Evening Edition: In The Periphery
Rather than focus on today’s biggest headlines, we choose to look to the oft-ignored corners of Seattle news on this fine Monday evening.
Tour De Farce
Emily had always assumed that someday she would grow to be a wise, old woman with refined tastes; as if the knowledge of fine wines and fine arts would simply come with gray hair…
Friday’s Performance by Sounds Major Has Seattle Audiophiles Cheering
If you’ve been waiting to see what two of Seattle’s most talented musicians can do when they combine their powers (for good, of…
SAL University: Eternity in a Ruffle
Seattle Arts & Lectures is presenting Eternity in a Ruffle: Fashion in Art, Art in Fashion, a five-session lecture series on the history of modern fashion and the ideas it engenders and engages. From what we wear to who we are, fashion is both a means of self-expression and a way that our times mark us historically. Tina Witherspoon agrees, and explores the implications of the series’ subject in her inaugural piece.
The Off Hours Winter Reading: Booze, Babes and Biting Words
Our literary maven, Heather Logue, went to The Off Hours’ Winter Reading on Thursday night, and lived to tell about it…
Evening Edition: Bad Lieutenant, Port Of Call Seattle
A busy news day, indeed: A new black-eye for the SPD; waffling politicos in Olympia; the Supreme Court puts its foot down on education reform; 520 Bridge tolling is all right; Dan Savage’s original act of civic duty; and, for dessert, a claymation version of a scifi/horror classic.
Hot Beer in the Winter Time
While many of us hunker down for this long dreary month, recovering from the winter holidays, we look for ways to get and keep warm. So, do we turn our backs on our beloved cold beverages and drink hot toddies? Ignoring delicious winter beers that are likely desperately crying out “Drink me!” in our refrigerators? Our Beer expert, Dikla Tuchman, has a way to use those lonesome ales: The Wassail.
KCTS’ Long Shorts – 1/2/2012: Some Great, Some Bad, Some In-Between
Though there are venues for local filmmakers to present the fruits of their labor, it could hardly be said that opportunities to reach a large audience are plentiful in the area. KCTS’s Reel NW, a program that’s a little over a year old, represents a rare chance to show a project to a potential audience that reaches most of Western Washington; this last Monday, they aired four short subject films. Jose Amador discusses them in length.
Theater Schmeater’s Live! From the Last Night of My Life: Outstanding Theater, Full Stop
When Wayne Rawley left Seattle in the early Aughts, he was a playwright who had finally seen the true scope of his talent’s…
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