university district
October 9, 2024
Game day greeter
John Clinton Cohn, who ran John’s Parking for many years, cheered with Husky fans as they passed the lot on game days—a tradition he upheld through his 94th year.
September 10, 2024
Husky classics rock
As several long-standing businesses continue to prove, the more the U District changes, the more it stays the same.
May 29, 2024
Ice cream dream
Lois Ko of Sweet Alchemy takes on art in all forms: prints, pottery, watercolor... and ice cream.
December 18, 2023
Treasure on the Ave
The "granddaddy" of Seattle farmers markets celebrates 30 years of bringing farm-fresh goods to the University District.
November 9, 2023
A requiem for Burgermaster
A hotspot for UW rowers and other community members, Burgermaster's flagship location has an uncertain future.
September 11, 2021
The you district
When the University of Washington community makes its jubilant return, we are returning to a U District that has been forever changed.
March 1, 2019
New life for historic hotel
Tidbits of local history are scattered throughout the guest rooms of the Graduate hotel, formerly Hotel Deca.
September 1, 2016
Nourish
In a world gone mad with terrorist attacks, mass shootings, racial profiling, police assassinations and baffling presidential election rhetoric, thank goodness there’s an oasis of sanity in the University District that will renew your faith in humankind. At least it does for me.
September 1, 2015
A new U-District
This is not a fuddy-duddy column about how great the old days were in the U District. It’s just that with every passing week, the area becomes a bit more unrecognizable.
September 1, 2005
The last waltz
From parties to salsa competitions to Experimental College dance classes, UW students and alumni alike have been enjoying the Wilsonian Ballroom since the 1920s. That may come to an end, however, as developers plan to demolish the 82-year-old space.
March 1, 2000
Busy road ahead
The region is going to be hit with three of the messiest, biggest-impact projects ever—and all at about the same time.
December 1, 1995
There’s another chapter to write about ‘the Ave.’
Alumni have known the Ave. in the best and worst of times. But there is still one more chapter to write.
Hard times on the Ave
Set up by Seattle's pioneers as the city's second main street before the turn of the century, University Way NE today sadly bears little resemblance to its old self.