No amount of President Donald Trump's pre-dawn social media crowing about how his fierce military won the...

There are a few, myself included, who look on this boldly experimental and - one might say - maniacally mesmerizing score with enthusiasm and admiration.

Tech startups, gig deals, real estate adventurism, everything announced on “Instagram”! That’s the current age, and it is hard to see it winding down.

Since several days remain to speculate on their chances ahead of a largely meaningless match, now is a worthy time to consider just what fueled (besides breakfast beers) the human tsunami that delighted global soccer, and marked the apex moment in Seattle's sports-hosting history.

Both the music and the words reflect bittersweet thoughts around leaving one’s town of origin for a more expansive life, with friends and family left behind.

This incisive book may be a warning for tech-obsessed Seattle, where voters (unlike in Portland and San Francisco) chose leftward nostalgia in Mayor Katie Wilson after the disappointments of the please-everybody Mayor Bruce Harrell.