Heather M.

  • Seattle Rep’s LAST OF THE BOYS: Beyond the Theatre

    Seattle Repertory Theatre presents LAST OF THE BOYS by Steven Dietz, directed by Braden Abraham, from January 18 to February 10, 2019. Librarians at Seattle Public Library created this list of books, films, and music to enhance your experience of the show. Seattle’s prolific and industrious playwright Steven Dietz received a Pulitzer Prize nomination for… Continue reading

  • A Day of Remembrance with Khizr Khan

    Gold Star father Khizr Khan made headlines when he offered to lend his copy of the Constitution to then-presidential candidate Donald Trump during a speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, asking him to read the document and “look for the words ‘liberty’ and ‘equal protection of law.’” Khan will be speaking at Seattle Center on Sunday, February… Continue reading

  • Never Again: Japanese American WWII History and American Muslim Rights Today

    Seventy-five years ago, approximately 7,000 Seattleites were ordered by the U.S. military to leave their homes and sent to incarceration camps. Most ended up at desolate Minidoka in southern Idaho. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, signed on February 19, 1942, two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, forcibly evacuated 120,000 Japanese Americans… Continue reading

  • Give, Baby, Give!

      I’ve been hearing a lot of people wondering out loud about what they can do to be involved in their community these days.  Maybe it’s the holiday season gaining importance now that the Presidential election has come to an end.  Maybe it has to do with a certain speech that many of us heard… Continue reading

  • Left on the Shelf

    Nothing left on that DVD shelf at your local branch library?  You might want to take a closer look. I decided to try an experiment in serendipity with the DVD shelves at the branch where I work.  I would select a movie to watch from what was left on the shelf, and, to make things a… Continue reading