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El Salvador

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2012

    Dancing and Laughing With Gene Simmons All the Way to South America

    I grew up in a really great time for rock and roll. Three-chord songs with a couple mean riffs and rebellious lyrics were the audible backdrop to my formative years. KISS' first live record, Alive! (duh), was an epic collection of riffs and chords that filled in a few questions I had about chicks an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2012

    Seattle Drug Ring Busted by DEA Used Burner Cell Phones, Talked in Code Like Characters From The Wire

    In one episode of the dearly departed HBO series The Wire, Baltimore police struggle to crack a code that dope dealers are using to do business, causing a detective to wonder, "How complex a code can it be if these knuckleheads are using it?" Now it seems a real life version of that situation unfold ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2011

    The Best in Coffee, 2011

    'Tis the Season for writing lists. Every single year, Santa's "Naughty or Nice" list pops up in a December song or two, and seemingly incites mass panic. The end-of-year Lists switch gets flipped. Next things you know, everybody has lists. Gift lists. Card lists. Party lists. New Year Resolution lis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2011

    Broadcast Coffee No Phony

    Broadcast Coffee Logo​Late in the winter of 1901, a single character made the long, historic journey from Poldhu, England to the shores of St. Johns, Newfoundland. It traveled curiously, in the form of three dots, without the aid of any visible transportation. "..." By Morse Code, the letter S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    Chay Ixcot, Guatemalan Immigrant, Waits 22 Years to Find Out Whether He'll Be Deported

    Image source​The wheels of justice turn slowly. That maxim has never been truer than in the case of Chay Ixcot. A 44-year-old native of Guatamala, Ixcot was arrested on February 13, 1989 almost immediately after he crossed the border near Tijuana. He gave a false name, lied about his age, and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2011

    A Coffee Tourist's Guide to Washington's State Capital

    Colombia Estrella del Sur at Batdorf Bronson in Olympia, WA​In 28 years of being a Washington State resident, last week marked my very first visit to the city of Olympia. While neglect of state capitals seems to be an embedded trend within West Coast tourism (who travels to California to see S ... More >>

  • News

    October 20, 2010

    Grinding Justice

    Operation Streamline costs millions, tramples the Constitution, treats migrants like cattle, and doesn’t work.

  • Blogs

    May 28, 2010

    Casino Jack Makes You Hate America, Pupusas Make You Hate it Less

    Jack has a sad.​The Dinner: Spinach and cheese pupusa, fried yucca, empanada topped with cinnamon and a Negra Modelo at Guanaco's Tacos Pupuseria (4106 Brooklyn Ave NE Suite 102A) The Movie: Casino Jack and the United States of Money, at The Varsity The Screenplate: If you go to see a move ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2010

    Kope Luau: Chasing Sun, Finding Coffee (and Chickens)

    ​The neighbors' two small dogs must be rehearsing for something important. One in typical small dog mezzo range, the other with the soprano timbre of a half-eaten squeaky toy, they are perfectly alternating yips with a level of dedication and perseverance that most music teachers can only wish ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2010

    SPD Probing Video-Taped Arrest By Officers Allegedly Stomping Wrong Suspect, Vowing to 'Beat the Fucking Mexican Piss Out' of Him

    KIRO-TVArrest scene April 17​Seattle Police are conducting an internal investigation into possible abuse of a robbery suspect who, according to a video acquired by KIRO-TV, was stomped by a police gang unit officer after he told the suspect, "I'm going to beat the fucking Mexican piss out of y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2010

    Victrola Coffee Customer Demands Better Mugshot

    I am a mug snob. There, I said it.Photo by Alex Tosti​ Coffee snob, no... I mean, I like to think not, but then somebody serves me an americano that tastes like compost slushy and I rethink my self-assessment. But as to whether or not I am a snob with regard to the vessel in which my coffee i ... More >>

  • Food

    December 3, 2008

    Seattle’s New Way to Fetishize Coffee

    As a marketing strategy, “cupping” is straight from the wine-industry playbook. As a means of enjoying coffee, it’s mostly hot air.

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2008

    Shack Shaking Weekend Show Suggestions For You And Me, Friday Edition

    As a marketing strategy, “cupping” is straight from the wine-industry playbook. As a means of enjoying coffee, it’s mostly hot air.

  • Calendar

    September 24, 2008

    The Corner feat. Indijinis

    Friday, September 26

  • News

    August 13, 2008

    Detainees Refute Northwest ICE’s Denials of Abuse

    A report alleges inadequate medical care, lack of due process, and physical abuse at the Tacoma facility.

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2008

    Walk It Out: Latin American Edition

    A report alleges inadequate medical care, lack of due process, and physical abuse at the Tacoma facility.

  • News

    November 21, 2007

    White Center Is Served

    Why everyone wants a piece of Rat City.

  • Diversions

    August 1, 2007

    Best Front-Lawn Pupusa Truck: Maria Lopez

    Why everyone wants a piece of Rat City.

  • Film

    June 6, 2007

    SIFF 2007: Week Three: Picks and Pans

    Why everyone wants a piece of Rat City.

  • Food

    May 30, 2007

    At This Salvadoran Spot, Let the P's Guide You: Plantains, Pupusas, Yes

    Sopa de pato, no.

  • Diversions

    August 2, 2006

    Sergio Salinas

    Best Union Organizer

  • Film

    May 17, 2006

    May 17-24, 2006

    John Cassavetes, Preston Sturges, Che Guevara, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and more.

  • News

    May 10, 2006

    The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea

    "There's more to sail racing than midlife crisis...."

  • News

    January 18, 2006

    'There Is No War on Terror'

    An interview with Noam Chomsky.

  • Diversions

    December 14, 2005

    Now More Than Ever

    Local and international charities need your help.

  • Film

    October 12, 2005

    Innocent Voices

    Opens Fri., Oct. 14, at Seven Gables and Uptown.

  • Arts

    September 14, 2005

    Film Favorites and Calendar

    Opens Fri., Oct. 14, at Seven Gables and Uptown.

  • Film

    June 15, 2005

    Golden Space Needle

    Opens Fri., Oct. 14, at Seven Gables and Uptown.

  • News

    April 20, 2005

    Friday Is Earth Day XXXVI

    April 20-26, 2005

  • Food

    April 20, 2005

    Breakfast & Brunch

    April 20-26, 2005

  • News

    April 6, 2005

    Walk by Their Shoes

    April 6-12, 2005

  • News

    December 15, 2004

    Company for the People

    If Wal-Mart represents red-state America's ruthless race to the bottom line, then Issaquah-based retailer Costco offers a blue-state alternative. The company is proving Wall Street wrong by adhering to a radical idea: Treating customers and employees right is good business.

  • News

    June 9, 2004

    Great Communicator, My Ass

    If Wal-Mart represents red-state America's ruthless race to the bottom line, then Issaquah-based retailer Costco offers a blue-state alternative. The company is proving Wall Street wrong by adhering to a radical idea: Treating customers and employees right is good business.

  • Arts

    January 21, 2004

    Opening Nights

    If Wal-Mart represents red-state America's ruthless race to the bottom line, then Issaquah-based retailer Costco offers a blue-state alternative. The company is proving Wall Street wrong by adhering to a radical idea: Treating customers and employees right is good business.

  • News

    December 24, 2003

    Ace in the Hole

    If Wal-Mart represents red-state America's ruthless race to the bottom line, then Issaquah-based retailer Costco offers a blue-state alternative. The company is proving Wall Street wrong by adhering to a radical idea: Treating customers and employees right is good business.

  • News

    August 6, 2003

    Liberators Wanted

    Forgotten hot spots: Where are those CIA agents and Marines when you need 'em?

  • Arts

    March 5, 2003

    Dubya Is for War

    A survey of the current literature of global conflict.

  • Food

    January 29, 2003

    Hot Pockets

    My love affair with Salvadorian snack food.

  • News

    January 22, 2003

    An Acquired Taste for the Suburbs.

    Many of the most racially diverse neighborhoods aren't in Seattle. They're in South King County, where an African-American influx is revising the notion of integration.

  • News

    April 17, 2002

    Letters to the Editor

    We received an extraordinary number of letters about last week's cover story on the crisis in the Middle East. Some are printed in the paper, and many more appear only on our Web site below. The letters are largely run in their entirety; any factual information they contain has n ... More >>

  • News

    October 24, 2001

    Living with terror

    We received an extraordinary number of letters about last week's cover story on the crisis in the Middle East. Some are printed in the paper, and many more appear only on our Web site below. The letters are largely run in their entirety; any factual information they contain has n ... More >>

  • News

    January 17, 2001

    Scrap this cabinet

    We received an extraordinary number of letters about last week's cover story on the crisis in the Middle East. Some are printed in the paper, and many more appear only on our Web site below. The letters are largely run in their entirety; any factual information they contain has n ... More >>

  • News

    March 8, 2000

    Target: Kaiser

    We received an extraordinary number of letters about last week's cover story on the crisis in the Middle East. Some are printed in the paper, and many more appear only on our Web site below. The letters are largely run in their entirety; any factual information they contain has n ... More >>

  • News

    April 28, 1999

    SMASH SEATTLE!

    Where and how to mount the barricades.

  • News

    March 24, 1999

    Diary of a PSYCHO DAD

    Where and how to mount the barricades.

  • News

    December 9, 1998

    How it is

    Where and how to mount the barricades.

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