Quick: Who's the most accomplished?
Posted Fri, Nov 20, 5 p.m.
Playing the name-a-great athlete game while thinking ahead to an otherwise unpromising Seattle sports weekend.
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Once again an insurgent mayor conquers city hall
Posted Fri, Nov 20, 6 a.m.
It's happened twice before Mike McGinn's victory. Both Mayors Charles Royer and Wes Uhlman learned from early mistakes, regrouped, and mastered the challenging job.
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Sex, death and 'Bodies'
Posted Wed, Nov 18, 6 a.m.
An exhibit of corpses is back for a second tour of Seattle, where it has been a huge hit. What are we really experiencing when we wander the gallery of the dead?
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Flying the flannel flag
Posted Tue, Nov 17, 6 a.m.
Concert Review: With a new book on grunge and a memorable show at Neumos, Seattle's signature sound rocks on.
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Battle in Seattle, 10 years after
Posted Fri, Nov 13, 6 a.m.
One change since 1999, we're talking about Teabaggers, not sea turtles.
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Generation Y, the future is calling
Posted Wed, Nov 11, 6 a.m.
Washington's unique 400-year time capsule is waiting for you to do your duty.
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Memories of a horrible November
Posted Wed, Nov 11, 6 a.m.
As the nation commemorates Veterans Day and prepares for Thanksgiving, the anniversary of JFK's assassination also approaches, and with it a flood of personal, political, profound recollections.
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Discovering Nirvana's lost treasures
Posted Fri, Nov 6, 5 p.m.
Two of the band's seminal concerts are captured in new releases this week. It's enough to make a critic regret, again, a long-ago mistake.
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Election 09: All-mail ballots drain elections of their majesty
Posted Wed, Nov 4, 6 a.m.
Vote-by-mail may be more convenient, but it comes at the expense of the symbolism and grand drama of election nights.
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Have Republicans found a path to reclaim some high state offices?
Posted Tue, Nov 3, 6 a.m.
Those stepping stones are King County executive and Attorney General. New election rules make the King County post within reach for Susan Hutchison, running as an independent.
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When Martians invaded Concrete
Posted Fri, Oct 30, 6 a.m.
It's been 71 years since the famous "War of the Worlds" broadcast ... and the panic that overtook a little Skagit County town.
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How Seattle can be part of this year's World Series
Posted Wed, Oct 28, 6 a.m.
Another Fall Classic, another year without the Mariners. The current Mariners, that is. But we can imagine a scenario ...
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Fall is in the air, and on Seattle's street signs
Posted Tue, Oct 27, 6 a.m.
As part of a 10-year project, the city is gradually changing its street signs from green to brown. Our resident "address nerd" surveys the damage.
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Horizon Bank and the fate of Fairhaven Highlands
Posted Mon, Oct 26, 6 a.m.
Preservationists worry that the character of Bellingham's historic neighborhood rides on the FDIC's willingness to enforce its own order restricting a controversial development.
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Is the tunnel a boondoggle?
Posted Tue, Oct 20, 6 a.m.
A new study shows Seattle-area tunnel projects are very likely to break the budget. But the nature of most mega-projects also suggests the Viaduct surface option wouldn't be exempt from cost problems either.
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Calamity: Timeless lessons from the 1903 Heppner Flood
Posted Fri, Oct 16, 6 a.m.
The author of a new book on Oregon's little-remembered disaster finds some enduring truths while researching the tragedy.
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Celebrating Seattle, 'City of Music'
Posted Thu, Oct 15, 1:39 p.m.
The Showbox dresses up for the city's inaugural music awards program, honoring KEXP, Quincy Jones, Fleet Foxes, and others. Even the restrooms smelled nice.
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This camp is your camp
Posted Thu, Oct 15, 6 a.m.
Using a state pilot project, the Cascade Land Conservancy has made it possible to preserve historic Hidden Valley Camp for future generations. It's more than a win for holding back sprawl, it also saves an incubator of the Northwest's conservation ethic.
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Coming to grips with a changed old friend: McBoeing
Posted Wed, Oct 14, 6 a.m.
For a certain generation of Northwest airplane geeks, Boeing's recent troubles hit especially hard. The easiest thing may be to just call the company what it has become: McDonnell Douglas.
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Shiga's Garden: fittingly, a story of sunshine and cooperation
Posted Tue, Oct 13, 6 a.m.
Volunteers, artists, and an absentee landowner are together creating a P-Patch honoring the father of the University District Street Fair.
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Tonight at MOHAI: 'Warship Under Sail'
Posted Thu, Nov 19, 6 a.m.
Author Lorraine McConaghy discusses her book chronicling a seamy Seattle in the 1850s.
MOREI Forgive You, Paul Dorpat (and maybe Ivar’s, too)
Posted Thu, Nov 12, 11:10 a.m.
Absence of Mollusk? Sure, the underwater billboards were a hoax. But Keep Clam! It was a great promotion in Ivar Haglund's classic style.
MOREU.S. approves Salish Sea name
Posted Thu, Nov 12, 1:42 p.m.
But not everyone was enthusiastic about the new name, like some folks in Pierce County.
MOREA few last living words from World War I
Posted Wed, Nov 11, 6 a.m.
The Seattle author of a new book on immigrant soldiers in The Great War describes a meeting with a 110-year-old survivor of all that rain and misery and death.
MORECelebrating icons of Washington's history
Posted Tue, Nov 10, 6 a.m.
At the 120th anniversary of statehood, museum director David Nicandri has put together an exhibit covering indelible moments, from Vancouver's exploration to Galloping Gertie to Wild Rainiers, and more.
MOREFrom 1911, the Bogue Plan speaks
Posted Tue, Nov 10, 9:12 a.m.
The nearly 100-year-old "city beautiful" plan for the city, never adopted, still holds a worthy reminder.
MOREMOHAI’s future begins at the Armory
Posted Fri, Nov 6, 6 a.m.
With a new fundraising campaign kicking off tonight, the history museum hopes to be in its new Lake Union digs in 2012.
MORESettling the 'which Vancouver?' question
Posted Tue, Nov 3, 6 p.m.
Washington state's Vancouver is considering a slight but significant name change
MORECan a neo-Nazi be an environmentalist?
Posted Mon, Nov 2, 2:51 p.m.
A shooting in BC answers the question
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