Email Author Kristy Ojala

2000 Stories by Kristy Ojala

• Pink ladies

  published October 4, 2000

  IT'S LITTLE WONDER that Sex and the City darling Sarah Jessica Parker, as sex columnist Carrie Bradshaw, is seen clutching a... More >>

• French fried

  published June 28, 2000

  AN URGENT MESSAGE to all those fanatically voyeuristic viewers of Survivor and MTV's The Real World: Stop watching that... More >>

• High Fidelity

  published March 29, 2000

  PEOPLE GO CRAZY when they turn 30. That rite of passage can inspire some remarkably inexplicable behavior, even in the sanest... More >>

• Style counsel

  published March 22, 2000

  I DON'T THINK PACKING is the worst thing about moving somewhere new. It's not even so bad trying to get friends to take the ratty card... More >>

• Throwback pop

  published March 22, 2000

  TIMELESS MUSIC ISN'T easy to come by these days. Austin's Silver Scooter is the sort of band that belongs back in the Huck Finn... More >>

• Soc/Anth with a beat

  published March 15, 2000

  LIKE MOST Budweiser-swilling youth living in California's unenviable Central Valley, the members of Grandaddy are products of a broken... More >>

• Marriage counseling

  published March 1, 2000

  AS CELEBRITY COUPLES go, Georgia Hubley and Ira Kaplan are no Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. They're not surrounded by speculation that... More >>

• Seal of Disapproval

  published March 1, 2000

  FAITH CONLON NOTICED her office was oddly silent one morning early last year. The publisher of Seattle's Seal Press, a small... More >>

• Hanging Up

  published February 16, 2000

  ONCE UPON A TIME, cell phone jokes elicited a snicker here and there. Ditto the clich鳠about Seattle and espresso stands every 100... More >>

• The Big Tease

  published February 9, 2000

  THE OLD SAYING is that a girl's not put together until she's got three essentials: A good set of undergarments, a polished pair of... More >>

• They like to score

  published January 26, 2000

  IN A SOCIETY obsessed with celebrities—what kind of toothbrushes they use, who they're sleeping with after dining at... More >>

• GREEDY GIRLS

  published January 5, 2000

  New sports stadiums, constant downtown development, a gorgeous opera house—a booming economy has been kind to Seattle. Exterior gloss... More >>