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Seattle’s Worst Transportation Moments in 2011
2011 was the worst year in memory to be a Seattle driver. Here are some of the many ways we paid for
Tunnel visionSeattle gets split asunder by a manufactured deep-bore “debate,” which has no actual influence on the already-approved project (but does provide for entertaining and heated “Seattle process” rhetoric). Viaduct and coverTraffic-traumatized Seattleites endure the nadir of no-go during a record nine-day shutdown of the Alaskan Way Viaduct. Many consider moving to the actual state…
Love Thy Neighborhood
Meet five volunteers who are bringing meaningful change to their beloved corners of Seattle.
THE CENTRAL DISTRICTSean Conroe, founder of Alleycat Acres Photo by Hayley Young If you cruised down East Union toward the Central District this past summer, you may have noticed something different on the northeast corner of 22nd Avenue. Tucked between Cappy’s Boxing Gym and a gas station mini-mart were beds of verdant greens, planter boxes…
Shiro Worship: Celebrating Seattle’s First Sushi Chef
Local publisher Chin Music Press has a gorgeous new illustrated memoir and cookbook. We bring you an
Seattle’s legendary sushi chef, Shiro Kashiba—still a self-proclaimed “sushi bartender” at age 70—was a locavore long before it was trendy. In his beautiful new memoir, Shiro: Wit, Wisdom & Recipes from a Sushi Pioneer (published by Seattle’s Chin Music Press; $20), he speaks of the bounty of Puget Sound when he arrived here in 1966,…
Seattle’s Unhealthiest Neighborhoods Dubbed Food Deserts
Our area is home to 17 so-called “food deserts,” or places where healthy food is hard to find. Here'
When the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) launched its online Food Desert Locator last summer, Seattle’s gourmets and locavores were horrified to see nutritional wastelands encroaching upon the city. In all, more than 125,000 people, in neighborhoods everywhere from West Seattle to Renton, live in places where fresh, healthy food is difficult to find—so-called “food…
Amazon’s Safer Delivery Service
Our local online retail giant pairs with 7-Eleven to deliver the goods.
The home of Slurpees, spicy hot dogs and Big Gulps is adding a new item to its shelves: whatever you just ordered from Amazon.com. The Seattle-based online retail behemoth is partnering with megachain 7-Eleven to install banks of delivery lockers inside the convenience stores with the intent of making package delivery secure and accessible for…
Best of: Readers’ Choice 2011
Seattleites have spoken. Here are the Reader's Choice winners in our Best of 2011 poll.
BEAUTY Salon for cuts and colorGARY MANUEL SALONBelltown2127 First Ave.206.728.1234garymanuel.com Blow-dry/styling barSWINK STYLE BARMultiple locations, includingUniversity Village4610 Village Court NE206.673.5070swinkstylebar.com HairstylistDERIK EGGERT, GARYMANUEL SALONBelltown2127 First Ave.206.728.1234garymanuel.com Men’s salonRUDY’S BARBERSHOPMultiple locations,including Fremont475 N 36th St.206.547.0818rudysbarbershop.com Children’s haircutsLI’L KLIPPERSWallingford (Wallingford Center)1815 N 45th St., Suite 205206.633.2158lilklippers.com Nail salonJULEP NAIL PARLORMultiple locations,including University District5001 25th Ave. NE206.985.6644myjulep.com Place…
Saying Farewell to 37 Notable Seattleites
We remember shuttered arts oganizations, retired Seattleites, and big a final adieu to notable frien
It’s been a bit brutal of late for arts organizations around here. The past year has seen the shuttering of several beloved groups, including Giant Magnet children’s festival and the Bellevue Philharmonic Orchestra. After 26 seasons, the Seattle Symphony bid farewell to music director Gerard Schwarz and to composer-in-residence Samuel Jones, and Pacific Northwest Ballet…
Seattle’s Most Influential People of 2011
Love them or hate them, there’s no denying theimpact these major players have had on our city.
[person of the year]Dan SavageThe It Gets Better ProjectSometimes life’s most fleeting moments are the ones that have the greatest impact. Take, for example a distinct memory Dan Savage recalls from his Chicago childhood: “I was 8 or 9, and my family was in line for a movie, and we saw two gay people holding…
Soldiering On: New Methods for Battling PTSD
From mobile apps to meditation, local practitioners are pioneering fresh ways to fight back against
Beyond two locked security doors on the seventh floor of Seattle’s Veterans Affairs hospital (VA) on Beacon Hill, patients are treated for some of the more severe cases of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and a web of other issues. Some of them are depressed, some are suicidal, and some are simply not functioning because of…
The Vashon Island Diet
Why hundreds of local residents have gotten on board—and dropped hundreds of pounds.
MOST PEOPLE AGREE THAT dieting is easier when you do it with a buddy. If you live on Vashon Island, diet buddies are everywhere. That’s because a new diet plan—called the “TQI Diet” (“to quiet inflammation”)—has become so popular on the island that an estimated 15 percent of the adults there have signed up for…
Do Seattle Schools Produce Underachievers?
As if Seattle’s public schools weren’t plagued enough, now critics say they are producing underchall
“My sixth-grade son’s report card came home, and he got almost all A’s,” recalls Seattle parent David Price. But what seemed like a cause for celebration quickly turned to concern. “Later, when I asked him how hard his classes were on a scale of one to 10, he said, ‘Four.’” Price, a parent of students…
The Mystery of D.B. Cooper
It's the 40th anniversary of D.B. Cooper’s daring escape, one of Seattle’s most enduring crime myste
A few crumbling $20 bills. An airline boarding pass. A pink parachute. A black, clip-on necktie from J.C. Penney. This is all that remains of a legendary highjacking, and it fits neatly into a cardboard box at the FBI office in Seattle, part of a long-dormant investigation. Dormant, that is, until this past August, when…
In Search of a Happier Seattle
It’s time to start talking about what really matters when making policy decisions for our city: the
When civic disputes get down to arguments over numbers, the point has usually been lost. Debates this year over building heights near the planned Roosevelt light rail station and in Pioneer Square heated up because the numbers symbolize an approach: density versus single-family homes, sustainability versus sprawl, high-rises versus history. These debates, legitimate as they…
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