Marcie Sillman
Stories
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Goya trashes the aristocrats. And Chiyo Ishikawa loves it
Summer at the Seattle Art Museum usually means a blockbuster exhibition, designed to encourage visitors from all walks of life.
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She’s a theater legend. But still often the only black person in the room
Growing up, Valerie Curtis-Newton knew how it felt to be the only African-American in the room. “There’s a picture of a club in high school. It’s me and...
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Nancy Pearl recommends a book about great writers and their ends
Marcie Sillman talks with "Book Lust" author Nancy Pearl about Katie Roiphe's "The Violet Hour."
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Cherdonna shows there's more than one way to be a woman
The woman with the dirty-blonde pixie cut sits before a mirror. Plastic bags with jars of yellow foundation and purple and blue glitters sit in front of...
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The book is dark, but Nancy Pearl thinks you can handle it
Marcie Sillman talks with "Book Lust" author Nancy Pearl about the novel "Imagine Me Gone" by Adam Haslett.
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How this lonely man turned solitude into beauty
Francisco Hernandez ushers guests into the tiny living room of his modest White Center apartment. He shows off what looks like a large, colorful...
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Watch this Seattle guy on a rope — in slow motion
Snoqualmie native Terry Crane has always been a climber. “There are pictures of me climbing fences when I was two,” he laughs. But Crane didn’t find his...
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Washington's oldest public museum gets a new look
The Burke Museum breaks ground Wednesday for a major new facility.
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Nancy Pearl loved this historical novel. Will you?
Marcie Sillman talks with "Book Lust" author Nancy Pearl about "The Color of Lightning" by Paulette Jiles.
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Finding magic in a dark Seattle movie theater
Beth Barrett cheerfully confesses that she almost flunked the only film studies class she took when she was a student at the University of Iowa.