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Wyoming

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2012

    Updated: Anti-Gay Church Blames Death of Josh Powell's Boys on Gay Marriage; Plans Protest at Children's Funeral

    Fred Phelps: fixated on homosexuality.​UPDATE: The Westboro Baptist Church may not picket the funeral of Charlie and Braden Powell after all. In a call to the syndicated radio program The Bobby D Show on Friday morning, church member Fred Phelps Jr. indicated that the church may not show up to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2012

    Peace, Love, and Handcuffs: The Rainbow Family's Adversarial Relationship With Law Enforcement

    Every Fourth of July, several thousand hippies flock to a different National Forest for the annual Rainbow Family Gathering, and every year several hundred are arrested or cited by local and federal authorities for a variety of (mostly) minor infractions. The 2011 Gathering in southwest Washington w ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 5, 2011

    Thor Hanson

    Every Fourth of July, several thousand hippies flock to a different National Forest for the annual Rainbow Family Gathering, and every year several hundred are arrested or cited by local and federal authorities for a variety of (mostly) minor infractions. The 2011 Gathering in southwest Washington w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2011

    Idaho Internet Speed Is Slowest in Nation (Partially Because of Bears)

    ​Bears. If they're not eating people or stealing their picnic baskets, they're apparently slowing down their Internet. In no state is the latter phenomenon more prevalent than our neighbor to the east, Idaho.

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2011

    Why Growlers Should Be in Every Beer Lover's Emergency-Preparedness Kit

    ​If you aren't already familiar with growlers--the two-liter fill-to-go bottles--the advent of summer is as good a time as any to get on board. Growlers can be filled at breweries and bottle shops around the city and enjoyed at home, at the campground, or brought to backyard cookouts and parti ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 1, 2011

    Thor Hanson

    ​If you aren't already familiar with growlers--the two-liter fill-to-go bottles--the advent of summer is as good a time as any to get on board. Growlers can be filled at breweries and bottle shops around the city and enjoyed at home, at the campground, or brought to backyard cookouts and parti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2011

    Washington Is Only 85 Miles from America's Foulest and Most Festering Pool of Hate

    ​That festering pool being Montana, of course--the land of big skies, open spaces and endless seas of angry white people.

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2011

    Why Transhumance Is So Tasty

    ​"Transhumance is one of those words you only find in dictionaries," cheese advocate and educator Daphne Zepos told a rapt audience of two dozen cheese lovers at this weekend's Seattle Cheese Festival. "You never come across it unless you herd sheep." Yet it's a word that should matter to eat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2010

    U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: Wolverines Should Be Added to Endangered Species List, When We Get Around to It

    ​Depending on who's estimating, there are somewhere between 200 and 600 North American wolverines left in the contiguous United States. So folks might think that getting them onto the nation's endangered species list would be a breeze. If so, they'd be wrong.

  • News

    December 1, 2010

    Gateway to the Orient

    Southwest Washington will be China's source for dirty coal.

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2010

    Sterling Terrance Hospedales, Army Sergeant, Sentenced to 11 Years for Pimping Out Teenage Girls

    ​It all started when federal investigators noticed a 17-year-old runaway girl from Seattle posting ads soliciting sex on Craigslist. It didn't take them long after that to determine that there was another, even younger, teenage girl doing the same thing and that Sgt. Sterling Terrance Hospedal ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 27, 2010

    Nightfall

    ​It all started when federal investigators noticed a 17-year-old runaway girl from Seattle posting ads soliciting sex on Craigslist. It didn't take them long after that to determine that there was another, even younger, teenage girl doing the same thing and that Sgt. Sterling Terrance Hospedal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2010

    The Passing of Time and Touring Through the Eyes of MSHVB Bassist Jared Price

    ​When I was hanging out with Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band a few weeks back in preparation for today's feature, we got to talking about touring and the extreme highs and lows that come along with the process. And that was when bassist Jared Price shared with me this story: "There are some crazy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2010

    Sterling Terrance Hospedales, Ft. Lewis Army Sergeant, Pleads Guilty to Pimping Underage Girls

    ​In this down economy, lots of working folks are taking on second jobs. So, why not a member of the armed services? Only Sterling Hospedales, an Army Sergeant stationed at Ft. Lewis in Tacoma, chose forcing underage girls into prostitution as his side hustle. Hospedales, the fellow pictured at ... More >>

  • Arts

    July 21, 2010

    Opening Nights: The Laramie Project

    Still timely, as long as people keep hating “the other.”

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2010

    Michael Mastro, Bankrupt Real-Estate Magnate, Forced to Spend Lavishly to Keep Wife Happy

    ​Michael Mastro says he's broke. When the real-estate magnate declared bankruptcy last year he claimed to be $570 million in the hole. So why is the 85-year-old spending $8,000 a month on a Bentley and Rolls Royce and going on lavish ski trips to Wyoming and Switzerland? "Mike loves his wife," ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 30, 2010

    International Conservation Photography Awards

    ​Michael Mastro says he's broke. When the real-estate magnate declared bankruptcy last year he claimed to be $570 million in the hole. So why is the 85-year-old spending $8,000 a month on a Bentley and Rolls Royce and going on lavish ski trips to Wyoming and Switzerland? "Mike loves his wife," ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2010

    Cyclists' South Lake Union Streetcar Suit Like a Salmon Suing the Sahara For Lack of Water

    What this cyclist's touching is what many of his kind are.​A handful of bicyclists who've been injured as a result of wiping out on South Lake Union streetcar tracks are suing the city for willfully designing streetcar tracks that are unsafe for cyclists. In related news, Burlington Northern ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2010

    Jurado's Still Recording: "Mountains Still Asleep" Posted to MySpace

    ​ Five weeks later, Damien Jurado is still following through on his announcement to post new songs to his MySpace page every week. (He's got enough for an EP by now.) The newest song, "Mountains Still Asleep," is similar to tenor and style to last week's "Wyoming Birds": sparse, with just guit ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 10, 2010

    Paul Horiuchi

    ​ Five weeks later, Damien Jurado is still following through on his announcement to post new songs to his MySpace page every week. (He's got enough for an EP by now.) The newest song, "Mountains Still Asleep," is similar to tenor and style to last week's "Wyoming Birds": sparse, with just guit ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 20, 2010

    Brokeback Mountain

    ​ Five weeks later, Damien Jurado is still following through on his announcement to post new songs to his MySpace page every week. (He's got enough for an EP by now.) The newest song, "Mountains Still Asleep," is similar to tenor and style to last week's "Wyoming Birds": sparse, with just guit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2009

    We're No. 36! Washington Narrowly Beats DC in National Happiness Ranking

    What's the matter, Washington? Still bummed about the election results?​Of course you are familiar with the Oswalt/Wu index of life satisfaction. The two scientists have published a paper in Science magazine (see abstract), based on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 7, 2009

    Annie Proulx

    What's the matter, Washington? Still bummed about the election results?​Of course you are familiar with the Oswalt/Wu index of life satisfaction. The two scientists have published a paper in Science magazine (see abstract), based on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2009

    Bill Gates Gets a New Home on the Range

    The yardWord on the street is that Bill Gates has purchased the 492 acre Wyoming ranch (asking price: $9 million) once belonging to William F. "Buffalo" Bill Cody. The main level is 9,598 square feet (It has lots of windows, har har), the lower level 8.239, and the porch/patio 3,240. The ranch also ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2009

    So We Did Pass a National Popular Vote Bill

    There were no fewer than four national popular vote bills proposed in the state legislature this year, and it looks embarrassingly like I was following the wrong ones (see also here and here). Senate Bill 5599 made it through and was signed by Governor Gregoire last week, much to the chagrin of the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2009

    Last Night's First Thursday

    Gala Bent, 2008, Party Pooper, graphite and gouache on Arches paper 22" x 30", photo by the artist. All photographs by Adriana Grant unless otherwise noted. First stop, Gala Bent's often surreal, color-patterned animals, in graphite and gouache on paper. At Gallery4Culture through May 1. You say ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2009

    National Popular Vote Bill Goes to Bermuda Triangle for National Popular Vote Bills

    The Electoral College is a nasty little civic subsidy to rural states. For example, Wyoming voters' ballots pack three times as much electoral punch as those of Seattleites.* Thus, a number of states are looking to make the college obselete. To remove the college altogether would require a constit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2009

    Washington's Movin' on up

     If "movin' on up" means joining the ranks of Oregon, Wyoming (whose population is smaller than Seattle's), and ten states whose infant mortality rates rank between Croatia's and Latvia's.The beige states in the picture above have no general assistance-unemployable programs--i.e. programs that ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 7, 2008

    Brokeback Mountain

     If "movin' on up" means joining the ranks of Oregon, Wyoming (whose population is smaller than Seattle's), and ten states whose infant mortality rates rank between Croatia's and Latvia's.The beige states in the picture above have no general assistance-unemployable programs--i.e. programs that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2007

    Slow Love for Sonic Boom

     If "movin' on up" means joining the ranks of Oregon, Wyoming (whose population is smaller than Seattle's), and ten states whose infant mortality rates rank between Croatia's and Latvia's.The beige states in the picture above have no general assistance-unemployable programs--i.e. programs that ... More >>

  • Music

    January 24, 2007

    Brian Foss

    The Funhouse's Jack-of-all-trades.

  • Film

    June 7, 2006

    Brokeback Mountain, Mr. Arkadin, and South Park

    Randy Quaid embarrassed, Orson Welles redeemed, and Christopher Reeve as monster.

  • Arts

    February 1, 2006

    High Drama

    A play about small-town prejudice and murder has become a common teaching tool at area schools.

  • News

    January 25, 2006

    The Burke Museum Report

    What the scientists said about the University of Washington fossil collection.

  • Film

    January 4, 2006

    Swing Your Pardner

    Why Brokeback Mountain is the perfect date movie for straight guys.

  • Film

    December 21, 2005

    Heath for the Holidays

    The movies' hunk of the month appeals to men (in Brokeback Mountain) and women (in Casanova). What's the difference between Homo Heath and Hetero Heath?

  • Arts

    August 3, 2005

    Space Less Empty

    The movies' hunk of the month appeals to men (in Brokeback Mountain) and women (in Casanova). What's the difference between Homo Heath and Hetero Heath?

  • Food

    June 1, 2005

    living:room

    The movies' hunk of the month appeals to men (in Brokeback Mountain) and women (in Casanova). What's the difference between Homo Heath and Hetero Heath?

  • Food

    April 13, 2005

    living:room

    The movies' hunk of the month appeals to men (in Brokeback Mountain) and women (in Casanova). What's the difference between Homo Heath and Hetero Heath?

  • Music

    February 16, 2005

    Bright Eyes

    Also: Bettie Serveert, Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower, Live From the Morning Alternative, and the Marshall Tucker Band.

  • News

    October 20, 2004

    My Daily Duty

    Curse the Electoral College.

  • Music

    December 4, 2002

    Get Stuffed

    Curse the Electoral College.

  • News

    February 27, 2002

    Fear and Loathing at the Olympics

    A final look at 14 days in Salt Lake.

  • Arts

    November 14, 2001

    Through a glass, darkly

    Staring into the mirror of the Matthew Shepard tragedy.

  • Music

    May 23, 2001

    Spin doctors

    Seattle DJ crew the Spinnovators treat turntablism as serious business.

  • Music

    December 29, 1999

    The future is now

    Seattle DJ crew the Spinnovators treat turntablism as serious business.

  • Music

    September 29, 1999

    Road rules

    Seattle DJ crew the Spinnovators treat turntablism as serious business.

  • News

    June 23, 1999

    Pride KILLS

    The easy part's over—now it's time to come out of the Capitol Hill closet.

  • Music

    June 9, 1999

    Postcards from the middle

    The easy part's over—now it's time to come out of the Capitol Hill closet.

  • Arts

    June 2, 1999

    How 'Bout 'The Lengthy Avenue to My House'? No?

    My most felicitous phrase lives on, with no royalties attached.

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