May 02, 2007: Headlines

Seattle's fired U.S. attorney says the Justice Department threatened to criticize him publicly

Posted Wed, May 2, 8 p.m.

In a phone call made a month after he was let go, John McKay says, a top official's aide threatened public criticism by the attorney general himself if McKay didn't keep quiet about his firing.

The rhapsodic side of Bach's Preludes and Fugues

Posted Wed, May 2, 4 p.m.

By Tom Luce

Pianist Craig Sheppard delivers yet another set of Bach masterpieces.

Don't be quick to compare the Cal bridge collapse with Seattle

Posted Wed, May 2, 1 p.m.

By O. Casey Corr

Traffic was just fine after a fire caused a Bay Area freeway interchange to collapse. So does that prove we don't need a replacement for the Alaskan Way Viaduct?

Four critics weigh in on the new Seattle Art Museum

Posted Wed, May 2, 6 a.m.

By David Brewster

Update: Two in the Los Angeles Times mention the forbidden topic – the adjoining, earlier SAM building designed by Robert Venturi – and two others, in The Seattle Times, foresee problems with solar screens to diffuse sunlight.

Some modest proposals regarding bicycle riders in Seattle

Posted Wed, May 2, 1 a.m.

By Greg Palmer

This writer has had about enough of their sense of entitlement, their arrogance, their carelessness, and their attire.