Glimpses: “home again”
A lovely aerial contrast here from TheQ! as his jet plane glides over the downtown core. A welcoming sight, indeed. You are reading an excerpt from Glimpses: "home again".The SunBreak supports RSS for...
View ArticleClassical Music on the Cheap: Lunchtime Concerts
In this episode of "Classical Music on the Cheap", we explore concerts that fit right into your weekday lunch hour. For those who work in downtown Seattle, there's a wealth of midday events happening...
View ArticleSeattle Plans Third Avenue Clean-Out Redux
From South Dearborn to Denny Way, Seattle's Third Avenue marks the spine of an area that could be papered over with the police reports used to track the crime within it. During the past year, it's been...
View ArticleGlimpses: “Old SPD car”
We do not know how long this vintage ride has been on the force, but can vouch for its existence, as our trip through downtown yesterday happened upon it in this exact same spot. Thanks to +Russ for...
View ArticleIs Rail the Answer for Seattle’s Waterfront Tourism & High-Capacity Transit?
Transit studies are thick in the Seattle air these days. Just this week, Waterfront Seattle released a transit report (pdf) on options for travel up and down the Field Operations-redesigned waterfront,...
View ArticleJust Like at Gawker, Commenter Rewrites Seattle Times Headline on Crime
Overnight, a commenter on a story about the violent crime rate in downtown Seattle changed the headline for everyone. In a follow-on story to the shooting of a Metro bus driver, the Times supported the...
View ArticleIn Seattle, Parking is the Best of Times & Worst of Times
These two findings are not necessarily contradictory. It's possible that restaurants, lacking volume, have passed on higher prices to fewer customers, and gross receipts are up. It's possible that the...
View ArticleTalking Crime Rates and Seattle Police Deportment
Columnist Danny Westneat had a much-maligned piece in the Seattle Times this week, where he "investigated" claims of depolicing--the idea is that, much like a 7-year-old who has been called onto the...
View ArticleThrice as Nice with a New Potbelly at 3rd and Spring
Today marks the debut of the third Potbelly sandwich shop to grace the Seattle area, and the second downtown. So hie thee to 1113 3rd Ave (conveniently located kitty-corner from the FBI) for warm and...
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