David Brewster

"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.

"The intriguing prospect is a reassembling of what council member Andrew Lewis calls 'the pre-head-tax, pro-growth coalition,' basically the Establishment Left and the Business Democrats as a working majority."

I wish I felt more confidence in the fragile governing structures of these unwieldy beasts.

It's an important evocation of Filipino life in Seattle, a city matched by Stockton, California as the twin centers of Filipino-American life.

Early Music Seattle, a mainstay of Seattle's classical music for 45 years, is now embarking on some significant changes and multicultural broadening.

The new chief will be taking the helm in very rough seas.

Crime, homelessness, high rents, stymied urban politics, NIMBY opposition to building housing, lagging transit, family values from remote work, worker-liberation — all apply to Seattle.