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    Articles by Roger Downey
    The Gift That Keeps on Woofing
    The Gift That Keeps on Woofing
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Holiday time is visiting time, and this season there’s a new spirit in the air. Instead of toting traditional host/ess…

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    Tons of grapes—but is that a good thing? Allen Shoup weighs in.
    Washington Wine: The Rest of the Story
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    The stats and the facts behind the explosion.

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    Law and Wine (Part 2)
    Law and Wine (Part 2)
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    The story so far: In Federal District Court in Seattle, mercantile giant Costco Wholesale Corp. is suing the Washington State…

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    Attack of the $3 Wines
    Attack of the $3 Wines
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    If my Metro Transit experience is typical, only three subjects are deemed suitably uncontroversial ground for conversation among strangers on…

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

    ANGRY E-MAILS from readers are part of a journalist’s job. We even welcome them as a sign that someone’s reading…

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    One Man’s Wine
    One Man’s Wine
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Suppose that, right out of college, you decide you want to spend your life making wine—your own wine, not someone…

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

    BEHIND ALL THE condoling voices last week mourning the death of Steven Jay Gould, you could sense a certain relief….

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

    Comfort zone

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

    You have to hand it to Andrea Immer—the girl just doesn’t give up. She’s changed her name (to Andrea Immer…

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

    Rated P.G.

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    A sumptuous bunch of syrah.
    Hi-Yo Syrah . . . Away!
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    West Coast winemakers bring the Rhône back home.

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

    Wine is an insidious thing. On its own, no one has ever claimed that it’s addictive. Yet constant drinkers of…

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    Red Mountain I Am
    Red Mountain I Am
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    The story goes that when his Chateau Mouton was not included among the greatest of Bordeaux wine plantings in the…

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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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    Impre$$ioni$m
    Impre$$ioni$m
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    A SAM show of paintings worth mega-multiples of their weight in gold.

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    Shannon Galusha presides over a fashionable Veil.
    Veil Unveiled
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    The latest upscale single-syllable eatery opens at last.

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    Stoned initiative?
    Stoned initiative?
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    The ACLU stumbles over legal hurdles in its effort to decriminalize pot.

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

    Food

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    Bolshoi queen Nina Ananiashvili will give Seattleites a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
    Star-crossed stages
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    The fine art of getting the Bolshoi Ballet to Seattle.

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    TOM ROBBINS: My life and work.
    TOM ROBBINS: My life and work.
    By Roger Downey • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Forget cyberspace. The Northwest’s master of Zen-punk prose spends his time exploring mythospace. And here, with a new novel hitting stores this week, he speaks out about what he sees, how he works, who he loves, and what really, really matters in the end.

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