"Please don't let me fade from your heart. I don't want to die a second time." These words by artist-poet Dario Robleto might well be those of Emma Frye, calling out from her grave to the audience viewing "Heaven is Being a Memory to Others" at the museum she founded with her husband. In this unique exhibition, Robleto honors Emma's memory by drawing together selections from the Frye Art Museum's collections and combining them with his own sculptural installations.
January of the New Year 2008 opened with great news for Jane Austen fans and millions of PBS Masterpiece Theatre enthusiasts of the beloved British drama series.Masterpiece Theatre broadcast the adaptation of Jane Austen's six novels. Enthusiastic viewers were invited to tune in on Sunday nights for "The complete Jane Austen" new presentations of Northanger Abby, Persuasion, Mansfield Park and Sense and Sensibility.
Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch) is pretty much a young Elvis behind the wheel of a homemade hotrod. He comes from an honest, hard-working family and the love of his life is his grade-school sweetheart and confidant, Trixie (Christina Ricci). But growing up he learns a tough lesson from his older brother Rex and from the racing industry, a world that in the hands of directors Larry and Andy Wachowski, glows in rainbow neons, is full of futuristic race courses, cartoonish racecar drivers and retro-futuristic cars that battle one another like kung-fu masters.
As just about everyone knows, Capitol Hill is rich in apartment building designs. The Anhalt buildings of the late 1920s and '30s are especially treasured. Designer and builder Frederick William Anhalt created what he called "apartment homes" which continue to flourish and serve as locally grown exemplars of gracious urban living. The one pictured here is the Anhalt Arms, formerly the Berkeley Court, at 1405 E. John St. It was built in 1927 by the Western Building and Leasing Company, Anhalt's company at the time. It is one of few remaining Anhalt apartment buildings still in use as rental apartments.
A lot has changed since Stephen Benbrook opened Zion's Gate Records on East Pike Street nine years ago. In 1999, the biggest record retailer wasn't iTunes. Broadway on Capitol Hill several new and used record records stores - remember Orpheum? - and most people were buying their music on compact disc.Well, now it's 2008 and iTunes is the No. 1 music retailer in the United States. Apple is beating out not just online retailers but the big brick and mortar retailers such as Wal-mart and Best Buy Company as well, to say nothing about smaller, independent stores. The iTunes music collection contains more than 6 million songs, and according to Apple, its 50 million customers purchased more than 4 billion songs since it launched iTunes in 2003.
Two major developments in local transportation planning during the last month point to a worrisome trend. With universal frustration over our area's interminable transportation and planning gridlocks, new efforts to try to solve the problem seem intent on saving time and hassle by cutting the public out of the decision-making process.
Warning: This is one of those rambling pieces that goes back and forth in time and topic.Seemingly yesterday, we were in a domestic economy where most prices (and most wages) were stagnant, but home values skyrocketed. Individuals and families struggled to qualify for now-discredited "creative financing" deals, so they could join the homeowner class before it was too late. Now, we've got a situation in which everything's going up except the value of homeowners' investments.
In Drinking 101 college students learn, sometimes brutally, that tequila makes you sleep in doorways. While that may be true for freshman drinkers, The Saint, a new venue on East Olive Way where the Wing Dome used to reside, is elevating tequila to an art.Quentin Ertel, the man behind The Saint, proudly talks about his 83 volume "library" of tequilas.
Though the bill reads "20th Anniversary," The Posies' Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer have been making music together a even longer than that. But no matter where you land as a music fan on their 20 year timeline, there's probably at least one Posies record in your collection. When the two songwriters first conspired together in the early 1980s, Stringfellow says the two had no 20-year plan in mind. Late into their teenage years, the focus was one-day at-a-time. Similarly, the respective careers of The Posies' co-founders have echoed that approach.
That the middle of Broadway is changing is pretty hard to miss. With Sound Transit taking possession of nearly one-and-a-half blocks on Broadway south of East John Street to build Broadway's light-rail station, numerous storefronts are now empty or soon will be as the transit agency prepares to demolish the buildings.For Michael Dobbie, who has lived near Broadway for 10 years, the vacated properties present a vital, albeit temporary opportunity. He envisions creating a community arts space in one or more of the vacant storefronts.
GRAHAM HILL - Discover Dance, A Portrait of Community, a dance and music event held on March 22 at McCaw Hall, was the culmination of an artist-in-residency collaborative between Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB), Graham Hill Elementary School, and four other Seattle public schools.
BEACON HILL - During a March 18 community meeting on Beacon Hill, Seattle Police Department representatives ensured the neighborhood they are working hard to catch a man who has been assaulting Asian women and girls on Beacon Hill. The authorities are urging the public to call 911 if they see anything suspicious.
Last week, Sonics fans were up in arms about the failure of the state Legislature to act on a last-second request for state funding to upgrade Key Arena. Much grumbling about a "legislature that doesn't do anything!" ensued on sports talk airwaves, not normally an arena for political analysis.
It took me a while, but I am finally a Chris Gregoire fan and political supporter. For me it was personal, as the ex-president of the Black Student Union at the University of Washington, in the early '70s.
For a few minutes, once a week, I listen to a local talk show flack named Dori Monson to see what's caused his latest sputtering indignation.