FDA Warns Consumers Not to Eat Raw Oysters Harvested from Hood Canal Area 4 in Washington State OYSTERS Hood Canal and Samish Bay reopen October 1 for oyster harvest All areas are open with no restrictions for Vibrio bacteria[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Culture’
September 20th, 2011 - 8:27 am § in The Ave Scene, UW
UW: The Early Entrance Program Begets a Great Pianist
from PANDORA: Pianist Aaron Parks is a forward-thinking jazz musician who came to the public’s attention during his time with trumpeter Terence Blanchard. Born in Seattle, WA, Parks began playing piano at a young age and by the time he was 14 had enrolled in an early entrance degree program at[...]
September 19th, 2011 - 7:25 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
A UW Graduate Writes About Howard, I. Self Segregation
Dear AAUP: Just a note as a lurking alumna. I got my Ph. D. from Slavic Languages in 2001. I worked as a Mellon Post-Doc at Emory University the two years after that. Since then, I have mostly been working as a lecturer at Howard University in Washington DC, a HBCU. HBCU stands for Historically Bla[...]
September 14th, 2011 - 8:45 am § in The Ave Scene, UW
Henry Gallery Exhibits Mt. Rainier Made of Seattle Junque
Image 2: David Herbert. Holy Mountain. 2011. Digital collage. Courtesy of the artist and Postmasters Gallery, New York. Seattle native David Herbert utilizes everyday materials, including Styrofoam, PVC pipes, and Scotch Tape, to create eccentric sculptural installations of iconic subjects. During a[...]
September 14th, 2011 - 6:12 am § in America, The Ave Scene
BREAKING NEWS: Trouble, serious trouble, at Fort Lewis
At an Army base near Seattle, soldiers are committing suicide, murdering their families—and in one case, waterboarding their own kids. Winston Ross reports from a base on the brink. excerpts from The Daily Beast. Jonathan Gilbert had no idea what he was getting into—that he’d wind up in Iraq, [...]
August 17th, 2011 - 5:53 pm § in America, The Ave Scene
Totem House: an obituary
Totem House was one of Seattle’s Few non-Thai but inexpensive places to eat fish. It is now being replaced by a branch of the Red Mill … one more burger joint? The sign now says they re-open this month. Albert Fikes stumbled into the offices of The Seattle Salmon, severely dehydrated[...]
A Tolly Story
Some of you may know that we own and have restored the Aquila, a beautiful 1981 34 ft Tollycaft Tricabin. Tolly is the builder of our boat and a hero to many of us. At 100 years old, he is quite an amazing man. If you do not boat, however, you may not understand our […][...]
May 14th, 2011 - 7:19 am § in America, The Ave Scene
Recommended Reading:
Ed. When our children were little, Barb and took them to visit the grave site of Chief Seattle, a trip I recommend for every child growing up in this city named for an amazing man of peace. Despite the name of this city, monuments to our history or all quite sad. The totem pole […][...]
May 9th, 2011 - 9:13 am § in The Ave Scene
BREAKING NEWS: Tolly Dies
For those of you who have not had the pleasure of knowing the creator of something beautiful you own, this may mean little, but last Saturday “Tolly,” Robert Tollefson, the man who built our boat, died. I also came close to dying when I was 13 years old. This was back in Boston, wher[...]
April 22nd, 2011 - 1:43 pm § in America
Poon Caught in Unfunny Prank
Ed. Why is this funny? It is funny to ME because the National Lampoon grew out of my college humor magazine, The Harvard Lampoon. Only Harvards (what we call ourselves) could pull off creating a national commercial success out of a college prank pub. Still not funny? Well, the nationalization [...]