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There Is No Closure

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...

A League of His Own

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....

June 14 - 20, 2006

Old School News

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...

Free Throw

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...

Hook, Line, and Urethane

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...

One More Moose to Kill

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...

Looking Up

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...

Foiled Again!

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...

Horoscopes

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...

Brave New World

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,...

Brewfests: Change Is Inevitable

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,...

SIFF News, Picks, and Pans

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...

Muralist Michael Fajans Dies

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...

Our Not-So-Finest

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...

King's in Ballard

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....

10 Mercer

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...

Household Blades

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...

JPod

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...

Another Inconvenient Truth

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...