David Brewster founded Crosscut. He is now the director of Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum.
A visit from the Oberlin Baroque Trio to Town Hall Monday night underscored a strength of Seattle's musical scene as an "early music" city. Probably only Berkeley and Boston are the equals of Seattle in this regard, with Portland also a strong contender. One wonders why more is not made of this dist
John Silber, the bad-boy former president of Boston University, has a new screed out, a book entitled Architecture of the Absurd. It's an attack on the excesses of ego-crazy architects, who put up buildings that don't work, cost too much, defy engineering prudence, and set new records in the Exhibit
Boeing's stock has dropped from a high of $107 in early October to just under $90 in its closing Friday. A survey of financial experts [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/24/business/24values.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin], looking at the company's promising longterm prospects, thinks that dip make
The University of Washington yesterday announced its leading candidate for a North Campus: [http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=uwnorth16m&date=20071116&query=UW+North] downtown Everett. Immediately the dominoes began to tumble in this high-stakes game
You used to rate cities' cost of living by the Cheeseburger Index, the price of an average cheeseburger. And Seattle used to score well, though we doubt it does these days. So now comes the Guinness Index, thoughtfully compiled by The Wall Street Journal [http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB11956
