Tech
A bookstore's slant on the state of the land
A bookseller casts his eye about for clues to our times, based on the year's taste in calendars and books and decades and Steve Jobs.
Peter Miller
Peter Miller is owner of Peter Miller Books, a store in Seattle specializing in architecture and design books. You can reach him in care of editor@crosscut.com.
Latest work
The Sounders' last game, betting the whole farm
The team, best Sounders for a long time, put itself in a foolish hole against Salt Lake City. But with the rain, and playing full blast, they almost came back.
The end of summer, somehow not the same
How a September day in 2001 broke the rhythm of this sweet, sad, seasonal turning.
Culture
A Seattle resident's pilgrimage to the Midwest
First you get lost in Kansas City. But eventually you find your way to its history, its meats, its bars. And best of all, the extraordinary beauty of a museum designed by Steven Holl.
On the road, on the prairie, with the Sounders
In Kansas City the heat was intense, the new soccer stadium is a fine pleasure, and the Sounders win a game they had no business in taking.