Seattle Weekender: Werewolves and Mormons at SIFF, gin cocktails, and late-night karaoke
Crosscut's guide to a culturally enriching weekend in the city. Or at least some fun.
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Crosscut's guide to a culturally enriching weekend in the city. Or at least some fun.
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A couple's life work left the Seattle area a garden of uncommon delights near Graham on the way to Mount Rainier.
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In Whatcom County, the park that would be Washington's biggest, is inching closer to reality. Even as local politicians arm wrestle over its future.
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For the 50th anniversary, the Needle is going classic orange, but many color schemes were considered for the original Needle, from battleship gray to rainbow. And the original orange? It was probably a mistake.
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Green Acre Radio: In Seattle's Magnuson Park, ecologists have turned runways into fully functioning wetlands. It's all in a day's work.
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With over 10,000 rhododendrons from all over the world, the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden is an exotic adventure waiting to happen. And it's just a short drive down I-5.
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A Brooklyn waterfront park-in-progress shares many of the same traits and problems with our own waterfront dreams; a compare and contrast imparts a few insights and lessons.
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A mysterious jug washed up on a Washington beach, now it's the subject of a research experiment: using crowdsourcing to fund and extend looking into its origins.
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Crosscut's guide to a culturally enriching weekend in the city. Or at least some fun.
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In Washington, a group of non-profits and volunteers has come together to rebuild Seattle's forests and rescue native trees from invasive species.
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Participants in Seattle Union Gospel Mission's recovery program reached the peak of The Mountain.
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Long before Robert Boardman's death along a trail in the Olympic National Park, officials knew there was one bad actor. Sure, the park is a wild place, but what was gained by holding fire all those years?
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A Bellingham paramedic's off-hours obsession has resulted in a new book about a region that holds a world record for snowfall.
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A good design requires consciousness of the city's realities, the real spatial, temporal, social, and ecological contexts. Speaking of temporal, has anyone noticed it's November, with everything that means for being outdoors along the water in Seattle?
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Seattle residents care about their waterfront, and we bring our own quirks. Taking those factors into account are critical to making James Corner's final plan into something that will soar.
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The park, which hosts 2 million people a year, will open the newly restored historic lodge, which will now have a visitor center. And this weekend, a summertime shuttle will ferry visitors from one end of the 700-acre park to the other.
The Washington DOT announced yesterday that the state's warm weather means they'll be able to plow the road to Artist Point for the first time since 2010.