Last time it was a shout out to my $5 Ronan Farrow tickets, this week it’s a shout out to my $5 Anita Hill tickets, whose calm, graceful demeanor in the face of extraordinary hostility was burned into my brain in 1991. Just wait, Monica Lewinsky’s coming up in the spring.

Happy November, here are few free or low-cost things coming up over the next week at the UW.

FAMILY-STYLE

Family Nature Classes
9:30 – 11:30 a.m., ongoing

Join the UW Botanic Gardens Naturalists for  Mushroom Mania this Friday, November 8^th and Saturday, November 9^th,  for preschoolers …

Wallingford has seen something of a bakery renaissance in the last couple of years – though we miss the sweet smell of the old Boulangerie and its kind proprietor Xon Loung, we’ve also been fortunate to have both Sea Wolf and Damsel and Hopper open up, serving both Upper and Lower Wallingford alongside the Essential.

But 45^th has needed a sit-down, bread-soup-sandwich-sweets place for years. And years. So we extend the warmest of slightly belated Wallingford welcomes (polite clapping! subtle nods and maybe even eye contact!) to the Grand Central Bakery, now open at 1607 N. 45^th…

Hello again! So, I’m sorry to tell you that you missed Open Books’ Reading with Doyali Islam, Shankar Narayan, and Seattle’s 2018-19 Youth Poet Laureate Azura Tyabji this past Saturday (but here’s the link in case you want to look them up and go buy their poetry, which I strongly recommend). It was extremely hard to go inside on such a beautiful evening, but worth it to hear these three incredible poets read works about love, longing for home, fathers, justice, and cephalopods. It wasn’t even dark when we stepped back outside.

That’s all a set-up, of course, to let …

Hi there! In case you didn’t realize it, we live next door to one of the best sources of low-cost entertainment and education in the Pacific Northwest (shout out to my $5 Ronan Farrow tickets). Below is just a sampling of what’s going on at the UW over the week.

I’m particularly excited about Emily Pothast’s lecture You Are Not Invited: A Critical Survey of Seattle Art History and Crisis Management and Informatics (or any panel) with Kate Starbird. Pothast has been performing, writing, and lecturing on media and culture around Seattle for years, and I’m excited to see where …

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In January, I led a team of volunteers on our annual One Night Count of the Homeless, as …