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Amy Waldeman

Lake City Parent Wanted Hard-Core Porn-Watching Man Moved; Lake City Library Refused

​Julie Howe has taken to the Lake City Live neighborhood blog to tell her story of a man who she says was watching hard-core pornography on a computer at the Lake City Library on a late Sunday afternoon earlier this month. Howe was with her 7- and 10-year-old daughters who she left in the chil ... More >>

Mark Yarm

​Julie Howe has taken to the Lake City Live neighborhood blog to tell her story of a man who she says was watching hard-core pornography on a computer at the Lake City Library on a late Sunday afternoon earlier this month. Howe was with her 7- and 10-year-old daughters who she left in the chil ... More >>

A Little Raskin: The Seattle Public Library's Five Favorite Food Books

What to read while you feed.

Looking for a Good Book? The Seattle Public Library Offers 5 Titles for Voracious Readers

​While librarians are now adept at troubleshooting e-book readers and helping job hunters negotiate employment websites, many readers still want an answer to the old-fashioned question: "What should I read?" The Seattle Public Library this year inaugurated an innovative online service designe ... More >>

New Pot-Legalization Effort Announced in Washington State

​It's not election season in Washington until someone tries to get a marijuana-legalization law passed. Leading that effort for 2012 appears to be the freshly-formed group New Approach Washington.

Ain't No Business Like Book Business

Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. His sports column on ESPN.com runs every Wednesday.​A many of you very well know, I am a die-hard and hardcore book-nerd. Some of you may also be aware that I have been writing a book over the last year or so. The book, It's So Easy, is done ... More >>

Gillian G. Gaar

Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. His sports column on ESPN.com runs every Wednesday.​A many of you very well know, I am a die-hard and hardcore book-nerd. Some of you may also be aware that I have been writing a book over the last year or so. The book, It's So Easy, is done ... More >>

Most Popular Library CD Requests: Seattle Wants LCD Soundsystem and Band of Horses (But Still Waits for Gaga)

There are more than 300 Seattle Public Library members waiting to hear Infinite Arms--as long as the album is free, of course. ​Apparently, Seattle's musical taste (well, at least when it comes to free music) hasn't changed much in the last six months. More and more Seattle Public Library memb ... More >>

Most Popular Library CD Requests: 197 Seattleites Still Waiting on Ocean Eyes

​ Owl City has its detractors--it's been harshly and dismissively called "mind-numbing" and "utterly execrable" by some critics--but 2009's Ocean Eyes is still wanted and desired by Seattleites. (Well, at least those Emerald City residents that are members of the Seattle Public Library system) ... More >>

Seattle's Listening to Jay-Z, Yes, and Lots of Kings of Leon

Christmas Card, by The Temptations, on hold at the Seattle Central Library.​I continue to be impressed by the selection of music in the Seattle Public Library system and by the diversity of interest displayed by its patrons. An in-depth selection is nothing if people aren't listening. Among th ... More >>

Seattle Schools: Closing One Day, Opening Another

After shuttering schools for the last few years, why is the Seattle School District suddenly moving to reopen them?

"Sore Loser" Law Would Prevent Nickels Write-in Campaign

...and therefore ineligible for Seattle's 2009 general election.​On Tuesday, The SunBreak posed the question "Is it too late to start a Write In Nickels campaign?" This came on the heels of Monday's less-than-impressive performance from mayoral candidates Mike McGinn and Joe Mallahan at the Se ... More >>

One Library in Need of a Bath

Thousands of patrons and visiting birds are taking their toll on the downtown library. But thanks to the recession, there's no relief in sight.

The Koolhaas Library Closes for a Week: Too Bad The Reason Isn't Maintenance

​Budget cuts to the Seattle Public Library haven't just resulted in the week-long furlough that begins today, they have also led to a lack of maintenance that is making the famous Rem Koolhaas-designed downtown facility look shabby. Only five years after the building opened to rave reviews nat ... More >>

Library Releases Long-Awaited Rule Proposals, May Finally Close "Barefoot" Loophole

Hit hard by the Mayor's budget cuts, the Seattle Public Library nevertheless mustered the strength to release some proposed rule revisions for its facilities. Among the notable potential changes: Clarifying the rule that prohibits entering or being in the Library barefoot, or without a shirt to sp ... More >>

Don't Forget Seattle's Best Cookbook Sale

This weekend, the Friends of the Seattle Public Library is having its semiannual book sale, in which tens of thousands of Seattleites patrol the aisles of a Magnuson Park warehouse, pulling garbage cans on wheels to fill up with books. It's amazing to see the greed and sly pettiness that normally ... More >>

Candidates nearly outnumber audience in KC Elections Director Debate

The Bellevue Reporter's top ink-slinger Joshua Hicks has an excellent rundown of the King County Election Director debate held Thursday night at the Seattle Public Library's Central Branch. The complete article can be read here. The particularly distressing aspect of the debate is that less than ten ... More >>

SPL Holiday Book Sale

The Bellevue Reporter's top ink-slinger Joshua Hicks has an excellent rundown of the King County Election Director debate held Thursday night at the Seattle Public Library's Central Branch. The complete article can be read here. The particularly distressing aspect of the debate is that less than ten ... More >>

SPL Book Sale at Magnuson Park

The Bellevue Reporter's top ink-slinger Joshua Hicks has an excellent rundown of the King County Election Director debate held Thursday night at the Seattle Public Library's Central Branch. The complete article can be read here. The particularly distressing aspect of the debate is that less than ten ... More >>

How to Enjoy Fall Arts

Our master events calendar: what to do, practically every night, from now to the end of the year.

Time Travel at the Library

Our master events calendar: what to do, practically every night, from now to the end of the year.

The Daily Wire: Comics and More Comics

Our master events calendar: what to do, practically every night, from now to the end of the year.

Comixtravaganza

The final panel of a monthlong examination

Notes from the Friends of the Library Book Sale

The final panel of a monthlong examination

Books Calendar

The final panel of a monthlong examination

Seattle Poet Populist

Literary

Good things happen in threes!

Literary

Seattle Weekly's Calendar of Recommended Events

Isabel Allende, Leslie Mackie, Kaspar Hauser and Indie Jewelry.

Book Drop

The state wants to sell Seattle's library for the blind and move it to Olympia. That could reap big profits but lose volunteers.

This Week's Critics' Picks

We gotta have Lang Lang, Savion Glover, and Edward P. Jones.

Northwest African-American Fine Arts Exhibit

We gotta have Lang Lang, Savion Glover, and Edward P. Jones.

Librarians Say 'No' To Bush

We gotta have Lang Lang, Savion Glover, and Edward P. Jones.

Hot Links

We gotta have Lang Lang, Savion Glover, and Edward P. Jones.

Chanters of Personality

Dec. 7-13, 2005

Quiz the Candidates

Sept. 7-13, 2005

Timber and Steel

In Ballard, a new branch Seattle Public Library is a showcase of eco-efficient architecture.

Voting Is a Patriot Act

In Ballard, a new branch Seattle Public Library is a showcase of eco-efficient architecture.

In the Loop and in Seattle

In Ballard, a new branch Seattle Public Library is a showcase of eco-efficient architecture.

Simplicity in the Stacks

A library's function is changing beneath that strangely chiseled form.

A Cabaret, Actually Live!

A library's function is changing beneath that strangely chiseled form.

Whaddya Reading?

The Seattle Public Library has not informed its patrons about a possible privacy risk.

Letters to the Editor

"Thank God our president cares enough about my future grandchildren to rid the world of the evil trying to do us in."

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Mainstream is in, esoteric is out as the library prunes its periodicals list.

Outrage Overdue

Mainstream is in, esoteric is out as the library prunes its periodicals list.

Buzz

Mainstream is in, esoteric is out as the library prunes its periodicals list.

Visual arts, 1999

Mainstream is in, esoteric is out as the library prunes its periodicals list.

Crunch, crunch

Mainstream is in, esoteric is out as the library prunes its periodicals list.

What happened to the books?

An argument for keeping the next library bibliocentric.

A magnificent seven for TAM

An argument for keeping the next library bibliocentric.