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Paul Allen

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2012

    Slade Gorton Launched on Mission to D.C. as Private Space Firm Prepares Saturday Blast-Off

    While Jeff Bezos' secretive sub-orbital venture continues to play catch-up in the commercial race to space, SpaceX, brainchild of ex-Pay Pal co-founder Elon Musk (a partner in Paul Allen's new space company building history's largest aircraft), has several new launches in the works: It's set to blas ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 11, 2012

    Science Fiction Film Festival

    While Jeff Bezos' secretive sub-orbital venture continues to play catch-up in the commercial race to space, SpaceX, brainchild of ex-Pay Pal co-founder Elon Musk (a partner in Paul Allen's new space company building history's largest aircraft), has several new launches in the works: It's set to blas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2012

    Paul Allen and His Big-Ass Yacht to the Rescue

    This is my second week working for The Seattle Weekly, doing what I can to live up to the lofty standards set forth by my predecessors. As an example of this quest for Daily Weekly excellence, I happily note that in only eight days on the job this marks my second post involving Northwest gazillionai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2012

    Paul Allen's ID Allegedly Stolen by Inept Army Deserter Who Paid Loan, Went to Dollar Store

    Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen recently donated $300 million to brain research, and perhaps one of the first questions scientists could answer is what was AWOL soldier Brandon Lee Price thinking when he allegedly stole billionaire Allen's ID and went to the Dollar Store to cash in? That's part of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2012

    Could Seattle Steal the Portland Trail Blazers?

    Sonics fans, forget about Sacramento. Why not look a little closer to home? The Portland Trail Blazers aren't doing too well right now. Marcus Camby and Raymond Wallace were unceremoniously dumped recently and a one Mr. Sonic is available for a coaching position after local moneybags Paul Allen fire ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2011

    Paul Allen's Seahawks Second in Division but First in NFL Contributions to U.S. Democrats

    Political footballer​It may be another season of mediocrity for the Seattle Seahawks, who have won just two of their five games so far. But they do lead the National Football League in political donations to Democratic causes, thanks to billionaire owner Paul Allen. The $36,000 he's given sinc ... More >>

  • Arts

    May 4, 2011

    Remember the Titans

    Dueling memoirs from Paul Allen and Howard Schultz.

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2011

    Paul Allen to 60 Minutes: Bill Gates Was Very, Very Mean to Me (VIDEO)

    ​If ever there was a time to feel sympathy for a billionaire, last night wasn't it. Two days before the release of his memoir, Idea Man, "60 Minutes" aired its interview with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who told the news magazine that Bill Gates "was always pushing people to work as hard ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    Paul Allen Destined for 'Heated Discussion' with 'Rip Off' Artist Bill Gates: Working With Him Was 'Like Being in Hell' Allen Says in New Book

    Hell, circa 1969​His new memoir is not about revenge, Paul Allen says of Idea Man, due out next week. "I just felt it was like an important part of technology history and I should tell it like it happened," says the multi-billionaire. "It," as the world now knows, refers to when Allen, shortly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2011

    Paul Allen Lashes Out at Bill Gates in New Book on Early Microsoft Days: "Bill's Self-Interest Overrode All Other Considerations"

    ​From the early looks at Paul Allen's new book Idea Man: A Memoir by the Co-founder of Microsoft, you might never guess that Allen became one of the richest people in the world thanks to his time as a Microsoftie. The book is packed full of bitter jabs at Bill Gates and revisionist takes on ev ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2010

    Paul Allen Still Determined to Sue the Internet

    ​Microsoft co-founder and 400-foot yacht-owner Paul Allen is determined to sue the pants off the internet. Well, maybe not the entire internet, per se, but rather a bevy of the biggest companies around that use it.

  • News

    December 29, 2010

    Paul Allen's New Year's Cruise

    Plenty of celebs, but not as exclusive as you'd think.

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2010

    Paul Allen's New Year's Celebration Not Like Yours - Unless You've Got a 400-foot Yacht

    ​Billionaire Paul Allen's traditional - for him - New Year's Eve is rumored to be set for chic and sunny St. Barth's in the Caribbean again, an all-night celeb-studded party aboard his $200 million battleship-sized yacht, the Octopus - which costs about $385,000 a week to operate. And the Seah ... More >>

  • Music

    December 15, 2010

    KEXP to Start Playing Paul Allen Rent

    The listener-supported radio station's 10-year free ride comes to an end in 2011.

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2010

    KEXP Will Start Paying Rent to Billionaire Paul Allen In 2011, Ending a 10-Year Free Ride

    Paul Allen​Ten years after Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen provided KEXP with an infusion of cash and a dollar-a-year lease for their space in South Lake Union, the listener-supported station will begin paying rent on the building, owned by Allen's Vulcan Inc., in January. The change coincide ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2010

    Steve Wozniak Has Paul Allen's Back

    ​Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is getting a lot of well-deserved flak for the patent-infringement lawsuits that pit him against basically every major tech player in the world. Allen, in short, is claiming credit for some very basic functions of the web. But in an interview with Bloomberg, Ap ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2010

    Paul Allen Sues Everyone, Claims He Patented the Internet

    ​Al Gore may have invented the internet, but Paul Allen holds the patent. That's the absurd claim Microsoft's former co-founder is making in a lawsuit that names Apple, Google, Facebook and nearly every big name in the tech world (with two notable exceptions which we'll get to in a second). So ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2010

    You Give Paul Allen $172 Million, You Get Biggest Boat at Seafair Log Boom

    $172 million would buy a lot of free agents for the Seahawks.​Uh, maybe Paul Allen now wishes he'd held on to more Microsoft stock? And maybe invested more money in South Lake Union rather than Charter Communications? Still one of the region's wealthiest citizens, though his net worth has fall ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2010

    Paul Allen Parties With Jay-Z, Lindsay Lohan and the Son of a Libyan Dictator on New Year's

    Not pictured: Paul Allen.​On NBC's "30 Rock," the vacation hot spot known only to the very rich is called Svenborgia. But if you're Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, Jay-Z or the crazed son of a Libyan dictator you know it by its more common name: St. Barts.

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2009

    Where in the World Are Paul Allen's Yachts?

    ​With his net worth last estimated by Forbes at $10.5 billion, Microsoft co-founder and international man of leisure Paul Allen has seen his wealth slide with the rest of us impacted by the recession. Forbes ranked him 19th among world billionaires in 2007, 41st last year, and 32nd this year. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2009

    Layoffs Hit Paul Allen's EMP/SFM

    Last week, Paul Allen's Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum Hall of Fame and Hall of Fame announced that it had hired a new director, Christina Orr-Cahall. While she has yet to take the reins, when she does, she'll have a few less employees under her charge. "In the last week, a total ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2009

    Just Call It the Paul Allen Museum

    The Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum has a new executive director, and is casting about for a new name that ties its pop culture polyamory together a little tighter. But seeing as the facility is Paul Allen's baby and basically caters to his whims, why not just call it the Paul Allen ... More >>

  • News

    February 4, 2009

    Could Gates Be the P-I’s White Knight?

    Stepping into journalism isn’t foreign to the billionaire or his foundation.

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2009

    Bill's Daily P-I?

    If the P-I is to survive as a news paper, it would seem to require a charitable and innovative billionaire. We happen to have some of those handy. And Bill Gates would seem the more likely of the two.Paul Allen has been an old-school newspaper investor - having bought the Sporting News for $100 mill ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2009

    The Portland Trail Blazers Will Sue You

    The Paul Allen-owned NBA team down the road, which many of us were quick to adopt following the Sonics departure, is behaving like a boorish corporate behemoth.

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2009

    Out of Time News

    In one sense, the day Paul Allen bought a magazine in Cambridge was the beginning of the end for the newsstand that sold it to him. Allen showed the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics to his buddy, geeky Harvard student Bill Gates, and the computer revolution began to unfold. Today, Out of To ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2008

    The Newsstand That Launched Microsoft is Closing

    A famous story in the history of Bill Gates and Microsoft takes place while the future billionaire is in college. One day Paul Allen shows his Lakeside buddy a 1974 issue of Popular Electronics. Here's how it's described in a 1994 New Yorker piece: Gates and Allen sometimes talked about how cool ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2008

    Even Bill Gates Couldn't Get into Quantum of Solace

    Quantum of Solace dropped so hot that even Bill and Melinda Gates couldn't get into the 7:45 showing at Paul Allen's theater, Cinerama. This gave me an opportunity to have my picture taken (with an iPhone--sorry, Bill) with the gracious software magnate and philanthropist. My friend Nick informed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2008

    New Packaging for the EMP?

    Quantum of Solace dropped so hot that even Bill and Melinda Gates couldn't get into the 7:45 showing at Paul Allen's theater, Cinerama. This gave me an opportunity to have my picture taken (with an iPhone--sorry, Bill) with the gracious software magnate and philanthropist. My friend Nick informed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2008

    Afternoon Edition: A Man with Big Planes

    Quantum of Solace dropped so hot that even Bill and Melinda Gates couldn't get into the 7:45 showing at Paul Allen's theater, Cinerama. This gave me an opportunity to have my picture taken (with an iPhone--sorry, Bill) with the gracious software magnate and philanthropist. My friend Nick informed ... More >>

  • News

    April 16, 2008

    Paul Allen's $69 Million Mystery Bid

    Is Vulcan planning a broadband wireless network?

  • Music

    March 19, 2008

    A Cure for the South Lake Union Blues

    Poured exclusively at Stix Billiards & Brewery.

  • News

    January 9, 2008

    Paul Allen vs. Google?

    Cable, wireless phones, and billions of dollars for the FCC.

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2008

    Bill Gates: Guitar Hero

    Cable, wireless phones, and billions of dollars for the FCC.

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2007

    Paul Allen Vs. Google?

    Cable, wireless phones, and billions of dollars for the FCC.

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2007

    Yachtspotting We Will Go

    Cable, wireless phones, and billions of dollars for the FCC.

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2007

    More Aid For Allentown

    Cable, wireless phones, and billions of dollars for the FCC.

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2007

    The $15 Million Floating FSBO

    Cable, wireless phones, and billions of dollars for the FCC.

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2007

    Police Investigation at Lakeside

    Cable, wireless phones, and billions of dollars for the FCC.

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2006

    Flight of the Billionaires

    Cable, wireless phones, and billions of dollars for the FCC.

  • News

    April 19, 2006

    The Seattle Oil Tycoon

    An update of Paul Allen's world: pipelines, insurance, and maybe some bankruptcy.

  • Arts

    April 12, 2006

    Seeing 'Double'

    Paul Allen's rarefied art project breaks with traditional gallery experience.

  • Arts

    April 5, 2006

    Seeing "Double"

    Paul Allen's new art exhibit at EMP invites controversy. Plus: News about choreographer Mark Morris, and cartoonist Michael Dougan.

  • News

    March 1, 2006

    The I-5 SuperBlazers

    Let's merge the Seattle and Portland NBA teams and play home games in Centralia or Chehalis.

  • Arts

    November 30, 2005

    Experience Art Project

    Let's merge the Seattle and Portland NBA teams and play home games in Centralia or Chehalis.

  • News

    June 23, 2004

    Starry-Eyed Enterprise

    Maybe it's another eccentric indulgence, but what if Paul Allen's little space program really takes off?

  • News

    March 10, 2004

    When It Rains, There Are Pores

    The state orders billionaire Paul Allen to fix the many leaks in Seahawks Stadium—or else.

  • News

    July 2, 2003

    Inside the Huddle

    An obstructed view of public partner Paul Allen's Seahawks Stadium finances.

  • News

    May 28, 2003

    Allen's Draw Play

    The football owner resists disclosing profits from publicly subsidized Seahawks Stadium.

  • News

    March 5, 2003

    TIF'ed Off

    Is tax increment financing corporate welfare, or a boost for poor neighborhoods?

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