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    Articles by Roger Downey
    The Art of Journalism
    The Art of Journalism
    By Roger Downey • February 8, 2007 12:00 am

    Thirty years ago in Seattle Weekly.

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    Idris Elba as Stringer Bell.
    Shakespeare in the City
    By Roger Downey • February 8, 2007 12:00 am

    HBO’s The Wire would’ve played well with the groundlings at The Globe.

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    Most doctors are proud of the fact that they don't know how much a Q-Tip costs.
    Expensive Care
    By Roger Downey • February 7, 2007 12:00 am

    How to run up a $17,000 hospital tab without actually being sick.

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

    House Blend

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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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    Anthrax 101
    Anthrax 101
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    THE SYMPTOMS: “eyes glittering, breathing labored and hoarse, dark bloody discharge from nostrils, tongue swollen, limbs covered with swollen sores…

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    Noguchi's 1944 coffee table: If it's in a museum, is it art?
    Context Is All
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    The living and the dead collaborate to decorate SAM.

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    Calm at the Center of the Universe
    Calm at the Center of the Universe
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    The Adobe/Quadrant invasion hasn’t altered Fremont—yet.

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    Woodward Canyon's Rick Small counts his blessings.
    Striking Gold With Grapes
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Vines sprout among the wheat fields of Walla Walla.

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    Nuke the moths!
    Nuke the moths!
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Ballard protests the Department of Agriculture’s plan for aerial spraying to prevent a gypsy moth infestation.

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    Bill Irwin, mining Beckett for gags.
    Tears of a clown
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

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

    Nine days to go until the grand opening of the Seattle Symphony’s Benaroya Hall. Technicians from the company that made…

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    K-Man
    K-Man
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    How a new creation myth for the Americas is emerging from a political, religious, and scientific controversy over old bones.

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    Old School News
    Old School News
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Thirty years ago in Seattle Weekly.

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

    Tru confessions

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    Trust the professional: Thierry Rautureau.
    Hats Off
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Follow the international food crowd to a hidden Seattle treasure.

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    ACT rehabbed the Eagles auditorium into a sandbox for big names.
    Dream Weavers
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    ACT’s crash reflects a Seattle arts culture of big talk and board stiffs.

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    Etta’s Seafood
    Etta’s Seafood
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    It’s surprising that more people don’t take advantage of Etta’s for a quick after-work bite and/or drink. True, the happy-hour…

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    Everything you learned about earthquakes last time we had one but forgot by the time this one came along . . .
    Everything you learned about earthquakes last time we...
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Earthquakes happen because 4.5 billion years after its formation from a cloud of cosmic dust, the earth is still cooling…

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