AltWeeklies Wire
Dual Brilliancenew
Short-listed for last year's Man Booker Prize, Smith's third novel is a clever postmodern confection filled with wordplay and formal inventiveness and cultural references both high and low.
Seattle Weekly |
Mary Park |
04-12-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Ali Smith, The Accidental
Writing as Therapynew
A sorority girl battles intestinal parasites -- in dangerous Guatemala!
Seattle Weekly |
Sara Niegowski |
04-12-2006 |
Nonfiction
Try a Little Tendernessnew
Jamie Lidell has blue-eyed soul.
Seattle Weekly |
Rachel Shimp |
04-12-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jamie Lidell
General Practitionersnew
If your indie rock 'n' roll aches, go see the Can't See.
Seattle Weekly |
Laura Cassidy |
04-12-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Can't See
Tangled Webbnew
Accused of insurance fraud, a former progressive talk-show host faces a criminal trial -- but that's not the only quirk of his radio career.
Seattle Weekly |
Geov Parrish |
04-12-2006 |
Media
Tags: KIRO-AM, Michael Webb
Signature Waste of Timenew
An initiative that seeks to "ban" military recruiters from high schools is worse than a waste of time -- it draws time, energy and money away from doing something more concrete to address the issue.
Seattle Weekly |
Geov Parrish |
04-12-2006 |
Politics
'That's America'new
Band of Horses discuss Tom Petty, AIDS Wolf and Burt Reynolds.
Seattle Weekly |
Mike Seely |
04-12-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Band of Horses
Hearst Has a Heartnew
After three costly years of head-butting in court, the Seattle Times Co. and Hearst Corp., owner of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, are pinning their papers' destiny on an outside arbitrator.
Seattle Weekly |
Bill Richards |
04-05-2006 |
Media
Tags: media
Who Killed Slobo?new
How to Rule the World: A Handbook for the Aspiring Dictator and The Rough Guide to Conspiracy Theories show how power grabs and secret plots never go out of style -- or print.
Seattle Weekly |
David Stoesz |
04-05-2006 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Nonfiction Reviews
Pure Doenew
The X frontman talks about harmony, jagged emotions and performance meditation.
Seattle Weekly |
George Howland Jr. |
04-05-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: John Doe
Politics' Public Glarenew
Congressional candidate Aaron Dixon's voting record is nonexistent -- his driving record is not so clean.
Seattle Weekly |
Geov Parrish |
04-05-2006 |
Politics
Supreme Retortnew
While on the lam, cranky journalist Paul Trummel scores a First Amendment victory.
Seattle Weekly |
Rick Anderson |
04-05-2006 |
Media
Tags: media
Warm Globally, Act Locallynew
Seattle officials deserve credit for positing initial changes and for drawing attention to the problem of global warming, but even they have to go much farther.
Seattle Weekly |
Geov Parrish |
03-29-2006 |
Environment
Tags: environment
'Take the Open Shot!'new
The 50 "directors" documenting this Beastie Boys show on handheld video cameras were only given one stipulation: Once the lights go down, hit the red button and never turn it off.
Seattle Weekly |
Kellie Hwang |
03-29-2006 |
Reviews
Rites and Wrongsnew
Death doesn't diminish father-son tensions.
Seattle Weekly |
Neal Schindler |
03-29-2006 |
Nonfiction
