Playing Frenchy while on a budget usually means you’re limited to picking up a cheap baguette from a bakery and…
For those who understand that astrology is a great way to filter through the universe’s complexity—i.e., there are basically 12…
Antiques are great—so long as you don’t think about just how many people have touched that paperweight over the past…
For home improvement, go to Home Depot. For penis-size improvement, visit Boeing Surplus. Where else would you find a 10-foot-long…
“Provocative” art rarely provokes much of anything with Seattle audiences. Your typical transgendered performance artist slathering their body in foodstuffs…
In last week’s news story about Dan Satterberg and the race for King County prosecutor, we said “the Maleng-Satterberg reign”…
There used to be something called a second-run movie theater. Always cramped, with screens the size of microwave windows and…
Commuters with sea legs are a peculiar, grumpy, often misunderstood bunch. Let’s face it—why sacrifice perfectly good family/happy hour time…
We are blessed with many a vista in our fair city, but none so lovely as the view from the…
Since I moved back to Seattle from a place where lovers of sport often gather in solidarity at their favorite…
We don’t tend to get much in the way of scandal around here, and the scandals we do get tend…
A few years ago, my entire spicy-food-loving family went to Typhoon for dinner, and we ordered the Tom Yung Goong…
MISGUIDED “DIVERSITY” DEAR EDITOR: Thank you for the entertaining (in an appalling kind of way) article about Metro rider horror…
Ballard’s Bop Street Records not only has the most enormous collection of vinyl in town—more than 600,000 LPs at last…
Remember those old mom-and-pop hardware stores? The U District’s Hardwick’s is a family-owned place that has the tools that were…
I bought a 6-inch vegetable knife years ago, after seeing Jacques Pepin use one to do the most amazing things…
Armbands have too many subversive undertones—and they tend to cover up your Slayer tattoo as well. Hats give you hat…
Go to hairdressing school for a cheap cut, try a culinary school for slightly irregular tarts, and take your pants…
The cheerful jangle of music piped from old painted-over mail trucks instinctively sends kids running for their piggy banks, hustling…
Paying your rent as a writer is best done in one of a few ways: lying, marrying money, sleeping on…
