
How Mimi Gates revolutionized the Seattle Art Museum
It's an unlikely story – how she turned an institution inside out, giving it the tools to become a major art museum. Two new shows exhibit the core values of the transformed SAM.
David Brewster founded Crosscut. He is now the director of Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum.
It's an unlikely story – how she turned an institution inside out, giving it the tools to become a major art museum. Two new shows exhibit the core values of the transformed SAM.
The roads-and-transit measure, expensive and flawed, is politically reasonable and pulls together the region. Defeat it and you have the same folks who cooked up this one producing Proposition 2. It's hard to see how a wiser expenditure of money is going to be formulated and approved.
The SoDo Arena, adding still more entertainment competition to the region, is the latest example of our harmful penchant for merrily adding too many things.
Retiring from his post next January, Seattle City Council member Peter Steinbrueck has virtually closed the door on running for Mayor in 2009. Instead, he's going to be taking a job in the private sector, one that meets his four objectives for a new job, which he describes this way: "integrated desi
Last year, after 13 years of performing Renaissance choral music, Seattle's Tudor Choir announced it was going into semi-hibernation. That was sad news, for the choir is very good, led by a true scholar-musician of this glorious English choral music, Doug Fullington. It had become a mainstay of Seat