Developers for the Washington State Convention Center addition proposed a $30 million public benefits package in exchange for three alleyway and two street vacations during a packed meeting of the Seattle Design Commission on May 18.
In April, Bertha, the world’s largest boring machine, finally broke through just west of Aurora, completing a 1.7-mile underground journey. However, the tunnel itself won’t be finished until 2019 -- four years from its original 2015 completion date.
Long-distance issues with aging parents are never easy. For most, frequent travel is not an option. For Bill, who is working full time and has two young teens and aging in-laws living with him, it would be difficult.
A Seattle District 3 “Tax the Rich” town hall included a history lesson on why Washington state doesn’t have a state income tax -- and how the future could be a lot brighter for those paying the greatest costs in Seattle.
The difficulty of obtaining travel visas for performers has made the 2017 Seattle International Dance Festival "more difficult than others," director Cyrus Khambatta said.
Kyle Huff killed six people and wounded two others at a rave after-party in the 2000 block of East Republican Street on the morning of March 25, 2006. He had been invited there after attending the “Better Off Undead” rave at the Capitol Hill Arts Center the night before.
“Hello Destroyer,” a Canadian drama playing at the 43rd Seattle International Film Festival, is a film supremely concerned with noise.
Erik Skjoldbjaerg opens “Pyromaniac” quietly, from the first-person view of a car as it barrels down the road and sets upon a house at the edge of the woods. Inside, an elderly couple tidy their kitchen and untuck their sheets just so as they settle down for the night. They awaken to find their home in flames, the idyllic silence broken by the roar of the fire.
“I would have liked to be serving in a different Congress with a different president,” she said in a recent interview with Pacific Publishing Company. “But we are where we are.”
Members of Central Co-op gathered at Washington Hall on April 23 for the annual owner meeting to discuss and make crucial decisions for the co-op’s future, and learned that an expansion to complement Capitol Hill light rail wasn’t in the cards.
The mid-20th Century was a time for a new business enterprise to start up with little or no overhead, tax free. It was a green company with few requirements--perhaps a 1927 Issue 45 Cal—it was a cash removal company called a Holdup!
As in past years, the event begins at 9:15 a.m. at Al Larkins Park where decorated bicycles, tricycles, strollers, etc., their riders, and assorted friends, neighbors, and relatives will gather in eager anticipation for the 9:30 a.m. parade to the Madrona Playfield.
In our younger days, we never thought twice about heading out on an adventure. As we age, we now think twice, or maybe even three times, before committing to trips away from home.
