How Governments have Caused Homelessness
Cost-shifting of mental health services from the federal level to the states is part of the problem. The states failed to fund these services, and the cost-cutting federal government refuses to modify this arrangement.
How to Overcome Our Fixation on Trump Outrages
We can’t be so focused on Trump outrages that we are blind to the need for the Democrats to unhook their wagon from the professional political classes, and the rarified world they inhabit, in order to listen to people like MGP about the experience and frustrations of normal people.
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Review: Leif Ove Andsnes’ Piano Miniatures at Meany
Andsnes balanced the 21 somewhat unfamiliar miniatures of the first half with Schumann’s Carnaval, op. 9, a fireworks display of youthful enthusiasm. Andsnes played the 21 quasi-variations with great elegance and restraint.
Confusion Reigns: Great Yellow Orb Appears, Scaring NW Residents
Like a bear waking early from hibernation, Seattle-area residents nervously emerged squinting to clear skies and unseasonably warm weather this past week. Mother Nature has taken the dry January trend to heart.
Light therapy lamps stayed switched off, vitamin D bottles remained on the shelves,...
Seattle Opera Mounts a Triumphant “Daphne”
The closing pages of the score, representing Daphne’s transformation, may be the most sublime music Strauss ever penned.
Be it Resolved: Whistle?
Just in case anyone else struggled to come up with something, here are ten resolutions you may want to consider for those of us in the Pacific Northwest. It is never too late to start, so feel free to wait until spring.
The Data: Cheer Up! Evidently these are the Best of Times
It’s likely that you’re having the best decade of your life right now, or at least that you think so.
Review: Leif Ove Andsnes’ Piano Miniatures at Meany
Andsnes balanced the 21 somewhat unfamiliar miniatures of the first half with Schumann’s Carnaval, op. 9, a fireworks display of youthful enthusiasm. Andsnes played the 21 quasi-variations with great elegance and restraint.
Italian Notebook: A Community of Comedy, of Tragedy, of Turkey
The irony of the movie is that the real story is much more gripping than the fictional one. [...] Local people put their lives at risk not to protect bottles of table wine but to save soldiers and strangers.
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