For the Seattle trans film festival, it is about representing members of the community as mainstream media falls short of doing so, he said. “It’s really important for us to get to see ourselves, but not only that, create films that show ourselves, tell ou...
Even if you catch pancreatic cancer early, at stage 1, it requires a very complicated surgery — one of the hardest operations known to surgeons, called the Whipple procedure. But even then, the 10-year survival rate is less than 10 percent. Two-thirds or more of patients end up developin...
The platform is geared toward builders of affordable and middle-income housing, Fairchild said. Of course, affordability is a relative. Green Canopy is working to bring down the costs of sustainably-built homes, which are pricey. A Green Canopy home in Seattle’s trendy Capitol Hill neighborhood...
Most Seattle rain is collected by gutters around your rooftop and flowing from your driveway and patio into the street. All of this runoff is diverted into the storm drain system that ultimately empties into the nearest body of water—namely Lake Washington or Puget Sound. Along the way, it...
ST Express 550, connecting Bellevue to Seattle, is the highest ridership bus in the Sound Transit Express system. In the last two years, it has shed more than one third of its ridership. Issaquah-Seattle route ST 554, also operating on I-90, has seen ridership decline 14% over the same...
Witnessing police violence last summer was one reason that led Capitol Hill Pride Fest to ban Seattle Police from its events. The announcement also called on Seattle Police to terminate six officers who traveled to the Capitol during the January 6 insurrection....
Imagine climbing Seattle's Space Needle, from top to bottom, deep into the underground—and then you'll have a sense of what it's like to descend through Georgia's Fantastic Pit, a 586-foot unobstructed drop within Ellison's Cave (which, in total, goes down 1,063 feet). Located under...
--my role as a socalled environmental leader (ERO quickly became the central info vehicle for the movement and remained so till autumn '70) was to try to force the sleazy corporate publishing world to start being transparent about their various immensely negative eco impacts. Today it is even...
Well, in 1991 you got one in the most spectacular of ways. Music fans were treated to what is likely the most impressive six-month run of album releases in music history. There was something for just about everyone (as we’ll demonstrate), but it was a particularly great time to be a...
This bending of light rays causes the sun to appear above the horizon when the actual position of the sun is below the horizon. The day is a bit longer at higher latitudes than at the equator because it takes the sun longer to rise and set the closer you get to the poles. Related ar...