Cambodia

SIFF: Rick Stevenson's 10-Year Documentary

Last Stop: Rollin' Q

The Truck: Rollin' Q, details found on Twitter and Facebook. The Fare: Texas barbecue and comfort food, like fried chicken, okra and biscuits. The Stop: As I readied myself to leave grey Seattle for tuk tuks and a reporting gig in Cambodia -- and what will most likely be endless amounts of food po ... More >>

King Donuts' Queen Bee Davie Hay on Life Behind the Donut Counter

After taking over ownership of King Donuts in Rainier Beach for their parents, sisters Davie and Channa Hay have added more flavor to the place, and it's not just the donuts. Fully equipped with sass and lip, the Hay sisters fend off advances from male customers and tackle eccentric characters at th ... More >>

Samway Oriental Foods in White Center: Your Place for Stolen Toothpaste and Shampoo

Sam Yim​A couple months back, King County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Satterberg filed charges against two separate immigrant families he said were responsible for operating junkie-powered theft rings in supermarkets and stores in the southern part of the county. Combined, Satterberg alleged, the ... More >>

Friday Food Porn: Eating Pac-Man at Wild Ginger

Photo courtesy Joshua Huston​ Wild Ginger has spent years doing the same thing, bucking every trend and ignoring every crazy fluctuation in the fickle tastes of the dining public. It started out doing Asian fusion back in the first bloom of its cool and simply never stopped. Today, the rest ... More >>

Wild Ginger's Static Cling

Seattle's favorite fusion restaurant sticks to its guns.

Slip-Sliding Noodles at Phnom Penh

​Dish: Goo Nam Noodle Place: Phnom Penh Noodle House, International District, Seattle Price: $6.50 In the Bowl: Per the menu: "Cambodian spiced beef stew and tendon served with wide rice noodles." Supporting Cast: A plate of bean sprouts (they'll ask if you want them raw or steamed) with a ... More >>

And Everything Is Going Fine: Spalding Gray's Last Words. And Then Some

​Dish: Goo Nam Noodle Place: Phnom Penh Noodle House, International District, Seattle Price: $6.50 In the Bowl: Per the menu: "Cambodian spiced beef stew and tendon served with wide rice noodles." Supporting Cast: A plate of bean sprouts (they'll ask if you want them raw or steamed) with a ... More >>

Kent Pedophile, Allegedly Wanting Sex with Cambodian 12-Year-Olds, Faces Sex Tourism Charges

Carr allegedly paid nearly $5,000 to have sex with underage Cambodian girls. ​Before 59-year-old Kent resident Craig Thomas Carr left for a vacation in Cambodia, he allegedly answered an online ad from a Phnom Penh taxi driver who said he could provide access to child prostitutes. Carr's desir ... More >>

Dancing Across Borders: A Former PNB Star Emerges From Obscurity

Carr allegedly paid nearly $5,000 to have sex with underage Cambodian girls. ​Before 59-year-old Kent resident Craig Thomas Carr left for a vacation in Cambodia, he allegedly answered an online ad from a Phnom Penh taxi driver who said he could provide access to child prostitutes. Carr's desir ... More >>

REVERB: Visqueen: Defying All Labels

Rachel Flotard vows to deliver her band’s message, with an assist from her late father.

The Queen of White Center

Sour soup, salty donuts, and other Cambodian specialties at Queen’s Deli.

SIFF Review: Dancing Across Borders

The story of Sokvannara Sar, who began performing traditional Khmer dance in Cambodia as a child; who was discovered by filmmaker Anne Bass, who sponsored his studies at New York's School of American Ballet; and who was brought by Peter Boal from there to apprentice with (2006) and join the corps of ... More >>

The Atheists, Obama, and Me: Part Deux

In which the columnist, by popular demand, expounds further on religion, first ladies, and homophobia.

Sasquatch I Heard This: Dengue Fever

In which the columnist, by popular demand, expounds further on religion, first ladies, and homophobia.

Cambodian New Year

In which the columnist, by popular demand, expounds further on religion, first ladies, and homophobia.

Terror’s Advocate: Learning to Love Pol Pot

In which the columnist, by popular demand, expounds further on religion, first ladies, and homophobia.

Hot Wires

A small classroom of South Seattle immigrants helps fuel a domestic electronics renaissance.

Lovingly Constructed

Two new MLK restaurants make it worth braving the light-rail chaos.

Big Ideas, Small World

Dengue Fever's incurable grooves.

Stupid Kids

Also: The Ugly American.

Today's Domino Theory

Also: The Ugly American.

This Week's Reads

Seth Greenland, Philip Short, Bruce Wagner, and Jana Hensel.

Vollmann in One Volume

Just in time for Fallujah, the famously brave, verbose writer has condensed his epic rumination on violence—although hearing him explain it may still be preferable to actually reading it.

Now We're Playing Pigball!

The worst things that the right and left can say about each other are sticking—and selling like hotcakes.

Two Views of 9/11

Whose conspiracy theory to believe: the official one, involving Ahmed Ressam, or those of possible crackpots?

The New Abolitionists

Whose conspiracy theory to believe: the official one, involving Ahmed Ressam, or those of possible crackpots?

The New Abolitionists

Freeing 'sex slaves' is now at the top of the human rights agenda, thanks to Christian evangelicals, the Bush administration, and two former Washington politicians, Linda Smith and John Miller. How did the anti-trafficking crusade evolve, and is it being overhyped?

Old Gold

Climax Golden Twins trade noise for folk—for now.

Panaceas and Primates

Climax Golden Twins trade noise for folk—for now.

Gulf of Talkin'

Valid or not, comparisons to the deviously escalated Vietnam War are hard to dismiss these days.

Seattle Human Rights Film Festival

Hard truth and soft rhetoric at a political film fest.

This Week's Attractions

Hard truth and soft rhetoric at a political film fest.

Take This . . .

Dancers reclaim the past.

Movies A-E: From Abouna to the Eye

Dancers reclaim the past.

Dining Calendar

Dancers reclaim the past.

Who's Kissinger Now?

A fine BBC documentary makes the case for jailing the bastard.

Dining Calendar

A fine BBC documentary makes the case for jailing the bastard.

The Fire Last Time

As weapons and tactics evolve, war's toll on the environment is of increasing concern.

Lost in America

As weapons and tactics evolve, war's toll on the environment is of increasing concern.

" . . . these jerks will come here and abuse [the] system, as generous as America is to its poor and tempest-tossed humbled masses."

As weapons and tactics evolve, war's toll on the environment is of increasing concern.

Waiting in Cambodia

Seattle is at the center of an international adoption controversy that's preventing families from bringing their children home.

Press passing

Seattle is at the center of an international adoption controversy that's preventing families from bringing their children home.

The smoke clears- fast

Talking turnaround with the editor of the first Sept. 11 book.

Room 1525A

Seventeen letters determine a paralegal's life.

Destination: Wherever they send you

A "sensitive outsider" makes a career out of junkets to scary places.

Book shorts

A "sensitive outsider" makes a career out of junkets to scary places.

1975 all over again

A "sensitive outsider" makes a career out of junkets to scary places.

Train to nowhere

A "sensitive outsider" makes a career out of junkets to scary places.

Sparrows and supertramps

A "sensitive outsider" makes a career out of junkets to scary places.