Bay Area residents looking for homes in Seattle BY JOHN COOK on May 25, 20154 Comments One of the most interesting trends we’ve tracked at GeekWire over the past few years is the arrival in Seattle of what we dub the Silicon Valley tech giants. Huge… Read More[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Seattle Scene’
May 21st, 2015 - 7:28 am § in The Ave Scene
Small, Rational Steps To Help Seattle’s Crisis of Affordable Rentals
From the Stranger: Fix the just cause eviction rules. Close the tenant relocation assistance loophole. Make landlords give tenants more notice in “no-fault” evictions.[...]
May 21st, 2015 - 4:13 am § in The Ave Scene
Wa Bud Light
Should WA State “Bud-lightify” WA Bud ? ? Now that WA state has legalized weed, the time has come to decide if the state should market its brand. Annie Lowrey at the New York Times Magazine has written about the inevitable, brand named products, where two joints with the same brand name wil[...]
May 20th, 2015 - 8:08 am § in Misc.
Sawantism explained by David Goldstein: “She’s a Trotskyist, not Maoist or a Stalinist.”
Over on FACEBOOK, David Goldstein valiantly tries to explain how he can support Kshama Sawant while this Brahmin Trotskyite proclaims her goal as overthrow of the Democratic Party, packs public meetings in her own district with her supporters and listens while her drew yell and scream so others̵[...]
May 18th, 2015 - 9:38 am § in Environment, The Ave Scene
TRANSFORMER MONSTER OIL RIG ATTACKS SEATTLE!
The great Kayak Navy comes to our defense.[...]
May 8th, 2015 - 8:56 am § in The Ave Scene
Sam Adams brings Apple to beer .. the i-Can!
Here in Seattle we take beer very seriously. There are hundreds of microbrews, all trying to sell you beer that tastes different and better. No self respecting brew pub sells beer in a bottle, much less a can. In the midst of all this Boston’s Sam Adams is not a star. Most folks here r[...]
May 1st, 2015 - 11:41 am § in The Ave Scene
BREAKING NEWS: Bill Gates to work on making marijuana cheap for the poor!
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April 26th, 2015 - 7:01 pm § in The Ave Scene
Newspeak as Public TV Fades
One of KCTS laid off staff commented “If (management) can’t spin it ….create the impression of more public affairs coverage, who will give them money?” The formerly UW sponsored Seattle public TV station KCTS-9 is laying off a lot of its staff. (Report by Joel Connelly at T[...]
April 26th, 2015 - 1:16 am § in America, The Ave Scene
Building Africatown
Ms. Helen, Chicken and Waffles and Africatown, : Visions for the future Despite our friendship with Ave author (and former Garfield HS basketball star) Anthony Washington, the athletic heritage of Garfield seems doomed unless the school begins to emulate the UW and import black men who can jump . [...]