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Reality on the Rocks

Fighting public drunkeness by banning certain beverages in certain neighborhoods isn't working. Undaunted, City Hall wants to expand…

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Silicon Rainier Valley

A text-messaging system is proposed to encourage neighborhood connections.

Vows

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Vows

Local couples celebrate nuptials.

At Hazlewood in Ballard, cocktails and fine dining.

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Heat, Drink, and Be Merry

LeanCuisine, anyone? Bars are microwaving their way to a full booze license, and their skillfully prepared frozen food…

Tough love at the Queen.

Arts & Culture

Action’s action

Tacoma boxing scene earns spot on Vegas undercard.

More points in the greasepaint.

Film

Trading Places

How the Sonics' Payton-Allen swap plays out on-screen.

Pardoning Heidi Fleiss, and other foibles of the celebrity president.

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Pardoning Heidi Fleiss, and other foibles of the celebrity president.

Thanks to Warren Beatty and Donald Trump, “Celebrity for President” has become quite the hot topic. And, because…

The new Pac-Man

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The new Pac-Man

If you believe the good folks at Golden Tee national headquarters, Tiger Woods is really a 500-pound lush.

The Blue Moon in the 1960s.

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Lunar Eclipse

For sale: the historic University District tavern where Allen Ginsberg, Dylan Thomas, and Tom Robbins once drank.

Sloop Tavern

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Sloop Tavern

The Sloop Tavern is a workaday watering hole near the Ballard Locks that will never be confused with…

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Chee-tos alert: You can never have too many warning labels.

Someone comes up to you on hump day and tells you to observe “Weedless Wednesday”—what do you think…

Petty: doing his best Neil Young impersonation.

Music

Good to Be King

Tom Petty's everyman act.

Gatorade and bone-jarring hits.

Arts & Culture

Girls just wanna wear pads

Smash-mouth Warbirds vie for Seattle's second pro sports title.

Eat, drink, dunk

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Eat, drink, dunk

How Sir Charles inspired my love of hoops and Sarah McLachlan.

MacDonell has now cleaned up his act for Hollywood.

Arts & Culture

Prisoner of X: 20 Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine

Writer recalls going, er, toe-to-toe with Larry Flynt.

The Seattle Storm's diverse fan base at play: an untapped Key constituency.

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A Gender Gap at the Key

Why isn't the world-champion Seattle Storm part of the arena-replacement debate?

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Curbside at the WTO

What Warren, Tracy, and Owen saw at the trade festival.

Showman Greg Thompson and his wife, Sunny, prepare for her new one-woman play, Marilyn: Forever Blonde.

Arts & Culture

Fear of Clothing in Las Vegas

Seattle's Greg Thompson, the Cecil B. DeMille of sex and schlock, knows what turns Middle America's crank.

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Iraq: hip-hop nation

George W. & the Funky Bunch take the Desert by Storm.

The vow: no longer operational.

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Squid Pro Quo on the Menu

A change in policy for the Best Places series of books has restaurateurs hot under the stove. How…