Michael Chabon’s 1988 breakthrough novel attracted many fans among the young, sensitive, Foucault-reading, Germs-listening set who were dissatisfied with that…
Bruce Barcott, a writer and editor at this paper during the ’90s, is today a contributor to The New York…
Babies cost too much money, especially when they grow up and want to go to college. How much simpler now,…
Get a room, guys! After months and months and months of courtship that seemingly ended in tears and failure last…
Does this mean no more Zune tattoos? Don’t say it! This from Cnet, which reports on a Piper Jaffray consumer…
I don’t know what it means, but I like it. Seen at the corner of Fourth and Battery, hanging from…
For months, diners, pedestrians, and mariners who frequent the Bell Street Pier on Alaskan Way have been confounded by the…
This from our IT maestro Paul Jensen…As the computer age marches on, we jaded users tend to think of our…
For local skiers, March was one of the best months in memory. Crystal Mountain reports that, “We received 144 inches…
Ask any skier (myself included), and they’ll tell you that March was one of the best months in memory. Crystal…
The Seattle International Film Festival, which begins May 21, has had a spotty record on the Eastside. It tried screenings…
There’s been much discussion of late about getting children out of their parents’ cars in the morning and onto their…
This is not an April Fool’s Day item. This is both frightening and true. According to this New York Times…
There’s a recession going on, and that’s why we need basic cable. For those of us who can’t afford HBO,…
Making fun of old movies is a reliable and occasionally trenchant source of laughs—either from the sidelines, as with the…
Created by Matt Groening of Simpsons fame (whose Life in Hell comic once appeared in these pages), the sci-fi cartoon…
One mans war against 747s, leaf blowers, car alarms, and your iPod.
Today in New York, they’re waving the start flag for something called the Film Racing Tour, now in its third…
Great minds think alike. Our editor-in-chief, Mark D. Fefer, has long inveighed against the scourge of yellow paged phone books…
Jeffrey Masson makes the slippery-slope argument.
