Crime in Redmond, Apple’s Seattle Office & More News
The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today
By Lauren Mang November 4, 2014
What’s going on around town on this rainy Tuesday morning? Plenty. Leading off today:
Apple has officially opened an engineering office here in Seattle. The company is remaining mum on key details, such as where the heck the office is even located, but The Seattle Times did some super sleuthing and found this: “The nucleus of the Apple office is a group of employees who had worked at Union Bay Networks, a cloud computing startup near Google’s Seattle campus in Fremont. Union Bay’s information email no longer works, and at least five of its employees have changed their LinkedIn profiles to say they began working at Apple in September.” The plot thickens.
It’s Election Day! Have you mailed your ballot yet? (FYI, ballots need to be postmarked by today or placed in a drop box by 8 p.m.) There are a number of important issues (ahem, gun law changes) up in the air, so MyNorthwest.com and KIRO Radio invite you to follow along with them for up-to-the-minute election results.
Crosscut.com has the lowdown on Seattle’s Secret Shows, the super hush-hush music event where you receive a date, venue and music genre and then leave the rest to fate. Read all about them here. To find out when the next surprise show is, sign up for the Secret Shows email list.
The Capitol Hill Seattle Blog reports that First Hill’s iconic Sorrento Hotel and its grand Fireside Lounge and The Hunt Club restaurant will be getting a makeover with a dash of “casual luxury” akin to the Ace Hotel. Hmm. I suppose the guest rooms could use a bit of a refresh, but here’s hoping the new look doesn’t completely veer away from what makes the Sorrento so great in the first place: that dark traditional style, opulent wood accents, cozy ambience, etc.
There have been a rash of home invasions plaguing Redmond’s Education Hill neighborhood since June. According to KOMO News, investigators believe there are two perpetrators involved, including “a thin man and a woman with small feet, possibly wearing heels.” Robbing homes in high heels. That’s a new one. Evidently, the thieves enter the homes through unlocked windows and garage doors left open for periods of time. People, lock your doors.
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