The Incredible Moth .. way cooler than the hydroes! These things are amazing. They can make 35 knot in a minimal wind. Imagine Seafair with moth races replacing the hydros![...]
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August 8th, 2015 - 10:43 am § in The Ave Scene
The Seattle Waterfront
Princess Angeline’s beach shack near Pike Street.[...]
August 25th, 2014 - 8:16 pm § in The Ave Scene
A real SEATTLE waterfront!!!!
Some months ago THE-Ave.us and other websites bemoaned the Disney-esque and undistinguished design proposed for Seattle’s waterfront.. We felt the New York based architect had done a great job of designing a waterfront for Kansas City. Someone must have heard!!!! Today’s Seattle Times re[...]
April 2nd, 2014 - 11:54 am § in The Ave Scene
The Waterfront vs. Taxes Paid by Seattle’s Rich.
Over at HorsesASS, David Goldstein yells about the Seattle Times life in a world entirely free of context: The proposal now before the Seattle City Council is to double the existing property-tax levy devoted to parks, to $54 million a year, raising the annual cost for the owner of a $400,000 home [...]
March 17th, 2014 - 3:24 am § in Misc., The Ave Scene
James Corner’s Modest Vision for Seattle’s Waterfront
Do 26 Blocks of Features Make a Design? “For 50 years now we’ve been looking through a crumbly, deteriorating double-deck freeway, and we’ve been fenced off from our waterfront,” “It’s time that we had a front door to our city.” said Jean Godden, chair of the City Council c[...]
September 16th, 2011 - 8:49 am § in The Ave Scene
The Seattle Waterfront Project
Last month the New York Times (August 21, 2011, By JOHN HARWOOD) summarized the views of business economists about how to stimulate the stalled economy: “While waiting for education investments to pay off, however, Mr. Gross says the government should finance immediate job creation to shore up[...]
September 2nd, 2011 - 11:14 am § in The Ave Scene, UW
The AVE: a vision for Seattle’s new waterfront.
Any successful effort to create a marvelous waterfront park for Seattle should include turning Elliot Avenue into a grand entrance into the city. Once you cross the Ballard Bridge, there are fields, a very underused shopping center, warehouses, and amazing access to three great attraction … [...]
February 20th, 2011 - 7:00 am § in The Ave Scene, UW
Seattle’s Unique Opportunity: The Waterfront
This is the city founded centuries ago by people from the Salish Sea. The longboats of our Samish and Duwamish predecessors were part of a network of native navigation reaching from Tacoma to Alaska. The white men came and replaced Chief Seattle’s home but the waterfront remained the cor[...]
November 21st, 2021 - 4:44 pm § in Misc.
What it’s like to be worth $500M
You travel by private jet. You sleep on a round velvet bed. You spend your days lounging by the pool. Your personal chef prepares meals of steak and caviar. You live in a 9-bedroom waterfront villa once owned by Madonna. Unfortunately, someday you’ll have to be put down. SO, LUCKY DOG, [...]
Is Obama a billionaire?
You’d think so from this photo and cutline appearing in the U.K.-based tabloid Daily Mail on Monday, August 2, 2021, in connection with the ex-president’s upcoming 60th birthday bash. (See it here.) The story behind the photo is about the White House press secretary defending this birthd[...]