I. JOINT AATSP-AATF CULTURAL EVENT.
I have been
exploring the possibility of an AATSP-AATF
joint
venture that would be of great relevance
to your
professional lives: it would involve all
5 C's of the
National Standards (yes, I know, I need
to mail those
forms to about 12 of you!) Communication,
Comparisons, Culture, Connections, and
Community are
all addressed here. READ ON!
Robert knows some French Basques who used
to live in
the Skagit Valley. Our idea is to
invite both French
and Spanish Basques and to do the following:
A. Have a cooking demonstration that
would be
practical for both your classrooms and
your dinner
parties.
B. Have a talk or roundtable discussion
about
contemporary Basque issues in France and
Spain.
C. Learn about American Basque communities
in Idaho
and Eastern Washington.
D. Show a film (?)
The cross-disciplinary applications are
tremendous,
and if we address it correctly, we may
be able to
offer Clock Hours.
PLEASE RESPOND WITH THE FOLLOWING:
your level of
interest in such an event (or lack thereof);your
willingness to open your home (we only
need one home)
with a LARGE kitchen (then again, this
may have to
occur at a school); whether we should pursue
clock
hours; if a film is appropriate or desirable;
the
names of any local Basques you know.
II. AATSP WORKSHOP? Robert
was also telling me that
once a year, AATF offers its members a
professional
workshop with a hands-on practicum relating
to
contemporary issues in our profession specifically
linked to the target language. Please
let me know if
you would be interested. There would
of course be a
cost involved per participant.
III. HISPANIC CULTURAL EVENTS IN
SPOKANE: AHANA.
AHANA
The Office of AHANA
The Office of AHANA (African American,
Hispanic,
Asian, and Native American) provides all
Gonzaga
University students, faculty, and staff
as well as the
greater Spokane community with a variety
of social and
educational cultural events. The AHANA
quarterly
newsletter is an excellent resource to
keep informed
on all cultural events occurring at Gonzaga
as well as
in the Spokane community. The Office of
AHANA is
primarily managed by Alfonso Garcia, the
student
programming coordinator for Unity House.
Additionally,
Alfonso Garcia serves as Gonzaga's representative
in
the Intercollegiate Diversity Alliance,
a
collaborative effort of EWU, Whitworth
College, SCC,
and Gonzaga, to bring quality cultural
events to
Spokane.
AHANA Mentorship Program
This initiative was established as a retention
program
for a select number of AHANA students.
The program
pairs students with a university professional
whose
academic pursuits, research, or work
interests compliment those of the student.
Annual Events
Some annual events organized by the Office
of AHANA
are the monthly Straight Talk Series, a
series of
informal and interactive meetings with
leaders from
Gonzaga and the Spokane community, Rock
Your Thoughts
Week activities, Black History Month activities,
Hispanic Heritage Month programs, Native
American
celebrations, Asian celebrations, and the
Martin
Luther King celebration.
IV. RESTAURANT REVIEW: BANDOLEONE.
I'm going to try
to include a review on the net of Hispanic-themed
restaurants in the state each week.
This week, we
feature BANDOLEONE, in Seattle's Eastlake
neighborhood, 10 minutes from my Capitol
Hill home:
By Fred Brack, Sidewalk
This Eastlake haunt is favored by lovers
of Spanish
culture, as well as cigar fans.
Warning: This might be the slowest kitchen
in town.
That said, it's also one of the most inventive,
painstakingly preparing each Spanish- and
Latino-inspired dish from scratch and sending
forth
bold, bright flavors with spicy overtones.
A
three-course meal might require two-and-a-half
hours,
or even three on a weekend night. Patrons,
however,
never seem impatient. They bide their time
over good
drinks, accept stroking from agreeable
servers and
converse intimately in the small, candle-lit
storefront.
A succession of chefs have burnished Bandoleone's
reputation. When this was written, Jeremy
Faber was in
charge, and he was the best of the lot
- up until
then. But shortly after this was written,
Alex Nemeth,
sous chef at Brie & Bordeaux, succeeded
him. Nemeth
will be tweaking the menu and patrons can
only hope
he'll speed up the kitchen while repeating
Faber
triumphs like this salad: roasted black
trumpet
mushrooms bedded on watercress that was
beautifully
and sparingly dressed by a simple vinaigrette.
Or this
soup: ancho chiles and oyster mushrooms
in a
sherry-and-garlic-flavored broth topped
with a daub of
toasted-almond paste that, stirred in,
imbued the
whole with a slightly sweet, nutty essence.
Or this
entree: chile-rubbed swordfish cooked meltingly
rare
and served with blackened-tomato-and-tequila
sauce.
This was masterful work, reveling in rusticity
yet
touched with finesse.
Important as Faber's contribution was,
Bandoleone's
spirit derives from owner Danielle Phillippa.
Short,
slender and dynamic, she orchestrates the
ambience and
endlessly promotes with wine tastings,
special events,
live music. She counterpoints Bandoleone's
agreeable
shabbiness (worn red paint on the wood
floor,
rough-hewn back porch open in good weather)
with fresh
flowers and white linen and never loses
her wits when
things go wrong (a cook fails to show up,
the wind
conveys clouds from the out-back smoker
into the
dining room). No one has ever witnessed
her brooding,
and her place is not for brooding, either.
It's for
the venturesome and the ravenous.
Scene: Eastlake-neighborhood regulars tend
to claim
the bar stools, while destination diners,
becoming
dressier as the week goes on, fill the
dining room.
Bites we like: With the change in chefs,
nothing can
be recommended until Nemeth settles in.
Parking: On the street or validated in
a pay lot on
top of the convenience store across the
street.
Hours
Sunday - Thursday 5:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
Friday - Saturday 5:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday brunch 9 a.m. to 2:30
p.m.
*PLEASE WRITE ME ABOUT RESTAURANTS YOU
KNOW AND LOVE--
ESPECIALLY ONES OUTSIDE SEATTLE!
V. BROMA EN ESPANOL (Thanks to Eloise
McAllister,
AATSP Austin, TX):
Un oso entró en taberna y pidió
cerveza. El camarero
gritó "¡O Jefe! ¡O Jefe!
Hay un oso en la taberna y
quiere cerveza!" El jefe respondió
"Tonto, ¿que
vendemos acá, manzanas o cerveza?
Puedes vender un
vaso al oso, y como los osos son estúpidos,
puedes
explicarle que cuesta $75."
El camarero volvió y al oso sirvió
la cerveza. Dijo,
"Cuesta $75". El oso no respondió,
pero tomó la
cerveza. El camarero, en la manera de un
camarero de
tabernas, dijo "Osos son raros in tabernas,
¿no?" "Es
la verdad, respondió el oso. "Somos
raros en tabernas
porque la cerveza cuesta demasiado."
REPEAT ITEMS:
Potluck and LOVERS OF THE ARCTIC CIRCLE
THIS WEEKEND.
POTLUCK at Dandy Porter's cliftonporter@seanet.com
Saturday at 5 p.m. Film at Pacific
Place Cinemas, 6th
and Pine at 6:30. We still have a
couple of tickets.
Response has been good.
