Harold C. Schonberg of The New York Times noticed something strange happening in Seattle in 1970. While New York's Metropolitan...

Kent Stowell stood in Frankfurt airport in 1977 with wife Francia Russell and three young sons, boarding flight to Seattle...

The lion dance begins precisely as it should: drums thundering, cymbals crashing, the massive gold-and-red creature leaping and prowling through...

The theory was simple enough to test. Phil Williams explained it to National Folk Festival Association representative Leo Bernash walking...

Festival '71 wasn't supposed to work. A $25,000 budget, three days, minimal publicity beyond cardboard posters screened in yellow and...

The Northwest African American Museum opened March 8, 2008 with estimated 3,000 visitors swarming surrounding neighborhood—cars jamming streets, hundreds converging...

The Wing Luke Museum doesn't have a café. This absence speaks volumes. While most museums install restaurants to capture visitor...

The Seattle International Film Festival opened May 14, 1976 with 18 films over 18 days at the Moore Egyptian Theatre—2nd...

Seattle earned UNESCO City of Literature designation in 2017—second U.S. city after Iowa City—based on quality, quantity and diversity of...

The Seattle Central Library looks wrong from every angle. Eleven floors of glass and steel wrapped in diamond-grid exoskeleton lean...

In June 1971, Dale Chihuly stood on a tree farm fifty miles north of Seattle with $2,000 in grant money,...

On June 6, 1889, an untended glue pot in a cabinet shop near the corner of First Avenue and Madison...

In 1981, a group of visionary Pioneer Square art dealers printed the first walking maps, painted footprints on sidewalks outside...

Horace Chapin Henry survived a Confederate bullet at Gettysburg, nearly died from tuberculosis in his twenties, built two railroads across...

The Seattle Symphony performed its first concert in Benaroya Hall on September 12, 1998, with Gerard Schwarz conducting Mozart's final...

The paintings hanging in Charles Frye's meatpacking plant offices survived one of Seattle's most devastating industrial disasters. On February 18,...

On a November weekend in 1974, roughly 800 people descended on Ellensburg, a small college town in central Washington, for...

The eight-story tower at 720 Blanchard Avenue in Seattle's Denny Regrade neighborhood houses an unusual juxtaposition. On the upper floors,...

The semi-truck from Skagit County arrives at Food Lifeline's Hunger Solution Center carrying 40,000 pounds of potatoes—misshapen, slightly too small,...

The summer between high school and whatever comes next holds vastly different meanings depending on family wealth and social capital....