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Seattle’s Future World: Our Crystal Ball Predictions, Part 2
Trying to predict the future is humbling—but even when we know we’ll probably be wildly wrong, it’s fodder for good conversation
Click here for Seattle’s Future World: Our Crystal Ball Predictions, Part 1 Policing the City Acknowledging the potential game-changing repercussions of even a single unanticipated variable (say a cataclysmic act of terrorism, or “The Big One” in the Cascadia subduction zone), I hazard this guess of what the Seattle Police Department will look like in 25…
Seattle’s Future World: Our Crystal Ball Predictions, Part 1
Trying to predict the future is humbling, but even when we know we'll probably be wildly wrong, it's fodder for good conversation
Had I been making predictions about the future back in the 1960s, I would have been wildly wrong. Monorails aren’t whisking us everywhere. Flying cars haven’t made freeways obsolete. The Kingdome didn’t outlast us all. Supersonic jets never caught on—in fact, not building them helped plunge Seattle into a deep recession. People who did bet on…
Love, Italian Style, in ‘Bittersweet Life’ Podcast
Town Hall program director Katy Sewall explores the expat life in her online audio broadcast
When Seattleite Katy Sewall headed to Rome in 2013 for an extended stay, she and lifelong friend Tiffany Parks—who had already been living in Rome for a decade—decided to create a podcast about the experience. The “BitterSweet Life” audio broadcast, with new episodes every Monday, is a natural for Sewall, who spent nine years at…
Sturgill Simpson Explores Surreal Seattle Roots at the Paramount
On Veterans Day, before a sold-out crowd at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre, the country-funk (funtry?) artist Sturgill Simpson abruptly had the house lights turned on. “This is sort of surreal for myself. Never woulda thunk it,” said Simpson, a native Kentuckian who lived in Everett for a short while after a stint in the Navy, and…
Stella McCartney Visits Seattle’s Nordstrom Flagship Store
British designer Stella McCartney paid a visit to downtown Seattle’s Nordstrom flagship store just days before the debut of her inaugural menswear collection
Jeannie Nordstrom, Stella McCartney and Bruce Nordstrom pose for a photo during a personal appearance at Nordstrom Downtown Seattle on November 3, 2016 in Seattle, Washington
Seattleite in Sight: Tiffany Wilson
As the song goes: “What the world needs now/ is love, sweet love.” This week it seems we need it now more than ever, but on the bright side, Seattle is overflowing with artists who have love to share and talent to spare. In the case of vocalist Tiffany Wilson—whose recent KEXP performance stopped me…
Here’s Your Post-Election Neko Case, in Tacoma Tonight
Unless you already have tickets, you won’t be able to see Neko Case tonight when she visits the Pantages Theatre in Tacoma, her former hometown, for a sold out show. It’s sure to be one to remember; Case is a vocal advocate of progressive issues across the board. “In my beloved hometown, Tacoma tonight to…
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