In the Media
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cassie Anderson, 25, lives at Camp Killoqua year-round and is spending her 17th summer there. Many of those years were spent as a camp counselor when she was a student at Kamiak High School and Western Washington University.
Well, it’s hard to believe the day is finally here, but the Finals stage of the Automotive X PRIZE is finally wrapping up. Of 136 vehicles representing 111 teams that originally entered the competition, just 9 vehicles representing 7 teams remain. All that the cars need to do now is pass the Validation stage, with the winners then to be announced in September. Here’s a quick look at what happened over the past few days, at the Michigan International Speedway.
After playing in the Indoor Football League and the United Football League, former Western Washington University player Matt Overton is hoping to finally stick in the National Football League when he reports to training camp with the Seattle Seahawks on Thursday, July 29.
"It's really exciting," Overton said in a phone interview. "I'm ready to go. I'm ready to make the most of this opportunity."