It’s impossible to beat an authentic dive bar. Like, the actual real thing—which can be something of a challenge to find in Seattle. We’re talking the Waterwheel Lounge, Leny’s Place, Loretta’s Northwesterner and a number of other spots in a
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Traffic safety is public safety
A child was hit by a car in front of a school in my neighborhood yesterday morning. Full details aren’t known, but it was serious enough that emergency services were called and the Seattle Fire Department responded.
It’s a cool…
Not everyone can drive
Another person was hit and killed by a car in Seattle this week. An 80-year-old woman was struck in a crosswalk by a black van that never stopped.
Someone’s mom, probably someone’s grandma—her existence, ended. There are so many…
If we want to revive downtown Seattle, we should make it a place people wanna be
Capitol Hill is the city.
I have one friend who would get this reference, but it’s not just a reference to an enjoyable night out where I repeated that phrase ad nauseam—it’s an idea.
If you’re going out in Seattle,…
Seattle PD kills again—with help
The Seattle Police Department killed Jaahnavi Kandula at the intersection of so many of this city’s problem’s.
The daughter of a single mother and elementary school teacher who’d gone into debt to support her, Kandula traveled to the other side…
You gotta see this example of great transit infrastructure in this golf tourism show
Quick hitter, here. And it sounds ridiculous, but urbanism porn will sneak up on you when you least expect. Like on a golf web series.
I’ve written before about No Laying Up, a golf-centric digital media empire, which has only…
Americans didn’t like Martin Luther King, Jr. then—they still don’t like many of his ideas now
Today is a weird day. It is a much-warranted holiday, honoring one of this country’s most iconic figures. But that honoring is the weird part, especially coming from the types of people doing it. It’s hard not to feel a…
Ode to Seattle’s unreal pinball scene
I say this with complete self-awareness for how dorky I sound—you don’t know how good we Seattleites have it when it comes to pinball. Yeah—pinball.
Seattle is a world-class city when it comes to both locations and competitions. That’s right,…
Two years after George Floyd, police killings reach record high
There are a number of things in this world that, when you look once you pull up to about 30,000 feet, are beyond absurd. Donald Trump as President. Elon as Twitter’s CEO. Crypto art and the plight of Sam Bankrun-Fraud.…
People would ride bikes a lot more if they weren’t worried about being killed by a car
How much more would you ride a bike if there were a 0.0 percent chance you would be killed or maimed by a car while doing so? If you never ever had to share the roadway with vehicles flying by…