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A Sad So Long to Met Market on Queen Anne
The past couple of months, shoppers at the Metropolitan Market on top of Queen Anne have been going through stages of grief: denial, anger, maybe this weekend’s getting-ready-to-close sale (50 percent off, July 7-11) will help with acceptance. This store has such a special place in the hearts and bellies of many in the neighborhood,…
No Place Like Home
Has the city’s multimillion-dollar, 10-year plan to end homelessness made a dent?
On Saturday, March 24, on a practice baseball field under a bank of clouds at Seattle Pacific University (SPU), 59-year-old Robert* packed his belongings. The unshaven man with happy eyes wore a small wooden cross around his neck, underscoring his faith that he might soon find a permanent place to live. All around him, about…
The Gates Foundation Brings World Health Home
A new interactive exhibit helps connect Seattleites with the problems people face worlds away.
Seattleites are nothing if not socially aware, but it can still be difficult for us to fully grasp the grave problems facing people who live a world away. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation hopes to help bridge that gap with its new visitor center, located on the organizational campus near Seattle Center. The interactive…
Knute Berger Looks at the Monkey Business Behind the Space Needle
Tonight in Seattle, editor at large Knute Berger offers the first in a series of Century 21-related lectures sponsored by Historic Seattle. The talk is titled “From Bobo to the Bubbleator: Seattle Social and Cultural Context in ’62.” Hear Berger’s humorous and insightful take on the historic cultural context that made both the World’s Fair…
Understanding the Royal Treatment at Brightwater
King County’s shiny new sewage treatment plant aims to change our thinking about water usage.
When a visitor tells Ron Kohler that it smells good where he works, he nods graciously. “I hope you pay particular attention to that smell,” he says. “I’m very proud of it.” The aroma—generic fresh air—is nothing special, except that Ron is a manager at King County’s Brightwater wastewater treatment plant. From its innocuous odor…
Test-Tube Food
Local lawmakers want to force the labelling of genetically modified foods. Here’s a look at the cons
Hardly a day goes by that genetically modified foods don’t make the news in some form: legal battles over labeling requirements, rumbles in the blogosphere about potential new products, theories about the harm these products might do to people or other species, or a new scientific perspective that becomes ammo in the battle over these…
Raise a Beaker to Seattle’s First Science Fest
Seattle's first ever science festival brings a plethora of nerdy topics and the one-and-only Stephen
Organized by the Pacific Science Center and timed to coincide with the Seattle Center’s Next 50 celebration, the first-annual Seattle Science Festival features a galaxy of family-friendly festivities. Science Expo Day (6/2) kicks things off with a big bang. Taking place across the Seattle Center grounds, this free event features more than 150 happenings: exhibits,…
The Mysterious Death of Orca L112
Since researching our June article on the shaky state of local resident orca populations, I’ve been waiting for the report from NOAA’s local office, hoping they could determine what killed L112, also known as “Sooke” or “Victoria.” The young female southern resident killer whale washed up dead on the Long Beach Peninsula this February, bruised…
Can Seattle Scientists Save Orcas from Extinction?
Limited numbers of orcas swim the Salish Sea—and new troubles await them.
This February, a young killer whale washed up on the chilly shores of southwest Washington’s Long Beach Peninsula. Scientists looking at the markings on its dorsal fin and saddle patch (the dark gray splotch behind the dorsal fin) identified the whale as L112, a female just over 12 feet long born in 2009. She belonged…
UW to Offer Digital Publishing Continuing-Ed Program
If you’re interested in blogging professionally, self-publishing digitally, creating e-books—or your employer wishes you knew more about such things, look into the University of Washington’s new certificate program in digital publishing. The nine-month-long course launches this fall, and it promises a good mix of hands-on training and theoretical insight about many of the legal, aesthetic…
Dangers Await Upstream for Local Salmon
With damns coming down and the battle over “Frankenfish” heating up, what lies ahead for local salmo
Trolling with a guide off Malcolm Island near the northern end of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, we watch the rod tip, hoping for a strike. It’s 6:30 a.m., and the sky over the Coast Mountains looks like the underbelly of a salmon. The rod tip dips sharply, and I let out the line, trying to…
The Lasting Impact of Seattle’s World’s Fair Architects
Design at the 1962 World's Fair brought its architects acclaim well beyond the Seattle Center ground
Most Seattleites walk or drive past the Space Needle and the other major buildings at Seattle Center without giving much thought to who designed them. But these structures, including KeyArena and the Pacific Science Center, are the lasting architectural legacy of the Century 21 Exposition, better known as the Seattle World’s Fair. In 1962, some…
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