Month: October 2008
Portraits of the Writers-in-Residence
Typing Rules
It took awhile for Angela Jane Fountas to realize that what she needed to do was toss out the rules for writing. “Show, don’t tell — what’s that?” she asks me one day over tea. Good writing, she goes on, comes from a writer’s...
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Working at the Car Wash
Photo essay by Thomas Hyde
Before the Space Needle there was the Pink Elephant.
In 1951, when timber and fish ruled the Puget Sound economy, the Elephant Car Wash opened on Fourth Avenue. It was Seattle’s first “automatic” car wash. A second...
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Walkabout: Madrona
Madrona
Text and photos by Virginia Bunker
Just a short drive from bustling Martin Luther King Jr. Way via Union Street, Madrona’s shopping and dining district feels like a “secret” spot, albeit one that’s hiding in plain sight. Resident...
