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Blogs
March 19, 2012
Starbucks Jumps into Juice with First 'Evolution Fresh' Store
Seattle-based Starbucks is expanding into the juice industry. The coffee company bought the small California-based juice company Evolution Fresh back in November. Today it is opening the first Starbucks-branded juice store, located in Bellevue Square (see street view below). So what is the new store ... More >>
Blogs
July 25, 2011
Boeing Implausibly Predicts Pilot Profession to Proliferate
image sourceThe future is bright?Boeing may not have reason to be bullish about its ability to fill upcoming orders for commercial jets, but why dwell on that when you can make outlandish claims about the number of pilots the industry will soon be needing to hire!
Music
June 1, 2011
An Incomplete History of Inimitable Female Voices
From Bessie Smith to Sallie Ford.
Blogs
May 25, 2011
Laurel Gordon, Grays Harbor County Dairy Ambassador, Is Lactose Intolerant
In a perfect world every "dairy ambassador" would spend his or her off-hours chugging pint glasses of whole milk and wearing whipped cream underwear to the cheese shop. Well, this is not a perfect world. And Laurel Gordon, Grays Harbor County's Dairy Ambassador, is not a perfect ambassador.
Blogs
May 24, 2011
Kid Rock: The Top 10 Kids' Bands and Albums
Some bands don't really hit their groove until they do a kids' album. Scoff if you will, but some groups have made kids' music a full-on enterprise, grooming millions of young ears into future die-hard music lovers. Forget Raffi, we're talking the Shins, They Might Be Giants, and of Montreal. ... More >>
Blogs
May 9, 2011
McDonald's Plan for Success: Become Starbucks
Starbucks recently moved up the mega-restaurant rankings to the third largest restaurant chain in the world, behind Subway at No. 2 and McDonald's at No. 1. This, perhaps, is making the head clowns at Mickey Ds nervous, because from the look of their new marketing and renovation push, the bur ... More >>
News
March 23, 2011
Wall of Shame
CNN, USA Today, and other media organizations got fooled.
News
March 23, 2011
Women's Funding Network's Sex-Trafficking Study Is Junk Science
The Schapiro Group's data hasn't been questioned by the mainstream media--until now.
Blogs
March 2, 2011
Amanda Hocking, 26-Year-Old Kindle Book Phenomenon, Will Soon Make Publishers Obsolete
Amanda Hocking fever is sweeping the nation! How does one purple-haired 26-year-old author rake in hundreds of thousands of dollars without ever being published? Easy. She cuts the middleman and publishes on her own straight to Amazon's Kindle store. That and she writes about vampires. Sexy, ... More >>
Blogs
December 10, 2010
Greatest Hits and What You Missed: Chocolate, Liquor, Loafers and The Dangerous Misuse of Power Tools
"Not one to be held back by my lack of discretionary funds, I embarked on my own chocolate tour throughout Seattle - the "Poor Woman's Chocolate Indulgence Tour", if you will. Along with a photographer sidekick, Victoria Holt, I blazed a trail through the collection of chocolate shops surro ... More >>
Food
October 20, 2010
Hearty in the USA
A patriotic quest for a legendary regional burger.
Blogs
October 4, 2010
UPDATE: Bacon Kevin Bacon Takes Over the World
Kevin Bacon, made in the one true mediumI know that you have all been watching, with hungry fixity, the saga of the "Bacon Kevin Bacon"--the sculpture of the head of Kevin Bacon, made entirely out of bacon bits by artist Mike Lahue. I know that some of you have considered purchasing said wor ... More >>
Blogs
September 23, 2010
Free Beer! No, Really FREE BEER
*Girl not includedOkay, so I know that Seattle--with its plentiful microbrews, craft brewers, beer hobbyists and beer lists replete with obscure Belgian whatevers--is not exactly a Budweiser kind of town. The problem, though? It seems that, these days, nowhere is exactly a Budweiser kind of t ... More >>
Blogs
August 6, 2010
Pac-10 Only Has Two In USA Today's Preseason Top 25
How mediocre is Pac-10 football going to be this year? That we won't know for a while. But judging by the results of USA Today's preseason Top 25 poll, the country's coaches think the answer is "pretty damn mediocre." With only two teams listed (Oregon and Oregon State -- Washington is on the ... More >>
Blogs
July 28, 2010
Local Realtor Sells Bomb Shelter Space to the Paranoid
Updated with comments from realtor Dan Hotes. A third of the people in the state construction industry lost their jobs in the recession-induced building freeze. So any sign of new work should be good news--even if it's for crazies. USA Today reports new, wide-spread interest in "Doomsday she ... 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 >>
Blogs
May 25, 2010
U2 Postpones Qwest Date, Maldives "Purple Sage," and Earth's Oldest Record Store
-- SeaTimes: The Maldives' Jason Dodson discusses the band's SIFF-commissioned, live soundtrack to the silent film, "Riders of the Purple Sage." The band will be performing the soundtrack along with the film at the Triple Door Tonight. -- USA Today: Bono's gonna need a couple months to recov ... More >>
Blogs
May 14, 2010
Block Party's Possible Third Day, "Loving Cup," NYT On Pearl Jam: "We All Get Old Someday"
Justin Dylan RenneyBuilt to Spill at The Capitol Hill Block Party in 2009.-- The Capitol Hill Block Party, currently scheduled for Friday July 23 and Saturday July 24 is angling for a third day, Sunday July 25. In an email, festival organizers, said: "The overwhelming majority of neighborhood ... More >>
Blogs
January 12, 2010
A.M. Music News: New Hendrix Album, New Endino MP3, and What Slash Wouldn't Do for $10 Million
Courtesy of EMPJimi Hendrix in Electric Lady Studios.-- Sound on the Sound: The blog--celebrating its third birthday the birthdays of its contributors with Zoe Muth (among others), Friday at Blue Moon--has an early mp3 from Jack Endino's band, Kandi Coded. The band plays The Sunset on Feb. 12 ... More >>
Blogs
December 22, 2009
Seattle is America's Most Literate City
Just your average, every day Seattleite.America's least literate newspaper says Seattle is America's most literate city. USA Today (the one with the colorful pie graphs!) reports that Seattle earned its well-read reputation by beating out Washington, D.C., Minneapolis and, most importantly, P ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2009
The Food Section: School Lunch Safety, Chuck E. Cheese Brawls, and Other Food News
First, the dispiriting/alarming news: USA Today publishes an investigative article on how America's fast food chains and Costco have far more stringent safety standards than the USDA's standards for school lunches. Most disturbing quote: "The limits Jack in the Box and other big retailers set ... More >>
Blogs
November 24, 2009
Attention Shoppers: Whine About Your Horrible Holiday Mall Experience and Risk Getting Brained by a Yule Log
Don't want to end up in this line? Then stay home.In advance of the holiday shopping season, Consumer Reports asked its readers to name their biggest holiday shopping pet peeves. Not surprisingly, doing so made their readers come off as whiny, ignorant bastards. Bitching about crowded malls ... More >>
Blogs
October 29, 2009
"Natural" Is So Last Year, "Simple," So Hot Right Now
Our quest for "natural" and "organic" items in the grocery store may be noble, but how much of it is marketing we may never know without some sort of psychological study. USA Today has a great story about how "natural" food labels are out. "Simple" is in now, don't you know, led by products s ... More >>
Blogs
October 7, 2009
Reported Rapes Are Down, But Why?
The front page of today's USA Today trumpets FBI statistics showing that reports of rapes have hit a 20-year-low nationwide (when measured per 100,000 people). In the story, this finding prompts a long round of self-congratulation from various researchers, advocates, and law enforcement types, who s ... More >>
Blogs
March 11, 2009
New Restaurant Openings, Farmerettes, and Other Food News
Once again, here are a few of the food stories that caught my attention: First off, a few restaurant openings from other sources. Nancy Leson gets the dish on te Hudson Public House, Collins Pub's new location in Maple Leaf (the old Anita's Bistro spot). And on Seattle Magazine's Eat Drink blog, Al ... More >>
Food
March 4, 2009
A Seattle Entrepreneur Fizzles in Walla Walla Wine Country
Paul Willms, mastermind behind last year’s Gary Locke-endorsed China 8, leaves another trail of unpaid bills.
Blogs
December 2, 2008
Mulally's $1 Fake-out
FoMoCo's MulullayAs the CEO of Boeing Commerical Airplanes in Seattle, Alan Mulally, now Ford Motor Co. CEO, knew how to feed at the public trough for his multi-billion-dollar private corporation. He helped steer Boeing and its new 787 production line towards a $3.2 billion, 20-year tax break ... More >>
Blogs
October 29, 2008
Election Night Diets, Calorie Diets, and Other Food News
FoMoCo's MulullayAs the CEO of Boeing Commerical Airplanes in Seattle, Alan Mulally, now Ford Motor Co. CEO, knew how to feed at the public trough for his multi-billion-dollar private corporation. He helped steer Boeing and its new 787 production line towards a $3.2 billion, 20-year tax break ... More >>
News
August 27, 2008
An Ill-Fated, Dragon-Headed, Slow Boat to China
How an eccentric entrepreneur with novel technology, big talk, and the backing of Gary Locke managed to fall short of the Games.
Blogs
February 29, 2008
USA Today on the Nation's Ferries
How an eccentric entrepreneur with novel technology, big talk, and the backing of Gary Locke managed to fall short of the Games.
Blogs
February 28, 2008
Nobody Reads the Seattle Times
How an eccentric entrepreneur with novel technology, big talk, and the backing of Gary Locke managed to fall short of the Games.
Blogs
February 18, 2008
The Climate Back Home
How an eccentric entrepreneur with novel technology, big talk, and the backing of Gary Locke managed to fall short of the Games.
Blogs
October 22, 2007
Is Hillary Your Presidential Match?
How an eccentric entrepreneur with novel technology, big talk, and the backing of Gary Locke managed to fall short of the Games.
News
June 6, 2007
Seattle Dog Parks: a Critical Guide
How an eccentric entrepreneur with novel technology, big talk, and the backing of Gary Locke managed to fall short of the Games.
Music
February 15, 2006
Falling Down
How an eccentric entrepreneur with novel technology, big talk, and the backing of Gary Locke managed to fall short of the Games.
Music
August 10, 2005
The Great Communicator
Coldplay's Chris Martin brings his muddled message to the people.
Film
June 22, 2005
Overnight
TH!NKFilm, $29.99.
Diversions
February 2, 2005
Buster-gate
TH!NKFilm, $29.99.
News
May 26, 2004
Letters to the Editor
"Even the Weather Channel has . . . spicy docudramas that exploit our apparent need to be entertained by extreme weather events."
Music
October 1, 2003
My Night as a Juggalo
"Even the Weather Channel has . . . spicy docudramas that exploit our apparent need to be entertained by extreme weather events."
Film
May 14, 2003
Why can't Seattle's foremost movie critic get any respect?
"Even the Weather Channel has . . . spicy docudramas that exploit our apparent need to be entertained by extreme weather events."
Diversions
March 5, 2003
Trash Talk
"Even the Weather Channel has . . . spicy docudramas that exploit our apparent need to be entertained by extreme weather events."
News
January 15, 2003
We're No. 13!
A mere state championship will have to suffice for nationally overrated Rainier Beach High School.
Diversions
August 2, 2000
Multi-multitasking
Ever more still isn't more than enough.
Music
May 17, 2000
The PC Express
Ever more still isn't more than enough.
Music
May 10, 2000
Guest columnist Larry King hits the clubs, bow tie and all.
Ever more still isn't more than enough.
Music
March 1, 2000
Love as Laughter spits; Desmemberment Plan does Juvenile.
Ever more still isn't more than enough.
Film
July 28, 1999
Something old
After 10 years, Julia Roberts is still just a pretty woman.
Music
February 10, 1999
LAST GASPS?
Two indie-rock icons try to breathe life into the genre—but only one succeeds.
News
February 25, 1998
A New Dog in Town
Two indie-rock icons try to breathe life into the genre—but only one succeeds.
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