Archive for the 'Seattle' Category
I was just thinking this week - I don’t even like the NBA, I don’t like the way the game is played, I don’t have a team (other than the default hometown Sonics and my childhood team Boston Celtics who haven’t been worth watching for 15 years). Do I really care if the Sonics previous […]
Clay Bennett, the Chairman of the new Sonics owners group, just noted during his press conference, “We have no plans to move the Sonics from Seattle.”
I say they are playing in Oklahoma City by 2010 - at the latest.
Unfortunately, Seattle most likely now has a 3 year lame duck team that will be cutting corners […]
Amy and I saw Superman Returns last night. We’ll be very busy the next few weeks, so we decided to spend the evening on a date.
First, we ate at at Buca di Beppo, a quirky-awesome Italian restaurant near the Space Needle. The restaurant is absolutely sprawling, and includes a table with a bust of Pope […]
In a recent article entitled “The Revolution of Everyday Life,” the Seattle Weekly (a free local paper) describes an “anarchist commune” that seeks to live out its values of social change, egalitarianism, nonviolence, ecology, simplicity, and community living.
It’s called the Emma Goldman Finishing School, and their website does not describe them as an anarchist commune. […]
Conversation in Seattle with Scottish Church Planters
Closed Published July 14th, 2006 on Radical CongruencyFrom Mustard Seed Associates (via their blog):
Join us next Thursday July 20th at 7 pm at the Sine house in Seattle for our conversation with Scottish church planters Peter & Deborah Nielson. The evening will be coordinated by Tim Soerens from Church of the Apostles.
Peter and Deborah are eager to meet […]
We went to the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle today (yes, their website is zoo.org. Very cool.). I took lots of pictures with my new camera. Some highlights:
Seeing sloth bear cubs fighting
Watching river otters swim
Watching a grizzly kill an elk
Komodo dragons
Bats
The sleeping jaguar
Elephant poo paper in the gift shop
Watching a patas monkey vomit, then eat […]
Top 4 reasons the NBA Draft didn’t go as I hoped.
Adam Morrison to Charlotte. The Bobcats will never be on tv in Seattle. Check that, they will be on tv twice – once when they play in Seattle and once when Seattle plays out there.
Sonics Draft Sene. The Sonics might as well have thrown in […]
After Cancellation, ‘My Name is Rachel Corrie’ Finally Comes to New York Stage
Closed Published June 23rd, 2006 on Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better PlaceRachel Corrie (photo: Rachelswords.org)
A few months ago we covered the shameful episode in which the New York Theater Workshop, which had contracted to produce the New York debut of My Name is Rachel Corrie suddenly got cold feet and cancelled the production. For those who don’t know, Rachel Corrie was an Olympia, WA native […]
We live in an area that has historically been one of the lower-income sections of the city. Rainier Valley, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, hasn’t had a new privately funded apartment building put up since 1974.
Things are changing, though. The light rail, which is currently under construction, is expected to accelerate gentrification. Columbia City […]
Last night I went with a friend to see An Inconvenient Truth (AIT), Al Gore’s documentary on global warming. Think of me what you will, but it was really a fantastic film and worth my admission fee. Ascetically, AIT was very clean and the visuals were more helpful than distracting (everything I would […]