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Rock-n-Shoppin'

Slush Pile! Female Self-Hatred Edition

Yes, we have no bananas?

Farm-Loving Corporations, Nanofoods, and Other Food News

Make Sure Your Fake ID Has Your Photo On It

2.5 Notes About Meat From This Weekend

Mayor Nickels in Your Groceries

West Seattle Whole Foods Gets Laid

Smoke out

UW students fight the (Marlboro) Man.

No Karaoke at Ozzie's

UW students fight the (Marlboro) Man.

Old Tom, Gelatin, and other Food News

UW students fight the (Marlboro) Man.

A Square Meal: Meat & 2 Sides, $7.99

If this place were downtown Seattle, it would be gangbusters, but $7.99 would be $12. OK, so maybe the concept would fail to prove worth it. Walk in to the Pinehurst "not a restaurant" Square Meal (12339 15 Ave. NE, across from Safeway) and face a steam table with over a dozen entrees and sides, alw ... More >>

Victory Guilt at Checkout Line

If this place were downtown Seattle, it would be gangbusters, but $7.99 would be $12. OK, so maybe the concept would fail to prove worth it. Walk in to the Pinehurst "not a restaurant" Square Meal (12339 15 Ave. NE, across from Safeway) and face a steam table with over a dozen entrees and sides, alw ... More >>

A Fancy Dinner With Your Movie (and No Popcorn!)

But you can chow down—and booze it up—at this posh new cinema.

Dyeing for You

Get rid of that unattractive gray; red salmon have more fun!

Stop Trying to Be the Captain of Your Soul

Get rid of that unattractive gray; red salmon have more fun!

May Was National Salad Month?

Did I not get that email? Now I feel guilty. A Safeway takeout chicken caesar salad I ate this week came affixed with a little green sticker informing me that May was national salad month. Where were the ads, the banners on street lamps, the mayoral proclamations? I feel like I lost a great opportun ... More >>

Guerre de Groceries, Part Deux

Did I not get that email? Now I feel guilty. A Safeway takeout chicken caesar salad I ate this week came affixed with a little green sticker informing me that May was national salad month. Where were the ads, the banners on street lamps, the mayoral proclamations? I feel like I lost a great opportun ... More >>

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Did I not get that email? Now I feel guilty. A Safeway takeout chicken caesar salad I ate this week came affixed with a little green sticker informing me that May was national salad month. Where were the ads, the banners on street lamps, the mayoral proclamations? I feel like I lost a great opportun ... More >>

South of John

Life and death in a funky 15th Avenue neighborhood.

Real Work

Edward MacClain earns his living 75 cents at a time.

Snapshots

Clubbed Into Submission

Booze battles

Despite its many enemies, the Liquor Board lives on.

Screen savings?

Putting the dot-com grocers to the test.

Grocery wars

Besieged supermarkets battle obsolescence with brie.

The No-Fuss Feast

Whether you're a lazy boy or a hungry man, holiday meals are ready when you finally are.

Lists of the '90s

Instant Nostalgia issue

Call waiting . . . and waiting

Instant Nostalgia issue

When cards come collecting

How Safeway's new discount cards can be used against you.

Fresh Bistro Opens May 22

I walked in for last night's preview of Fresh Bistro, the new restaurant from the same team as Herban Feast catering company, and I had to reorient myself. The space, in a new condo complex across from Safeway in the West Seattle junction, lies 180 degrees from their newish, yet beautifully shabby c ... More >>

 . . . And You Will Know Us by the Trail of German Butterballs

What locavores, wine geeks, and indie rockers have in common.

The Safeway Eat Locally Campaign

Chantal Anderson In this week's feature on hipsters and locavores, I wrote about Safeway's new "Locally Grown" campaign. Here's the Washington state sign from the campaign, which intern Chantal Anderson photographed at the University Village store. The campaign is still being rolled out. As of 10 ... More >>

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Chantal Anderson In this week's feature on hipsters and locavores, I wrote about Safeway's new "Locally Grown" campaign. Here's the Washington state sign from the campaign, which intern Chantal Anderson photographed at the University Village store. The campaign is still being rolled out. As of 10 ... More >>

The Slutty Eye: A Mandala of Trash

Chantal Anderson In this week's feature on hipsters and locavores, I wrote about Safeway's new "Locally Grown" campaign. Here's the Washington state sign from the campaign, which intern Chantal Anderson photographed at the University Village store. The campaign is still being rolled out. As of 10 ... More >>

Don't Want to Get Shot? Don't Rob Banks With a Fake Gun

It won't make robbing a bank easier, but it might make you dead.​Yesterday police officers shot and killed a man who pulled out what appeared to be a Glock in an attempt to rob an Alaska Federal Credit Union inside a Shoreline Safeway. They arrested an alleged accomplice at the scene. It turn ... More >>

Fake Guns Don’t Kill People

But brandishing one can get you killed.

The New York Times Will Make Vegetarians of us all

Meat grinders: Where all the world('s beef by-products) come together as one.​With the ubiquity of foodie activists like Michael Pollan and release of documentary films like Food, Inc., lately it's gotten harder and harder to ignore the reality that most of what we eat didn't start off looking ... More >>

Too Gassed to Cook Thanksgiving Dinner? Let These Folks Do It For You

​Don't have the time, energy, and/or skills to whip up a Thanksgiving bird? Don's sweat it! Pre-cooked whole turkeys will be available at QFC, Metropolitan Market, Whole Foods, PCC, Albertsons, Safeway and Madison Market for about $50, on average. Some restaurants are offering whole pre-cooked ... More >>

Sweet Freak: A Chocolate Find at Safeway

​You usually don't find chocolate at the end of an aisle while you're grocery shopping; it's usually in the candy section, am I wrong? But that's just where I discovered some interesting chocolate last week while shopping at my local Safeway in West Seattle (the one in Jefferson Square, to be ... More >>

Greatest Hits and What You Missed: Wiener Dogs and Regicide

Taco Town!!!​According to our blog statistics, we know that most of you spent the week watching and re-watching (and re-re-watching) the videos for Julien Perry's list of "Six Favorite SNL Fake Food Ads". But this is what else we were up to while you were dreaming of a Brownie Husband or dinne ... More >>

Cheese & Chong at Fremont's Favorite Corner Store

Lil ScoopAs good as it gets for corn dogs and beer.​Here's what not to do at Marketime: Treat it as the sort of store where you bring a long list in and buy most everything on it. You've heard of Whole Foods referred to as "whole paycheck," right? If you were to attempt to fill your cupboards ... More >>

The Safeway Formula: Throw Produce Onto Parking Lot, Pitch Tent, Call it "Farmers Market"

Whose fields? Who cares?​Last week, the story broke that a Kirkland Safeway was advertising a weekend "Farmer's Market." When Martha Tyler, manager of the nearby Redmond Saturday Farmers Market, drove by and spotted Safeway's banner, she went in to ask for more details. Tyler was told that Saf ... More >>

Ready, Set, Bag!: Why Aren’t Our Safeway Clerks So Cheerful?

Whose fields? Who cares?​Last week, the story broke that a Kirkland Safeway was advertising a weekend "Farmer's Market." When Martha Tyler, manager of the nearby Redmond Saturday Farmers Market, drove by and spotted Safeway's banner, she went in to ask for more details. Tyler was told that Saf ... More >>

Take a Look Inside: It's Our Pick in a Box

The Dish Our New Year's resolution is not to drink less, but to spend less on booze. That's why we thought it totally appropriate to write about one of our favorite non-food items this week: boxed wine. Why is it our new favorite? How much time do you have? First, each box costs around $20 and is t ... More >>

Avalon Debuts Weekend Brunch; Starbucks Takes Over Central District

​Avalon in West Seattle debuts brunch this weekend. The Pacific Northwest-inspired menu will feature items like crab cakes benedict, leek quiche, and rustic root-vegetable hash. In unsurprising news, Central District News reports that a(nother) Starbucks is soon to start slinging drinks like ... More >>

Safeway Accuses Portland Couple of Shoplifting $400,000 in Groceries Every Year for 12 Years

​If Safeway is right, then two things are true: First, Richard Lavern Remington and Angela Rose Evans are the most prolific grocery-store shoplifters that ever lived; and second, Safeway's "loss prevention" department is absolutely horrible at preventing losses.

Skip the Placenta Soap, Order the Chicken Wings at Foulee Market

The chicken wings are better than the fried snapper (or snaper) at Foulee. ​In restaurants and stores, as in life, looks can be deceiving. Beacon Hill's Foulee Market, for example, is like the house the fourth pig built--the house completed with structural integrity somewhere between straw a ... More >>

Safeway Fires Security Guard for Harshly Interrogating 4-Year-Old Shoplifter

Savannah "Sticky Fingers" Sharp ​Kids these days. Let 'em steal a couple dried apricots at age four and by age five they're robbing the place at gunpoint. That's why an Everett Safeway security guard nipped a four-year-old future career criminal in the bud.