Yesterday, volunteers around the country gave away a half-million books as part of World Book Night. As I told you last week, I picked up 20 copies of A Prayer for Owen Meany at Elliott Bay Book Company to distribute as I wanted. Slog commenters had a ... »
As of today, Progressive Majority director Noel Frame has reported $26,323 in contributions for her campaign to represent the 36th District, narrowly edging past Gael Tarleton, the Port of Seattle commissioner who came out of the gate last month with n... »
In the wake of the scandal surrounding monologuist Mike Daisey (if you have no idea what I'm talking about, see here), Cornish College of the Arts says it no longer plans to award him an honorary degree and he will not be giving this year's commencemen... »
Courtesy of the artists This sculpture, The Cornish Diploma Dispensor by Max Kraushaar and Graham Downing, was installed outside Cornish College of the Arts's main building for two weeks until the artists say in an email that it was removed, "most like... »
Wake up! Ever since Representative Mary Lou Dickerson announced she would retire from the legislature, stacks of people have jumped into the race to claim Dickerson's seat. We thought it was time for a 36th District candidate forum—with drinks—to ask t... »
For your Saturday-morning morbid reading, here are the latest restaurants and bars in Seattle to go belly-up, along with our best information as to why. Look at what the Alki Crab and Fish Co. is going to be reincarnated as! And in the undead category,... »
1. Earlier this week, Brendan Kiley told you about the Lit Crawl that's happening tonight. It's a pub crawl, but with great local authors—Ed Skoog! Stacey Levine! Sarah Galvin! Greg Bem! Kate Lebo!—reading work at every stop. I heard a rumor that the w... »
According to several sources familiar with the situation, all asking to remain anonymous, attorneys at the US Department of Justice have called a meeting with city officials this Friday to unveil draft terms for reforming the Seattle Police Department.... »
Put down your morning cup of lukewarm tea and listen up: It's no surprise that Pioneer Square has a piss problem. But,depending on who you talk to, it's getting worse. "It's like a yellow tide that washes over the neighborhood during game days at the s... »
The inside of the Seattle Labor Temple in Belltown looks like the inside of a Whopper and smells like an 8th grade chemistry lab. Roughly 175 people were packed in at tight tables, representing 80 different precincts. As you'd expect, it was a mostly o... »
Courtesy Eric FredericksenEric Fredericksen (foreground, with Vancouver, B.C. artist/curator Jonathan Middleton) inside Julian Hoeber's installation Demon Hill, shown at Western Bridge last year.The team that's envisioning a renewed downtown Seattle wa... »
Live, from Jackpot, Nevada, the safest place to gamble away your children™: It's Mayor Mike McGinn's annual State of the City Address and All You Can Eat Buffet! Watch in breathless wonder as the mayor tackles a year's worth of interesting topics, incl... »
Courtesy Washington Art in Public PlacesHEY, RICH PEOPLE! So if we tear this installation off the walls of White Bluffs Elementary School in Richland, you'll buy it, right?This story in this weekend's News Tribune reports on the Washington state senato... »
Blogger Joe Mirabella says of Preserve Marriage Washington's web site: The source of their “family” photos is a large database called iStockphoto.com that sells stock photos to anyone willing to pay a small license fee. One of the photos they purchased... »
According to several sources, who I can't name or they'd break my legs, we may know in the next few weeks how federal officials want the City of Seattle to correct its police department's pattern of committing civil rights violations. US Department of ... »
