Discovering the Secret of Life at Bumbershoot
I didn’t plan to drag two children under the age of 10 to all three days of Bumbershoot. But that is exactly what I did....
Doe Bay Moments
Doe Bay Fest is only six years old, but with its stellar record for booking the best of the Northwest, it is already legendary. Festival-goers...
I Cried My Eyes Out at Seattle Opera’s La Bohéme
Seattle Opera’s production of La Boheme made me cry. I love this opera about bohemian artists in Paris for several reasons. One is that it...
Opera for Kids: Heron and the Salmon Girl
At the end of my rant about holding on to my own aesthetic standards in the face of a sanitized kid-friendly worldview, I gave opera...
In Which I Love Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Roméo et Juliette Immoderately
Since the invention of the kiss, there have been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure…this one left them all behind....