Eating on the Edge: At Pacific Cafe Hong Kong Kitchen, and neighboring diners like it, you can find huge menus and cheap prices at all hours. But the question remains whether these places will thrive here the way they do in L.A.
Pacific Musicworks, led by Steven Stubbs, a daring programmer, is combining Monteverdi's early semi-opera with a modern musical theater piece by the German composer Heiner Goebbels, based on Gertrude Stein. A big deal!
Mike McGinn is balking at the 520 bridge plans, but is he being consistent? If a no-tunnel, surface option is right for the post-Viaduct waterfront, why not consider a modest proposal to simply remove the Seattle-Eastside bridge?
Seattle's new posting of data on the city's web site points to better services, technological possibilities, and even new relationships. Citizens may have more reasons to trust an open, transparent government.