Email Author Mark D. Fefer

2009 Stories by Mark D. Fefer

• Obama’s Computer Security Czar Plays It Really Close to the Vest

  published December 30, 2009

  If you were going to choose someone for the highly sensitive position of cyber-security chief for our nation, surely the two employers you'd... More >>

• Biodiesel Blows Up

  published December 9, 2009

  Poor biodiesel. Only a few years ago, it was the cutest thing among greenies to tool around in a vegetable-oil-powered Mercedes with exhaust... More >>

• Now Tim Eyman's Going to F**k Up Your Computer, Too

  published December 2, 2009

  Or so says Google.According to a "Safe Browsing" advisory from the search giant, Eyman's site, More >>

• Atheists Aren’t the Only Readers

  published November 25, 2009

  Seattle's Discovery Institute, the nonprofit think tank that's become infamous locally and in national media for fomenting the anti-Darwin... More >>

• Eastside Moms Destroy Amputees in Mouse-Clicking for a Charitable Payout

  published November 25, 2009

  Clicks are the new currency in an Internet economy. And that's never been truer than in the case of a charitable promotion by Seattle... More >>

• Drivin’ ’n’ Cryin’

  published November 11, 2009

  You may remember our cover story this past spring about unexpected acceleration—and other strange automotive behavior—bedeviling... More >>

• Boeing's Race to the Bottom

  published November 4, 2009

  Boeing's announcement that it will locate its 787 final-assembly plant in South Carolina has led to predictable condemnation of Democratic Gov.... More >>

• Jury Sides Against Seattle Diamond Seller

  published November 4, 2009

  When a big company goes after smaller fry in court, it's usually the latter that cries for mercy. Not so in the case of Seattle's Blue Nile,... More >>

• This Week's Earshot Jazz Picks

  published October 21, 2009

  Marc Seales GroupsThis is Earshot's week for pianists, starting with Seales, Seattle's dean of jazz keys. The UW prof... More >>

• Winks, Honks, and Earshot Jazz

  published October 14, 2009

  Irony entered jazz at around the same time it took over the culture at large. There had been... More >>

• Will Opera Disperse Crackheads?

  published October 7, 2009

  In last year's Best of Seattle® issue, we wrote about the Royal Crest condominiums' attempt to shoo Belltown street denizens from its... More >>

• Mike McGinn, Square Neighbors, and the Real Threat to Seattle Nightlife

  published September 30, 2009

  Anyone who's been in Seattle over the past decade knows how it works. A new condo building goes up in a neighborhood where... More >>

• Seattle Weekly Fall Arts Guide 2009

  published September 16, 2009

  With hot races underway for Seattle mayor and King County Executive (and not much talk about the arts among the candidates), we decided it was... More >>

• Do the Oboes Have Hutchison's Back?

  published September 9, 2009

  As reporters who've covered the years-long turmoil at the Seattle Symphony Orchestra well know, SSO musicians are generally not shy about... More >>

• Sham-Wha?

  published August 26, 2009

  You may recall that, several years ago, products containing pseudoephedrine started being yanked from drugstore shelves and put behind glass... More >>

• Ricardo Lemvo and Makina Loca

  published August 19, 2009

  Salsa music works because it follows a formula, but after a couple hours, that formula can sometimes be a bit much, even for the diehards that... More >>

• Aftermath Quintet

  published June 3, 2009

  In the decade since he left Seattle, former Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin has covered a lot of musical ground, doing the L.A. studio... More >>

• Zony Mash

  published May 20, 2009

  Putting Briggan Krauss and Skerik on the same stage sounds less like a meeting of peanut butter and chocolate and more like a collision of Pop... More >>

• Happy Apple

  published May 13, 2009

  Critics who rave about bands for bringing “punk-rock energy” to jazz always give me a migraine. I mean, is that really such a hard thing... More >>

• AfterMath

  published April 29, 2009

  In the decade since he left Seattle, former Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin has covered a lot of musical ground, doing the L.A. studio... More >>

• Eric Alexander

  published April 29, 2009

  Museum pieces are no good for jazz. But then there are players who speak a vocabulary of the past with so much power and conviction that they make... More >>

• FLY

  published April 15, 2009

  Saxophonist Mark Turner has always been a little noodly and diffident for my taste. But with this trio he’s found his element. The bassist... More >>

• Puerto Plata with Edilio Paredes

  published March 11, 2009

  One of the best things about the whole Buena Vista Social Club phenomenon is it has provided a template for world-music impresarios to pluck... More >>

• A Seattle Entrepreneur Fizzles in Walla Walla Wine Country

  published March 4, 2009

  When last we heard from Seattle serial entrepreneur Paul Willms, his globe-spanning attempt to create a new advertising medium on the sides of... More >>

• Jeff Lorber with Christian Scott and Kyle Eastwood

  published February 25, 2009

  True, Jeff Lorber is responsible for introducing the world to the Seattle saxophonist who became known as Kenny G. But before the G-ster went solo... More >>