David Brewster founded Crosscut. He is now the director of Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum.
Speight Jenkins sets 2013 for his retirement date and vows to help with a textbook transition at the Seattle Opera. At the symphony, indecision about whether it's time for a new conductor seems to have been resolved in favor of keeping the long-running Gerard Schwarz act.
The building designed by the acclaimed Japanese architect would be donated by an Eastside arts patron, Barney Ebsworth. A site has been found, but it will take an economic recovery to fund it. Seattle tried but failed to land the prize.
Let's not get too giddy and forget to examine these supposed architectural marvels – before they're built.
The University of Washington has announced plans to build a lot of new student housing [http://thetyee.ca/Views/2008/03/18/EcoDensity/] on the west side of its main campus, filling in parking lots and easing the space crunch for the 5,100 students who now live in dorms. There will be eight new build
Over the weekend, The Seattle Times published a good overview [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004422060_ferry18m.html] of what ails our ferry system. Tim Eyman, by cutting the motor-vehicle tax, launched the first harpoon. Out of money, the ferry captains deferred maintenance and j
