The play depicts young love quashed by implacable social forces. The theater company's story is one of bravely surviving amid censorship in Uzbekistan, while drawing on folkloric and boldly experimental performance styles. It adds up to a remarkable night of theater.
The Vashon Eagles were fuming when Washington passed its smoking ban. Two years later, the smoke has cleared and, really, it's not a big deal.
Bellevue is the top city in a new ranking of best American cities to live and launch a new business [http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/fsb/0803/gallery.best_places_to_launch.fsb/index.html] by CNN Money.com. Seattle doesn't even make the list of the top 100 such places. The survey rates Bellevue h
The longtime columnist for Seattle's dailies casts an affectionate eye over the many sweeping transformations of the city, and wonders if all the newcomers will learn to cherish the uniqueness of the place.
A near-fatal accident gave the author a path back to life and a comic understanding for some of the bigger mysteries of life.
