Sour grapes
As Paul Allen and Jody Patton’s mulitimedia museum at Seattle Center takes shape, a design is emerging that may define the architecture of the next millenium.
United Way of King County is reinventing itself as a new charity for a new Gilded Age, applying business smarts to philanthropy itself. But the results expose some problems in privatizing society’s safety net.
What’s in, what’s fresh, what’s cooking.
LAST FALL, FOUR consecutive nights of PBS prime time were taken up with copulating animals, subdividing bacteria, animated DNA molecules,…
Beneath the four-burner kitchen machismo simmers a sly literary dish.
IT’S HARD to write about Washington state’s annual jihad against that insidious foreign agent the Asian gypsy moth without thinking…
Eric Banh’s Monsoon is five but still as fresh as ever.
A patch of Washington farmland reaches for legendary status.
Washington grape growers and winemakers are still prowling the fields in their eternal quest to find the perfect balance between…
Danielle Custer returns to Seattle with a menu to reckon with.
The short list of architects being considered to build a new Tacoma Art Museum is pretty impressive—both for the sheer…
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL 4th edition by Bruce Alberts, et al. (Garland Science, $102) In the 19th and early…
New grape in town
Thirty years ago in Seattle Weekly.
THE WASHINGTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION spent big on Initiative 732 last November, and won big, too, with nearly two-thirds of voters…
In 1999, Mike Januik left a comfortable, well-paying job as chief winemaker for Ste. Michelle to set up on his…
The annual Beaujolais nouveau craziness has peaked once more and is already fading, leaving behind smiling wine promoters and wine…
Think things are bad today? If you add enough zeros to the prices, we ran the same exact story 28 years ago. Not that we’re feeling nostalgic.
To no one’s shock or surprise, the current issue of Wine Spectator contains the news that Canlis, the classic Seattle…
