A flashback to the youthful days of the Emerald City
A lesson in Rain City humility.
Seattle Repertory’s I Am My Own Wife: Fascinating, Confounding Persona
John Allis weighs in on the Seattle Rep production that celebrates and explores one of Germany’s most notorious figures in I Am My Own Wife.
Seattle Chamber Players sail their Icebreaker around the Mediterranean
Among Elena Dubinets’ many brilliant ideas is her vision of a showcase of new music from around the world, where audiences could meet and discuss the music with the actual composers themselves. That brilliant idea that has become the Icebreaker series, which has moved from Russia through the Baltic, across land to the Caucasus and America and now, this year, to the Mediterranean.
Pierce County’s Kneejerk Xenophobic Desire to Keep Religion Out of Schools
A group of concerned parents and a local activist group in Puyallup fear that the Council on American-Islamic Relations is seeking to create a terrorist cell in their midst by raising Islamic awareness at a Pierce County school district.
Carol Guess Delves into Doll Forensics
Though Carol Guess has been in the lit world for some time, her latest project Doll Studies: Forensics immediately grabbed my attention because of the unique subject matter. It isn’t every day you stumble upon a book of prose poetry that focuses on 18 dioramas of actual crime scenes…
Catching Fever
Robert Fever awoke on cold cement feeling like he had been run over by a car. He winced as he sat up. By the shifting light of the naked bulb that swayed above him, Robert saw that he was down in his own basement. Dusty, uninviting workout machines provided the room’s only furniture. Several campaign posters that read “CATCH THE FEVER!” in red white and blue were stacked in a corner.
10th Annual Seattle Festival of Improv Theater Soars into Action in the U-District
The uproar of laughter could be heard spilling out on to University Avenue from the two University District theaters hosting last night’s performances at the 10th Annual Seattle Festival of Improv Theater (SFIT). Tonight will mark the third evening of the five-day festival hosted by Wing-It Productions, with back-to-back performances by several troupes from all over the world.
From Puyallup to the Present: Day of Remembrance Events, 2012
Tamiko Nimura reflects on the various meanings conjured by the Day of Remembrance, the next of which takes place this coming weekend around Seattle.
See Me Naked by Maria Glanz at West of Lenin: Unassuming Nature
In which Jose Amador discusses Maria Glanz’s See Me Naked and finds that the title is simply the lure, whether the production delivers on the promise of the title is just an excuse to get one thinking about society’s general preconceptions about the nude body.
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