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January 11, 2012
Japan Tsunami Debris May Not Be Giant Floating Field of Doom After All
Scientists and government officials initially believed that the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan last year sent millions of tons of trash on a collision course with Hawaii and the West Coast. But nine months later, the flotsam is still lost at sea somewhere and perhaps not nearly as enor ... More >>
Music
November 23, 2011
Jane Birkin: Famous Flame
Serge Gainsbourg's longtime girlfriend has always held her own.
News
October 19, 2011
Hanford's Nuclear Option
Department of Energy scientists allege catastrophic mismanagement of the costliest environmental cleanup in world history.
Blogs
July 25, 2011
"Hay Ride Gone Wrong" Injures 44 People on Shaw Island
When hay rides "go right" they usually involve giggling children, photo-snapping tourists and the inhalation of diesel fumes. When hay rides "go wrong" they apparently involve the following.
Blogs
July 8, 2011
Radiation-Seeking Helicopter Will Be Flying Low Over Seattle Area Starting Next Week
How are everyone's paranoia levels doing? Got enough obsessive fear in your life? 'Cause if not, you can always look to the sky next week and imagine all the worst-case-scenarios for why there's a radiation-measuring helicopter flying around.
Blogs
June 22, 2011
Real Science Debunks Myth that Pacific Northwest Babies are Dying from Japanese Nuclear Meltdown Fallout
A recent "report" was published by physician Janette Sherman and epidemiologist Joseph Mangano that showed some scary numbers relating to the meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. According to the essay, which was picked up by Al Jazeera English as fact, there's been ... More >>
Blogs
June 17, 2011
Own a Piece of Northwest Culinary History: a Foam Tornado From the 5-Spot's Notoriously Tasteless Regional Menu
E.K. ThompsonThe hilarity has found its way to Western Avenue.We gave Chow Foods plenty of shit for not pulling the plug on the 5 Spot's terribly timed Tornado Alley menu amid the deadliest spate of twisters in modern American history. Mercifully, that period of stubborn tastelessness ended t ... More >>
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May 11, 2011
LAKE
E.K. ThompsonThe hilarity has found its way to Western Avenue.We gave Chow Foods plenty of shit for not pulling the plug on the 5 Spot's terribly timed Tornado Alley menu amid the deadliest spate of twisters in modern American history. Mercifully, that period of stubborn tastelessness ended t ... More >>
Arts
May 4, 2011
The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events
Fake Shakespeare, sushi for charity, and the Henry throws a party.
Blogs
April 29, 2011
Tornado Alley, the 5 Spot's Most Unfortunately Timed Regional Menu Ever
Erin K. ThompsonThe taste of devastation.The 5 Spot, along with its Chow Foods kin, regularly boasts a globetrotting regional menu that changes every three months or so. The current region featured: Tornado Alley, which, in the wake of the deadliest spate of heartland tornadoes the country ha ... More >>
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April 27, 2011
The Dust Never Settles
Erin K. ThompsonThe taste of devastation.The 5 Spot, along with its Chow Foods kin, regularly boasts a globetrotting regional menu that changes every three months or so. The current region featured: Tornado Alley, which, in the wake of the deadliest spate of heartland tornadoes the country ha ... More >>
Blogs
April 21, 2011
Chiso's Bento Box Is a Veritable Treasure Chest
At Japanese restaurants, I'm usually all about the sushi. But when I went to Chiso during Seattle Restaurant Week (or partial weeks, as they actually are, with today being the final day) to capitalize on a three-course lunch for $15, I was more impressed with the bento box than the sushi samp ... More >>
Blogs
April 8, 2011
Hanford Nuclear Plant Releases Hydrogen "Puff"
All the locals freaking out over the supposed radiation death cloud wafting in from Japan are encouraged to remember that in Washington we have our own different sort of nuclear catastrophe called the Hanford Site. And while the hydrogen "puff" it apparently farted out unexpectedly yesterday ... More >>
Blogs
March 30, 2011
Uwajimaya Moves to New Bellevue Location
A not-so-well-balanced meal at Uwajimaya. After weeks of tsunami devastation, earthquake aftershocks, and nuclear meltdown filling the headlines, it's nice to be able to celebrate Japan in a positive way--with food. Last week, Japanese superstore Uwajimaya opened a new Bellevue location, mo ... More >>
Blogs
March 28, 2011
Coastal Kitchen to Donate This Wednesday's Proceeds to Japan
Dine for a cause! On Wednesday, March 30, from 5 p.m. to close, Coastal Kitchen--see right--on Capitol Hill will donate 25 percent of all their proceeds to Mercy Corps and Peace Winds. The funds will benefit the children and families affected by Japan's recent earthquake and tsunami. Follow ... More >>
Blogs
March 28, 2011
UW Scientists Find Japanese Radiation in Campus Ventilation System
Image sourceA team of researchers from the University of Washington's Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics didn't have to go very far afield to test for airborne radiation from Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant -- they just examined air filters from the ventil ... More >>
Blogs
March 25, 2011
Top 6 Songs About Mother Nature's Worst Hits
These days it seems the whole world is crumbling beneath our feet. Earthquakes in Haiti and New Zealand and the recent earthquake and devastation in Japan have rattled nerves around the planet. From songs of great floods to dust-bowl ballads, songwriters have long been giving voice to the d ... More >>
News
March 23, 2011
Rabbi Daniel Lapin Says Glenn Beck Was Wrong
And explains why he thinks Japan was spared.
Calendar
March 23, 2011
Acid Mothers Temple
And explains why he thinks Japan was spared.
Calendar
March 23, 2011
Artists for Japan
And explains why he thinks Japan was spared.
Blogs
March 16, 2011
Rabbi Daniel Lapin, Rejecting "Message of God" Theory, Says Japan Was Spared the Worst Because It's a "Western" Country
Daniel Lapin, Mercer Island's jet-setting rabbi to the religious right, doesn't want to criticize Glenn Beck. "He's a friend," Lapin says of the conservative talk-show host, and the rabbi didn't hear Beck's pronouncement on Monday that the devastation in Japan was a "message from God." Still ... More >>
Blogs
March 15, 2011
A Japan-Strength Earthquake Would Level Seattle
If it weren't for the tsunami that followed, Japan and its high tech infrastructure would have come out of its mammoth 9.0 level earthquake with flying colors. But what about Seattle? We get earthquakes here. Hell, the Seattle Fault runs directly through the city. Turns out that things probab ... More >>
Blogs
March 11, 2011
UW Tsunami Expert in Japan "Felt the Earthquake Big Time"
Jody BourgeoisLast night must have been simultaneously a thrilling and terrifying experience for Jody Bourgeois. A professor in the University of Washington's department of earth and space sciences, Bourgeois has devoted years and years of research to tsunamis and earthquakes. Amazingly, she ... More >>
Blogs
December 29, 2010
King County Has More People Killing Themselves And Fewer Killing Each Other, Report Says
On the one hand, apparently fewer and fewer people are getting murdered and killed in traffic accidents in King County. On the other hand, more and more are simply killing themselves.
Blogs
July 14, 2010
Aw, Shucks: In Wake of BP Spill, Oysters May Be Off Marcela's Menu
In case the endless photos of pelicans plastered in brown muck have escaped your attention, the BP oil spill hasn't been great for living things on the Gulf Coast. But now it's threatening the quality of life in Seattle too. No, we're not talking about oil drifting into Puget Sound. We mean ... More >>
Blogs
June 2, 2010
India Outsourcing Its Storms to Seattle
Why couldn't she be what gets sent to us?Seattle may get half of all of its expected June rainfaill by the end of the week thanks to a storm with origins in India. According to KOMO weatherman Scott Sistek, the squall set to soak our city tonight began as Cyclone Laila in the almost-coastal t ... More >>
Blogs
May 14, 2010
Gulf Oil Spill Miscalculations Came From Seattle Scientists
Sorry little guy, things are gonna get much worse before they get better.It's probably not easy to calculate exactly how much oil is being spewed when the geyser is hundreds of feet below the water's surface. But it's even harder when you rush and use the wrong formula. Conventional wisdom h ... More >>
Blogs
May 3, 2010
Exxon Valdez Reporter On Gulf Oil Spill: Expect Redneck-to-Environmentalist Conversion
Lafayette's newest Sierra Club member.As an environmental reporter for the Seattle Times, William Dietrich was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Now, more than two decades later, he's predicting how things will play out in the years follo ... More >>
Blogs
April 20, 2010
Relax, Seattle: The Next Big Earthquake Probably Isn't Happening Anytime Soon
Fear not: this ain't happening for, like, generations.Apocalyptic thoughts are all the rage these days. Before the unpronounceable Icelandic volcano spewed its way into the spotlight, there were deadly earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, and China, all in quick succession. Is the world coming to an ... More >>
Calendar
February 17, 2010
Jared Diamond
Fear not: this ain't happening for, like, generations.Apocalyptic thoughts are all the rage these days. Before the unpronounceable Icelandic volcano spewed its way into the spotlight, there were deadly earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, and China, all in quick succession. Is the world coming to an ... More >>
Blogs
October 26, 2009
WSDOT's Earthquake Video Simulation: Alaskan Way Viaduct Fall Down, Go Boom
Those of you still on the fence about whether to get behind the deep bore tunnel (not that it matters much now that the only significant opposition wussed out), might want to take a gander at the above video. Released yesterday, it provides a glimpse of what could result if Seattle experiences ... More >>
Calendar
April 15, 2009
Langston Hughes African-American Film Festival
Those of you still on the fence about whether to get behind the deep bore tunnel (not that it matters much now that the only significant opposition wussed out), might want to take a gander at the above video. Released yesterday, it provides a glimpse of what could result if Seattle experiences ... More >>
Blogs
January 30, 2009
Has the Viaduct Collapsed Yet?
Seattle was rattled early this morning by a 4.5 magnitude earthquake. Although the tremblor was just one of the countless little events that we residents living along the Cascadia subduction zone experience regularly, some folks might wonder how our local infrastructure faired this morning ... More >>
Film
October 15, 2008
PICK Trouble the Water: Hurricane Katrina Filmed From the Inside Out
Seattle was rattled early this morning by a 4.5 magnitude earthquake. Although the tremblor was just one of the countless little events that we residents living along the Cascadia subduction zone experience regularly, some folks might wonder how our local infrastructure faired this morning ... More >>
Film
October 24, 2007
Desert Bayou: Katrina’s Refugees in the Mormon State
Seattle was rattled early this morning by a 4.5 magnitude earthquake. Although the tremblor was just one of the countless little events that we residents living along the Cascadia subduction zone experience regularly, some folks might wonder how our local infrastructure faired this morning ... More >>
Blogs
June 25, 2007
Feel Like You're Digging out of a Hole?
Seattle was rattled early this morning by a 4.5 magnitude earthquake. Although the tremblor was just one of the countless little events that we residents living along the Cascadia subduction zone experience regularly, some folks might wonder how our local infrastructure faired this morning ... More >>
Film
December 27, 2006
An Overdue Defense of Little Miss Sunshine
Plus Spike Lee, Jet Li, and the decline of Bart.
Blogs
October 11, 2006
Cory Lidle's No Terrorist
Plus Spike Lee, Jet Li, and the decline of Bart.
Film
May 31, 2006
Typhoon
Like bad John Woo, plus dirty nukes.
Film
April 19, 2006
Lens Craft
Documentaries stand out at this annual fest.
News
November 16, 2005
Closing the Barn Door
Documentaries stand out at this annual fest.
News
October 19, 2005
The Super Flood
Forget an eruption. The real threat of Mount Rainier is a surging wall of mud that could bury the suburbs and splash Seattle.
Arts
October 12, 2005
Master of Disaster
Earthquakes aren't the only unmet natural crises this British author sees for America. And he's coming to view another one on Seattle's waterfront.
News
September 7, 2005
Bush Blows Katrina
Following the media trail of Dubya's disaster: Doesn't anyone at the White House read National Geographic?
News
March 7, 2001
Sliding scales
Following the media trail of Dubya's disaster: Doesn't anyone at the White House read National Geographic?
News
March 7, 2001
Feathers fly in quake
Following the media trail of Dubya's disaster: Doesn't anyone at the White House read National Geographic?
News
February 28, 2001
Special Coverage: Ash Wednesday Quake
Following the media trail of Dubya's disaster: Doesn't anyone at the White House read National Geographic?
Food
January 17, 2001
Wild weather
A Portland-based Thai chain storms into a familiar space.
Arts
October 6, 1999
An Unforgettable Storm
Weaving a nonfiction thriller from the strands of history.
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