Ichiro Fujisaki, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the United States, will be visiting Seattle Sept. 15-16, to participate in a series of events including a speech scheduled at the Seattle Rotary Club.
Newly appointed St. Anne School principal Mary Sherman grew up four blocks away from the school, where she, her six siblings -and even her father - attended school.
He's been at it for 28 years (two years prior to becoming music director), and so Gerard Schwarz, the beloved conductor of the Seattle Symphony, feels it's time to move onward.
If laughter is the best medicine, what better prescription for a nation mired in gloomy headlines and an uncertain economic future than a good belly laugh. Intiman's new adaptation of Moliere's "A Doctor in Spite of Himself" delivers them non-stop throughout approximately 90 minutes of clowning, sexual punning, comic physicality and downright cleverness.
The fact of the matter is this: When you travel during the summer you will pay for it.
"Gentlemen Broncos" was a good reminder that tags like independent, low-budget and quirky don't guarantee a profound, or even remotely worthwhile movie.
Parents of students throughout the Seattle Public Schools district finally have what they want most: predictability.
The Lawton Elementary School all-purpose room was abuzz last Friday with cheering students and teachers, much to the surprise of fourth grade teacher Peter Hubbard - especially when he realized the signs and cheers were for him.
A 3-alarm fire erupted in the former Sunny Jim building in south Seattle this afternoon. The building was empty. No one was hurt.Fire fighters trained water hoses on the blaze for several hours while police roped off intersections at Airport Way South and Industrial Way.
Just two men know precisely what happened on a sunlit Monday afternoon in downtown Seattle. But only one is still alive to tell about it.
The act of giving for Thanksgiving was dealt an unexpected blow last week after the burglary of Rainier Valley Food Bank, in which more than $1,500 worth of fresh vegetables and canned food was stolen.
The movement of Jerry Manning's mind resembles molten mercury. It rolls from one subject to another with quicksilver restlessness. He goes from the brilliance of Shakespeare and the culture of Jesuits to John Waters to the minor writings of the Marquis De Sade to the perfect Boston Crème pie.
The paint has little glass beads in it, and is only sold to governments, but it's the stuff that will make the new stained-glass installment shine at the Bayview Retirement Community in Queen Anne.
In his documentary, "Oh My God," filmmaker Peter Rodger asks his subjects from every corner of the world perhaps the question of all questions: What is God?
Despite its status as an historic landmark, the Old Hay building will likely be renamed after Caspar Wistar Sharples.