David Brewster

Victor Navsky had the idea of invading the West Coast, and so we began some ultimately fruitless and vague talks about combining forces.

Marshall Foster, who has a handsome list of accomplishments in big projects (he's the city's planning director and supervises the Waterfront Park), has just been named the interim director of Seattle Center. 

One of the strengths of Asaka's book is the way it writes "history from below," digging up information about ordinary, struggling, marginalized people who don't make the newspapers or merit biographies.

Seattle's economy is full of young, highly educated, and disruptive people, but the political leadership is showing its age.

The odds against these warm places out of the rain are now very long. A city that can't keep places safe from hostile intruders. Super-heated real estate prices. Staffing shortages.

Politically, Seattle is deeply divided these days, which makes nothing certain or easy to predict, except the prospect of further political warfare.

"The new program is one more indication of how arts groups locally are busy reinventing themselves post-pandemic."

The Emerson exemplified the edgy, American/Juilliard/Manhattan style of playing classical music.

Making some of Seattle arts free, thus improving access for young people and those of limited income, would be a worthy imported idea to both help the arts (struggling post-pandemic) and to broaden audiences. And to help with the downtown revival.

We're stuck. It's more like the revenge of the normal than the rescue by the normies.