The Katherine Meloy Circle of the Association for Catholic Childhood (ACC) will once again sponsor the Magnolia Holiday Tour of Homes, on Dec. 1, to benefit women and children.
The month of January is dedicated to Mozart on-air and on-line at Classical KING FM 98.1 in recognition of Mozart’s birthday month. On Jan. 1, KING FM, headquartered at 10 Harrison St., will launch a new channel of all-Mozart music, available at KING.org, with no commercial breaks.
When Brooks Burford was going through some of his father Vern’s things recently, he found an old envelope tucked away in a box of forgettables.
“Wheel watch” mind is how poet and teacher Holly Hughes describes her personal discipline for paying attention. Hughes, who conducts writing classes at Edmonds Community College, knows whereof she speaks: She fished Alaskan waters for decades and has skippered big boats. Paying attention was not only an art but a survival skill, the way it is in grizzly country.
The Queen Anne and Magnolia farmers markets have experienced same highs and lows in recent years, from location to finances and much in between. Despite many challenges, however, both markets had record seasons in 2012 and have played pivotal roles in their communities.
What an ambitious and risky task director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal have at hand with their new film “Zero Dark Thirty.” Among other things, probably the greatest problem it faces is the fact that we know how the story ends.
Madison Valley will lose Thierry Rautureau’s much-loved Rover’s this spring. “The Chef in the Hat!!!” is closing what we might call “The Restaurant-in-a-House” after 20 years. (The property, not the restaurant business, is available for lease.)
Seattle’s holiday theater scene offers something for everyone — from the traditionalist to the most humbugging Scrooge. Here’s what’s on offer around town this year
An intimate, 35-seat seafood bistro, Tanglewood Supreme opened Oct. 25 in Magnolia Village at the site of the former Wheeler Street Kitchen at 3216 W. Wheeler St.
The Queen Anne Community Center has truly been the neighborhood’s comeback kid, after being nearly completely wiped from the mayor’s budget in 2011-2012. At that time, the center was to remain open, but the gym would have been rented to “BizKid$,” a national public-television series for children.
Through Saturday, Dec. 8, Queen Anne/Magnolia News columnist Mary Lou Sanelli will sign copies of her book “Among Friends” and her other titles at ACT Theatre (700 Union St.) an hour prior to its “A Christmas Carol” performances. For performance times, go to www.acttheatre.org.
Are you a teen with a passion for theater? Or are you a teacher with an interest in bringing theater to your classroom? If so, Seattle is just the place to be. The Seattle Repertory Theatre is one of many that offer many education outreach programs for youths and their teachers to explore the world of theater.
Reuven Carlyle says he can’t shop at the Queen Anne Trader Joe’s on Saturdays without being accosted by constituents concerned about coal trains. Make no mistake: Carlyle’s against them. The 47-year-old state representative from the 36th District and Queen Anne resident says the proposed project just doesn’t pencil out.
The same Internet that we use to check e-mail and shop on-line has now become a tool used by pimps to increase their profits in the sex trade. As the issue of human trafficking has continued to become more defined over the last decade, Washington state has been at the forefront in pioneering initiatives and other efforts to crack down on modern-day slavery and lend a voice to the voiceless.
Queen Anne director Arne Zaslove thinks “Our Town,” acclaimed as one of the greatest American plays ever written, is cursed: It’s cursed to be performed in gymnasiums, high school drama classes and community theaters where it is sentimentalized, portrayed as a homey and idyllic piece of Americana.