David Brewster founded Crosscut. He is now the director of Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum.
Vivian Phillips, an experienced and respected arts manager and former director of communications for Mayor Paul Schell, is stepping into the top spot at the troubled Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center [http://www.cityofseattle.net/parks/centers/langston.htm], effective next Thursday. Phillips's
The Seattle Symphony, rebounding from a sweepingly critical article in The New York Times, [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/arts/music/16waki.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&adxnnlx=1200008121-zsXi36I7unQtf0A%20vLcqTw] has some good news to start the new year with. Music Director Gerard Schwarz was picked
San Francisco voters yesterday passed a $185 million green spaces levy [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/06/BADGUP126.DTL], aimed at restoring decrepit parks, adding a few new ones, and sprucing up recreation centers. Opponents grumbled about how the money would be spent, but
It's all about rewarding the wrong things, and aspiring to the wrong kind of metropolitan life.
First, a compliment to Bruce Agnew of the Cascadia Center for Regional Development [http://cascadiaproject.org/]. The guy keeps pushing for new ideas in transportation, even when the rest of us are running away from the Heartbreak House of bold new ideas to solve our congestion. Cascadia wants to gr
