Arts & Culture
Holocaust Memoir Halted
Publication of Herman Rosenblat's Holocaust-themed "Angel at the Fence," scheduled for release by Penguin subsidiary Berkley Books in February, was canceled after unspecified revelations by his agent called its authenticity into question, the Asso...
River thwarts general again: For a second year, Washington and his troops had to cross the Delaware by bridge
WASHINGTON CROSSING - The sky was clear on Christmas, but once again strong winds and a fast current stopped George Washington from crossing the Delaware River by boat.
Seattle Symphony plays Beethoven's epochal Ninth Symphony
For New Year's Eve, Seattle Symphony plays Beethoven's Ninth, a piece synonymous with epochal events.
Delight in the details on walking tour of Art-Deco Seattle
The lobbies of Seattle's Art Deco buildings are a highlight of the Seattle Architecture Foundation's next tour.
Children's Books Use Christmas to Push Global Warming Agenda
Global warming alarmists, picking up where the Grinch left off, are trying to steal Christmas, some critics say. From children's books to school plays, the climate change crowd is dreaming of a green Christmas, angering opponents who say 'tis NOT ...
Sushigate more evidence that Broadway is in the tank
After a 15-year run of expansion, growth and optimism, Broadway has imploded in aptly dramatic fashion this fall. And when the tide of good times rolls back, all kinds of nastiness gets left behind on the shore. Even allegedly poisonous sushi.
Seattle Art Museum's search for youth
The Seattle Art Museum has a youth gap. Although 500,000 visitors passed through its doors last year when SAM reopened with a more-than-doubled downtown space, the museum's admittedly incomplete records suggest a hole where it would like people ag...
Fox to adapt 9-year-old's book
Fox is ready to take advice from a 9-year-old. The studio has acquired the film rights to "How to Talk to Girls," a cute 46-page self-help tome written by Alex Greven, a 9-year-old in the fourth grade.
Study analyzes why people pray
Ninety percent of U.S. adults say they pray -- more than half say it's once a day or more -- in times of economic distress or plenty, researchers said.
The 15 Most Expensive Paintings in the World
In 2006, media mogul David Geffen sold Jackson Pollock’s masterwork, No. 5 1948, for $140 million. This made Pollock’s work the most expensive painting in modern history, leading a list of the world’s most highly acclaimed artists. From Pollock ...
Holiday Ads Ask, 'Why Believe in a God'?
You better watch out. There is a new combatant in the Christmas wars. Ads proclaiming, "Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness' sake," will appear on Washington, D.C., buses starting next week and running through December. The American Hu...
"Jurassic Park" author Michael Crichton dies
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Best-selling U.S. author Michael Crichton, who wrote such novels as "The Andromeda Strain" and "Jurassic Park" and created the popular TV drama "ER," has died unexpectedly of cancer at age 66, his family said on Wednesday.
Studs Terkel, writer and radio personality, dies at 96
Studs Terkel, who made his name listening to ordinary folks talk about their ordinary lives -- and who turned that knack for conversation into a much-honored literary career -- died Friday. He was 96. Terkel died of old age at his home in Chicago,...
VATICAN CITY (AFP) — About 40,000 people attended a ceremony Sunday at which Pope Benedict XVI canonised four new saints, among them Sister Alfonsa, an Indian nun who became the country's first woman saint.
Three-Day Muslim Holiday Begins Across Most of Arab World
Today marks the start of the annual three-day Eid al Fitr holiday which follows the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in 9 Arab states across the Middle East. It is a time when the pious pray, doting parents give gifts, and children light firecrackers,...
'Lollipop building' sweetly retooled
NEW YORK—"There are no second acts in American lives," novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, a truism that no longer seems so true, either in the lives of people or of buildings. A case in point: 2 Columbus Circle, which began its life as the m...
Washington State Book Award winners
Winners of this year's Washington State Book Awards include a novel about a wayward young woman who may or may not be manipulated by a secret band of evil mind-controllers, poetry by the state's poet laureate, a new history of native Seattle, a bo...
Seattle artist dresses up a downward spiral
John Stewart speculated recently that George Bush 2 wants to be not just the worst president in U.S. history, but the last. Elizabeth Jameson has her end-of-times dresses ready.
Monroe footage makes $17,500
RARE behind-the-scenes footage of screen legend Marilyn Monroe failed to reach its estimated auction price after going under the hammer in Melbourne. The two-and-a-half-minute amateur film of the tragic Hollywood actress eventually went for $17,50...
Check out the new Obama and McCain comic books
Is nothing sacred anymore? Apparently not, and good riddance I say: there isn't a single situation that a comic book can't liven up, including a Presidential election.