It was one for the record books, but Washington fell just short of back-to-back bowl wins in last night's showdown with Baylor in the Alamo Bowl. more ›

At long last--autumn dance. more ›

Teenagers and outlaws. Outlaws and teenagers, making headlines as always. more ›

Reading Room I by Mr. McPants from the Seattlest Flickr pool. more ›

Tuition's on the rise, but phone books are on a downward spiral. Meanwhile, Venoy Overton swears he didn't prostitute that girl. more ›

Happi(er) ending for the terminally ill woman blocked from her flight, UW students protest Sodexo, clarification on jaywalking laws, whatever will become of that photo of Bin Laden and more, in this morning's headlines. more ›

The University of Washington campus is always under construction. New vistas, new buildings. So it's amazing how little has changed in the 50 years between these photos. more ›

The musicians in the Improvised Music Project are bringing the sounds of Seattle's improvised music scene out of the basement of the UW Music Building onto the streets, and into the clubs. more ›

The shows I have enjoyed recently on Seattle stages have all been low on tech, high on imagination. Poverty, of course, is no guarantee of quality but at least in that vein one can make a virtue out of the approach. All it requires is dedication and a little taste. more ›

The UW announces news that isn't really news, but we all listen anyway. Welcome to Washington, Michael Young. more ›

Holy Week is usually a little slow in the theatrical world and this year's is no exception. Very few openings, some continuations and even an extension. We take a look around Seattle for theatrical gifts. more ›

Seattle is making headlines in the Media & Advertising section of the New York Times this week because of a locally made commercial. The spot had a budget of less than $100,000, features poor vocalists singing the UW Fight Song and highlights BECU, a local credit union. So why all the fuss? Two jazzy words: more ›

Upon reviewing the world premiere of The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Harold Clurman noted in 1948 that Americans had not yet learned to stage Brecht's plays correctly. Judging from the University of Washington Drama School's production, the lesson remains unlearned. more ›

Whenever we're feeling a touch old or outdated (read: no longer drinking giant Jack-in-the-Box soda cups half full of liquor on our way to the game), we remind ourselves that Husky Stadium itself is 90 years old. NINETY YEARS, of awesome gridiron action. Most everyone has agreed our beloved Montlake Monster is in need of a face-lift, but it's much harder to agree on funding and cost. The $250 million price tag is a little god-Don-James expensive. more ›

As collective dreams and aspirations go, becoming a Hollywood celebrity is probably pretty high on the list. The fancy parties, the perfect hair, the drama, the fame and fortune. Who wouldn’t want to justify your personal life to the public or fend off stalkers and paparazzi? Well, lucky for you, here’s a chance to get just one step closer to making those star-studded dreams a reality. more ›

Chris Bushnell, Senior Advisor to Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn resigned yesterday afternoon after it was revealed that he lied about having a doctoral degree from the University of Washington. He was also convicted in 1994 of felony bank fraud, although McGinn says he knew about Bushnell’s criminal record when he hired him. more ›

University of Washington’s cross country teams head down to Terre Haute, Indiana this weekend for the NCAA National Division I Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Championship races, which take place on Monday morning. Should be interesting, it’s no big deal--the women are only returning as defending National Champions since they clinched the very first NCAA Championship in program history last year. more ›

Since well before last November’s election the term “socialist” has been tossed around American politics like a schoolyard (or Cold War) epithet. more ›

KOMO reports that UW is testing out the use of the Amazon Kindle in their classrooms this fall. The University's Computer Science & Engineering Department will give every CS&E graduate student a Kindle DX, which will replace textbooks and research papers in their first-year courses. Kindle-edition textbooks and other materials will also be given to them free of charge. Amazon's sending Kindle DXs to six other universities throughout the United States. UW will be the first to get the book-killers. more ›

Isn't the first day of college supposed to be about getting lost on campus and desperately searching for a classroom you should have been in twenty minutes prior? Nowadays, UW freshman have it way too easy with their new fancy-schmancy University of Washington iPhone app (and a mobile phone site no less!) that was launched yesterday. TechFlash reports that not only does the mobile mommy app provide a campus map, it also offers sports scores, a course catalog, school spirit-inspired wallpaper, and personalized class schedules. We can only assume herein marks the end of the dorm room dry erase board era. more ›

UW was awarded $126 million from the National Science Foundation to build an ocean observatory to study the Pacific Ocean. The $126M is part of $385 million being parcelled out by the NSF over 5½ years as part of its ocean observatories initiative, which is intended to build an underwater network to study climate variability and issues in circulation and acidification. UW will get $35 million in 2010 to install about 500 miles of cabling and sensor nodes on the sea floor, which will give researchers real-time access to oceanic data. They'll have their hands full. more ›

All other universities should be green with envy, as University of Washington was named the greenest university in the U.S. more ›

SDOT has issued a traffic advisory that lasts from noon to 6 p.m. and also announced that Montlake Boulevard will be closed from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m., so getting from say eight-tenths of the city to the University Village to buy flip flops and $8,000 patio ensembles will basically end for the day. That’s okay. Those attending the graduation will take up all the Village parking spaces anyway. more ›

Join UW athletic director Scott Woodward, crew coach Michael Callahan, and the studs of Husky crew as they celebrate the Huskies' win at last weekends IRA Championship. Show up at Conibear Shellhouse at 6 p.m. for the free event--complimentary food and drink provided. Our bet: Someone will be thrown in Lake Washington. more ›

Over the weekend, University of Washington's varsity eight men's crew beat long-time rival California and the hoity-toity East coast crews in the last 100m to win the 107th Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championships. The final strokes proved powerful enough, as the UW bow ball passed the finish line a second faster to win the race. Final race times: UW 5:50.91, Cal. 5:51.80, Stanford 5:56.45, Brown 5:58.73, Harvard 6:01.64 and Boston Univ. 6:02.68. more ›

• A part of University of Washington football history was lost over the weekend, when former UW coach Jim Owens (yes, he's the statue in front of Husky Stadium) died at the age of 82.
• Sporting many shades of pink, thousands were out to "Race for the Cure." Grand Marshaling the quest was SPD Lt. Robin Clark.
• Tiny dancer Louise Nadeau took the ballet stage for the last time on Sunday, as she finished her 19-year career at the Pacific Northwest Ballet with a program that naturally concluded with Swan Lake.

Highlights above of Washington's 3-2 victory in game two of the Women's College World Series, giving them a sweep of Florida for the championship. It's the first national championship for Husky softball, the fifth overall NCAA title for the school. more ›

The University of Washington women's softballers are one win away from a national championship after spanking Florida tonight. Sorry to compare Husky softball to Mariner baseball, but this game reminded us so much of the Mariners' 1995 one-game divisional playoff win, we have to mention it. more ›

The University of Washington softball team, led by known Canadian Danielle Lawrie, will face the perennial NCAA Champions in everything University of Florida Gators in a best two-out-of-three series starting tonight. Yesterday the Huskies beat Georgia on the second try, and the Gators beat Alabama on a walk off grand slam, holy crap. more ›