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- Feed Preview The Seattle Times Ron Judd – The Seattle Times
Ron Judd, the writer who’s made us laugh (or seethe) for decades, reflects on his career as he leaves The Seattle Times
A goodbye piece is the most self-indulgent thing in the history of journalism (a high bar, indeed), and to be honest, I never saw myself doing this until later this decade, when I planned to slip...
Farewell! Thank you! Oh — and 1 last admittedly spiteful jab.
Thank you to the Blethen family and to the dedicated, talented folks I’ve been lucky to share page and screen space with for 33 years. They know who they are — editors, artists, photographers...
Say what? TV’s new descriptors aren’t actually all that descriptive.
Previous trite show summaries have been replaced by autoloading show clips and, in the case of Netflix, a series of one-word descriptors — ill-defined adjectives that left even the more discern...
The Backstory: Is TV’s warped version of reality shaping our culture, or is it just a reflection of it?
With television our all-too-convenient partner in escapism, and with the threat of future bouts of isolation, I was inspired to at least ask the question: Is all this a problem, and if so, to wha...
The decline of American civilization: There’s more bad TV...everywhere; and it’s making us fat, lazy, selfish and stupid
Ron Judd's thesis: American television has made the country what it is today — fat, lazy, uninterested, selfish, intellectually comatose and uninspired. And the relatively recent phenomenon of ...
Wing Luke Museum is a Seattle treasure, and an ‘educational platform for the whole city’
Author Jamie Ford researched his popular novel "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet" at Wing Luke Museum in Seattle's Chinatown International District. He also interviewed a grandfather who w...
Wing Luke Museum, a model of community and commitment, is poised for continued success after Beth Takekawa’s retirement
Beth Takekawa is retiring after 14 years as executive director at the Wing Luke Museum. She has worked at the iconic museum in Seattle's Chinatown International District for nearly 30 years, incl...
Washington is full of great getaways, and here’s the beauty part: Others have already found them for you
Ron Judd hopes this list of day trips you should take is a useful introduction to new folks, and perhaps a reminder to the old-schoolers. It probably qualifies as cream-skimming, squared, and wou...
Here are 10 soul-satisfying day trips you can take around Washington
Regional trips for outdoor getaways seem safer than we could’ve hoped even a few months ago. We’re here to help with some lifetime punch-list suggestions — a bucket list, of sorts, for a NW...
Pinball, muscle cars and playing guitar. We’re looking for pre-pandemic hobbies to make us feel better.
Nostalgia gives, nostalgia takes. Kept between the painted lines, it’s a road map to another time, place and reality that something inside of us wants. Dabbling, enjoying and moving on is permi...
The pandemic year seems to have supercharged local nostalgia habits and launched countless new ones
We decided to scrape beneath the rust of nostalgia, exploring the psychological switches operated in good and bad ways by engaging in nostalgia, and cataloging some of the ways it’s been manife...
On the road to Our New Normal, let’s clear away some of that tired old debris we tossed out a year ago
A lighthearted look at things we’ve given up in the past year that we really ought not to revive, for reasons that should be obvious, but often are overwhelmed by inertia, and by our understand...
From commuting to Costco samples: Ron Judd’s list of 20 things we DON’T need back after the pandemic
The pandemic has us wondering if some of the things that have been done away with really ought to remain gone. Let’s call this the Good Riddance stuff — social, business and institutional hab...
What nostalgic pastimes have you been indulging in during the pandemic? Tell us here.
How have you developed or reinvented your own nostalgic habits over the past year? Share your thoughts with us here.
Ron Judd’s essential tips for your next family campout
We revisit an excerpt from Ron Judd's 2005 book, "The Roof Rack Chronicles," for a "guide" to camping that covers the essentials in a way only Ron Judd can. And camping gets a lot more complicate...
Seattle’s pigeons are anything but average Joes — yet they still could use a little good press
Seattle Times photojournalist Alan Berner had been following pigeons around and, as any fan of Pacific NW magazine knows, he has a keen eye and a grand imagination. He specializes in turning the ...
We humans have dumped on the poor pigeon for too long; it’s high time to admire this fascinating, fast, quirky bird
We pick on pigeons, but we shouldn't. The unfairly treated, fast-flying birds are beneficial to other birds and, sometimes, to us. And they're here to stay. Pigeons have become accustomed to livi...
Whether you’re enjoying a hike or a historic event, take in the experience with your senses, not your phone
Even back in 2009, Ron Judd was concerned that we were recording too much with our cellphones, and not our senses. Maybe, he says, we could just be in the moment and place, and absorb things the ...
The people, and the process, behind the locally produced podcast ‘The Bittersweet Life’
Podcasting always has been a comparatively “democratic” medium, and the tech-wise Northwest, of course, always has been part of this wave. This week, we explore the locally produced podcast "...
KUOW’s Katy Sewall produces ‘The Bittersweet Life’ podcast to explore life, lessons — and listening
Katie Sewall, a longtime host and producer at Seattle's public-radio station KUOW, produces the podcast "The Bittersweet Life" with her best friend ... who lives in Italy.