Was two weeks ago in this space, Seattlest James took up the cudgel for Gypsy dinners, falling right into the outlaws' trap. No and no, wrong and wrong. These guys aren't romantic Zorros, they're behaving like petulant teenagers. Might as well piss off our good friends at Gypsy, Vagabond, Caché, OnePot, KillTheRestaurant and Culinary Communion. You got busted. Somebody called the Liquor Board to complain that a cooking class used—oh my God—wine to deglaze a......

Wait, before you answer, one detail: Costco's private label hef will be brewed by beloved local micro-operation Gordon Biersch. With an abundance of local breweries producing excellent beers--and a freaking commission created specifically for the promotion of Washington brews--you'd think Issaquah's warehouse overlords would have kept the hop-dollars local. But no. Hef, amber and pale ales will be brewed fresh in San Jose, California. Cheers?......

We have a friend who tells a story about taking a broken TV back to Costco -- four years after she bought it. She didn't expect them to, but Costco gave her store credit. She upgraded to a nicer TV for not a lot of money, and they won her heart for life. (Lesson learned: It never hurts to ask.) According to Ben Popkin at Consumerist, though, the days of those carefree and liberal......