6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (356+ words) You never know" is our motto, so putting skepticism aside I tried a small slice of the melon. Like that ice cream soda of many years before, something extraordinary was happening. Learning the Limits of Perfection: Ice Cream Sodas, Melons,…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (554+ words) Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from the new book, "Broadway Nation," by David Armstrong, for 18 years the artistic director of Seattle's 5th Ave Theatre. In fact, in these musicals, the fate and fortunes of the heroine or hero are closely…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (535+ words) Armstrong's book exhibits a massive amount of research and is a handy compendium for the genre of musical theater. It also has a strong, Trump-defying thesis, that Broadway musicals are "created almost entirely by people who were marginalized " immigrants, Jewish,…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1255+ words) For a sports town that savors its demonstrative sports bosses such as Lou Piniella and Pete Carroll, Lenny Wilkens could not have been more different. "When we'd get together for reunions," said Jack Sikma Monday, "we'd joke that doctors had…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago  (340+ words) One of the featured writers at this year's Summer Fishtrap Writer's Conference at Wallowa Lake was Joe Wilkins. Wilkins, who teaches at Linfield College in Oregon, is a writer who is new to me. I recently read, and loved, his…...

6+ mon, 5+ day ago  (591+ words) As every school child in the greater Seattle area knows, the Mariners are the lone MLB team never to have appeared in the World Series. Many theories have been advanced, particularly in the early years, for this championship desert. From…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1100+ words) To show how far the Mariners have come, particularly regarding the acumen of manager Dan Wilson, we reach back into some club history that you probably won't see dredged up anywhere else. As with Wilson, Maury Wills had no managerial…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (839+ words) The game was in the Kingdome, which for all of its aesthetic'and structural shortcomings, could do things with noise under its concrete roof that probably had military applications. Here's how Tim Salmon, the last batter of the Angels' season, described…...

5+ mon, 5+ day ago  (619+ words) This is an excerpt from Ramsey's book, Seattle in the Great Depression (WSU Press, 2025)." The Washington State Ferries " the second-largest car ferry system in the world after BC Ferries " will celebrate its 75th anniversary next year. Now under state ownership, its…...

6+ mon, 23+ hour ago  (669+ words) In retirement, I determined it was time for me to give back and make the world a better place. I decided to devote my considerable talents to rectifying mispronunciations. The French word "forte" means "strength." It is pronounced "fort," the…...