David Brewster

The odds against these warm places out of the rain are now very long. A city that can't keep places safe from hostile intruders. Super-heated real estate prices. Staffing shortages.

Politically, Seattle is deeply divided these days, which makes nothing certain or easy to predict, except the prospect of further political warfare.

"The new program is one more indication of how arts groups locally are busy reinventing themselves post-pandemic."

The Emerson exemplified the edgy, American/Juilliard/Manhattan style of playing classical music.

Making some of Seattle arts free, thus improving access for young people and those of limited income, would be a worthy imported idea to both help the arts (struggling post-pandemic) and to broaden audiences. And to help with the downtown revival.

We're stuck. It's more like the revenge of the normal than the rescue by the normies.

"The intriguing prospect is a reassembling of what council member Andrew Lewis calls 'the pre-head-tax, pro-growth coalition,' basically the Establishment Left and the Business Democrats as a working majority."

I wish I felt more confidence in the fragile governing structures of these unwieldy beasts.

It's an important evocation of Filipino life in Seattle, a city matched by Stockton, California as the twin centers of Filipino-American life.

Early Music Seattle, a mainstay of Seattle's classical music for 45 years, is now embarking on some significant changes and multicultural broadening.