Seattle Opera's 'Don Quichotte' serves Massenet well John Relyea as Don Quixote by Roger Downey / February 27, 2011
Equity Amtrak Cascades: Is it robbing social services here? The costs and benefits of Amtrak Cascades deserve closer attention from Washington state. by Douglas MacDonald / February 2, 2011
Equity Best of 2010: Metro's high wage scale factors into its bus-service equation Top-scale wages here beat even New York's and San Francisco's. Comparisons like that should generate some buzz at a meeting tonight (June 3) of of Metro's stakeholder task force. by Douglas MacDonald / December 26, 2010
Politics The co-lead debate: a red herring Seattle's downtown waterfront, with angled piers and a long-blighting Viaduct. by Douglas MacDonald / October 7, 2010
Politics Metro Transit giveth and it taketh away, all in one weekend Bus rapid transit benefits greatly from measures to allow reliable service and speeds. by Douglas MacDonald / September 30, 2010
Culture A meandering bicyclist weighs in on the 'road diet' debate Patching on a Seattle street. by Douglas MacDonald / August 30, 2010
Culture The ultimate Cascades hike, along the ghost railroad A hiker in one of the big abandoned snowsheds of the Iron Goat trail by Douglas MacDonald / August 18, 2010
Culture For fans of dining Ethan Stowell style, a kind of re-Union Stowell and his pasta snips by Roger Downey / August 10, 2010
We never treated right the Sam Francis painting that got away The Sam Francis painting dominated its lobby setting before it was removed in June. by Roger Downey / July 25, 2010