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Environment
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006MEASURE FOR TREASURE A few traffic-shocked exurbanites, Republican legislators, and the odd shopping-mall magnate have renewed the perennial call for an outer-ring superhighway to divert ... Read more
Company for the People
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006If Wal-Mart represents red-state America's ruthless race to the bottom line, then Issaquah-based retailer Costco offers a blue-state alternative. The company is proving Wall Street ... Read more
Murderball, Sufjan Stevens, and Indian Days Pow Wow
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006Fri – Film The quadriplegic rugby players in the inspired documentary Murderball don’t have fully functional arms and legs. But my God, do they have ... Read more
Death by Natural Causes
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006AD for the AMA? I was really offended by Nina Shapiro’s cover article “Death by Natural Causes” [June 8]. Shapiro has turned an incident which ... Read more
Bad Guy
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006Also: Ice Princess, It's Easier for a Camel, Schultze Gets the Blues, Sky Blue, and The Upside of Anger. Read more
Oscar on His Mind
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006Jamie Foxx steps into greatness portraying the musical legend. So who's to quibble over a little extra melodrama? Read more
Bollywood, The Trip, and More
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006BOLLYWOOD/HOLLYWOOD Opens Fri., Sept. 5, at Seven Gables It took some work to wring such a mirthless send-up out of ripe Indian melodrama, but writer-director ... Read more
The Money Keeps Flowing
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006After federal reform, Washington's wealthy political donors find new outlets. Read more
Wonderful Wonderful
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006The 5th Avenue Theatre's Wonderful Town is hokey but hilarious. Plus: Trio Miediaeval, Mark Haim. Read more
Sandra Bernhard, West Seattle New Dance Festival, and Seattle Symphony
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006Sandra Bernhard Is it too much to hope that Bernhard has already prepared some choice words about the unpardonable political choices of California’s most recent ... Read more
Birth of a Theory
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006A brief history of intelligent design. Read more
The Two of Us, Harry Potter, and Brandi Carlile
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006Fri – Film Director Claude Berri plumbed his own childhood experiences as a Jew hiding in the French countryside in his lovely 1967 film, The ... Read more
James Cicatko
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006James Cicatko paints horrible images. Not that the paintings in his solo show “Little Monsters” are bad—in fact, quite the opposite. Cicatko’s surreal menagerie of ... Read more
Art for protest’s sake
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006The Battle in Seattle lives on at the intersection of politics and art. Read more
It’s a guy thing
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006Mainstream men's magazines answer a rousing call: More cleavage, please! Read more
Bebel Gilberto at the Moore Theatre
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006Memories of Bebel Gilberto performing in her bare feet at McCaw Hall last summer made it tempting to approach her June 10 appearance at the ... Read more
This Week’s Reads
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006Norm Stamper, Matt Taibbi, Nick Hornby, and Michael Finkel. Read more
Thee Chatham Renaissance Man
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006The Pop Rivets, “Fun in the U.K.” (Hipocrite, 1979). Thee Headcoats, “You’re Looking Fine” (Hangman, 1989). Billy Childish, “Bourgeois Blues” (Sympathy for the Record Industry, ... Read more
Snake Charmer
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006Our intrepid reporter—and former fanboy—gets deep with old pen pal Rick Froberg. Read more