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  • Blogs

    May 21, 2012

    Send Off The Moondoggies This Saturday Before They Leave on Tour With THATH

    Shit-kicking, Everett based folk-rockers The Moondoggies have been in a generous mood lately, and recently posted a free concert on their website; now they're looking for a little love in return before they hit the road later this month with The Head and The Heart. If you're so inclined, you can c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2012

    David Horsey Already Hitting His Stride in LA, Thanks in Part to 'Freaked Out' Rush Limbaugh

    ​Longtime P-I cartoonist David Horsey has been writing and drawing for just over a week now in his new job at the Los Angeles Times and appears to already have a legion of SoCal liberals in tow and at least a few Orange County Tea Partiers demanding that his pencil be ceremoniously broken. A c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2011

    The New York Times Claims Microsoft Is the New Kodak; Facts Suggest Otherwise

    ​The New York Times editorial board took some time for a little old-fashioned Microsoft-bashing this weekend. The paper thinks that our local software giant is on its way to becoming the new Kodak: a former business and technology icon made all but obsolete by more agile companies with better ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2009

    Microsoft's Loss Is General Motors' Gain?

    Will its new SUVs be Windows 7-compatible?​You could call this bailing out of one large corporation to join the bailout of another. Former Microsoft chief financial officer Christopher P. Liddell left his old post last month. But instead of joining a startup or making pottery in Peru, like oth ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2009

    Abuse Victims' Lawyer Isn't Just Targeting Assets of Oregon Jesuits; He's Going After Rome

    An old boarding schools for Tulalip Indians​The claims are in. According to a tally released yesterday, a total of 505 people met the Nov. 30 deadline set by a federal judge to lodge allegations of abuse against the Society of Jesus, Oregon Province. The case is the largest abuse proceeding ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    GM Hands Boeing Perfect Opportunity to Restore Company Goodwill

    Saab--to be reborn from a maker of jets?​We, along with every other editorial voice in the Northwest, have repeatedly bashed Boeing for opting to build its 787 Dreamliner in South Carolina. But now struggling General Motors is handing Boeing a perfect PR gesture to earn the goodwill of enginee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2009

    What's Cooler, a '79 Cutlass Run on Fish, or the Tesla Roadster?

    Courtesy of the Manufacturing Industrial Council, Photo by Studio PacificParis Hilton would never roll in one of these, but it runs on fish oil. How hawt is that?​Okay, yes, the Tesla is both electric (earth hug!) and totally hot. So it seems an unfair contest right from the start. But here's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2009

    As Organic-to-Go Goes Bye-Bye, Mel's Market Comes Storming Back

    It's a story of the triumph endurance of the little guy: In 2008, Larry Hamlin, owner of a chain of delis that included Mel's Market on Third Ave. and Madison, and Joelle's on Fourth (same office building, different sides), decided to get out of the business. Organic to Go, which was rapidly expandi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2009

    Dreamliner Believes It Can Fly by the End of the Year

    ​Ah, the ol' Dreamliner--the plane that threatened to make Boeing "the GM of the skies". Thus far, it's been half-a-phoenix: All ashes and no rising, with problems ranging from mis-attached wings to wrinkled skin, and several embarrassing grand rollouts (including one narrated by Tom Brokaw) t ... More >>

  • News

    June 10, 2009

    One Man, 26 Years, 112 Convictions

    What sort of system allows a drug dealer to walk in and out of prison and get convicted more than 100 times? Ours.

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2009

    Wanna Know Why GM Is Going Bankrupt?

    Project P.U.M.A. The Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility. Apparently General Motors and Segway have teamed up to create an electric wheelchair with a roll cage. Would have company head honchos who'd green light a lemon like this, it's game over. How trendy. There's almost room on the thing f ... More >>

  • Music

    November 26, 2008

    More From the Office of Gonzoverload

    Only the most hardcore Hunter S. Thompson fans will find The Gonzo Tapes to be something more than narcissistic tedium.

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2008

    James Bond, Eco-Warrior

    Yes, the generally poorly reviewed new 007 movie opens with a car chase, with Daniel Craig at the wheel of a gas-guzzling Aston Martin DBS. (That's a V12 supercar rated by the EPA at 12 mpg city, and 18 on the highway.) But that's not all he drives. As a passenger of love interest Olga Kurylenko, ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 5, 2008

    Seattle Auto Show

    Yes, the generally poorly reviewed new 007 movie opens with a car chase, with Daniel Craig at the wheel of a gas-guzzling Aston Martin DBS. (That's a V12 supercar rated by the EPA at 12 mpg city, and 18 on the highway.) But that's not all he drives. As a passenger of love interest Olga Kurylenko, ... More >>

  • News

    May 7, 2008

    I’m (Not) With Busey

    Jeff Swanson looks, acts, and talks like Mr. Joshua. But the man you bought drinks for at the club ain’t Gary Busey.

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2008

    His other car is a Segway: G.O.B. Outed as a Chevy Man

    Jeff Swanson looks, acts, and talks like Mr. Joshua. But the man you bought drinks for at the club ain’t Gary Busey.

  • News

    May 23, 2007

    After Adding a Hybrid to His Fleet, Mayor Nickels Gulped Even More Gas

    The mayor has two cars at his disposal, including a Ford Explorer.

  • Film

    March 28, 2007

    Nibbling at Hannah

    SXSW '07 produces one breakout indie star—and a Michael Moore backlash.

  • News

    January 31, 2007

    I Can't Drive . . . 35!

    The electric car is making a slow comeback on Dearborn Street. We mean really, really slow. By Jason McBride

  • News

    August 23, 2006

    One Crude Dude

    With Big Oil reeling from the Prudhoe Bay shutdown, Chuck Hamel can finally say 'I told you so.'

  • Film

    June 7, 2006

    SIFF News, Picks, and Pans

    With Big Oil reeling from the Prudhoe Bay shutdown, Chuck Hamel can finally say 'I told you so.'

  • Film

    May 31, 2006

    Al Gore

    The entirely calm, reasonable, and persuasive star of An Inconvenient Truth.

  • News

    December 21, 2005

    Manifest Secrecy

    In a child-abuse case, the president of Seattle University is silent about supervisory conversations with the Jesuit defendant.

  • News

    April 20, 2005

    U.S. to Earth: Drop Dead

    'Nature's wisdom' is on display at a world's fair in Japan. But Bush's America is not keen on nature, wants to run the world, and hates fairs.

  • News

    October 20, 2004

    Monorail Q&A

    The people's train has people hollering at each other. It's that big a deal.

  • Diversions

    May 28, 2003

    Show Me the Green

    Sure, we've got our famously crunchy environmentalist culture. But how do our actual car choices sit with Chief Seattle?

  • News

    November 27, 2002

    Radio Out of This World

    Satellite services offer more programming, sound great, are ubiquitous, but aren't free.

  • News

    October 31, 2001

    Trenches to troughs

    Satellite services offer more programming, sound great, are ubiquitous, but aren't free.

  • Diversions

    February 7, 2001

    Errol Morris' 'Hip-Hop'

    And other PBS music documentaries we'd like to see.

  • Music

    August 16, 2000

    CD Reviews

    And other PBS music documentaries we'd like to see.

  • Diversions

    February 23, 2000

    High-tech companies discover the Old Economy

    And other PBS music documentaries we'd like to see.

  • News

    January 5, 2000

    1999: the year in review

    Month-by-month highlights—and lowlights.

  • News

    December 15, 1999

    "Who said the revolution was yours anyway? Who said you or any group owned the protests against the WTO on November 30th?"

    Month-by-month highlights—and lowlights.

  • News

    November 24, 1999

    Big Wheels

    How 'bout one of these Over-the-Top vehicles under the tree?

  • Arts

    November 17, 1999

    Driftword

    Notes kept while walking the streets.

  • News

    January 6, 1999

    Buggered!

    Only 358 shopping days 'til the end of the world

  • News

    October 7, 1998

    NW homage to Catalonia

    The UW installs a monument to our country's oldest living freedom fighters.

  • News

    June 24, 1998

    News, Inc.

    The UW installs a monument to our country's oldest living freedom fighters.

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