Are food safety and food tasty mutually exclusive goals? You have to ask after both Zesto's and Wild Ginger show up on the P-I's list of Seattle's dirtiest restaurants. Zesto's, the venerable burger joint of 15th N.W. and 65th, has the most "red critical" violations of any restaurant in Seattle this year: 15. Frankly, if it takes 15 red critical violations to get the yumminess into their burgers and shakes, we will assume the risk.......

Apple Cup week in Seattle means one thing: really crappy weather (rimshot...crickets). But there is also a football game, and this year is no exception. On Saturday at Husky Stadium the 2-8 Huskies will take on the 3-7 Cougars, in what is sure to go down as an official NCAA game. The Cougars, however, have already claimed the first victory of the week by out raising Husky alumni and winning the Space Needle Challenge. For......

Why do some people prefer pets? Mark Twain answered the question (probably with his corncob pipe resting at a rakish angle) thusly: "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." Hundreds of starving dogs owe their lives to a group of volunteers from local animal rescue farm Pasado's Safe Haven. The dedicated animal lovers traveled......

Seattle summers are a time for frolicking and play, while the gray winters here are well-suited for quiet reflection. The transition is an all too quick one, since the Seattle autumn lasts all of a month, more of a switch than a season. This weekend is a good time to bid farewell to blue skies and welcome the fall by helping out the less fortunate before beginning your winter hermitage. Saturday the folks at Innerflight......

Seattle, get your green on. Wednesday night at Town Hall the Society for Ecological Restoration Northwest (SERNW) hosts a conversation with Terry Tempest Williams and friends to discuss how nature, cities, and culture can flourish in the 21st century. The Utne Reader named the long admired Utah naturalist and author, Williams, as one of their “Utne 100 Visionaries.” We especially welcome Tempest with open arms as a sign of belated solidarity, remembering October of......