News, Politics, Transportation

Is Rail the Answer for Seattle’s Waterfront Tourism & High-Capacity Transit?

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?

Food, Restaurant

With Fresh Faces of the Future in SkyCity, Space Needle Resto Preps for Next 50

The restaurant’s bid in the collective Seattle Center look to the future, The Next Fifty, has local up-and-coming chefs under the direction of SkyCity’s Executive Chef Jeff Maxfield through the end of the month. At $62, it ain’t cheap–nothing at the Space Needle is, silly–but proceeds from the menu benefit each participating culinary school’s scholarship fund. And there’s that view. Continue reading With Fresh Faces of the Future in SkyCity, Space Needle Resto Preps for Next 50

Arts & Entertainment, Off-Task, Travel

Seattle: The Game Gives An Excuse to Tour Pioneer Square

You’ve got three choices of local scavenger hunts: the Pike Place Market tour, the Pioneer Square tour, and the Seattle Art Museum Tour, though for the latter, a separate admission to the museum is required. Each tour takes about two to three hours to complete. Continue reading Seattle: The Game Gives An Excuse to Tour Pioneer Square