BONUS EPISODE: Tom Tangney on the Egyptian Theatre closure and his lifelong love of Seattle Cinema

Feliks Banel's guest on this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY is Tom Tangney, retired former Seattle journalist and broadcaster, longtime local cinephile - and all around gadfly. The Seattle International Film Festival – or SIFF - announced on October 9, 2025 that they are ending their lease of the Egyptian Theatre on Seattle’s Capitol Hill. The theatre, which was built as a Masonic Temple around 1916, belongs to Seattle Central College. It’s unclear what’s next for the structure, which has not been officially recognized as a historic landmark. Still, it has served as a movie theatre for decades, and was key to growth of Seattle as a center of movie-going, and to the development of the SIFF. Tom Tangney worked at the Egyptian in the 1980s, and has paid attention to Seattle cinemas and cinephiles for decades. For more information about the history of The Egyptian Theatre: https://pauldorpat.com/2019/10/04/seattle-now-then-the-seattle-masonic-temple-now-the-egyptian-theatre-1916/ CASCADE OF HISTORY is broadcast LIVE most Sunday nights at 8pm Pacific Time via SPACE 101.1 FM in Seattle and gallantly streams everywhere via www.space101fm.org. The radio station is located at historic Magnuson Park - formerly Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle. Subscribe to the CASCADE OF HISTORY podcast via most podcast platforms and never miss an episode.