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Course Alert: Sushi I - Basic Sushi Rolling

Press Release of the Day: Rare and Precious Artichokes

Starting Over With Tequila

Your post-college primer.

Mexicans Are Drinking Our Water!

Your post-college primer.

Are Caucasians Too Cheap to Honor the Real First Citizens of the County?

Your post-college primer.

Cave Match

Your post-college primer.

Easy Riders

Hairy hippies make good stoner music once again.

Skygreen Leopards

Plus CD Reviews of The Modernist, Lucinda Williams, and the Hightone Records Story.

Guilt-Free Fish Eggs

There's more than one kind of caviar; some are even legal.

Water Into Wine

There's more than one kind of caviar; some are even legal.

Girlyman

There's more than one kind of caviar; some are even legal.

Safety Last

There's more than one kind of caviar; some are even legal.

Legal, Tender

If foie gras is outlawed, let them eat (Australian) cake.

Hi-Yo Syrah . . . Away!

West Coast winemakers bring the Rhône back home.

Sips

West Coast winemakers bring the Rhône back home.

A Glass of Clouds and Dreams

West Coast winemakers bring the Rhône back home.

The ABCs of A.B.C.

West Coast winemakers bring the Rhône back home.

Sips

Oysters, wine, & thou

News Clips— Needle Exchange

Oysters, wine, & thou

The Hot Sheet

What's in, what's fresh, what's cooking.

Sips

Love is blind

Power trip

Don't believe the hype. The lights won't be going out in seattle. Beyond the inescapable fact that our legendarily cheap northwest electricity won't be that cheap anymore, there's good to come from our latest energy crisis.

Aryan Northwest

The region's Nazi problem is rooted in our history.

Washington = Merlot

How the wine craze of the century started, right in our own backyard.

Outrage over outreach

Affirmative action's flash point isn't 'racial preferences.' It's math tutoring for girls.

Affirmative Reaction

Whether or not Initiative 200 passes, the legal bell is tolling for race-based preferences. What kind of university will that leave us?

The Terminator

Whether or not Initiative 200 passes, the legal bell is tolling for race-based preferences. What kind of university will that leave us?

What Good Have Mexicans Done For California?

Whether or not Initiative 200 passes, the legal bell is tolling for race-based preferences. What kind of university will that leave us?

As California Goes, So Goes ...

​ Jim Wunderman, Steven Hill & Krist Novoselic When John Phillips wrote about "California Dreaming" with the Mamas & the Papas, he was talking about opportunities in the Golden State. Chris Cornell wrote "I'm looking California, but feeling Minnesota" in Soundgarden's "Outshined." For all its ... More >>

Meanwhile on the Daily Weekly, Novoselic on His Time as a Roadie for the Melvins

After after his brief stint as a roadie with the Melvins, our columnist had the good fortune of making music with the band. Listen to an mp3 of them playing "Sacrifice."​In his weekly column over on the Daily Weekly, Krist Novoselic talks about hitching back from California as a roadie for the ... More >>

Why Don't Uninsured Mexicans Just Take the Bus?

After after his brief stint as a roadie with the Melvins, our columnist had the good fortune of making music with the band. Listen to an mp3 of them playing "Sacrifice."​In his weekly column over on the Daily Weekly, Krist Novoselic talks about hitching back from California as a roadie for the ... More >>

Ask a Mexican

SPECIAL NAVIDAD GIFTS EDITION

Duff McKagan: I've Been Listening to The Binges, The Mentors, Orianthi, and Plenty of NAMM Chatter

Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. He writes about what's circulating through his iPod every Monday.​Every year, I participate in the NAMM convention in Anaheim, California. It is a meeting of music instrument and accessory manufacturers and all of the retailers that are look ... More >>

Pot's Progress

Still a million bucks behind Cali.

A Grudging Admission that Umi is Better than Blue C Sushi

Umi is filled with tiny tables and dudes wearing Ed Hardy T- shirts. But don't hold it against them.​I recently had my ass handed to me by the Peanut Gallery for what the general public apparently thought was an overly generous review of Blue C Sushi. Well fuck you, general public. I wanted t ... More >>

The Anti-Mexican Slur Edition

Umi is filled with tiny tables and dudes wearing Ed Hardy T- shirts. But don't hold it against them.​I recently had my ass handed to me by the Peanut Gallery for what the general public apparently thought was an overly generous review of Blue C Sushi. Well fuck you, general public. I wanted t ... More >>

Speaking of Chicken, Is Yours Worth $10,000

All I see are about twenty different recipes with feet​I've always figured that, when everything else in my life finally, inevitably falls apart--when I have grown too old and too slow to survive in a kitchen any longer, when the editors of the world tire of my shenanigans and I become too jad ... More >>

Also Tonight: West Seattle Summerfest Kicks Off

Photo by Hilary HarrisHumble Pie devotees the Fixers will kick-start WSSF tonight.​Highlights for this afternoon and evening include the Fixers (California Stage at 5:15 p.m), the Tom Price Desert Classic (6:30 p.m. on the California Stage), Midnight Idols (7:45 p.m., Alaska Stage), Satchel (8 ... More >>

Ex-Girlfriends: How Visible Is Too Visible?

Photo by Hilary HarrisHumble Pie devotees the Fixers will kick-start WSSF tonight.​Highlights for this afternoon and evening include the Fixers (California Stage at 5:15 p.m), the Tom Price Desert Classic (6:30 p.m. on the California Stage), Midnight Idols (7:45 p.m., Alaska Stage), Satchel (8 ... More >>

NME Names 50 Best New Bands of 2010, and Only One Seattle Musician Made the Cut

In honor of 2010's halfway mark, NME has made a list of the 50 best bands to debut this year. In usual NME style, a good chunk of what the mag calls the "most exciting new acts" are from predictable places like London, New York, or California. (The No. 1 band, Best Coast, hails from Los Angeles; t ... More >>

Super Bowl Snacks Without Gas Attacks

​The Fart Without Fear Cookbook aims to limit the unwanted side effects of eating salty, fatty, and other delicious meals. The book is a matter-of-fact look at what causes gas and how to reduce it in the food you cook. Read Part I for the full review. With tongue firmly planted in cheek, cha ... More >>

Medical-Marijuana Market in Washington State Is Still Relatively Tiny, According to First-of-Its-Kind Report

​With dozens of medical-marijuana dispensaries proliferating all around town, authorizing doctors openly advertising their services, and a newly opened cannabis farmers market, it often seems as if the local medical-pot business is going gangbusters. But according to the first methodical analy ... More >>

Small Harvest

Washington's medical-marijuana industry isn't as big as you think.

Seattle-Area CEOs Are Seventh Highest Paid in the Country

​Breaking news! Seattle-area CEOs make far, far more money than you. But don't fret. They make more than a lot of other CEOs too.

Ask a Mexican!

​Breaking news! Seattle-area CEOs make far, far more money than you. But don't fret. They make more than a lot of other CEOs too.

Local Anarchists Protest California Prisons by Setting Off Smoke Bombs and Littering in Seattle

​Suppose you're an anarchist who'd like to protest the treatment of inmates at the Pelican Bay prison in California. You could: Travel to California and hold a rally near Pelican Bay; travel to California and hold a rally outside the Department of Corrections headquarters in Sacramento; hold a ... More >>

Feds Order California Pot Dispensaries to Close - Is Washington Next?

Image Source​Federal prosecutors in California moved yesterday to shutdown hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries across the Golden State, sending "extremely threatening" letters to the pot shops' landlords warning that they could face criminal charges and confiscation of their property if ... More >>

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 >>

Seattle's Top 5 California Rolls

​California Rolls have successfully served as the gateway drug to many a sushi addiction. Fans can easily recall the first time they broke the back end off their first roll, sank it in wasabi/ginger soy sauce and got hooked. Though sushi zealots dismiss the California Roll as the ultimate Amer ... More >>

Breaking News: California's Gay-Marriage Ban Ruled Unconstitutional

​A three-member panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has just ruled that California's ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional. The federal court said the state cannot prevent gay couples from marrying just because a majority of voters said so. The 2-1 decision is a huge victory for gay-ri ... More >>