RAINIER BEACH - Since Jan. 1, more than 1,000 members of the Rainier Health and Fitness Center (RHFC) have been logging their progress and have logged 27,191 miles with a total of 704 pounds lost. This three-year-old Rainier Valley business located at 7722 Rainier Ave. S. actually has exercise for any physical ability, age, gender and income level.
An incomparably great and beautiful film is showing in the Seattle International Film Festival, but I can't recommend that you attend. The picture, a masterpiece of visual storytelling and primal emotional power, is F.W. Murnau's "Sunrise." Marking the height of silent-film artistry, it is to acquire the addition of "a layer of aural poetry ... [R]enowned Sub Pop artists Album Leaf will perform a new live score." Except that "Sunrise," like most films
There's a vexing issue that doesn't get much press; not too many of us spend time thinking about it, yet it affects the future of all of us as well as all of our progeny. How long can we sustain our culture, our environment and ourselves if we continue to focus on "now" and give little thought to the long term?
There's a vexing issue that doesn't get much press; not too many of us spend time thinking about it, yet it affects the future of all of us as well as all of our progeny. How long can we sustain our culture, our environment and ourselves if we continue to focus on "now" and give little thought to the long term?
Dianne Chilgren remembers the first time she played for Jerome Robbins in the rehearsal studio. "He asked me if I was nervous," she said.A piano soloist at New York City Ballet, Chilgren regularly played for George Balanchine's rehearsals. She assured Robbins that she was not nervous and was ready to start.Robbins walked away, then circled back to the piano. "He slammed down the keys, just to see if I'd jump," Chilgren said. "I didn't, and he said 'Oh, you aren't nervous.' That was Jerry
Children performing an entire opera for the public may seem a far-fetched notion, but at Coe Elementary School it has been a reality-for three years. And now the ambitious volunteer-run project atop Queen Anne Hill takes a quantum leap with the world premiere of a new opera, "The World Below."Directed and cowritten by Coe parent Mark Power, who is producing the opera program with wife, Elizabeth, "The World Below"
In our over-mediated world, how we look at "framed" reality matters, because seeing can be believing. An image can almost magically clarify complexity - or reduce it to bloodless spectacle. That's when an election cycle may turn into just another season of "American Idol" or "Survivor: The Presidency."An international film festival offers a valuable chance to look at images from other worlds,
Pictures of hummingbirds, on paper trees made by the students, decorate corridor walls in the St. Anne Parish School. Those pictures, explained P.E. Instructor Ben Sauvage, tell a story.
It was only a matter of time, of course, before the health and fitness industry discovered its next big thing. "Brain fitness" is the new fad - and not only among the aging Baby Boomers. It's never too early to exercise your brain, we're informed. If we can fight our physical decline every inch of the way, we surely should be able to do something against the decay of our minds.
Of late, I have had occasion to ponder aging, the inevitability of death, and the choices we make leading up to these times of transition.One of these occasions has been the aging of our cat, Otto, who is 21 years old.
Details are sketchy, but a child was injured last week while playing on the merry-go-round that was installed in the first phase of the Big Howe Improvement Project (B-HIP).
Ride of Silence
Fire Station No. 41 in Magnolia Village needs work - $3.83 million's worth to be exact, according to Christina Faine from Fleets and Facilities.
ett Eisenhart can score three goals to take her Lakeside School varsity lacrosse team to a state championship, she can make varsity A 1st Team All-League, she can be named a U.S. Lacrosse All-American and still have enough time to go to her prom.
The hurrier I go, the behinder I get. After Googling that bit of wisdom for 20 minutes, I was unable to find the author, but whoever it was should be enshrined in a philosopher's hall of fame.