Seattle Opera's Executive Director Kelly Tweeddale announced this week that the company has appointed Sue Elliott as its new director of education.Elliott begins July 12. Perry Lorenzo, Seattle Opera's director of education from 1992 to 2009, died Dec. 19, 2009.
Aries (Mar. 20-Apr. 19) Jupiter has passed Uranus (June 8th), adding momentum to and increasing your good luck!
"Protektor" (Marek Najbrt, Czech Republic/Germany, 2009; 98 mins.)The World War II years remain an inexhaustible source of dramatic material, and as our culture grows ever more amnesiac, it's probably salutary that filmmakers keep trying to find ways into the period.
Thursday Farmers MarketGet fresh local produce, eggs, meat, cheese, fish, flowers and much more from 3 to 7 p.m., Thursday, June 10, at the Queen Anne Farmers Market on West Crockett Street. Bring your knives to get sharpened while you shop.
FOLKpark meets at 6:30 p.m.,Thursday, June 17 at the Queen Anne Neighborhood Service Center 160 Roy St., Ste. 100.
Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles (D-Queen Anne) announces re-election bid. Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles has announced her bid for re-election to the state Senate representing the 36th Legislative District.
Though Beverly Raines has been on family medical leave since early this spring, she had intended on returning to Lawton Elementary School where she was appointed last year.
When it comes to cinema, for some of us (not naming names here), the terms "Russian" and "lugubrious" tend to be interchangeable. So encountering a movie like "Hipsters" is either liberating or deeply unsettling to one's core values. This rollicking musical comedy, or comedy with lotsa music, is a hoot.
State Rep. Mary Lou Dickersonis inviting 36th District constituents to take part in her weekly Coffee Hour with Mary Lou, Tuesdays from 10 to 11 a.m. at the the Phinney Starbucks at 317 N. 67th St. Everyone is welcome. Dickerson emphasized that people are also welcome to contact her through her district office in Suite 310 A in the Ballard Building at 2208 N.W. Market St.; or call 206-545-6513.Thursday Farmers Market
Overnight IntrusionA woman called police at 8:57 a.m. on May 30 to report somebody had broken into her townhouse in the middle of the night. When police arrived at her home in the 1800 block of 12th Avenue West, the victim said that she had gone to sleep in her upstairs bedroom a little after midnight on May 30.Sometime after she had gone to bed, an unidentified suspect entered her home through a downstairs bedroom, which is used by the residents as a musical instruments room, and walked around the lower floor of the townhouse.
Who do members of the Seattle City Council represent?It's tempting to say, "Nobody," but that's not exactly true. If you would like to build a six-story, mixed-use cube (retail on the ground floor, market-rate condos above, maybe a floor or two of offices, if you're creative), there are at least seven out of the nine council members who will jump at your command. If your name is Paul Allen or Martin Selig, they'll use a pole vault.
In the past two weeks, neighbors in Queen Anne have been communicating on a blog about a suspicious-looking man who had been circling jogging routes, pretending to ask female joggers for directions and then soliciting them.
The Dow Jones just had its worst month in 70 years. Longtime allies now vote against us in the United Nations. Over 60 percent of voters oppose ObamaCare and Congress barely registers a modicum of respect. Oil continues polluting the Gulf Coast while the White House tries to get control of media coverage rather than the spill.
About 10 years ago, I was sitting in church on Easter Sunday when the priest brought up Kurt Cobain in his homily, no doubt to try to connect to the younger members of his University District parish. If you don't remember, Kurt Cobain was the iconic founder of the rock group Nirvana who transformed popular music 20 years ago before killing himself at his Seattle mansion at the apex of his popularity in 1994.
Procrastination is a learned habit. I was not born procrastinating. Procrastination is a habit I learned because it is useful. It is one of many coping strategies I've tried successfully for handling stress from things I'm afraid of doing, things I'm not ready to do yet or things I don't like to do. It allows me to put things off.