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Nov 11, 2009 0

Seattle, WA – 11/11/09 – Elliott Bay Book Company – Catherine Corman

Who
Catherine Corman
When
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
7:00pm - All Ages
Where
Elliott Bay Book Company (map)
1521 Tenth Avenue
Seattle, WA, USA 98122

The Elliott Bay Book Company is Seattle's leading independent bookstore and hosts an incredible reading series. Elliott Bay moved from it's location in Seattle's Pioneer Square (a historic district that is known as the source of the term "Skid Road") in April 2010. On the new location, Elliott Bay Book Company says,

"Be assured--the new place will have its own distinct charms, many of them very similar to what people have known and enjoyed about our Pioneer Square home. Everyone that we know of who's had a sneak peek as construction has ensued has gone 'wow' in appreciation and anticipation."
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Malibu Pier, the Beverly Hills Hilton, Frank's Grill, and the 'Hollywood' sign are just some of the iconic locations that appear in the novels of Raymond Chandler. Photographer Catherine Corman—daughter and occasional film collaborator with her director father Roger Corman—shares her photographs of these locations and more, all appearing in her new book, Catherine Corman: Daylight Noir: Raymond Chandler's Imagined City (Charta). "Catherine Corman (editor of Joseph Cornell's Dreams) has given us a supremely evocative catalogue of haunted places ... these streets and buildings we have erected in order to give order to our solitudes." - Jonathan Lethem, from the Introduction

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Oct 27, 2009 0

Seattle, WA – 10/27/09 – Town Hall – Theodore Gray

Who
Theodore Gray
When
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
7:30pm - $5 - All Ages Buy Tickets
Where
Town Hall (map)
1119 Eighth Avenue
Seattle, WA, USA 98101

Town Hall is Seattle's community culture center located in the historic First Hill neighborhood, on the edge of downtown. Town Hall showcases the community's cultural energy with diverse music, arts and humanities, civic discourse, and world culture programming. Housed in an historic Roman-revival-style building on the corner of 8th and Seneca, Town Hall opened in March 1999. Local, national and international programs and performances are scheduled year-round in the Great Hall and Downstairs at Town Hall. Please visit our calendar of events for a current listing of public events. Town Hall's name recalls town-meeting democracy and is emphasized by the intimate, curved, amphitheater-style seating of the Great Hall. Town Hall is a 501c3 nonprofit organization and relies on rentals, membership, volunteers, and fundraising to sustain its many activities. Town Hall is fully accessible. Assisted listening devices are available for events in the Great Hall upon request.

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The Elements: An eye-opening, original collection of gorgeous, never-before-seen photographic representations of the 118 elements in the periodic table.

The elements are what we, and everything around us, are made of. But how many elements has anyone actually seen in pure, uncombined form? The Elements provides this rare opportunity. Based on five years of research and photography, the pictures in this book make up the most complete, and visually arresting, representation available to the naked eye of every atom in the universe. Organized in order of appearance on the periodic table, each element is represented by a spread that includes a stunning, full-page, full-color photograph that most closely represents it in its purest form. For example, at -183?C, oxygen turns from a colorless gas to a beautiful pale blue liquid, pictured here.

Also included are fascinating facts, figures, and stories of the elements as well as data on the properties of each, including atomic weight, density, melting and boiling point, valence, electronegativity, and the year and location in which it was discovered. Several additional photographs show each element in slightly altered forms or as used in various practical ways. The element's position on the periodic table is pinpointed on a mini rendering of the table and an illustrated scale of the element's boiling and/or melting points appears on each page along with a density scale that runs along the bottom.

Packed with interesting information, this combination of solid science and stunning artistic photographs is the perfect gift book for every sentient creature in the universe.

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Sep 14, 2009 0

Seattle, WA – 09/14/09 – University Book Store – U District – Paula Becker and Alan Stein

Who
Paula Becker and Alan Stein
When
Monday, September 14, 2009
7:00pm - All Ages
Where
University Book Store - U District (map)
4326 University Way NE
Seattle, WA, USA 98105

The University Book Store is the largest bookstore in Washington state. It is one of few college bookstores organized as an independent, tax paying corporation with direct student involvement in management oversight. It feature an expansive Art/Architecture Department in their general bookstore with strong emphasis on graphic design, high quality art/photography monographs, contemporary architecture and esoteric gift ideas.

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Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: A Timeline History (HISTORYLINK). This is the first of two events the U Bookstore is hosting in September for the 100th anniversary of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. In 1909, Seattle hosted a four-month festival the likes of which the only 20-year-old state of Washington had never seen. Historians Alan Stein and Paula Becker will discuss the highlights, the happenings, and the controversies at Seattle's first World's Fair.

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Aug 11, 2009 0

Lake Forest Park, WA – 08/11/09

Who
Jennifer Loomis
When
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
7:00pm - All Ages
Where
Third Place Books (map)
17171 Bothell Way NE
Lake Forest Park, WA, USA 98155

Sociologist Ray Oldenberg's book The Great Good Place suggests that to lead a rewarding life, each of us needs three places. First is the home. Second is the workplace or school. Beyond lies the place where people from all walks of life and all social levels interact, experiencing and celebrating their commonality as well as their diversity. It is a third place. Third Place Books is the deliberate and intentional creation of a community of booklovers, a fun, comfortable and safe place to browse, linger, lounge, relax, read, eat, laugh, play, talk, listen and just watch the world go by.

We invite you to make Third Place Books your third place.

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Jennifer Loomis reads from Portraits of Pregnancy. When a baby is born, so too is a mother, and Seattle photographer and writer Jennifer Loomis enhances her gorgeous photos pf pregnant women with their intimate stories of their journeys into motherhood.

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Aug 11, 2009 0

Seattle, WA – 08/11/09

Who
Alan J. Stein & Paula Becker
When
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
7:30pm - All Ages
Where
Third Place Books - Ravenna (map)
6504 20th Ave. NE
Seattle, WA, USA 98115

Sociologist Ray Oldenberg's book The Great Good Place suggests that to lead a rewarding life, each of us needs three places. First is the home. Second is the workplace or school. Beyond lies the place where people from all walks of life and all social levels interact, experiencing and celebrating their commonality as well as their diversity. It is a third place. Third Place Books is the deliberate and intentional creation of a community of booklovers, a fun, comfortable and safe place to browse, linger, lounge, relax, read, eat, laugh, play, talk, listen and just watch the world go by.
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Alan J. Stein & Paula Becker show a slide show about the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Washington's First World's Fair A Timeline History, a new book from the UW Press. This richly illustrated and well-researched volume chronicles the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, held in Seattle in 1909. The 3.7 million visitors to the fair during its four-month run, on what was to become the University of Washington campus, beheld a cornucopia of exhibits housed in an astonishing collection of buildings and enjoyed the carnival-like - and sometimes controversial - entertainments of the Pay Streak midway. Starting with the Klondike Gold Rush in 1897, authors Alan J. Stein and Paula Becker recount in detail the history of the fair that brought Seattle and Washington into the national spotlight.

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Aug 11, 2009 0

Today: Alaska-Yukon Exposition Slide Show

{ Alan J. Stein & Paula Becker, 8/11, 3rd Place Books - Ravenna }

{ Alan J. Stein & Paula Becker, 8/11, 3rd Place Books - Ravenna }

Before Seattle became a gateway to social media,  e-commerce, software, and airplanes, Seattle successfully marketed itself as the gateway to Alaska. While most of the would-be miners rushing to Yukon didn’t get rich, Seattle businessmen did get rich selling them the gear they’d need. The Alaska-Yukon Exposition solidified Washington State as the point of departure for people heading to Alaska and Asia; Seattle also came to be seen as the closest big American city to Alaska and Asia. According to HistoryLink.org:

The A-Y-P Exposition took [sic] between June 1 and October 16, 1909, drawing more than three million people. Visitors came from around the state, the nation, and the world to view hundreds of educational exhibits, stroll the lushly manicured grounds, and be entertained on the Pay Streak midway, while Seattle promoted itself as a gateway to the rich resources of Alaska, the Yukon, and Asia.

The exposition, like the 1962 World’s Fair, changed Seattle. Most notably, development of the fair ground established the University of Washington Campus. Tonight, Alan J. Stein & Paula Becker show a slide show of the exposition and its history, starting with the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897 and ending with the A-Y-P Exposition in 1909.

You can also access a cybertour written by the authors here.

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