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Seattle Hip-Hop Act Merges Old-School Swagger with New-School Appealnew
Dyme Def lives on that thin line between cockiness and confidence. They fully embrace rap's boasting tradition, but they're comical enough with their punch lines and prose that it works.
Seattle Weekly |
Jonathan Cunningham |
04-27-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Lifting of Seattle's Strip-Club Moratorium Makes Strange Bedfellowsnew
After almost two decades of staving off people seeking to open new strip clubs, Seattle finds itself in the awkward spot of defending them.
Seattle Weekly |
Rick Anderson |
03-23-2009 |
Politics
Tags: Seattle, strip clubs
Seattle Mayor Wants $400K for a Better Way to Write You Upnew
Among the projects Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels has sought to fund with federal stimulus money is the purchase of $412,540 worth of new devices to issue parking tickets.
Seattle Weekly |
Rick Anderson |
03-09-2009 |
Policy Issues
A Seattle Entrepreneur Fizzles in Walla Walla Wine Countrynew
Paul Willms, mastermind behind last year’s Gary Locke-endorsed China 8, leaves another trail of unpaid bills.
Seattle Weekly |
Mark D. Fefer |
03-09-2009 |
Business & Labor
Is Hip-Hop in Seattle Being White-Washed?new
Just like electric blues, hip-hop reaches a vastly broader, and whiter, audience than ever before. The difference in Seattle is that some of the most recognizable figures are by and large non-black, a fact that makes rappers like Silas Blak concerned.
Seattle Weekly |
Jonathan Cunningham |
02-23-2009 |
Music
Neil Diamond Taps Los Volcanoes for Grammy Partynew
How an obscure local tejano band came to share a bill with Coldplay and Tim McGraw.
Seattle Weekly |
Mike Seely |
02-10-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Will Ron Sims Be Able to Deliver What Seattle Housing Advocates Want?new
Local housing and community-development groups are attaching a boatload of hopes to Ron Sims' appointment as Deputy Secretary at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, at a time when the federal government is already operating deep in the red.
Seattle Weekly |
Laura Onstot |
02-10-2009 |
Housing & Development
Turf Wars Are Fueling Seattle’s Gang Conflictsnew
In cases of gang-banging, it's often just a verbal insult or a step in the wrong direction that gets bullets flying. Nothing more than an imaginary line through Seattle, some observers say, is at the core of the ongoing feud between Central District and South End gangs.
Seattle Weekly |
Rick Anderson |
02-10-2009 |
Crime & Justice
Persistence Could Pay $1 Million Dividendnew
A curious Seattle hotelier is still without the Qwest Field details he asked for in 1997.
Seattle Weekly |
Rick Anderson |
02-02-2009 |
Housing & Development
It's Hard to Assign Blame in Seattle Club Shootingsnew
Whether blame was being aimed at Chop Suey, Big Kountry Entertainment, the city's lack of attention to a purportedly growing gang-activity problem, or the music itself, grief quickly manifested itself as cries for culpability. Few viewed it as a failure of club security, but many theories abound when looking closer at the root of the tragedy.
Seattle Weekly |
Hannah Levin |
01-12-2009 |
Music
Seattle's New Way to Fetishize Coffeenew
As a marketing strategy, "cupping" is straight from the wine-industry playbook. As a means of enjoying coffee, it's mostly hot air.
Seattle Weekly |
Jonathan Kauffman |
12-22-2008 |
Food+Drink
Zach Harjo Makes a Record He Actually Likesnew
Like Tom Waits, or the criminally under-referenced Randy Newman, Harjo mostly sidesteps the usual singer-songwriter trappings of personal confession, instead creating scenes and characters plucked from the dustier fringes of Americana.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian J Barr |
12-08-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Seattle's Conrad Ford Finds Beauty in Highway 99new
The band is a hushed and ghostly Americana outfit cut from the same vintage fabric as Barton Carroll and Jesse Sykes.
Seattle Weekly |
Hannah Levin |
11-25-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Lost Cats of Poverty Gulchnew
Felines and their owners struggle to survive along Seattle's wildest corridor.
Seattle Weekly |
Mike Seely |
10-14-2008 |
Animal Issues
'Battle in Seattle': At Last, Our WTO Protests Hit the Silver Screennew
I'd love to tell you that Battle is a feat of guerrilla filmmaking or a Godardian critique of international capitalism, but it's conventional to its core.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
09-22-2008 |
Reviews
