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