In the Media

Friday, July 30, 2010 - The Bellingham Herald

Mark Strickland, a recent graduate of Kamiak High School in Mukilteo, will play golf at Western Washington University beginning this fall.

Friday, July 30, 2010 - The Bellingham Herald

Western Washington University distance runner Lauren Breihof, middle distance runner Rachael Johnson and javelin thrower Monika Gruszecki were all selected for the second year to the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association NCAA Division II All-Academic Team, announced Thursday, July 29.

Friday, July 30, 2010 - MediaBistro.com

Ready your viewing devices for adocumentary about Walter Dorwin Teague (1883-1960), the pioneering American industrial designer who shaped everything from early Kodak cameras and Texaco's art deco gas stations to the Boeing Stratocruiser (we've posted below a vintage news report concerning the introduction of the "flying hotel") and the 1939 World's Fair.

Friday, July 30, 2010 - The Villager

Shannon Sindelar and Ryan Holsopple first met at Richard Foreman’s magical workshop. They live together in Williamsburg, Brooklyn — “We’re a couple” — and call their Brooklyn-based theater company 31 Down (after a crossword puzzle-crazy private eye who was a recurring character in various of their shows).

Friday, July 30, 2010 - The Seattle Times

Tod Leiweke didn't pick the players. He didn't coach them, either.

Leiweke may have been even more important than that in the business of Paul Allen's sports enterprises.

He was the public face for the private owner, hired as Seahawks CEO in 2003 by the man who saved pro football in the Northwest.

Friday, July 30, 2010 - Consumer Reports

Results are in for Tuesday's final race for the Automotive X Prize, the $10 million competition to create a viable automobile that can deliver 100 MPGe, or miles per gallon equivalent. The Li-ion Wave, a bright-green tadpole of a car run by a team of friendly, down-home North Carolina guys, is the race winner, putting them at the head of the pack to win the $2.5 million prize for the Alternative class with side-by-side seating.

Thursday, July 29, 2010 - The Seattle Times

Gov. Chris Gregoire plans to speak Thursday with top legislators as she prepares for either across-the-board spending cuts or a second budget-balancing special session.

The hobbled economy has led to repeated deficit cycles for the state's budget, causing both increased demand for services and lower tax collections. Lawmakers went into a long overtime session this spring to balance a gaping budget hole, but their plan hasn't held up and the state is facing a roughly $310 million shortfall through next June.

Thursday, July 29, 2010 - KGMI 790-AM

Governor Chris Gregoire has formed a task force to find stable money to pay for Western Washington University and the state's other four-year public universities.

Thursday, July 29, 2010 - The Bellingham Herald

Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra's Marrowstone Summer Music Festival features concerts by professional faculty musicians as well as by the young musicians they are instructing in six concerts at Western Washington University's Performing Arts Center, plus two free concerts at Fairhaven Village Green.

Thursday, July 29, 2010 - The Bellingham Herald

In the winter of 2004 a poster appeared where the person pinning it up hoped it would be seen by performers and performance-makers in Bellingham: green rooms at the Bellingham Theatre Guild, the Idiom and Upfront theaters, and most appropriately, in the windows of the institution that would sponsor a new acting company dedicated to radio drama, the American Museum of Radio and Electricity.