Feature

The Movie Seattle Saved

Thirty years ago, The Stunt Man starring Peter O'Toole was gathering dust in a vault. Its producers hated it and no studio would touch it. Then Seattle audiences made it the star of one of Hollywood’s greatest underdog stories.

11/13/2009 By Matthew Halverson

Feature

Why Is This Chimp Smiling?

Seven apes arrived last year in Cle Elum. They’d been used up by medical science and the entertainment industry—and left to rot in tiny cages. Then one man showed them the depths of human kindness.

11/13/2009 By James Ross Gardner

Feature

Adult Ed 101

09/21/2009 By Matthew Halverson, Laura Cassidy, and Karen Quinn

Article

Atmospheric Disturbances

Brad Colman and Cliff Mass have clashed for years over who best interprets the mysteries of Northwest weather. Then the biggest snowstorm in decades revealed what’s really at stake.

09/21/2009 By David Laskin

Article

Exit Mayor, Musing

Greg Nickels’s finest moment on the political stage came when he stepped off it.

09/15/2009 By Eric Scigliano

Article

Phamily Newspaper

Two generations of community journalists bridge the chasms in the news business and the Vietnamese community.

08/10/2009 By Eric Scigliano

Article

The Doctor Is In a Fix

Martin Cahn went into general practice to help people and unravel the mysteries of their ailments. Now he just wishes someone could do the same for a health care system gone critical.

07/15/2009 By Eric Scigliano

Politics

Desperately Seeking Susan

Susan Hutchison campaigns for county exec with name, game—and flashes of indignation.

07/14/2009 By John Michael Hood

Feature

Vince Mira Won’t Walk the Line

Billed as the Second Coming of Johnny Cash, a teenager from Federal Way wowed rock stars, morning news shows, Ellen DeGeneres, and the Cash estate. There’s just one problem: Vince Mira is done parroting the Man in Black.

06/23/2009 By James Ross Gardner

Article

Coming to America

In a rundown refugee apartment complex a new world city is taking shape, and one teenage girl is at the center of it.

06/23/2009 By Eric Scigliano

Article

A Healthy Dose of Skepticism

Global health is big business in Seattle—which means it may be in danger of forgetting the billions of people it set out to help.

06/23/2009 By Tom Paulson

Article

Things That Go Boom

06/22/2009 By Karen Quinn

Article

Clean Can Be Green

Blue Sky cleaner Mark Callaghan wants to save the planet, one shirt at a time.

05/22/2009 By Kristin Okinaka

Constituent Advisory: Mayoral Lyrics

Spokane’s Rapping Mayor

From “Coming Together,” hip-hop lyrics written and performed by Spokane mayor Mary Verner

04/23/2009

Article

The First Annual 404 Error Awards

On May 7, the Seattle 2.0 Awards will honor worthy tech-industry mavericks—who wouldn’t want to be named Best Venture Capitalist?—but they don’t go far enough. Some suggested additions…

04/23/2009 By Matthew Halverson

Politics

He Did It His Way

Washington’s lieutenant governor has battled irrelevance and his fellow Democrats’ scorn for a decade. Now he doesn’t care what anyone thinks.

04/22/2009 By Matthew Halverson

Article

Xponential Equation

An innovative site sets out to reinvent tech-biz journalism.

04/22/2009 By Eric Scigliano

Article

String Theory

Classical cellist Joshua Roman expands his musical universe with Radiohead, world travel, and an unshakeable belief in his own potential.

04/17/2009 By Steve Wiecking

Article

Democracy 2.0

Social change pioneer Sarah Schacht helps citizens and government talk. No mass protest messages, please.

03/18/2009 By Valerie Schloredt

Article

Peanut Butter Provocateur

03/18/2009 By Jill Watanabe