Style 101

A Brief(ish) History of Filson

We dive into the Gold Rush roots of the 118-year-old local workwear brand.

02/25/2015 By Amanda Zurita

PubliCalendar

PubliCalendar: Documentary Double Feature

Today's picks for civic nerds

11/20/2014 By Darren Davis

PubliCalendar

PubliCalendar: Boats from the Past, Bikes for the Future

Today's picks for civic nerds

07/08/2014 By Ezra Parter

Quote Unquote

Meet the Men Who Discovered HMS Chatham’s Anchor

A commercial diver and an amateur historian may have just discovered an anchor lost during the Vancouver Expedition of the 1790s.

05/01/2014 By Matthew Halverson

What Lies Beneath

What Stopped the World’s Largest Tunnel-Boring Machine Just 1,000 Feet Into Its Journey?

And how does a city growing as fast as Seattle avoid erasing its past?

05/01/2014 By James Ross Gardner

History

25 Objects That Changed Seattle

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

12/01/2013 By Bess Lovejoy

Editor's Note

Object Lesson

The objects that tell the story of Seattle’s past reveal clues for the present.

12/01/2013 By Katherine Koberg

Seattle Style History

MOHAI Celebrates John Doyle Bishop

In the month of what would be his 100th birthday, MOHAI presents a special lecture on Seattle style icon and tastemaker John Doyle Bishop.

02/18/2013 By Amanda Zurita

Post

The Arctic Club’s Most Famous Tenant

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

10/08/2012 By Bess Lovejoy

Post

The Inscape Building’s Dark History

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

09/19/2012 By Bess Lovejoy

Feature

Exquisite Corpses

E. R. Butterworth’s full-service mortuary revolutionized the funeral business. When tuberculosis and diphtheria ravaged the city, that business was good. When one of America’s first female serial killers struck, business got complicated.

03/23/2012 By James Ross Gardner

Seattle History

The Surviving Son of a Rum Smuggler’s Right-Hand Man Shares Stories from Prohibition-Era Seattle

The forthcoming Ken Burns film Prohibition stars a Kirklander whose father helped pay off the entire city.

09/28/2011 By Jessica Voelker

Drink on Film

Seattle’s "Good Bootlegger" Featured in Prohibition.

Filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick became fascinated with a local outlaw.

08/03/2011

Opinion

Seattle Reinvents Itself, Again and Again

06/28/2011 By Stephanie Pure

"Sin City"

A Red Light History of Seattle

Prostitution runs as deep as rain through Seattle’s history. This is the chronicle of a city built on sin.

01/29/2010

Past Lives

Home, Sweet Haunt

The bloodcurdling past and spirited present of a grand old Georgetown Victorian.

12/18/2008 By Nena Peltin