Netherlands

Ride Tall and Dutch...

Self-mutilation 101

One For The Bi-Polars

Holland Opens in the Biggest Little City in the World

Nightmare on weed street

The pitfalls of getting high.

Exorcist: The Beginning

Also: Festival Express.

Staph-Infected Pigs, Mini Cattle, and Other Food News

Food news stories from around the country:U.S. Pigs and Farmers Carry MRSA by Andrew Schneider (P-I): 45 percent of pigs and pig farmers tested in Iowa and Illinois carry methicillin-resistant staph -- something that has been talked about for a few years but only proven in the Netherlands. Are the U ... More >>

Keeping it Simple

All theater simple needs to blow audiences away are actors and imagination.

Telepathy and Nostalgia at the Beachcomber

Kinda like that bar in Amsterdam.

A Guide to Trader Joe’s Party Platters

Identifying the items to hog, pick at, and pass over that you’ll most definitely see before it’s 2009.

Michael Vermillion

Wednesday, December 3

Life Is a Cabaret

A play’s characters perform—literally—as if their lives depended on it.

When Cutting Yourself, Use the Right Kind of Blade

A play’s characters perform—literally—as if their lives depended on it.

The Barry Bonds of Pumpkin Growing

Greg Shaw’s orange behemoths are small squash compared to the titans of the patch.

Showgirl

Paul Verhoeven's new heroine makes a typically nasty burlesque of the Holocaust in Black Book.

Diner Diva

Paul Verhoeven's new heroine makes a typically nasty burlesque of the Holocaust in Black Book.

Nov. 9-15, 2005

Paul Verhoeven's new heroine makes a typically nasty burlesque of the Holocaust in Black Book.

Return Fire

A former sheriff's deputy says the brass lied to justify her firing for being bipolar.

Gin Wants Back In

The West's first industrial-strength tipple yearns to be respectable.

Former Deputy Sues

Angela Holland files a lawsuit over her firing for mental illness.

Good Cop, Sad Cop

Angela Holland files a lawsuit over her firing for mental illness.

Good Cop, Sad Cop

Meet former King County Sheriff's Deputy Angela Holland. She was a great street cop with numerous commendations and a spotless record. But she was mildly bipolar, so they fired her.

The Absinthe Underground

A century ago, absinthe was banned in the U.S. and France. Now it's the hippest drink in Seattle—if you can find it.

SEX, DRUGS & DEMOCRACY

A century ago, absinthe was banned in the U.S. and France. Now it's the hippest drink in Seattle—if you can find it.

A tale of two band(width)s

Rock's hottest new career move: battling your record label over MP3s.

Green between the lines

A roundup of recent garden books, ripe for the picking.

Fear of flying coach

Port of Seattle officials soar high, golf far, and a "fiscal conservative" blazes the trail.

Mayor Schell's Dutch treat

He's no longer a Port commissioner, but he still took a posh Port junket—for the city's sake, of course.

Open House

He's no longer a Port commissioner, but he still took a posh Port junket—for the city's sake, of course.

Even More Band Of Horses News: They're Opening For Pearl Jam

​I guess they haven't completely forgotten their Seattle background - Band Of Horses will be opening for Pearl Jam for a number of tour dates in May, including a stop at Madison Square Garden in New York. These shows will be just one leg of a Band Of Horses tour that will take them around the ... More >>

Free MP3: Blitzen Trapper's "Heaven and Earth," Off Their Forthcoming Record

Jade Harris​Portland's Blitzen Trapper will release their fifth full-length, Destroyer of the Void, on June 8 on Sub Pop. Right now you can download the record's first single, "Heaven and Earth," on Sub Pop's website - and I really urge you to do so. It's a beautifully clear and focused piano ... More >>

Bad News for Mexicans: You Really Are Shorter

Jade Harris​Portland's Blitzen Trapper will release their fifth full-length, Destroyer of the Void, on June 8 on Sub Pop. Right now you can download the record's first single, "Heaven and Earth," on Sub Pop's website - and I really urge you to do so. It's a beautifully clear and focused piano ... More >>

Visual Arts: Design Colony

SOIL sprawls across 11,000 square feet of vacant space in a Georgetown showroom.

World Cup Final: Netherlands vs. Spain

SOIL sprawls across 11,000 square feet of vacant space in a Georgetown showroom.

Marcy Playground

SOIL sprawls across 11,000 square feet of vacant space in a Georgetown showroom.

On the Road With Jane's Addiction, Reminded of Some of Mankind's Troubling Detours

Jane's Addiction Drummer Stephen PerkinsDuff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. He writes about what music is circulating through his space every Monday.​I've been on a brief two-show European run with Jane's Addiction that started with a gig in Amsterdam. It certainly is interest ... More >>

Hit It and Don't Quit It: Talking With DJ Colby B About Tonight's Ladies' Night Show at Neumos

​ Local DJ Colby B was knocked out by illness when I conducted the roundtable interviews with the women of Ladies' Night featured in this week's edition of Rocket Queen. She's back on her feet and ready to hold down the decks at Neumos tonight (she also spun at the first Ladies' Choice, back ... More >>

My Summer In Europe With The Gallows, Rage Against the Machine, and Cypress Hill

The GallowsDuff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. He writes about what music is circulating through his space every Monday.​Festival season is once again upon the continent of Europe and throughout the British Isles. Once again, I am fortunate to take part in some of these. These ... More >>

The Jane's Addiction Ride Continues: Two More Live Shows and Maybe a Few New Recordings

Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. He writes about what music is circulating through his space every Monday.​Man! Am I ever lucky to be doing what I do! My tenure in Jane's Addiction recently took me to Europe for two shows with Rage Against the Machine in Arnhem, Holland, an ... More >>

Holy Rollers: What's a Nice Jewish Boy Like You Doing With the Drugs?

Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. He writes about what music is circulating through his space every Monday.​Man! Am I ever lucky to be doing what I do! My tenure in Jane's Addiction recently took me to Europe for two shows with Rage Against the Machine in Arnhem, Holland, an ... More >>

World Cup Soccer: Brazil vs. Netherlands

Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. He writes about what music is circulating through his space every Monday.​Man! Am I ever lucky to be doing what I do! My tenure in Jane's Addiction recently took me to Europe for two shows with Rage Against the Machine in Arnhem, Holland, an ... More >>

Legalized Marijuana Means More Crappy Jobs For Everyone!

​In the mind's eye of America's more progressive set, Amsterdam is Valhalla. A place that, unlike the States, understands how you do and don't deal with marijuana. So having never gone Dutch, it's refreshing to read Wells Tower's piece in this month's GQ. Tower spent a week in the world's cann ... More >>

Opening Nights: Red Light Winter

Never fall in love with a hooker.

One Blogger on a Soapbox, Addressing Gluten-Free Emergencies

http://www.costco.com​Recently, in preparation for a weeklong camping trip, a friend of mine with a sense of humor sent me the link for information Costco's "Augason Farms Gluten Free Complete Meal Pack." While I felt that carrying 18 10-pound buckets of dehydrated meals in my backpack sounded ... More >>

Winter in Wartime: A Dutch Teen Hero in WWII 

http://www.costco.com​Recently, in preparation for a weeklong camping trip, a friend of mine with a sense of humor sent me the link for information Costco's "Augason Farms Gluten Free Complete Meal Pack." While I felt that carrying 18 10-pound buckets of dehydrated meals in my backpack sounded ... More >>

Zola Jesus

http://www.costco.com​Recently, in preparation for a weeklong camping trip, a friend of mine with a sense of humor sent me the link for information Costco's "Augason Farms Gluten Free Complete Meal Pack." While I felt that carrying 18 10-pound buckets of dehydrated meals in my backpack sounded ... More >>

Stephanie

http://www.costco.com​Recently, in preparation for a weeklong camping trip, a friend of mine with a sense of humor sent me the link for information Costco's "Augason Farms Gluten Free Complete Meal Pack." While I felt that carrying 18 10-pound buckets of dehydrated meals in my backpack sounded ... More >>

Greg Halman, Mariners Outfielder and Europe's 'Face of the MLB', Stabbed to Death in Netherlands

​To Mariners fans he was the scrappy outfielder who was giving starting center fielder Frankie Gutierrez a run for his money. To scores of European baseball fans he was the face of the MLB. Whatever the case, Greg Halman is now dead.

Greg Halman, Slain Mariners Outfielder, Was Buried in His M's Jersey

​Murdered Mariners outfielder Greg Halman was laid to rest today in his native county of The Netherlands. Shannon Drayer at the Mariner's Blog gives this account of the service, related from attendees.

Opening Nights: Don Quixote

PNB dancers tear up the stage in this Spanish holiday.