Aidan Lang's Seattle Opera debut
A morally reckless 'Don Giovanni' says less about the opera's new director than the meaning of art and politics.
Ronald Holden
Ronald Holden is a regular Crosscut contributor. His new book, published this month, is titled “HOME GROWN Seattle: 101 True Tales of Local Food & Drink." (Belltown Media. $17.95).
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The man who made Seattle a brew town
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Woe the pain of a parsnip, the bereavement of a beet, the sad state of spinach. Where is the humanity?