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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
Intelius and the Dubious Art of 'Post-Transaction Marketing'new
A checkered success during the dot-com bubble, Naveen Jain has come charging back with a new venture—and the complaints are rolling in.
Seattle Weekly |
Nina Shapiro |
03-23-2009 |
Business & Labor
Manilow Buries Christopher Cross, Rick Astley, and the 1980snew
There's nothing ironic about the crooner's latest covers collection.
Seattle Weekly |
Mike Seely |
03-16-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Gary Locke: A Corporate Champion at Commercenew
Washington's former governor takes to D.C. a record of favors for Boeing and Microsoft.
Seattle Weekly |
Rick Anderson |
03-16-2009 |
Politics
K’naan: The 'Dusty Foot' 'Troubadour'new
The 30-year-old artist is one of the most buzzed-about figures in hip-hop, based on the strength of his latest album, Troubadour. K'naan's sound is rooted in East African rhythms with lyrics so vibrant and piercing that it's as if Bob Marley and Che Guevara were ghostwriters on the project.
Seattle Weekly |
Jonathan Cunningham |
03-09-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Raphael Saadiq Sees No Need to Update the Old R&B Playbooknew
Raphael Saadiq just wasn't made for these times. Then again, maybe he was. Out of step he may be, but not out of touch.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian J. Barr |
03-09-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Exploring the Phenomenon of the Lesser Showbiz Brothernew
It's not unusual for siblings to enter similar lines of work. They share the same genes, after all. But when siblings enter a field in the public eye—be it sports, politics, or entertainment—how one compares to the other(s) becomes, well, quite public.
Seattle Weekly |
Mike Seely |
03-09-2009 |
Performance
The Leon Hendrix Experiencenew
Leon's become accustomed to getting the short end of the stick. A former drug addict and small-time crook, he was famously cut out of his father's will -- and in turn, his brother Jimi's estate -- before Al Hendrix's death in 2002.
Seattle Weekly |
Mike Seely |
03-09-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
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
A New Effort Seeks to Stop Washington's Prison System from Releasing Inmates Into Homelessnessnew
Housing advocates are lobbying for a bill by Washington Rep. Mark Miloscia that would require the Department of Corrections to come up with a plan to eliminate homelessness among former prisoners by the year 2015.
Seattle Weekly |
Nina Shapiro |
03-02-2009 |
Crime & Justice
Post 'Post-Intelligencer'new
As Seattle's oldest daily newspaper braces for a likely print shutdown, the staff hatches plans, the suits huddle, and a digital future looms.
Seattle Weekly |
Rick Anderson |
03-02-2009 |
Media
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
'Three Monkeys': Great Photography, Not Enough Crimenew
Rooted in the old Confucian proverb ("See no evil..." etc.), this slow-paced Turkish crime tale is constructed more from holes than plot.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
02-23-2009 |
Reviews
206 Zulu Keeps the Principles of Hip-Hop Alivenew
One of the Northwest's most respected hip-hop organizations, 206 Zulu is based in Beacon Hill and is the local chapter of the legendary Universal Zulu Nation, a grassroots hip-hop advocacy group first formed in the Bronx in 1974 by rap pioneer Afrika Bambaataa.
Seattle Weekly |
Jonathan Cunningham |
02-17-2009 |
Music
