Discover the Northwest’s Norwegian skiing paradise in a personal, photograph-packed history

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Opinion

The devastation of isolation

By Hanna Brooks Olsen | January 5, 2022

The other day, I was walking — bounding, really — to buy bagels. A vegan Jewish deli just opened not far from my place. With visions of rugelach dancing in my head, I was in my own world.

And then I saw an older gentleman in a doorway, sitting in a wheelchair. He wasn’t asking for anything or talking to anyone. I gave him a smile and a nod. He smiled back, a huge smile. ...

I only know math calculus

By Dr. Wes Browning | January 5, 2022

The long saga that is my lack of an adequate computerized text inputting device is ongoing. I predict that with the help of courageous villagers, the monster will be slain by next week. ...

Feature

This is my home: Seattle and the new realities of residencies

By Ashley Archibald | January 5, 2022

A small confab gathered outside a trailer parked on a road adjacent to Green Lake Park on a cloudy Sunday. A red sign in the window read, “No trespassing, we’re tired of hiding the bodies.”

It was at odds with the overall demeanor of Beau LaBreche, the owner and resident who stood in front of the door, talking about the many things he’d learned watching the news on YouTube. ...

ACT Theatre’s new managing director Anita Shah on revolution and joining “a beautiful exploration of what it means to be theater makers”

By Ashley Archibald | January 5, 2022

Anita Shah begins her new role as managing director at ACT Theatre this month, and she has a lot of work to do. The theatre put on its annual production of “A Christmas Carol,” but its true relaunch begins with a truncated season, taking on plays that were in the works before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. ...

Seattle

#MMIWG | New year, new mayor

By Ashley Archibald | January 5, 2022

#MMIWG

Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Rep. Debra Lekanoff (D-Anacortes) will propose a new bill to create an alert system to identify missing Indigenous women and people of other genders, the attorney general announced on Jan. 3.

The system is similar to that of a “silver alert” for missing, vulnerable adults or an “amber alert” for missing children. Alerts would be broadcast on highway message signs and radio messages. If enacted, it would be the first such system in the country, according to the Attorney General’s Office. ...

Snow in Seattle makes for a bright new year

By Ashley Archibald | January 5, 2022

Seattle was blanketed with snow for more than a week starting Christmas night and accumulating over subsequent days. The temperature stayed below freezing, eventually hitting 36 degrees Jan. 2, the warmest since Christmas. ...

Book review

Discover the Northwest’s Norwegian skiing paradise in a personal, photograph-packed history

By Dave Gamrath | January 5, 2022

The Pacific Northwest has a rich history of skiing and mountaineering. Ski enthusiast and historian Lowell Skoog provides an extensive review of this history in his new book, “Written in the Snows: Across Time on Skis in the Pacific Northwest.” ...

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