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The Upside of Downtown Seattle

The Upside of Downtown Seattle

Activity is up, crime is down, people are returning

More than 106,000 residents now call downtown Seattle home. Thirty-one construction projects are underway. More than 3.5 million out-of-town visitors spent time in the city’s core last summer, a post-pandemic high.

Poodles, Bears, Tattoos

Poodles, Bears, Tattoos

A most unusual gift guide

Back in December 1969, Seattle magazine’s “gift guide” was nothing short of goofy.

Raising Funds, Making Friends | Sponsored

Raising Funds, Making Friends | Sponsored

Friends' Pier Party builds excitement around a stunning makeover in the heart of Seattle

Joy Shigaki spent countless hours as a child exploring Seattle’s beautiful city parks. She is now a leader in the innovative and ambitious effort to completely revitalize and transform the city’s waterfront. Shigaki is president and CEO of Friends of Waterfront Seattle, the nonprofit group helping fund, program, and steward the new 20-acre Waterfront Park….

Higher Ed’s Big Test

Higher Ed’s Big Test

State’s Top Education Leaders Emphasize Transformation During A Time Of Great Upheaval

University of Washington President Ana Mari Cauce and her colleagues are still trying to digest recent Supreme Court rulings that shook the foundation of higher education. In a matter of days, the High Court banned the use of affirmative action during the college admissions process and struck down President Biden’s student-loan forgiveness plan. It represented…

Where Innovation Meets Education

Where Innovation Meets Education

Seattle Girls School empowers girls to change the world

An innovative experiment at a small school in Seattle’s Central District may hold the key to the future of education. The Seattle Girls School serves students that identify as female or gender nonconforming. Rather than abiding by a traditional grading system for every assignment, students at the private middle school get letter grades only at…

Letter to Seattle: Bank Statement

Letter to Seattle: Bank Statement

YWCA opens door to financial career

This is a letter from Tameka Siplin, a program graduate at YWCA Seattle | King | Snohomish, the region’s oldest and largest nonprofit organization focused on the needs of women; providing services and advocacy to support stable homes and economic advancement; reduce violence and improve health; and promote racial equity and social justice. Dear YWCA…

Back Page: History Repeats

Back Page: History Repeats

Seattle Police Chief cited "accessibility of guns" as the reason for record violence in 1968

Much as it is now, gun control and street violence were controversial topics back in 1968. Seattle magazine tackled the subject head on with a series of articles exploring violence across the city. One article notes that Seattle’s reputation as an “outpost of placidity in a country of growing turmoil” was a “delusion.” “Every category…

Pride in Place: Why Seattle Architecture Shines

Pride in Place: Why Seattle Architecture Shines

Seattle's Past Influences its Modern-Day and Future Architecture

George Suyama has had an outsized influence on much of what we know as modern-day Seattle, but he never planned on a career in architecture. Suyama, a Seattle native who has been practicing architecture in the region for more than six decades, founded his award-winning firm, George Suyama Architects (now Suyama Peterson Deguchi), in 1971….

Real Society: FareStart's Shining Stars

Real Society: FareStart’s Shining Stars

FareStart stands out for its comprehensive support for those in need.

Image caption: Clockwise from upper left: FareStart Production Kitchen Trainer Eric Klein; auctioneer Fred Northrup; volunteers, from left, Christina Woelz, Pam Powers and Amy Hall; volunteer Cynthia Tran, left, and unidentified attendee. Photography by Grant Hindsley. “Real Society” is a regular installment to create space for those who are quietly doing the good work to…

Letter to Seattle: Acts On Stage Opens Minds

Letter to Seattle: Acts On Stage Opens Minds

Acts on Stage challenges white Seattle

Image caption: Acts On Stage supporter Jess Bielman, left, with Leroy Barber, praises the nonprofit for opening his mind. Letter to Seattle highlights the good deeds and positive experiences in our region. This is a letter from Jess Bielman, a patron of Acts on Stage, a nonprofit, professional theater company in Seattle that emphasizes people…

Back Page: Seattle's Turbulent Times in 1966

Back Page: Seattle’s Turbulent Times in 1966

1966 school boycott called attention to segregation, inequality

As President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty raged across the country in 1966, Seattle was fighting its own battles. In 1966, civil rights groups organized a two-day boycott of Seattle Public Schools to protest racial segregation, according to The Seattle Civil Rights Labor History Project at the University of Washington. Students instead attended one of…

Seattle Artifacts: A Man of History, Walt Crowley, Influenced Seattle’s Future and Preserved Its Past

Seattle Artifacts: A Man of History, Walt Crowley, Influenced Seattle’s Future and Preserved Its Past

Crowley worked tirelessly to promote civil liberties for people of all backgrounds and wasn’t afraid to reach across the political aisle for solutions

Nestled slightly above the hustle and bustle of Pike Place Market sits the office headquarters for HistoryLink, which has provided Washington state history for online readers since 1998. It predates Wikipedia by more than three years. My first visit there happened after a chance lunch encounter with Marie McCaffrey, the site’s cofounder and executive director. …

Back Cover: Seattle's Burning Issues

Back Cover: Seattle’s Burning Issues

It took almost three years for the Washington state 
supreme court to overturn Floyd Turner’s conviction for desecrating the american flag

Seattle magazine was right in the thick of three years of legal wrangling that began in 1967. After a drifter named Floyd Turner was convicted of desecrating a small American flag, the ACLU won a new trial. Three months before that trial, according to David Wilma and Walt Crowley in Historylink.org, the magazine that September “published…

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