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It’s Not Easy Building Green
A Seattle neighborhood's complaints about a "deep green" building raise key questions about zoning.
She is nine months pregnant on this sunny fall day. But that doesn’t stop Katherine Bragdon from taking a walk (more like a waddle) from her picture-perfect, red-shingled Wallingford bungalow to the nerve center of the neighborhood where Stone Way rolls down to the north shore of Lake Union. “South Wallingford is a special neighborhood,…
Unlocking Lake Union’s Underwater Mysteries
Unlocking Lake Union’s waterlogged secrets—one sunken treasure at a time.
The beam of a scuba diver’s flashlight cuts through murky water, illuminating sediment that resembles an ash storm at night, until the glow catches on something white. It’s the hull of a World War II minesweeper, coated in algae and mud, completely intact, with rooms and corridors, even a mess, you could still walk around…
Robert Redford and Activists Speak Out Against Pebble Mine
Film icon Robert Redford joined a chorus of voices when he published his stance against the Pebble Mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay on the Huffington Post: The Pebble Mine is a disaster waiting to happen. Now, a long-awaited study by the Environmental Protection Agency has confirmed that the Pebble Mine — along with its estimated…
When Will Seattle Streets Be Safe Enough for Cyclists?
Will Seattle’s Bicycle Master Plan Update finally make Seattle streets inviting for cyclists?
You’ve heard it all a million times: Drivers are jerky, lazy, inattentive louts looking to put another notch in their steering wheels by giving cyclists a close shave, thereby asserting the supremacy of the almighty car while wasting our precious natural resources. And cyclists are entitled, arrogant, Lycra-clad maniacs with a death wish, impeding traffic…
Candlelight Vigil for Sandy Hook Victims at Alki
A candlelight vigil will be held in West Seattle this weekend to honor the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting in Newtown, CT, according to the West Seattle Herald. Speakers will include violence survivors, including Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe, board members of Families & Friends of Violent Crime Victims organization and executive director…
Why Alaska’s Pebble Mine Matters in Seattle
What happens in Bristol Bay doesn’t stay in Bristol Bay: the battle over the Pebble Mine.
Salmon spawn in our rivers, climb our fish ladders, adorn everything from totem poles to T-shirts and grace our plates. They are synonymous with Seattle. And we spend a great deal of time and effort trying to protect their habitat close to home. These days, most of our wild salmon come from Alaska, in particular,…
Neighborhood Heroes: Readers’ Choice 2012
For the first time, we asked readers to answer our annual Readers’ Choice poll with their neighborhoods in minds. Of the many questions we pose every year (What’s your favorite restaurant, bar, takeout, etc.), “Who is your neighborhood hero,” was a new addition to the mix. Here are the results in that category. Sorry, neighborhoods…
Worst Moments of 2012 in Seattle
A few of the most shocking and biggest forehead-slapping fiascos that happened in Seattle in 2012.
Tit for tat: Local developers of the JoeyBra bra—with pockets, of course—sued by British developer of similar bra. Miss Calculation: Seattle beauty queen tweets about her hatred of Seattle weather, sparks a tempest among her Twitter followers. Rink Rage: Last year’s holiday “ice rink” at Cal Anderson Park is little more than a giant polystyrene…
A Seattle Geneticist Gets the Hollywood Treatment
A pioneering Seattle geneticist who discovered the breast cancer gene is the subject of a new movie.
“Helen Hunt is a very fine actress, and she’s beautiful,” says Seattle geneticist Dr. Mary-Claire King. Assessing actors isn’t a habit for the scientist, whose most famous discovery is the existence of a gene for inherited susceptibility to breast cancer, but in this case she has reason to—King is played by Hunt in a forthcoming…
Local Couples Celebrate Their (Now Legal) Same-sex Marriages
Congratulations to all the newlyweds.
There’s an electric feel of happiness in the air today as same-sex marriage becomes officially legal in Washington state and couples of all ages, colors and creeds line up to be among the first who receive marriage licenses. Prior to the approval of Referendum 74, Seattle magazine profiled seven local same-sex couples. Several of them…
Most Influential People in Seattle 2012
Meet the 62 biggest power players of our city, including the editors' pick for person of the year.
Sparks fly every year when our panel of experts assembles to choose Seattle’s boldest, brightest, brashest and bossiest movers and shakers from the past year. And 2012 is our biggest list yet—with 62 names—featuring high flyers who are definitely on your radar, and others who sneak under (or try to!). Some of their stories will…
Chris Hansen: Seattle Magazine’s Person of 2012
This San Francisco hedge fund manager who won the hearts of Sonics fans is our man of the year.
Who would have thought that in the year of Occupy protests and anti-fat-cat rhetoric, liberal Seattle’s agenda would be hijacked by a multimillionaire San Francisco hedge fund manager? But so it was. An unknown guy named Chris Hansen spun the civic debate by proposing to invest around a half-billion dollars in building a new basketball/hockey…
Moments from the 2012 Election We Should Remember Forever
Highlights from starting line we should try to hold onto, as we head into the next leg of the race (
1. Singing and dancing in the streets as a direct result of seeing change in action. 2. President Obama’s now famous Tweet, and that moment when the entire Obama family initially took the stage. 3. Tammy Baldwin’s win in Wisconsin – She is the first openly lesbian senator to be elected and the first woman…
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