Mar 4, 2020 | Feature, Featured, Interview/Conversation, Town Crier
We face ethical choices every day, like when we stand in the grocery store line. Is this food good for me? Is it good for others? Is it good for the planet? Health, nutrition, and sustainability expert Sophie Egan will be at Town Hall on March 19 with insight from her...
Mar 2, 2020 | Announcement, Town Crier
Town Hall Seattle is committed to the health and safety of everyone who attends our events. With this in mind we are closely monitoring both the global and local status of the coronavirus outbreak, as well as insights and recommendations from health organizations...
Feb 28, 2020 | Feature, Town Crier
Town Hall Seattle sends our condolences to the Dyson family. Renowned mathematician and physicist Freeman Dyson passed away after suffering a fall at Princeton University. Dyson’s most useful contribution to science was the unification of the three versions of...
Feb 28, 2020 | Feature, Town Crier, What Are People Doing
Every week the Town Crier blog will look back at Seattle’s near-forgotten Town Crier magazine to see what was happening then and talk about what’s happening now. One of the largest sections of the original Town Crier was “What People Are Doing,” highlighting things...
Feb 27, 2020 | Listening Guide, Town Crier
In this week’s interview, Chief Correspondent Steve Scher talks with Dr. Nathan Price of the Institute for Systems Biology. They outline the science behind systems biology, exploring it as an attempt to quantify the components that make up a biological system...
Feb 26, 2020 | Feature, Town Crier
Roses are red, violets are blue, I’m going to the Ross Bayton Town Hall event, and you should, too. On March 4, horticulturalist Ross Bayton will present a crash course in plant history, ruminating on the origin and significance of the Latin plant names we...
Feb 24, 2020 | Listening Guide, Town Crier
In this week’s interview, Chief Correspondent Steve Scher talks with Conor Dougherty about the fight for housing in America. Dougherty outlines why developers aren’t building homes for millennials the way they did for baby boomers, and explains the factors...
Feb 13, 2020 | Listening Guide, Town Crier
In this week’s interview, correspondent Venice Buhain talks with Thom Hartmann about the war on voting. Hartman compares voting systems in other countries to those in the United States, and discusses exit polling as a method of determining the winner of an...
Feb 13, 2020 | Feature, Featured, Interview/Conversation, Town Crier
What happens when you merge fluid improvisation and subtle noise with traditional Arabic music—then add the talent of a guitar master? The Vancouver-based band Haram aims to find out. Led by award-winning oud virtuoso Gordon Grdina, Haram will be joining us at Town...
Feb 7, 2020 | Feature, Town Crier, What Are People Doing
Every week the Town Crier blog will look back at Seattle’s near-forgotten Town Crier magazine to see what was happening then and talk about what’s happening now. One of the largest sections of the original Town Crier was “What People Are Doing,” highlighting things...
