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Low Gas Prices Mean More Traffic, Safeco’s LEDs & More
The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today
Remember when gas was like super expensive and everyone was all “bro, don’t buy that Hummer H3!”? Frivolous car trips were a thing of the past and mass transit passes became de rigueur. Well, guess what: The party’s over. Now that the price at the pump has decreased, we can expect more gridlock as more people abandon fuel-saving methods. According to King 5, “The latest data shows in September and November, a $0.05 decrease in the gas price year-over-year corresponds to around 10% increase in traffic congestion. In October, a $0.20 drop meant a 30% bump in traffic.”
If you’re a superstitious Seahawks fan, you may want to knock on some wood. The 12th Man playoff flag flying atop the Space Needle, which experienced some serious wear and tear due to high winds, is set to be replaced by a new one for the Super Bowl.
More Seattle sports news: Our Mariners will play ball this summer in the first Major League Baseball stadium to boast energy-efficient LED lights. By making this switch, the Associated Press reports a whopping 60 to 70 percent lower energy consumption when Safeco Field is lit. http://www.komonews.com/sports/Mariners-to-have-1st-major-league-stadium…
Car2Go, watch your back: BMW plans to launch its DriveNow service to the Seattle area to compete with the Smart Car-based ridesharing system. The DriveNow fleet will include both “gasoline-fueled and electric cars” and is expected to begin in around three months, reports The Seattle Times.
The Seattle PI has rounded up some of the best memes that were floating about the Internet from the NFL’s Championship Week. See the hilarious goofs here.
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Rearview Mirror: Spinasse at Home, a New Spa Experience, and Seattle Mag’s Reader’s Choice Awards
Things I did, saw, ate, learned, or read in the past week (or so).
YOUR VOTE MATTERS Everyone has a favorite restaurant, coffee shop, or local boutique. Call me old-school, but I will die on the hill that Caffe Vita has the best coffee in town. Disagree with me? Now’s your moment to speak up. Each year, we survey Seattle magazine readers, asking them to weigh in on everything…
Studio Sessions: Ling Chun
The Seattle-based artist brings playful color to ceramics and neon while exploring memory, transformation, and life between cultures.
For Ling Chun, creating begins with something sensed before it can be named. Working with clay, glass, light, and sometimes synthetic hair, the Hong Kong-born artist gives physical form to things that words cannot always hold. “For me, the magnitude of making goes far beyond the object that is eventually produced,” Chun says. “The object…
The Magic of PAX Is Stronger Than Ever
PAX West draws more than 100,000 people to Seattle each year. Co-founder Jerry Holkins reflects on what the gaming convention set out to change, how its community has grown and why gathering face to face still matters.
Access to game news as it was happening was difficult back in the day. Even with the advent of the internet, communication between game publishers and journalists was still a very elite affair. I used to fake credentials—via fax machine!—to attend the Electronic Entertainment Expo, mostly just known as E3. It was simultaneously as loud…
Your Guide to Bumbershoot 2026
Navigate Seattle’s wildest end-of-summer weekend with 20 picks spanning Death Cab for Cutie, Blood Orange, wrestling, skateboarding and—obviously—movies made in 48 hours.
Four years after Bumbershoot returned with its quirkiness revivified, Seattleites broadly acknowledge the two-day multimedia extravaganza as a welcome finale to the summer festival season. Fests like Bumbershoot are designed around a choose-your-own-adventure model, but if you’re the kind of person who looked at this year’s sprawling lineup—featuring multiple bands, artists, and exhibits happening at…