AltWeeklies Wire
The Cost of Secrecynew
In Washington state, a citizen pursues meaningful monetary punishment for a county's failure to disclose public records.
Seattle Weekly |
Rick Anderson and Chuck Taylor |
08-03-2005 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
Alexander the Hatenew
Oliver Stone has reportedly returned to Macedonia to cleanse it of all queers.
Seattle Weekly |
Steve Wiecking |
08-03-2005 |
Movies
Tags: Oliver Stone, Alexander
Borderline Effectivenew
After an Arizona demonstration, "minutemen" are coming to watch over the Washington-Canada border.
Seattle Weekly |
Nina Shapiro |
08-03-2005 |
Immigration
Tags: Immigration
Fatal Flu: We're Not Readynew
A historic pandemic like that of 1918 is likely, perhaps as soon as this winter, and unless you're a health or government worker, no one's planning to save you.
Seattle Weekly |
Roger Downey |
07-27-2005 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
A Conservative Says: End the Warnew
We went into Iraq to teach the world a lesson. It didn't work. It won't.
Seattle Weekly |
Philip Gold |
07-27-2005 |
Commentary
Distort Reformnew
A Washington state ballot initiative would cap monetary awards for malpractice lawsuits. Another would crack down on serially inept doctors. Only one might solve an actual problem.
Seattle Weekly |
Nina Shapiro |
07-27-2005 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
A '90s Box Set That's Too Seattlenew
Any account of the '90s in which hip-hop's expansion, or electronic dance music's myriad offshoots, or the increasing presence in the U.S. urban market of Caribbean styles, didn't happen is to be viewed with serious suspicion.
Seattle Weekly |
Michaelangelo Matos |
07-27-2005 |
Reviews
Bill Gates Gets Schoolednew
The Microsoft tycoon is spending a fortune to reform American education, but his lesson plan doesn't seem to be working.
Seattle Weekly |
Bob Geballe |
07-20-2005 |
Education
Tags: Education
Mixing Books and Boozenew
In Seattle, poetry is the new rock 'n' roll.
Seattle Weekly |
Neal Schindler |
07-20-2005 |
Books
Internet Martyrnew
For every well-meaning Web minuteman or citizen journalist fighting his way to the truth, there's a sniper eager to shoot him down, or a lynch mob waiting in the wings. Andy Stephenson became a target.
Seattle Weekly |
Knute Berger |
07-20-2005 |
Media
Tags: media
Go Ahead, Climb a Rocknew
Notwithstanding a cluster of deaths this summer, statistics say mountaineering has actually gotten safer.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
07-20-2005 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
We've Got the Wrong Guynew
It's fun to imagine Karl Rove in handcuffs. But in all likelihood, Rove did not do what he is accused of. Somebody else did.
Seattle Weekly |
Geov Parrish |
07-20-2005 |
Commentary
Blue City Conservativesnew
Meet Seattle's biggest closet cases: the Republicans next door.
Seattle Weekly |
Matt Rosenberg |
06-15-2005 |
Politics
The Few, the Recruitsnew
In the finest tradition of the free market, if the youth of America don't want to fight a war, and if their parents don't think it's a cause worth risking their children's lives for, don't resort to tricking them into it.
Seattle Weekly |
Geov Parrish |
06-15-2005 |
Commentary
The Undraped Crusadernew
This new Batman gains psychological depth, even if he loses a bit of his old static grandeur.
Seattle Weekly |
Tim Appelo |
06-15-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Christopher Nolan, Batman Begins
