In lieu of the annual gingerbread house-decorating event, Magnolia Community Club has joined with Village merchants to present Winterfest on Friday, Nov. 30, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Why do some people climb mountains? As the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung wrote, quoting the poet Friedrich Holderlin, “Danger itself fosters the rescuing power.” It’s an observation backed up by the lower suicide rate recorded during the London Blitz.
SIFF has received The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ multiyear grant for its “African Pictures” program to be presented during the annual Seattle International Film Festival. SIFF will receive a total of $150,000 over a three-year period to showcase the filmmaking activity emerging from Africa.
I have always called Seattle’s Dexter Avenue “Dextrose Avenue.” That’s in honor of one of its major attractions: the Hostess Bakery. Since at least 1940, the beige, concrete building — with its streamlined, “moderne” curves — had been a mainstay of the originally industrial Cascade neighborhood (now the posh-ified and rechristened “South Lake Union”). It had its company name in big, red, backlit block letters visible from Aurora Avenue North.
Students from the Magnolia/Queen Anne area were named to the Dean’s List at the University of Washington for the summer quarter: sophomore Izumi Hansen; junior Tennessee Abbott, Carlee Goble, Nathaniel Henrickson, Megan Manning, Emily Tenenbom, Gretchen Traut and Isaiah Wales; and seniors Jared Butler, Juliette Cook, Jade Gee, Paul Matheson, Roxanne Moore, Evangeline Spracklin and William Weide.
It’s a holiday season tradition! Here is my list of overhyped and underreported local stories of the year. As usual, there’s no shortage of candidates — add your own! And, as always, here’s to better local news coverage in 2013.
In his dark, little ditty, “What Keeps a Man Alive?” from the “Three Penney Opera,” Bertolt Brecht opined: “Food is the first thing; morals follow on.” We’re a long way from Brecht’s beleaguered Weimar Republic, but too often, in modern America, we’re uncomfortably close to the presumptions of plenty summed up in the buzzword “foodie.” This holiday season, and beyond, too many among us will be challenged to sit down to a full plate.
Magnolia Chamber of Commerce’s celebration of Winterfest took over Magnolia Village for the 36th year on Nov. 30.