AltWeeklies Wire
That Elusive Outragenew
The media are reporting plenty of scandals, but no one seems to care.
Seattle Weekly |
Knute Berger |
06-15-2005 |
Commentary
Death by Natural Causesnew
A tragedy raises important questions about increasingly popular naturopathic health care.
Seattle Weekly |
Nina Shapiro |
06-08-2005 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Memo to Mainstream Medianew
A media critic has a three-word response to the frenzy that followed revelation of the long-secret identity of Deep Throat: Downing Street Memo.
Seattle Weekly |
Geov Parrish |
06-08-2005 |
Media
Tags: media
Tomfoolerynew
If no one of Tom Cruise's stature is gay, it's because no one of Tom Cruise's stature has the balls to stop being someone of Tom Cruise's stature.
Seattle Weekly |
Steve Wiecking |
06-08-2005 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
The Marriage Reloadednew
Holster your weapons, please. Firepower overwhelms star power in this off-target comedy.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
06-08-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Doug Liman, Mr. and Mrs. Smith
A Fraudulent Finishnew
After a decisive loss in court, Republican Dino Rossi ends his 2004 bid for governor of Washington by attacking the judiciary.
Seattle Weekly |
George Howland Jr. |
06-08-2005 |
Politics
Tom Cruise-ologynew
Was it really the best idea to call psychiatry "a fraud," given his participation in a religion whose founder believed we were all once space beings who somehow ended up on Earth as clams?
Seattle Weekly |
Steve Wiecking |
06-01-2005 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire
A Good Cop Wastednew
The 1999 WTO debacle brought down Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper, one of America's most progressive cops. Now he's published a memoir offering a frank look at his rise and fall, and the challenges of reforming law enforcement.
Seattle Weekly |
Nina Shapiro |
06-01-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Snookered in Seattle: The WTO Riotsnew
A former Seattle Police chief offers an inside account of the WTO protests of 1999 and how they got out of hand.
Seattle Weekly |
Norm Stamper |
06-01-2005 |
Excerpts
Tags: Breaking Rank, Norm Stamper
The Class Warriornew
Ron Howard strips a genuine working man's hero of his social significance. But our Wal-Mart nation will probably still cheer.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
06-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Cinderella Man, Ron Howard
Microsoft Deletes Ralph Reednew
Microsoft is ending its relationship with choirboy-lobbyist Ralph Reed, but the company's ties to others in the seemingly infinite loop of the Republican lobbying scandal are deep -- in D.C. and Seattle.
Seattle Weekly |
Rick Anderson |
05-26-2005 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Night Fallsnew
Johnny Knoxville's jolly, juvenile queer-baiting was the final straw in my tolerance for the homo hilarity that Saturday Night Live is increasingly making its stock-in-trade.
Seattle Weekly |
Steve Wiecking |
05-25-2005 |
TV
Tags: TV
Popcorn Junkienew
You want Shakespeare? Go to the park, Einstein. Here are six multiplex picks to gloriously disengage your brain.
Seattle Weekly |
Steve Wiecking |
05-25-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Various Directors, Various Films
Just Put Your Lips Together ...new
Pro whistler Steve Herbst takes an age-old pastime into prime time.
Seattle Weekly |
Neal Schindler |
05-25-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Rights of (Corporate) Mannew
How We the People became second-class citizens.
Seattle Weekly |
Knute Berger |
05-25-2005 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
