Last October’s first “Run the Bluff” drew more than 700 adults and kids to the starting line to run or walk the 12k/5k course. The event benefits Magnolia Community Center and local PTA’s.
In 2001, New York poet John Callaghan rode a Greyhound bus to Seattle...
Uptown Queen Anne is home to a number of arts venues, and on any given night, it can be fun guessing what people are headed for which happening.
Forrest Bondurant can definitely take a few hits. In fact in “Lawless,” Forrest not only takes hits, he gets his throat slit and is left for dead out in the cold and he gets shot three or four times. And he survives miraculously.
Among the many arts organizations residing at the Seattle Center, Book-It Repertory Theatre is unique not only in Seattle but nationally and perhaps even internationally.
It was a beautiful night for the community to enjoy the annual Fatima Fall Festival on Saturday, Sept. 29 from 6-9pm at the Our Lady of Fatima School parking lot and gym.
Lawton Elementary School has partnered with The Magnolia Historical Society (MHS) to have fifth and some fourth graders write their memoirs and study local history. Teacher Peter Hubbard and MHS President Monica Wooton have worked together on a series of classroom exercises and computer lab time to allow students to learn memoir-writing skills and publish their life stories.
The bartender down at the local pizza bar had never heard of Frank Langella. Langella has played Zorro; Sherlock Holmes; Dracula; Superman’s boss, Perry White; and a certain Richard Nixon. Don’t let the high-profile gigs, fool you: Langella, at 74, shows himself more in command of subtlety than ever.
Eight Pacific Northwest Ballet School students from the Queen Anne/Magnolia area have been selected to perform alongside company dancers in Kent Stowell’s “Cinderella”: Lauren Boehm, Smith Hunter, Michael Houk, Elizabeth Houk, Phillip Mergener, Emma Sluss, Roxanne Oglesby and Mackenzie Tobin. “Cinderella” will run Sept. 21 through 30 at McCaw Hall.
Some people, just by being true to themselves, send ripples of glad tidings throughout a community. Soft-spoken Myrna Canon, who turns 65 today, is one of those people.
It’s 1937 and the Panama Limited train pulls out of Chicago heading to New Orleans on the eve of Joe Louis’s iconic win over defending World Heavyweight Champion James Braddock. Opening with the work chants of the black slaves who laid the very tracks the train is riding, Seattle Rep’s 50th anniversary season opener “Pullman Porter Blues” takes us on a figurative journey through African-American history...
Those who attend art/documentary films may recall the ‘80s groundbreaker “Koyaanisqatsi,” with its stunning visuals contrasting natural and manmade worlds. The cinematographer responsible for that visually intoxicating 1982 film, Ron Fricke, now brings us “Samsara,” playing in a limited engagement through Sept. 20 at Cinerama, 2100 Fourth Ave.
Born on the cusp of the fall of Saigon, actor Trieu Tran embodies the Vietnamese immigrant experiences that are familiar to us from news stories, including a stay in a Thai refugee camp and flight from Vietnam in an overcrowded boat attacked by pirates.
Freshman defender Shayla Page, who scored a goal in both games the last week of September, received the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Week award for women’s soccer.
Expedia, Microsoft, Starbucks, and REI are just a few of the companies that have sent their best and brightest to be trained at a cozy 3,200 square foot suite on the east side of Queen Anne Hill -- the home of Oxygen Learning.