Budget trip for the new year: Khirghizstan
Posted Mon, Jan 5, 6 a.m.
Our humorist offers a cheap alternative to last year's "staycation."
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Does Seattle have a fashion sense?
Posted Mon, Dec 22, 6 a.m.
In a place where people show up at the opera in fleece, what should beauty look like?
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Getting the music right for Obama's Inaugural
Posted Thu, Dec 18, 6 a.m.
You start with the obvious choice, Mavis Staples. Then there's the Chicago connection, and world music.
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Is it wrong to have a Negro Creek?
Posted Wed, Dec 3, 1:19 p.m.
An effort to change the name in Chelan County has run into resistance, and the episode raises the quite complex issues of updating names to modern sensibilities.
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Two stunning evenings of dance, bridging cultural differences
Posted Thu, Nov 27, 6 a.m.
Lines Ballet of San Francisco explores the commonalities of Chinese monks and modern American dance. Donald Byrd's Spectrum Dance Theater dances across the intractable Israeli-Palestinian divide.
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Color between the lines
Posted Sat, Nov 8, midnight
Painfully white but joyfully happy on election night, a party-goer is enlightened during the ride home.
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Obama and race
Posted Fri, Nov 7, midnight
Black history is now American history.
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The ultimate color barrier
Posted Wed, Nov 5, 12:59 a.m.
Savoring Sen. Barack Obama's achievement, and the grace with which he accomplished it.
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A word of support for Tyrone Willingham
Posted Sat, Nov 1, midnight
He's a decent man who inherited more problems than he could turn around in his brief tenure, argues this UW alum.
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Circular behavior
Posted Sat, Oct 11, midnight
The tragic, unintended consequences of Seattle's best intentions.
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Seattle: Coming back to earth
Posted Thu, Oct 9, 4 a.m.
Some good news about right-sizing the city, and saving money, too.
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(Historical) context is everything
Posted Tue, Oct 7, 3 a.m.
Making arrowheads, tossing spears, wandering old homesteads, and studying petroglyphs: All are part of a Washington state program designed to ensure that material progress doesn't completely obliterate the past. Part 1
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A city of memory
Posted Fri, Sep 26, 4 a.m.
Seattle has undergone stunning changes. But what is sometimes more remarkable is what hasn't changed.
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Extreme Seattle
Posted Wed, Aug 27, 1 a.m.
New demographic figures make clear what a statistical outlier Seattle is, with few families, few kids, high education, and rapid gentrification. Only San Francisco can compare.
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Enough with the SLUT jokes
Posted Fri, Aug 15, 5 a.m.
It's time to take stock of the effect of all those jokes about Seattle's streetcar.
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Bellevue's 'Little Eichmann'
Posted Tue, Aug 12, 5 a.m.
Finding the banality of Nazi evil close to home.
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Death by a thousand cuts
Posted Fri, Aug 8, 5 a.m.
Pacific Northwest corporate history began with timber, and with the demise of Weyerhaeuser it's a fast-fading cultural heritage.
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Vanity profanity! The 600 license plates banned by the state
Posted Thu, Jul 24, 8 p.m.
Try as they might, some motorists can't outsmart officials when it comes to custom license numbers. On the other hand, sometimes seemingly illicit alphanumerics are actually demonstrably proper.
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Our cultural amnesia
Posted Sat, Jul 12, midnight
In the midst of exponential growth, Seattle can't remember how to be Seattle. It's time we went back to school and learned how.
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Getting the jitters
Posted Sat, Jul 5, 6 a.m.
Starbucks' "third place" concept is under pressure from laptops, McDonald's, and a decline in snob appeal.
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The politics of beards
Posted Sat, Jan 3, 3 p.m.
Is Portland the "beardiest" city in America? Should Prince William shave his new whiskers? And what will the impact of a baby-faced Obama be on facial hair fashion?
MORELakeside's "N" word poet responds
Posted Wed, Dec 17, noon 2008
African American poet Mona Lisa Saloy defends reading her poem "The "N" Word at Lakeside School.
MOREThe "N" word at Lakeside
Posted Mon, Dec 15, 11 a.m. 2008
An African-American poet stirs up a Seattle private school by using a word that is "antithetical to Lakeside’s spirit."
MOREThe real Scoop Jackson, you betcha
Posted Tue, Nov 18, 11:02 p.m. 2008
Some of the secrets of Norwegian Seattle revealed.
MOREWashington Hall and Nuke Building updates
Posted Tue, Nov 18, 10:53 p.m. 2008
There's progress to report on efforts to save two Seattle landmarks.
MORESeattle voting: not like France
Posted Tue, Nov 4, 12:47 p.m. 2008
A visitor remarks on our odd democratic ways.
MORECan we please dispense with the clichés when the campaign is over?
Posted Fri, Oct 31, 11:13 a.m. 2008
Joe the plumber, game-changer, maverick, in the tank — the list is seemingly endless. Whatever happened to a good old Swiftboat?
MORELessons from the Canadian election
Posted Sat, Oct 18, 6 a.m. 2008
Running on global warming issues proved "hard to sell and easy to hammer," but leave it to our neighbors to figure out this urgent new politics. Plus, why arts funding matters (at least in Canada).
MORESeattle vs. Miami: a tale of two cities
Posted Tue, Oct 21, 4:52 p.m. 2008
It's literally apples and oranges.
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