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Jeremy: You know, I find it kind of funny: for a show about how theater screwed up, there was very little discussion of how theater is relevant. Mike Daisey seemed to concentrate exclusively on one aspect of the U.S. theater industry--the big regional theaters, like Seattle Rep or the Oregon Shakespeare Festival--and blamed them for their strange business choices. Not that he doesn't have a point, but it seems to dodge (or presuppose) the question: what does theater do that's so important? I have my own thoughts on the matter, but really, Daisey seemed to take it as a given.

7pm tonight, Town Hall, $15-$50 suggested donation

Writing on The New Republic Online in November, 2006, James Kirchick snarkily commented, "Of all the subjects for a 90-minute, one-woman show, Rachel Corrie ought to have been at the bottom of the list." Rachel Corrie was an Olympia native and Evergreen State College student who, in March 2003, while working with the International Solidarity Movement, was killed by an Israeli bulldozer destroying Palestinian homes. And frankly, before seeing Seattle Rep's production of My Name is Rachel Corrie, we tended to agree with Kirchick, albeit for completely different reasons.

Amy Goodman, host of independent news program Democracy Now!, spoke at a benefit for KAOS and Thurston Community Television last night in Olympia. Seattlest got stuck on the I-5 but got there five minutes before the scheduled event time; Goodman, coming from SeaTac, was not so lucky, and arrived about half an hour late.

-"I love greasy Dicks," and similarly lame jokes have existed since the drive-in first opened in 1954. Looks like a new restaurant on the Ave wants some of that action.

Courtney Love) and we more or less recall the political foment of The Evergreen State College, the lo-pro, no-letter-grades hothouse that produced Rachel Corrie, the student-activist who was killed when she was struck by bulldozer in Gaza three years ago today.

The Corrie family is making world headlines again after narrowly escaping a Palestinian attack near the Rafah border crossing. Of course you remember that their daughter Rachel Corrie was killed in that area by Israeli bulldozers while she was trying to prevent them from leveling Palestinian dwellings. The Corrie parents were visiting the Nasrallahs in Rafah (apparenlty they often do, as the two families tour and speak together) where there has been a rash of abductions in the wake of the Isreali pullout from Gaza and the recent arrest of a Palestinian accused of kidnapping three Britons in the area. Gunmen broke into the Nasrallah home intending to kidnap the Corries, but were chased off by a neighbor afflliated with Palestinian security forces.

You probably remember the story of Rachel Corrie from many many internet years ago. Rachel is the Evergreen College student who was killed by an Israeli bulldozer while attempting to sheild Palestinian homes from destruction.