After Boeing's yacht, the Daedalus, was too big to make an appearance at the island hosting the PGA Tour golf tournament, a casual photo taken by a Crosscut contributor becomes a media darling.
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.
There was one time, exactly 50 years ago, when a tree from Washington state was selected for the annual display in D.C. That time, things went wrong on both coasts.
Seattle's beloved (stuffed) gorilla will leave his museum home for "plastic surgery" before relocating to South Lake Union, but his place in the new MOHAI remains up in the air.
An artist explores the city's sewers and tells us about the "aging beast" the lives beneath our feet, and the men and women who keep it alive, and keep us safe.
As a baby, Zuri the gorilla used to entertain his keepers at the Woodland Park Zoo by dancing. Now, a generation later and a country apart, Zola is the star of a YouTube break-dance video with more than 2 million views.
A book on America's "first civil war" looks at the so-called Mormon Rebellion, an event that spread fear throughout the Pacific Northwest as people worried about a new, independent theocratic state rising in the far West. The struggle has lessons for today.
In a city that draws the "creative class," why don't we have more reverence for our writers? Why not use them to boost tourism? Why is there no Theodore Roethke Historic Park, or Frank Herbert Wax Museum?
The Seattle ethics commission takes up social-media guidlines for elected officials. Just imagine a time when we could Tweet our tunnel vote, pay our toll through an embedded chip and still have time to read our neighbors' trivial FB status updates.