SpaceX/Handout via Reuters SpaceX again successfully landed its Falcon 9 rocket on a drone ship at sea after launching it into space from Florida early Friday. The landing marks the third time SpaceX has recovered the booster post-launch and the second time the unmanned rocket has landed intact on t[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Seattle Scene’
May 6th, 2016 - 12:55 pm § in Misc.
Tom Corbett Lands at Sea!
May 4th, 2016 - 1:15 am § in Misc., The Ave Scene
Seattle Spoils System
Eight of nine Seattle City Council members voted Monday to hire an additional aide for each Councilor. That makes four aides to serve the voters! The increase was supposedly because the new system makes seven Councilor into DISTRICT councilors. So, supposedly the Districts will now be better se[...]
May 3rd, 2016 - 8:42 am § in The Ave Scene
SEATTLE Apartheid
Paul Schneiderman FACEBOOK The NBA is a predominantly African-American league with the players that we see on the court. Let’s face it that some of the anti-arena people on the Seattle city council and others may have trouble, consciously or subconsciously, identifying with the sport. More[...]
April 25th, 2016 - 8:31 am § in Misc.
Commentary by Charlie: Seattle’s Black Churches
Over a dozen Black churches sit on land that is worth millions of Dollars to developers. Goodwill with its downtown View sitting on nearly a block of prime property for development, Mt Zion, First AME,New Hope etc are worth their weight in gold to some of these people. They have already moved the me[...]
April 24th, 2016 - 12:36 pm § in The Ave Scene
Inflation: The City Council Needs More Pork
ERICA BARNETT C is for Crank Tomorrow, the city council plans to fund nine new legislative assistants, one for each council member, bringing the total number of legislative assistant salaries for each office to four. (Council members can divide up those salaries however they want, for example by h[...]
March 24th, 2016 - 1:25 am § in The Ave Scene
Oh OH! .. No Tipping Hurts the Waiters!
The End of Automatic Tipping Has Devastated Restaurant Paychecks Photo: AP Unless you work in a restaurant, you may not have noticed that many restaurants no longer include “automatic gratuities” on the checks of large groups. But if you do work in a restaurant, this little change may have lef[...]
March 15th, 2016 - 12:29 pm § in The Ave Scene
Opera
David Brewster This fascinating report on changing times for opera — getting smaller, taking more risks, cheaper tickets, more contemporary fare — is illustrative of the changes going on in performing arts. Pay particular attention to Opera Philadelphia, which is in the big-budget league[...]
What Happens When Seattle’s Black Neighborhood Becomes “Schwarzenfrei?”
The most ironic part of the protest against Uncle Ike’s MJ shop is the that the activists are Black but the Central D is now “schwartzenfrei” … that is free of the African Americans who once made this a vibrant center of Seattle culture. The complaints range from cha[...]