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  • Blogs

    March 28, 2012

    Gregoire and Cantwell Continue to Support Sales Tax Deduction

    On Tuesday Washington's Gov. Chris Gregoire, along with several other governors from across the country, sent a letter to lawmakers in Washington D.C. asking for an extension of the state and local sales tax deduction - a money-saving convenience available to those who file itemized federal tax retu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2012

    Former Seattle U Star Charles Garcia Rebounds in Sioux Falls (Update: Garcia Suspended for Violating Drug Policy)

    Jack Arent, NBA/Getty Images​Update, 2/9/12: Charles Garcia has been suspended for five games without pay for "violating the terms of the NBA D-League's anti-drug policy." Team spokesperson Brett Hansen could not confirm what substance Garcia was suspended for. Garcia will begin serving his su ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    Report: Washington Flunks Out When It Comes to Education Spending

    Washington scored a big fat "F" in education spending and an embarrassing "D-minus" in college readiness, according to the new "Quality Counts" state-by-state comparison published annually by Education Week magazine.

  • News

    November 2, 2011

    Starbucks Turf War?

    Is coffee at the center of a motorcycle gang rivalry?

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2011

    Hells Angels and Vagos Motorcycle Gangs Feuding . . . Over Starbucks?

    Image Source​By all accounts, the Hells Angels and Vagos motorcycle clubs are at war. In a clash between the two gangs last month at a casino in Nevada, the president of the Hells Angels' San Jose Chapter was shot and killed and a Vagos member wounded. A retaliatory drive-by felled a Vagos mem ... More >>

  • News

    October 26, 2011

    Pete Dexter Lets It Bleed

    Hard at work on his eighth novel, the Deadwood author still packs a punch.

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    This Week in Starbucks Crime: Bestiality, Mistaken Identity, and Masturbation Songs!

    ​Welcome back to another exciting installment of This Week in Starbucks Crime, in which we catalog the bad acts occurring at Starbucks' 16,000-odd worldwide locations over the past seven days, as well as the week's fallout from prior Starbucks-related misdeeds. Without further ado, let's get t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2011

    Pie as a Trend? Bullshit, Just Like Trend Pieces Themselves

    As American as mom and...​ For this week's review of High 5 Pie and Pie in Fremont, I ate a lot of pie. Some of it was good pie, most of it was not. All of my eating (including the half-dozen bright-and-shiny, industrially-made Dolly Madison fruit pies I bought from the local grocery store in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    The Young Evils on Age Gaps, Easy Street, Parents, KEXP, and Their New Record

    The Young Evils first floated into my consciousness sometime earlier this year when I heard that KEXP's Troy Nelson had started a band with his girlfriend, Mackenzie Mercer. I heard some songs and then got the chance to see them live for the first time last month when they played REVERB Fest and a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2010

    Texas Gov. Rick Perry Tries to Steal Seattle Businesses

    ​Rick Perry, the firebrand Texas governor who wants his state to be its own separate country, decided to stick his neck into the fight over Washington's sale tax initiative, I-1098. He sent letters last Friday to 90 businesses including Amazon, Starbucks and Microsoft, saying that if the measu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2010

    Last Night: The Worst the National Show I've Ever Seen!*

    The awesome Laura Musselman​This just in: Saturday night's the National show at Marymoor was the worst the National show I've ever seen. (*Gasps!*) (*Shouts of "traitor!"*) And yet it was still a damn fine concert. So what gives? Not being one of those regular contributin' types to Reverb, I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2010

    Colton Harris-Moore Is In the Bahamas?

    ​Someone in Indiana is missing a Cessna. And someone in the Bahamas just noticed a small plane wash up off shore. If you're thinking that these two incidents, separated as they are by thousands of miles, are somehow connected, and somehow related to Barefoot Bandit Colton Harris-Moore's cross- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2010

    2 Fort Lewis Explosive Experts Killed in Longest U.S. War - That's Afghanistan

    ​Army Staff Sgt. Shane S. Barnard is one of two Fort Lewis bomb disposal specialists to recently die in Afghanistan, in what this week became America's longest war. Memorial services were held for Barnard Wednesday at Fort Lewis, and he has just been added to SW's War Dead pages, now grown t ... More >>

  • News

    April 14, 2010

    Down on the Farm

    The Humane Society and big agriculture slug it out over animal rights.

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2010

    HSUS Takes on Big Ag Over Animal Welfare

    This week's feature story, "Down on the Farm," chronicles an increasingly heated national battle over "factory-farmed" food. On one side: a phalanx of corporation- and family-owned farms across the country. On the other: the Washington, D.C.-based Humane Society of the United States.Caught in the mi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2009

    We're No. 36! Washington Narrowly Beats DC in National Happiness Ranking

    What's the matter, Washington? Still bummed about the election results?​Of course you are familiar with the Oswalt/Wu index of life satisfaction. The two scientists have published a paper in Science magazine (see abstract), based on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and ... More >>

  • Music

    December 2, 2009

    The Short List: This Week’s Recommended Shows

    What's the matter, Washington? Still bummed about the election results?​Of course you are familiar with the Oswalt/Wu index of life satisfaction. The two scientists have published a paper in Science magazine (see abstract), based on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 27, 2009

    I've Been Listening to Garage A Trois, We All Have Hooks for Hands, and Priscilla Renea

    Garage A Trois, featuring Skerik, second from left.​Garage A Trois, Power Patriot: More than any other Skerik record in recent memory -- and he is prolific dude -- Power Patriot brings the violent saxophonist's shenanigans down to a level more folks can access. The man has been known to produc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2009

    Dennis James Silenced: Update

    Since 1998, the silent movie series at the Paramount have basically been synonymous with their organist and host: Dennis James. One means the other. Or did, until an abrupt press release from the Paramount's nonprofit owner, Seattle Theatre Group, announced a replacement musician. The news came at f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2009

    The Murder of George Tiller

    The murder of George Tiller (can we please stop calling him "late-term abortion provider George Tiller"?) is at one end of a continuum of violence and harassment that many health care professionals endure every day. I know this because my sister works for Planned Parenthood in Minnesota, where she ... More >>

  • Diversions

    March 26, 2008

    Uptight in the Army?

    The murder of George Tiller (can we please stop calling him "late-term abortion provider George Tiller"?) is at one end of a continuum of violence and harassment that many health care professionals endure every day. I know this because my sister works for Planned Parenthood in Minnesota, where she ... More >>

  • Film

    September 26, 2007

    Into the Wild: Sean Penn Does Right by Jon Krakauer

    The murder of George Tiller (can we please stop calling him "late-term abortion provider George Tiller"?) is at one end of a continuum of violence and harassment that many health care professionals endure every day. I know this because my sister works for Planned Parenthood in Minnesota, where she ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2007

    Cuts, blood and rock and roll

    The murder of George Tiller (can we please stop calling him "late-term abortion provider George Tiller"?) is at one end of a continuum of violence and harassment that many health care professionals endure every day. I know this because my sister works for Planned Parenthood in Minnesota, where she ... More >>

  • Food

    February 21, 2007

    Organicize Me

    Our intrepid reporter spends a month ingesting only organic foods so you don't have to.

  • Film

    October 4, 2006

    Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing

    A chat with the Jesus Camp co-directors.

  • Music

    September 20, 2006

    Beast Jams

    The USA Is a Monster's virulent war stomp.

  • News

    August 16, 2006

    Senators, Lawyers & Choppers

    Neocons can't claim Scoop Jackson, says his son; and bikers will be bikers, especially when there are guns involved.

  • News

    July 12, 2006

    Born to be Wild

    Bandidos, Angels, Nomads, Mongols: a roundup of recent motorcycle mayhem.

  • News

    July 12, 2006

    Bad Boys

    A Bellingham biker thought he could clean up a notorious motorcycle gang, but his reform efforts crashed and he's pleaded guilty to conspiracy.

  • Food

    May 3, 2006

    Madame K

    A Bellingham biker thought he could clean up a notorious motorcycle gang, but his reform efforts crashed and he's pleaded guilty to conspiracy.

  • Arts

    February 8, 2006

    On the Road

    Writer follows a map of the stars to understand America. Warren Beatty for president, mon ami?

  • News

    January 25, 2006

    A Very Fuzzy Fossil Record

    A scientific report traces unprofessional conduct, bad science, and possible lawlessness at the University of Washington.

  • News

    July 27, 2005

    Distort Reform

    I-330 would cap monetary awards for malpractice lawsuits. I-336 would crack down on serially inept doctors. Only one might solve an actual problem.

  • Food

    May 18, 2005

    The State of Beef

    I-330 would cap monetary awards for malpractice lawsuits. I-336 would crack down on serially inept doctors. Only one might solve an actual problem.

  • Arts

    May 11, 2005

    This Week's Reads

    Dan Chaon, Rattawut Lapcharoensap.

  • News

    December 15, 2004

    Is Bush the Antichrist?

    Dan Chaon, Rattawut Lapcharoensap.

  • Food

    January 7, 2004

    Bone to Pick

    Diners dig (for) their fish at Bonefish Grill.

  • Arts

    August 20, 2003

    This Week's Reads

    Tom Groneberg, Adam Johnson, John Rember, and Ian Spiegelman.

  • News

    April 30, 2003

    Big Gamble

    Should we plug the states budget hole by expanding casino gambling beyond the reservations? A proposal in Olympia is tempting legislatorsand teachersto do just that.

  • Film

    September 25, 2002

    Fire Water

    Crude but powerful drama mixes arson and alcohol.

  • Music

    August 7, 2002

    Rhymes with Seltzer

    Crude but powerful drama mixes arson and alcohol.

  • Food

    September 26, 2001

    The Hot Sheet

    What's in, what's fresh, what's cooking.

  • News

    July 18, 2001

    Fetal attraction

    The country's biggest federally funded lab for aborted fetuses is at the UW—can it survive the stem-cell controversy?

  • Music

    July 12, 2000

    The Culture Bunker

    The country's biggest federally funded lab for aborted fetuses is at the UW—can it survive the stem-cell controversy?

  • News

    July 14, 1999

    Killing corporations

    The country's biggest federally funded lab for aborted fetuses is at the UW—can it survive the stem-cell controversy?

  • Music

    June 23, 1999

    Who remembers Jimi?

    You'd be surprised who shows up at Hendrix's grave.

  • Music

    June 16, 1999

    Indiana wants me

    You'd be surprised who shows up at Hendrix's grave.

  • Music

    June 9, 1999

    Postcards from the middle

    You'd be surprised who shows up at Hendrix's grave.

  • Music

    April 8, 1998

    How sweet the sound

    Kathleen Norris redefines Christianity, word by word, in 'Amazing Grace.'

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