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What’s Wrong with Channel 9?

Big ambitions, expanding overhead, shrinking local programming . . . does Channel 9 know what it's doing?

Dutch women greet children on an England-bound train.

Film

One-way ticket

Children escape Hitler yet lose their families.

Delish! Mike Daisey's one-man show about Amazon.com opens off-Broadway this weekend.

Arts & Culture

Bite the Big Apple

Seattle’s hottest performer is having a big opening this weekend. It’s 3,000 miles away. 21 Dog Years: Doing…

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Affirmative Reaction

Whether or not Initiative 200 passes, the legal bell is tolling for race-based preferences. What kind of university…

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A Hill of Beans?

Starbucks' effort to improve labor practices on Latin American coffee farms seems to have fizzled.

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Too Nice to Sue?

The county's quick work is helping stave off lawsuits from the Metro bus disaster. But will it be…

Chapman (left) and Gilliam midquest.

Film

The M.P.H.G.A.T.

You know the film, now take the test.

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Will light rail wipe out Broadway?

Along Capitol Hill's main drag, small businesses worry that construction will bury everyone but the Gap.

Empty Net

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Empty Net

Dot-commers find out—too late—that their bosses stopped paying for health insurance.

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Stacking the deck, packing in development

Why can't the Growth Management Act manage growth? Perhaps because the county computer program that enforces it is…

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Dating Without Sex

Abstinence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

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Stairmaster

One man's quest to scale the city.

Kitty Harmon, former Bookfest director.

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Starting out strong

The early years of Seattle's literary festival.

Hog heaven

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Hog heaven

The Fish and Wildlife department is practically begging you to shoot down a pig.

Econoboxed!

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Econoboxed!

Can't a poor guy keep his car?

Arts & Culture

Au revoir, “Odalisque”

SAM has been celebrated for returning its Nazi-looted Matisse. But the move may have been more shrewd than…

One nation, under Bill, indivisible, with Windows upgrades for all.

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XPerience this!

Microsoft's a monopoly—but can they really take over the world?

Museum guide Twitchell.

Arts & Culture

Know Logo

How college degrees and museum shows became just another purchase.

Duet, Anyone?

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Duet, Anyone?

High-Culture Singles at the Opera and Symphony

Weddings, parties, anything: New York's Hasidic New Wave.

Music

Jazz, Semitic-style

From New York springs a downtown sound that's traditional yet hip.