Town Crier writer Adele M. Ballard wrote in the July 26, 1919 edition, “And now the residents are seriously considering the exquisite propriety of changing the name of the one-time fashionable First Hill to Hospital Hill.
The Media is Actually Dying
I didn’t know that the media was deteriorating. According to Bloomberg, journalism is decaying all around the country, at organizations such as Buzzfeed, Vice Media, and CNN. Even in Seattle, what many would consider an artsy, media-oriented city, the number of journalistic opportunities have dropped by 40%.
Be Amaze-ZINE and Submit Your Artwork
Our friends at The Hydrant are asking artists, aged 12 to 25, to submit a self portrait.
What Are People Doing?
There was a time, a hundred years ago, that people hunted by phonograph.
What Are People Doing?
“The Seattle Garden Club visited the gardens in The Highlands on Tuesday afternoon,” the Town Crier noted.
Duh: The Importance of Early Childhood Education
On July 17, in the Forum at Town Hall, there will be a screening of the documentary, No Small Matter, and a post-movie discussion about childcare access.
The film’s directors are Danny Alpert, Jon Siskel, and Greg Jacobs. Town Hall’s own Jonathan Shipley talked to Jacobs about early childhood education, brain works, and Cookie Monster.
What Orcas Can Teach Humans About Menopause and Matriarchs
Seattleites understand the draw of killer whales. Even a dorsal fin glimpsed from a ferry sparks awe. We want to be near their black-and-white bodies, their close family pods, their huge brains, their haunting songs.
But for writer Darcey Steinke, one quality above all others pulled her from her home in Brooklyn to the San Juan Islands in hopes of seeing a killer whale in the flesh: the fact that orcas and humans are two of only five species known to experience menopause.
What Are People Doing?
Town Crier writers, in July of 1919, did not like jazz.
Announcing Our September Homecoming Festival Lineup
Town Hall Seattle’s soft-launch winds down as we prepare for our month-long grand reopening festival in September. The festival marks twin milestones: the successful completion of a $35 million renovation of our historic home and the kick-off for the organization’s 20th anniversary season.