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  • News

    May 2, 2012

    Our Military Has a Gambling Problem

    Combat veterans fall prey to gambling addictions at an alarming rate--where's the military when the chips are down?

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2012

    Seattle Marine Sgt. William Stacey Becomes the 1,189th American Fighter to Die in Afghanistan

    Stacey​The Catch 22 of the war in Afghanistan is the longer we stay, the longer we have to stay. The daily cost in lives and treasury makes it ever more necessary to leave, yet creates an investment that's increasingly difficult to forsake. The generals think the solution is the ongoing Iraq- ... More >>

  • News

    February 8, 2012

    Updated: The War Dead Since Sept. 21, 2011

    Stacey​The Catch 22 of the war in Afghanistan is the longer we stay, the longer we have to stay. The daily cost in lives and treasury makes it ever more necessary to leave, yet creates an investment that's increasingly difficult to forsake. The generals think the solution is the ongoing Iraq- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2011

    "Occupy" Facebook Supporters: Seattle (20,000 ) Loses to Sesame Street (35,000 ), But Beats Bellevue (1)

    ​In an extremely unscientific survey of "Occupy" Facebook groups conducted yesterday by Seattle Weekly, Seattle, the nation's 23rd largest city, has the fifth-largest number of virtual supporters in the country. "Occupy Bellevue," on the other hand, has only one. Renton has two. We strongly ... More >>

  • News

    September 21, 2011

    Iraq 2007-2011

    ​In an extremely unscientific survey of "Occupy" Facebook groups conducted yesterday by Seattle Weekly, Seattle, the nation's 23rd largest city, has the fifth-largest number of virtual supporters in the country. "Occupy Bellevue," on the other hand, has only one. Renton has two. We strongly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2010

    Did Michael Lee Jones, Convicted Rapist, Ever Work in Washington?

    ​This month's Vanity Fair features a gripping article written by Mark Bowden, he of "Black Hawk Down" fame. "The Case of the Vanishing Blonde" is about one private eye's attempt to find the man responsible for raping and beating a Russian woman in a Miami hotel. A search that would eventually ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2010

    Getting It Off Your Chest: Worst Cities For Food Lovers

    ​ So last week, we had a little web-world brouhaha over why Seattle has a better and more enduring BBQ tradition than Kansas City and how Seattleites giving the digital middle-finger to California should be proud never to have actually traveled to California. It was ugly and it was stupid and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2010

    Maps & Atlases Reveal Album Artwork, Headlining Summer Tour Dates

    ​Barsuk's Maps & Atlases will release their debut full-length, Perch Patchwork, on June 29. (Click here to listen to the record's intricately proggy first single, "Solid Ground"). Today the band revealed Perch Patchwork's album cover and announced a headlining summer tour. They're currently on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2010

    The Country's Second-Best Donut Shop Announces Top 12 Fan-Created Donuts

    I heart you, pink sprinkly donut...​I love donuts. A lot. And back when I could still drink it without it tearing my stomach to shreds, I loved coffee almost as much. I could go an entire day on nothing but a couple plain glazed, ten or twelve cups of coffee and a pack of cigarettes back in th ... More >>

  • News

    March 17, 2010

    Facing Our Losses - Iraq 2010

    Washington's toll in Iraq in 2010.

  • News

    December 2, 2009

    Cover Story: Buddy Count

    A Fort Lewis court-martial will determine the fate of an allegedly murderous Army sergeant, whose case may help explain the surge in non-combat deaths.

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2009

    Q&A: DJ BK-One Goes Canibal

    ​Minneapolis-based DJ BK-One is best known for standing behind the tables holding down Brother Ali for the last decade, but today, he releases his own full-length album, Rádio do Canibal. The album, which blends samples and rhythms from a wide swath of Brazilian music, features some hometown ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2009

    Magnolia Electric Co. Books Tour Dates in Reno, Lubbock, TX, and Turret, UT...But Not Seattle. WTF?!

    A few of you know that even though I came to Seattle from Portland, I was actually born and raised in Reno, Nevada, which-- at least while I lived there-- was a musical wasteland of pop punk, screamo and crappy straight-edge hardcore played by self-righteous religious freaks who would beat your ass ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2008

    I Don't Miss Ferries

    View from the boat. Not today. But, today's an exception. The other day, when I was running to the ferry from our exceptionally-placed offices on Western (there is no better building for a ferry-depending employee to work downtown), I realized that I was plenty early to catch the ferry, and had n ... More >>

  • Film

    August 27, 2008

    Constantine's Sword: Something's Rotten in the Vatican

    View from the boat. Not today. But, today's an exception. The other day, when I was running to the ferry from our exceptionally-placed offices on Western (there is no better building for a ferry-depending employee to work downtown), I realized that I was plenty early to catch the ferry, and had n ... More >>

  • News

    June 22, 2005

    One Family's new focus

    Mary Lou Wallner lost her daughter. She doesn't want Dr. James Dobson to take your child, too.

  • News

    December 17, 2003

    Facing Our Losses - Iraq 2007

    Washington's toll in Iraq in 2007.

  • Arts

    September 20, 2000

    Book briefs

    The desire to know, and the desire to know oneself.

  • News

    May 26, 1999

    Schoolkids for sale

    The desire to know, and the desire to know oneself.

  • News

    June 17, 1998

    Choose 'Life'

    I'm hooked on 'This American Life,' but sometimes Ira delivers some bad dope.

  • News

    April 15, 1998

    Media Culpa

    I'm hooked on 'This American Life,' but sometimes Ira delivers some bad dope.

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