BUILDS An Island! This One Is Not Limited to Puget Sound! (TANews, Seattle) Having sold off his island off of Anacortes, billionaire Paul Allen has replaced it with a magnificent new “floating city” .. also called Allen Island. While the previous Allen Island was part of Washington[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Seattle Scene’
March 30th, 2014 - 11:52 am § in The Ave Scene
Reasons to love Seattle
READ ABOUT THE MV Gyrfalcon – an 88 foot wooden fantail About the Gyrfalcon The Gyrfalcon is our 88 foot wooden fantail. She was built in Seattle in 1941 for the Coast & Geodesic Survey, and spent the next 20 years doing survey work in Alaska. Since then she has been converted to a private [&h[...]
March 27th, 2014 - 1:48 pm § in The Ave Scene
The Times Kvetches About Losing T Mobile.
The Seattle Times is kvetching* that our area may lose the corporate headquarters of T-mobile. The extremely creative T-Mobile, after its failed take over by AT&T came back fighting with new consumer friendly plans. These have meant that the Seattle based company is growing. Meanwhile Spr[...]
March 25th, 2014 - 2:02 pm § in Misc., The Ave Scene
Is Snohomish County Effectively Bankrupt?
It would seem so, because by all appearances, the county was negligent in issuing building permits for the now-buried houses below Slide Hill. The risk of this hill collapsing has been known for years, and the county apparently was warned, but seems to have ignored the danger. Now, dozens are dead, [...]
March 11th, 2014 - 12:41 pm § in The Ave Scene
The Scot: Savoring Film
Digital vs. Film We always have that eternal debate in photography of Digital vs Analogue. I firmly subscribe to the latter, that film still has a core niche market. There are still photographers out there who continue to use it, and use it religiously. Digital may have today’s market and e[...]
March 9th, 2014 - 12:15 pm § in The Ave Scene
Danny Westneat at Seattle Times has a Good Idea: Why shouldn’t WA woo Airbus?
Screw Boeing. Airbus tries to get into U.S. markets, so why not woo them to WA State? So Boeing is no longer a WA state company despite the largest ever offer of a state pay off if the now Chicago based predator plane company builds its 777x here. Danny Westneat points out that WA did […][...]
March 6th, 2014 - 3:46 pm § in The Ave Scene
Wonderful Urban Art
Last night I went to a puboic meeting about Seattle’s new waterfront. It has some good points BUT … the artist chosen for the pubic art in Pioneer Square is Buster Simpson, Seattle practitioner of the boring Public Decor approach to art. This AM. I came across something much better in an[...]
February 26th, 2014 - 4:14 am § in The Ave Scene
The Seattle Way of Preservng a Neighborhood
Among the ugliest of new Seattle’s buildings is the structure next to the Ballad Bridge. Imbedded within this concrete blob is a tiny house that once belonged to Edith Macefield. Then in her 80’s, she refused to sell her little house on N. 48th St., despite being offered $1 million by[...]
HORSESASS: Goldy calls out the Seattle Times over Taxes
Over at HorsesAss, David Goldstein rags on an editorial in the Times. The editorial complains that Seattle may loose another corporate headquarters and blames that loss on our lack of state moneys for infrastructure and education. Goldy, as usual. says that the Tokes ought to support an income tax[...]