The Seattle Traveler

Every city has  statues honoring its founders, heroes, and other special citizens of the city.  In Seattle, one of those special citizens, and a hero to many, is Chris Wedes, known to most of us as J.P. Patches.
For those of us growing up in Seattle, especially during the 60’s, J.P. Patches was “The Man.”  I remember watching him every afternoon!  He lived in the city dump, and had crazy friends like best pal Gertrude and Ketchikan the Animal Man, Sheriff Shot Badly, and Boris S. Wort (the world’s second-meanest man).  J.P.  had an I-C-U-2 TV set, and wanted me …read more

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A 2008 study by the Americans for the Arts found that Seattle has the most artist-related business (per capita) in the entire U.S.  To those of us who live here, this comes as no surprise, but if you haven’t been to Seattle recently, you’ve got an amazing assortment to choose from.
And let’s not forget that there’s much in the way of arts to offer the children of the community as well.
Seattle Children’s Theatre has a great line up of performances for its 2008-09 season:

Bluenose – October 17th – December 14h.  A pirate story with an underlying message of tolerance …read more

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