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Wenatchee

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    R.I.P. Sculptor Richard Beyer, Creator of Freemont's "People Waiting for the Interurban"

    Sculptor Richard Beyer, perhaps best known in these parts for his iconic Fremont sculpture "People Waiting for the Interurban," passed away on Monday. He was 86.

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2012

    Comment of the Day: A Place for Perverts

    A public library in Wenatchee, as we wrote about, has decided to block all access to online porn on its computer search engines. This has riled up the ACLU, who says the library has an overly broad filtering policy--and besides, they say, if you knock out the porn, a lot of other websites will go da ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2012

    State's Female Farmers Strengthen Their Network

    There's an old joke about a man who meets a farmer on the road. The farmer's carrying a bag marked "chickens." "If I guess how many chickens are in the bag, can I have one?," the man asks. "Shoot," the farmer says. "If you guess right, you can have both of them." That joke might not work if the far ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2011

    Dirty Jobs and The Honey Hole: A Match Made in Suggestively Named Heaven

    While languishing in a media atmosphere apparently devoid of any relevant or exciting television programming for weeks on end, TV Dinner has to apologize for completely looking over the few gems offered by the recent "Watch Other People Do Their Jobs" phenomenon that seems (hopefully) to have come t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2011

    Raney Brothers BBQ Offers Up Some of Seattle's Best Barbecue on Wheels

    ​The Truck: Raney Brothers BBQ, locations found on Facebook. The Fare: Barbecue, like pulled pork sandwiches and macaroni salad. The Stop: As I stood in the heart of the Amazon jungle (the concrete one in South Lake Union) last week, I never imagined that such a good looking, tasty pulled po ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2011

    Tim Eyman Claims Red-Light-Camera Victory in Bellingham; Aims for Statewide Win Next

    ​Whatcom County Superior Court Judge Ira Uhrig didn't just rule against American Traffic Solutions and its effort to stop the residents of Bellingham from voting whether to keep red-light cameras in town--he made the company pay its opponent's attorney fees and fined it $10,000.

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2011

    Seattle's Top 5 Romantic Viewpoints

    Siiri Sampson 2011​Seattle is officially getting played. The weather is complete crap and we're still coming back for more punishment, hoping every day will really, truly, be the end of the grey and the start of non-stop sun. If we continue to submit ourselves to this pathetic, one-sided lov ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2011

    Why Doesn't Seattle Have an NBA D-League Team?

    Image source​Former Washington Husky Justin Dentmon is dominating the NBA's Developmental League right now. In 34 games, the point guard is averaging just over 19 points, 4 assists, and 3.7 rebounds per game for the Texas Legends, the Dallas Mavericks' B-team based in the bustling metropolis o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2011

    Shawna Forde Trial Moves Into the Tucson Spotlight With Bizarre Opening Week (Video)

    ​Now in its second week, the Arizona Minuteman murder trial of ex-Seattle prostitute Shawna Forde has become predictably weird, momentarily eclipsing talk of Tucson's other headline murderer, Jared Loughner. No longer the "fat white" blonde identified at the scene of a May 2009 trailer-home ro ... More >>

  • News

    January 12, 2011

    The Loughner/Forde Parallel

    Accused killers "don't just snap."

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2011

    Jared Loughner, Like Shawna Forde, Turns Out to Have Been No Surprise to Some Arizonans

    Giffords​Not that you can't see these things coming. Shawna Forde, the ex-Seattle prostitute who was supposed to be Tucson's big crime story this week, was tipping her hand long before she was accused of killing a father and his nine-year-old daughter last year, both shot in the head during an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2010

    John Chelminiak Describes Bear Attack That Cost Him an Eye

    ​Not many people brawl with a bear and live to talk about it. Which makes John Chelminiak one of the lucky ones. On the night of September 17, Chelminiak was on a walk with his dogs outside of his family's cabin in Wenatchee when he heard rustling in nearby bushes and the exhaled breath of a l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2010

    Bear Expert Steve Herrero Says Attacks Are On the Rise

    ​If it feels like more people than usual have been mauled by bears lately (most recently Bellevue City Councilmember John Chelminiak who survived a black bear attack outside his family's cabin near Lake Wenatchee ) that's because its true. "Overall there has been an increase in bear attacks, b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    John Chelminiak, Bellevue Councilman, Mauled By Bear

    ​To most living creatures, John Chelminiak doesn't look like much more than the Bellevue Councilman that he is. To a skinny black bear gone hungry from a lack of huckleberries, however, Chelminiak apparently looked like a feast. Saturday night, Chelminiak was walking his dogs near his Lake Wen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    Brent Magarrell Charged With Raping 16-Year-Old Girl on Her Birthday, Telling Her It Was a "Rite of Passage"

    ​Brent Magarrell does not live by the same rules that you or I do. For one thing, as a 50-year-old man living in Wenatchee he apparently sees nothing wrong with going to a teenager's birthday party. For another, he also allegedly thinks getting a girl drunk and then raping her is normal.

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2010

    Kino Gomez: Dead, Alive? Manhunt Continues

    ​Wherever Kino Gomez might be, "If he's still alive and in the U.S.," says Okanogan County Sheriff's detective Mike Murray, "he's doing really well" for a fugitive. The former King County road engineer is accused of the July 17, 2009 murder of Seattle music producer and sound engineer Tom Pfae ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2010

    Publisher David Black Shutters Hawaii Paper; Is That How He Would Have 'Saved' The P-I, Too?

    ​As the Post-Intelligencer's print edition headed towards its last press run in 2009, the hopeful search for a white knight who would swoop in with a last-minute bid and cash infusion came down to David Black, the Victoria newspaper magnate. He puts out print like no one else, observers note ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2010

    Mackenzie Cowell's Mom Pleads for Tips in Daughter's Murder

    Police still don't know who killed Mackenzie Cowell.​It's been three months since 17-year-old Wenatchee teen Mackenzie Cowell mysteriously turned up dead. In that time, police have tracked more than 750 tips, interviewed hundreds and taken DNA samples from dozens of potential suspects. Despit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2010

    From Border Watchers to 'Bama Watchers: Minutemen Retrain Sights in Wake of Shawna Forde Murder Charges

    Forde, in a socialist prison​Thanks in part to the double murder charges filed in Arizona against ex-Seattle prostitute Shawna Forde, one of the country's largest Minutemen border-patrol groups is killing itself off. Unfortunately, thanks in great deal to Barack Obama living up to a campaign p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2010

    Twisp Police Chief Wants to Make it Illegal to Be Mean

    Twisp's plan for economic recovery.​Apparently the tiny town of Twisp has a big problem with bad words. How else to explain a proposed law from police chief Rob Hall, who wants to fine residents for "abusive language," also known as making it illegal to be mean. Hall just moved to the 1,000-p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2009

    Matt Hassellbeck's Daughter Recovering From Dirt Bike Accident

    Have you seen this man's Pro Bowl left tackle?​Seahawks quarterback Matt Hassellbeck's six-year-old daughter Mallory is recovering from injuries she sustained after getting hit by a dirt bike. Hassellbeck broke the news on his Twitter account earlier today when he Tweeted "worst bye week ever. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2009

    Minuteman Forde: Lethal Injection if Convicted

    ​Arizona prosecutors say they will indeed seek the death penalty against onetime Seattle prostitute Shawna Forde, along with Wenatchee white supremacist Gunny Bush and a third man, in the desert slayings of an alleged Mexican drug dealer and his child. The Arizona Star also reports that accuse ... More >>

  • News

    July 15, 2009

    Cover Story: Lethally Blonde

    How a former teen prostitute and beautician from Everett became an influential anti-immigrant crusader—and alleged murderer.

  • News

    June 24, 2009

    Former Seattleite Wants NYC's Top Law & Order Gig

    And even the original Jack McCoy is singing his praises.

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2009

    And as Sam Waterston, Cy Vance Jr.

    Will the next New York City district attorney be a lawyer from Seattle? Cyrus Vance Jr., son of the Secretary of State under Jimmy Carter, is running for the job, having moved back to his native NYC in 2004 after 16 years of practice here (he's still a member of the state bar). Vance came to Seatt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2009

    Ear Candy Celebrates B-Day, Plans New Site

    Our friend Travis over at Ear Candy is a busy guy. As if covering Seattle music from Wenatchee isn't hard enough, he's hosting a show over at High Dive tomorrow night, and he's fixin' to parlay his popular P-I reader blog into a full-blown site for local music, and eventually the arts. (Details afte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2008

    Duff McKagan: We've Got It Good (Food)

    Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. I'll preface this column by saying first off I realize these days we all may have a bit less to spend, but secondly, we must at least try to spend a little dough, in our town, on our local vendors. I am fortunate enough to be able to travel qu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2008

    Weekend Review: Nick Halstead, Authority Zero, and Kung Fu Panda

    Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. I'll preface this column by saying first off I realize these days we all may have a bit less to spend, but secondly, we must at least try to spend a little dough, in our town, on our local vendors. I am fortunate enough to be able to travel qu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2008

    Weekend Review: Dolly Parton, Burlesque at Chop Suey, and All Points West

    Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. I'll preface this column by saying first off I realize these days we all may have a bit less to spend, but secondly, we must at least try to spend a little dough, in our town, on our local vendors. I am fortunate enough to be able to travel qu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2008

    WSF's Gift to Bremerton (and the Ensuing Power Trip)

    Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. I'll preface this column by saying first off I realize these days we all may have a bit less to spend, but secondly, we must at least try to spend a little dough, in our town, on our local vendors. I am fortunate enough to be able to travel qu ... More >>

  • Food

    January 16, 2008

    Your Easy Guide to Washington Wines

    And it's only 572 pages.

  • News

    January 18, 2006

    The Sheriff and the Serial Killer

    "... I don't think there's any perfect manual on how to obtain data from a crazy criminal psyche. ..."

  • News

    December 28, 2005

    Frog March 2005!

    Election messes; secret gulags; monorail meltdowns; flaming hair; Bill, Melinda, and Bono; horse sex; Deep Throat; FEMA failures: It's been a heckuva year.

  • News

    June 15, 2005

    An Election Reform Storm

    Ron Sims' spending plan hits a snag.

  • News

    June 1, 2005

    Donkeys 3, Elephants 1

    The Dems were ahead after the first week of the Wenatchee trial.

  • News

    May 25, 2005

    Election 2004, BlogWash, Media, University of Washington

    The Dems were ahead after the first week of the Wenatchee trial.

  • News

    May 4, 2005

    The Chelan Centrist

    In the legal challenge of Gov. Christine Gregoire's election, the judge favors a 'middle course' advocated by Sam Reed, the secretary of state.

  • News

    August 6, 2003

    Letters to the Editor

    Only the thickheaded or willfully obtuse could say with a straight face they believed Extend the Monorail meant precisely and literally that. . . .

  • Film

    June 18, 2003

    Capturing the Friedmans: A Brilliantly Revealing and Wrenching Documentary

    Only the thickheaded or willfully obtuse could say with a straight face they believed Extend the Monorail meant precisely and literally that. . . .

  • News

    April 16, 2003

    They Flew, Flew Away

    The feds might be forced to change the status of the spotted owl from threatened to endangered, further curtailing timber cutting.

  • News

    July 10, 2002

    Clean Harbor?

    Gov. Locke, his brother-in-law, and the tech company.

  • Food

    June 26, 2002

    Brasa Minichefs

    The people who actually make the food get to realize their visions.

  • News

    April 4, 2001

    Spliffed

    The Legislature's medical-marijuana law runs afoul of reality.

  • News

    February 21, 2001

    Stormy weather

    There's a flood of vital local Web weather info—when we're allowed to see it.

  • News

    January 3, 2001

    Let the games begin!

    Seattle Weekly's Guide to the Rules of the 2001 State Legislature.

  • News

    May 24, 2000

    Hot wheels

    In summer, a young person's fancy turns to thoughts of muscle cars and cruisin' the strip.

  • News

    August 4, 1999

    Six degrees of... devastation?

    Forget the Y2K bug. Here's a real 21st-century crisis facing the Northwest: the coming drought years.

  • News

    April 14, 1999

    Growing the concrete jungle

    Forget the Y2K bug. Here's a real 21st-century crisis facing the Northwest: the coming drought years.

  • News

    January 6, 1999

    Buggered!

    Only 358 shopping days 'til the end of the world

  • News

    December 30, 1998

    What did the '90s mean to you?

    Instant Nostalgia issue

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