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The Great Depression

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2012

    Urban Farmer Joshua McNichols Can Get Kids To Eat Their Vegetables

    Ballard resident Joshua McNichols is an architect turned journalist that embodies the grow-everything-you-eat movement. A regular public radio contributor, he's co-written The Urban Farm Handbook. The recently released title explains everything from grinding grain to finding local butchers ready to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2012

    Mayor Maps Homeless Strategy as Nickelsville Marks 1-Year Anniversary (with 2 Weddings)

    As Mayor Mike McGinn rolls out yet another City Hall plan to solve the homeless problem today, Nicklesville, the four-year-old homeless encampment named for the previous mayor, will mark its first anniversary at the same West Marginal Way location this Sunday.

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2012

    Seattle's 10 Best Popcorns

    Americans have been popping corn kernels in the fireplace for centuries, but the snack's popularity picked up during the Great Depression, when a nickel bag of salty popcorn was one of the few affordable luxuries. Not surprisingly, popcorn fervor returned with the recession: Once sold primarily at m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2012

    Great Depression Exhibit Opens Monday at State History Museum

    The Great Depression is coming to the Washington State History Museum, offering visitors a time-capsule glimpse into the harsh, desperate 1930s. Bread lines, millions of displaced workers, political encampments, shantytowns full of single men, and hobo wanderers -- all of this and more will be on di ... More >>

  • News

    January 25, 2012

    Victoria Jackson's Tea Party

    A Saturday Night Live star's journey to the rabid right of modern politics.

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    The Artist and Olivar Are Both Sweet Treats

    The Dinner: Columbia City bread and marinated Picholine olives, apple and Manchego salad, canelones a la Catalana, and chocolate mousse at Olivar (806 E. Roy). The Movie: The Artist at the Harvard Exit (807 E. Roy). The Screenplate: The first line of dialogue in The Artist is, "I won't talk! I won ... More >>

  • Arts

    December 28, 2011

    The Weekly Wire: This Week's Recommended Events

    The Dinner: Columbia City bread and marinated Picholine olives, apple and Manchego salad, canelones a la Catalana, and chocolate mousse at Olivar (806 E. Roy). The Movie: The Artist at the Harvard Exit (807 E. Roy). The Screenplate: The first line of dialogue in The Artist is, "I won't talk! I won ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 14, 2011

    Trouble in Paradise

    The Dinner: Columbia City bread and marinated Picholine olives, apple and Manchego salad, canelones a la Catalana, and chocolate mousse at Olivar (806 E. Roy). The Movie: The Artist at the Harvard Exit (807 E. Roy). The Screenplate: The first line of dialogue in The Artist is, "I won't talk! I won ... More >>

  • Arts

    October 19, 2011

    The Weekly Wire: This Week's Recommended Events

    The Dinner: Columbia City bread and marinated Picholine olives, apple and Manchego salad, canelones a la Catalana, and chocolate mousse at Olivar (806 E. Roy). The Movie: The Artist at the Harvard Exit (807 E. Roy). The Screenplate: The first line of dialogue in The Artist is, "I won't talk! I won ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2011

    Is Sodo Spirits Really Seattle's First Craft Distillery? Depends on How You Look at It

    ​Yesterday, Sodo Spirits announced the release of their first batch of EvenStar shochu, a Japanese liquor. In so doing, they claimed to be "Seattle's first licensed craft distillery"--a claim that surprised us, because we believed that distinction to belong to Interbay's Sound Spirits, which h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2011

    American Girl Soon Offering Parents the Chance to Spend Ridiculous Amounts of Money at a Store Near You

    ​In case you've missed the banner ads running in The Seattle Times, the immensely popular American Girl franchise is opening its first store in the Seattle area next month. Hundreds if not thousands of squealing girls, obsessed with American Girl's baby-sized dolls portraying historical charac ... More >>

  • Arts

    April 13, 2011

    The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events

    ​In case you've missed the banner ads running in The Seattle Times, the immensely popular American Girl franchise is opening its first store in the Seattle area next month. Hundreds if not thousands of squealing girls, obsessed with American Girl's baby-sized dolls portraying historical charac ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 6, 2011

    Chaplin Fest

    ​In case you've missed the banner ads running in The Seattle Times, the immensely popular American Girl franchise is opening its first store in the Seattle area next month. Hundreds if not thousands of squealing girls, obsessed with American Girl's baby-sized dolls portraying historical charac ... More >>

  • Arts

    March 30, 2011

    Opening Nights: Of Mice and Men

    Steinbeck's play. Dreams crushed. The end.

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2010

    Ronald Hall, 80-Year-Old Meth Smuggler, Sent Back to Prison for Maybe the Last Time

    ​Back in Ronald Hall's day, meth smugglers had to walk barefoot through the snow in order to deliver their drugs--up hill both ways!

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2010

    Congrats, Washington! You've Won the Bronze For Worst Budget Shortfall in the Nation

    ​The good news is that Washington's budget shortfall--now calculated at $1.1 billion, or 7.1 percent of the overall state budget--is about six-and-a-half times better than Illinois' yawning $13 billion hole that's an eye-popping 47 percent of its overall budget. The bad news is that a budget g ... More >>

  • Music

    October 6, 2010

    Donuts and Dogs With Shelby Earl

    The singer proves it's never too late to find one's voice.

  • Arts

    September 22, 2010

    The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events

    The singer proves it's never too late to find one's voice.

  • Calendar

    September 15, 2010

    Richard Lewis

    The singer proves it's never too late to find one's voice.

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    Clint Didier, the Self-Made Man Who (Like Everyone Else) Isn't

    ​If the only qualification to be a leader was that you had to make all other men feel like lesser men in your presence, then Clint Didier would already be President. A Seattle Times profile of the Senatorial candidate finds the ex-Washington Redskins tight end "standing in an alfalfa field gri ... More >>

  • Arts

    July 7, 2010

    The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events

    ​If the only qualification to be a leader was that you had to make all other men feel like lesser men in your presence, then Clint Didier would already be President. A Seattle Times profile of the Senatorial candidate finds the ex-Washington Redskins tight end "standing in an alfalfa field gri ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 31, 2010

    Paradise Lost

    ​If the only qualification to be a leader was that you had to make all other men feel like lesser men in your presence, then Clint Didier would already be President. A Seattle Times profile of the Senatorial candidate finds the ex-Washington Redskins tight end "standing in an alfalfa field gri ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 10, 2010

    Paul Horiuchi

    ​If the only qualification to be a leader was that you had to make all other men feel like lesser men in your presence, then Clint Didier would already be President. A Seattle Times profile of the Senatorial candidate finds the ex-Washington Redskins tight end "standing in an alfalfa field gri ... More >>

  • Film

    October 28, 2009

    Halloween DVD Roundup: Looking for Horror in the 1980s

    ​If the only qualification to be a leader was that you had to make all other men feel like lesser men in your presence, then Clint Didier would already be President. A Seattle Times profile of the Senatorial candidate finds the ex-Washington Redskins tight end "standing in an alfalfa field gri ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 21, 2009

    Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act

    ​If the only qualification to be a leader was that you had to make all other men feel like lesser men in your presence, then Clint Didier would already be President. A Seattle Times profile of the Senatorial candidate finds the ex-Washington Redskins tight end "standing in an alfalfa field gri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2009

    Hooverville's Back!

    ​Sorry, that headline and exclamation point, perhaps, could mean many things in these trying times. Hooverville, the bar, located in a stretch of SoDo that used to be home to the original Hooverville--the shantytown that grew out of the Great Depression--is open for business again after being ... More >>

  • Film

    September 30, 2009

    Capitalism: A Love Story: Michael Moore Beats His Shtick to Death

    ​Sorry, that headline and exclamation point, perhaps, could mean many things in these trying times. Hooverville, the bar, located in a stretch of SoDo that used to be home to the original Hooverville--the shantytown that grew out of the Great Depression--is open for business again after being ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 10, 2009

    Seth Kinmont

    ​Sorry, that headline and exclamation point, perhaps, could mean many things in these trying times. Hooverville, the bar, located in a stretch of SoDo that used to be home to the original Hooverville--the shantytown that grew out of the Great Depression--is open for business again after being ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 31, 2008

    SPU Portable Works Collection

    ​Sorry, that headline and exclamation point, perhaps, could mean many things in these trying times. Hooverville, the bar, located in a stretch of SoDo that used to be home to the original Hooverville--the shantytown that grew out of the Great Depression--is open for business again after being ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 26, 2008

    Curtis Roosevelt

    ​Sorry, that headline and exclamation point, perhaps, could mean many things in these trying times. Hooverville, the bar, located in a stretch of SoDo that used to be home to the original Hooverville--the shantytown that grew out of the Great Depression--is open for business again after being ... More >>

  • Food

    October 1, 2008

    Here's Rye in Your Eye

    Folks, now here’s the story ’bout Minnie the Moocher.

  • News

    July 16, 2008

    Betting on David Black

    Major dailies are shedding employees, hemorrhaging cash, and losing advertisers to the Web. So why is David Black swimming in ink?

  • Food

    March 5, 2008

    Life at Hooverville, Home Depot's Menu, Great Guinness Head at Home

    Selections from Voracious, our daily food blog.

  • Calendar

    January 16, 2008

    Charles Bronson Will Slug You Now

    This six-film salute to Walter Hill packs a wallop

  • Food

    June 28, 2006

    To All the Whos in Hooverville

    This six-film salute to Walter Hill packs a wallop

  • Arts

    December 7, 2005

    Marvelous Assortment

    Absent a single hero, this epic tale of wartime destruction unfolds through scores of stories from victors and vanquished along the way.

  • Arts

    February 26, 2003

    Quick Reads

    Robert Lanham, Louise Erdrich, and Elizabeth Crane.

  • Arts

    February 19, 2003

    Food Is Thought

    Robert Lanham, Louise Erdrich, and Elizabeth Crane.

  • Arts

    December 2, 1998

    Elegist for the Working Wounded

    Earl Dotter documents America's deadliest work.

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