Bangladesh

Whores' Glory: A Sad Global Survey of the Sex Trade

The (Alleged) Adventures of Phoenix Jones

Trying to uncover what's real and what isn't about Seattle's most famous superhero.

Madhur Jaffrey

Trying to uncover what's real and what isn't about Seattle's most famous superhero.

This Week's Horoscope

Trying to uncover what's real and what isn't about Seattle's most famous superhero.

Fleeting Victories

Cultures collide at the Frye—and it’s your last two weeks to see the carnage.

"Empire"

Cultures collide at the Frye—and it’s your last two weeks to see the carnage.

A Literary Sampling of Jim McDermott’s Amen Corner

Cultures collide at the Frye—and it’s your last two weeks to see the carnage.

Why Jim McDermott Thinks Global, Disdains Local

Seattle's nine-term representative in the House seems more like an appointed ambassador of leftist good will than the elected representative of a Pacific Northwest city.

Get Your Facts Straight, and Say "No" to Dumping While You're at It

Seattle's nine-term representative in the House seems more like an appointed ambassador of leftist good will than the elected representative of a Pacific Northwest city.

A Complete Guide to the Rules of the Universe, and More

Read; be read to.

Sept. 27-Oct. 4, 2006

Who's more noble—Gregory Peck or Harry Dean Stanton?

Sept. 20-27, 2006

The Bad Brains, I-horror, the final spawn of Project Greenlight, and a rare old family film from Jacques Tourneur.

One Crude Dude

With Big Oil reeling from the Prudhoe Bay shutdown, Chuck Hamel can finally say 'I told you so.'

SIFF News, Picks, and Pans

With Big Oil reeling from the Prudhoe Bay shutdown, Chuck Hamel can finally say 'I told you so.'

The Year of Living Stupidly

It's time to tell ourselves we're doing a heckuva job.

Doing the 'Pu'

You've heard of SIFF and TIFF. Welcome to PIFF, the tightest ship among Asian film festivals.

Seattle, Seventh Heaven

For the religious right, that is.

Company for the People

If Wal-Mart represents red-state America's ruthless race to the bottom line, then Issaquah-based retailer Costco offers a blue-state alternative. The company is proving Wall Street wrong by adhering to a radical idea: Treating customers and employees right is good business.

What Next?

Two writer/activists discuss strategies for coping with the postelection world and the importance of activism.

We Don't Live Here Anymore

Plus: The Clay Bird, Father and Son, My Sister Maria, Seducing Dr. Lewis, and Without a Paddle.

Pork-Pillow Politics

Sen. Patty Murray has worked hard on Capitol Hill for port security funding, and her husband's Seattle employer, SSA Marine, has benefited.

Parallel Lines

Documentary director goes looking for his dead father, creates self-portrait in the process.

This Week's Reads

Monica Ali, Adam Haslett, Jonathan Lethem, and Cathleen Schine.

Con Fusion

It all started with chop suey, and it hasn't stopped yet.

Puget Sound's Rustbuckets

Nearly half the oil tankers plying Washington waters would be banned from Europe for being too old.

Hooray for Bollywood

Kirkland cinema dishes up Hindi-language movies.

5. Those who will be missed

Three deaths that left a hole in the music world.

Down with Kyoto!

Three deaths that left a hole in the music world.

The Culture Bunker

Three deaths that left a hole in the music world.

Mistaken identities

We have met the World Trade Order, and it isn't us.

Everything WTO

We have met the World Trade Order, and it isn't us.

That giant sucking sound

Why the WTO poses a threat to the Pacific Northwest.

Proper Victorians

Why the WTO poses a threat to the Pacific Northwest.

Don't get sick

Why the WTO poses a threat to the Pacific Northwest.

Hostel intentions

The art of slacking in Seattle, as practiced by twentysomething foreign visitors

One is not the loneliest number

Be like me: Stop after the first kid, says Bill McKibben.