Hardly anyone supports Seattle City Council President Peter Steinbrueck's proposed resolution that would eliminate the monorail's so-called Northwest Route through the Seattle Center, according to testimony and comments at two recent meetings.
A grand convergence of factors is promising to revitalize the Totem Lake area. But - instead of the stars aligning just right - the private and public sectors are teaming up in a way that will change the neighborhood for the better, according to city officials.
The Seattle Foundation has announced $100,000 in grants to the Children's Museum, Pacific Science Center and Seattle International Children's Festival to support the diversity of programs providing valuable learning experiences for children in King County.
The Seattle Country Day School is considering redeveloping its campus at 2619 Fourth Ave. N. on Queen Anne Hill, a prospect that has raised alarm among some nearby residents, concedes Chris Massi, the head of the private school.
U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott (D-7th District) was fairly low-key at a community meeting last weekend when he addressed - among other troubling topics - the faltering economy and America's foreign policy.
No doubt you've noticed the new look for the Magnolia News. We've changed, but we're still the Magnolia News, not The Seattle Times, the Seattle Weekly, the Stranger or The New York Times.
The week before last, on a weekday morning, I found myself driving through the wheat fields and coulee country of Eastern Washington.There's an Old Testament feel to the landscape: a lonely, hard, severe beauty, where redemption, if not survival, is a daily task. You pass through small towns with one street, one silo and one steeple; the late September sun a stone. If you live out here, you'd better lead a rich inner life.
The latest Seattle Monorail Project plan for locating stations in the Interbay corridor has run headfirst into opposition from community and business interests.
I heard that Isabel hit the East Coast last week. OK, I'm lying. I didn't just hear about it; I glued myself to my remote control and watched CNN, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, PBS, NBC, with an occasional foray to the Cooking Channel to see if there were any recipes Emeril was cooking up for storm debris in the form of food. All those sea creatures have to land somewhere, don't they?
Some movies you just watch; some you have to find your way into. "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" is both, in the sense that just watching it can leave you puzzled and frustrated for long stretches of time, yet sitting it out is the only real way to realize what it's up to and how.
I entered the shiny, metallic UFO with trepidation and was trapped between the Roman catacombs and a dark, space-age cathedral. This is not science fiction. It was, rather, my visit to Paul Allen's rock-history museum, the Experience Music Project, in order to preview "Sweet Home Chicago: Big City Blues 1946-66."
A sadly little-known secret is tucked away inside an oddly-shaped building with concrete aggregate walls in the block immediately east of Larry's Market in Uptown, as lower Queen Anne is becoming known.
On opening night, Pacific Northwest Ballet got exactly what they deserved: a standing ovation for "Swan Lake" in their new performance home, Marion Oliver McCaw Hall.
A Native American language still echoes in our culture Parlez-vous Chinook Jargon? Thousands of people used to, and a diverse group of Native Americans, linguists and historians will meet in mid-May to showcase this largely bygone language and see what can be done to preserve it.
Sometimes all it takes to escape the normal hubbub of my life is a hike in the woods. If I've had the opportunity to tromp around among the trees, listen to the sounds of nature and expend some energy in the process, I feel re-juvenated and ready to face the onslaught of Monday morning.
The week before last, on a week-day morning, I found myself driving through the wheat fields and coulee country of Eastern Washington.There's an Old Testament feel to the landscape: a lonely, hard, severe beauty, where redemption, if not survival, is a daily task. You pass through small towns with one street, one silo and one steeple; the late-September sun a stone. If you live out here, you'd better lead a rich inner life.
With the spectacular late summer weather we've enjoyed these past few weeks, it's hard to believe that fall is already here. Batten down the hatches - it's time to turn our attention to the inside of our homes and address those interior projects we put on the back burner last spring.
Work has begun on a $9 million pedestrian overpass in Interbay that will cross the railroad tracks from Prospect Street to pharmaceutical giant Amgen's scaled-back Helix project near the Magnolia Bridge, according to spokeswoman Kristin Wennberg.
Absolutely no one who spoke at a packed Seattle Department of Transportation meeting last week thought a waterfront route below West Galer Street and connecting to 32nd Avenue West would be the best choice for replacing the Magnolia Bridge.
