Cruises

Film Socialisme: Jean-Luc Godard Does His JLG Thing Yet Again

Black Lips' "Modern Art" vs. Art Brut's "Modern Art"

Continuing on yesterday's theme of compare-and-contrasting like-titled things, today we pit the new single "Modern Art" from Vice Records' Hotlanta garage rock "bad boys" (OMG, they threw a guitar off a boat! ...because they were playing on a fucking Carnival Cruise ship) against singy-talky smart ... More >>

Attention Pirates: Starbucks Takes to the High Seas

Photo courtesy greenvilledailyphoto.com​ I know how comforted you are by knowing that, at no time in your life, will you ever be more than fifty paces from a Starbucks. In every city, in every town, on islands, in shopping malls and on airplanes, there is no place man can go that Starbucks ha ... More >>

Seattle Maritime Festival

Photo courtesy greenvilledailyphoto.com​ I know how comforted you are by knowing that, at no time in your life, will you ever be more than fifty paces from a Starbucks. In every city, in every town, on islands, in shopping malls and on airplanes, there is no place man can go that Starbucks ha ... More >>

Maritime Blight at Anthony's Pier 66 Is Finally Over!

For months, diners, pedestrians, and mariners who frequent the Bell Street Pier on Alaskan Way have been confounded by the giant, beige Matson container ship, which has been moored since October just south of the cruise ship pier. Anthony''s Pier 66 restaurant was particularly unhappy, since that bi ... More >>

Good News and Bad: More Tourists

That ripple of cruise lines pulling their sailings out of Vancouver and moving them to Seattle seems to have turned into a wave. A few weeks ago, Carnival Cruise Lines announced it was relocating nine of its Alaska sailings to Seattle next season. That's an estimated $18 million loss in B.C. tourism ... More >>

Harvey Danger, Awesome, BOAT

A not-so-ironic return

Ralph Nader: Spoiler Welcomes You to the Voyage of the Damned

The Nation magazine's celebrity-filled, left-leaning cruise to Alaska is about to set sail.

Voyage of the Damned

The Nation magazine's celebrity-filled, left-leaning cruise to Alaska is about to set sail.

Sundays, Boozy Sundays

The Nation magazine's celebrity-filled, left-leaning cruise to Alaska is about to set sail.

A Cruise Not Fit for a Queen

But there was that cab-driving, tour-giving, reggae-spinning Belize native.

A Waterfront Brawl

E-mails suggest Port of Seattle CEO Mic Dinsmore tried to influence last year's Port Commission election, and two of the five members think he should go.

Port of Seattle, Boeing, Quote

E-mails suggest Port of Seattle CEO Mic Dinsmore tried to influence last year's Port Commission election, and two of the five members think he should go.

The Port in a Storm

The races for Seattle Port Commission might change the direction of King County's billion-dollar, economic-development government.

Big Bucks for Port Races

A new PAC raises $100,000.

Letters to the Editor

. . . [Mark D. Fefer] should get out of the kitchen and go back to reviewing jazz Muzakthe real Seattle sound.

Strait Flush

The floating 'crap' game that is the cruise-ship industry.

Pier Pressure

Cruise-ship protesters say the Port is denying them access to public property.

Buzz

Cruise-ship protesters say the Port is denying them access to public property.

Cruising Is Bruising

As the Port seeks more cruise ships, critics decry inconsistent environmental regs.

News Clips— Cruise dumps

As the Port seeks more cruise ships, critics decry inconsistent environmental regs.

"If you are going on a cruise this summer, cancel your vacation, or if you must go, hold it in for the length of the cruise."

As the Port seeks more cruise ships, critics decry inconsistent environmental regs.

Cruise controls

Environmental concerns trail Love Boats as they steam into Seattle.

The Port: low pay, but high returns

Environmental concerns trail Love Boats as they steam into Seattle.

Terminal Cruise?

Taxpayers face another long walk—off the Port's short-falling Pier 66.