Posted Thu, Dec 1, 1:15 p.m.

I love Oma Bap so much that I'm driven to concur with this article: it is a nice cross between fast food and sit-down, the dining area comfortable and kind of hip. The food is always amazingly good, low cost, and the service quick, friendly and sincere, more typical of ...

Posted Tue, Sep 13, 9:50 p.m.

My 95-year-old aunt, who lived in Fremont from 1954 to 1980, still hankers for the burgers from Dick's Drive In on 45th. A century from now, it's possible that only the very wealthy will be able to afford to eat beef because population will outstrip food supply and raising animals ...

Posted Wed, Aug 31, noon

Interesting commentary on sad and notable trend for sure. However, it seems to me there's one important element to this equation that Hinshaw has not considered. The dense, urban neighborhoods that have seen fewer foreclosures also are and were far more pricey. So even at the height of the real-estate ...

Posted Mon, Jan 10, 6:51 p.m.

Well, I suppose that had Jon Kyl's granddaughter been killed he'd be casting around for a reason and a scapegoat too, and might even accept statements that according to today's Seattle Times were aired on Fox News: the child's mother saying that ". . . there's been a lot of ...

Posted Wed, Oct 6, 3:47 p.m.

I know, and tragic inicidents have proven, that some drivers work in dangerous situations. However, the union does not appear to be arguing about perilous working conditions, but instead about COLAs. I suspect that the driver's union, like many unions, insists on a payscale and pecking order based on seniority, ...

Posted Wed, Oct 6, 8:46 a.m.

The tone of this rebuttal reflects how out of touch the transit union is with the realities of employment outside the public sector. I notice on the King County Metro website that a pension is part of the drivers' benefit package. I've never worked anywhere that offers a pension. I'm ...

Posted Mon, Apr 19, 10:50 a.m.

Great idea: Sarah Palin at the Lusty Lady. You're right, that would keep them in business.

Posted Tue, Mar 16, 2:57 p.m.

As Seattle native, I love the idea--I know it's corny, but JP Patches and Gertrude should really have an alley or two on the top of Queen Anne Hill--the show was broadcast from the studios up there, and QA's then-junky alleys were the neighborhood jungles of my childhood.

Posted Thu, Nov 19, 3:40 p.m.

Thanks Mossback for a great reflection on the exhibit, and the great discussion it has raised. To add to BKochis's comment: I also think the question of why we want the inside story on other peoples' insides may have to do with our estrangement from death. For most of history, ...

Posted Tue, Aug 18, 9:17 p.m.

Morticians are going the way of milkmen--boomers are just not that attached to being headstoned in a quiet corner, or, for that matter, headstoning their parents, if their parents have not made pre-paid funeral arrangements: So how many of us have friends or family members who keep a box of ...

Posted Sat, Feb 7, 4:17 p.m.

Cale,it's great to see that you want to work together on a solution to global warming etc--so I'll encourage you to reconsider your statement: "Suburbian lifestyles are a greater drain on our environment, they use more resources, and ought to be more expensive, not less." I read it as blaming ...

Posted Sat, Feb 7, 9:49 a.m.

Wow. Seattle Weekly's "Uptight Seattlelite" has outed himself. Cale, you clever dog. One thing about "tykes": there are a lot more of them out here, a long with a lot more of everything else. When I hang out with friends at my old haunts in Seattle, the sameness of it ...

Posted Sat, Oct 11, 6:33 p.m.

I also very much dislike the big blank garage two- and three-door garage faces. Living in Renton, I probably see more of them than Seattlelites do. In the last nine years, I've watched 2,500 to 4,000 sq ft homes spring up on most patches of woods, empty lots, and big ...

Posted Sat, Apr 19, 12:31 p.m.

OOPS!: Looks like I have some cobwebs in my head too. Of course, Pasco is home to the Franklin County courthouse. Here's a link to the pictures of that restored courthouse, if you want to see what they can do to a historic building: http://www.co.franklin.wa.us/photogallery/gallery.php. Richland is across the river ...

Posted Sat, Apr 19, 11:54 a.m.

Oh puhleeze Piper: Hey Mr. Piper, Well, I guess your experience as a piper qualifies as universal: why stop at equating it with a journalist's? Why not offer important "do's" and "don'ts" to John McCain? I'm sure he'd look good in a kilt. You could teach him how not to ...

Posted Tue, Feb 5, 9:41 p.m.

Another alternative?: If all else fails, how about moving the Googie wonder to downtown Issaquah (there's room for it by the Triple X), and renaming it Harvey Manning's? On the menu: Boot-leather Steak with Wild-Mountain-Blueberry Bernaise, and gorp for dessert.