Coming up to Thanksgiving, I heard a lot of talk about how Seattle, oh so liberal Seattle, was going to show its stuff last Friday ..the day called “Black Friday.” Our synagogue even devoted Yom Kippur, The Day of Atonement, to atoning for how we (Jews) have hurt Black people. That was w[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Seattle Scene’
November 7th, 2015 - 10:35 am § in Politics, The Ave Scene
An important anniversary for Seattle … Mayor Nice
As we head toward another hate filled election, the country ought to Seattle in the 1990s for a model Rice wins election as Seattle’s first African American mayor on November 7, 1989. | We voted for Norm . The thing that is so hard to remember now is that the issues surrounding him were not[...]
October 12th, 2015 - 10:35 am § in The Ave Scene
Breakfast on Columbus Day in Seattle, Or Any Sunday
Volunteer Park Café Our neighborhood place for coffee, pastries, and getting up. You can come during the week too, even have a facieish lunch or dinner. Volunteer Park Café, 1501 17th Ave E, Capitol Hill, 206-328-3155; alwaysfreshgoodness.com[...]
September 29th, 2015 - 4:36 am § in The Ave Scene
Chum is cheap, is Kita Good?
Ever consider eating Kita? Or do you feed it to your cat? How many times have I told visitors not to eat Kita? Kita is the name Ivars’ puts on the chum salmon, cheap stuff we in Seattle also call catfood. Kevin Bailey of Crosscut claims that chum has gotten a bad rap over the years. [&hel[...]
September 23rd, 2015 - 1:07 pm § in Misc.
Where are Banks and Sawant as the UW Announces It Is Building Its New Campus in Bellevue?
The UW plans to have 3,000 students at its new high tech Bellevue Campus. The investment in this new campus will be huge. It will start with a $40 million in funding from Microsoft. Nobody in Seattle seems to care. I care because 30 years ago my wife and I chose to live on Capital Hill [...]
September 12th, 2015 - 4:58 pm § in Misc.
FACEBOOK: How to encourage density
David Sucher A call for neighborhood improvements as part of HALA. Maybe it’s in there but I don’t recall any stress or even mention of the importance of real physical improvements to entice neighbors to accept growth. —– The masses don’t care about abstractions such as[...]
June 15th, 2015 - 1:12 am § in The Ave Scene, UW
For reasons that make no sense, the UW’s public face is the football team.
WHY THE UW SHOULD START A NEWS SITE: For reasons that make no sense, the UW’s public face is the football team. We have a media operation that is pitiful. Opinions that could help determine the public’s decisions on issues ranging from the architectural blight of the new Seattle to effec[...]
June 9th, 2015 - 12:19 am § in The Ave Scene
SEATTLE TIMES: Seattle’s Too Damn Ugly
Angry neighbors demand halt to ‘Eastern Bloc’-like cityscape in Seattle City Council members considering changes to development rules heard emotional testimony from homeowners upset about how their neighborhoods are changing.[...]
This is not “white flight,” it is flight of parents who can afford to make choices and do not have the time and energy needed for endless fights with the Seattle School District.
An Op Ed in the Seattle Times expressed disdain for the wide spread failure of Seattle schools to meet the criteria of “No Child Left Behind.” Seems to me that the author, a Seattle School teacher, is from the school called “blaming the messenger.” The failures of the Se[...]