Archive Search Results

1. Letters to the Editor

   Letters

   Keelhauled

   Published: December 16, 1998

   I would like to respectfully request an apology in writing in Seattle Weekly for slanderous and libelous remarks made by Geov Parrish in his 11/19 Impolitics column titled...

2. 4th and James

   Billing Peter to pay Paul

   James Bush

   Published: December 16, 1998

   Having failed to find a private entity willing to overpay sufficiently for the city's Key Tower, Mayor Paul Schell would like to sell half the building to the city's public...

3. Quick and Dirty

   School spirit

   Eric Scigliano

   Published: December 16, 1998

   I've gotta differ with my distinguished colleagues who've assailed the canonization of the late Seattle Schools super John Stanford. What's so terrible about a little...

4. Impolitics

   Christmas on the line

   Geov Parrish

   Published: December 16, 1998

   Not much has been made (yet) of local organized labor's resurgence in the last year. But on the heels of a tremendous statewide victory in the minimum-wage campaign in...

5. News

   What Now?

   Seattle's police chief considers the aftermath of McLaughlin's murder.

   Rick Anderson

   Published: December 16, 1998

   Mark MClaughlin's Epitaph has slowly emerged: Killed by a madman, not a transit system. The evidence forces the conclusion that the bus driver's instant murder and soaring...

6. News

   100 Inches of Snow!

   And other myths about La Niña and this year's snowfall.

   Roger Downey

   Published: December 16, 1998

   "Rumors of Disastrous Winter Amount to Irresponsible Hype," screamed the headline of an October press release from the University of Washington. The rumors in question, "sent...

7. News

   What If?

   A Metro Driver Reflects on the Aurora Tragedy and Its Aftermath

   John Flavin

   Published: December 16, 1998

   At 3:15 pm, when Route 359 crashed through the Aurora Bridge guardrail, I was driving a trolley bus—No. 13 over Queen Anne Hill. The coordinator asked all drivers to pick...

8. News

   How to Ski Rainier

   No crowds, no lift tickets, and miles of untracked snow.

   Brian Miller

   Published: December 16, 1998

   Pioneering skiers first took to Mount Rainier's lower slopes in the 1920s, then raced from Camp Muir to Paradise during the Silver Skis competitions of the 1930s. Mountaineers...

9. News

   The Interview Ross Rebagliati's publicist doesn't want you to read

   Published: December 16, 1998

   Soon after this interview was conducted, a publicist from the International Management Group (the same agency that represents Joe Montana, John Madden,...

10. News

    Ten Best Pacific Northwest Ski Areas

    Areas that have Web sites are linked, and will open in a new window when clicked.

    Published: December 16, 1998

    Alpental & the Summit at Snoqualmie Don't knock the Pass! Although renamed into a corporate mouthful, this backyard area remains a perennial, if often sodden, favorite....

11. News

    Snowboarding saves

    Community service, job training . . . and snowboarding?

    Mike Romano

    Published: December 16, 1998

    "How can we get to kids and show them there's more to living than nice cars and fast cash?" John Logic, owner of the Snowboard Connection, asked this in a eulogy for his...

12. News

    Scenes From A Whistler junket

    My boss sent me to Canada, and all I got was this lousy hangover.

    Mike Romano

    Published: December 16, 1998

    When we finally reached the top of the gondola at Whistler Mountain, two men wearing fake mustaches and lederhosen greeted us with what I took for Bavarian accordion music. My...

13. News

    Cashdrain.com

    Recent moves by Microsoft and Amazon.com may be signs of desperation.

    Mike Romano

    Published: December 16, 1998

    'TIS A SAFE BET this holiday season that December 1998 will be the most lucrative month in the short history of online retailing. That's the good news and the bad news for Web...

14. Ambrosavage

    Ambrosavage

    John Ambrosavage

    Published: December 16, 1998

15. Two Ears and a Tale

    "If You Leave"

    Kurt B. Reighley

    Published: December 16, 1998

    Like most teenagers, my loyalty to recording artists was fleeting. One week I championed Haysi Fantayzee, the next it'd been pushed aside for Martha and the Muffins. Only a...

16. Music

    Northwest Rock 101

    A musical history lesson makes it onto CD.

    James Bush

    Published: December 16, 1998

    With CDs firmly established as the dominant music listening format, the collectors who formerly clung to their turn-tables have had to change their tune. The shiny digital...

17. Music

    Chestnuts toasted

    Judging from this year's Christmas releases, it's best to stick with the classics.

    Roberta Cruger

    Published: December 16, 1998

    It was never a surprise what hid inside those flat, square packages under the Christmas tree, although exactly which record album awaited under the bow built excitement until...

18. Music

    The Hole Truth

    Courtney and company see how low they can go.

    Jackie McCarthy

    Published: December 16, 1998

    Amid the thousands of screaming pubescents and hormonal frat types attending the End's seventh annual Deck the Hall Ball, there were surely some audience members who...

19. Food

    A chain with character

    Now that's Italian.

    Kathryn Robinson

    Published: December 16, 1998

    Shopping in Pacific Place is a little like catalog shopping without the catalog: There's J. Peterman, there's J. Crew. Indeed, all the gleam and gloss inside this shopping...

20. Film

    Star Drek

    Oldly going where many men have gone before.

    Bret Fetzer

    Published: December 16, 1998

    Now that the new movie is out, it's clear: The Star Trek franchise is dead. At least Patrick Stewart has a career doing one-man Christmas Carols and so forth; the likes of...