Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most clicks.
Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most reader comments.
Crosscut blog posts of the past 10 days with the most clicks.
Posted Wed, Aug 19, 6 a.m.
When did our city start to back away from its 50-year mood of lofty civic aspiration? The writer puts it in the autumn of 1998, when we decided to settle for the bronze medal.
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Posted Tue, Jun 23, 6 a.m.
In British Columbia and Washington, 2009 is going to be a tough year for the tourist business. Here's what some experts are doing to get through the recession.
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Posted Fri, Jun 5, 6 a.m.
Puget Sound boosters are proposing to launch an annual Global Health Celebration in 2012 to re-brand Seattle for the new century.
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Posted Fri, Dec 26, 6 a.m.
Smart thinking, Canadians. The Winter Games are shovel-ready for the recession.
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Posted Thu, Dec 25, 9 a.m.
Vancouver faces a potential public relations embarrassment during the 2010 Olympics, owing to the city's tremendous homeless population. An architect proposes a bold solution: temporary, modular housing.
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Posted Tue, Nov 25, 6 a.m.
Money isn't flowing as freely as once thought, and the challenges of the border and exchange rates determine whether and how Northwest contractors and service providers will benefit from the Vancouver Games.
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Posted Tue, Dec 25, 1 a.m.
Giant swimming rats, seducing Sasquatch, and bear-hunting at the Vancouver Olympics.
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Posted Mon, Oct 22, 10 p.m.
The city that inspires Dubai and Abu Dhabi has some soul-searching to do. After the Olympics, of course.
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Posted Fri, Aug 17, 5 a.m.
The United States appears close to bungling its chance to participate meaningfully in the upcoming Shanghai world's fair, but a group with Northwest ties uses YouTube to try and avert international embarrassment.
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Posted Thu, Jul 12, midnight
North Americans look ahead to China's big coming out party in 2010 and remember when ...
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Posted Mon, Jul 13, 9:21 a.m.
Note to the tourism promoters: the Winter Games take place in cold weather.
MOREPosted Thu, Jan 15, 3 p.m.
That's okay. You can't get tickets anyway.
MOREPosted Tue, Aug 26, 7 p.m. 2008
Maybe what we need around here, to unstick our sluggish planning and get some major projects built, is a Summer Olympics. Or, better, a Phantom Olympics that delivers the benefits but without the Olympics. Calm down, and let me try a mostly-in-jest thought-experiment.
MOREPosted Thu, Nov 29, 5:31 a.m. 2007
The 2010 Vancouver Olympics has unveiled their cuddly new mascots: Quatchi, Miga, Sumi – and a sidekick named Mukmuk, a Vancouver island marmot. Picking mascots for major events is never easy: they have to be a graphic icon, irresistible to children, and ridicule-proof. Sometimes mascots are based on real animals, sometimes they're totally invented creatures. Vancouver seems to have followed a middle path by basing theirs on local First Nations mythology: Sasquatch (Quatichi), Sea Bear (Miga) and Animal Guardian Spirit (Sumi). Cuddly as they are, they have a serious job to do. One of Sumi's jobs is to brandish a gun in peace-loving Canada.
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