Budget trip for the new year: Khirghizstan
Posted Mon, Jan 5, 6 a.m.
Our humorist offers a cheap alternative to last year's "staycation."
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Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most reader comments.
Posted Mon, Jan 5, 6 a.m.
Our humorist offers a cheap alternative to last year's "staycation."
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Posted Mon, Dec 22, 6 a.m.
In a place where people show up at the opera in fleece, what should beauty look like?
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Posted Thu, Dec 18, 6 a.m.
You start with the obvious choice, Mavis Staples. Then there's the Chicago connection, and world music.
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Posted Wed, Dec 3, 1:19 p.m.
An effort to change the name in Chelan County has run into resistance, and the episode raises the quite complex issues of updating names to modern sensibilities.
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Posted Thu, Nov 27, 6 a.m.
Lines Ballet of San Francisco explores the commonalities of Chinese monks and modern American dance. Donald Byrd's Spectrum Dance Theater dances across the intractable Israeli-Palestinian divide.
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Posted Sat, Nov 8, midnight
Painfully white but joyfully happy on election night, a party-goer is enlightened during the ride home.
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Posted Fri, Nov 7, midnight
Black history is now American history.
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Posted Wed, Nov 5, 12:59 a.m.
Savoring Sen. Barack Obama's achievement, and the grace with which he accomplished it.
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Posted Sat, Nov 1, midnight
He's a decent man who inherited more problems than he could turn around in his brief tenure, argues this UW alum.
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Posted Sat, Oct 11, midnight
The tragic, unintended consequences of Seattle's best intentions.
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Posted Thu, Oct 9, 4 a.m.
Some good news about right-sizing the city, and saving money, too.
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Posted Tue, Oct 7, 3 a.m.
Making arrowheads, tossing spears, wandering old homesteads, and studying petroglyphs: All are part of a Washington state program designed to ensure that material progress doesn't completely obliterate the past. Part 1
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Posted Fri, Sep 26, 4 a.m.
Seattle has undergone stunning changes. But what is sometimes more remarkable is what hasn't changed.
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Posted Wed, Aug 27, 1 a.m.
New demographic figures make clear what a statistical outlier Seattle is, with few families, few kids, high education, and rapid gentrification. Only San Francisco can compare.
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Posted Fri, Aug 15, 5 a.m.
It's time to take stock of the effect of all those jokes about Seattle's streetcar.
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Posted Tue, Aug 12, 5 a.m.
Finding the banality of Nazi evil close to home.
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Posted Fri, Aug 8, 5 a.m.
Pacific Northwest corporate history began with timber, and with the demise of Weyerhaeuser it's a fast-fading cultural heritage.
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Posted Thu, Jul 24, 8 p.m.
Try as they might, some motorists can't outsmart officials when it comes to custom license numbers. On the other hand, sometimes seemingly illicit alphanumerics are actually demonstrably proper.
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Posted Sat, Jul 12, midnight
In the midst of exponential growth, Seattle can't remember how to be Seattle. It's time we went back to school and learned how.
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Posted Sat, Jul 5, 6 a.m.
Starbucks' "third place" concept is under pressure from laptops, McDonald's, and a decline in snob appeal.
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Is Portland the "beardiest" city in America? Should Prince William shave his new whiskers? And what will the impact of a baby-faced Obama be on facial hair fashion?
MOREPosted Wed, Dec 17, noon 2008
African American poet Mona Lisa Saloy defends reading her poem "The "N" Word at Lakeside School.
MOREPosted Mon, Dec 15, 11 a.m. 2008
An African-American poet stirs up a Seattle private school by using a word that is "antithetical to Lakeside’s spirit."
MOREPosted Tue, Nov 18, 11:02 p.m. 2008
Some of the secrets of Norwegian Seattle revealed.
MOREPosted Tue, Nov 18, 10:53 p.m. 2008
There's progress to report on efforts to save two Seattle landmarks.
MOREPosted Tue, Nov 4, 12:47 p.m. 2008
A visitor remarks on our odd democratic ways.
MOREPosted Fri, Oct 31, 11:13 a.m. 2008
Joe the plumber, game-changer, maverick, in the tank — the list is seemingly endless. Whatever happened to a good old Swiftboat?
MOREPosted Sat, Oct 18, 6 a.m. 2008
Running on global warming issues proved "hard to sell and easy to hammer," but leave it to our neighbors to figure out this urgent new politics. Plus, why arts funding matters (at least in Canada).
MOREPosted Tue, Oct 21, 4:52 p.m. 2008
It's literally apples and oranges.
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