A sportswriter’s appreciation of a Jordan-like ballerina quietly retiring at the top of her game.
Category: The Arts
Exposed: Japantown
When I first heard about the Exposed: Japantown photo contest, I was determined to win it. Which is an irrational goal, since no one can control the judge's tastes, the competition's skill level, or one's own luck. Still, Seattle's Japantown is the spiritual center of my background and being, and its revival has been spearheaded …
Urban Folklore
Seattle-based trumpet player Thomas Marriott introduced a new suite of music at The Royal Room that is just mind-blowing. He was accompanied at the unveiling by Orrin Evans on piano, Eric Revis on bass and Donald Edwards on drums. The quartet recorded Marriott's tunes the next day for a CD, "Urban Folklore," to be released …
The Entertainer: Jovino Santos Neto
I knew his son, Ariel, before I knew Jovino Santos Neto. Ariel was a student, in 1999, in a prestigious program, the Urban Newspaper Workshop, conducted by The Seattle Times, where I worked at the time. During the grueling interview session for the workshop, Ariel mentioned that his father was a jazz musician. I knew …
