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2010 Stories by Mark D. Fefer

• Crunch Time for the NFL

  published December 1, 2010

  Next week, experts in the fields of brain injury and football-helmet technology will be huddling in New York City. Their goal: to determine if... More >>

• Stage Preview: Mother Knows Best

  published November 17, 2010

  Of course Richard Hugo House asked former Seattleite and ascendant TV star Lauren Weedman to dig into her... More >>

• Voter-Guide-Overload Solution: Another Voter Guide

  published October 27, 2010

  If, while filling out your ballot this week, you go looking in your state Voters' Guide for info about local races, you will look in vain. This... More >>

• Around the Horn at Earshot Jazz

  published October 13, 2010

  Though the Earshot Jazz Festival is entering its third decade, longtime organizer John Gilbreath admits it's "still a bit of a... More >>

• Volterra Drawing Room

  published October 6, 2010

  3 p.m., 4 p.m. / Dennis, Devin Duval Quartet Seattle Music Partners, the nonprofit beneficiary of this year's REVERB... More >>

• On the Advice of the FBI, Cartoonist Molly Norris Disappears From View

  published September 15, 2010

  You may have noticed that Molly Norris' comic is not in the paper this week. That's because there is no more Molly. The gifted artist... More >>

• Jonathan Evison: The Power of the Socially Networked Writer

  published September 15, 2010

  With a wife and toddler at home on Bainbridge Island, Jonathan Evison knows how to seize precious opportunities to write. When... More >>

• Does Not Compete

  published September 8, 2010

  Microsoft is getting ready to take on the iPhone and the Android with its new smart-phone platform. The company sent the new system software to... More >>

• Who's the Bigger Tool, Rumbaugh or Johnson?

  published August 11, 2010

  The battle for the Washington Supreme Court seat held by Jim Johnson is rallying LGBT interests. Johnson famously wrote an opinion upholding... More >>

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  Best of Seattle 2010 Profiles

  published August 4, 2010

  Seattle’s long been a place where people not only do well, they do good. And with times being what they are, the good works are more... More >>

• Meet the Ladies Who'll Decide if We Can Drink All Night

  published July 21, 2010

  As you've no doubt heard by now, Mayor McGinn's nightlife initiative, unveiled last week, proposes to do away with a mandated last call,... More >>

• Pot's Lost Names

  published July 14, 2010

  At press time, the Secretary of State's office had certified just one initiative for the November ballot—I-1100, which seeks to privatize... More >>

• Pot: The Gateway Petition

  published June 30, 2010

  [NOTE: The organizers announced on Thursday that they don't have enough signatures.] In public comments earlier this month, the sponsor... More >>

• Why the Cost-Overruns Crowd Has No Credibility

  published June 16, 2010

  Watching Mayor McGinn and his anti-tunnel partisans laboriously stoke fears of "cost overruns" is like watching racist Tea Partiers complain... More >>

• The Fire Department Skates in McGinn's New Budget

  published June 16, 2010

  Making budget decisions based on whichever tragedy happens to be freshest in people's minds seems like the worst way to create policy. And yet... More >>

• The 'Shoot Relents

  published June 2, 2010

  As we reported here last week ("Bumbershoot's Design Flaw," May 26), One Reel managed to get the local graphic-design community up in arms with... More >>

• The Crash of Carpooling

  published May 19, 2010

  The next time you're driving around downtown Seattle in a futile search for a parking spot, we suggest you avoid Sixth Avenue between Columbia... More >>

• Cosby Joins the Tea Party

  published May 12, 2010

  A University of Washington survey that purports to find strong racist tendencies among supporters of the Tea Party movement continues to be the... More >>

• Red-Hot Redbox

  published May 5, 2010

  You may have thought that Netflix was completely killing off the brick-and-mortar movie-rental business. And it's true that one well-known... More >>

• The Server Gets His Final Papers

  published April 28, 2010

  Last year, Laura Onstot wrote a memorable feature ("Paper Tiger," Feb. 4, 2009) about Ron Belec, the city's most notorious server of legal... More >>

• Microsoft's "New Busy"; Sounds a Lot Like the Old Tone-Deaf

  published April 21, 2010

  The new ad campaign for Hotmail identifies the pioneering free e-mail service as "the New Busy." This exercise in tone-weirdness, this ball of... More >>

• The Man Who Manufactures Cancer

  published April 14, 2010

   Glenn Rockowitz was a 28-year-old stand-up comic in New York, with a wife just two weeks away from giving birth,... More >>

• The Right Wing Still Hates McKenna

  published March 31, 2010

  If any question remained regarding Attorney General Rob McKenna's decision to join the lawsuit to stop Obama-care--an act of pure principle? or... More >>

• Spring Arts Calendar

  published February 17, 2010

  FEBRUARY 18 Yoram Bauman The UW economist and stand-up comic explains what the hell wentwrong... More >>

• Spring Arts: Keyed to the City

  published February 17, 2010

  It's rare to see local playwrights get their work produced on a Seattle mainstage—and even rarer if that local... More >>