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Fatcat City— Readers’ Picks
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006Best Local Corporation MICROSOFT No, it’s not the high-paying, cubicle- imprisoning contract work that makes Microsoft king of Seattle companies. Nor is it the millionaire-before-35 ... Read more
Full-access feds?
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006Bash a gimp. Steal the cane from a blind man and hit him upside the head with it. Talk dirty to a deaf woman while ... Read more
Elvis Costello, Melt-Banana, and Andrew Broder
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006ELVIS COSTELLO North (Deutsche Grammophon) Much of Elvis Costello’s oeuvre is built upon the look of love from across the threshold, like a stage actor ... Read more
Whirling and curling
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006Why head for the slopes when winter sports await so close to home? Read more
Trouble in Vanilla City
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006The challenges of talking about race in Seattle. Read more
Corporal Punishment
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006Criminally bad cop flick features a lard-ass De Niro. Read more
LAS MARGARITAS
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006LAS MARGARITAS Downtown tends to be vacant and gray around 5 o’clock on an autumn evening. Then there’s Las Margaritas. Step inside this downtown Mexican ... Read more
Knife in the Water, the Drop.
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006KNIFE IN THE WATER, Red River (Overcoat)—Texas’ peculiar musical patchwork encompasses country, blues, punk, and psychedelic rock, styles ill-suited for cross-pollination anywhere but Texas. Bands ... Read more
I got my education
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006I have this recurring nightmare. Vanity Fair has hired me to profile Madonna. I’m sitting in the Material Girl’s Manhattan nest, watching little Lourdes cavort ... Read more
Broken Flowers
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006Also: Caterina in the Big City, The Chumscrubber, The Edukators, Saint Ralph, and Save the Green Planet. Read more
This Week’s Reads
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006David Rakoff and Benjamin Kunkel. Read more
Freedom to clear-cut
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006Timber barons, locked in a secret room far away from the probing eye of democracy, are dividing up what’s left of the world’s forests. That ... Read more
So long, quiet one
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006What made George Harrison cool. Read more
A Dilemma of Horns
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006Diana Ross, Brotherhood of Breath, Maher Shalal Hash Baz. Read more
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006Events of note for the week of May 15-23, 2006. Read more
Firehouse Theater
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006In a familiar-sounding case of mayoral assertiveness, the state fines Seattle, citing Greg Nickels' interference in the Station 31 health probe. Read more
Tomorrow’s terror
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006The next attack will likely be by land or water. Read more
To Sis, With Love
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006Who's buying all these sister-mother books? And why? Read more
No Kidding
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006Weekly writer forced to praise Stranger columnist's book! Read more