Seattle

Well, in honor of Julia being gone for the long weekend in Seattle, I should probably give some kind of tribute to Seattle, a city I've always wanted to go to but never have.

Why mention the landmarks everyone knows?  You know, Pikes Place, the Space Needle, etc.  And we all know about grunge, too.  And Microsoft.  But what about other stuff?  Other tidbits?

Books set in Seattle:

Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford
        - Powerfully emotional cross-cultural romance set against WWII Japanese interment.   

Fifty Shades of Grey, E L James
         - Perhaps you've heard of this one?

Ed King, David Guterson
         - A take on Oedipus Rex, spanning the Seattle of the 60s through the internet age

Where'd You Go, Bernadette, Maria Semple
         - One of 2012's most acclaimed novels.

The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
         - A book club fave, it's about, yes, a philosopher dog.

Also, some Tom Robbins novels and Michael Crichton's Disclosure.

Films set in Seattle:

50/50
A Guy Thing 
The Fabulous Baker Boys 
The Ring 
Say Anything
Singles 
Sleepless in Seattle 
Stakeout  

For TV shows, let's not forget Frasier, Grey's Anatomy, or AMC's The Killing  

Artists From or With Connections to Seattle

Jimi Hendrix
Kurt Cobain
nonfiction author Erik Larsen (The Devil in the White City)
Pearl Jam
Rainn Wilson
Sherman Alexie 
singer Brandi Carlile
author Octavia Butler
Dale Chihuly

What Can You See at the Seattle Art Museum?

- many pieces, both stabiles and mobiles, by Alexander Calder
- Paolo Uccello's Episodes From the Aeneid 
- Australian Aboriginal art
- Lucas Cranach the Elder's The Judgment of Paris  
- Pacific Northwest art, such as Albert Bierstadt's Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast 


Enjoy the city, honey, and get home safely!

(One week until Oscar nominations are announced...)

  

 
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