It’s such a great idea, you may actually want to hang out at the airport for extended stretches of time, especially today. Continue reading SeaTac Airport Brings Seattle Music to the Traveling Masses
Unfortunately, Seattle Shakespeare draws some unfortunate parallels between the plebeians of ancient Rome and Occupy Wall Street. The stage design is full of piles of rubble and bricks and walls full of dirty graffiti, while the Roman rabble are a pack of easily-duped sign-wielding backpack-carrying legwarmer-wearers. Continue reading Coriolanus Now in Its Final Weekend at Seattle Shakespeare
Neopolitan, Chicago, and American. These are the three styles of pizza featured in the first three weeks of this month’s “Pizza Parlor Friday Holler.” For the final installment, this New Yorker headed back down the hill to Lower Queen Anne to visit New York Pizza & Bar (NYP). As much as I enjoyed the month’s previous pizzas, I’d been salivating at the thought of New York-style pies so close to home since this restaurant opened. Continue reading Pizza Parlor Friday Holler: New York Pizza & Bar
These are films made for children and/or by children, a 10-day extravaganza of more than 100 features and shorts from 29 countries. The kids really run the show, with 15 of them (aged 8 to 12) on the festival’s Children’s Jury, judging the films and handing out the awards at closing ceremonies on February 5. “It’s Story Weather Outside,” so get out of the wind and rain and watch some movies, kids! Continue reading In Local Cinemas This Weekend, It’s Mostly For the Children
That’s Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Lethem, and Michael Chabon, who have all blurbed for Ben Marcus’s latest novel, The Flame Alphabet. Here’s Chabon’s outburst after reading the book: “Echoes of Ballard’s insanely sane narrators, echoes of Kafka’s terrible gift for metaphor, echoes of David Lynch, William Burroughs, Robert Walser, Bruno Schulz and Mary Shelley: a world of echoes and re-echoes—I mean our world—out of which the sanely insane genius of Ben Marcus somehow manages to wrest something new and unheard of.” Continue reading Two Jonathans & a Chabon Are Fired Up About The Flame Alphabet
Who am I to disagree with Sandra Kurtz, when she calls out the success of Hutchinson’s Liebe, Lust und Liede? So I won’t. Hutchinson is a founding member of the Mark Morris Dance Company, which is at this point in modern dance a lot like being a Knight of the Round Table. Using Brahms’ Liebeslieder waltzes — which in turn employ lyrical poetic outcries sung live by Inverse Opera–Hutchinson stages a formal dinner party where the tensions of love and attraction refuse to remain subtextual. Continue reading Seattle Dance Project’s 5th Program Takes on Brahms & Body Image
So head to the Aquarium to catch the pup while she’s still fluffy. Otters typically begin to shed their fluffy pup fur at about six weeks–and by ten weeks her coat will like an adult’s. The upside of losing all that fluff? Then the pup will be able to dive, which means plenty of swimming lessons from her mama. And just in time! Otters learn to open shellfish (by biting or pounding shells together on their chests) when they’re about three months old. Continue reading Zoo News Roundup: Otter Edition
