Last week, we learned that pending sales of single-family homes were way up in April. One explanation is that the…
The full city council is meeting right about now to discuss and vote on a number of bills (all easily…
Sad news in today’s Seattle Times. Greg Palmer, the local writer and Emmy Award-winning TV broadcaster, died on Friday. He…
Every year when SIFF rolls around, casual moviegoers may pass the throng outside say, the Egyptian or Harvard Exit, and…
Jumping them metaphorically, that is–you’re still free to hop around if you pay your fare. Yesterday, Sound Transit settled on…
Whoever the council picks to replace Sims for the rest of 2009, his former Chief of Staff Kurt Triplett will…
Like a lot of men, the great LaConner novelist Tom Robbins loves beer and women. Unlike a lot of men,…
The city’s budget cuts are final, announces Greg Nickels in a press release sent out this afternoon. Among his cuts…
After yesterday’s announcement of an SDOT shake-up, the Times had a great piece this morning on the messes of Paul…
These crazy people just can’t ever seem to agree on anything. City Council and Mayoral candidates talking to the Chamber…
Featured in our public art roundup a couple weeks back, Counterbalance Park in Lower Queen Anne has had problems ever…
Photo by Garrett Mukai.The Tashiro Kaplan Building was full of people this rainy first Thursday. Zack Bent’s photographs at Gallery4Culture…
We’ve gotten a laugh or two out of Starbucks’ introduction of its new VIA instant coffee earlier this year. But…
Our writer Michelle Orange saw this new film, opening at the Meridian today, too late for our print deadlines. Here’s…
Our winter snowstorm apparently exposed a lot more than just a lack of snow plows. Greg Nickels’ office announced today…
As you’ve probably read, Ron Sims finally got confirmed as deputy secretary of Housing and Urban Development yesterday, despite some…
You’re reading this on your computer screen, so I’m not sure you love me anymore. But you should, because I’m…
Who is City Hall’s filthy-richest elected official? Tim Burgess, the onetime cop-turned-consultant, now a first-term City Council member, is the…
At 2nd Ave and S Washington in Pioneer Square.
In her wide-ranging talk with SW yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown put the likelihood of a special session at…
