Angels in America is amazing. I was rapt the whole time. Every performance is great. It's fun to see how some of the eighties references have faded while others remain very relevant.

Mayor Murray and his husband were in the audience. Seeing them at intermission just after Cohn's speech about how he wasn't "homosexual" because he had political power really drove home how much the world has changed in thirty years.

I need to get tickets. I've always admired this play without finding it particularly good (halfway through Perestroika is the toughest bit). Maybe this time! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gva09No5…

Donate to the the Fred Hutch CRC! Research money has all but dried up during this prolonged recession and their cancer/disease research benefits all humanity!

Kent's ShoWare Center loses marijuana trade show to larger Everett arena

http://www.kentreporter.com/news/2712675…

Guess that's what happens when a city council bans the sale of a product -- they move their trade show else where.

Go figure.

Or you could go to Indigenous Culture Day at Seattle Center House on Sat from 11-5

Or watch the free LEGO Movie at South Lake Union at dusk tonight

Or Samurai Cop with the star of the movie at SIFF Uptown on Sat night

Remember: don't drive under the influence. This includes twitter.

I don't think Millennium Approaches has held up quite as well as some of the other works that came out of roughly the same time period (e.g. Lonely Planet, Eastern Standard, Falsettoland), and some of its topicality, not to mention theatricality, feels a bit stilted in 20-year hindsight. But, the performances are terrific, which alone makes it worth sitting through the 3 1/2 hour (with two intermissions) running time. Looking forward to Perestroika, which I've never seen before.

But you can still see a Thunderbirds game and possibly the "Girls in Tight Clothes Football" at the ShoWare.

It's bullshit that Hempfest can block the Myrtle Edwards bike trail for three days every August. They should move it to Auburn, where most of their attendees live.

@8:

Thank you for your concern. Your First World Problem is duly noted - and will be patently ignored by the roughly quarter of a million expected attendees.

Correction I think: Von Trapps is changing name over Trapp Family Singers distinction.

Ah the joy of hempfest, 3 days of watching people jay walk in Queen Anne, presumably because that's the nearest Taco Bell.

@9: How is blocking a public right of way for three days a "First World Problem"? No other annual event in Seattle does that.

How is griping about a legally permitted public event that lasts two and a-half days out of 365 NOT a "First World Problem"? Or do you mean to suggest there are no alternate public right-of-ways in the immediate vicinity upon which bicyclists may ride?

@13: No, there aren't any reasonably safe public right-of-ways in the immediate vicinity upon which bicyclists may ride. That is indeed what I suggest.

To get from the downtown waterfront to Magnolia or Fishermans Terminal without taking Myrtle Edwards, you have to ride the Elliott superhighway or over the side of Queen Anne.

And safe, non-motorized transportation is not a First World Problem. In fact it's a problem in many "worlds".

@14:

The typical Third World bicycle commuter would probably laugh themselves silly at your so-called "problem".

@15: And they'd probably weep at the sight of Hempfest.