The official seal of Seattle consists of a portrait of Chief Seattle under which appears the date 1869, the year of the city's incorporation. It is surrounded by two circles. The words CORPORATE SEAL OF THE are at the top within the outer circle, and the words CITY OF SEATTLE are at the top within the inner circle. At the bottom, within the outer circle, are two conifer cones with a dolphin on each end.
Designed by James A. Wehn and cast by Richard Fuller, it was adopted in 1937.
Seattle is often thought of as the home of grunge rock and musicians like Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, who reached vast audiences in the early 1990s.
Seattle was also the hometown of Jimi Hendrix, while Ann and Nancy Wilson of the band Heart, often attributed to Seattle, were actually from the neighboring suburb of Bellevue.
Seattle's leading newspapers are the daily Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer; they share their advertising and business departments under a Joint Operating Agreement, which (as of 2004) the Times is seeking to terminate or renegotiate.
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