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Westernized
Amidst all downtown’s aloof corporate skybridges, there’s one that functions as a real and distinctive public space: the…
Eat Drink Toke
Mirth and bile in Dogpatch
The creator of 'Li'l Abner' was a character straight out of the funny pages.
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Fish stew
Something about Initiative 696, the “Ban All Nets” measure on November’s ballot, must cloud people’s minds. Like mine:…
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Speakeasy survival plan
Save any funeral flowers you were going to send to the Speakeasy Cafe, Seattle’s seminal cybercafe and alternative…
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A thousand words
“I can finally sleep at night,” says Don Hennick, the Seattle sculptor and Good Samaritan who was charged…
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Yo lo Tenyo
Whoever heard of a government body saying, “No, don’t give us the money, here’s something better to spend…
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A Private Drive
Backers of failed transportation Referendum 51 regroup—without greens who turned against their highway-heavy plan.
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Travel Issue: Revenge of the goddess
Picking up pebbles on the Big Island, and other blasphemies.
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The tug that could
Talk about an ounce of prevention matching a pound of cure. As of a week ago, the salvage…
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Thin blue line
Newspapers take what’s variously called the “flag,” “nameplate,” or “masthead”—the way their names appear atop the front page—very…
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The fire this time
The Coe School blaze leaves no answers—just new questions and a shake-up in Seattle's arson investigations.
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Cool house
How could the city go wrong picking an architect whose name sounds like “cool house”? But I’m still…
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Sell-ebrate the ’60s
Hold onto your history books; the US Postal Service (with help from its faithful fans) has delivered the…
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Killer Logic
Feds say no, but their own findings give reason to list local orcas as endangered.
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Ten years after
What a week. At the 10th anniversary celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall, George not Dubyuh)…