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Pronto’s Impressive Numbers, ‘Ramps to Nowhere’ Demo & More
The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today
By Lauren Mang November 17, 2014
Good morning, fellow Seattleites. Thanksgiving is in one week. Do you know where your turkey is coming from?
Those pesky “ramps to nowhere” in the Arboretum, leftover after voters rejected the R.H. Thomson Expressway in 1972, are finally being demolished. But nearby residents weren’t so happy with the teardown timing. King 5 reports crews worked through the night to make sure that the demo didn’t disrupt traffic, though it did disrupt several people’s sleep.
After a crushing loss to the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, Seahawks’ running back Marshawn Lynch chatted with the NFL Network on his future with the team. His response wasn’t necessarily what fans wanted to hear.
Looking for a new place to live in Seattle? The Puget Sound Business Journal lists some of the most expensive (ahem, Eastside) and the most affordable areas in Seattle in which to buy a home.
Fireweed Farms in Prosser, Wash., hosted the state’s first marijuana auction this weekend and it brought in a whopping $600,000.
Have you tooled around town on a Pronto bike yet? Our first-ever bike share program has been alive for just one month and already, the Seattle Bike Blog reports, it’s reached record numbers: “1,760 annual members, 1,856 24-hour pass holders and 156 three-day pass holders used the system to make 10,747 trips and travel 22,663 miles on the bike share system.”
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Finding Place in Pictures
Artist Sky Hopinka’s first solo museum exhibit in the northwest showcases his creative approach to language and identity
“I had cassette tapes and workbooks, but it was hard because I was living in Washington, and my tribal language has roots in Wisconsin,” Sky Hopinka says. Learning alone, he could listen to prerecorded Hocak phrases and practice writing letters and words, but an essential component was missing — another person to speak with. Photo
Feeding Ghosts to Free Them
Artist Tessa Hulls creates a revealing graphic novel to help her deal with childhood trauma
Seattle artist Tessa Hulls’ new graphic novel Feeding Ghosts is a deeply stirring narrative of loss, mental illness, and intergenerational trauma. She says that she wrote it to answer this question: What broke my family? Much of the book is about repetition, and how three generations of women in Hulls’ family were emotionally crippled by
