SO PAUL ALLEN…
…can’t get enough bodies into the Experience Music Project at full admission prices. He won’t lower those prices, because that would interrupt his long-range plan to make EMP self-supporting. Instead,...
View ArticleWET, SLOPPY,…
…but unmistakable snow flakes briefly appeared, among the more typical precipitation, at 11:09 a.m. The world is a better, more beautiful place already.
View ArticleTODAY, ALL THE BARS AND RESTAURANTS…
…in the state officially go smokeless. Some bar owners have predicted a fiscal disaster, as smoking customers would find fewer reasons to linger in their favorite watering holes. Alcohol service is one...
View ArticleRICHARD PRYOR, 1940-2005
I’ll always remember the late comedy legend for one of my earliest memories of what would now be called “performance art.” I’m thinking of some of his early appearances on Mike Douglas and Merv...
View ArticleIF YOU BELIEVE THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION,…
…Seattle was onto the downtown residential revival thang decades before the rest of the country: “During the 1990s, downtown population grew by 10 percent, a marked resurgence following 20 years of...
View ArticleIF THEY GAVE…
…a music festival and nobody showed up, would it make a sound? The Red Bull Music Academy brought dozens of European techno DJs to Seattle from Nov. 7 through Dec. 8. Each year, the “energy drink”...
View ArticleMY HEROINE
I’m only able to write this now because Diane Larson, the veteran UPS driver who services a stretch of Belltown, fended off two would-be shoulder-bag robbers until they fled. Otherwise, I’d be without...
View ArticleROBERT STEINBACK…
…notes that Americans’ freedoms are being attacked from the inside, not the outside.
View ArticleGET YOUR KICKS IN TWENTY-OUGHT-SIX!
It’s the madcap return of the MISCmedia In/Out List, the longest-running and most accurate list of its type anywhere in the western hemisphere. As long-term readers know, this is a prediciton of what...
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