Ron Sims’ long irrational nightmare is NOT over: The state Court of Appeals today decided the record $380,000 awarded to…
Understandably, there’s a conception that exists that the Democratic primary is a two horse race: Obama v. Clinton. But just…
As the Seattle Schools Superintendent search gets underway, it continues to irk that we are going to be paying big…
Stand-up comics are used to working some tough crowds, but are they prepared to face the violent legacy of the…
Everybody knows just what the *!@?! they must do.
For sheer ludicrous disingenuousness it’s hard to beat today’s op-ed from Jan Drago, which purports to explain “why the viaduct…
After a week on the fritz, I got the KEXP preset button on my crap ’85 Volvo stereo to work…
Seattle City Light lost another legal challenge to its billing/spending practices when the State Supreme Court ruled today that city…
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have been getting a rare bout of bad publicity. First, the Los Angeles Times…
The last (wind) storm brought me inside to meet the editor of the new lit mag Filter, but last night’s…
Caution: Reading the column at work can lead to unforeseen consequences.
So I took a walk into the new Sculpture Garden this weekend. Maybe y’all already knew and it’s been like…
I’ve been thinking a lot about Peggy Orenstein’s excellent New York Times Magazine piece last Sunday on the princess craze…
Jesus H. Christ could it please stop raining please? Seriously.
One thing last week’s windstorm taught me is what a bubble I live in on Lower Queen Anne. I didn’t…
Tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Westlake Center Starbucks, just in time for the holiday shopping crush,…
Poor Starbucks, getting roasted over the coals by activists again. That’s the problem with being so visible and marketing yourself…
My favorite line in today’s Seattle Times story about the controversy over Christmas trees at Sea-Tac is this quote from…
Ah, you can almost smell the tear gas again. After several weeks in Vancouver, filmmakers doing a romantic recreation of…
As mentioned over on the Voracious blog, I just got back from a trip to Michigan, where it was unseasonably…
