the school's budget is driven by enrollment and so it has fewer dollars to work with.
The following are based on incident reports from the Seattle Police Department's East Precinct. They represent the officers' accounts of the events described.DRUG INCIDENTJust before 11 p.m. on Thursday, March 27, officers received an anonymous call from an East Denny Way resident who said that several men were taking part in illicit narcotics activity in a nearby alley
Just six months ago in this space, I wrote about my favorite memory of the Broadway Jack in the Box It took place on a leisurely late Saturday night, sometime in the late 1980s. Dozens of teens and young adults, one or two at a time, barged into the building, past the counter, and straight to the restroom doors. They discovered the restrooms were now locked to non-customers. They all turned around and barged straight out of the restaurant, without buying anything or speaking to anyone.
I agree wholeheartedly with Mike Davis's comments regarding the ex-Ballard Denny's achieving landmark status. One has to wonder where Seattle's Landmarks Preservation Board members park their brains at night. They allow the gracious old apartment building across from Kerry Park overlook to be torn down, while protecting this curiosity. Where did they grow up? Disneyland? Janise Hawes QA
Brainwashed by a plethora of dumb movies, we've come to rely on comic-book images and plots to tell us what a movie "means," the accessible summing up that we can carry home in our mental pockets like a good-luck charm-warding off any further thought or discomfort. The movie's over, let's go home, move on to the next distraction.
Ten years ago, Peter Marchese packed his bags for Seattle and bid adieu to his hometown of Las Vegas. Fueled by his passion for playing music, Marchese hoped to land on his feet among rock 'n' roll hopefuls and start his own band. Reaching toward the local music literature, he discovered a want ad from a local guitarist Jeramy Koepping, who shared his same goal. In the ad, Koepping left merely a sketch of his vision: a few names of bands he had been listening to at the moment and his contact information.
When the local theater company Open Circle doesn't have a theater, the choices for performance space are limited.Open Circle did borrow Theater Schmeater for a recent production of "R.U.R." But space is tight on Capitol Hill and this has left the company looking at more unusual alternatives.
he following are based on incident reports from the Seattle Police Department's East Precinct. They represent the officers' accounts of the events described.Drugs, ETCAt 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 2, officers on routine patrol saw three men crossing East Denny Way at Bellevue Avenue East against the red Don't Walk signal. A car driving along East Denny Way had to stop in the middle of the street to avoid hitting them. Officers waited until the light turned green and then pulled over to talk to the men.
Last week my father, who passed away in 2000, would have celebrated his 95th birthday. The beautiful spring weather of early April inspired me to walk over to Seattle University's St. Ignatius Chapel during my lunch hour to attend a Mass. This is one way I honor my dad, to acknowledge the day of his birth and spend some quiet time in reflection.
This week, Seattle media is going to be given over to All Dalai Lama, All the Time. Count on it.As part of his seemingly endless globetrotting on behalf of Tibetans, Buddhist and more generally the cause of peace, His High Holiness alights in Seattle for five days, from April 11-15, for a series of high-profile events, including appearances at Qwest Field and Bank of America Arena.