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Town Hall
From Forums to Follies. Also included are lectures and concerts at the City's Town Hall. More information about this show
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Town Square: How the Web`s Gone Wrong 1/31/2010
Computer scientist Jaron Lanier, known as the father of virtual-reality technology, was among the first to predict the revolutionary changes the World Wide Web would bring to commerce and culture. In his latest work, You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto, Lanier says the Web`s first designers made crucial choices (such as making one`s presence anonymous) that have had enormous-and often unintended-consequences, including elevating the "wisdom" of mobs and algorithms over the intelligence and judgment of individuals. |
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Town Square: McChesney and Nichols - Bail Out the Newspapers 1/21/2010
We`ve lost the printed Post-Intelligencer; daily newspapers are closing in Denver, Cincinnati, and Albuquerque; and even the venerable Boston Globe is at risk. "Surviving" newspapers are shedding reporters, shuttering bureaus, and ignoring entire areas of coverage. Journalism, the counterbalance to corporate and political power and the lifeblood of an informed citizenry, is not just threatened; it is in meltdown. Robert McChesney and John Nichols, authors of The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers, believe the federal government should intervene to save newspapers, and journalism -- and they have history on their side: The founders who wrote a free-press protection into the First Amendment provided subsidies to the burgeoning print press of our young nation. |
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Public Q+A with City Attorney Pete Holmes 1/20/2010
Incoming City Attorney Pete Holmes takes questions from the public as well as local journalists Josh Feit and Erica Barnett. |
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American Podium: Larry Downes - Catching up with Technology 1/19/2010
The Law of Disruption is a simple but devastating principle explaining resistance to change: Social, political, and economic systems change incrementally, but technology changes exponentially. This means that while digital life races ahead, the rest of our life, from law to business, struggles to keep up. Author Larry Downes (The Laws of Disruption) explores this accident-prone intersection, offering a guide for these confusing times through nine critical areas in which technology is dramatically rewriting the rules of business and life. Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life with University Book Store. Series supported by The Boeing Company Charitable Trust and RealNetworks Foundation. Media sponsorship provided by Publicola. |
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Front Row: Zubatto Syndicate 1/14/2010
The Zubatto Syndicate is a 12-piece ensemble under the direction of composer and guitarist Andrew Boscardin. Featuring a unique synthesis of reed instruments and electric sounds, brass and stand up bass, Zubatto Syndicate is a highly original take on the Big Band jazz tradition. Seeking to find the musical place where Maria Schneider meets the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and the Roots meet Radiohead by way of Mingus, Zubatto combines detailed arrangements and inventive harmonic ideas with rhythmic settings and idioms atypical of the jazz orchestra, as realized by the some of the top improvising musicians in Seattle. |
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Town Square: Brendan Brazier on Vegan Fitness 1/14/2010
Ironman triathlete Brendan Brazier is one of only a few professional athletes in the world whose diet is 100-percent plant-based. It seems to be working for him: Brazier is a two-time Canadian 50km Ultra Marathon Champion, the creator of an award-winning line of whole-food nutritional products called Vega, and the author of a series of Thrive books. His latest, Thrive Fitness, explains Brazier`s groundbreaking approach to fitness and shows you how to gain maximum results in minimal time, increasing overall strength without developing muscle mass, boosting energy, decreasing the risk of disease, and enhancing your overall quality of life. |
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Seattle Speaks: Youth Violence 11/10/2009
City leaders are trying to reduce youth violence, but is it working? C.R. Douglas moderates a discussion with City leaders, police, former gang members and of course, teens. Produced in partnership with CityClub and Town Hall Seattle. |
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American Podium: Thom Hartmann 9/29/2009
Co-presented with the TOWN HALL CENTER FOR CIVIC LIFE. Noted author, social critic, historian, political analyst and syndicated radio host Thom Hartmann - who is heard locally on AM-1090 - is back in Seattle and Town Hall with a compelling, open-eyed new book, "Threshold: The Crisis of Western Culture" (Viking). At last a book that defines the problems of our current robber baron economy and presents solutions that integrate natural laws with the way we live, work, and shop. Americas most popular progressive talk show host brings his powerful political and historical insight to bear on the most important question of our time: To what may we humans aspire in this time of crisis and how can we achieve it? |
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American Podium: Howard Dean 9/8/2009
The six-term governor of Vermont, onetime presidential candidate, former chair of the Democratic Party, and a physician, Howard Dean talks about the state of health care reform in this country. With Faiz Shakir and Igor Volsky, he has written a book outlining a proposed way to reform, "Howard Deans Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform: How We Can Achieve Affordable Medical Care for Every American and Make Our Jobs Safer" (Chelsea Green). Dean gives an up-to-the-minute assessment of where things are, and where they might/should go. Co-presented with the TOWN HALL CENTER FOR CIVIC LIFE. |
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An Evening With Sarah Vowell 10/13/2008
Sarah Vowell is a bestselling author (Assassination Vacation and Take the Cannoli, among others) and a contributing editor for public radio’s This American Life. In her latest book, The Wordy Shipmates, Vowell travels once again through America’s past, this time to seventeenth-century New England and the Puritans. Writing with her patented blend of historical fact, dry wit, and social commentary, Vowell finds the Puritan beliefs about church and state more interesting than their reputation would suggest. |
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American Podium: Misha Glenny - McMafia 11/11/2008
With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the deregulation of international financial markets, both governments and entrepreneurs become intoxicated by forecasts of limitless expansion into newly open markets. No one foresaw that one of the greatest successes of globalization would be the limitless expansion of organized crime. Current estimates suggest that illegal trade now accounts for twenty percent of global GDP. In his new book McMafia, British journalist Misha Glenny traces organized crime’s phenomenal growth showing how it and terror are fueled by the identical source: the material affluence of the West and the poverty of the developing world. Glenny’s award-winning books include The Rebirth of History, The Fall of Yugoslavia and The Balkans, 1804-1999. Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life with Elliott Bay Book Company. |
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American Podium: Rick Perlstein - Nixonland 11/4/2008
Historian Rick Perlstein recaptures American's turbulent 60s and early 70s and reveals how Richard Nixon rose from the political grave to seize and hold the presidency. He shows how in 1972, Nixon harvested the bitterness and resentment born of the country's turmoil, and set the stage for the ideological divide that characterizes American today. Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life with Elliott Bay Book Company. |
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American Podium: Chris Hedges - I Don’t Believe in Atheists 10/28/2008
Chris Hedges, the bestselling author of American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on Americas and a Harvard Divinity School graduate, believes that both evangelicals and atheists (such as Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris) are on dangerous sides of the debate on faith and religion in America. His forthcoming book, I Don’t Believe in Atheists, is a critique of both religious and secular fundamentalism. Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life with University Book Store. |
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American Podium: Fareed Zakaria - Rise of the Rest 10/7/2008
Former PBS host and present editor of Newsweek International, Fareed Zakariah has written a new book titled The Post-American World, whose thesis is that the U.S. will no longer dominate the global economy, orchestrate politics, or overwhelm cultures in the foreseeable future. The growth and influence of countries like China, India, Brazil, and Russia will reshape the world. Zakaria discusses how the U.S. can understand and thrive in this rapidly changing international climate. Presented as part of the Town Hall Center for Civic Life with University Book Store. |
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American Podium: Jeremy Scahill - Blackwater USA 9/30/2008
Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army tells the story of the rise of the fastest-growing private army in the world. Journalist Jeremy Scahill traces Blackwater’s founding in 1997 by Erik Prince, an ex-Navy Seal and scion of a wealthy conservative family, its military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and inside the U.S., and its close ties to the Bush administration. The shooting spree by Blackwater forces in Baghdad last September has brought questions about its lack of accountability into mainstream discourse. Among the only western reporters to gain access to the Abu Ghraib prison when Saddam Hussein was in power, Scahill is a fellow at The Nation Institute and a frequent contributor of The Nation magazine. Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life with Elliott Bay Book Company. |
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American Podium: Madeleine Albright 9/16/2008
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright offers a wide-ranging set of recommendations to the prospective winner of the 2008 presidential election. In "Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership", Albright addresses the major world conflicts and offers her thoughts on how to restore the country's reputation and avoid the pitfalls that have plagued earlier presidents. Much more than a set of policy prescriptions, Albright blends lessons from the past with forward-looking suggestions about how to select a first-rate foreign policy team, how to ensure that decisions, once carefully made, are successfully implemented, and how to employ the full range of tools available to a president to persuade other countries to support U.S. objectives. Making full use of her experience as an adviser to two presidents and as a key figure in four presidential transitions, Albright addresses all the major world conflicts that are sure to be paramount over the next four years at the White House. Top on her list are our confrontation with terror, Iraq, the Middle East, the control of nuclear weapons, the rise of Asia, emerging threats to democracy, and the management of U.S. relations with troublesome leaders, including Iran's President Mahomoud Ahmadinejad, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and North Korea's Kim Jong-Il. Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life with University Book Store. |
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American Podium: Scott McClellan - Inside the Bush White House 9/7/2008
Scott McClellan, the author of What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception and one of President George W. Bush's closest aides, gives a behind-the-scenes look at the Bush presidency. McClellan was the White House press secretary from 2003 to 2006. McClellan testified before the House Judiciary Committee about whether Vice President Dick Cheney ordered him to make misleading public statements about the leaking of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity. He is a senior adviser for a global technology firm and a communications strategist. Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life, with University Book Store. |
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American Podium: Arianna Huffington - Right is Wrong 8/26/2008
For Arianna Huffington, the problem with the Republican Party is not that it is at odds with the views of progressives but that it is at odds with the views of the American people. By significant majorities, Americans believe in the science of evolution, don’t want Roe v. Wade overturned, don’t want to ignore global warming, want good health care for their kids, and want to bring our troops home from Iraq. In Right is Wrong, Huffington takes a humorous but hard look at how the right wing fringe has taken over the party and how the media has been "complicit" in the entire endeavor. Arianna Huffington is the cofounder and editor in chief of The Huffington Post, a nationally syndicated columnist, and the author of eleven books. Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life with University Book Store. |
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Town Square: Death with Dignity or Assisted Suicide? 7/2/2008
Oregon is currently the only state in the nation that allows assisted suicide or patient-directed dying. Former Governor Booth Gardner has filed an initiative here in Washington which, if passed, would allow some terminally ill patients to receive medication to end their lives. What are the moral and ethical arguments on both sides of this emotionally charged issue? How are they addressed in the proposed law? Medical professionals and ethicists discuss the ramifications of the issue, and take questions from the audience. The program is moderated by Seattle University Law Professor John Mitchell. Presented by the Town Hall and CityClub, with Elliott Bay Book Company. |
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American Podium: E.J. Dionne - 'Souled Out' 6/12/2008
In Souled Out, award-winning commentator and journalist E. J. Dionne explains why the era of the “religious right” is over. Profiling contemporary religious figures such as Rich Warren and Richard Cizik to John Paul II and Benedict XVI, Dionne shows that our great religious traditions have always preached a broad message of hope and have refused to be mere props for the powers that be. He also argues that atheist writers such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens should be seen as a gift to believers, by demanding that they live up to their proclaimed values and embrace scientific and philosophical inquiry. Presented by The Town Hall Center for Civic Life and Elliott Bay Book Company. |
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American Podium: Roger Mudd: ‘The Place to Be’ 6/10/2008
A star reporter and news anchor at CBS and NBC at a time when broadcast television news was at its peak, Roger Mudd tells the story of TV journalism as it once was and shows what it is missing today. In The Place to Be, he describes the rivalries, the egos, the pride, the competition, the ambitions, and the frustrations of conveying the world to a national television audience in thirty minutes minus commercials. Presented by Town Hall. |
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Town Square: Michael Connery - Youth to Power 5/2/2008
Michael Connery is a political activist and progressive blogger (futureyouthmajority.com and HuffingtonPost.com). In "Youth to Power: How Young Voters are Building Tomorrow's Progressive Majority", Connery examines how today's young people are combining technology with a vigorous social spirit that could serve to revive progressive politics. Connery speaks on stage with Eli Sanders, Senior Staff Writer for The Stranger. Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life with University Book Store. |
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American Podium: Lou Dobbs 1/29/2008
Lou Dobbs is a Harvard-educated economist, anchor and managing editor of CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight and editorial columnist. Originally a classically conservative economist, Dobbs’s views have changed over time. In his new book, Independents Day: Awakening the American Spirit, he examines the public policy choices over the past thirty years that have eroded individual liberties, disenfranchised the middle class, reduced worker rights and pay, and led the nation into social and political division at home as well as into conflict around the world. Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life with Elliott Bay Book Company. |
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Town Square: Kevin Bales' Ending Slavery 10/29/2007
Kevin Bales is the world’s leading expert on modern slavery and President of Free the Slaves, the U.S. sister organization of Anti-Slavery International. His 1999 Pulitzer-nominated book Disposable People has been credited with explaining modern day slavery to the world. His latest book, Ending Slavery-How We Free Today’s Slaves, provides a roadmap to freedom, explaining the simple but effective actions that governments, international organizations, businesses, and individuals can take to end slavery for good. Presented as part of the Town Hall Center for Civic Life with University Book Store. |
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American Podium: Paul Krugman 1/14/2008
Economist Paul Krugman writes a twice-weekly column for The New York Times and teaches at Princeton University. His new book, The Conscience of a Liberal, studies the past eighty years of American history—from the reforms that tamed the inequalities of the Gilded Age to the reemergence of growing economic disparity in our own time in an attempt to understand what happened to middle-class America and what it will take to achieve a “new New Deal.” Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life and University Book Store. |
Town Hall Presents: You're On The List #2
11/29/2007
Town Hall introduces an irreverent game show blending music, comedy and an eclectic mix of personalities. Inspired by the long-running 50s quasi-game show You Bet Your Life, You're On The List, Hosted by local comedian David Silverman with musical direction by Rob Witmer (“Awesome”), the November edition features the P-I’s associate publisher Ken Bunting, DJ Riz, regarded as one of Seattle’s best club DJs, and alt country favorites Carrie Clark and the Lonesome Lovers. |
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Town Square: Jay Inslee 11/4/2007
In 1961, President Kennedy ignited America’s Apollo Project and sparked a revolution in space exploration. Today, the New Apollo Energy Project is poised to revolutionize the production of energy. The nation that built the world’s most powerful rockets, its most advanced computers, and most sophisticated life support systems is ready to create the most powerful solar energy systems, its most advanced wind energy turbines, and its most sophisticated hybrid cars. Representative Jay Inslee (with co-author Bracken Hendricks) has written Apollo’s Fire, which lays out the path to stop global warming and gain energy independence. Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life with Seattle University and Elliott Bay Book Company. |
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Town Hall Presents: You're On The List 10/11/2007
Town Hall introduces an irreverent new game show blending music, comedy, and an eclectic mix of local and national personalities. Inspired by the long-running 50s quasi-game show You Bet Your Life, You're On The List is hosted by local comedian and loose cannon David Silverman, with musical direction by Rob Witmer. |
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Robert Reich: Supercapitalism 9/20/2007
Former Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton, Robert Reich is a best-selling author, commentator, and professor of public policy. Reich's new book, Supercapitalism: is an examination of how mid-20th-century capitalism has become super-charged, resulting in a both larger economic pie and widening inequalities of income and wealth. He shows how the tools traditionally used to temper America's societal problems fair taxation, well-funded public education, and trade unionshave withered. Presented by Town Hall Center for Civic Life with University Book Store. |
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Alan Weisman: The World Without Us 7/18/2007
What would happen to Earth if humans vanished? Expanding on a Discover Magazine piece selected for The Best American Science Writing 2006, Alan Weisman’s The World Without Us is a thought experiment that explores how the rest of nature would respond if it were suddenly relieved of the relentless pressures heaped on it by humans. Weisman has drawn on the expertise of scientists, engineers, art conservators, miners, oil drillers, and religious leaders to examine our fleeting yet indelible human legacy on Earth. Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life with University Book Store. |
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Future of Health: Nina Planck on Real Food 6/25/2007
Sixty-five percent of all American adults are overweight or obese and heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. So what should we eat? What foods should we avoid? Nina Planck, the daughter of Virginia vegetable farmers, created farmers’ markets in London and Washington, D.C. and ran New York City’s famous Greenmarket. In Real Food: What to Eat and Why, Planck reveals why traditional foods—fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, grass-fed meat and dairy—not only taste great but are in fact good for you. She shows why the emphasis on low fat diets in the last thirty years is wrong and why factory-style faming is bad for farmers, the environment, and you. Presented with Kim Ricketts Book Events. |
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Stephanie Coontz: Revolution in Love, Sex, and Marriage 6/6/2007
Stephanie Coontz, a faculty member at Evergreen since 1975, is a nationally-known expert on marriage and family presents a talk entitled "Courting Disaster: The Worldwide Revolution in Love, Sex, and Marriage." Her research shows that today's marriages are fragile not because Americans have become more self-centered and career-minded, but because we expect more from marriage than any previous generation. Her most recent book, Marriage, A History, was selected as one of the best books of 2005 by the Washington Post. She has appeared numerous times on national television, in magazines and national newspapers, and is a sought after speaker. Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life with Elliott Bay Book Company. |
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Elliott Bay Books Presents Anthony Romero 6/11/2007
Anthony Romero took the helm of the American Civil Liberties Union a week before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. He has written a critical look at the erosion of civil liberties in this country in the name of national security. In Defense of Our America: The Fight for Civil Liberties in the Age of Terror, Romero (with Dina Temple-Raston) tells the stories of real, average Americans and how the suspension of tenets of the Bill of Rights is playing out in the lives of American citizens. Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life and Elliott Bay Book Company. |
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Public Forum: Is Puget Sound Losing Its Middle Class? 6/10/2007
In recent years, the shrinking middle class has been widely documented. Pramila Jayapal, executive director of Hate Free Zone; John De Graaf, documentary filmmaker and national coordinator of Take Back Your Time; and Kristen Rowe Finkbeiner, author and executive director of MomsRising participate in a panel discussion about why the struggle to stay in the middle class is tougher than it’s ever been before. Pepper Schwartz, UW Professor of Sociology and nationally-known author, consultant, and lecturer moderates. Sponsored by UFCW Locals 21, 44 and 81. |
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Christopher Hitchens: God is Not Great 6/7/2007
Christopher Hitchens is widely-published polemicist and frequent radio and TV commentator and contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a visiting professor of liberal studies at the New School. In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris's recent bestseller, The End of Faith, Hitchens makes a case against religion in God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. With a close reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which he believes religion is a cause of dangerous sexual repression and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos, and frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason. Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life and University Book Store. |
Youth Violence Forum: The West Side Story Project 5/30/2007
The classic American musical, West Side Story, marks its 50th Anniversary in 2007. Its timeless themes of gang violence and youth alienation have catalyzed a series of community conversations for young and adult audiences organized by the Seattle Police Department and The 5th Avenue Theatre, with Town Hall, Allstate, and the Seattle Channel. A panel, including Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske, State Supreme Court Justice Bobbe Bridge, UW child behaviorist Eric Trupin, Ph.D., and King County Reclaiming Futures Community Liaison Roland Akers, engages in a dialogue about Seattle's strategies for, and obligations to, our youth at risk. Hubert Locke, retired dean of UW's Jackson School and Seattle P-I columnist, moderates. |
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Paul Dorpat and Jean Sherrard: Washington Then and Now 5/21/2007
The more things change, the more they change. Paul Dorpat, local historian and raconteur (well-known for his long-running weekly “Then and Now” newspaper feature) with co-author Jean Sherrard, traveled all across Washington State looking for the locations of old photographs and taking pictures from the same vantage points. Their new book, Washington Then and Now, shows how our state has changed over the years. Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life with University Book Store. |
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Town Hall Presents: Climate Policy 5/9/2007
Global warming is a real concern—politicians, business leaders, and environmental advocates now agree. A distinguished panel—including Ben Packers, Starbucks; Eric Markell, Puget Sound Energy; K.C. Golden, Climate Solutions; Denis Hayes, founder of Earth Day; Steve Nicholas, City of Seattle; and U.S. Representative Jay Inslee debates the policy and practicalities of climate change policy. Presented by the Thomas C. Wales Foundation. |
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Bill Bradley: The New American Story 4/12/2007
Bill Bradley, former Senator, basketball star, and Presidential candidate, believes that we are at a moment when we are compelled to reevaluate our political system and leadership. Based on his acclaimed New York Times op-ed piece, his forthcoming book, The New American Story, argues that a strong nation requires a stronger two-party system that tells the truth to the American people. He talks about how the Republican party has built a solid pyramid with money, ideas, and the media at its base; whereas the Democratic party's structure is an inverted pyramid with too much pressure for a charismatic leader to hold it up. Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life and Elliott Bay Book Company. |
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Elliott Bay Books presents: Eric Klinenberg 2/5/2007
Eric Klinenberg's new book, Fighting for Air (Free Press), examines how corporate ownership and control of local media has remade American political and cultural life. Michael Fancher, editor-at-large at the Seattle Times, will moderate a discussion with Mr. Klinenberg, who is a sociology professor at New York University, and has also written the highly acclaimed Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago. Co-presented with Town Hall Center for Civic Life and The Seattle Times. |
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Environmental Health Lecture: Biofuels 3/21/2007
The Seattle Biotech Legacy Foundation's 2007 Our Health, Our Environment: Making the Link lecture series explores the relationship between human and ecological health. It is expected that in 2007 biodiesel production in Washington will leap from 10 million to between 150 and 200 million gallons and ethanol use will grow from 40 to 300 million gallons. Three local experts speak about biofuels and the potential health, environmental and policy implications of biofuel use: David Kircher, manager of air resources, Puget Sound Clean Air Agency; Peter Moulton, coordinator of Climate Solutions' Harvesting Clean Energy Program; and Tim Stearns, energy policy specialist with Washington Department of Community, Trade, and Economic Development. |
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Town Hall presents Krist Novoselic on Election Reform 2/21/2007
We are in the middle of a transition of how we hold elections in WA State. When the popular blanket primary was declared unconstitutional in 2003, the Legislature implemented an unpopular pick-a-party primary. Voters responded by passing Initiative 872 (also struck down by the courts), which would advance the top-two primary vote-getters, regardless of party to the final election. Krist Novoselic, a local musician and co-founder of Nirvana, is a long-time advocate of ranked choice voting—wherein voters rank candidates, regardless of party affiliation, in order of preference on a single ballot. Novoselic is interviewed on stage by Eric Liu, author of Guiding Lights. Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life. |
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John Lombard: Saving Puget Sound 1/23/2007
No other developed area in the world matches the Puget Sound region's combination of beauty, wealth, natural resiliency, and history of environmental concern. John Lombard, Seattle native and senior policy analyst at the environmental consulting firm Steward and Associates, offers a practical proposal to conserve the region's most important ecosystems in the face of long-term population growth. Saving Puget Sound: A Conservation Strategy for the 21st Century provides a detailed review of the political and legal issues that must be at the core of any sound conservation strategy. Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life with Elliott Bay Book Company and the University of Washington Press. |
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Elliott Bay Books Presents: David Lynch 1/16/2007
American filmmaker David Lynch has developed a consistent approach to narrative and visual style that has become instantly recognizable to audiences worldwide. His works include Eraserhead, Elephant Man, Dune, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, and Twin Peaks. For fans who have longed to better understand Lynch's deeply personal vision, his new book, Catching the Big Fish, provides insight into his methods and describes the role of meditation in his creative process. |
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Matthew Stadler: What Has Become of Cities? 1/11/2007
Matthew Stadler is a Portland-based novelist and journalist. His novels examine the tension between imagination and reality. A regular contributor to The Stranger and 2006 winner of a United States Artists fellowship, he has recently examined the changing American city and the misunderstandings that divide citizens in the center from those in the suburbs. He suggests that we can no longer locate urbanity in the center, nor declare its absence from the periphery. Instead, urbanity permeates the whole. Stadler examines new research about the origins of cities and the "Zwischenstadt" or "in-between city" of western North America. |
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Town Hall Presents: Barack Obama 10/26/2006
A special evening, featuring U.S. Senator Barack Obama and his greatly anticipated new book, The Audacity of Hope. Co-presented with Elliott Bay Bookstore, with special thanks for assistance to Mount Zion Baptist Church. |
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Dead Sea Scrolls: Early Judaism and the Births of Christianity 9/27/2006
"The Significance of the Scrolls for the Study of the Hebrew Bible, Early Judaism, and the Birth of Christianity," lecture is given by Shalom Paul, Professor, The Hebrew Univeristy of Jerusalmen and Chairman of the Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation. Considered by many to be the most significant archeological find of the 20th century, the Dead Sea Scrolls date from 250 B.C.E. - 68 B.C.E. Apparently the library of a Jewish sect, they are the earliest known manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and are written primarily in Hebrew and Aramic. |
Irwin Redlener: "Americans at Risk" 9/14/2006
Irwin Redlener, founder and director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University and author of Americans at RISK, talks about what's wrong with our approach to preventing and responding to mega-disasters. He analyzes the role of NGOs such as the American Red Cross and describes in frank terms a government with a track record of cronyism and a stunning disregard for accountability. Of special concern are America's increasingly dysfunctional and expensive health care system and a disengaged and uninformed citizenry. Redlener also outlines what can by done-by governments and individuals-to reduce the devastation of future disasters. Presented by Town Hall and the University Book Store. |
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Seattle Voices with Wier Harman 6/8/2006
Host Eric Liu talks with the new Executive Director of Town Hall. |
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Seattle Public Library Presents: Marjane Satrapi 6/2/2006
In the eighth year of the series - "Seattle Reads" - The Seattle Public Library has selected "Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood" (Pantheon Books, 2003) by Marjane Satrapi. "Persepolis" paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran: of the bewildering contradictions between home and public life and of the enormous toll repressive regimes exact on the individual spirit. Marjane's child's-eye-view of dethroned emperors, state-sanctioned whippings, and heroes of the revolution allows us to learn the history of this fascinating country and of her own extraordinary family. |
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Town Hall Presents: Remembering Richard Feynman 4/7/2005
Nobel-Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman lived an extraordinary life and inspired people in many disciplines. His daughter Michelle Feynman joined Nathan Myhrvold, co-founded Intellectual Ventures, George Dyson, author and historian, and UW Physicist Steve Ellis, who knew Feynman and worked in his field of particle physics, to talk about his life and read from his newly released book of letters, “Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track”. This event was presented with Elliott Bay Books as part the Seattle Science Lectures at Town Hall. |
Town Hall Presents: A Science Lecture with Malcolm Gladwell 1/26/2005
The celebrated writer for The New Yorker and author of The Tipping Point discusses his new book, Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking, which studies the way people make split-second decisions and other "unthinking" reactions. |
Town Hall Presents: A Science Lecture with Richard Dawkins 11/17/2004
Renowned biologist and author Richard Dawkins presents a comprehensive look at evolution, ranging back to the dawn of life. His book, The Ancestor's Tale, traces the separate pilgrimages of animals, plants and homo sapiens. Dawkins is a professor of science at Oxford University. |
Town Hall Presents: A Science Lecture with Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison 10/18/2004
An internationally renowned expert on the mind and mood disorders, Dr. Jamison discusses her latest book, Exuberance, and how certain qualities of the mind lead to creative and scientific discoveries. She examines the role of brain chemicals, heredity, and the differences between exuberance and mania. Dr. Jamison, author of An Unquiet Mind, is a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University and the recipient of a MacArthur award. |
Town Hall Presents: Homelessness, A Matter of our Social Immorality 9/30/2004
Bill Grace, Director of the Center for Ethical Leadership, hosts a forum about homelessness at Town Hall. |
Town Hall Presents: The Seattle CHECC Movement 5/5/2004
Town Hall hosted a forum on May 5 entitled "CHECC" - Choose an Effective City Council. |
Town Hall Presents: The Rise of the Creative Class 9/4/2003
Town Hall, City Club and the Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs co-sponsor an evening with Carnegie Mellon Regional Economic Development Professor Richard Florida talking with Marcie Sillman about the link between communities' creative residents and economic prosperity. |
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