Nov 25, 2019 | Feature, Featured, Interview/Conversation, Town Crier
The United States is known as a nation of immigrants—but it is also a nation of xenophobia. Erika Lee,director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota, takes the stage at Town Hall on December 10 with an unblinking look at the...
Nov 22, 2019 | 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...
Nov 15, 2019 | 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...
Nov 14, 2019 | Feature, Town Crier
The gloomy weather is rolling into the city as winter approaches. It’s gloomy enough for Seattle to be named the nation’s gloomiest city. That’s pretty gloomy. Adding to it? The Seattle Freeze. The widely held belief that it’s hard to make friends in Seattle has its...
Nov 7, 2019 | Listening Guide, Town Crier
In this week’s interview, Chief Correspondent Steve Scher talked with Northwest Harvest CEO Thomas Reynolds about food security in WA. Reynolds outlines the complexities in approaching and unpacking issues of food justice in our region, breaking the issue down...
Nov 5, 2019 | Feature, Interview/Conversation, Town Crier
Charlie Brown is going to be meeting Dr. Seuss soon. On November 24 on Town Hall’s Great Hall stage, Philharmonia Northwest will be presenting a family concert highlighting the wondrous writer of The Cat in the Hat and the lovely holiday television chestnut that is A...
Oct 31, 2019 | Listening Guide, Town Crier
In this week’s interview, Chief Correspondent Steve Scher talks with Dan Hooper about particles, relativity, and the origins of our universe. Hooper outlines our growing understanding of the conditions in which our universe began, highlighting what we know about...
Oct 31, 2019 | Feature, Town Crier
Happy Halloween, Town Hall readers! Will you be joining us this coming weekend for Town Hall treats? Tonight, Andrew Rea joins us with his Binging with Babish cookbook. Tomorrow night, Jenny Odell teaches us how to do nothing and the Flat Earth Society is having a...
Oct 30, 2019 | Feature, Interview/Conversation, Town Crier
How do you talk to kids about death? Author Caroline Wright wondered the same thing when she was diagnosed with an aggressive, terminal brain cancer as a mother to her young sons. Now, having lived a year past her prognosis and written a children’s book to help...
Oct 28, 2019 | Feature, Interview/Conversation, Town Crier
We are in an age of distraction. We are inundated with distractions all the time. Is there anything harder these days than to do nothing? And what would that mean if we did do nothing? Are there ways to reclaim our own attention and redefine what we think of as...
