But all that is as nothing before the fury of a SoCal storm that lasts several hours. Let the L.A. Times show you a real winter storm. Downtown Los Angeles drowned under 0.59 inches of rain, and the “California Highway Patrol reported 422 traffic collisions.” (What is it with those clueless Los Angelenos? Always marching unarmed into their infrequent battles with rain….) Continue reading Button It, Seattle Snow Wimps, It Rained in L.A.
Seattle, of course, had its own version of Carmageddon in 2007. 19 days of a partially closed I-5, not just a weekend. But at the end, out came the Y2K comparison: “Traffic got a little worse later in the first week — but remained far better than average, despite slowdowns through the construction zone. […] Now that we know how the story turned out, it’s tempting to poke fun at all the dire predictions,” wrote Clark Williams-Derry in the Seattle Times. Continue reading Why Don’t We Tell People Not to Drive All The Time?
Mexican composer Daniel Catán died suddenly in his sleep this past Saturday. He was young, 62, and no one I talked to could account for his death, no one even knew if he was sick.
If he was best known for his opera for Los Angeles Opera based on the Italian film Il Postino, Seattle Opera audiences no doubt remember him as the composer of Florencia en el Amazonas which had its Seattle debut in 1997. Continue reading Florencia Composer Daniel Catán Dies, Suddenly, at 62
