If 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 wrong by adhering to a radical idea: Treating customers and employees right is good business.
Fri – Film The quadriplegic rugby players in the inspired documentary Murderball don’t have fully functional arms and legs. But…
AD for the AMA? I was really offended by Nina Shapiro’s cover article “Death by Natural Causes” [June 8]. Shapiro…
Jamie Foxx steps into greatness portraying the musical legend. So who’s to quibble over a little extra melodrama?
BOLLYWOOD/HOLLYWOOD Opens Fri., Sept. 5, at Seven Gables It took some work to wring such a mirthless send-up out of…
Opens at Metro and others theaters, Fri., May 19. Rated PG. 96 minutes.
After federal reform, Washington’s wealthy political donors find new outlets.
The 5th Avenue Theatre’s Wonderful Town is hokey but hilarious. Plus: Trio Miediaeval, Mark Haim.
Sandra Bernhard Is it too much to hope that Bernhard has already prepared some choice words about the unpardonable political…
Fri – Film Director Claude Berri plumbed his own childhood experiences as a Jew hiding in the French countryside in…
James Cicatko paints horrible images. Not that the paintings in his solo show “Little Monsters” are bad—in fact, quite the…
The Battle in Seattle lives on at the intersection of politics and art.
Mainstream men’s magazines answer a rousing call: More cleavage, please!
Norm Stamper, Matt Taibbi, Nick Hornby, and Michael Finkel.
The Pop Rivets, “Fun in the U.K.” (Hipocrite, 1979). Thee Headcoats, “You’re Looking Fine” (Hangman, 1989). Billy Childish, “Bourgeois Blues”…
Our intrepid reporter—and former fanboy—gets deep with old pen pal Rick Froberg.
In Good company I just wanted to tell you how wonderful I thought Nina Shapiro’s article on Costco was [“Company…
Did we get the story right? Last week I sat on a panel cosponsored by the Seattle Weekly and KPLU…
SAMBAR In quintessential New Ballard fashion, Le Gourmand’s new bar is both classy and hip. The elegance is in the…
News One of Greenwood’s best-kept culinary secrets, Kabab House (8102 Greenwood Ave. N, 206-782-3611), will soon be expanding from its current strip…
