IF ONE MAN’S terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter, Ahmed Ressam is now both. From interviews last week with FBI…
THE GOOD NEWS: Thanks to safer sex, needle exchanges, and new drug therapies (not to mention death), the incidence of…
THE ARRIVAL OF SANTA CLAUS Crass commercialism and Santa are like blood brothers come December. To celebrate this unholy union,…
City Hall and advocates for the homeless end their digressive argument over funding.
1. Accept the fact that art is frivolous. Though you try and try to find intrinsic value in what you’re…
Christmas in Seattle: Ella got a snow globe.
DEAR PET LADY, I recently had a dream about two cats that required transportation to some unknown destination. My solution…
Instant Nostalgia issue
I’ve been flirting with a guy at my office for almost a year. Then, one day after a work-sponsored beach…
You’ve probably never heard of it, but PENNY ARCADE, a thrice-weekly Web comic, is required reading for everyone in the…
A whistle-blower casts a lurid light on the Burke Museums fossil collections.
You just gotta love that Mark Sidran. That’s the latest tack by Mindy Cameron and the Dump Schell gang over…
Fix Things Like a Pro!
Hunter S. Thompson, Woodward and Bernstein: the mixed legacy of boomer journalism’s icons.
King County Council member Greg Nickels leads on primary night in the mayor’s race.
Also: Waterfront-tunnel opposition, a new job for Paul Berendt, and a new NYT scribe is coming.
1. Know that we’re not serious. Yes, we are aware it isn’t nice to assume anyone is a dummy. We…
Let’s be frank—there is no phrase more ridiculous and overused in City Hall than “win/win solution.” But the proposed expansion…
WILL THE BATTLE over evolution ever end? After 150 years, it doesn’t look likely. Darwinians constantly find new applications for…
ALL SEATTLE’S ABUZZ over downtown’s latest ber-hip eatery, an outrageously cheeky vending machine-themed restaurant—how adorable!–perched on the second floor of…
