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Posted Wed, Oct 7, 10:08 a.m.
Praise Crosscut! We have an architectural critic in 'print' again. Thanks for this insightful piece. It saves me at least one trip across the lake! I look forward to many more wonderful opinions from Mr. Cheek.
MOREPosted Tue, Oct 6, 10:32 a.m.
Poor Joe! He's served so many mayors well and unobtrusively. Bodyguard though he be, he been a very personable link across the years from mayor to mayor.
MOREPosted Wed, Aug 26, 9:53 a.m.
http://www.ayp100.org/1909/a-y-p-resources/norway-day-video Here is living proof Uhlman shaved his upper lip in office. He did have a hairy upper lip the last time I saw him though.
MOREPosted Fri, Aug 14, 10:35 a.m.
Dear Mossback, Culture may be a bit like pornography. Its definition lies in the eye of the beholder.
MOREPosted Wed, Jul 15, 5:15 p.m.
Joe Follensbee is absolutely correct “the voice of heritage is a squeak.” He is also right when he notes that financial slogging is really hard for heritage groups, be they large or small. He misconstrues the situation when he ties their hard times to the financial downturn. In good times ...
MOREPosted Thu, Jun 25, 10:12 a.m.
Barbara Stenson Spaeth makes a wonderful case for why we need to preserve the down-home vernacular architecture that marks our neighborhoods and makes our city special. It may be that teaching us about the rich character of historic homes, as B.S.S.begins to do here, will do more to protect our ...
MOREPosted Tue, Jun 9, 8:58 a.m.
David Sucher got it right. Both promenades were built on abandoned railroads; both are excellent examples of historic preservation and adaptive reuse. When it comes to linear parks, we are blessed with the Burke Gilman Trail, also an abandoned railroad right of way with quite a few elevated segments. It ...
MOREPosted Tue, Jun 2, 10:41 a.m.
Yup! Leave at half time. I got that far before losing my willing suspension of disbelief.
MOREPosted Wed, May 20, 1:37 p.m.
Nom de bieu! Mossback you did it again! You touched on every stone and every important thing happening in Seattle's history this week. Next we'll be proud that the Igorot people will have returned after 100 years to reconstruct their A-Y-P village at the Filipino community's Pagdiriwang (Festal) Festival, June ...
MOREPosted Fri, Apr 3, 11:07 a.m.
"There's one more mismatch in our rush to the big time. The creative economy, of which Seattle is one of the leaders, attracts a young, experimental, eclectic population — yet we have put nearly all our chips on a very middle class, older, and respectable set of institutions. Think for ...
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