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The Seattle Weekly pulled feature writer Huan Hsu off the bashing-local-charities beat this week, and instead had him profile the coach of a high school girls tennis team. A coach who is now fired.

The Seattle Weekly was criticized on various blogs last week for their story on the inner-workings of Seattle's homeless newspaper Real Change. Today on their blog they've started running letters that they received in response to that story.

Real Change executive director Tim Harris says on his blog that the Seattle Weekly wants to exposé his street newspaper back to the Gutenberg age.

The Seattle Weekly government in exile launched its website today and has promised to continue posting to it until the people rise up and give them their paper back. Anyone pining for the city's other weekly and its lovable cast of characters circa the Bronze Age through about a year ago should head over to Crosscut immediately. We'll see you back here when you've had your fill.

The world's oldest newspaper may have canceled its print edition, but thanks to the patronage of law enforcement officials, you'll always be able to get the Seattle weeklies on paper. It's where cops get their tips:

Everett detectives have been investigating Paradise Tanning as a front for a prostitution operation since August. That's when a detective found an advertisement for the business listed in a "sensual" section of The Seattle Weekly, according to court documents. The ads were also placed in The Stranger.

Continue reading ""Be Careful Out There. Oh, and Pick up a Weekly for Me.""

When all of the bubbly started wearing off on the first morning of 2006 we exited the bed, scaldeded off some of the dirt and defeat of 2005 in the shower and sat down with the first pot of coffee of the new year to crack open the laptop and see if the internet was still as we'd left it. Oh All That Is Holy, what bizzaro world have we awoken to?!? The Seattle Weekly's website is no longer terrible! Quickly we ran to the window - The sky was not blood red. We shook our fiancee awake - She didn't greet us with the voice of a 65-year-old blues man. We looked in the mirror - Admittedly it was a little rough, but there were no extra ears, digits or nipples to great us. Peaking through the cracks in our fingers we once again laid eyes on www.SeattleWeekly.com...

Not since Joe's Asprin Stacking Blog joined forces with Alexis's Rice Crispe World Blog to form Joe & Alex's Little House of Horrors Blog has a merger of this magnitude so shaken Seattle's media environment. Villiage Voice Media, owner of The Seattle Weekly, has announced a merger with alt-weekly publisher New Times Media.

We've been waiting for a while now for The Seattle Weekly to take a few baby steps into the world of the internet. Rival weekly The Stranger came around not too long ago with forums, a blog and some RSS goodness that we think is really working out for them, so we've been a bit mystified by the continuing reluctance of The Weekly to do anything at all on the internet, However, today we discovered that they've actually made some progress.

We happened on the most recent Tablet last night and we were halfway through the editor's letter announcing the demise of the magazine when it occured to us that we hadn't heard about this being the final issue from any other source. Then we realized the damn thing just came out. It's been expressed elsewhere, though, that Tablet just didn't get talked about enough, and as a media outlet of sorts we're partly to blame. We talk about The Stranger from time to time and we've mentioned The Seattle Weekly and actually we used to pit them against each other in the squared circle once a week. While we tried to think of ways to get Tablet into that fight, Tablet was a monthly publication and it just didn't make sense. Still, we feel bad about nearly never mentioning it because we really enjoyed reading it.

The Seattle Weekly hitting newsstands today contains their 'Best of Seattle' ballot for your voting pleasure. Vote for the best pilates studio, best local microbrew and best reason to leave Seattle.

We aren’t over the fact that Portland’s Willamette Weekly won a Pulitzer Prize last week. It’s just so damn impressive, we have to take a moment to dwell on it just a little bit more. The WW is putting on a very good show of playing the whole thing down--it takes a magnifying glass or Google to find any mention of it on their site. Seattlest hopes that somewhere in the background Nigel Jaquiss and company are whooping it up, though.

How is that Seattlest has not only never read, but never heard of the novel that The Seattle Weekly based their issue around this week? We read a lot; books and the like. We love regional novels. We love science fiction novels. We love ecological science fiction novels! Of course there's a regional, ecological science fiction novel out there somewhere. There are probably a hundred of them: little vanity press affairs or handwritten manuscripts getting tattered on the yurt floor. But something people actually read? Why wasn't Seattlest informed of this "Ecotopia" (and is it worth actually reading)?

It comes out first and their features have been consistently decent, so the Weekly's cover story is a good place to start. This week's "Black, White and Redneck" (or toned down to "Black and White in Grays Harbor County" once you get past the cover) is a little uninspiring, though, so let's leave it at that.

The Stranger returned from its week of Ben Exworthy coverage with a story that must seem really big to them, but... Yawn.