AltWeeklies Wire
Metaphorical Downpournew
In town to cover the NFL playoffs, America's sportswriters compare and contrast Seattle rain with just about everything.
Seattle Weekly |
Rick Anderson |
01-24-2006 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
Heroism With a Differencenew
America's right-wing echo chamber has been having a field day with recent kidnappings in Iraq -- sneering that the peace activists had it coming and were foolhardy idiots. But they had every business being there.
Seattle Weekly |
Geov Parrish |
12-15-2005 |
Commentary
The Expensive Expansion of KEXPnew
It's globally popular and flush with donations, but Seattle's seminal eclectic-music public radio station is under financial strain that is affecting morale.
Seattle Weekly |
Nina Shapiro |
12-07-2005 |
Media
Tags: radio
Bankruptcy of Spiritnew
If you strip Christmas of its religious and symbolic meaning, you're left with nothing but the emptiness exemplified by the few things you can still talk about, like sales figures and shopping riots. Who would Jesus punch for an Xbox?
Seattle Weekly |
Knute Berger |
11-30-2005 |
Commentary
Cartoon Networknew
Comic-strip artists are gathering to skewer art-establishment elitism.
Seattle Weekly |
Sue Peters |
11-30-2005 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
The Art of Terrornew
Artists and writers try to make sense of 9/11, Kaczynski, Iraq, McVeigh and basic terror.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
11-02-2005 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
A Fair Questionnew
The Expo in Japan makes one wonder if sustainability is sustainable.
Seattle Weekly |
Knute Berger |
10-05-2005 |
Commentary
Back to Schoolnew
Bill Gates advocates better science education, yet the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a major contributor to the Discovery Institute, which promotes the notion of "intelligent design."
Seattle Weekly |
Knute Berger |
08-31-2005 |
Commentary
With This Ring, I Thee Wednew
Seattle Opera's sterling epic inspires eternal devotion.
Seattle Weekly |
Gavin Borchert |
08-17-2005 |
Theater
Tags: theater
Wheeled Apparitionsnew
In Seattle, bicyclists' high-profile political statement is also a savvy urban-art installation.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
08-10-2005 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
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
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
The Great Katenew
On stage in Seattle, Mulgrew does Hepburn—and it isn't a drag. An interview.
Seattle Weekly |
Steve Wiecking |
05-18-2005 |
Theater
Tags: theater
The Lies Have Itnew
How much longer can a nation so steeped in half-truths or outright whoppers maintain the illusion of health and happiness?
Seattle Weekly |
Steve Wiecking |
05-11-2005 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire
The Sanctity of the Dying Roomnew
Let's pull the plug on playing politics with Terri Schiavo.
Seattle Weekly |
Knute Berger |
03-23-2005 |
Commentary
