Washington State Magazine

The 22nd Annual Mom's Weekend Fashion Show, held April 8, 2005, in Beasley Coliseum, featured the work of 13 Washington State University student designers from the Department of Apparel, Merchandising, Design and Textiles.Thanks to Jane Lawford, AMDT, for help in assembling this gallery.Click on the thumbnails to view each student's collection.Photographs by Robert Hubner...
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Seattle, that great labor city, home of Dave Beck and big union shenanigans, of savory dark breads in Ballard smorgasbords, of fishermen and stevedores and roughneck sportswriters, is a boutique. There's everything here, but less, somehow, than when there was nothing.Yet even now, there are moments, in early fall for instance, when the city is perfect. A bus ride is a meditation; the sounds of children shouting in the Montlake playground on the lowlands beneath the Capitol Hill rim are ti...
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Architecture professor Paul Hirzel wanted to push his students out of their mindsets. So he asked them to design a single building for both the beginning and the end of life: a funeral home/ birthing center."The project was very daunting and invigorating," says Hirzel.In the final year of their pre-professional architecture program, students must test themselves by researching, designing, and developing models of a particular building. Most often, they create beautiful, interesting projec...
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Washington State Magazine is pleased to present a chapter from the book, Home Stand: Growing Up in Sports, by James McKean '68, published in 2005 by Michigan State University Press. Reprinted by permission. To read a review of Home Stand, click here.About the size of a toilet-paper roll, the white cardboard tube—a thick, green fuse taped along its length—felt a little heavier than a baseball. Printed on the side in army font w...
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12 large peppers-cut tops off, seed, and blanch. 3 lbs lean hamburger Diced pepper tops 1 medium onion, diced 2 cups instant rice 3 cups tomato sauce (reserve enough to top peppers) 1 tsp. garlic powder 1 1/2 tbsp. Johnny's seasoning dash of Tabasco sauce optional 1 cup shredded cheddar cheeseMix all ingredients, stuff peppers, top each pepper with tomato sauce. Bake at 350 degrees for one hour. Top with cheese last five minutes.P.S. Please be mindful we are country cooks and don't me...
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12 large peppers—cut tops off, seed, and blanch. 3 lbs lean hamburger Diced pepper tops 1 medium onion, diced 2 cups instant rice 3 cups tomato sauce (reserve enough to top peppers) 1 tsp. garlic powder 1 1/2 tbsp. Johnny's seasoning dash of Tabasco sauce optional 1 cup shredded cheddar cheeseMix all ingredients, stuff peppers, top each pepper with tomato sauce. Bake at 350 degrees for one hour. Top with cheese last five minutes.P.S. Please be mindful we are country cooks and don't ...
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Washington State Magazine talks with Tom Reese, the economic development officer in the Spokane mayor's office, about the knowledge economy, the role of higher education in economic development, and the planned university district surrounding Washington State University's Spokane campus. Reese is an adjunct faculty member in the Interdisciplinary Design Institute at WSU Spokane. Tom Reese: Spokane is redefining itself. I think it's really interesting that the world's fair focused on Spok...
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A cultural link between women and cattle seems unlikely in this age of turbo-powered technology. Yet, cows are all around us as decorative symbols, from the large fiberglass art-cow statues that decorated the streets of Chicago and New York recently, to their widespread presence in gift shops and department stores. Their whimsical countenances appear on a myriad of kitchen towels, coffee mugs, and cookie jars. This surge of interest in all things bovine by giftware manufacturers, who mark...
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From On Her Way: Stories and Poems About Growing Up Girl, edited by Sandy Asher (New York: Dutton Children's Books, 2004). Reprinted by permission of the publisher.Sister Paris's roses smelled like poison. My nose was just inches away from an orange Tropicana as big as Kenny Royal's fist, and all I could smell were chemicals. Not even a whiff of tea rose. Nana's roses had always smelled like roses-all luscious and sweet, almost ticklish. They'd grown in curved rows along the south side o...
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