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Seattle Today
Ever since the pioneering Denny party felled the trees for their first log
cabin on Alki Beach in 1851, Seattle has rarely stood still. Yet, even by its
own roller-coaster standards, the recent pace of change has been astro-
nomical. Currently stirring up local debate is a massive public-transporta-
tion project, the burying of a 60-year-old freeway, landmark new laws on
cannabis and same-sex marriage, and a whole dynamic new neighborhood
being hatched on the southern shores of Lake Union.
Best on Film
Sle
Sleeple
tle(1993) Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks are irresistibly adorable in
this riff onAn Affair to Remember.
Sin
pless in Se
s in Seatttle
Single
gles(1992) Attractive slackers deal with apartment life and love.
Twin P
ith Me(1992) David Lynch rolls his warped eye toward the
dark underbelly of the Northwest.
HHypee!(1996) An excellent time capsule of the grunge years.
in Peaaks: F
: Fiire W
e Walk w
alk with Me
Best in Print
Anotther R
ide Attttrracttiion(Tom Robbins; 1971) Robbins' wacky word carnival
imagines Jesus alongside a flea circus at a pit stop.
Waaxwiings(Jonathan Raban; 2003) Travel writer Raban illuminates Seattle's re-
cent high-tech boom in a novel that tells the parallel stories of two immigrants.
TThe T
r Roaddside A
irls(Rebecca Brown; 1992) Experimental collection of short stories
about lesbian relationships.
HHeaviier th
e Terrrrible G
ible Girls
r than He
n Heaven(Charles R Cross; 2001) Moving portrait of Nirvana's Kurt
Cobain.
The City that Never Stands Still
If you last visited Seattle in 2010, you could be in for a surprise or three. A number of
visible changes have marked the city that never stands still in the last few years, and a
couple more are well into the developmental stage. Walkers along the waterfront in the
