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Utah

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2012

    Another Twisted Shoe Drops: 'Incestuous' Sex Images Were Found on Josh Powell's Computer Two Years Ago

    Just when you think the story can't get any weirder, any sicker -- it does. Last week, as you recall, Josh Powell was in Pierce County court trying to win back custody of his two boys. Also last week, as DSHS spokesman Tom Shapley told Seattle Weekly yesterday, Washington authorities were informed b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2012

    Sen. Pam Roach Wants DSHS Records on Josh Powell; Claims Agency Was 'Forewarned' About the Killer

    State Sen. Pam Roach today demanded that the Department of Social and Health Services turn over all records it has received from Utah police about its investigation of Josh Powell; his missing wife, Susan Cox Powell; and the treatment of his two boys, Charlie and Braden. The Auburn Republican, never ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2012

    Revenue Bowl: Let's See What Kind of Cash Cow Football is At UW and WSU

    Just 1 percent of the total campus revenues collected at Washington's two largest universities are generated by its football teams, which puts them in the same company as a few other top gridiron programs, including California, Michigan and Maryland, according to the Wall Street Journal.

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2011

    The Cynic's Guide to Husky Football: Everything That Could Possibly Go Wrong With UW's 2011 Season

    Max Waugh via Dawgman.com​The 2011 NCAA football season is upon us. Hallelujah and amen, let the tailgating begin. This is the year that the Pac-10 adds two schools (Utah and Colorado) and becomes the Pac-12, giving the conference as many teams as there are beers in a half case of Rainier and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2011

    Dell Schanze, Astoria Column Paragliding Daredevil, Is Also Utah's Craziest Tea Party Gubernatorial Candidate

    ​When Dell Schanze leaped from the Astoria Column in Astoria, Ore. and floated down in a paraglider, I declared him a "badass." Since then, he's been arraigned on criminal charges for his stunt and the video of his column descent has been picked up by several media outlets. But who is Dell Sc ... More >>

  • News

    June 15, 2011

    Michael Young: Campus Coupling

    Why the University of Washington's new president was available.

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2011

    "Rumors Swirling" After Horse Contracts Herpes

    ​Snohomish County veterinarian Dr. Wendy Mollat wants you to disregard whatever nasty rumors you've heard about how a local horse developed herpes. Those are false and destructive things to say, and they have no place in what should be a serious conversation about Equine Herpes Virus-1.

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2011

    EnviroKidz: Indestructible Crispy Rice Snacks

    ​Rice cakes are great, but let's face it: They're completely impractical. Somebody somewhere at some point thought it would be a good idea to attempt to force a food with no inherent qualities into a cake shape and market it as edible. Every time I see rice cakes in the store, I think "Hey! Gr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2011

    Seattle Coffee Drinkers Are Spoiled

    ​Spilling the Beans is blogging from the road this week. Blogging from a hotel room in Moab, Utah, while sitting against the door in an effort to connect to my hotel's WiFi, to be exact. Going on vacation can be tricky when you're a Seattle Coffee Snob/Addict; the Pacific Northwest forgets jus ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 8, 2010

    Neon Trees

    ​Spilling the Beans is blogging from the road this week. Blogging from a hotel room in Moab, Utah, while sitting against the door in an effort to connect to my hotel's WiFi, to be exact. Going on vacation can be tricky when you're a Seattle Coffee Snob/Addict; the Pacific Northwest forgets jus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2010

    The Seattle Hornets Isn't As Innappropriate a Team Name as You Might Think

    ​The SuperSonics may now be the Thunder, but not all NBA teams change names when they change locations. Hence the Lakers of relatively arid Los Angeles and the Jazz of not-so-relatively square Utah. This morning, when rumors first started flying that the New Orleans Hornets might soon be Seatt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2010

    Four Loko Set to Be Banned by Day's End

    ​By the end of business today, Washingtonians will finally know whether they can still march into their nearest beer and wine outlet and order up as much heart palpitating, seizure simulating alcoholic energy drinks as their credit lines will allow. The Washington State Liquor Control Board wi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2010

    The Four Loko Chronicles: Banned In (parts of) The U.S.A.

    ​And that's the ballgame, kids. Word has just come down (via the Daily Weekly and, well, pretty much everywhere else, too) that Four Loko, the alcoholic energy drink that recently made headlines by sending nine Central Washington University students to the hospital, is now officially banned i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2010

    Washington Has the Third-Lowest Smoking Rate In the Country

    ​According to the Department of Health, only 750,000 of you light up on a consistent basis, making Washington the state with the third-lowest adult smoking rate in the country. This article seems to suggest some causality between the creation of the Tobacco Prevention and Control Program in 20 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2010

    Canned Sandwiches Exist!

    ​Hey, moms and lazy college kids! There's a new way to get fat and diabetes -- the Candwich! This sandwich in a can might actually migrate from the bowels of someone's sick imagination to vending machines and store shelves across the country. But wait! There's more! This sandwich in a can is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    'Nation Under God Headquarters' Exerting Intense Health-Care Pressure on Brian Baird and Adam Smith Via Fax

    Beware "the homosexuals, lesbians, Human Rights Campaign, and MoveOn.org!"​There's something atavistic about the sound of a fax machine. The hum and whir is a retro token of life before the Internet, or its early days, like the old AOL dial-up tone. So it's fitting that my fax machine just spa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2010

    Pac-10 Expansion Could Be a Boon to Seattle U

    Independent Seattle U has fared well against Big Sky opponents like Eastern Washington this year.​In this week's cover story, we chronicle the once-proud Seattle University men's basketball team's return to Division I after 30 years in the wilderness. Led by NBA prospect Chuck Garcia (pictured ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2010

    Cook's Shelf: The Things We Carried

    ​"This one?" "Keep it." "What about this one?" "Keep it." "This thing?" "Put it in the box." "Seriously, Jay? It weighs a ton." "Keep it." This exact conversation was repeated, ad infinitum, for pretty much two straight days while Laura and I tried to pack up our house in Denver and ge ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2010

    The Weekly's New Food Critic Arrives After a Thousand Miles Without Bacon

    ​One thousand three hundred and seventy three miles, six states, three day's driving, five pounds of beef jerky consumed, two tires blown (in Utah, on a Sunday no less, so thank Jesus and the gods of interstate travel for the guys at Paco's Rim World who set me right NASCAR-style in about thre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2009

    Tonight: Talbot Tagora, Three Imaginary Girls' Imaginary Holiday Spectacular

    Talbot Tagora​Talbot Tagora, Cold Lake, Eel Easter, Naomi Punk at the Vera Project, 7:30 p.m., $7 Talbot Tagora makes weird, yet oddly compelling sludge music, and since their van broke down in Utah the last time they were supposed to play a show here, catching them tonight might be wise, bec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2009

    We're Fatter Than CO, Drunker Than UT

    We love statistics and maps, and thanks to Jezebel.com for linking up a few stat-maps. Above, shocking evidence that Coloradans are fitter than those of us in the exercise-obsessed Evergreen State. But at lest we're not so bad as those lard-asses in the Midwest and South. One reason for this, after ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2009

    Magnolia Electric Co. Books Tour Dates in Reno, Lubbock, TX, and Turret, UT...But Not Seattle. WTF?!

    A few of you know that even though I came to Seattle from Portland, I was actually born and raised in Reno, Nevada, which-- at least while I lived there-- was a musical wasteland of pop punk, screamo and crappy straight-edge hardcore played by self-righteous religious freaks who would beat your ass ... More >>

  • Arts

    April 1, 2009

    Books: Decibel Destroyer

    One man’s war against 747s, leaf blowers, car alarms, and your iPod.

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2009

    Book Beat: The Life and Music of Electric Guitar Pioneer Elder Utah Smith

    A new book, I Got Two Wings, released last month, chronicles the life of Elder Utah Smith, a Southern evangelical pastor who claimed to be one of the pioneers of electric guitar. Although the music that Smith played in the 1940s was undeniably gospel, it's a predecessor to early rock n' roll. His ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2009

    Our First Report From Sundance

    SW contributor and critic Scott Foundas is in Park City, Utah for the Sundance Film Festival. He begins by reporting the following:"Will everyone be wearing black?" a friend asked over dinner the other night when the subject arose of my imminent departure for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. "I'm so ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2009

    Humpday Benefit Party Redux

    As previously reported, local director Lynn Shelton got her new feature Humpday into Sundance, which begins January 15 in Utah. That's great news, but movies always cost more to make than originally envisioned. So, naturally, there's to be a fundraiser/send-off party tomorrow night (the last one, o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2008

    Filmmaker Benefit Party for Sundance

    As previously reported, local director Lynn Shelton got her new feature Humpday into Sundance, which begins January 15 in Utah. That's great news, but movies always cost more to make than originally envisioned. So, naturally, there's to be a fundraiser/send-off party tomorrow night, with music, refr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2008

    Another Seattle Title at Sundance

    In addition to Lynn Shelton's Humpday, we've now confirmed with Northwest Film Forum that local director David Russo will also have a feature at January's Sundance Film Festival in Utah. His first feature, The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle, follows years of making local shorts, most using s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2008

    Seattle Movie at Sundance

    The Sundance Film Festival opens Jan. 15 in Park City, Utah. Among the 118 features is at least one Seattle-made title (I'm still digging through the list): Humpday, by writer-director Lynn Shelton. It's her first film at Sundance, so congratulations. It's entered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition ca ... More >>

  • Diversions

    October 1, 2008

    Anti-Mexican Not a Platform For National Victory

    The Sundance Film Festival opens Jan. 15 in Park City, Utah. Among the 118 features is at least one Seattle-made title (I'm still digging through the list): Humpday, by writer-director Lynn Shelton. It's her first film at Sundance, so congratulations. It's entered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition ca ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 30, 2008

    Jessie Baylin

    Sunday, August 3

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2008

    Willie Nelson Books Marymoor Gig

    Sunday, August 3

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2008

    Seattle at Sundance

    Sunday, August 3

  • Blogs

    October 23, 2007

    Time Out of Mind

    Sunday, August 3

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2007

    Cave Singers Spend Autumn on Black Mountain

    Sunday, August 3

  • News

    March 14, 2007

    The F-Word

    Dissecting hipster Seattle's most loathed,least defended figure: the frat boy.

  • Arts

    January 18, 2006

    Sundancing

    Dissecting hipster Seattle's most loathed,least defended figure: the frat boy.

  • Film

    January 26, 2005

    Buzz Fever

    The annual Sundance bug has infected this writer, too.

  • Diversions

    November 10, 2004

    One Nation, Under Me

    The annual Sundance bug has infected this writer, too.

  • Arts

    August 11, 2004

    Arts Picks

    The annual Sundance bug has infected this writer, too.

  • Diversions

    October 29, 2003

    RAVE On

    A national antirave act wants to stop you from dancing in the dark.

  • Food

    October 29, 2003

    TV Dinner

    Downtown's newest tourist trap isn't a nightmare.

  • News

    August 20, 2003

    A Dirty Job

    Downtown's newest tourist trap isn't a nightmare.

  • Music

    August 7, 2002

    Rhymes with Seltzer

    Downtown's newest tourist trap isn't a nightmare.

  • Film

    June 12, 2002

    Traffic

    Downtown's newest tourist trap isn't a nightmare.

  • News

    February 27, 2002

    Fear and Loathing at the Olympics

    A final look at 14 days in Salt Lake.

  • News

    February 20, 2002

    Fear and Loathing at the Olympics

    Amidst the Mormons, the snowboarders, and the scandals, what's it really like to be in Salt Lake?

  • News

    November 28, 2001

    Ground Control

    Buying presents for the entire family—at Sea-Tac.

  • News

    August 29, 2001

    News Clips— Innocent/Guilty

    Buying presents for the entire family—at Sea-Tac.

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