The Great Depression

SPU Portable Works Collection

Quick Reads

Robert Lanham, Louise Erdrich, and Elizabeth Crane.

Curtis Roosevelt

Robert Lanham, Louise Erdrich, and Elizabeth Crane.

Here's Rye in Your Eye

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

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?

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

Selections from Voracious, our daily food blog.

Charles Bronson Will Slug You Now

This six-film salute to Walter Hill packs a wallop

To All the Whos in Hooverville

This six-film salute to Walter Hill packs a wallop

Marvelous Assortment

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

Food Is Thought

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

Elegist for the Working Wounded

Earl Dotter documents America's deadliest work.

Seth Kinmont

Earl Dotter documents America's deadliest work.

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

Earl Dotter documents America's deadliest work.

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 >>

Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act

​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 >>

Halloween DVD Roundup: Looking for Horror in the 1980s

​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 >>

Paul Horiuchi

​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 >>

Paradise Lost

​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 >>

The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events

​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 >>

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 >>

Richard Lewis

​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 >>

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 >>

Donuts and Dogs With Shelby Earl

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

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 >>

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!

Opening Nights: Of Mice and Men

Steinbeck's play. Dreams crushed. The end.

Chaplin Fest

Steinbeck's play. Dreams crushed. The end.

The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events

Steinbeck's play. Dreams crushed. The end.

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 >>

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 >>

The Weekly Wire: This Week's Recommended Events

​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 >>

The Weekly Wire: This Week's Recommended Events

​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 >>

Trouble in Paradise

​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 >>

The Artist and Olivar Are Both Sweet Treats

The Weinstein Company (2011)This should've been a picture of Uggie the Dog.​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). ... More >>

Victoria Jackson's Tea Party

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