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Antarctica

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2012

    Letterman or Bust: The Ten Best Local Performances on Late-Night TV

    The "Thrilla from Chewelah," aka Sir Allen Stone, played Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday, his network debut after a much-vaunted Conan appearance back in October. When your beloved local act plays on national television, you know they've made it. There's something inherently fun about the tradition of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2011

    JBLM Rescue Crew Flies Cargo Plane 4,600 Miles to Rescue Sick Contractor in Antarctica

    ​How's this for medical benefits? Utilizing night vision equipment and navigating around volcanic ash hazards, a C-17 Globemaster III and crew from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, alongside aeromedical evacuation and Critical Care Air Transport Team Airmen, successfully evacuated an ail ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    Sea Shepherd Crew's New Target: Tuna Anglers in Libya

    ​If a few months from now, word comes down that Sea Shepherd Captain Paul Watson and/or members of his anti-whaling crew have been captured or killed by Libyan militants, there will likely be an entire chorus of people saying "Yeah, I saw that one coming."

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2011

    Five Extinct Animals That Would Be Way Cooler to Clone Than a Woolly Mammoth

    ​Last week a team of Japanese scientists announced that they would begin trying to clone a woolly mammoth, effectively bringing the beast back from extinction and making normal elephants seem really lame. Mammoths are cool, granted. But they're soooo cliché. Here are five extinct animals that ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 3, 2010

    Wintervention

    ​Last week a team of Japanese scientists announced that they would begin trying to clone a woolly mammoth, effectively bringing the beast back from extinction and making normal elephants seem really lame. Mammoths are cool, granted. But they're soooo cliché. Here are five extinct animals that ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 6, 2010

    Peter D. Ward

    ​Last week a team of Japanese scientists announced that they would begin trying to clone a woolly mammoth, effectively bringing the beast back from extinction and making normal elephants seem really lame. Mammoths are cool, granted. But they're soooo cliché. Here are five extinct animals that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2010

    Modest Mouse to Reissue Their Best Album On Vinyl For Record Store Day

    ​Modest Mouse's 2000 record, The Moon & Antarctica, is still the best thing they've ever released. It's strange, gritty, and provoking in ways that much of their more recent music just isn't. In honor of the record's 10th anniversary, Epic/Legacy Records will re-release Moon on vinyl, with the ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 20, 2010

    James Martin

    ​Modest Mouse's 2000 record, The Moon & Antarctica, is still the best thing they've ever released. It's strange, gritty, and provoking in ways that much of their more recent music just isn't. In honor of the record's 10th anniversary, Epic/Legacy Records will re-release Moon on vinyl, with the ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 9, 2009

    The There

    ​Modest Mouse's 2000 record, The Moon & Antarctica, is still the best thing they've ever released. It's strange, gritty, and provoking in ways that much of their more recent music just isn't. In honor of the record's 10th anniversary, Epic/Legacy Records will re-release Moon on vinyl, with the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2009

    Now Hanging: Joan Myers @ Burke Museum

    Penguins and dinosaurs, together at last! The former are photographed by Joan Myers in the traveling Smithsonian show "Wondrous Cold: An Antarctic Journey," and the latter are represented by fossils that UW researchers have added to the exhibition. Myers actually emphasizes the landscape over the ad ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2009

    Your Arts & Aliens Weekend Planner

    ​The weekend begins with a monster dripping acid from its fangs in a sci-fi classic that had its world premiere at SIFF 30 years ago: Ridley Scott's director's cut of Alien--running through Tuesday--isn't much different than the 1979 original. In truth, Scott confessed of this 117-minute edit ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 30, 2009

    Wondrous Cold

    ​The weekend begins with a monster dripping acid from its fangs in a sci-fi classic that had its world premiere at SIFF 30 years ago: Ridley Scott's director's cut of Alien--running through Tuesday--isn't much different than the 1979 original. In truth, Scott confessed of this 117-minute edit ... More >>

  • Film

    February 4, 2009

    Ice People: Where’s Werner?

    ​The weekend begins with a monster dripping acid from its fangs in a sci-fi classic that had its world premiere at SIFF 30 years ago: Ridley Scott's director's cut of Alien--running through Tuesday--isn't much different than the 1979 original. In truth, Scott confessed of this 117-minute edit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2008

    Your Home-Confinement Winter Storm Reading List

    If you're not already trapped at home, the next weather front may strand you there without anything to do but eat and watch TV. (Or, worse yet, talk to family members.) Don't succumb to such brainless cabin fever! Instead, since not all UPS trucks can deliver your Amazon.com orders, remember that yo ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 16, 2008

    Angels in America

    If you're not already trapped at home, the next weather front may strand you there without anything to do but eat and watch TV. (Or, worse yet, talk to family members.) Don't succumb to such brainless cabin fever! Instead, since not all UPS trucks can deliver your Amazon.com orders, remember that yo ... More >>

  • Film

    July 9, 2008

    PICK Encounters at the End of the World: Werner Herzog loves frozen wasteland, hates penguins

    If you're not already trapped at home, the next weather front may strand you there without anything to do but eat and watch TV. (Or, worse yet, talk to family members.) Don't succumb to such brainless cabin fever! Instead, since not all UPS trucks can deliver your Amazon.com orders, remember that yo ... More >>

  • Film

    May 21, 2008

    SIFF Generis: An introduction and taxonomy to this year’s fest.

    If you're not already trapped at home, the next weather front may strand you there without anything to do but eat and watch TV. (Or, worse yet, talk to family members.) Don't succumb to such brainless cabin fever! Instead, since not all UPS trucks can deliver your Amazon.com orders, remember that yo ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 12, 2008

    Christian Sidor

    “Fossil hunting at the bottom of the world”

  • Calendar

    January 16, 2008

    A Beauty This Immense

    Images from where it’s always winter... for now

  • Music

    June 13, 2007

    Wrecking-Ball Dodger Jeff Ofelt Has Employed Half the City's Rock Stars

    Images from where it’s always winter... for now

  • Arts

    April 26, 2006

    The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party

    Shackleton mania continues—this time from the opposite side of Antarctica.

  • Arts

    January 25, 2006

    Film Calendar

    Shackleton mania continues—this time from the opposite side of Antarctica.

  • Arts

    December 28, 2005

    Frozen Prose

    Two memoirs show different aspects of one very cold place.

  • Music

    November 2, 2005

    Six Degrees of John Cale

    Two memoirs show different aspects of one very cold place.

  • Film

    June 29, 2005

    Luc Jacquet

    The director of March of the Penguins.

  • Food

    July 14, 2004

    Other Fish in the Sea

    So why are you still eating toothfish?

  • Film

    June 2, 2004

    The Day After Tomorrow, and Other Releases

    So why are you still eating toothfish?

  • Music

    April 7, 2004

    Countdown

    So why are you still eating toothfish?

  • Music

    March 31, 2004

    Countdown

    So why are you still eating toothfish?

  • Music

    March 24, 2004

    Countdown

    So why are you still eating toothfish?

  • Diversions

    April 16, 2003

    April 1622, 2003

    So why are you still eating toothfish?

  • Food

    October 9, 2002

    Hot Dish

    So why are you still eating toothfish?

  • Film

    November 14, 2001

    Polar star

    Eighty-five years later, Shackleton's screen legend keeps growing.

  • Music

    September 5, 2001

    Countdown

    Top-selling Northwest albums at local independent record stores

  • News

    March 7, 2001

    Destination: Everywhere and back again

    A man who's been around the world—and the block.

  • Music

    December 27, 2000

    Whadchagit?

    A man who's been around the world—and the block.

  • Music

    December 20, 2000

    That's a wrap

    Seattle Weekly's top 20 albums of 2000.

  • News

    December 13, 2000

    Buy-tech

    How to please the insufferable gearheads in your life

  • News

    December 6, 2000

    Log on locally, opine globally

    The Planet Project would like to teach the world to speak up.

  • News

    November 29, 2000

    Log on locally, opine globally

    The Planet Project would like to teach the world to speak up.

  • Arts

    November 22, 2000

    Selling danger

    Upscale adventure has its hazards—or does that just add to the allure?

  • Diversions

    September 6, 2000

    Evil empires

    He has met the enemies.

  • News

    August 30, 2000

    Must-see B-V

    Five Bumbershoot acts that you absolutely, positively can't miss.

  • News

    August 16, 2000

    Start-ups and shut downs

    Rumors of my departure are accurate.

  • Arts

    June 28, 2000

    Chillin' out

    A National Science Foundation artist paints the seventh continent.

  • Music

    May 10, 2000

    Guest columnist Larry King hits the clubs, bow tie and all.

    A National Science Foundation artist paints the seventh continent.

  • Music

    March 22, 2000

    A report from SXSW; Hi*Score lives!

    A National Science Foundation artist paints the seventh continent.

  • Food

    January 26, 2000

    Tempero do Brasil

    Fun, fishy, and authentic Brazilian food.

  • Arts

    December 8, 1999

    Book a Trip

    Can't get away? Words can take you instead

  • News

    February 17, 1999

    Sparrows and supertramps

    Can't get away? Words can take you instead

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