The UW Tower, nee Safeco Tower, cuts the most appalling figure in the entire Seattle skyline, and the two plazas at its base complement the architecture: cold, indifferent, inhumanely scaled. The...
Crosscut reached out to literary junkies at Elliott Bay Book Co., Richard Hugo House, and Powell's Books to compile a list of the best local books of 2011 for all the readers on your holiday shopping...