Lingua Franca

Seattle’s Historic Chinook Jargon Is Having a Moment

The Pacific Northwest’s very own trade language never went away.

04/21/2025 By Bess Lovejoy

History

The Story of Lake Washington's Floating Bridges

How one engineer’s bizarre idea made the Eastside.

11/05/2024 By Bess Lovejoy

Ghosted

And the story behind the spirit who lurks there.

10/17/2024 By Bess Lovejoy

Asked/Answered

And why are we the only region with this particular school dance tradition?

09/16/2024 By Bess Lovejoy

First Person, Last Word

The five years I’ve lived with chronic illness have worked as a strange preparation for a pandemic.

08/04/2020 By Bess Lovejoy

Feature

From D. B. Cooper to Ted Bundy to the Wah Mee Massacre, the crimes (and criminals) that impacted the city the most.

10/01/2014 By Bess Lovejoy

History

From fossils to software, artifacts tell the story of the Emerald City.

12/01/2013 By Bess Lovejoy

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Game-changing Seattleites thrust the city into its next phase—in politics, the arts, technology, food, sports, and more.

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The downtown Seattle hotel is where men dreamed big—and where dreams died.

10/08/2012 By Bess Lovejoy

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Seattle’s Inscape arts center once held Chinese and Japanese prisoners.

09/19/2012 By Bess Lovejoy