David Brewster founded Crosscut. He is now the director of Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum.
Seattle Symphony conductor and music director Gerard Schwarz broke his left leg and ankle last Thursday in a skiing accident. He faces surgery later this week, the SSO reports, with full recovery expected. In fact, the athletic Schwarz was conducting a recording session this morning, seated. He retu
All the factors that made such a strong case for rail in 1968 are much weaker now. Jim Ellis, the architect of the dream, recalls how the crusade began and why Seattle seemed the perfect city for an extensive rail system.
Politicians are poking their heads up from the foxholes a little bit, when it comes to keeping the Sonics in the region. King County Councilman Pete Von Reichbauer, who often plays honest broker in these sports deals, is slightly encouraged. "Nothing indicates any change," he says of recent (non)dev
He's re-electing himself right now, without votes, by raising money to lock out any serious challenger. It's the sad state of the modern election cycle, and the only solution is for potential donors to just say no to candidates until late in a campaign.
Opening day for the new South Lake Union Streetcar is not a happy moment for Reinhard Krischer, keeper of the old Seattle monorail flame. He's still hoping for an extension of the 1962 Alweg line and still lamenting the failure of the Green Line in 2005. "All the safe, clever, and progressive advant
