A large first sculture on home plate of the baseball field at Cal Anderson.

19 Black Leaders Decline Invite to Durkan’s Equitable Communities Task Force

Mayor Jenny Durkan announced the membership of her hand-picked Equitable Community task force Wednesday and prominent Black-led group like King County Equity Now and...

Housing, politics and a basic pride of place

Fifth in an illustrated series about place-decoding from the South of France. What do the politics of urban housing have to do with a seasonal...

Is Seattle a $20 Lunch Town?

As we emerge from pandemic and look towards returning to offices, a question starts to come up. “What’s for lunch?” A recent impromptu survey...

Sunday Video: How Coronavirus Spreads Indoors and Outdoors

https://youtu.be/n6QwnzbRUyA Vox explains how the novel coronavirus spreads indoors and outdoors. The means of transmission is not necessarily uniform due to different environmental conditions and...

Serendipitous

"Redden, or Renton, or something. Northern." I know what these guys are talking about. I practically yelped out the answer: "Redding, California!" "That's it!" "The halfway point...
Cherry blossoms outside Ballard High.

The Urbanist Podcast: Choosing Among Seattle’s Public Schools

It is spring of 8th Grade in the Dubicki household, so we have been investigating options on where to attend high schools. Seattle Public...

Sunday Video: UK to Hong Kong by Train

https://youtu.be/G8B1PSimxU0 A British family travels exclusively by train from the United Kingdom to Hong Kong. Along the way, they make stops for a bit of...

Angels on Second Avenue

  In that doorway, over there on Second South, is where a woman goes at night. She injects and imbibes various assortments of drugs as...