Scott was known for tight playing and bravura musicianship. (Some of his sets would run continuously for two to three hours.) Even after he lost his left foot and right leg to diabetes in 1987, he continued to perform from a wheelchair. Last year he performed at the EMP grand opening, and received a lifetime achievement award from the Washington Blues Society. He died November 16 of complications from an infection in his remaining leg.
City People's Mercantile is closing down its Capitol Hill flagship store with an after-Thanksgiving liquidation sale. The store was founded in 1979, and since 1984 has been located on 15th Avenue East, where it's been one of that street's main retail anchors. The store's four co-owners had already been planning to downsize their operations when they got an offer from a Bellevue developer for the Capitol Hill property. (The building won't be razed right away, due to the soft condo market.) City People's will continue to run its Madison Park and Sand Point stores; it closed its Fremont outlet earlier in the year.
Beloved Seattle Weekly publisher Alisa Cromer, head of the chain paper since Village Voice Media (VVM) brought her to Seattle in August 2000, suddenly left the Weekly on November 26. "After meeting with [VVM President] David [Schneiderman] this morning," Cromer wrote in a farewell e-mail to the Seattle Weekly staff, "we realized that we have reached an insurmountable disagreement about strategy for running the company."
In her brief stint as publisher (Cromer replaced longtime Weekly staple Mike Crystal, who resigned in January 2000), Cromer oversaw a redesign that the Weekly unveiled at its 25th-anniversary party this past May. Before coming to Seattle, Cromer had been the publisher of the Orlando Weekly, a non-VVM paper in Florida.
