Feb 7, 2019 | Audio, Digital Stage, Listening Guide, Town Crier
In this bonus episode of In The Moment, get an inside look at the past and present of our Global Rhythms series! Host Jini Palmer talks with Spider Kedelsky, the founder of the Global Rhythms series. He recalls how the music series came to be and shares his...
Feb 6, 2019 | Feature, Town Crier
The sorrowful mother was standing. This is the rough translation of “Stabat Mater dolorosa,” the first line of a 13th-century Christian hymn to Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ. The hymn portrays her suffering during Jesus’s crucifixion, and it is sung as the liturgy...
Feb 4, 2019 | Feature, Town Crier
It’s a snow day in Seattle. Let’s hearken back, then, to January 1, 1937. The Town Crier published this poem: Softly the Snow by Marietta Conway Kennard Softly the snow…gently the snow… Feathery white like the breast of a bird, Covers our...
Feb 1, 2019 | Feature, Town Crier
The big game is this Sunday. The New England Patriots will be battling the Los Angeles Rams for the trophy. Some people will be watching the game. Some people will be watching the ads. Seattle’s Town Crier writers watched a football game or two in their day. The...
Feb 1, 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...
Jan 31, 2019 | Audio, Featured, Listening Guide, Town Crier
In this music-oriented bonus episode of In The Moment, host Jini Palmer sits down with with Joshua Roman, curator of our Town Music series, for a conversation on all things chamber music. They explore the theatrical aspects of live performance, and Joshua gives us a...
Jan 30, 2019 | Feature, Town Crier
Howard Schultz is considering a run for the White House. The former chairman and chief executive officer of Starbucks Coffee Company also has a new book. With From the Ground Up, Schultz writes two interwoven narratives of a conflicted boyhood in Brooklyn and a...
Jan 25, 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...
Jan 24, 2019 | Feature, If These Halls Could Talk, Town Crier
Town Hall’s historic renovation is in its homestretch. We’ll reopen in the coming months but there’s still work to do! Help us raise $200,000 in new gifts by the end of February and an anonymous donor will match your gifts, dollar-for-dollar. Learn more here. While...
Jan 22, 2019 | Featured, Town Crier, Uncategorized
“There is no question in the mind of any intelligent person,” noted the August 12, 1916 edition of the Town Crier, “that intemperance is probably the worst curse that humanity labors under.” Temperance. The social movement stands against the consumption of alcoholic...
