NORIKO KATO, 25, was born in Aomori, Japan and now lives in West Seattle in the basement of her host…
Cramming 10 pounds of TV into a two-pound bag.
Arts & Entertainment
I’D BE A HYPOCRITE to bash the Internet book business. Mossback’s stump is lined with books acquired from all sources:…
Body count rises as tech layoffs continue
Herewith, the five “easy” steps that made Seattle Weekly—or, at least, the steps that happened during the 21 years that…
“Using the concept of evil to explain a deed is an intellectual cop-out….”
Boeing’s layoffs announcement hints at management insanity.
HELLCAB Hellcab is a collection of scenes from the life of a Chicago cab driver on one bitterly cold, 14-hour…
Photography: Michael Doucett; Styling: Hope Misterek; Makeup: Brandee Slosar of StyleEye; Hair: Niko Weddle; Thanks to Re-bar, Robert Lawson, and assistant stylists Laif Bannon, Alice Woo Jin, and Yukako Amari
Ichiro, the Storm, and the Sonics brought a little joy to this 63-99 town in 2004.
What’s wrong with American newspapers today? They’re shallow, sensational, vulgar, celebrity-chasing, conflict-obsessed, parochial, predictable, and boring. “The worst are becoming…
CITY HALL Seattle City Council member Jan Drago, a 10-year council veteran and its savvy budget chair, is poised to…
Whistle-blower Stephen Taufen claims state officials are ignoring an accounting scandal on the scale of Enron.
Women bare their souls, without relying just on words.
WHAT DO WE ink-stained and cybershocked wretches crave almost as much as money? “Impact”—reassurance that our words not only get…
Adult hockey leagues and pick-up games are a way to stick it to the winter blahs.
MAKING FAMILY MEMORIESThanks for a superb story about the Batali family [“A Batali Family Christmas,” Dec. 25]. It was quite…
Dear Readers, I’ve received a mini-deluge of letters from allegedly “nice” guys whining that women only like men who are…
Twice lately I’ve had the same weird experience—once on the sidewalk on Broadway and once in a Safeway somewhere in…
