
How one building came to define Seattle
Throw in family celebrations, profit-making, plus some voyeurism (like the on-air reporting of the license plates of people parked at a hotel for some midday recreation) and you have the Space Needle.
Robin Lindley is a Seattle-based writer and attorney, and the features editor of the History News Network (hnn.us). His email is robinlindley@gmail.com.
Throw in family celebrations, profit-making, plus some voyeurism (like the on-air reporting of the license plates of people parked at a hotel for some midday recreation) and you have the Space Needle.
Robin Lindley talks with emerging Seattle filmmaker Taylor Guterson, son of "Snow Falling on Cedars" author David Guterson, about the making of his first feature film.
Marcellus Turner, Seattle's new City Librarian, talks about why Seattleites love their libraries and how he plans to keep things that way. Even in the midst of budget cuts.
The author talks about the life of Edward S. Curtis, a prolific photographer of American Indians at a time when they faced huge pressure.
The artist riffs on his lifelong desire to "create wonder." An exhibition of his work has just opened at the Northwest Museum of Art in La Conner, where Balazs will give a talk on Saturday afternoon (July 9), reception following.