On Monday the Seattle City Council will take final votes on a 2010 budget. The proposed budget, despite these financially lean times, actually has a lot to like. (I chair the council's budget committee, so I'm somewhat partial to the results.)
As proposed, the council budget restores hours to the' [...]
On NPR's On the Media. (The Stranger's story about the project is here.)
Paul Mullin accompanies this announcement with his usual broadside.
There’s a stereotype about Seattle, and especially its artists, and even more especially its theatre aritists, that we have an inferiority complex. We have trouble believing that [...]
Maybe this is really dumb question, but... would it be possible to save a piece of the Viaduct as a park/outdoor concert and performance venue? Kind of like the High Line in NYC? It could start at Seneca—walk out of the Seattle Art Museum and take a stroll to [...]
Is the subject of a profile in the NYT... travel section? The article doesn't say much about Seattle theater except that it exists, it includes/ed people like Bart Sher, Kurt Beattie, et al.
Also: "Offbeat delights abound."
In the "offbeat" category:
Teatro ZinZanni, for instance, offers a five-course meal and a European-style' [...]
Vote-by-mail advocates have long argued that the system increases voter participation, particularly in traditionally low-turnout off-year elections, and this recent general election certainly doesn’t provide any evidence to the contrary. Indeed, when compared to other cities, Seattle’s off-year turnout is simply off the charts.
HA comment thread regular N in Seattle, [...]
What in tarnation motivated Seattle Police to descend on Ballard last night with dozens of officers, hostage negotiators armed with bullhorns, and a SWAT team? “This was a high-risk search warrant,” says SPD Sergeant Sean Whitcomb. “A person had barricaded themselves in and that requires a lot of personnel [...]
Today is the International Transgender Day of Remembrance. Here's a heartbreaking video list of 2009's Trans deaths around the world.
Here are the International Transgender Day of Remembrance Day events planned today in Seattle, at the University of Washington:
“Die-In” rally (12:00-12:30) Red Square meet at noon by the obelisk [...]
According to Publicola, Gov. Chris Gregoire told a Seattle audience last night that she would not accept an all-cuts budget in 2010… a 180-degree turnaround from her position heading into the difficult 2009 legislative session. What’s changed her mind?
Well, obviously, the $2.6 billion projected revenue shortfall is nearly impossible [...]
Editor's note: Monte Enbysk, an experienced (but not elite) runner, was thrown off his Seattle Marathon training schedule by an injury last month. He's chronicling his comeback effort and — if he makes it — his race day for Crosscut. His previous installments are available here.
As I finish my [...]
With only a smattering of ballots left to count statewide, it is interesting to note that Seattle voters have thus far turned out a 57.56% rate, four and a half points higher than the county as a whole, and nearly seven points higher than the state average.
To put that in [...]
SEATTLE - A window washer plunged eight stories down the side of a building Thursday in downtown Seattle, but was stopped by a safety rope just inches before hitting the ground, officials and witnesses said.
Seattle Fire Department spokeswoman Dana Vander Houwen said the rope saved the man's life by catching [...]
Confrontation at the BridgeThere's a room full of bodies on the third floor of Seattle Art Museum. It's a party in honor of Jacob Lawrence. The show is called Freeing the Figure, and it looks at three of his paintings in the context [...]
Since Ticket/Ticket closed, Seattle's been without a half-price ticket distributor for theater, opera, ballet, etc. But a California-based company called Goldstar will set up shop here in a couple of weeks and bring back the half-priced ticket.
How it works: Venues allocate a number of tickets for Goldstar (since shows [...]
Well there are a few videos on Line Out, to give you an idea.
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JabonSeattle sound engineer Scott Colburn has gained notoriety for his studio sorcery with Animal Collective, Mudhoney, and others, but his most interesting work occurs under his Jabon guise. Dressed in a "dark wizard robe and weird harlequin mask" and manipulating a stack of analog keyboards, [...]
In this week's story about a possible challenge next year to House Speaker Frank Chopp, I wrote:
Progressives have tried to knock off a moderate-leaning incumbent from Seattle before. In 2004, labor unions targeted pro-choice Democrat Helen Sommers in the primary because she failed to halt corporate tax breaks and [...]
The Seattle Times reports:
About 450 people are expected Saturday at the Rainier Valley Food Bank to get food for Thanksgiving meals. But when staff arrived Wednesday at 6 a.m., they found the lock on the storage container had been cut and nearly everything inside had been stolen.
Burglars took [...]
It begins:
When you've fought every day for 10 years to turn a map you and a friend drew at a kitchen table into a $2 billion transit agency, and volunteered and done strategy for two winning underdog city council campaigns, and then run for city council yourself' [...]
The tale of Seattle’s founding in the 1850s has not had much in the way of new scholarship lately. Like a Colorforms playset, the mostly two-dimensional characters have acted out a Thanksgiving pageant of sorts for much of living memory — pioneers, Indians, trappers, missionaries (along with Henry Yesler and [...]
A Seattle hardcore band has stirred up some controversy by putting an image of Christopher Monfort, the man who allegedly shot and killed Officer Brenton, on one of their new t-shirts. On the back of the shirt is a the Public Enemy lyric: "Most of my heroes don't appear'" [...]
A few months ago, while I was preparing to win the 2009 ID Spring Roll Eating Competition, I talked with a soft-spoken young man named Erik "The Red" Denmark, who is Seattle's most preeminent competitive eater. Here's a recap of his titles:
Erik "The Red" Denmark is the world-record holder [...]
Mark Fuller—chef/owner of awesome West Seattle restaurant Spring Hill—posts the menu of Avila to Twitter. (Prices aren't visible, unfortunately, but entrees range from $16 to $26; ingredients are local, etc.) In the kitchen there: his protegee Alex Pitts. (Fuller, in turn, came from the land of Tom Douglas.)
The' [...]
People are already swinging at each other (and at me) over my article in this week's Stranger, Swinging at the Speaker, which reports on progressive discontent with Representative Frank Chopp in his home district, Seattle's 43rd—and relays threats from labor to back a lefty Chopp challenger in 2010.
Says commenter [...]
As Will mentioned a few minutes ago, a group of state legislators have settled on a proposal to replace the 520 bridge between Seattle and Medina (a leaky, crumbly deathtrap to be sure). But the plan, rather than accommodating light rail and neighborhood needs, mostly bulks up the old [...]
