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1. News

   There Is No Closure

   An evolving proposal to shutter nine Seattle public schools is a tortuous process that only begins to address big problems—fiscal and otherwise.

   Nina Shapiro

   Published: June 14, 2006

   It's been a traumatic couple of weeks following recommendations by a citizens committee on closing Seattle public schools. Are we better off than a year ago, when a similar...

2. Dategirl

   A League of His Own

   Judy McGuire

   Published: June 14, 2006

   I'm 35, divorced in the last 10 months, and trying to date again after seven years. I'm new to all this and trying to learn as quickly as I can, but obviously I'm a bit rusty....

3. This Week's Cover

   June 14 - 20, 2006

   Cover photo by Pete Kuhns

   Published: June 14, 2006

    

4. Seattle Weekly 1976-2006

   Old School News

   Thirty years ago in Seattle Weekly.

   Roger Downey

   Published: June 14, 2006

   Extra Info This is one of a series looking back at Seattle Weekly's first year. 30th Anniversary Home Page A slow week heading into summer, but issue 12 of Seattle...

5. Music

   Free Throw

   Built to Spill frontman Doug Martsch on playing basketball, watching television, and getting poked in the eyeball.

   Michael Alan Goldberg

   Published: June 14, 2006

   Who would've imagined that a poke in the eye during a pickup basketball game would have a profound effect on Doug Martsch's life and music career? The Built to Spill frontman...

6. Food

   Hook, Line, and Urethane

   Commercial trolling for wild salmon makes a comeback.

   Roger Downey

   Published: June 14, 2006

   For many, the arrival in the market of fresh wild salmon is the high point of the Northwest gustatory year. Thank to the tireless evangelizing of Seattle food promoter Jon...

7. Film

   One More Moose to Kill

   No interest in basketball? Bloody metaphors and tense courtroom proceedings add to the drama of this homegrown documentary.

   Brian Miller

   Published: June 14, 2006

   The marketers who rule Hollywood would kill for the Seattle audience awareness of the locally made SIFF favorite documentary The Heart of the Game. We knew about it well before...

8. Arts

   Looking Up

   After one season under the leadership of Peter Boal, Pacific Northwest Ballet is on the rise.

   Roger Downey

   Published: June 14, 2006

   Pacific Northwest Ballet began its 30th year, its first season under Peter Boal, with grand plans, lofty anticipations. As usual, the Seattle audience paid no attention to...

9. Politics

   Foiled Again!

   Geov Parrish

   Published: June 14, 2006

   Editor's note: The following e-mail was intercepted by a National Security Agency data-mining program. After a delay of several days while intelligence analysts tried to find...

10. Sign Language

    Horoscopes

    June 14-20, 2006

    Caeriel Crestin

    Published: June 14, 2006

    Gemini (May 21–June 20) I just visited some friends who've been studying Ayurvedic medicine, so they were constantly viewing people through that filter, analyzing...

11. Music

    Brave New World

    Amadou & Mariam's modern inspirations.

    Chris Coomey

    Published: June 14, 2006

    In the last third of the 20th century, the cassette tape breathed new life into African field recordings. Whole music scenes, from capitals like Dakar, Cape Town, Addis Ababa,...

12. Search & Distill

    Brewfests: Change Is Inevitable

    Don Scheidt

    Published: June 14, 2006

    This summer brings a mix of old and new beer-focused events. The Washington Brewers Guild (WBG) stages its first Washington Brewers' Festival, with 40 craft brewers, Saturday,...

13. SIFF Guide 2006

    SIFF News, Picks, and Pans

    By Brian Miller and SW Staff

    Published: June 14, 2006

    WE ALL KNEW somebody like Rick Kirkham, or maybe we still do, or maybe it just seems that way because he's got such a TV-familiar demeanor. Good hair, square jaw, and a...

14. ArtsBuzz

    Muralist Michael Fajans Dies

    The Northwest loses a visionary, an activist, and a motorcycle buff. Plus other arts news.

    Published: June 14, 2006

    Michael Fajans 1948–2006 If you've been inside the new downtown federal courthouse, or through Concourse D at Sea-Tac Airport, you've seen the work of muralist Michael...

15. News

    Our Not-So-Finest

    Disciplined cops: drunk, rude, sometimes just plain dumb.

    Rick Anderson

    Published: June 14, 2006

    It wasn't exactly a Mensa moment for the Seattle cop who, in uniform and leaning against his patrol car, embraced and kissed a stripper outside Frank Colacurcio Sr.'s...

16. Barrstool Blues

    King's in Ballard

    Brian J. Barr

    Published: June 14, 2006

    Ballard's nightlife scene has long been marked by a sense of community. And as with any community, the vibe is always heavy with intrigue when word of a new neighbor spreads....

17. Happy Hour

    10 Mercer

    Lynn Jacobson

    Published: June 14, 2006

    There's something old-fashioned (dare we say dated?) about 10 Mercer. Maybe it's the recorded piano jazz on the sound system, or the white-napkin formality of the table...

18. Film

    Household Blades

    Every samurai battle begins at home.

    Brian Miller

    Published: June 14, 2006

    ONE OF the most durable genres, samurai movies have been around almost as long as cinema has existed in Japan. The Northwest Film Forum is programming 11 fine examples, most on...

19. Books

    JPod

    An early contender for worst novel of the 21st century.

    By Mike Seely

    Published: June 14, 2006

    An early contender for worst novel of the 21st century, Douglas (Generation X) Coupland's dated, incorrigible JPod fails both as a work of literature and as a piece of...

20. Mossback

    Another Inconvenient Truth

    Gridlock as side effect: Solving it won't cure unlimited urban growth.

    Knute Berger

    Published: June 14, 2006

    For years, Seattle area residents have complained about the region choking on traffic, and we've chided ourselves for gridlock on transportation projects. Now we're about to...