The third annual Italian Film Festival, featuring contemporary films from Italy, is happening right now! It started on Wednesday and runs until tomorrow. The past two years, I bought passes and attended every single film shown. This time around I got to see only 4 films (on Wednesday and Thursday [...]
I have lived in Seattle long enough not to be fooled when the forecast calls for rain. Rain comes in all kinds of intensity. "Don't let a rainy forecast keep you indoors" is one of my new mantras, but be sensible and have an umbrella and rain proof jacket on [...]
Last night, Jessie Jo and I went to a University of Washington World Series Concert featuring Basseskou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba from Mali. For two hours, Bassekou and his fellow musicians rocked our world with ancient rhythms and beats from Africa. The music was so hauntingly ancient and yet so [...]
On Friday, November 11, 2011, at 11:11 a.m., my friends Alfredo and Matt got hitched via Washington's Domestic Partnership! The day was stormy, windy, and wild, and yet, oh so perfect. I arrived at the cute Seattle neighborhood of Maple Leaf a bit early, so I went into Cloud City [...]
I went to Om Culture (the Bhakti Lounge!) to see Jo Leffingwell's Slide Show and Lecture on the Brief History of Yoga. Amazingly, in one and a half hours, we went through 5000 years of history! It was wonderful to see Jo Leffingwell again! Long long ago (17 years ago?), [...]