November 2015

By Amanda Knox

Dressing up for Halloween answers the question: if you could be anyone or anything on a merry, frivolous, un-normal night, what would you be? A steampunk pirate? Your favorite cartoon character? One of Robin Hood’s men-in-tights? Even the sexy versions of costumes serve the same purpose, because they are a mask—I would never actually wear this!—and so often times ironic and/or ridiculous. Take that sexy cow costume, called, “In the Mooood!” for example.

Studying abroad in Italy, I witnessed how some non-Americans understand how we celebrate Halloween “American style.” That is, costumes and nightclubs as opposed to Catholic mass. I visited the local pub, where an English-speaking vampire sauntered up to me and asked, “Where’s your costume?” When I pointed to the cat whiskers I had drawn on with eyeliner at the last minute, he shook his head and insisted, “You have to be scary!”

By Tim Clifford

Box cutter thief
Police are currently searching for a box-knife wielding shoplifter after he attempted to cut a loss prevention officer at a store on the 2800 block of S.W. Barton St. on Oct. 26. Police were dispatched to the scene at about 6:21 p.m. and arrived six minutes later to find the suspect had already fled.

According to a loss prevention officer and his supervisor (both 23-years-old) the suspect was spotted on the store surveillance system stuffing electronics into his jacket. Both men approached the suspect as he was about to exit the store. As the suspect attempted to shoot past them one of the men grabbed him and a struggle ensued between the three of them. The suspect began repeating over and over “I don’t want to go to jail” as he pushed and fought with the two employees.

information from Holy Rosary Church

“Music should be comprehensible to those for whom it is composed. To compose music for the people means to love the people.”

In the final program of its 22nd concert season, The Esoterics will celebrate the life and music of the neo- Romantic Russian composer Georgy Sviridov with an unprecedented series of concerts in both Seattle and Tacoma. Specifically for this centennial series, Founding Director Eric Banks has researched and published his own editions of Sviridov’s collected choral works, with complete transl(iter)ations of every text in the program. The Esoterics has expanded to 50 singers to present this concert of luxurious and majestic music inspired by folksong, poetry of the Silver Age, and the Russian Orthodox liturgy.