Monday Morning Pickup

The Seattle Symphony, hot on the heels of announcing their 2010-2011 season, has named an interim executive director.

Seattle's arts organizations receive less public support than most of their counterparts around the country. And now they've lost the PONCHO auction. Jean Godden suggests that it's time to get creative.

The folks within the Seattle Times buidling are breathing a little easier today.

The venerable Seattle Times has secured some breathing room in regards to its substantial debt. "We are not like the industry's over-leveraged newspapers where the debt has forced them into bankruptcy," Frank Blethen said in the story from Puget Sound Business Journal. "But we are not positive on a net basis."

Village Theatre's Brian Yorkey will see his Broadway hit creation Next to Normal show across the country soon. A tour was long rumored and has finally been confirmed in San Diego.

Methinks, she loves me. Me, and flowers, and animal pelts and SecondStory Rep.

Redmond's SecondStory Repertory Theatre nearly had to close its doors due to bankrupcty. They're back, however, with the help of a teen performer and a showing of She Loves Me.

Can art squatting work in Tacoma? "Yes," say squatting artists.

A diamond is a girl's best friend, unless it's been ingested.

Finally, a man in trouble with the law coughs up some pretty damning evidence.