From the ongoing manhunt taking place in Capitol Hill to the Methodist minister who accuses the SPD of using excessive force, it's been something of an unexpected day in Seattle. more ›

Everyone, it seems, has been affected by what has felt like a long week. Even the newsmakers couldn't see fit to give us an exciting day to head into the weekend. Ah, well, we all need breaks. more ›

It's been a day of reckoning on many levels, as the judicial system handed down several decisions that affect a wide array of people in the Seattle area in both positive and negative ways. more ›

I mean, really, could this week have been any longer? Ah, well, at least the commute will be li--never mind, 99's closed until 8:00p.m. tonight. Check inside for some other ponderables (are all cops bad liars? If McKenna supports something does that make it less palatable?) amid a silver lining (Yay, council approves the creation of an immigrant/refugee commission!) to end the week. more ›

A look at what else happened today beyond Occupy Seattle's eviction: bigotry goes on the public record, an SPD cop commits the crime he's supposed to prevent, the worst lie ever told to cover up an assault and more! more ›

We can't tell you how excited we were the weather held up yesterday for Reverb Festival. The memories from last year, running across streets in pouring rain as cars sped past us in the dark, were traumatizing or maybe just really awful. Our lives passed before our eyes on several occasions. more ›

Tomorrow the Reverb Festival descends upon Ballard once again. If last year was any indication, rain puts a real damper on running back and forth between venues but we've got the list of shows sure to get you out of your fall funk and into the bars. more ›

Fuzzy liberal environmentalist Mayor Mike McGinn has teamed up with law-and-order Republican Attorney General and (part-time) Tea Partier Rob McKenna in a crusade against child prostitution at Backpage.com. more ›

It seems everyone, even the newsmakers, rabble rousers and muck rakers have taken Friday afternoon off. more ›

At long last, the Boeing 787 has been cleared for commercial flights. Meanwhile, the PDC gets a new director and the Sounders get a new teammate. Oh, and some people argue about bike lanes. more ›

Mainstream media outlets have written about the history of teriyaki in Seattle, one writer for the New York Times going so far as to call it Seattle’s signature food. But there’s another version of the story as well—and behind it, other stories about Japanese and Japanese American food in Seattle. We found these stories at the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Washington (JCCCW). more ›

Teachers take one for the team, the Washington Division of Child Support screws up, and an internet rating site becomes the focal point for a local lawsuit. All this and more in today's headlines. more ›

Trips to Chicago get a little easier, the Mayor's new nightlife initiative gains a major backer, legislation intended to encourage street food vendors is irking Pike Place Market, and councilmember Tim Burgess comes out swinging against a local alt-weekly. Guess which one? more ›

No, the Seattle Weekly isn't in the midst of a big re-brand. Their paper boxes are so colorful because they have a big event coming up. It's artastic! more ›

What's stewing in food this week in Seattle? We've got the lowdown on all the openings and closings, recent restaurants reviews and gossip, as well as some food-related musings we've sniffed out from the far reaches of the Internet. more ›

Last night at the Paramount Theater, Seattle Weekly held its annual Voracious Tasting & Food Awards. The sold out event attracted over 1,000 attendees who chowed down on delicious tastings from over 40 local restaurants and mixologists, with all proceeds going to benefit the non-profit Neighborhood Farmer's Market Alliance. more ›

Jason Sheehan, we already miss you and your meandering, pointless memoirs masquerading as Seattle Weekly restaurant reviews. The Surly Gourmand's got your back this week, with nary an effing expletive. But leave it to newly minted editor-in-chief Mike Seely to jump the shark (as it were) with a cover story, no less, about a fictitious "chef" named Lou Kohl and his imaginary restaurant, The Dirt Farm. more ›

This is a day of double- and triple-verifying facts and taking everything you hear with a grain of salt. For the tired, the gullible and the stressed, this is perhaps the worst holiday ever. more ›

We're one of the few remaining American cities with two alternative newsweeklies, and they're both on the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies' Top 25. The Pew Research Center examines the state of the American alt-weekly; we take a look at the state of our own. more ›

No more speculation on who will replace Jason Sheenan after his year-and-change stint at Seattle Weekly. Hanna Raskin, formerly of The Dallas Observer will begin mid-April. Raskin apparently yearns for Seattle's gray, drizzly weather, and is arriving on a more positive note than her predecessor. more ›

It was, one of those in attendance at the Paramount noted, a clusterfuck, the annual Seattle Weekly "Voracious Tasting" Food Awards. Maybe everyone was hoping to catch a glimpse of nominally faceless restaurant critic Jason Sheehan (though he's on YouTube here). more ›

We've always thought Seattle's two local free weeklies existed in a more or less stable competitive environment. The opinion-driven, highly political Stranger and the traditional and passive Seattle Weekly both seem to have their uses, even if it was sometimes just in using one as a respite from the excesses of the other. A ruling in San Francisco may change that media landscape more ›

The notorious "Ragin' Asians" cover story has been turned into a Monday feature on the Seattle Weekly blogs. more ›

First there was last week's now-infamous "Ragin' Asians" cover story, in which noted lush Erika Hobart got her bosses to pay her for getting trashed with local Seattleites of the Asian persuasion, some of whom were underage. more ›

Damon Agnos at the Weekly reports on the the coalition suing to prevent I-90 light rail from happening, a weird last-ditch attempt to keep Seattle from driving its train deep into the Eastside, again and oh god again, via tunnel. The suit--claiming light rail can't use I-90 because that would besmirch its use by upstanding automobile drivers--is ridiculous, as are most of Kemper Freeman's suits. Personally, we can't wait to pull on our flip-flops and stained wife-beater, hit the light rail, and terrorize the hell out of Bell Square while drinking our Volvic out of a brown paper bag. more ›

It all started last week when the August issue of Marie Claire (not on the magazine's webpage, because somehow Hearst doesn't know how to work the tubes) included a list of the top cities for women to meet single men. It was based on some statistics of dubious merit--among them the number of Starbucks and movie theaters--as well as some stats in areas we'd think Seattle would rank poorly (public transit, last call time). Despite all that--not to mention the phenomenon of the Seattle freeze--our fair city came out on top in the dating survey, beating, well, everyone else. more ›

Seattle Weekly's Mike Seely has a book on dive bars out. The Weekly's Erika Hobart went to see "Walking with the Dinosaurs" stewed. And now the Stranger has a new Happy Hour iPhone app: Cocktail Compass. Interesting features: searches for "patio" if you want, offers one-touch cab dialing. Competition for GoTime's Happy Hour app. This recession could turn out to be toughest on the liver. more ›

On the same day the Seattle Weekly was prognosticating about the Seattle Times' survival odds, and the Times was filling us in on the P-I's, sometime-Seattlester Seth Kolloen sent us this enigmatic screenshot. Are they trying to tell us something from inside the Fairview compound? more ›

First of all, may we just say it's great to be back in the Seattlest saddle again after a somewhat extended absence! We actually...*sniff*...missed you guys. Alright, back to business. Thanks to Twitter, we now know about a neat local cooking site named, appropriately, CookLocal. They're covering the very important rutabaga and sunchoke baked chips beat this week. West Seattle Blog passes along news about South Seattle Community College's new scholarships, money set aside to help out anyone who's ever been in the U.S. foster care system. The Weekly's Sara Brickner reports on N.A.S.A.'s show at Nectar last night on Reverb, with photos and all ("go-go dancers, a giant visualizer screen and aliens" is part of the write-up, reason enough for you to click on that link). And over at the Seattle Post-Times, they're upset about the new, unsightly ads on Washington ferries. Of course, the pictured ad supporting the Post-Times' case is for the Woodland Park Zoo's flamingos exhibit--not exactly the devil incarnate. more ›

David Pogue Hearts Jeff Bezos is the headline for the Seattle Weekly blog post, which asserts, "it's fair to say that [NYT] personal technology writer David Pogue is now officially in love with Jeff Bezos." Except David Pogue doesn't agree that his review of the Kindle 2.0 is such a wet, sloppy kiss and says so in the comments: "Um, no, it's not. Did you read the same article I wrote? I remember writing something far more mixed. Did you skip over these parts?" Pogue isn't Marshall McLuhan, but other than that, it's pure Annie Hall. What Pogue does conclude is "the new Kindle edges even closer to the ideal of an e-book reader." Edges, not leaps. more ›