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Kent

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2010

    Why Cheap Trick (and the Doobie Brothers, and Def Leppard, But Mostly Just Cheap Trick) Are Not In the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame

    ​Kent Winkler, Seattle Weekly's multimedia advertising director, is a proud son of Rockford, Ill. Know who else hails from Rockford? Yes, the dudes in Cheap Trick. They even named their 2006 album Rockford. Winkler's proud of Cheap Trick. He's a fan of Cheap Trick. And he recently sent a lette ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2010

    I-1100 Liquor Measure a Threat to Craft Brews

    ​Beer brewers and drinkers opposed to privatization of state liquor sales? Indeed, says Heather McClung, president of the Washington Brewers Guild, which represents the state's small craft breweries and, roundaboutly, craft-brew drinkers. Her industry is lined up against I-1100 and I-1105, the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2010

    Everybody, Backstreet's Back (in Kent), Alright!

    BSB perform at ShoWare Center on Thursday, August 5. ​THEY'RE BAAAAAAACK... SCREAM! Giggle, giggle. Make fun if you must. But the Backstreet Boys wooed so many girls' hearts (and their measly allowances) in the late nineties that they could sit prettily for the rest of their lives without ev ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2010

    Beating of Metro Bus Rider Caught on Camera

    The victim, Henry Kessay, a former combat medic and former rider of Route 169 in Kent, shattered his shoulder when the same kids that stole his phone tackled him when he was trying to get it back. Anyone whose ridden the bus for any length of time has probably seen something like what happened to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 27, 2009

    Judge Orders Cops to Give Back Man's 11-Pound Stash, One Doobie at a Time

    OK, now hand it back. Judge's orders.​The slow decriminalization of pot has created a whole mess of confusion over what's legal and what's not. But when it comes to the bizarre side-effects of conflicting medical marijuana laws, there may be no weirder scenario than what's happening in Kent, W ... More >>

  • News

    November 11, 2009

    Old News

    A professional felon turned the obits page into a hit list—and KIRO won’t let us forget it.

  • Food

    October 28, 2009

    Bottomfeeder: Midway Donuts and the 3 a.m. Food Group

    The only thing missing is the Slurpee.

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2009

    How Prepared is Too Prepared?

    If it won't be this bad, how prepared should we be?​How prepared is too prepared? The County Council voted unanimously this week to put $34.6 million toward preparing for the possibility of flooding in the Green River valley. Thanks to damage found after a storm last year, the capacity of the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2009

    Chalk Outlines: Suspect in Fatal East Kent Shooting Still At Large

    Mark Anthony McKinney​The jovial looking fellow pictured at right is Mark Anthony McKinney. Police have identified him as the suspect in a incident last Thursday that left another man shot and lying in the street near the 10900 block of Southeast 256th Street in Kent. The victim later died aft ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2009

    The Horror of Kent

    ​Inglourious Basterds isn't the only movie out to feature a baseball bat as lethal weapon. Arriving on DVD this week is Frayed (Lionsgate, $26.98), the bloody product of three local filmmakers from Kent. Rob Portmann, Kurt Svennungsen, and Norbert Caoili (pictured L-R) grew up in the VHS era w ... More >>

  • Articles

    August 12, 2009

    Bottomfeeder: Decisions at the Buffet Table

    ​Inglourious Basterds isn't the only movie out to feature a baseball bat as lethal weapon. Arriving on DVD this week is Frayed (Lionsgate, $26.98), the bloody product of three local filmmakers from Kent. Rob Portmann, Kurt Svennungsen, and Norbert Caoili (pictured L-R) grew up in the VHS era w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2008

    Would You Like to Be Hated By Every Apartment Manager and Business Owner in the City?

    ​Inglourious Basterds isn't the only movie out to feature a baseball bat as lethal weapon. Arriving on DVD this week is Frayed (Lionsgate, $26.98), the bloody product of three local filmmakers from Kent. Rob Portmann, Kurt Svennungsen, and Norbert Caoili (pictured L-R) grew up in the VHS era w ... More >>

  • News

    June 18, 2008

    Bare Market

    A harbinger of summer is delayed by crappy weather.

  • News

    May 21, 2008

    No Green R.E.I. for Seattle

    Folsom, Calif., and others get solar panels and other goodies.

  • News

    January 23, 2008

    The Truth About Tully's Cups, The King of Pot, and Comments of the Week

    Selections from The Daily Weekly, our news, politics, and media blog.

  • News

    January 16, 2008

    Over the Hill

    The soul of Seattle’s gayest neighborhood is being chipped away by high-priced condos. Does that signal the beginning of diaspora away from an older, richer, more hetero Capitol Hill?

  • Food

    January 9, 2008

    If You Can’t Find a Full-Service Russian Restaurant, Hit the Takeout Underground

    What happened to the city's Russian cuisine?

  • News

    January 17, 2007

    Petting Zoo

    Washington state's nonexistent sex-education standards have made lips the new zipper. By Nina Shapiro

  • Blogs

    August 29, 2006

    Latino Bank Opens

    Washington state's nonexistent sex-education standards have made lips the new zipper. By Nina Shapiro

  • News

    August 9, 2006

    The Rat Patrol

    From the trailer parks of Kent to the sewers of Eastlake, public-health workers are on the job, teaching people to be smarter than rats.

  • News

    August 2, 2006

    The Sweet 16

    A sex scandal widens among guards at the county jails and juvie hall.

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2006

    Thursday Telegraph Room

    A sex scandal widens among guards at the county jails and juvie hall.

  • Food

    April 19, 2006

    Dining Guide 2006

    Around the world in one Seattle day: 116 of our favorite ethnic restaurants.

  • Arts

    December 28, 2005

    Hats Off

    A tribute to Seattle artists and institutions lost and found in 2005.

  • Food

    December 21, 2005

    Mazel Tofu

    How to do Christmas the Jewish way, even if you're not.

  • News

    October 19, 2005

    The Super Flood

    Forget an eruption. The real threat of Mount Rainier is a surging wall of mud that could bury the suburbs and splash Seattle.

  • News

    August 17, 2005

    From Crater to Paradise

    Another local soldier is mourned.

  • Diversions

    August 3, 2005

    Best Urban Nature Writer

    Turf: Urban Living

  • News

    June 29, 2005

    Fireworks and Waterworks

    June 29-July 5, 2005.

  • Food

    April 20, 2005

    Breakfast & Brunch

    June 29-July 5, 2005.

  • News

    December 29, 2004

    Rick Anderson's 2004

    It was the year of the Rainier Bear, the flu-vaccine 'shortage,' Ichiro, Bill O'Reilly's 'falafel thing,' and, of course, the re-recount.

  • Arts

    August 18, 2004

    Aug. 18-24, 2004

    It was the year of the Rainier Bear, the flu-vaccine 'shortage,' Ichiro, Bill O'Reilly's 'falafel thing,' and, of course, the re-recount.

  • Diversions

    August 4, 2004

    Best Agitator

    PEOPLE, POLITICS, & MEDIA

  • Diversions

    July 7, 2004

    The Return of the Panic Market

    Think things are bad today? If you add enough zeros to the prices, we ran the same exact story 28 years ago. Not that we're feeling nostalgic.

  • News

    May 12, 2004

    Buzz

    Think things are bad today? If you add enough zeros to the prices, we ran the same exact story 28 years ago. Not that we're feeling nostalgic.

  • Food

    July 23, 2003

    Thoa Nguyen goes against the current with her new restaurant, the Islander.

    Think things are bad today? If you add enough zeros to the prices, we ran the same exact story 28 years ago. Not that we're feeling nostalgic.

  • Music

    July 2, 2003

    Bleeding Hearts

    Vendetta Red rock for the kids, not the scene.

  • News

    January 8, 2003

    Not So Fast

    Opening car-pool lanes to all traffic at night will cost $3 million and solve nothing.

  • News

    December 4, 2002

    2002 Holiday Calendar

    Opening car-pool lanes to all traffic at night will cost $3 million and solve nothing.

  • Film

    August 21, 2002

    Beware the Field Men!

    Why I love the drive-in.

  • News

    September 19, 2001

    Gun rush

    Why I love the drive-in.

  • News

    May 2, 2001

    17 Seattleites who will be big in the next 25 years

    Why I love the drive-in.

  • Diversions

    October 4, 2000

    Healthy reading

    Old almanac, new tricks.

  • News

    July 12, 2000

    Unnatural selection

    Bastyr, the naturopathic university, opts for a business-minded leader to take it into the future.

  • News

    June 21, 2000

    Raid on Maya's

    A local drug case helps change US forfeiture law.

  • News

    December 8, 1999

    Holiday Happenings

    This year's crop of seasonal selections

  • Food

    February 17, 1999

    Maté-ing ritual

    Why 20 million South Americans can't be wrong.

  • News

    October 14, 1998

    Life below the line

    In the debate over I-688, we tend not to look too closely at the people it's intended to help—the state's minimum-wage earners.

  • News

    July 8, 1998

    Domainatrix

    In the debate over I-688, we tend not to look too closely at the people it's intended to help—the state's minimum-wage earners.

  • News

    January 28, 1998

    Growing Up Gay?

    As new evidence surfaces about sexual orientation and children's awareness of their own, experts ponder the parent's predicament

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