Each of us, sooner or later, is cast in someone's idea of a perfect dinner party - the kind made memorable by feats of social alchemy. A host and/or hostess selects guests based on complementary (or, optionally, colliding) sensibilities. Whether the menu calls for Normandy pheasant or lasagna, the key to the visitors list is balance, not homogenization; lively association, not combat.
Remember block parties? What a great way to meet your neighbors and enjoy a beautiful summer evening. Joan Johnson reports that the second annual N.E. 95th Street Block Party was even better than the first.
Discrimination, of course, takes many forms. In the case race, for instance, the examples of discrimination are too numerous to count and have often been clear cut or a matter of public policy.
From his office at Town Hall at Eighth and Seneca David Brewster can gaze across the freeway to the steel and glass towers of downtown, the heart of the city where he has been so active. The First Hill view is the perfect perch for Brewster, a Madrona resident, to keep an eye on things.
Charlotte West couldn't wait until the end of school to visit Latin America. So the industrious 16-year-old found a way to make the trip part of her schooling.West, a junior at Nova High School in the Central Area, is one of seven students - the other six are from The Center School, at the Seattle Center - on a six-week journey to the tropical rain forests of Costa Rica from mid-February to mid-March.
When murder, revenge, insanity and, yes, even incest can make for a riveting evening of entertainment, you know something either peculiar or spectacular is going on.In this case, it's Seattle Opera's stunning première of the latest version of "Mourning Becomes Electra."
Nicole Howard's career revolves around befriending at-risk young people and being a stable part of their sometimes unstable lives."I feel like I have seven kids of my own," said Howard, who mentors first-grade girls through a program called Friends of the Children of King County. "I don't think I could ever let these girls out of my life."
Private homes in Discovery Park? Speaking for the Navy at a packed meeting of the Magnolia Community Club last week, Capt. Dan Squires denied it was possible - sort of.
"Misalliance," George Bernard Shaw's witty 1910 comedy, is a perfect match for Seattle Repertory Theatre's talented company. Director Sharon Ott steers a delightful evening of theater, with a stellar cast preening, posing and pontificating the glorious words and satire of the prolific playwright.
I read an article six weeks ago in the Washington Post about opium harvesting rates going through the roof in Afghanistan since the Taliban fell. Two weeks ago, as an Army journalist, I had my chance to ask Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld at a Pentagon Town Hall meeting what we're doing about it.
How about this for a change - a tale about a venerable Queen Anne house in the process of being saved?That would be the turreted Betts house on the pie-shaped lot where West Kinnear Place, Willard Avenue West and West Prospect come together .
We experienced a touch of spring last week. The glorious sunshine softened the chilly morning temperatures, and by midday we could stop and talk with each other comfortably. Suddenly we were not bundled up in clothes, fighting the cold and wet air.
Each of us, sooner or later, is cast in someone's idea of a perfect dinner party - the kind made memorable by feats of social alchemy. A host and/or hostess selects guests based on complementary (or, optionally, colliding) sensibilities. Whether the menu calls for Normandy pheasant or lasagna, the key to the visitors list is balance, not homogenization; lively association, not combat.
"So, Dennis. You send out your résumé and then you sit back here and wait. Why? Because you were the features editor of the school newspaper? Big deal! Those people don't care what you did in college. You've got to bug them."
The monorail is being planned and constructed by the Seattle Monorail Project, an independent governing agency that is not under the authority of the city of Seattle. The SMP Board also makes the decisions about station locations and route. However, the City Council has areas of both authority and responsibility over the construction of the monorail. As steward of the public trust in city right-of-way, the city has an opportunity and obligation to ensure that the plan is workable and effective before granting the SMP authority to use the right-of-way.
Half a pencil stub.A scuffed-up soccer ball.You wouldn't think such items would make two shakes of difference to anyone. Yet local students - with the help of a Magnolia-based nonprofit organization - are learning that such seemingly negligible goods can wax infinitely valuable for impoverished children in distant countries.
I listed all the radio stations to which I had set the buttons on the car radio, and was somewhat amused to realize that four of them turned out to be "oldies" stations. Can I help it if I'm forever stuck in my teenage years during the '60s?
