Just don't call me ugly

A coyote in Seattle's Discovery Park got a reprieve from plans to kill it. That doesn't mean the animal's fate is secure. So far, the human population has heard from spokespeople and the like. Now it's the coyote's turn.

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Dear UW: Here's some dough, but there are strings attached

Never one to let his sense of charity get in the way of his competitive spirit, our correspondent matches another UW donor's efforts to call the shots on campus.

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You never know which Jersey Boy is going to be which at the 5th Avenue

Professional shows have understudies, sometimes great ones, and that's how we got Shirley MacLaine. But they're making a practice of it with the run of the Tony-winning Jersey Boys road production.

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Did you hear the one where Rick Neuheisel tries to recruit Greg Palmer?

When the phone rang this afternoon and this fulsome, cheery, pre-recorded male voice started talking at me, I thought it was another solicitation from some unctuous politician seeking my cash. But in the split second before I could hang up, the caller identified himself as Rick Neuheisel, which was just enough to make me curious. Why is this glib, grinning, integrity-challenged hustler calling me? Has some insane candidate got Rick out there endorsing him? Is Rick an (erstwhile) Huskie For Hillary? A Coach for Cain? A Smuck for Huck? A Bettor for Biden?

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Joel Rogers' Seattle: Not just a pretty picture book

The longtime Seattle photographer sets out to capture his city's soul. The tourists should like it, too, but it's not meant just for them.

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How to beat a writer's strike without having to use, you know, words

As the Writers Guild of America strike stretches on, the television industry is beginning to react, and it isn't pretty. Crosscut has come across a secret memo by one of the industry's organizing groups, S.C.A.B.S.

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What does one name streetcars when the line is called SLUT?

The dirty mind boggles. Seattle has such a long and proud tradition. We offer some suggestions and desire yours.

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The mayor's electric train

The Seattle Streetcar was unveiled with Greg Nickels at the controls. After some weeks of testing, the streetcar named streetcar, and not named SLUT, will begin carrying regular passengers.

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This week's rhymes for the times

Putting on the Doggerel: A few thoughts on Proposition 1, or would it have been so hard to add a new basketball arena?

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Rhymes for the times

Putting on the Doggerel: This week our romantic news poet offers a sonnet.

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This Week's Rhymes for the Times

Putting on the Doggerel: The curtain parts, a hush falls on the crowd, and stepping center stage are businessmen, dancing the intricate "Shuffle Off to Oklahoma City" with their lawyers as partners. It's time for another performance of ...

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This week's random rhymes for current times

Putting on the Doggerel: Ted Stevens, the WASL, Ken Burns, and Jane Hague.

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Putting on the Doggerel: All the news that's fin to print

What do Paul Allen, a gray whale, and the Washington State Ferries have in common? They all displace a lot of water. Or two of them are running out of gas, and one of them is all gas. You decide.

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Friday night bites, but at least the kids are back in school

Remember that as you freeze your butt on the aluminum bleachers.

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Some modest proposals regarding bicycle riders in Seattle

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

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Reporting live from the protest march

Journalists, demonstrators — everyone's got a role to play, and they always play it.

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What were they thinking? They weren't

A broadcaster whose stupidity caught up with success, Don Imus is in bad company — lots and lots of bad company.

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