“The Magic Flute” at Seattle Opera
“The Magic Flute” at Seattle Opera I don’t know what I was expecting when I purchased tickets to the Seattle Opera’s production of Mozart’s “The



Brooks Kolb is a Seattle writer, artist, and a landscape architect.
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“The Magic Flute” at Seattle Opera I don’t know what I was expecting when I purchased tickets to the Seattle Opera’s production of Mozart’s “The



The Allure of Palm Springs Nearly two hours into one’s drive eastwards from Los Angeles on Route 10, the freeway speeds through dry desert flanked



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In this fourth installment of passages that I cut from my memoir, LANDSCAPE IN LAVENDER, my unofficial college advisor, the highly esteemed Dr. Paul J.
Three little windshield wipers rattled back and forth while Rich’s white MGB convertible barreled down the freeway in the rain with the top up. Rich



Following is the second excerpt which I cut from my forthcoming memoir, LANDSCAPE IN LAVENDER “Howdy!” said my new roommate Scott, when I opened the
Author’s note: in revising my forthcoming memoir, tentatively titled LANDSCAPE IN LAVENDER, I naturally needed to make some cuts, but it occurred to me that
Growing up in Seattle in the 1950s and ‘60s, I had no word for “gay.” My father was a distinguished professor of architecture, and in
“The Autobiography of Malcolm X” is one of the most engrossing, thought-provoking books I have ever read. Part of its power is that when you



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