Laura Onstot

Valentine's Day at Sip

Top 5 Best Beaches in Seattle for Brown Baggin' it

Laura OnstotYou brought the frosty mugs, right?!​This is probably jinxing it, but still: HOLY CRAP, SUMMER! Don't look now, but every Teva wearing, zip-off cargo short sporting, granola Seattleite is busting out their pasty skin and heading to wherever it is you're headed. Yay for traffic, we ... More >>

Seattle's Fattest Potato Dishes

Julien PerryChili Chili Cheese Cheese Tots Tots (from 5Point) cause cause double double chins chins.​Ooooo, potatoes, they're just so controversial, no?! Well, according to a recent article in The Baltimore Sun, this underground, tuberous tyrant is to blame for literally decades of weight gai ... More >>

Seattle Weekly Wins 15 Society of Professional Journalists Awards

​It was a banner weekend for Seattle Weekly when the Society of Professional Journalists announced the winners of this year's Northwest Excellence in Journalism Contest at a banquet at Safeco Field. Weekly staffers took home 15 awards total (more than any other weekly in the region), including ... More >>

WTH Are Doughnuts Doing on an Indian Buffet Line?

Photo by Leslie KellyHealth food doughnuts? Vada are made with lentil flour, so they must be good for you, right?​I know what you're thinking, but this is no April Fool's Day prank. There were doughnuts on the buffet line at Spice Route in Bellevue. Inspired by Laura Onstot's new column calle ... More >>

Our 107 Favorite Restaurants, 2011

From burgers and pizza to steak and sashimi, the Great Seattle Food Pyramid takes shape.

The Sound of Music Sing-Along

From burgers and pizza to steak and sashimi, the Great Seattle Food Pyramid takes shape.

Ivar’s Salmon House Happy Hour

From burgers and pizza to steak and sashimi, the Great Seattle Food Pyramid takes shape.

Hanford Has Three Times More Plutonium Than First Reported

​Back in March, Laura Onstot traveled to Hanford to write a cover story on the possible dawn of a new nuclear age. Home to Washington's only existing nuclear power plant, Hanford is where the first atomic bomb was built and where cleanup from the Manhattan Project continues to this day. Cleanu ... More >>

How to Lie With Jaywalking Stats

​Ever since video of a Seattle cop punching a 17-year-old girl in the face surfaced last Tuesday, the city has been debating the relative merits of a relatively victimless crime: jaywalking. Thanks to reporting by Laura Onstot, we now know that the Rainer Avenue-Martin Luther King Way intersec ... More >>

Seattle Weekly Takes Home Three First-Place Awards in Five-State Alt-Weekly Competition

The best alt-weekly biz story in the NW!​Look, it's not that we have anything against Portland. It's not that we would ever take pleasure in pointing out that they're not all that, despite the adulation they receive from right-minded progressives the world over. But we will admit taking pleasu ... More >>

This Week's Cover Story: All Tied Up

​The departure of Elliott Bay Book Company has led to even more hand-wringing than usual about the fate of Pioneer Square, Seattle's most perpetually troubled and underperforming neighborhood. Too little parking and too many homeless people are the most frequently blamed culprits. But if you ... More >>

Seattle Weekly's Happy Hours Guide

​The departure of Elliott Bay Book Company has led to even more hand-wringing than usual about the fate of Pioneer Square, Seattle's most perpetually troubled and underperforming neighborhood. Too little parking and too many homeless people are the most frequently blamed culprits. But if you ... More >>

Our Favorite Restaurants 2010

​The departure of Elliott Bay Book Company has led to even more hand-wringing than usual about the fate of Pioneer Square, Seattle's most perpetually troubled and underperforming neighborhood. Too little parking and too many homeless people are the most frequently blamed culprits. But if you ... More >>

Skillet, Portage Bay, Bad Albert's Among Restaurants Being Sued by State for Back Taxes

​Over at the Daily Weekly, Laura Onstot reports that several beloved area restaurants, including Bad Albert's, Skillet Street Food, Bluwater Bistro, Taqueria Jalisco, and the Portage Bay Cafe's South Lake Union location, are being sued by the state in an attempt to collect tens of thousands of ... More >>

This Week's Cover Story: The Atomic Reboot

​Thirty years on, memories of the meltdown at Three Mile Island have receded, and global warming is the new doomsday obsession. As a result, nuclear power--which, like solar and wind energy, produces no greenhouse gasses, but has the extra advantage of working in any weather--has become hot ag ... More >>

Mayor McGinn Throws a Lunch Party, and (Almost) Nobody Eats

Mayor Mike McGinn hosted a brown-bag luncheon for Seattle's political press corps today. He talked plenty about his controversial proposal to expedite replacement of the waterfront seawall, and reporters took notes. ​But what they didn't do was eat. Writes Laura Onstot, over at the Daily Week ... More >>

Downtown Bicyclists, a Stripe for Your Climb

SW scribes Vernal Coleman and Laura Onstot marvel at the new right-of-way.Downtown got its first East/West bike lane last week--the brightly-striped Spring street corridor pictured at left. It runs from 1st to 4th as a bike lane and after that converts to sharrows. Spring street's two car lanes were ... More >>

Novella Carpenter

SW scribes Vernal Coleman and Laura Onstot marvel at the new right-of-way.Downtown got its first East/West bike lane last week--the brightly-striped Spring street corridor pictured at left. It runs from 1st to 4th as a bike lane and after that converts to sharrows. Spring street's two car lanes were ... More >>

Viva Print Edition

God, do I look good this week on newsstands around the city. My cover is fit for Idolization, and the photos and illustrations that serve as my organs have never been healthier. But if you prefer the robotic version of me, here are the highlights of that robot: Laura Onstot takes stock of a crowde ... More >>

Garth Sundem

God, do I look good this week on newsstands around the city. My cover is fit for Idolization, and the photos and illustrations that serve as my organs have never been healthier. But if you prefer the robotic version of me, here are the highlights of that robot: Laura Onstot takes stock of a crowde ... More >>

Tonight's Show Suggestions

Disney Cover Night at Chop Suey, 8 p.m., $7 Kane Hodder lead singer Andrew Moore has been known to end a show with minor injuries. And really, what else would you expect from a hardcore group given to shrieking lyrics like "I hate the taste of your blood, black as pitch/But I'd hate it even more to ... More >>

Chandeliers in Your Light Rail Station

It's not quite Grand Central Station, but Sound Transit's "Photo of the Week" provides a glimpse at some of the aesthetic flourishes being added to the Mt. Baker light rail station. The holes in the ceiling are for chandeliers. Asks Laura Onstot, "Can we swing from them?"

Objectively Speaking, The Huskies Are the Most Fun Team in the Country

In poking fun at Chase Budinger yesterday, I made the unfortunate mistake of referring to the Arizona Wildcats as "formerly formidable." I was also chastised by my colleague Laura Onstot for potentially jinxing Seattle sports by saying that the worst is behind us.One day later, it appears I'm having ... More >>

Onstot To Twitter Phillips Announcement

SW's Laura Onstot, who loves her tweets more than anyone not named Ron Sims, will be Twittering Larry Philips' historic announcement to challenge the Ronmeister for County Exec. beginning at 9 AM today. Tune in!

Sound of Music Sing-a-Long

SW's Laura Onstot, who loves her tweets more than anyone not named Ron Sims, will be Twittering Larry Philips' historic announcement to challenge the Ronmeister for County Exec. beginning at 9 AM today. Tune in!

Sure, Get Pissed, but Check Your Garage First

    As Laura Onstot notes below, there's ire building about the way the city handles snow (which will surely be exacerbated by what I, in contrast to my esteemed colleague, thought were eye-opening Seattle Times pieces on bureaucrats' refusal to use salt; if city officials have ... More >>

Washington State Can't Do Corruption With the Big Boys

Blago says: You punks aren't worthy to lick the dirt off my dollars. In response to the national Blago-mania, the New York Times posted several charts measuring the corruption of the states of the union. As Laura Onstot could have told us, Washington ranks among the least corrupt. Only five states h ... More >>

Iron Jawed Angels

Blago says: You punks aren't worthy to lick the dirt off my dollars. In response to the national Blago-mania, the New York Times posted several charts measuring the corruption of the states of the union. As Laura Onstot could have told us, Washington ranks among the least corrupt. Only five states h ... More >>

Afternoon Edition: Field of Dreams

Blago says: You punks aren't worthy to lick the dirt off my dollars. In response to the national Blago-mania, the New York Times posted several charts measuring the corruption of the states of the union. As Laura Onstot could have told us, Washington ranks among the least corrupt. Only five states h ... More >>

On the Whole "100 Foods You Need to Eat" Challenges

Blago says: You punks aren't worthy to lick the dirt off my dollars. In response to the national Blago-mania, the New York Times posted several charts measuring the corruption of the states of the union. As Laura Onstot could have told us, Washington ranks among the least corrupt. Only five states h ... More >>

Letters to the Editor

More on rural King County environmental squabbles and Beacon Hill safety issues.

Out on a Limb: New Crepe Shop Opts for Treecycling

More on rural King County environmental squabbles and Beacon Hill safety issues.

World Wide Knit in Public Day

More on rural King County environmental squabbles and Beacon Hill safety issues.

Raj Patel

More on rural King County environmental squabbles and Beacon Hill safety issues.

Responses to the Samson Berhe Case

And some of Roderick's old friends resurface.

Pyramid Sold, French Quarter in Pioneer Square, and Crepes in Ballard

Selections from Voracious, our daily food blog.

Hobbit Hole

Small, dark, and rustic

Love Nest

If you can't find the romance here, you're a cold fish

Psychobilly Brawl

If you can't find the romance here, you're a cold fish

Lois Lowry

A children’s author who talks like an adult

L-Train's Bullets on KOMO

A children’s author who talks like an adult

The Daily Wire: To Market

A children’s author who talks like an adult

Pike Place Market

While the tourists stay out of the cold, Pike Place is yours to enjoy

Nickels Endorses Obama

While the tourists stay out of the cold, Pike Place is yours to enjoy

Candy For Your iPod: Kerry's Speech at UW

While the tourists stay out of the cold, Pike Place is yours to enjoy

The Daily Wire: Comics and More Comics

While the tourists stay out of the cold, Pike Place is yours to enjoy

Saying 'No,' to Taco Bell; Big-Business Organic; MGD Chic

Selections from Voracious, our food blog.

Comixtravaganza

The final panel of a monthlong examination

All-Natural Suspicion

The final panel of a monthlong examination