POETRY: Seattle Arts & Lecture's Poetry Series welcomes Lucille Clifton to the Intiman tonight. Born in Depew, New York, in 1936, Clifton is one of the preeminent writers of her generation. Winning awards in about every genre she takes up (poetry, fiction, memoir, children's books), she often writes about family, race, and women's experiences. This is from her poem, "A Dream of Foxes": "so many fuckless days and nights / only the solitary fox......

Is live theater still relevant in a society where computer users can create high-quality video and distribute it almost instantly via the web? That's been the subject of an ongoing, rancorous debate between two Seattlest contributors, Jeremy and Charles, both former theater artists. Jeremy maintains the theater can yet be a powerful art form -- Charles feels it's a dying, irrelevant medium (most likely wounded by its own hand). To stir them up appropriately, the......

Marshall Rosenberg on Nonviolent Communication 7pm tonight, Town Hall, $15-$50 suggested donation We're upset we overbooked ourselves for tonight and are going to miss Marshall Rosenberg, PhD, talking about his novel approach called "nonviolent communication." We read his book on the subject a while ago (here's our book report), and were curious to see him in person as it's much easier to sound enlightened and compassionate and wise when you're in a quiet study......

Marya Sea Kaminski as Rachel in My Name is Rachel Corrie on the Leo K. Stage at Seattle Repertory Theatre March 15 through April 22, 2007. Photo copyright Chris Bennion 2007. 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......

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. In the meantime, the sold-out crowd heard Chaplain James Yee describe conditions & treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.......

-Tacoma, sinking under the weight of its own...traffic. -It may not seem like it yet in Seattle, but around the world it's hotter than it's been in the last 400 years. -They say that Rachel Corrie owns one half of this whole town, with political connections to spread her wealth around. -Is local tech video blogger Bre Pettis going pro with Make Magazine? -A group is leafletting Starbucks locations encouraging them to use better......

Seattlest went to school in Olympia (for awhile, anyway, with apologies to 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. Mistake or murder? Martyred activist or hippie fool? Was she killed by Israel, or sacrificed for the cause by the International Solidarity......

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......

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. Rachel's death was unquestionably tragic and we can only hope that it served to bring attention to that conflict. But now the aftermath. Cindy and Craig Corrie, her parents, have brought lawsuits against the state of Israel, the Israeli Defense......