Involve, inform, inspire
A ghost from the past doles out the essential readings of Jack Kerouac
Bay Area memoirist writes her first self-professed novel.
War is hell, but CHAC’s artistic director has found the art in politics.
Jonathan Raban has become the Northwest’s premier man of letters. He’s more at home inside his head than anywhere else, yet with an immigrant’s fresh eyes he’s able to shed light on his adopted home and country, as in his new book, My Holy War.
A Sonics rookie trades his homeland for the NBA.
Peking acrobats, Emerson String Quartet, SIFF’s Global Lens series.
Questions & answers
Tippling with tots, debated.
The Big Love By Sarah Dunn (Little, Brown, $23.95) If I tell you right off the bat that Sarah Dunn’s…
The so-called “Shostakovich Wars” (the most heated controversy in classical music since the period-instrument revival) pit those who hear bitterness…
Britain’s top comic comes to Seattle.
But you’d never know it watching Ken Burns’ music marathon.
Face it: This just isn’t the summer for spending a month in Provence. SARS, war, terrorism, surlier-than- usual French waiters…
The evolution of the string quartet gets played out on local stages.
Mark Morris blows his hometown a farewell kiss.
The worst things that the right and left can say about each other are sticking—and selling like hotcakes.
ANDY GOLDSWORTHY and NORTHWEST ANNUAL My guess is that a lot of people are going to be drawn to the…
The Japanese TV show Paranoia Agent perfectly captures our media-mad age.
Also: Stones in His Pockets
