A conversation with Seattle
I’m about to suggest a category of collecting that no one else is even looking at. Look, I’m not Nostradamus. But I think the conditions are right for this category to not only take off, but to be a dominant category in the future. Continue reading Making Cash in Seattle’s “Junk” Trade, Pt. 4: Records and Selling
Transit studies are thick in the Seattle air these days. Just this week, Waterfront Seattle released a transit report (pdf) on options for travel up and down the Field Operations-redesigned waterfront, and Sound Transit and Seattle’s Department of Transportation produced eight alternatives for a Ballard-downtown high-capacity line. Continue reading Is Rail the Answer for Seattle’s Waterfront Tourism & High-Capacity Transit?
The Gondoliers (July 12 to 27 at the Bagley Wright Theatre) calls for 17 principal roles and no less than three prominent young couples, but Seattle G & S, now in its 59th season, has had no trouble finding singers for all those roles. Continue reading In “The Gondoliers,” Gilbert & Sullivan Patter Song Visits Venice
We’ve been writing a series on adventures and even profit in Seattle’s junk trade. In Part 1, we gave readers the ways to approach estate, yard and garage sales. In Part 2, we unlocked some of our best secrets on buying art and books that can be flipped for some good cash. Continue reading Making Cash in Seattle’s “Junk” Trade, Pt. 3: Clothes, Furniture, Posters
It may seem difficult to credit, at the downstream end of the atmospheric river we’ve been paddling through this week, but by Friday afternoon, summer is going to break out all over. The mercury should raise to 80, but that’s just a warm-up to the warm-up. Continue reading The Sun’ll Come Out Tomorrow, Seattle!
Yesterday afternoon, the Everett Herald’s Jerry Cornfield reported that the delay in approving a Washington State budget was truly fishy: “Boeing’s opposition to fish study a sticking point in budget,” went the headline. With a government shutdown to come in fewer than five days, it might seem strange that negotiations are getting hung up on a mundane study of how often people eat fish. Continue reading Why That Fish You Ordered is Holding Up the State Budget
The power of Autopsy of Love is in how close it slices to the bone, to use the evident metaphor. Byrd isn’t one to take Heine’s often florid protestations of what love is at face value. Continue reading Reviews: Spectrum’s “Autopsy of Love” & a Spotlight on Shannon Stewart