Knowledge: Seattle University is having a Globalization & Justice conference and you're invited. Today's keynote speaker is the very famous, very sharp...Anil Gupta, ladies and gentlemen! Put your hands together for his talk, "G2G – Grassroots to Global: the Knowledge Rights of Creative Communities." Gupta founded the Honey Bee Network, which is good because if the real ones don't bounce back, we may need to turn to them for pollen collection. 5:30pm // Pigott......

Wild speculation surrounding the possibility of Radiohead playing somewhere in Washington sometime in the next year has got us pissing ourselves with excitement. The P-I A P-I reader blog called Ear Candy** thinks they might headline the Sasquatch Festival at the end of May with REM and The Cure but our sources are suggesting the band will embark on a West Coast run after their European summer tour ends. As of right now, the......

We may have the lowest crime rate in 40 years, but it sure doesn't feel like it. Depressing crime news item #1 The guy cops thought might have killed Shannon Harps did not kill Shannon Harps. At least, his DNA didn't match samples found at the scene. He'll likely be released today. Once again, cops are suspect-less in the murder which happened three weeks ago now, and the terrifying possibility that Harps was murdered at......

Both the P-I and TNT report that Mike Holmgren will return as coach of the Seahawks. The P-I's Clare Farnsworth writes that "a source close to the situation" confirms that Holmgren will return. We say hooray! Holmgren is by far the most successful coach in team history. There are a few things we wish he'd do better, but when it comes to the big stuff--having the respect of his players, keeping his team motivated, and,......

An artist who "used his own blood as ink" is now cops' main suspect in the murder of Shannon Harps. The 29-year-old man was picked up three days after the murder on a parole violation--being drunk on New Year's Eve, the night Harps was murdered. Cops haven't charged him with anything. They interviewed him the night he was arrested because, according to the P-I, a tipster said he "had made statements about the case in......

We're not sure if barista experience is even necessary. We just noticed the P-I story that Tully's fifth CEO since 2001 had just vacated the executive offices:The chief executive, chief financial officer and three other top executives of Tully's Coffee Corp. have left abruptly, and a new top executive was expected to be named later Tuesday,The other suits departing were General Counsel Andrew Mun and vice presidents Rob Martin and Dana Pratt. This is not,......

Boom! Governor Gregoire comes right out of the gate at the new legislative session with a new bill laying "the groundwork for concrete limits on greenhouse gas emissions beginning in 2012." And, in just four short (or long, depending on how you look at it) years, the bill "would give the state Department of Ecology the authority to regulate those emissions," reports the P-I. The main thing is that "big polluters" in Washington State would......

The fallout from State Auditor Brian Sonntag's review of past Port of Seattle business practices continues. The P-I reports this morning that:Sen. Karen Keiser, D-Des Moines, announced she plans to introduce legislation to repeal the Port of Seattle's property tax authority.We appreciate our legislators noticing that there's a Port of Seattle at long last, and that oversight has been lacking. But cutting off the property tax? Here's what's at issue, again summarized by the P-I:That......

The Rev. Ken Hutcherson, who, in addition to demonstrating the importance of increased protective headgear for linebackers, bully-pulpits Redmond's Antioch Bible Church, announced he's founded the AGN Financial Network, to finance his plan to buy Microsoft his brand of morality. The idea is that Christian investors would buy three shares of Microsoft's stock and donate one to AGN. The P-I reports one small obstacle, i.e., reality:It's unclear what effect, if any, the initiative could have......

Details are starting to leak out about the Carnation woman suspected of killing her parents, her brother and her wife, and their two kids Christmas Eve with the help of a boyfriend. The P-I got the scoop from Ben Anderson, the suspected killer's nephew and grandson of the victims.:The violence, Ben Anderson said, stemmed from a dispute over money, and a long-standing fight between Michele Anderson and her parents. He said his aunt had been......

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.......

The 1968 film version War and Peace, directed by Sergei Bondarchuk, with the participation of over 100,000 Red Army soldiers, is in a class by itself, not least because it runs 411 minutes and is being presented in Russian with subtitles. We're not sure how to recommend a 7-hour movie, except to agree with Roger Ebert that it does "take the enormous bulk of Leo Tolstoy's novel and somehow transform it into this great......

Not even merely Blog Hot. She's actually approaching TV Hot. Check her out in this (unfortunately un-embeddable) video clip from KOMO4. However, while KOMO has decided she's attractive enough for TV, the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild has decided her employment at the P-I is egregious enough to warrant a lawsuit. They say she's a reporter and belongs in the guild's bargaining unit. The P-I maintains that she's some kind of new media person and not......

Front-page screamer in the P-I today: School crimes under wraps. The P-I (disclosure: I write freelance sports pieces for them) reviewed Seattle School records and found cases of assault that weren't reported to police. Instead, school administrators tried to deal with these incidents on their own. King County prosecuting attorney Tomas Gahan ain't happy about it. Says he: "I don't want the principals or administrators to sort out what is a crime and what isn't.......

The P-I is still defending its decision not to run the random photo of Arab-lookin guys the FBI passed them last week, as if not participating in a man-hunt for two guys who happened to ask a question about the workings of the ferry in front of the wrong citizen detective is something that needs any more ink. Robert Jamieson Jr says: The trouble with public outings goes beyond these men being stripped of their......

We had an AHA! moment last night when we first started hearing about the Veggie-Booty-and-salmonella mash-up. The P-I reports:More than 50 people in 17 states, mostly children age 3 and younger, were infected with salmonella bacteria after eating Veggie Booty, according the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Web site.Why age 3 and younger? As a Salon story puts it: "Veggie Booty is basically crack for babies. Which is exactly why parents buy it." A couple......

A decomposed body was found in the house of ex-radio guy Mike Webb. We heard that first on the television, but we've been reading about Webb on the excellent Blatherwatch blog for a while now--they've been following Webb's fall for months, even from way back in the days before they had a special category for "Mike Webb Missing" on the blog. Webb used to be a liberal talk radio guy. He was charged with some......

We haven't been banging on our Port drum lately because others are doing a bang-up job for us; in particular the Stranger's Josh "Bloodhound" Feit and the P-I's Kristen "Pitbull" Millares Bolt -- and Capt. Tobey, to be fair. In the wake of the brouhaha over The Case of the Commission-Approved Severance That Wasn't, Feit's been Slogging furiously, not so much gloating over the scandal as refusing to let the Port or the Seattle Times*......

Seattle will continue to have two daily newspapers, at least for the immediate future. It sounds like both papers were unwilling to leave things entirely in the hands of the arbitrator who was set to deliver a binding verdict on the dispute: They settled with each other and the terms include the Times buying the P-I out of JOA stipulation that the smaller paper would continue to receive revenue in the event that that paper......

Seattlest is all about complaining about transportation in Seattle. We invented complaining about transportation in Seattle. We were complaining about transportation in Seattle via pony express when the Duwamish were still arguing over whether to build canoes or kayaks. But this thing in the paper today about the UW light rail station being disconnected from other transit seems a little premature. The charge is that the fictional 520 exchange of the future doesn't connect......

Yet another postponement, and the new plan is to try to play a doubleheader on Monday, beginning at 10:05 am PST. The M's have a day game in Boston on Tuesday, so this would mean they'd play 3 games in about 28 hours. Not good. Even if they play both games on Monday, that leaves two games that will need to be played sometime during the season. The P-I's John Hickey has the scoop on......

--The P-I has a great feature package about a local guy the CIA recruited to put a surveillance device on one of the highest mountains the world. --If only Jerramy Stevens played as hard as he drinks. --The soft bigotry of low expectations strikes again. --Tonight's Mariners game vs. Texas will be on FSN. Game time is 6:05. --Vista is selling well. --Nike doesn't make Nate Robinson's favorite shoes anymore, so his friends scour......

--A Seattle lawyer is officially in on the Menu Foods Ltd sue-a-thon. Local pets blog Itchmo Seattle is claiming a vastly different number of dead pets across the country than we've seen in the MSM, by the way. Which is closer to the truth: The P-I's 13 or the blog's 1,000? --Seattlest had a few science teachers in our high school days that should have been carried out of the building with an administrator......

A Boise couple discovers Seattle, and decides to relocate. Hubby gets a job, wifey doesn't. They can't afford to buy a house or get opera tickets, like they did in Boise. Move back, maybe? No...complain to the P-I. Witness perhaps the whinyest piece of writing since our four-year-old niece penned her classic Wanna Wanna Hot Dog. The P-I calls it Seattle too pricey for normal people:Real estate agents either have tried to shoehorn us......

--The P-I gazes into the crystal PDF and fortells the future of downtown's condo development. Words here. --Portland vandals don't like Starbucks. --Vancouver cops don't like WiFi. --A new Modest Mouse track has escaped into the wild. --A local blogger takes on Digg. We want nothing to do with this. In fact we never heard of Michael Hanscom. Wrong number! --Tomorrow morning is going to be the warmest Saturday morning you will ever experience......

The P-I's Joel Connelly fires a shot across the Stranger's bow this morning with a satirical column titled "Peer into future after car ban -- it isn't pretty." Connelly depicts Seattle's dystopian future, in which automobiles, smoking, erections, and unhealthy food have all been banned, and Stranger writers are the city's icons:The "Bicycle Blockade of Ballard Oil" is a heroic painting that officials frequently show their guests from "the outside."... The mural depicts its chief......

Leah Slemmer knows from breaking the law. She’s been arrested nearly as many times (49) as years she’s blessed the planet with her presence (54). On Wednesday, she failed to reach the half-century mark (unless the Times’ curiously incongruous story is accurate) when a state trooper was too busy to drag her sorry ass to jail. KOMO.com reports: State patrol spokesman Jeff Merrill said that when Slemmer was stopped Wednesday evening on Interstate 405 near......

KING 5's Investigators have their panties in a bunch about the racist and pornographic emails Port of Seattle police were sending on Port time, using Port computers. In their story, they can hardly bring themselves to present the liberally pixelized graphic evidence. Again and again. It turns out, "over a two-year period, 32 officers -- nearly a third of the entire force -- either received, saved, or passed on more than 175 inappropriate e-mails,......

Just two weeks ago, Steve Huling announced that the family is selling their auto dealership, which they've owned for 60 years. One thing the new owners might consider doing is including this question on employment applications: "Are you a soulless, immoral asshole?" Because a sales manager and ten other Huling Bros. employees are accused of ripping off--to the tune of $100K--a mentally-ill man who accessorizes with his own poo.Investigators say the men first took advantage......

In a seismic shift, non-crazy-talker John Creighton will be the Port of Seattle's new president and chairman, as the indefatigable Kristin Millares Bolt reports in the P-I. This just after Tay Yoshitani was announced the new executive director last week. Yoshitani's pick said "environmental sustainability," which is good. Creighton claims his focus will be environmental stewardship. The P-I says Creighton pointed out that that "the port has not aggressively pushed its tenants to reduce......