The rising force of Mt. Fuji records
Posted Fri, Nov 20, 6 a.m.
In a standout year for Seattle music, Michael Jaworski's indie label is on a rock-punk-country roll. Many of Mt. Fuji's bands are playing locally this weekend.
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Saying Yes
Posted Thu, Nov 19, 6 a.m.
The author plays the Doubting and Believing games as she ponders an oddball kind of volunteering.
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Resurrecting Seattle's book festival
Posted Sat, Nov 7, 8 a.m.
It's been a tough year for books and words, but one bright spot was the effort to bring back a Seattle book festival. Some saw the event as a great first effort, others as a fiasco.
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Time to consider reopening Seattle high schools
Posted Thu, Nov 5, 6 a.m.
As enrollment begins to creep back up, with a bubble moving toward high school, district officials may think about reopening old Lincoln High. And this is the time to make good on promises to improve South End schools.
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A case of bike rage
Posted Tue, Nov 3, 6 a.m.
The dispute over an event at West Seattle's Lincoln Park unleashes a "cycle" of anger. Once again, parks make good battlefields.
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Why I hope you'll join me in supporting Crosscut
Posted Mon, Nov 2, 6 a.m.
"The Great Nearby" keeps a lens focused on the ways we sustain civil society, says a regular contributor to Crosscut Public Media.
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Reality, Eugene-style
Posted Fri, Oct 30, 6 a.m.
Even a Seattle liberal can get that "not in Kansas anymore" feeling about a visit to Eugene, Ore.
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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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Why I support Crosscut
Posted Fri, Oct 30, 6 a.m.
As our Charter Membership Drive continues, a few words from a Crosscut Public Media contributor
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Ending homelessness: How are we doing?
Posted Thu, Oct 29, 6 a.m.
Those vaunted 10-year plans to solve the problem are halfway in, or more, and yet homelessness persists. Even so, we're making progress and on the right track.
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Mallahan or McGinn? That is the question.
Posted Wed, Oct 28, 6 a.m.
I have no answer yet about how to vote in the Seattle mayor's race. Like a lot of people, I'm still working it out.
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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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New chapter for Elliott Bay?
Posted Sun, Oct 18, noon
Seattle's iconic Pioneer Square bookstore might move. It could also close. Tough times bring tough choices for the bookseller, and the neighborhood it has helped to revive.
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Seattle, toward a 'MetroNation'
Posted Thu, Oct 15, 6 a.m.
Brookings' Bruce Katz argues in a UW talk that this "metro" can help lead the U.S. toward a new, more prosperous economy.
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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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Welcome to 'Destroy History Month'
Posted Mon, Oct 12, 6 a.m.
September's demolition of state landmarks leaves Washington preservationists reeling.
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In praise of the infamous 'Seattle Process'
Posted Fri, Oct 9, 6 a.m.
Does the Seattle Way limit progress? Rather, our habits of stubborn public criticism have mostly saved us from follies and boondoggles.
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Reflections from Raleigh
Posted Fri, Oct 9, 6 a.m.
A stint in North Carolina offers perspective on some familiar concerns about transportation, school busing, local politics, and quality of life.
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It's back to neighborhood schools for Seattle
Posted Wed, Oct 7, 6:55 a.m.
It's also back to reopening five schools closed a few years ago, with a cost of $45 million. The district releases its detailed maps and makes the case that predictability for families will outweigh some of the tradeoffs in desegregation and flexibility.
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Whidbey Island, burgeoning new-media hotbed
Posted Fri, Nov 6, 4 p.m.
In the afterglow of a successful "2012" conference in Langley, a co-producer sees evidence of the island's "hidden economy" of digital workers.
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
MOREBoo!
Posted Fri, Oct 30, 5 p.m.
It could be creepy out there on this Halloween weekend, what with all that extra time to plan tricks and treats.
MOREIsland Girl: I can see why that cop jumped to conclusions
Posted Mon, Oct 26, 6 a.m.
Large man, injured woman, smell of booze. And then there are those troubling domestic violence statistics.
MOREA tale of two bookfests
Posted Fri, Oct 23, 6 a.m.
A new Seattle book festival launches this weekend in Columbia City, amid bad news for Elliott Bay Books and word of a new fest planned for next year.
MOREIsland Girl: 'Somehow my husband has ended up in jail'
Posted Wed, Oct 21, 6 a.m.
After a bewildering domestic-violence charge, our alleged victim seeks help from the local authorities.
MOREIsland Girl: A rocky landing in Washington
Posted Mon, Oct 19, 6 a.m.
"Even if you were taller and blonder," the cop said, your husband wouldn't love you. Part 1 of an occasional series.
MOREWalkable cities? So how come pedestrian malls usually fail?
Posted Thu, Sep 24, 5:32 p.m.
You can't just block off vehicles and expect a public space. Here are some do's (Boulder, San Antonio) and don't's (Eugene).
MOREIn some places, 'the wave' lives
Posted Thu, Sep 17, 12:05 p.m.
Not all Northwest places have abandoned driving civility.
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