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Tom Robbins

  • News

    July 20, 2011

    Poet's Park

    Why doesn't Seattle have a green space for writers?

  • Film

    July 20, 2011

    A Not So Still Life: The Fall and Rise of Local Artist Ginny Ruffner

    Why doesn't Seattle have a green space for writers?

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    Writers Park: A Toast to Scribes and Pigeons

    ​Seattle readily names some of its streets for sports figures - Edgar Martinez, Dave Niehaus, Royal Brougham - but, writes Knute Burger on Crosscut.com today, "Seattle is a far cry from San Francisco, where streets and alleys are named for the likes of Jack Kerouac and Dashiell Hammett." Th ... More >>

  • Arts

    January 5, 2011

    The 10 Best Books of 2010

    Vocoders, bohos, and a blast of vertigo (in alphabetical order).

  • Calendar

    January 6, 2010

    110/110

    Vocoders, bohos, and a blast of vertigo (in alphabetical order).

  • Arts

    January 6, 2010

    The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events

    Vocoders, bohos, and a blast of vertigo (in alphabetical order).

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2009

    Tom Robbins' Kids' Book ... About Beer

    ​First, try not to trip over my tongue and the following hyperbole, but Tom Robbins' latest book just knocked out 80% of my holiday shopping. As a writer, the premise and execution of B Is for Beer turns me the darkest shade of green, like no other tome in years. Do I need a dependent clause t ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 20, 2009

    Tom Robbins

    ​First, try not to trip over my tongue and the following hyperbole, but Tom Robbins' latest book just knocked out 80% of my holiday shopping. As a writer, the premise and execution of B Is for Beer turns me the darkest shade of green, like no other tome in years. Do I need a dependent clause t ... More >>

  • Arts

    May 20, 2009

    The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Notable Events

    ​First, try not to trip over my tongue and the following hyperbole, but Tom Robbins' latest book just knocked out 80% of my holiday shopping. As a writer, the premise and execution of B Is for Beer turns me the darkest shade of green, like no other tome in years. Do I need a dependent clause t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2009

    Tom Robbins Loves Beer & Women

    Like a lot of men, the great LaConner novelist Tom Robbins loves beer and women. Unlike a lot of men, he's capable of writing about both, eloquently and humorously, at great length and for considerable personal financial gain. And unlike most men, Robbins can appreciate the beer without the women, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2009

    Seattle Loves Its Celebrity Dish

    Tom Robbins once told Tim Egan of the New York Times that one of the reasons he likes the Pacific Northwest is because "it lacks a celebrity culture." Well, maybe. But it turns out, we sure do love us some celebrity dish. Seattle Rep just announced that Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking --which our ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2009

    Tidbits and Tales From the P-I Memorial

    Some of the news that's unfit to print, from last night's P-I memorial party at the Ballard Elks...(Mainly to deter TV cameras and - serious! - keep things off the record, a sign at the door said "No working press," which made a lot of the press, many of them fresh out of work, laugh weakly)..."The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2009

    The P-I's Curtain Call

    You can't, at this writing, find these stories on the P-I's home page, as the paper prints its final edition Tuesday. But here are a few links to what you'll read in the a.m.: -Memories of the P-I as a locked ward: Tom Robbins wore a gorilla suit. By Carol Smith. -The P-I's character history runs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2008

    Beer, the Magic Skagit, and Tom Robbins

    Over the past year, I've been moonlighting as a first-time author, researching and writing a book about local dive bars, which will be released in April. Turns out the great Skagit County novelist Tom Robbins is putting the finishing touches on a book about beer as well. His book comes out in April ... More >>

  • Arts

    June 4, 2008

    Got the Bends

    Vacation’s essence, starring Harry S. Truman and the Oyster Capital of the World.

  • Arts

    June 4, 2008

    Seattle, Je T’Aime

    You can’t afford the City of Lights. But you don’t have to.

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2008

    Hitching Rides: More than Horror Film Fodder

    You can’t afford the City of Lights. But you don’t have to.

  • Diversions

    November 28, 2007

    Parents, Penis, and the Kite Runner

    You can’t afford the City of Lights. But you don’t have to.

  • News

    October 24, 2007

    Seattle’s Endangered Tavern Tour: A Near-Death Experience

    If you hate cosmos as much as we do, it's your duty to keep these pint-pushers afloat.

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2007

    White Trash Food Festival

    If you hate cosmos as much as we do, it's your duty to keep these pint-pushers afloat.

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2007

    The Pot-Intelligencer

    If you hate cosmos as much as we do, it's your duty to keep these pint-pushers afloat.

  • Music

    May 23, 2007

    Blue Moon Tavern Is a Home Away From Home to All Kinds

    The regulars alone could carry the place to 2034 and then some.

  • News

    March 7, 2007

    Documenting D.B.: One of Seattle's Great Journalistic Nonconformists

    The regulars alone could carry the place to 2034 and then some.

  • News

    August 23, 2006

    Drinking & Reading

    The Blue Moon saves itself; and Bill Gates loves newsprint.

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2006

    Blue Moon, City Settle Dispute

    The Blue Moon saves itself; and Bill Gates loves newsprint.

  • News

    August 16, 2006

    Substance Abuse

    How many licks does it take to get to the center of Seattle's dueling glossies?

  • Arts

    July 5, 2006

    The Suitors

    The Odyssey gets updated into our old-new declining American empire.

  • News

    June 14, 2006

    Full Moon Fever

    The city attorney 'turns the screws' on Seattle's historic bohemian bar.

  • News

    June 14, 2006

    Not Just Another Roadside Attraction

    Tom Robbins reflects on his 44-year romance with the Blue Moon.

  • News

    May 24, 2006

    Lunar Eclipse

    "If they can save the pink Toe Truck, surely—surely!—something can be done to save our [Blue] Moon."

  • Diversions

    April 12, 2006

    Tom Robbins' Attraction

    Thirty years ago in Seattle Weekly.

  • News

    March 1, 2006

    Our Top 20 Best Ways to Compare Magazines

    How newly launched Seattle Metropolitan stacks up against established Seattle.

  • Arts

    November 16, 2005

    Stateless in Seattle

    Jonathan Raban has become the Northwest's premier man of letters. He's more at home inside his head than anywhere else, yet with an immigrant's fresh eyes he's able to shed light on his adopted home and country, as in his new book, My Holy War.

  • Arts

    September 7, 2005

    Ron Reagan Jr., Sara Gazarek, and Tom Robbins

    Jonathan Raban has become the Northwest's premier man of letters. He's more at home inside his head than anywhere else, yet with an immigrant's fresh eyes he's able to shed light on his adopted home and country, as in his new book, My Holy War.

  • Arts

    April 6, 2005

    The First-Timers

    Newbie novelists descend on booze-soaked Ballard, after first being grilled on the heritage of that hood.

  • Arts

    June 4, 2003

    This Week's Reads

    Jane Smiley, Sherman Alexie, Michael Byers, and Meghan Daum.

  • Arts

    May 14, 2003

    This Week's Reads

    Margaret Atwood and Tom Robbins.

  • News

    March 12, 2003

    Letters to the Editor

    '... One can legitimately oppose on moral grounds a war against Iraq, but to then desire the humiliation of the U.S. when such a punishing lesson can only be accomplished through the death and maiming of Americans is hypocritical. ...'

  • News

    March 5, 2003

    War or Peace?

    Local notables take their stands.

  • Arts

    January 29, 2003

    Goofballs in Boonville

    Robert Mailer Anderson's stupid human tricks.

  • Film

    August 29, 2001

    Exhibiting Sex

    Why can't our most successful local director get his new film released?

  • News

    August 29, 2001

    Collecting call

    Turning one person's hoard into another's art exhibit.

  • News

    May 2, 2001

    25 Memorable Seattle Weekly Stories

    Turning one person's hoard into another's art exhibit.

  • News

    May 10, 2000

    "...cheap transcendence, generational chauvinism, and flashy, just plain bad and empty writing are the hallmarks of your unenviable accomplishment."

    Turning one person's hoard into another's art exhibit.

  • News

    May 3, 2000

    Here in Geoduck Junction

    Finding a home among the migrants, mavericks, and mutants of the Pacific Northwest.

  • News

    May 3, 2000

    TOM ROBBINS: My life and work.

    Forget cyberspace. The Northwest's master of Zen-punk prose spends his time exploring mythospace. And here, with a new novel hitting stores this week, he speaks out about what he sees, how he works, who he loves, and what really, really matters in the end.

  • News

    July 7, 1999

    Letters

    "Of course, one can't expect white-coat welfare recipients to admit that their breeding colonies and labs should be cut off from the federal tax dollar trough they feed from . . ."

  • News

    June 9, 1999

    Blooming Hell

    LaConner to tulip maniacs: "Give us back our town!"

  • Arts

    October 21, 1998

    The Seattle Literary Universe

    Who's who in the local cosmos, and why

  • News

    September 2, 1998

    1998 Bumbershoot Picks: Books

    Who's who in the local cosmos, and why

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