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Sleeping Beauty – Pacific Northwest Ballet’s New Production
By the time Pacific Northwest Ballet’s new production of Sleeping Beauty debuted on January 31, 2025, anticipation seems to have been sky high. It certainly was for me. There were tantalizing sneak peaks of the costumes by Paul Tazewell (Hamilton, PNB’S Swan Lake, the movie Wicked) or the sets by glass artist Preston Singletary. There
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“The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World” – Edward Shawcross
The Last Emperor of Mexico reads more like a novel than history, which is largely a testament to Edward Shawcross’ vivid and human writing, but also the fantastic nature of the story. One suspects that most Americans who celebrate Cinco de Mayo are not aware that the day commemorates the victory in battle in 1862
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Washington State, not D.C.
Whenever I am talking to people who live outside of the PNW (Pacific Northwest), I make sure to say that I live in Washington State. This is because if I am not clear, they will assume I am talking about D.C. As a Washingtonian, I want to be clear about that. Washingtonians are so much
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Pacific Northwest Ballet – An Overview of 2024-2025
Pacific Northwest Ballet’s 2024-25 season is finished and out of six reps, not including The Nutcracker, I was fortunate to see four in person – All Balanchine, Sleeping Beauty, Emergence, and Romeo et Juliette – and all six reps digitally through PNB’s unique offering of a digital season. I wanted to provide an overview of
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The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Having read the fascinating book Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self by Andrea Wulf, it seemed the next thing to do was read an example of the literature produced during that era of German Romanticism. Except that it isn’t as easy to find poetry by the German Romantics as it
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Pacific Northwest Ballet: All Balanchine – 11/2/2024
A meditation more than a review It is not always convenient for me to attend the ballet in the evening – I both drive and must catch a ferry – so I frequently attend Saturday matinee performances at the Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle. The disadvantage is that one is apt to see a
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Free Speech- For the Powerful or the Powerless?
On the libertarian online magazine, I was reading an article called “Answers to 12 Bad Anti-Free Speech Arguments,” by Greg Lukianoff. I like to check out this magazine occasionally because I frequently find articles that are outside the mainstream of either liberal or conservative thought that can provide me with different ways of looking at
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What is Art Good For?
But first: why are we on this earth? I was taught as a child that we are put on this earth to worship the Lord; but we don’t need art to worship the Lord; all that is required is to “worship the Father in spirit and in truth.” Worship is open to all people, in
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