The Wall Street Journal

Nobody Reads the Seattle Times

Rupert Murdoch in Seattle?

Forbes Says Zune Sucks

Tuesday Telegraph Room

Ballmer on Human Assets

Wine, Wealth, and Scandal?

Scene Aesthetic

Afternoon Edition: What's the 404?

Don't Do It, Massachusetts! (But If You Do, Take Tim)

The Pro-HCFS Backlash, Thai Skilletgate, and More Food News

The fight for the Pulitzer

Bottoms Up

Movie producer seeks sudsy synergy.

Seattle's Semi-Pro Wrestlers Hit the Big Time

You may have been following the story about how the Department of Licensing is cracking down on Seattle's semi-pro wrestling league, making it abide by safety regulations, post a bond, and generally be all official and shit. Well, now the nation is following it, too. In case you missed it, yesterday ... More >>

Bottomfeeder: Chuck E.’s House of Cheese, Violence, and Skee-Ball

Exactly like when we were kids, but completely different.

Give Us Your College-Educated Masses...Just Don't Expect Us to Give Them Jobs

Disaffected but undeterred, unemployed Portlanders pound the pavement in search of jobs. A few days ago, the Wall Street Journal took a look "youth magnet" cities--i.e. cities that draw lots of young, college-educated migrants. Seattle's on the list, of course, but the story focuses on our always-ou ... More >>

Microsoft Brings Seinfeld Back to Prime Time

Hey, for $10 million we’d hump Vista, too.

Marié Digby

Hey, for $10 million we’d hump Vista, too.

Sold!

"Resolution for this post-Pride month: Be proud of the sides of yourself that haven't yet been packaged and turned into a marketing category, and don't rest easy until their acceptance doesn't come tied to a membership card."

Kelly's world

"Resolution for this post-Pride month: Be proud of the sides of yourself that haven't yet been packaged and turned into a marketing category, and don't rest easy until their acceptance doesn't come tied to a membership card."

Organic vs. Non, Food Truck Wars, and Other Food News

A few of the news stories making waves in the food world: In a fantastic essay, Russ Parsons, editor of the LA Times food section, writes that he's tired of "organic" being used as the sole measure of the worth of a fruit or vegetable. Central quote: "Certainly, there is a problem with chemical pe ... More >>

Starbucks Turns a Profit

 The Wall Street Journal has the details. What could have caused this good news? Was all my carping on Via instant coffee misguided? Is Schultz redelivering the magic again? Is it the fact that all the people who tasted McDonald's lattes realized they were more miserable than the ones at the Gr ... More >>

Blogwatch: Whole Foods CEO on Health Care, Jack's Not Quite Tapas, Chuckanut Kolsch

Mackey on Health Care Reform - This link goes to John Mackey's CEO blog on the Whole Foods website and has the unedited version of his much discussed Op/Ed piece for the Wall Street Journal on health care in America. While his position shocked some of the people who frequent the grocery chain, I thi ... More >>

Fergie, Rivers Cuomo, Steve Martin, Garth Brooks, and the Day Of Exceptionally Bizarre Music Headlines

​Seriously, the last 24 hours have been completely ridiculous. Pitchfork: Rivers Cuomo to Work With Katy Perry MTV: Fergie To Become Part-Owner Of Miami Dolphins Wall Street Journal: (Garth) Brooks to Un-Retire The Other Channel Four: Steve Martin Casting Dogs In Music Video

Tail Bearer: Why Jonathan Safran Foer's Latest Veg Manifesto Is a Xenophobic Crock

As part of the book-release promotion for Eating Animals, his new pro-vegetarian polemic, this Saturday Jonathan Safran Foer published an essay in the Wall Street Journal, the premise of which he's repeated on NPR and other media outlets: If we believe in eating meat, he asks, why do we eat some spe ... More >>

Kauffman on Foer on Dog Meat

Why the latest veg manifesto is a crock.

Howard Schultz Says Via "Resonating," in a Good Way, Amid Stable 4Q Results

​Remember affordable luxury? All those daily lattes at Starbucks back when the economy was booming? Now people hoard their pocket change for the Metro bus ride home from work (assuming they still have a job). But SBUX and its CEO, Howard Schultz, have also been feeling the pain. From the fal ... More >>

A.M. Music News: Why Petty Gets No Respect, and Why Spoon's Probably Headed This Way

​-- Wall Street Journal: Petty gets no respect? "I don't know that anyone's out there waving the banner for us being the best rock and roll band there is," Petty says. "But we might be." -- Pitchfork: Spoon announces the first tour dates in preview of their new record, Transference, out in Ja ... More >>

Microsoft to Team With Rupert Murdoch in Effort to Block Google?

Collude with this man at your own risk, Microsoft.​According to a report from the Financial Times, Microsoft is in talks with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to pay for the exclusive rights to deliver search results for papers like the Wall Street Journal, New York Post and others. Murdoch has be ... More >>

The Food Section: Cookie Recipes, Bagel Injuries, and Other Food News

​The Seattle Times releases its annual Christmas cookie recipe booklet, which has some good-looking cookies. 2009 is so the year of the speculaas. (Note to the Times: Given our modern times, wouldn't it make sense to take PayPal instead of money orders and deliver the booklets via PDF/email?) ... More >>

The Food Section: Anchovies & Olives Gets a Nod, Bears and Worms

​Food news stories plucked from the ether: GQ's Alan Richman picks his top 10 new restaurants for 2009, and Ethan Stowell's Anchovies & Olives makes the list. The Wall Street Journal reports that McDonald's is going to start offering free WiFi at many of its restaurants, yet another surge i ... More >>

Communal Dishes in a Small-Plate World: Fried Catfish

Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal's Raymond Sokolov just wrote up a piece on a great topic: communal dishes. Even though the predominant style of dining is sharing small plates, Sokolov wrote, there's great pleasure to be had in assembling a group of friends for big, communal platters. Then he botc ... More >>

A.M. Music News: iTunes, The White Stripes, and a New One From The New Pornographers

​-- Matador: The New Pornographers have a new album, Together, that they'll drop on May 4. Friends in St. Vincent, Beirut, and Okkervil River make guest appearances. -- Pitchfork: The White Stripes documentary, Under Great White Northern Lights, premieres at SXSW in March. -- TechCrunch: Why ... More >>

If it Ain't One Thing, It's Another: Grant Achatz to F*@& with Your Whiskey

No, that's not Grant. That's his assistant, Nerdly the Magnificent.​A few days ago, I discussed the distressing news coming out of the Madrid Fusion conference in Spain: that Super Genius Ferran Adria was going to be closing his groundbreaking restaurant, El Bulli. But you know what they say a ... More >>

A.M. Music News: Kings of Leon at the Gorge, Deerhoof at Vera, and Wayne Coyne on Extreme Makeover

Chris KornelisKings of Leon at The Paramount on May 2, 2007.​-- LiveDaily: Kings of Leon play the Gorge on July 17. I never thought they'd headline past the Paramount. Consider me still shocked. -- Kill Rock Stars: Deerhoof plays Vera Project on July 5. -- Pitchfork: Wayne Coyne volunteers o ... More >>

A.M. Music News: Courtney Love at SXSW, Ringo at a Casino, and a New One From The Hold Steady

Stacy Schwartz​-- City Pages: Yes, that's Courtney Love and her Hole at SXSW. -- Wall Street Journal: EMI may pimp out the rights to its back catalogue of artists like The Beatles. -- LiveDaily: Speaking of The Beatles, Ringo's playing Chateau Ste. Michelle on July 31 and, um, Spokane's Nort ... More >>

A.M. Music News: Green Day, Wolf Parade, Violent Femmes, and Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me: ZZ Top!

​-- NPR: ZZ Top's gonna play "Not My Job" on NPR's Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me! this weekend. -- Pitchfork: Wolf Parade's playing the Showbox on July 27. -- MyFoxDetroit: Fences at the Detroit ballpark sponsored by Jack White have been vandalized. That's just some tame shit. -- Spinner: Wo ... More >>

A.M. Music News: The Pride of Garfield, Daria On DVD, and Kravitz Vs. the Oil Spill

​-- Seattle Times: I'm way behind on this, but congratulations to Garfield High School Jazz Band, winners of NYC's Essentially Ellington Competition & Festival. It's their fourth win in a decade. Your next chance to check out the Garfield jazz program is at 6 p.m. Saturday, at South Seattle Co ... More >>

Love For Shabazz Palaces and Damien Jurado, Liam Gallagher's Beady Eye, and M.I.A.

Steve Jobs: Genius or bully?​-- Pitchfork has some nice things to say about the 206 this morning: They tossed Damien Jurado's Saint Bartlett a 7.9 saying, "The songs on Saint Bartlett would be considered an achievement for any artist-- but the fact that they come 13 years into a career makes t ... More >>

Hipsters Beware: Now You'll Be Drinking For The Man

​Pabst Blue Ribbon has long been the frosty-cold beverage of choice for those who style themselves as dork-glasses-wearing, skinny-jeans-sporting, retro-everything-loving irony junkies. It's also been the brew most favored by grandfathers, proud blue-collar factory workers, heavy boozers who h ... More >>

Apple Vs. the Frauds and NSFW Performances at Work. Plus, Are Steep Cover Charges Keeping the Kids From Jazz?

Michael PiazzaThe tenor saxophonist Chris Potter.​-- Stereophile: "Maybe it's not true that the new generation doesn't like jazz; maybe they just find it too expensive." -- Wall Street Journal: Is Apple doing enough about those pesky iTunes hackers? -- Pitchfork: Bits of the Mavis Staples/J ... More >>

Toyota Prius Unintended Acceleration Actually Fault of Drivers?

​When Toyota Priuses started speeding up on their own, causing accidents and other such mayhem, the Japanese auto company initially blamed its drivers. For this seemingly tone-deaf reaction it was widely mocked. But now, the Wall Street Journal says a new study suggests Toyota might have been ... More >>

Shopping With Famous Authors: Michael Pollan on $8 Eggs and $4 Peaches

Creepiest. Carrots. Ever.​Michael Pollan has written about Chicken McNuggets and high fructose corn syrup (in The Omnivore's Dilemma). He has written about apples, tulips, potatoes and weed in The Botany of Desire, about eating plants in In Defense of Food and about the wisdom of grandmothers ... More >>

More on Michael Pollan's $8 eggs and $4 Peaches

Michael Pollan at Yale. He got extra credit for the t-shirt​Back at the beginning of August, I wrote a somewhat brief and (apparently) very angry post in response to a Wall Street Journal interview with best-selling author and foodie rabble-rouser Michael Pollan. My problem wasn't with the WSJ ... More >>

Today in Sex: "Sorry" IS the Hardest Word

​While obviously I believe in gender equality, I also believe that there are differences between the sexes. One of the major ways in which men and women differ is in the way we process apologies. As in, I've always felt that women are better at apologizing than men are. There, I said it. Howev ... More >>

Today in Sex: How Not to Behave After You're Dumped

​The first time David Arquette drunkenly called into his pal Howard Stern's radio show to discuss the breakup of his marriage to Courtney Cox, it was kind of refreshing. He was raw, hurt, and obviously still in love with his wife. (Oh, and completely wasted.) Celebs normally listen to the publ ... More >>

Vashon Island Newspaper Beats New York Times to Paywall Punch With Plan to Charge for Online Content

​You've had a good run, Vashon and Maury Island news readers. But starting today, if you want to go online to get the kind of in-depth island reporting one can only find in the Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber, you're going to have to pay.

Duane Sorenson of Stumptown Coffee Out-Portlandias Portlandia in The Wall Street Journal

Photo courtesy readymade.com​He rocks the fat-frame nerd glasses and flies the flannel. He's got a mustache that any '70s porn star would envy. He'll only cook at home if he can score locally sourced ingredients; lives in a sleek contemporary condo crammed in among the leftist bookstores, cafe ... More >>

Food News & Notes: A Good Week for Burgers & Pizza

Tacos and liquor, on the other hand, had it rough.

For the NFL, Is More Protection Really the Answer to Its Concussion Quandary?

​In a recent Wall Street Journal article discussing the National Football League's efforts to more seriously address the problem of concussions in its ranks, the WSJ reminded us of an old quote from former all-pro defensive back Ronnie Lott, who said that "if they took away half my padding, th ... More >>

Jeff Tweedy Says Wilco's Worst Show Ever Was Following Arcade Fire at Sasquatch! 2005

Renee McMahonWilco's set at Sasquatch! 2011 wasn't marred by technical difficulties, but they did draw an unfortunate set time.​Via John Jurgensen's interview w/Jeff Tweedy in today's Wall Street Journal: WSJ: What was Wilco's worst show ever? Tweedy: The first time we played the Sasquatch f ... More >>