A conversation with Seattle
Keeping you connected to what matters. Thy name is clock. Alarm clock. Good morning, Monday. New sound record attained at … Continue reading The Weekend Debrief: Seattle Wins, Jerry Comes to Town, and McGinn Loves Pedestrians
Wallingford had its greenway grand opening in mid-June, and now Beacon Hill and Ballard get to learn what all the traffic-calming excitement is about. Beacon Hill’s open house is tonight, July 19, at Jefferson Community Center (3801 Beacon Avenue S) from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Ballard’s greenway-curious population will gather next Thursday, July 26, at Adams Elementary School (6110 28th Avenue NW), in the cafeteria. Continue reading The Greenways are Coming! (to Beacon Hill and Ballard)
You know it’s the weekend when it’s time to leave Capitol Hill. So that’s what I did the last weekend … Continue reading Weekending at the VERA Project and Columbia City Theater
I recently looked at Seattle Chronicle, a DVD reprint of local historian Paul Dorpat’s 1992 VHS “2-hour tour through Seatle’s first ninety years, 1851 to 1941,” to quote the front copy.
It’s him narrating a roughly chronological slideshow, for the most part, of pictures of the city as it was a long time ago–some early ’90s video footage of the same neighborhoods contrasted with photographs of them in, say, 1872, to illuminate how much things have changed. Continue reading On SoDo’s Shifting Sands