Mother Nature is not Q. When your car has been coated with a couple of inches of snow, brush it off before you drive down the freeway. If you don't brush it off, it gradually blows off as you speed down I-5, making you look like James Bond in a rinky-dink car with an incompetent smokescreen. In other words, like Roger Moore circa View to a Kill. Yes, that bad. It also annoys the......

Last night at the Old Pequliar, the winning trivia team defeated 12 others to take home $100. Want to know how you'd do? Gather together 4 of your friends and see how many of these questions you can answer. We'll post the correct answers later today -- along with the team standings from last night and maybe some other insights. (FYI, rounds 4 and 8 are picture rounds and not easily reproduced here.) Round 1:......

The P-I has an article today that explores the panic that the North Korean missile tests of 5, July have struck into area hearts. "I don't think Seattle will be a target," David Cahn stuttered in terror. "America has occupied their country for 50 years. America's policy is the provocation for this sort of thing," Ted Roberts told the paper while impaired by fear . "Even if (the missile) could reach the U.S., it would......

SIFF enters its second full week with a slew of great documentaries, including the final screening of fair trade coffee doc Black Gold (Tuesday, 9:30pm @ the Egyptian). The directors, Marc and Nick Francis, will be in attendance, as will Tadesse Meskela, an Ethiopian Farm Cooperative Organizer featured in the film. The SIFF screenings mark the first time the directors and subject have been together since the making of the film---and the first time......