In Seattle, a Dream From the Past Has a Hazy Future
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Before the breakdowns it was a fantasy made real. But now the Seattle monorail mostly sits, waiting for repair, and affirmation.
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ATHENS -- They'd been here so many times before with gilded dreams -- in Mexico City, in Munich, in Montreal, in Los Angeles, in Seoul, in Barcelona, in Atlanta, and four years ago in Sydney. And every time, they had to listen to someone else's anthem.
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Looking for a brighter future, the San Francisco 49ers are banking on a connection to the past.
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felt like I was at the driving range. You know it&#39;s bad, but you just can&#39;t fix. One month ago, Seattle was unbeaten after a 34-0 win over San Francisco.
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By Fred Leeson, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Sep. 14--Through umpteen meetings over 13 years, the funky, 80-year-old  brick Linnton Community Center was ground zero for residents plotting a new  future for their Northwest neighborhood.
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In 1957, Franklin Raines, age 8, stepped out of the three-bedroom, single-story home in Seattle that his father built and walked down the street to Irving&#39;s Grocery Store for his first job.
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When Idriis Bilaal, 77, got a foreclosure notice about a year ago, all he could think about was how he could save the home where he had been born, a run-down red-brick rowhouse in Northeast Washington.
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This year&#39;s opening ceremony to the Olympic Games in Athens was impressive for the mixture of allusions to antiquity and modern innovation.
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By Janet I. Tu, Seattle Times  Feb. 19--OAK HARBOR -- For decades, a sign outside this light-filled, two-story house of worship proclaimed it "St.
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Because of population changes in the city since Sept. 11, 2001, a great many New Yorkers lack firsthand knowledge of the cityÂs critical modern moment.
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Looking like a futuristic satellite looming high above the city, Berlin's television tower once symbolised the soaring ambitions of the young East German state.
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A Times reporter remembers a time when, in the shadow of the Twin Towers, art, creativity and open space flourished.
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By Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Dec. 10--From the beginning, the idea of Black Rock Reservoir has been beleaguered by doubts.
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Years after graduation, there's still an annual longing for a clean slate.
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Not everyone is following the lead of the Seattle Art Museum and its evocation of Spain this month with its handsome exhibition "Spain in the Age of Exploration," but some are, including the Seattle Baroque ...
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Even in neighborhoods replete with completed reconstruction projects, words of appreciation are often clouded with lingering suspicions.
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By PEGGY ANDERSEN, Associated Press writer  SEATTLE  In the past quarter century, this Emerald City in the Evergreen State has lost nearly 1.7 million trees  roughly half the urban forest that shaded yards, parks and open spaces  to population growth, lax maintenance and view seekers.