Seattle has always modeled itself on San Francisco, and now both cities are having doubts about the model. The California city picked itself up after the dot-com bust by pursuing condos, fine...
Statistics Canada has just released a fascinating study of how people feel about Canadian cities. There's a big surprise. Cities that rank high in international surveys of livability, such as...
Only three U.S. cities are still resisting the tumbling real estate market: Charlotte, N.C., Portland, and Seattle. At least so far. This survey in the Los Angeles Times paints a picture of slow sales...
It's only a few more days before we can recover from the annual Month of Holiday Music that afflicts arts organizations in Seattle and the entire country. Benaroya Hall becomes almost wall-to-wall...
Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly neologism contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternative meanings for common words. These are hilarious...
Seattle's churning theater scene has managed to find a new managing director for ACT Theatre, the respected veteran Kevin Hughes, and now comes the search for an executive director to replace Laura...
Chris Bayley, the former King County Prosecutor, today is giving a talk welcoming Dan Satterberg to the job Bayley once held. Bayley defeated Charles O. Carroll, who had held the job for 22 years, and...
Nothing like a close election to focus the mind of political leaders. The best current example is Gov. Chris Gregoire, stung by defeat of Proposition 1 and the still-unresolved Viaduct and 520...
Arts circles are abuzz over a long, prominently played New York Times investigation of the Seattle Symphony, which was published Sunday and reprinted Monday in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Not...
