Posts tagged as Seattle
America's Tent Cities
"All over the country, in the last few years, police have moved in on the tent cities of the homeless, one by one, from Seattle to Wooster, Sacramento to Providence, in raids that often leave the former occupants without even their minimal possessions. In Chattanooga, Tennessee, last summer, a charity outreach worker explained the forcible dispersion of a local tent city by saying, 'The city will not tolerate a tent city. That’s been made very clear to us. The camps have to be out of sight.'" READ MORE
"The Bravest Woman in Seattle" Speaks
"For the past two years, I have been known as 'the surviving victim of the South Park rapes and murder.'" READ MORE
Seattle Enthralled By Fancy Soda Machine
What to even say? There's more on this vitally important story here, but I am mostly surprised that they call it "pop" out in the Emerald City. I thought that was just a midwestern thing. Anyway... what a world. [Via]
Seattle, Childless Paradise
If you hate children, you might want to think about moving to Seattle.
You Can Pick Your President: Obama Takes Seattle
The guy from the White House advance team steps out of one of those crossover SUV things and at first I think he's the sort of awful D.C. jerkface who had to get his dad to call in a favor to stop him from getting fired from his summer internship for looking at porn during business hours, but once he leads us inside the gym (which is where the rally will be the next day) and I get a good look at him, I realize how wrong I was. This man is dreamy. He looks like he used to smoke pot very neatly out of a one-hitter and was a camp counselor at a camp where all the girls had hopeless crushes on him, and nowadays to relax he likes to go into his rustic-chic kitchen and cook a wide-noodled pasta dish with some sort of hearty ragu and open up a nice bottle of red wine for someone who loves him very much. I don't remember his name, but the volunteer who I hang out with the next day, Z, tells me his name is Brandon. "All the girls remembered," she said. "I looked him up when I got home. He is all over the internet." READ MORE
Starbucks Will Make America A Great Wine Country
Close to home, in and around Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, is where Starbucks conducts its experiments. It's the home not only of their public test lab, "Olive Way," there's also the matter of those liquor licenses filed in the last year, and of the "Starbucks-inspired" 15th Avenue Coffee and Tea locations. Most media coverage still seems more concerned with the fancy new coffee machines and the slimmer-profile barista counters than the white elephant in the room: now Starbucks sells booze. READ MORE
Emerald City Panhandlers Support Local Girl Scouts
Never have I seen the ethos of an entire city so perfectly encapsulated by a 50-second segment of local news. Oh, Seattle. Don't ever change.
Seattle Meteorologists Cope With Bizarre "Heat" Phenomenon
"I think there is something about the weather that reflects our natural awe of a natural world that is greater than us. People really enjoy a big storm. I think that all over the country, people are into weather. It's the number-one reason people watch the nightly news," says some guy in Seattle. We spent most of June bitching about the rain here in New York and making the obvious comparisons to the Emerald City, so I suppose it's only fair to note that it's very hot there right now! The temperature may exceed 100 degrees, which would be a record. Good luck!
Horrifying Seattle PI Web Launch Party Astounds
This account of the launch party for SeattlePI.com, which is the website that used to be a newspaper in Seattle, is so horrifying. For just one thing, it's disturbing to find out that the editor of their site's most popular blog ("by a factor of 10") has a day job! What the fuck! They can't pay him a living wage? (Secondarily, his day job is installing software for a military contractor. Which means he works for Skynet.) Anyway, everything else about this party is so much worse!
