THE LINE BETWEEN the police and the military has been blurring for years. Have you noticed how police SWAT teams have adopted US military-style helmets?… Continue reading
While residents of Tent City 2 were appealing to the City Council on July 6 not to clear their homeless encampment, employees of the Seattle… Continue reading
IT SEEMS LIKE everyone's down on the Seattle Gay Film Festival these days [see "Don't worry, be happy," 10/21 —Eds]. Queer folk lament, "We realized… Continue reading
Every time someone talks about how great SoDo—er, Safeco—Field looks, Iremember Thomas Carlyle, the cantankerous Scottish author of "The Everlasting No," and the dowager who… Continue reading
* But hopefully not. Barry Bonds swings through Seattle on his way to immortality of some sort.
The case against your new pair of pants
City Council candidates woo voters with cheap bus passes and other traffic-beating proposals.
I swear I don't fault the film editor for sending me to review Dungeons and Dragons, the movie (based on the game) coming soon—but just… Continue reading
You've probably never heard of it, but PENNY ARCADE, a thrice-weekly Web comic, is required reading for everyone in the video game industry. The product… Continue reading
YOUNG GEOLOGIST-TYPES LIKE MOKEE DUGWAY, TOO!I was delighted to see Mokee Dugway win Best Independent Clothing Store in the Best of Seattle edition ["Indieville: Winners,"… Continue reading
Dear Dategirl,I am a 17-year-old senior at a Catholic high school. Ever since my nine-month (hey, that's pretty damn long for a dude my age)… Continue reading
New technologies may make it easier to get cash and open locked doors, but at what cost to privacy?
Proteomics could be the Next Big Thing driving Puget Sound's prosperity.
A satirist's Web site throws the Bush campaign for a loss.
CITY COUNCILJust minutes before they tore a new hole in City Light director Gary Zarker's r鳵m鬠Seattle City Council members got a sternly worded warning from… Continue reading
Four statewide ballot measures apparently have qualified for November: a clean- energy measure (Initiative 937), repeal of the estate tax (I-920), property rights (I-933), and… Continue reading
Sound Transit's light rail may look dead, but somehow it keeps on living.
