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Well that’s a clickbaity title if I ever wrote one.
This classic car parked in a community garden on the roof of a parking garage in lower Queen Anne, and planted with perennials and ornamental grasses. The windows are painted with poetry:
Strange beautiful grass of green, with your
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Majestic silver seas, your mysterious mountains I
wish to see closer, may I land my kinky machine?
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It’s hard to keep up with all the new material Seattle Opera is releasing these days, but it’s a good kind of trouble to have. Most recently, I watched Jorell Williams in recital – can you say “at Seattle Opera” when the recital was actually filmed in Toronto? Let’s say Jorell Williams in recital for Seattle Opera. Williams followed the now-familiar format of introductions against a neutral backdrop and songs performed on-stage with a pianist. But the format was the only unsurprising part of the recital.
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I’m terrible about starting book clubs and reading challenges and never finishing them. But the idea of a “reading around the world” challenge has been going around the internet for a few years and it really appeals to me. So the last time someone’s Reading Around the World book list popped up in my feed, I looked at it a little closer.
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Seattle Opera has been releasing content at a shocking rate this fall – new performances are posted every Friday. After so much new digital content, you’d think that people would know what to expect by now. But nearly everything I’ve seen so far has been a different “type” of production. From the summer’s at-home recitals to a semi-staged production to an on-stage recital, there are so many ways to produce a physically distant opera performance. It’s hard to keep up, so there’s already new content available, but the most recent thing I’ve seen was Seattle Opera’s Pagliacci Highlights Recital.
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Halloween was my favorite holiday growing up. But now that I have my own kids, it feels like the pronunciation I hate has become accurate – “hollow”. One year I handed out these full-disclosure homemade treats. It felt like I was resisting the defanging of Halloween.
I only thought the day was sanitized back then. Oh well. At least kids will be allowed to wear masks with their costumes again this year.