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February 16, 2012
Why It's Worth Teaching Food Criticism to 9-Year Olds
Grappling for ways to reduce soaring childhood obesity rates, many policymakers have settled on a kind of serfdom solution, reasoning that if kids spend part of the day with their fingers burrowed in fresh soil, they'll develop an unshakeable appreciation for fruits and vegetables. Not everyone is e ... More >>
Blogs
January 25, 2012
Mitt Romney's Tax Return: He Buys (and Sells for Profit) Stock in Boeing, Microsoft, Costco
Local investorNot unexpectedly, Mitt Romney has invested some of his millions in Boeing and Microsoft stock, according to the Republican presidential candidate's 550 pages of just-released tax returns, and made a tidy profit off the aerospace and software giants. But he's also done well buyin ... More >>
Food
January 11, 2012
Tom Colicchio's Fat Chance
Why the Top Chef host should have called a fat girl fat.
Blogs
January 6, 2012
Tom Colicchio Whiffed a Teachable Moment
A longtime foe of childhood obesity, Tom Colicchio in 2010 addressed a Congressional committee on the subject of improving school lunches. "I find myself in the slightly surreal position of being able to comment on issues of importance to me to a public willing to listen," he told the legislators. B ... More >>
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December 29, 2011
Double Dawg Dilemma: UW Football in Alamo Bowl as Pac-12 Basketball Season Tips Off Against Oregon State Tonight
One of the biggest nights of the year for Husky sports comes in the final days of 2012. The UW football team faces Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III and the Baylor Bears in the Alamo Bowl, while the basketball team plays its first Pac-12 conference game at home against Oregon State. Both game ... More >>
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October 27, 2011
The Splendid Table Touts Weekend Cooking
Food activists have taken to advocating home cooking because it's cheaper and healthier than dining out. It's "not about cooking five course meals from scratch," Michelle Obama last year reassured anxious readers of Newsweek magazine. Instead, she counseled, cooks should focus on gathering th ... More >>
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September 27, 2011
USDA Looks to Ban Potatoes From All School Lunches--Idaho: 'Bad Idea!'
Among the 50 American states, can anyone guess which one would rather not see a nationwide ban on potatoes in school lunches?
Blogs
September 20, 2011
Tomato Industry Expert to Speak in Seattle
Strides made in the tomato industry could provide a model for improving working conditions on farms nationwide, according to the industry's leading chronicler. Barry Estabrook, author of Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit, credits the Coalition of ... More >>
News
July 6, 2011
Medina Police Chief Jeff Chen Wants His Job Back
City Hall squabbles are part of the fabric of Bill Gates' hometown.
Blogs
May 18, 2011
Today Reverb Recommends You Spend Sunday Night with Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill performs at Showbox SoDo on Sunday, May 22 at 7 p.m.Following the commercial and critical success of her debut album, 1998's The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, the singer dropped out of the public eye, shunning fame and the music industry to focus on motherhood. What's impressive is ... More >>
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May 18, 2011
Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill performs at Showbox SoDo on Sunday, May 22 at 7 p.m.Following the commercial and critical success of her debut album, 1998's The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, the singer dropped out of the public eye, shunning fame and the music industry to focus on motherhood. What's impressive is ... More >>
Music
May 18, 2011
The Short List: This Week's Recommended Shows
Princess, Ms. Lauren Hill, Jimmy Eat World, and more.
Blogs
March 4, 2011
David Wu Tigger Painting by "Pancake Artist" Dan Lacey on eBay, Only 13 Hours Left to Own a Piece of Oregon Crazy on Canvas
Remember during the 2008 presidential campaign when the painting "Sarah Palin with Pankcakes" lit up the blogosphere? No? Well, it did. And since then, Dan Lacey, the Minnesota-based artiste responsible for pancaking Palin's dome on canvas has gone on to make quite a living doing such things. ... More >>
Blogs
January 20, 2011
Fake FDA Official: "Just Eat a Goddamn Vegetable Once in a While"
There have been a lot of really stupid ideas out there about how to solve America's obesity epidemic. Fad diets, nanny-state government intervention, outlawing salt and fat and Happy Meal toys, DIY gastric-surgery bypass kits for sale on Amazon for the home medical enthusiast. There have been ... More >>
Blogs
December 8, 2010
2010's Biggest Food Stories: They Report, You Decide
Photo courtesy justhungry.comMeat (in all its glorious forms) was ranked as one of the big stories of 2010. Seriously.You know how you know the end of the year is fast approaching? You could look at the calendar, I guess. Count the days. But you can also always tell by the sudden glut of yea ... More >>
Blogs
September 28, 2010
Bill Clinton to Stump for Patty Murray
Before today, Patty Murray already had stumping commitments from three of the four members of the Democratic Mount Rushmore -- the president came last month and Vice President Joe Biden and First Lady Michelle Obama will be here shortly. Now Murray has collected the whole set, as former Presi ... More >>
Music
September 1, 2010
Divas, Not Bitches
Dark Divas is dead-set on reclaiming the maligned tag.
Blogs
August 6, 2010
Child Nutrition and Food Stamp Funding: God Does Not Give With Both Hands
flickr user Ben SamSchool lunch: about to get betterIt was an eventful week in the Senate, particularly on the subject of food. The good news: yesterday the Senate passed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which, if signed into law, will give $4.5 billion over 10 years to fund federal child ... More >>
Blogs
May 27, 2010
Death By Cheesecake (and Cheeseburgers and Chocolate and Pizza...)
These will kill you, allegedlyOh, those crazy kids over at the Center for Science in the Public Interest... I mean, if they're not out there grading frozen yogurt or arguing for taxes on soda pop, then they're just trying to get everyone's undies in a bunch over some new list of calorically ... More >>
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May 12, 2010
Jaime Herrera Threatens to Render Maria Cantwell and Sarah Palin to the Used Cougar Bin
Thanks to a filing away of his Herrera cozy-up, this old soldier can cancel his Viagra prescription.State Rep. Jaime Herrera is locked in a tight race for the Republican nomination to vie for outgoing Congressman Brian Baird's Third District seat in Southwest Washington. A former basketball p ... More >>
Blogs
March 16, 2010
The Crocksman's Fight Against Michelle Obama's Fight Against Childhood Obesity
The Crocksman is a weekly Voracious column that runs every Tuesday.Pop quiz: If you grow your own green beans but don't boil water, are you helping to fight childhood obesity? In this week's issue of Newsweek, Michelle Obama writes about her war on big eaters, a project she's spent a conside ... More >>
News
February 10, 2010
Free in the Key
Seattle University's men's basketball team is back in Division I for the first time in 30 years. Will their uneven season be the start of a new legend?
Blogs
January 18, 2010
Governorpalooza: Wall-to-Wall Pols for Big Al's 100th
Al Rosellini and his 100-candle cake"Hello governor," Congressman Dave Reichert said, walking in Saturday morning. "And governor, governor, governor..." There were six in all - Mike Lowry, John Spellman, Dan Evans, Booth Gardner, Gary Locke, and Chris Gregoire. At the Skyline assisted-living ... More >>
Blogs
January 7, 2010
What Do Beavers and Globetrotters Have in Common? They Both Were Shocked by Seattle U
The Flyin' O'Briens, around the time when they made the Harlem Globetrotters wish they'd stayed home.A friend called former Seattle University basketball great Eddie O'Brien during halftime of last night's Redhawk visit to Oregon State. When informed that the score was 41-27, O'Brien replied, ... More >>
Blogs
October 14, 2009
The Food Section: New Obama Appointees, the Continuing Gourmet Postmortem
Just a few of the food stories out there this week: The Pacific Northwest Cheese blog announces that Estrella Family Creamery has just won a gold at the World Cheese Awards for its Grisdale Goat. Stop by their farmers market stands to congratulate them. Oh, and New York, suck it: You can onl ... More >>
Blogs
June 17, 2009
Farmers Markets, the Real Street Food, and Other Food News
How Many Farmers Markets Are Too Many? by Rebekah Denn (Eat All About It): Denn shares the findings of a new USDA study reporting that farmers markets are up, but overall sales aren't quite keeping pace. Which begs the question: Is Seattle's need to have one farmers market per neighborhood hurting e ... More >>
Blogs
June 4, 2009
Outdoor Dining: More, More, More
Three months of direct sunlight, a population with an 85% rate of vitamin D deficiency, hundreds of thousands of bared legs begging for more color. Clearly, my list of 30 restaurants with patios in this week's Summer Guide is just a sampler. No one here wants to sit indoors between June and Septembe ... More >>
Blogs
April 2, 2009
Last Night: Beyoncé (and Red Wine Shortage) at Key Arena
I thought it was a freak accident when the Tacoma Dome ran out of white wine during the Celine Dion concert. I was wrong. Last night the Key Arena ran out of red wine--20 minutes before Beyoncé even went onstage. "We're supposed to get more, but we haven't seen any," the woman behind the counter in ... More >>
Blogs
March 25, 2009
Bricks in Your Oven, Celebrity Booze Up Your Snout, and Other Food News
A few food news stories, plucked from the ether: A Pizza Parlor in Your Kitchen by Noelle Carter (LA Time): How to build a brick oven -- within your own oven -- to bake crisp, blistery pizzas. Definitely a "try this one at home" proposition. Out of the Wild by Peter Jamison (SF Weekly): Iso Rabins ... More >>
Blogs
February 12, 2009
Lorenzo Romar and Barack Obama: Kindred Ballers
Tonight brings the Oregon State Beavers and their now famous coach, Craig Robinson, to Montlake for a matchup with Lorenzo Romar's Huskies. As you're probably aware, Robinson is Michelle Obama's brother (and thus Barack Obama's brother-in-law), who famously auditioned Obama for his sister via a ga ... More >>
Blogs
January 21, 2009
Duff McKagan: I'm All For a New Era of Responsibility
Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb."What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility." -- President Barack Obama, Jan. 20, 2009 These words, spoken by President Obama on Tuesday, have thus far made me walk a little taller, taking stock of where this new weight of responsibi ... More >>
Blogs
November 5, 2008
Seattle P-I Readers Stay Focussed on What Matters
Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb."What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility." -- President Barack Obama, Jan. 20, 2009 These words, spoken by President Obama on Tuesday, have thus far made me walk a little taller, taking stock of where this new weight of responsibi ... More >>
News
October 1, 2008
Gregoire’s Red Scare
Why is an incumbent Democratic governor in a dark-blue state having such a tough time in her quest for re-election?
Blogs
September 4, 2008
McCain Might Have Picked the Right Runningmate
Why is an incumbent Democratic governor in a dark-blue state having such a tough time in her quest for re-election?
Blogs
August 29, 2008
"The American Promise"
Why is an incumbent Democratic governor in a dark-blue state having such a tough time in her quest for re-election?
Blogs
August 27, 2008
Don't Stop Thinking About 2012
Why is an incumbent Democratic governor in a dark-blue state having such a tough time in her quest for re-election?
Blogs
August 4, 2008
Gov Announces Debate Schedule
Why is an incumbent Democratic governor in a dark-blue state having such a tough time in her quest for re-election?
Blogs
July 17, 2008
Obama Stumps for Gregoire
Why is an incumbent Democratic governor in a dark-blue state having such a tough time in her quest for re-election?
Blogs
July 16, 2008
Obama at KeyArena: "I Will End This War in 2009"
Why is an incumbent Democratic governor in a dark-blue state having such a tough time in her quest for re-election?
Blogs
July 14, 2008
Booze and Best of Seattle Ballots
Why is an incumbent Democratic governor in a dark-blue state having such a tough time in her quest for re-election?
Blogs
June 25, 2008
Can Michelle Obama Move More Veggie Dogs Than Her Hubby?
Why is an incumbent Democratic governor in a dark-blue state having such a tough time in her quest for re-election?

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