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Alcoholism

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2012

    5 Point's Got Seattle's Cheapest Happy Hour? No Shit!

    The Place: 5 Point Cafe, 415 Cedar St., 206-448-9993. The Hours: 4-6 p.m. weekdays; booze-only bargains, 6-9 a.m. weekdays. The Digs: It's damn dark, but that's OK because the lack of light makes that drunk guy you decided to make out with look like Brad Pitt. And, hell, what else would you expect ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2012

    Homeless Alcoholics Drink a Whole Lot Less When They're In Homes That Allow Boozing

    For the past two years researchers have been scutinizing the drinking behavior of 95 chronically homeless alcoholics who have been living at a subsidized apartment building at 1811 Eastlake Avenue. This is a place, ever since it opened its doors in 2005, fraught with controversy. Wary neighborhoods ... More >>

  • Music

    October 5, 2011

    Sharlese Metcalf Is Cooler Than You

    For the past two years researchers have been scutinizing the drinking behavior of 95 chronically homeless alcoholics who have been living at a subsidized apartment building at 1811 Eastlake Avenue. This is a place, ever since it opened its doors in 2005, fraught with controversy. Wary neighborhoods ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2011

    UW Scientists Discover That Talking About Getting Wasted on Facebook Means You Probably Get Wasted Too Much

    No longer will researchers of collegiate alcohol abuse have to rely solely on counting the number of barfing, passed-out, and/or streaking students in order to accurately gauge how many of them are hopeless drunks. Now they can just look at Facebook.

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2011

    Snohomish Regional Drug Task Force Commander Patric Slack Nabbed for Drunk Driving in Arizona

    Commander Patric Slack​In early March, Commander Patric Slack was a panelist on a Seattle Times online discussion, in which he argued against the legalization of marijuana. "[C]ommander, alcohol abuse is the biggest predictor of violence and the primary [inebriant] for almost all your [count ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2011

    State Panel Disciplines Judge John Lyman for DUI, but He Gets to Keep His Two Court Jobs

    Judge Lyman​The state Commission on Judicial Conduct has settled its case with a judge caught drunk behind the wheel, ordering him to make public speeches about his misconduct, but allowing him to remain on the bench and judge the cases of fellow drunk drivers while he's under deferred prosecu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2011

    Jim Jacks, Former Washington State Rep., Opens Up About the Alcoholism That Forced Him to Resign

    ​No excuse other than "family and personal reasons" was given when former Washington State Rep. Jim Jacks abruptly resigned from office last month in the middle of the legislative session. Now, after leaving a rehab center, the Democrat from Vancouver is finally giving some additional details ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2010

    Question for Duff: When Are You Going to Tell Your Daughters About, Um ... Everything?

    In addition to his Thursday column, Duff McKagan is now answering reader questions throughout the week. Write to him at askduff@seattleweekly.com. Find all of Duff's posts here.​Q: Can I pass that Q to you regarding the fact that your daughters are now on the verge of saying farewell to their ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2010

    According to Most Awesome Study in The Universe, Heavy Drinkers Outlive Non-Drinkers

    This woman is going to live forever​This one is just really pissing off the abstainers out there. For a long, long, long, long time, medical research has shown that people who don't drink die sooner than people who do. There's just no way to sugar coat this kind of thing. Barring disaster, un ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 21, 2010

    Mary Gauthier

    This woman is going to live forever​This one is just really pissing off the abstainers out there. For a long, long, long, long time, medical research has shown that people who don't drink die sooner than people who do. There's just no way to sugar coat this kind of thing. Barring disaster, un ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2010

    Bottomfeeder: The 5-Point's Got That Hattie's Feeling

    Lauren LynchAlcoholics serving alcoholics since 1929.​In 1996, Ballard was still something of a punch line, usually involving shitty Scandinavian drivers and drunken fishmongers. Historic (although some might have called it decrepit at the time) Ballard Avenue had both in spates, and when the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2010

    State Suspends Thurston County Doctor After She Goes Off the Rails in Alcohol-Soaked Week

    Dr. Sarah Reade once crashed into a tree​Whatever is going on with Dr. Sarah Reade, she appears to be unable to care for herself, never mind anybody else. The Thurston County doctor and surgeon, whose suspension was announced yesterday by the state Department of Health, went off the rails in a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2009

    Dime Beers At The 5-Point!

    ​The 5-Point has new owners: longtime employee Mandy Park and the soon-to-be father of her child, nightlife poobah Dave Meinert. With that, the 24-hour diner/dive's regulars, of which there are many, can breathe a sigh of relief, as there was some doubt as to what the fate of the famously irre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2009

    Queen Anne Ave's The Mecca Sticks an Alcohol-Reeking Tongue Out at Nickels

    ​The Mecca on Lower Queen Anne, proud home of "alcoholics serving alcoholics," isn't letting the nightlife regulatory wars of the late aughts die quietly. The latest sign on its marquee makes sure its drunken patrons remember that any pissing, littering, and caterwauling they may engage in out ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2009

    Scott Noble Says He's Sorry, Alcoholic...But What's His Strategy?

    King County Assessor Scott Noble's facing a seemingly unwinnable criminal case (possibly followed by a prison term and a seemingly unwinnable civil case) over his drunk, wrong-way crash on I-5 in January. But he hadn't talked to the media until yesterday, when he gave an interview to King-5 News: " ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2009

    Save the Date

    June 13 Neumos For Art Brut's only scheduled NW appearance. I generally try not to get too jacked up about records I haven't heard yet, but "the buzz" (made in 12 days last December at Wavelength in Salem and produced by none other than mothaf'n Frank Black) regarding Art Brut's upcoming relea ... More >>

  • Diversions

    January 14, 2009

    Can I Pull Off a Rasta Beret?

    June 13 Neumos For Art Brut's only scheduled NW appearance. I generally try not to get too jacked up about records I haven't heard yet, but "the buzz" (made in 12 days last December at Wavelength in Salem and produced by none other than mothaf'n Frank Black) regarding Art Brut's upcoming relea ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 1, 2008

    Marilynne Robinson

    June 13 Neumos For Art Brut's only scheduled NW appearance. I generally try not to get too jacked up about records I haven't heard yet, but "the buzz" (made in 12 days last December at Wavelength in Salem and produced by none other than mothaf'n Frank Black) regarding Art Brut's upcoming relea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2008

    Drink Your Ass Off Sunday....for Recovering Alcoholics

    June 13 Neumos For Art Brut's only scheduled NW appearance. I generally try not to get too jacked up about records I haven't heard yet, but "the buzz" (made in 12 days last December at Wavelength in Salem and produced by none other than mothaf'n Frank Black) regarding Art Brut's upcoming relea ... More >>

  • News

    April 9, 2008

    Meet Washington's DUI King

    A new state law may finally catch up with Bob Castle.

  • Diversions

    January 30, 2008

    Drinking and Chihuahuas

    A new state law may finally catch up with Bob Castle.

  • Diversions

    January 16, 2008

    Which Is the Drunker Ethnic Group? And Why?

    A new state law may finally catch up with Bob Castle.

  • News

    October 11, 2006

    The Phantom Menace

    "John Lennon once sang that 'instant karma is going to get you,' and in the case of John Guth, it did."

  • News

    October 4, 2006

    Guy Walks Into a Bar

    Ruminations on alcoholic schizophrenia.

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2006

    Yeah, It's the Booze for Sure

    Ruminations on alcoholic schizophrenia.

  • News

    July 19, 2006

    Schwinn City

    "[T]he reason I drive a Jaguar today is that it is the closest I’ve come to re-creating the feeling of having my very own Schwinn."

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2006

    Drunken Dialing

    "[T]he reason I drive a Jaguar today is that it is the closest I’ve come to re-creating the feeling of having my very own Schwinn."

  • Arts

    November 17, 2004

    Still Laughing

    Paula Poundstone has put the past behind her.

  • News

    December 26, 2001

    Booze ban

    Seattle will prohibit fortified wine and malt liquor in Pioneer Square.

  • News

    October 24, 2001

    Campaign cocktail

    A stiff shot for the voting public.

  • Arts

    July 18, 2001

    Small World

    As long as you love him...

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