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Skip Berger

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    March 24, 2010

    Tea Partiers Are 88 Percent White, 55 Percent Women and 100 Percent American

    See? Nothing but white chicks.​- A Quinnipac poll shows that Tea Party demographics are roughly equal to what you'd find at a Paul Anka concert. On a related note, Skip Berger just wrote a great defense of the protesters in which he drops lines like this: "Movements can be like Velcro, picking ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2010

    Mayor McGinn Throws a Lunch Party, and (Almost) Nobody Eats

    Mayor Mike McGinn hosted a brown-bag luncheon for Seattle's political press corps today. He talked plenty about his controversial proposal to expedite replacement of the waterfront seawall, and reporters took notes. ​But what they didn't do was eat. Writes Laura Onstot, over at the Daily Week ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2010

    John T. Edge Gives Kauffman's Teriyaki Opus Its Due In the New York Times

    Kevin CaseyToshihiro "Toshi" Kasahara, widely regarded as the godfather of Seattle's teriyaki craze.​Erstwhile SW food critic Jonathan Kauffman won a truckload of national awards for his work here, but I'm not sure he took home any hardware for my favorite feature of his, a wildly informative ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2009

    A Transit-Loving, Car-Hating, Bike-Riding, Progressive Environmentalist Who's Passionately Supporting Joe Mallahan

    Mallahan at the Book Fair this past weekend.Photo by Susanna Williams, deputy campaign manager for Mallahan​A common perception about this year's mayor's race is that Mike McGinn is the guy with the fervent supporters. His all-volunteer campaign has been powered by a flock of righteous, genufl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2009

    Compartively Good Times on Fairview, Says Blethen

    ​Earlier this year, in a perhaps Freudian revelation of his suicidal tendencies, Seattle Times Publisher Frank Blethen told state legislators that he and other newspaper owners were "literally holding on by our fingertips." He meant figuratively holding on. But lawmakers got the message and ha ... More >>

  • News

    September 23, 2009

    Mike Lewis: Still Under the Needle

    A former P-I scribe is taking the reins of the Streamline Tavern.

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2009

    All-Star Bar Quartet, Including Former P-I Scribe, Takes Over the Streamline

    ​Mike Lewis is best known to Seattleites as the man who penned the "Under the Needle" column for the now-defunct print version of the Seattle P-I. Lesser known was the fact that Lewis, who'd long dreamed of one day owning his own bar, tended bar once a week at the Streamline, a small, spartan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2009

    M&M Thrice Over: McGinn and Mallahan Agree on Three Debates

    ​Just after Dow Constantine and Susan Hutchison set their first debate, Mike McGinn sent out a press release announcing he's accepted three television stations' invitations to debate Joe Mallahan. The McGinn campaign says they'll debate on October 10th or 17th on KOMO, October 22nd on KCTS, an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2009

    Urban Density Equals Suburban Sprawl

    That's the argument former SW editor Skip Berger is making in his Crosscut column, and he's got plenty of data to back his testimony up. A compelling, counterintuitive read, if you can spare five or ten minutes.

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2009

    Mossback, Coming to a Bookstore Near You

    It doesn't matter if you live in Ballard, Bothell, or Bellingham, former SW editor-in-chief Skip Berger will soon be coming to a bookstore near you to discuss his new book, Pugetopolis, which as Brian Miller notes in this week's issue, features content from his days as the Weekly's standout front-of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2009

    Afternoon Edition: Leaning Tower of Pizza

    Mossback in Hardback: Former SW editor Skip Berger is doing appearances to promote his new book, Pugetopolis. Brickner recommends these shows and this one. Joanie Loves Chachi and Kauffman loves Poppy. Another one and two more bite the dust From the ashes arises pizza. This man is the Port ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2008

    Playing at Politics

    Mossback in Hardback: Former SW editor Skip Berger is doing appearances to promote his new book, Pugetopolis. Brickner recommends these shows and this one. Joanie Loves Chachi and Kauffman loves Poppy. Another one and two more bite the dust From the ashes arises pizza. This man is the Port ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2007

    Town For Sale

    Mossback in Hardback: Former SW editor Skip Berger is doing appearances to promote his new book, Pugetopolis. Brickner recommends these shows and this one. Joanie Loves Chachi and Kauffman loves Poppy. Another one and two more bite the dust From the ashes arises pizza. This man is the Port ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2007

    SW Alumni Update

    Mossback in Hardback: Former SW editor Skip Berger is doing appearances to promote his new book, Pugetopolis. Brickner recommends these shows and this one. Joanie Loves Chachi and Kauffman loves Poppy. Another one and two more bite the dust From the ashes arises pizza. This man is the Port ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2007

    Brewster, Founding Anew

    Mossback in Hardback: Former SW editor Skip Berger is doing appearances to promote his new book, Pugetopolis. Brickner recommends these shows and this one. Joanie Loves Chachi and Kauffman loves Poppy. Another one and two more bite the dust From the ashes arises pizza. This man is the Port ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2006

    Attention Concerned Drunks

    Mossback in Hardback: Former SW editor Skip Berger is doing appearances to promote his new book, Pugetopolis. Brickner recommends these shows and this one. Joanie Loves Chachi and Kauffman loves Poppy. Another one and two more bite the dust From the ashes arises pizza. This man is the Port ... More >>

  • News

    May 2, 2001

    5 Easy steps to making Seattle Weekly

    Mossback in Hardback: Former SW editor Skip Berger is doing appearances to promote his new book, Pugetopolis. Brickner recommends these shows and this one. Joanie Loves Chachi and Kauffman loves Poppy. Another one and two more bite the dust From the ashes arises pizza. This man is the Port ... More >>

  • News

    May 2, 2001

    24 Things we're glad we didn't do

    Mossback in Hardback: Former SW editor Skip Berger is doing appearances to promote his new book, Pugetopolis. Brickner recommends these shows and this one. Joanie Loves Chachi and Kauffman loves Poppy. Another one and two more bite the dust From the ashes arises pizza. This man is the Port ... More >>

  • News

    July 29, 1998

    Shut down

    Mossback in Hardback: Former SW editor Skip Berger is doing appearances to promote his new book, Pugetopolis. Brickner recommends these shows and this one. Joanie Loves Chachi and Kauffman loves Poppy. Another one and two more bite the dust From the ashes arises pizza. This man is the Port ... More >>

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