Seattle doesn’t often get snow; once, maybe twice a year, a couple inches at a time. Because the snow is so rare it turns the city into a temporarily magical wonderland of glittering white, the air unusually quiet as the snow absorbs any ambient sounds, the familiar streets and buildings…
Posts published in February 2019
Today Seattle schools are seeing the second weather-related closure this year. Some may question the reasoning behind today’s closures, but there are several factors that come into play when determining the safety of keeping schools open during inclement weather conditions. Even when the snow stops falling, there can still be dangers…
2017 saw the lowest number of live births in the United States in thirty years. Rates have been steadily declining for the past few years and 2018 birth rates are expected to be even lower. At this point, the US is inching further away from a viable replacement rate for…
On Monday morning, we all woke up to the beautiful, treacherous, deceptively festive sight of several inches of snow-covered ice on the ground. With it came a reprieve from classes, work, traffic jams and general commuting responsibilities, at least for most of us. For those of you who didn’t get…
The new SR99 tunnel opened this morning after this weekend’s concurrent grand opening and farewell events. The tunnel to viaduct walk, run and ride introduced Seattleites to the new tunnel while allowing them to say goodbye to viaduct one last time. Governor Inslee was on hand for a ribbon-cutting ceremony.…
Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty 4.5 STARS OUT OF 5 (Want to know what our star ratings mean? Check out our review formatting here) The original The Sleeping Beauty by Marius Petipa is regarded as the highest achievement of 19th-century ballet, premiering in St. Petersburg at the Maryinsky Theatre in…
On January 25th, campus security responded to a call from the front desk of the MAC building about a man outside on the steps who was verbally harassing women. In a freak coincidence of timing, another man believed to have multiple reports of public exposure and masturbation had walked out…
