Culture
A newcomer goes kayaking
Our deputy editor braves the "treacherous" Montlake Cut and wonders why everyone isn't commuting to work by boat.
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Taking student activism seriously
Sierra, the magazine of the Sierra Club, named the top 10 schools in the U.S. for environmental stewardship, and two Washington schools made the grade [http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200809/coolschools/ten/]: Evergreen State College, at No. 5, and the University of Washington at Seattle, which, at
Culture
Enough with the SLUT jokes
It's time to take stock of the effect of all those jokes about Seattle's streetcar.
Culture
Terry Theise has no axe to grind about Washington wine
Terry Theise expressed concern about Crosscut writer Harris Meyer's choice in today's story [/food/16760/A+Riesling+for+no+reason/] to highlight Theise's opinion on Washington Reislings, which isn't favorable. Here are excerpts from an e-mail exchange between Meyer and Theise:
Culture
Where else but Seattle?
On a cloudy Sunday in early June, I spent the morning with poetry bookshop proprietors Christine Deavel and John Marshall. The results of our conversation were an article on the poetry bookselling biz for Crosscut [/arts/15379/] and a Q&A for Poets & Writers [http://www.pw.org/content/interview_poet