The five-minute warning bell was not the first sound to ring out across Coe Elementary School's playground last Thursday morning. Several children gathered around an electric piano and sang songs taught by their music teacher, Krista Carreiro.
There are some surprising statistics about our young people's knowledge and respect for the First Amendment that may induce involuntary hand-wringing among the multitudes.
The Counterbalance Park: An Urban Oasis was dedicated in an opening ceremony last summer, but Seattle Parks and Recreation is still stymied by an electronic glitch that has prevented all of the LED lighting from working.
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) wants to make the Nickerson Street corridor near the Lake Washington Ship Canal safer for pedestrians and bicyclists. There's a tradeoff, according to a workshop meeting March 4 with very little public notice.
On the North side of Magnolia near the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks there is a fork in the road with a sign pointing to Land's End. Gretchen Pfeffer, a retired seafood seller, has created a sanctuary at this edge of Magnolia unlike any other.
Rudy is a 12-year-old West highland white terrier and has lived in Queen Anne his entire life with owners Mary Perin and Gregory Podrabsky.
You can take it with you. That is, you can take with you a bit of history from Seattle Repertory Theatre. They're having a costume and prop sale for the second time ever since 1974.
INJU, THE BEAST IN THE SHADOW (Barbet Schroeder, France, 2008; 105 minutes)Barbet Schroeder, whose production company backed a lot of French New Wave classics, has had an uneven career as a director himself. Nothing in it prepared me for the stylish delights of this gorgeous movie.
Cultural performances of Vietnamese, Latina and Somalian student groups bloomed over the weekend as students, staff, parents and volunteers of the Secondary Bilingual Orientation Center gathered Saturday to bid farewell to the Old John Hay building that has housed the school for the last 10 years.
Around and aroundTaproot Theatre presents Around the World in 80 Days. The infamous story is a madcap, cross-continental race against time packed with adventure, danger, suspense and love. Through June 20. For tickets call 206-781-9707 or visit www.taproottheatre.org Pictured from left are Nolan Palmer, Ryan Childers, Alyson Scadron Branner, Andrew Litzky and Bill Johns. Photo by Erik Stuhaug.
Talk about self-indulgent. The vaunted Francis Ford Coppola, who has coasted on his name for decades with glossy husks such as "The Outsiders" "Godfather III" and "Rumble Fish," has done it again with an even greater flourish in "Tetro."
Seattle Pacific University's Class of 2009 isn't giving a bench for their class gift. They're giving a village. When SPU's Senior Gift Committee learned of Agros International's project to build a village in Comitán, Chiapas, México, they knew they wanted to be a part of it.
The not-quite-monthlong Seattle International Film Festival comes to an end this weekend, and with it a kind of enchantment. That's not a sigh, just a clinical observation. Festival season is a time out of mind when a certain rarefied order of cinematic experience is uniquely possible. A lot of people have been going to see a lot of films in SIFF 2009 that won't be seen on local theater screens again.
Since there has been so much media attention for Memorial Day and D-Day on June 6, even though it has been 65 years, D-Day and H-Hour are still very vivid in my mind and should not be left unobserved.June 6, 1944, started as an ordinary day. We were living in England in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire to be exact. My father was assigned to the administrative headquarters of the war office and spent his time between the HQ in Cheltenham and the War Office in London working with Winston Churchill. It was not unusual for him to disappear for several days without explanation. On this occasion, he had been away for more than days. My mother was on a short official visit to London working with the NIB (National Institute for the Blind) teaching visually impaired children to read Braille.
Short story fans from around Seattle flocked to the Queen Anne branch of the Seattle Public Library Saturday to be a part of the first annual Queen Anne/Magnolia News Short Story Fête.