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    Articles by Roger Downey
    Seattle as Wrightscape
    Seattle as Wrightscape
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    How Virginia and Bagley Wright brought Seattle into the 20th century.

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

    Fish without guilt

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    One Reel: A History
    One Reel: A History
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    1972: The One Reel Vaudeville Show performs the homemade musical farce Klondike! on the portable stage back of a flatbed…

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    He was no genius
    He was no genius
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    But the dean of American painting was an original.

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    Seattle Blockbuster International Film Festival?
    Seattle Blockbuster International Film Festival?
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Cinema Seattle, parent and presenter of the annual Seattle International Film Festival, has been given a $50,000 support grant by…

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    The mud is falling! The mud is falling!
    The mud is falling! The mud is falling!
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    THREE YEARS AGO, a Pierce County Emergency Management team started setting up a system to warn communities in the Puyallup…

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

    Everybody agreed, after last years edition of Taste Washington: The annual food-and-wine extravaganza sponsored by the Washington Wine Commission couldntshouldntget…

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

    I have a soft spot for scotch. I like its sultry, smoky aroma, the way it oils around the ice…

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

    How to make a chain restaurant come across as unique.

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

    With any luck, the tangled hedge of state regulations separating local consumers and producers will get a little more penetrable…

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    Fat lady on ice
    Fat lady on ice
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    When the Opera and Ballet relocate to Mercer Arena, expect the fur to fly.

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    Your genes at work
    Your genes at work
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Proteomics could be the Next Big Thing driving Puget Sound’s prosperity.

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    The surreal Red the Robin.
    Side Dish
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    “It’s a good day for meat,” Side Dish reflected aloud, driving out to Southcenter in the pouring rain. “Every day…

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    The Hot Sheet
    The Hot Sheet
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    What’s in, what’s fresh, what’s cooking.

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

    Consolidation madness—rampant in most every industry—is now chewing away at the U.S. wine business. So far the takeover of many…

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

    Thirty years ago in Seattle Weekly.

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

    During the holidays, people whose lips are rarely touched by even a sip of wine reach out for a glass,…

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

    If the word “rosé” makes you gag—if it reminds you of that time you got ill on sickly sweet “pink…

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    Family-style
    Family-style
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    The Batalis, keeping it real here and in N.Y.C.

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    The Hot Sheet
    The Hot Sheet
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    What’s in, what’s fresh, what’s cooking.

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