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    Articles by Roger Downey
    Risky business
    Risky business
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Seattle’s avant performance showcase On the Boards celebrates its 20th anniversary with a move into a new (and still unfinished)…

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    Just the Basics
    Just the Basics
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    If buying wine and pairing it with food is as easy as the experts say it is, why do they…

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    Block at the dock
    Block at the dock
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Port commissioner Jack Block was in the middle of controversial toxic waste shipment.

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    How to Get Past the 'Seasons'
    How to Get Past the ‘Seasons’
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    An adventure travel guide for giving and getting classical music

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    When it comes to promoting tourism, Seattle has always lazily left the
    When it comes to promoting tourism, Seattle has...
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    When it comes to promoting tourism, Seattle has always lazily left the heavy lifting to Mount Rainier, Puget Sound, and…

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    Putting the squeeze on ‘Cider House’
    Putting the squeeze on ‘Cider House’
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Mark Taper Forum is the biggest, oldest, most widely known regional theater in Los Angeles. So why is its artistic…

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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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    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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    Waiting for medical marijuana
    Waiting for medical marijuana
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    The antidrug mafia makes sure Washington state keeps off the grass.

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    Walla Walla All-Stars
    Walla Walla All-Stars
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Round the globe, the wine industry models the typical woes of the early-21st-century world economy: sluggish growth, excess capacity, falling…

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    End the war on bugs!
    End the war on bugs!
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    OK, ADMIT IT: You want Cipro. With a two-month supply of Cipro in the medicine chest, you could sleep at…

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    But Is It Wine?
    But Is It Wine?
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    The latest beverage issued by Seattle’s ever-prolific Precept Brands is titled “Huck.” The label, displaying a bear in silhouette apparently…

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    Down by Law
    Down by Law
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    When Seattle law firm Perkins Coie filed suit against the Washington State Liquor Control Board on behalf of local retailing…

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    Savage radio love
    Savage radio love
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Comes now an Art Town reader to enquire: “Why is KCMU playing re-runs of the Dan Savage radio show?” Glad…

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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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    Off The Boards – Press Release
    Off The Boards – Press Release
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Full text of the OTB press release

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

    For 11 years now, dozens of oyster lovers have masticated uncounted thousands of succulent Kumamoto oysters provided gratis by Taylor…

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

    A glass of wine

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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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    Seven Things They Hate About You
    Seven Things They Hate About You
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    You think your wine merchant likes you? Respects your taste? Is interested in your opinions? Maybe, but consider whether you…

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