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Morning Fizz: One step further

Tue, May 22, 8:40 a.m.

By Erica C. Barnett and Josh Feit

Caffeinated News and Gossip, featuring: the library levy; Cheryl Pflug; a Seattle City Light survey; and a dearth of minority candidates.

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The Kachins of Kent, Washington

Wed, May 2, midnight

By Eric Scigliano

While the world hails the advent of peace and democracy in Myanmar, refugees from there bear very different news.

World's Fair expanded Seattle's taste for international food

Thu, Apr 12, 2 a.m.

By Knute Berger

A Belgian waffle, a Dutch baby, scones: Who knew these would be so good?

The secret lives of Seattle's neighborhood shoppers

Mon, Apr 2, 2 a.m.

By Eric Scigliano

Who uses Seattle's neighborhood main streets, how do they get there, what do they find, and what do they miss there? The city gets some hard answers, from Admiral, Othello, Columbia City, Ballard, and Fremont.

A dream deferred: Showdown nears over Seattle's long-delayed World School

Tue, Mar 27, noon

By Eric Scigliano

The Seattle district may soon revive its commitment to a central multilingual high school -- or send refugee students and their teachers bouncing across the city again.

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A coalition of the willing wants more say on a new superintendent

Fri, Mar 16, 2 a.m.

By Eric Scigliano

The Seattle School Board limits "key stakeholders" to district employees and the PTSA, but a broad coalition of reform and ethnic interests clamors for a say. They'll get it, but only for the late innings of the search.

Crosscut Tout: Barça vs. Madrid

Fri, Mar 9, 2 a.m.

By Eric Scigliano

A new film probes the heart of Spain's great futbol rivalry and shows, appropriately, at a soccer bar.

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Sorry, Seafair, I know Rio, and you're no carnaval

Thu, Mar 8, 2 a.m.

By Eric Scigliano

It took a lot of research, and beer, to find out what makes Rio's carnaval the world's greatest street party: its class-busting politics.

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Remembering David Ishii, Bookseller

Wed, Mar 7, 2 a.m.

By Frank Abe and Laureen Mar

How one unique, beloved man made a richer community out of all of us.

Seattle's global health powerhouses turn their attention to south King County

Wed, Mar 7, 2 a.m.

By Collin Tong

A coalition of local and global health groups have banded together to bring the lessons they've learned in developing countries to south King County, where the health index is as bad as Nairobi.

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Bicycling opens a window on Seattle's genius as an urban center

Fri, Feb 24, 2 a.m.

By Anthony B. Robinson

Once upon a time, the ideal in city zoning was thought to be a pattern in which each activity had its own place: industry beside other industries, homes by themselves, businesses all grouped into commercial centers. But we gain by the kind of mixtures we experience riding around the city.

Fever for NY Knicks' new star rages in NBA-less Seattle

Sun, Feb 19, midnight

By Hugo Kugiya

For American basketball fans of Asian heritage, there's never been a player like Jeremy Lin.

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Bringing Italian cooking's peasant roots back to Seattle

Wed, Feb 15, 2 a.m.

By Ronald Holden

A wonderfully positive new book takes readers back to the kind of hard-times cooking that inspired Seattle's culinary revolution.

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A local comic brew debuts online. Just don't call it 'Seattleandia'.

Tue, Jan 31, 2 a.m.

By Eric Scigliano

'Local Brew' delivers real laughs and captures real Seattle moments. Best of all, it revives the shambolic, do-it-yourself spirit that made Seattle fun.

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