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Al Capone

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2011

    Celebrate Your Right to Drink on Repeal Day

    Booze-lovers around the country know that December 5 is Repeal Day, the anniversary of the ratification of 21st Amendment. On this day in 1933, the 18th Amendment--the one enacted in 1920 banning the production, sales and consumption of alcohol in these United States--was repealed. Our nation's lo ... More >>

  • News

    November 23, 2011

    The Tuba Man, Billy Chambers, and the Day the Music Died

    Is Ed McMichael's teen killer capable of rehabilitation?

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2011

    Obama's War on Weed: The President's Strange Flip-Flop on Medical Marijuana

    ​Editor's Note: The following, written by Ray Stern of our sister paper Phoenix New Times, provides a beyond-Washington look at recent federal actions regarding medical marijuana. The new federal crackdown on medical marijuana announced on October 7 by the four California U.S. Attorneys sent ... More >>

  • Diversions

    August 24, 2011

    Ask a Mexican!

    ​Editor's Note: The following, written by Ray Stern of our sister paper Phoenix New Times, provides a beyond-Washington look at recent federal actions regarding medical marijuana. The new federal crackdown on medical marijuana announced on October 7 by the four California U.S. Attorneys sent ... More >>

  • News

    July 13, 2011

    Nick Licata Goes Gangsta

    How Al Capone inspired the city's new medical-marijuana proposal.

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2011

    Nick Licata on Seattle Medical-Marijuana Dispensary Ordinance: Think Al Capone

    ​Iconic gangster Al Capone ran illegal rackets for years before the federal government finally managed to send him to prison. And in the end, the charge wasn't murder, arms dealing, or racketeering. It was tax evasion. Seattle City Councilmember Nick Licata says Capone's conviction is a simil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    John C. Worthington Sues King County to Get His Weed Back, Legalize It Altogether

    ​From its description as seemingly a small, nasty bag of dried up bammer weed, most stoners wouldn't have missed it. Most stoners, however, are not 47-year-old John C. Worthington of Renton. This pot patriot had marched into a King County Courthouse on Oct. 14, plopped out his dimebag of schwa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2010

    My Kind of Pizza, Chicago's Is

    Sheehan is lucky that Al Capone is dead, although the guy playing him probably prefers New York pie too.​This week, Jason Sheehan uses his review of two Seattle-based purveyors of Chicago-style pizza to make one thing abundantly clear: He finds deep-dish pizza to be vastly inferior to the thin ... More >>

  • News

    January 6, 2010

    Weed Takes Root

    Marijuana’s steady creep toward legalization nationwide.

  • News

    July 22, 2009

    Greg Nickels: Chicago-Style Bully?

    Opponents who paint Nickels as an employer of Windy City machine tactics clearly have never been there.

  • Calendar

    February 13, 2008

    Great Valentine’s Day Massacre

    Should you feel your feelings or just bang your head?

  • News

    August 22, 2007

    The Casino, the Mayor's Son, and the Shuffle That May Have Suckered Them Both

    Once thought of as political operative material, Jacob Nickels was part of a nationwide casino-cheating ring, prosecutors say.

  • Food

    January 24, 2007

    The High (End) Life

    Drinking in Seattle now means getting schooled, not drunk.

  • Diversions

    October 25, 2006

    Goldfinger, 1937–2006

    Meet the Goldfish who admired Al Capone, robbed Judy Garland, stalked Diana Ross, and pantsed Robert DeNiro.

  • Film

    May 18, 2005

    Filming Behind the Camera

    Never mind what the studios have in store this summer; SIFF shows how Hollywood itself is a rich subject for documentaries.

  • News

    August 20, 2003

    A Dirty Job

    Never mind what the studios have in store this summer; SIFF shows how Hollywood itself is a rich subject for documentaries.

  • Music

    January 1, 2003

    Critical Mass 2002, Part 1

    Seattle Weekly's music writers sift through a year's worth of highs and lows to come up their annual top-10 lists.

  • News

    July 24, 2002

    Capitalism's Cronies

    Seattle Weekly's music writers sift through a year's worth of highs and lows to come up their annual top-10 lists.

  • News

    October 11, 2000

    The future of the future

    Are time capsules becoming a thing of the past?

  • News

    April 15, 1998

    Labor's lost

    Michael Moore is back, fighting for the little guy.

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