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They're baaaack, those clever writers from Noo Yawk, and this time they seem friendly. Last year's NY Times reporter--a year ago to the day--could only complain about Cascadia's miniburgers. This year, with Cascadia closed and a new awareness that, gee, you can use the Internets to check menus and stuff, a more reasonable itinerary: the SAM Sculpture Park, Matt's In the Market, ZigZag Café, Café Presse, Volunteer Park, Center for Wooden Boats, downtown library, Quinn's, Neumo's. Barely a whiff of condescension in the whole piece.

, vacancies are up to 10% and expected to reach 15% by next year.

FOREVER WAR: Dexter Filkins, the Pulitzer Prize-winning , recounting his experiences covering the war in Iraq. Filkins actually had a piece in yesterday's "Week in Review" section about returning to Iraq for the first time in two years, finding it a changed if uneasy place, balanced on a knife's edge of peace following the much ballyhooed troop surge, but still capable of slipping back into chaos. With the economy in the tank, most people are probably less interested in Iraq, but Filkins' trenchant analysis is worth the time of anyone truly interested in understanding the realities on the ground in Iraq and figuring out how to move forward.

Down here in the Seattlest newsroom, we rarely find time to pay attention to the upper echelons of the American chattering classes, what with their myopic focus on the Washington (as they relish in referring to us as, in the rare event they mention us at all). But this morning, as the astounding news of Obama's four-peat trouncing of Clinton over the weekend percolated through the commentariat, we noticed an increasingly shrill response from Clinton-supporters like Paul Krugman.

Thank goodness for a Congressional committee looking into misleading pharmaceutical ads to detail the shady saga that is pseudo-jock Dr. Jarvik.

This site claims to explain what 2001 is about, in Flash. When it opened, the NY Times' Renata Adler pegged it "somewhere between hypnotic and immensely boring," comparing the space voyage to a kid's time at a '50s camp. Yet it's hard even to think of a movie with comparable sweep: from the dawn of consciousness (i.e., 1968) to a manned spacecraft sent to Jupiter; or of a movie than has so firmly established itself in our cultural awareness. Obviously going to space camp is pretty exciting.

So we're happy to see it turn up on local screens again this Sunday, at the SIFF Cinema. We could point you to a bunch of reviews that mostly tell you it's a great movie (literally so, in Ebert's case), and many of which are happy to point out the lessons we should learn about Iraq after watching this film. But we thought it'd be more interesting to quote Bosley Crowther from his 1967 NY Times review (oh: SPOILERS for history):

Essentially, the theme is one of valor—the valor of people who fight for liberation from economic and political oppression. And this being so, one may sense a relation in what goes on in this picture to what has happened in the Negro ghettos of some of our American cities more recently. The fact that the climax of the drama is actually negative, with the rebellion wiped out and its leaders destroyed, has immediate pertinence, too. But eventual victory for the Algerians — and therefore symbolic hope for all who struggle for freedom— is acknowledged in a sketchy epilogue.

Fremont's own Getty Images wants to auction itself off and could sell for up to $1.5 billion, reports the NY Times. The stock photo agency has had a rough go of it lately:

But the rise of digital photography and the Web created a host of competitors that charged as little as a dollar for an image. Recent events — from the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the former Pakistani prime minister, to the latest foibles of the entertainer Britney Spears — have led to a surging popularity of low-quality but on-the-scene photos, many taken by cellphone cameras.

Continue reading "For Sale: Getty Images"

John Markoff of the NY Times talked gadgets with Steve Jobs.

Today he had a wide range of observations on the industry, including the Amazon Kindle book reader, which he said would go nowhere largely because Americans have stopped reading.

Continue reading "Steve Jobs On the Kindle: "The Whole Conception Is Flawed""

The film runs through January 17 at SIFF Cinema, and at its heart is a statement that might read something like this, from the blog Asperger Square 8:

The idea of supporting people rather than trying to force them into those behaviors the majority can more comfortably tolerate, the correctness of this seems so very self-evident, I often forget what a radical concept it is, how much we are sometimes hated for expressing it.

The only responsible note in "Billy the Kid" is that when Billy checks out multiple books on serial killers from his school library, someone has the sense to make an issue of it. You don't want to wish that the same librarian had worked at Virginia Tech, but the thought certainly crosses your mind.

That's NYC experimental group Radiohole not Radiohead. We don't bait and switch here at Seattlest. Their show Fluke is an "enigmatic riff" on Moby Dick, says the NY Times, adding: "It has always been easier to like a show by Radiohole than to understand it."

starbucks, howard schultz, sonics

co-horts Leon Wieseltier and Dale Peck--they accuse of writing literary criticism that "was wholly negative. And, it eventually became clear, indiscriminately so."

The overnight blogs are abuzz: Tenet (slamdunking Iraq) and Goldy (recycling poisoned pet food).

--It may be just a Wednesday night for you, but Japan's already buzzing with anticipation about Dice-K vs. Ichiro. Via Deadspin

KARAOKE: Wednesday night is always karaoke night at the Little Red Hen, an outpost of country music that's inexplicably smack dab in the middle of Volvo-driving, NPR-listening, holiday-tree-owning Green Lake. The crowd veers toward the early-20s spectrum, so if you need a break from parties where people discuss mortgages, the new Whole Foods, and their fucking jobs, this is the place to go. Tip: Bring cash so you can buy beer from the guy with the cooler instead of standing in a long line at the bar.

The NY Times ran an article (select only) that shocked the baking world--alleging that you can make amazing bread without kneading.

Gothamist, among many others, is reporting that a plane has apparently crashed into a building on the upper east side--you can see the exact location on 72nd via Gothamist's Googlemap hack. Currently it is being reported as a helicopter that crashed into the building. You can see pictures at the Gothamist site (national news sites didn't have anything yet, but they've got screen captures from local news up on their site).

"What are you going to do, shoot us?" These were evidently the last words of Seattle actress Nicole DuFresne, murdered in NYC in January 2005 during a botched mugging.

Consider two of the "ten most emailed" articles from yesterday's (registration required):

Out-of-town friend writes that he loved slurping half-shell oysters at The Brooklyn on a visit last week. But wait, aren't the oyster beds closed because of the dreaded outbreak?

The New York Times, with annoying & typical provincialism, claims that black chefs are "struggling" [note: free registration required]. Not so in Seattle, where a culinary star like Daisley Gordon shines at Campagne.