A conversation with Seattle
Overnight, a commenter on a story about the violent crime rate in downtown Seattle changed the headline for everyone. In a follow-on story to the shooting of a Metro bus driver, the Times supported the Downtown Seattle Association’s contention that crime is getting worse, before noting that the data say no, same old, same old. Continue reading Just Like at Gawker, Commenter Rewrites Seattle Times Headline on Crime
Sharp contrasts come to mind at the phrase “black-and-white” but in reality, infinite shadings are possible.
And it’s a fair passel of shading we’ll need to approach the story of Gary Leon Ridgway, who needs no further introduction and who just might be the worst serial killer in American history. Continue reading Graphic Novel Presents the Green River Killer in Black and White
Ironically, it is fairly easy to get a fix on Third Avenue in Seattle (or get stabbed or beaten nearly to death) because it has become the entrenched home of a large open-air drug market. But the City of Seattle has so far struggled to fix that problem. Better crowd control late-night, when bars are letting out, has helped reduce aggressive brawling, and despite bullets flying less frequently, overall confidence in personal safety is still low. Continue reading Looking for a Fix on Third Avenue
Seattle is many things, but this August, it also seems like a great place to get stabbed as you go about your business on a notorious stretch of street downtown. SeattleCrime.com characterizes the latest incident as “Yet Another Stabbing At 3rd & Pine.”
Sunday afternoon, a man was arrested for stabbing, “without provocation,” another man who was taking the bus with his mother and the rest of his family. Continue reading This Summer, Don’t Miss Third Avenue’s Improv Knife Skills Workshops
Each of three are more of the “every life matters” school than the puzzling-solving category. Läckberg’s The Ice Princess stands out in this company for its more traditional introduction of likely suspects and unearthing of red herrings, but it is untraditional in other, fresh ways. The book’s protagonist is Erica Falck, who’s back in her hometown Fjällbacka following her parents’ death, when an estranged friend from childhood is found dead as well, an apparent suicide. Continue reading Nordical Mystery Tour: Läckberg, Mankell, Indriðason
Photo courtesy of our Flickr pool’s Yani Nation. Last night I was down at the Moore Theatre on Second Avenue. I … Continue reading What If You Try to Take Back Belltown And It Shoots at You?