I have used Bravo's event resource guide for the past 4 years and find it to be the best resource for finding venues and vendors to work with. I always begin with this book.

What an amazing and fascinating family! This is a great look at some important individuals, what they contributed to our history, and how they grew up in this country. The author weaves in great details of family relationships and their public lives, along with the local and national picture. It told me a lot about America's experience in race relations on a personal level. I really enjoyed the human side of their story, nicely captured in the straight forward prose.

Dear Ichiro is a gentle and enjoyable picture book illustrated by Doug Keith and written by Jean Davies Okimoto that celebrates baseball as a sport cherished in both America and Japan. A young boy gets into an angry fight with his best friend, and vows to hate his former friend forever... but when he sees his grandfather, a World War II veteran, cheering for Japanese baseball players then the boy learns that it's possible for enemies to become friends again. A welcome addition for school and community library collections, Dear Ichiro is a heartwarming and enthusiastically recommended picture book story.

I have read this book and I have to tell you, it is so well written and eloquent, a real page turner. I have also read Sons of the Profits, another book from Speidel and it is one of the best books I have ever read in my life. The books are funny and notoriusly accurate for the Seattle history.

What an amazing find this book was! The authors artfully unveil the little-known world of drag clubs in the Fourties - and let me tell you it's NOTHING like the drag world today. Full of artists who sang for themselves (no lip-sync here!) and took their art form very seriously, it really opens up your perspective on what it must have been like to be a gay person in that era. You get both a feel for the times and a perspective that makes you appreciate today.

Told as a series of short biographies of people and places of the day, it is very readable, accessible, and educational at the same time.

I highly recommend this book, and hope the authors are working on a sequel that covers the next era in Seattle's rich history!

I have read and reread this book countless times over the years and it never fails to educate me about the harsh and cruel life of an NFL player or coach.
Fred Moody did an outstanding job of capturing EVERYTHING that an NFL team has to deal with during a season (and this was a very extraordinary season).
It also harkens back to a time when NFL football was revered in the Northwest, now it is just a lame excuse.

Anyone who has ever lived on a boat or near the water will love this book. Recipes for kayak carolling, "Liz Taylor Thighs" water ballet, Polar Bear Parties, women's poker games, fishing derbies, and the famous "cirque-saw turkey" technique. The recipes are great and the tall tales of life aboard are wonderful. Everything from a romantic dinner for two, to a feast for hundreds ( see Bastille Day Pig Luau).

Seattle is like Portlands bigger little brother. it is a younger city but it grew larger quicker than Portland. It has the space needle and some really nice landmarks. Portland in contrast is a bit smaller and has no nationally reconized landmarks.

I have spent a great deal of time in both cities and I find that Portland is my favorite. Hence I there. This guide will take you to most the best places in both cities, but if I where you I would also get a guide dedicated to each city individually. Oh, and take it from someone who knows. Do not try to drive in rushhour in Seattle, infact dont drive at all in Seattle, stay across the straight and take te fairy over.

In Portland just take Trimet. Do not get on C-tran it will take you to Vancouver WA which is boring and out of the way.

Overall good book

The journey that I have been led is a difficult one - from the mud flat, a detour to Steilacoom, a small climb up to Denny's knoll, and the courage ascend to the Hills.

The tearing, triumphs, grindings of teeth, and the celebrations -as words capture the emotions of the past, they captivate my consciousness and draw out parallel emotions from within myself.

The author has told his own story, keeping little distance between himself and his words, creating a close intimacy between story of the past and myself:

As Francis Framer was straitjacketed and carried off, it was my own scream for help that I hear. When her eyelid was pulled open and her eyeball stared right into a spearing ice pick, it was my eyes that are forcibly shut.

The vaudevillian movements underground come through my ingertips as I touch these words on the pages. And I gyrate my hips on Shelly's Leg.

Triumph comes to my face when it was down on 13. Shadow clouds my emotion when it was down on Cal'sbill.

Reading the book was a difficult journey for me, because, well, it had been a difficult journey indeed for those who had walked the path. But it is a journey well deserving of its travelers. As I look about Seattle, I find the reflections of my past: I hear my own language speaking through the many entrances that I have not entered. I see pictures of myself hung on the walls of places that I have never been. My heart echoes the steps taken by people whose names I have scarcely known. Today, I have, I own a sense a dwelling.

The information in this book are very useful for those who work in the phase change and convective heat transfer areas.