February 2021
The Vanishing Dream of Owning a Single-Family Home in Seattle
Looking for a newly built, ‘traditional’ single-family home in the Seattle market? Good luck with that.
Residential development in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood is emblematic of the trend toward packing two or more dwellings onto what used to be single-structure parcels.
The Hops Capital of the World is in Eastern Washington
With 75 percent of the nation’s hops grown in Yakima, this year's harvest is one of the most anticipated by brewers around the world.
In 1868, Charles Carpenter, a farmer’s son from New York state, moved to the Yakima Valley, where he started his own farm near the town of Ahtanum, just south of present-day Yakima, and planted his first hop fields. He soon recognized that this place was particularly well suited for growing hops, with its average of…
A Public Theater Project at the Rep Presents Homer’s Epic Poem
More than 100 members of diverse communities were invited to collaborate on the new project.
A public theater project at the Rep presents Homer’s epic poem seattle repertory theatre has produced collaborations with everyone from Lily Tomlin to David Byrne. This month, the theater moves into the public domain, partnering with community-based organizations for a project called Public Works Seattle. Their venture? A musical adaptation of the Greek epic The Odyssey….
