EVERY GENERATION has its 8 Mile, the widely acclaimed new movie by rap star Eminem. Mine was Purple Rain, a…
One of the reasons the anti -WTO demonstrations in Seattle last fall came as such a shock to the world’s…
During the slowly unwinding prosecutorial wake of Fat Tuesday, Seattle police in late March asked prosecutors to consider invoking hate…
The Butterfly has landed. Julia “Butterfly” Hill, 25, became an instant media celebrity last month when an agreement with Pacific…
So “Boeing” is “leaving” Seattle. Good. Amid all the mawkishness about the loss of part of Seattle’s soul, the ghost…
Excuse me while I barf. I’m in no mood to join the joyful eulogies upon the passing of Ronald Reagan—remembrances…
THE RACE FOR SEATTLE’S most powerful elected job is already excruciating. Three moderate men of the establishment—Greg Nickels, Mark Sidran,…
Planning to boycott Microsoft? Get in line.
I’m glad I’m a columnist. In Impolitics, I don’t have to pretend. One of the great myths of news reporting,…
DEAR PRESIDENT BUSH, I write as a proud American and a resident of one of its many great cities: Seattle….
The city is considering a new system for watch-dogging the police. It could be a national model, but the temptation to compromise may prove irresistible.
I’ve always been a little bit ambivalent about the animal rights movement. On the one hand, I view all life…
Two years in the life of a redwood-hugger.
IT’S NOT JUST THOSE wacky tree-huggers and Dubya-haters who are howling that the Bush/Cheney energy “plan” is, in a word,…
Web sources for what’s missing from network news.
LAST WEEK, our evening news focused on the drama—or lack of it— as congressional Republicans guided George W. Bush’s massive…
IT WAS A MOMENTARY story on the evening news, a photo in the paper, and then gone: last week’s student…
This past weekend, two groups of people who care very much about radio assembled in Seattle, separated only by about…
IN 1998, WITH Clinton’s sex scandal, the award for most overrated story can safely be retired for posterity. Even if…
Philip Thiel stands in the hall, alone, shaking his head. “They’re arranging deck chairs on the Titanic!” he grumbles. In…
Any number of questions remain after the Memorial Day weekend rampage by Lonnie Davis, culminating in the Shoreline standoff with…
Unions are scaling back protests against free trade and the WTO.
The most popular citizens ballot measure in state history has been struck down, and we shouldn’t be surprised.
