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    Articles by Roger Downey
    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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    Hot stuff in the kitchen
    Sloooow Food
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    The chow at Pellini’s is worth waiting for. But how long!?

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

    The bread in the bag

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    Some of the herd on the Thundering Hooves Family Farm near Walla Walla.
    These Cows Aren’t Mad
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Raised in pastures and fed no grain, growth hormones, antibiotics, or protein supplements, these animals live stress-free right up until slaughter. And the enlightened ranchers who raise them have no fear of the mad cow scare.

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    Missing the bad old days
    Missing the bad old days
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    A sanitized, transparent government can’t make the necessary compromises.

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

    The most memorable—and spendy—meal I ever ate was rendered even more extraordinary by the five great wines my companion and…

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

    Wine fads come and go. A few years ago it was chardonnay. Now it’s “ABC”—anything but chardonnay—if you want to…

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    Shut up, Seattle!
    Shut up, Seattle!
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    The City Council demands silence, but the mayor keeps talking.

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    Tough Love for the Arts
    Tough Love for the Arts
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    The arts are a business like any other. It’s time to rethink how they’re funded, and whether taxpayers should be on the hook for artistic ambitions gone wrong.

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    Moore power or less?
    Moore power or less?
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    The new head of the WTO hopes no one notices he’s the Wizard of Oz.

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    Brian Jacques makes literary mountains out of molehills.
    Of Mice and Magic
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Kid lit has gone way beyond Winnie-the-Pooh.

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    Weenies Not for Wimps
    Weenies Not for Wimps
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Matt’s Famous: hunky eats at depression prices.

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

    A plan to save the faltering Seattle theater has some saying: Why?

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    Divide and Conquer
    Divide and Conquer
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Philosophers and other Big Thinkers tend to fall into two great groups, colloquially called the Lumpers and the Splitters. Lumpers…

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    Off ‘Taste’
    Off ‘Taste’
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    If anybody who attended the 2006 edition of the wine expo Taste Washington had anything good to say about the…

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    Center House roughhouse
    Center House roughhouse
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Children’s Museum KO’d Council.

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

    Politicians struggle to solve an energy crisis they helped create.

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

    A third try to solve the state’s election-reform dilemma fizzles.

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