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