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    Articles by Roger Downey
    Longhorn's Pioneer Square assembly line in full production.
    From Texas With Love
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Longhorn Barbecue bring its ribs to you.

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    ¡Viva Vino!
    ¡Viva Vino!
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    When Victor Cruz opened Cañon de Sol in 2001, he was the only Latino winery owner in the state. Attention…

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    Sips
    Sips
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Sweet excess

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    Flash From the Past
    Flash From the Past
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Whoever Uncle Curley was, he knew his way round a burger.

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    Sips
    Sips
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    There are thousands of programs for those unfortunates among us who just can’t lay off drinking wine. But where is…

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    Thai-ing One On
    Thai-ing One On
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Oh, for the days of “red wine with beef, white wine with fish.” The expansion of the Western food repertoire…

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    CC's Kenyon and Claycamp: ready, set, cook!
    Dinner With Friends
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    School is cool when class is a dinner party.

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    Unfinished picture
    Unfinished picture
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Can Paul Schell become ‘the Arts Mayor?’ Does he want to?

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    Meet the Producer
    Meet the Producer
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Tourists love visiting the Pike Place Market, and many Market merchants love having them. But in one area the Market…

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    The Cat Returns, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, and Porco Rosso
    The Cat Returns, Nausicaä of the Valley of...
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Buena Vista Home Ent., $29.99 each

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    Bad Press
    Bad Press
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    National wine mags like Wine Spectator, Wine Enthusiast, and Wine & Spirits are mighty drivers of the market, so it’s…

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    Ten-Buck Chuck
    Ten-Buck Chuck
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Walla Walla winemaker Charles Smith loves a party, even when he’s paying. The local trade would probably have been happy…

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    Side Dish
    Side Dish
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    What’s doing

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    Di, hard
    Di, hard
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    To every age, every culture, an appropriate art form: The Elizabethan English had blank-verse tragedy, the elegant imperial Austrians had…

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    Ponti Seafood Grill
    Ponti Seafood Grill
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    What makes you happy? If it’s oceans of cheap alcohol, Ponti’s happy hour won’t float your boat. The emphasis here…

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    A stool from Ghana, where functional objects still resound with meaning.
    Scent of the vest
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Breaking with standard practice, SAM’s Africa exhibit vividly renders art in context.

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    The rumor mill
    The rumor mill
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    If all the rumors we hear were true, Art Town’s job would be easy indeed. Take this week: Theater Street…

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    For Love
    For Love
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    The word “amateur” has a faintly dismissive ring. Take the phrase “amateur winemaker,” for example. Doesn’t that sound like someone…

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    Counterfeit Coppers?
    Counterfeit Coppers?
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    The craze to be first on the street with Alaskan Copper River salmon is sowing suspicion between buyers and sellers.

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    Fun With Wine
    Fun With Wine
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    At a Weekly wine tasting a few weeks ago, one of the bottles opened was the recently released 2003 chardonnay…

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