Why are low-payoff, high-risk enterprises on the rise?
Star Wars: Rogue Planet by Greg Bear (Del Rey, $26) WITH ROGUE PLANET, Greg Bear becomes the second noted Seattle…
Now that’s a mission possible.
Kerry Sear’s restaurant needs to bring its execution back in tune with its ideals.
Silicone-based hair products are back. Here’s how to use them.
Most serious wine buffs own an atlas of the vine: Hugh Johnson’s classic World Atlas of Wine, now in its…
Totally clean — nonexistent. His driving record, not so clean.
Reform may finally be on the way for Seattle’s teen dance ordinance, a 1985 law aimed at separating that matches-and-gasoline…
Highlights and otherwise from this week’s music calendar.
Wed LIVE MUSIC AGUA VERDE Gypsy swing with Zhaoui, 8-10 p.m. 1303 N.E. Boat St., 206-545-8570. NC ALL AMERICAN Metro…
There’s something more than a little disturbing about art that makes use of human hair. Maybe it’s the fact that…
Top-Selling Records at Local Record Stores10.FIONA APPLE Extraordinary Machine (Epic)9.NEIL DIAMOND Twelve Songs (Sony)8.SYSTEM OF A DOWN Hypnotize (Sony)7.BOARDS OF…
Plus: Cult Cargo: Belize City Boil Up and Thomas Strønen.
Millions, an English import, makes charming use of a child’s universal perspective.
Bumbershoot, with its heady combination of fragrant food stands, impromptu drum circles, and tribes of various rock groupies, may not…
LARPERS (LIVE ACTION ROLE-PLAYERS LARPers. Where do you even begin? On the one hand you think, my Lord, what bravery,…
After the funeral comes the gold rush. How to find treasures and bargains at an estate sale.
WASHINGTON’S VOTERS are practical jokers. That’s the only possible explanation for their behavior in recent elections. They have raised havoc…
Seattle City Council member Judy Nicastro has another reason to hate the housing levy. Last month, her mother—who is two…
Also: Ropeadope New Music Seminar, Jesus Christ Superstar, Neue Slovenia Kunst, Dr. Strangelove.
