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Eastern Europe

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    Does La Bête Have the Secret to a Perfect Pierogi?

    La Bête has found a unique way to sidestep the Monday night lull: by taking their show on the road. The same staff cooks in the same kitchen of the same restaurant, even including pieces of the same menu (their famous pork rinds and pickled shallots make an appearance), but diners go on a whirlwind ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 28, 2012

    Leela Corman

    La Bête has found a unique way to sidestep the Monday night lull: by taking their show on the road. The same staff cooks in the same kitchen of the same restaurant, even including pieces of the same menu (their famous pork rinds and pickled shallots make an appearance), but diners go on a whirlwind ... More >>

  • Film

    February 29, 2012

    Kill List: Even Hit Men Have Their Domestic Worries

    La Bête has found a unique way to sidestep the Monday night lull: by taking their show on the road. The same staff cooks in the same kitchen of the same restaurant, even including pieces of the same menu (their famous pork rinds and pickled shallots make an appearance), but diners go on a whirlwind ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2012

    Is America Even in the Game Anymore? Amazon Moves Into India In a Big Way

    The Sunday New York Times had a provocative story on just how far America has fallen from economic grace, and that the largest technological-making purveyors in this country (Apple, in particular) have all but given up on this country's ability to supply the needed tech-savvy workforce and factory ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2012

    Book Recommendation: Alina Simone's Hilarious & Heartwarming Essay Collection You Must Go And Win

    One perk of being snowed in/too afraid for your life to venture anywhere on the icy roads? Hours and hours of reading time. I've spent the past three days devouring Alina Simone's collection of essays You Must Go And Win. Simone is a Ukraine-born, Brooklyn-based folk-rock singer; in 2008, after she ... More >>

  • Film

    January 18, 2012

    My Joy: Runaway Iniquity in Modern Russia

    One perk of being snowed in/too afraid for your life to venture anywhere on the icy roads? Hours and hours of reading time. I've spent the past three days devouring Alina Simone's collection of essays You Must Go And Win. Simone is a Ukraine-born, Brooklyn-based folk-rock singer; in 2008, after she ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2012

    Greg Nickels Is Back! And He's Thinking of Running For Secretary of State

    Seems our erstwhile ex-mayor wants back in the game. Having spent the past couple of years on a Harvard fellowship and as public delegate to the United Nation -- and even advisor to mayors in the Ukraine -- Greg Nickel is pondering a run for Secretary of State.

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    Miss Washington USA Doesn't Believe in Teaching Evolution (And Neither Do Many of Her Competitors)

    ​"Do you believe that evolution should be taught in public schools?" It's a simple question with a seemingly obvious answer ("Yes, duh"), but when that query was posed to 50 aspiring beauty queens last week leading up to Sunday's nationally televised pageant, all but one of them sputtered lik ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2011

    HT Oaktree Market: Great for Groceries, Disappointing for Dinner

    Don't eat me!​Where most businesses strive for excellence, HT Oaktree Market revels in its mediocrity. The floors are dirty and littered with buckets to catch the drips from the ceiling when it rains. Tilapia swim miserably in murky tanks, waiting to become dinner. The pastry case has been emp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2011

    UW Scientists Find Japanese Radiation in Campus Ventilation System

    Image source​A team of researchers from the University of Washington's Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics didn't have to go very far afield to test for airborne radiation from Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant -- they just examined air filters from the ventil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    Top Chef Robin Leventhal is Mercer Island's New Jewish Mother

    Robin Leventhal rollin' with her gnocchi.​Top Chef season six contestant and former owner of the beloved Capitol Hill bistro Crave, Robin Leventhal, has started a new project and will be cooking for you very soon! Leventhal has been put in charge of the kitchen at Stopsky's, a new delicatesse ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2011

    First Hill Loses Neighborhood Grocery Store, Greenwood Gains a Beer Garden, & More

    Everybody loves a beer garden!​Here's a brief rundown of this week's restaurant news... Starting on Capitol Hill, Café Kanape is now open at 700 Broadway Avenue East. The Eastern Europe-inspired menu features canapés I(aka finger food), crepes, and salads. On First Hill, M Street Grocery ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2011

    Eastern Europe-Inspired Café Kanape Now Open on Capitol Hill

    ​Café Kanape is now open at 700 Broadway Ave. E., according to Capitol Hill Seattle. The Eastern Europe-inspired menu features canapés, aka finger food--like that on the right--crepes, and salads. Curious folks can check out the café for happy hour on weekdays from 4 to 6 p.m. for $3.50 wel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2010

    Natalie Portman Will Have the Egg Whites and Grapefruit

    Portman's ballerina has no appetite.Niko Tavernise​The Dinner: Mushroom and Swiss Burger and beers at DeLuxe Bar & Grill (625 Broadway). The Movie: Black Swan at Pacific Place (600 Pine St.). The Screenplate: Located at the same Broadway and Roy corner location for over seven decades, the De ... More >>

  • Film

    September 15, 2010

    Bunny and the Bull: Brits Traverse an Imaginary Europe

    Portman's ballerina has no appetite.Niko Tavernise​The Dinner: Mushroom and Swiss Burger and beers at DeLuxe Bar & Grill (625 Broadway). The Movie: Black Swan at Pacific Place (600 Pine St.). The Screenplate: Located at the same Broadway and Roy corner location for over seven decades, the De ... More >>

  • Arts

    June 16, 2010

    Opening Nights: Kooza

    Cirque du Soleil appeals to the Dockers crowd.

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2010

    The Tea Party's Nothing More Than Rage Against the Machine

    Krist Novoselic's column on music and politics runs every Tuesday on Reverb. Check back on Friday when he writes about what he's been listening to.​"Kill the bill--n****r!", shouted the white Tea Partier to black congressman John Lewis. The bill, of course, was the health-care measure passed o ... More >>

  • News

    December 9, 2009

    The Eastern Block

    Slavic immigrants are the most visible face of opposition to gay marriage in Washington. And that’s not by chance.

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2009

    R-71, Religious Association, and My Pentecostal Experience

    Krist Novoselic's column runs every Tuesday on the Daily Weekly.​When I lived in Yugoslavia, most of my relatives were either dogmatic Catholics or dogmatic Marxists. The schism would manifest itself most notably at funerals, where Marxists would refuse to enter the church and stood outside fo ... More >>

  • Film

    July 22, 2009

    PICK The Country Teacher: Coming Out in the Czech Republic

    Krist Novoselic's column runs every Tuesday on the Daily Weekly.​When I lived in Yugoslavia, most of my relatives were either dogmatic Catholics or dogmatic Marxists. The schism would manifest itself most notably at funerals, where Marxists would refuse to enter the church and stood outside fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2009

    Music: The Great Messenger

    There's much to admire about the rapper M.I.A. She's a working mom, a dynamite performer, and a writer of songs, like "Bucky Done Gun," that command you to give the volume knob a twist. And with her outspoken political views and heart for her homeland, Mathangi Arulpragasa reflects the global consci ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 19, 2008

    Michael Wang: Faces of Global Health

    There's much to admire about the rapper M.I.A. She's a working mom, a dynamite performer, and a writer of songs, like "Bucky Done Gun," that command you to give the volume knob a twist. And with her outspoken political views and heart for her homeland, Mathangi Arulpragasa reflects the global consci ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 17, 2008

    "Empire"

    There's much to admire about the rapper M.I.A. She's a working mom, a dynamite performer, and a writer of songs, like "Bucky Done Gun," that command you to give the volume knob a twist. And with her outspoken political views and heart for her homeland, Mathangi Arulpragasa reflects the global consci ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 18, 2008

    The Violet Hour

    There's much to admire about the rapper M.I.A. She's a working mom, a dynamite performer, and a writer of songs, like "Bucky Done Gun," that command you to give the volume knob a twist. And with her outspoken political views and heart for her homeland, Mathangi Arulpragasa reflects the global consci ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 30, 2008

    Aleksandar Hemon

    There's much to admire about the rapper M.I.A. She's a working mom, a dynamite performer, and a writer of songs, like "Bucky Done Gun," that command you to give the volume knob a twist. And with her outspoken political views and heart for her homeland, Mathangi Arulpragasa reflects the global consci ... More >>

  • Food

    March 12, 2008

    Dinner Is Served: Pork and Gelatin in a Can

    TYWËHKA are working with only the loosest definition of “gelatin.”

  • Food

    February 20, 2008

    No Cabaret, Merlot, or Riesling Here

    These local pours are of the “odd” variety.

  • Arts

    August 29, 2007

    A Sometimes Too-Faithful Young Frankenstein Has So-So Songs but Knockers-Out Performances

    The casting is uncommonly deep, with all the leads demonstrating an old-school combo of versatility, chops, and star power.

  • Arts

    January 24, 2007

    Ghetto Pride

    Northwest photographer Andrew Miksys captures the outcasts of Eastern Europe.

  • Arts

    September 13, 2006

    The Keep

    Jennifer Egan finds writers trapped within walls, and writers trapped within writers.

  • Arts

    August 30, 2006

    Small Band, Huge Target

    The Thermals take aim at our fascist regime.

  • Arts

    July 5, 2006

    On the Walls

    An opinionated guide to this week's gallery and museum shows.

  • Food

    June 14, 2006

    Brewfests: Change Is Inevitable

    An opinionated guide to this week's gallery and museum shows.

  • News

    January 18, 2006

    'There Is No War on Terror'

    An interview with Noam Chomsky.

  • Music

    November 23, 2005

    Way Out West

    Five new records from West Africa explore their roots with surprising results.

  • Film

    September 21, 2005

    Elijah Wood

    On Everything Is Illuminated.

  • Arts

    March 16, 2005

    March 16-22, 2005

    On Everything Is Illuminated.

  • Arts

    March 9, 2005

    March. 9-15, 2005

    On Everything Is Illuminated.

  • Music

    December 22, 2004

    Under the Tree and Dreaming

    From jazzy standards to surfin' klezmer to 'Randolph the Flat-Nosed Reindeer,' Seattle Weekly picks seven holiday CDs to make the eggnog go down easier.

  • Food

    April 21, 2004

    Dare to Dream

    Of great food and fantastic theater at Teatro ZinZanni.

  • News

    March 10, 2004

    Animal Law, Anima Pa

    Of great food and fantastic theater at Teatro ZinZanni.

  • Diversions

    February 4, 2004

    Wanna-Be Bad Girl!

    Of great food and fantastic theater at Teatro ZinZanni.

  • Film

    November 5, 2003

    Seattle Human Rights Film Festival

    Hard truth and soft rhetoric at a political film fest.

  • Arts

    October 1, 2003

    Fabula Rasa

    PNB's new stamp on a classic.

  • Arts

    April 2, 2003

    Wallpaper, Ballyhoo

    PNB's new stamp on a classic.

  • Arts

    October 3, 2001

    Believe the hype

    One Oprah pick we'd consider buying.

  • News

    June 7, 2000

    How the future looked in 1962 and how it looks now.

    One Oprah pick we'd consider buying.

  • Food

    April 14, 1999

    Bun & Grind

    Northwest cuisine shmuisine in Seattle, it's the burger that really gets us hot

  • News

    April 14, 1999

    Saving pets, screwing salmon.

    Northwest cuisine shmuisine in Seattle, it's the burger that really gets us hot

  • News

    September 2, 1998

    1998 Bumbershoot Picks: Music

    Northwest cuisine shmuisine in Seattle, it's the burger that really gets us hot

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