"Veronica Mars": It's No "Buffy"--At Least Not Yet

Week after week, "Veronica Mars," without fail, delivers incredible, snappy dialogue from all its quirky characters, yet there still is an emptiness behind these words and conversations.

Seattlest: 43 Things Seattle Is Missing

We love this town. But we'd love it ever-so-much more if it had these things in it. (Budding entrepreneurs, take note.)

The Dirty Word in 43 Down: A New York Times crossword gaffe

If you finished Monday's crossword puzzle in the New York Times, your answer for 43 Down, clued as "Scoundrel," was SCUMBAG. Most puzzlers, penciling in these letters, felt nothing more than mild satisfaction. But a small number knew enough to be outraged.

The Deity in the Data By William Saletan

Warning: The surgeon general may determine that prayer is hazardous to your health. That's what can happen when faith sets out to prove its power through science.

The $tar of the Show

It's getting harder to see the TV show through the clutter of product placements

Don't Read This Book!

I do not mean to suggest you judge a book solely by its cover; sometimes it's necessary to read the jacket copy before delivering yourself (and your wallet) safely from its clutches.

Saturday Mourning

Survivors of the Capitol Hill Massacre on the rave, the afterparty, and the hell that Kyle Huff unleashed

Beatles And Jobs' Apple Come Together In Court

Apple Corps' four owners, Sir Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison (wives of the late John Lennon and George Harrison) want Jobs to break the link between the Apple brand and music products of Apple Computer and fork out millions of dollars in damages.

The Ex-Mayor's Booby Prize

The Lusty Lady's not for sale, so he and some developer friends bought the sky above.

Dawn of the Dead: Seven Dead, Two Injured in Early-Morning Seattle Shooting

The man who shot and killed six young people at a party this morning in Capitol Hill, before killing himself, was in his late 20s and was only an acquaintance to the victims, according to Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske, who briefed reporters at a Saturday-afternoon press conference.

Seattle: It's not tunnel vs. viaduct, it's great vs. not great.

I just struck me. The choice on the viaduct is NOT about tunnel vs. rebuild, cheap vs. expensive.

iPod, Therefore I Am

After 30 years as an outsider, Apple founder Steve Jobs is the white-hot center of mass-market media. His obsession with design is now America's: the machine has become the message. With the $7 billion Pixar deal, Disney—kingdom of content—is Jobs's new playground.

Students misbehaving could pay price for posting photos online

Students are slowly beginning to realize just how university administrators and faculty members are using the information they figured only friends would want to look at. And they don't like it.

Today's packages can be murder to open

Consumer Reports, in fact, announced its first-ever Oyster Awards in this month's issue, with first prize going to the hard-plastic clamshell packaging for the Uniden Digital Cordless Phone set, which took nine minutes and 22 seconds to open -- not the longest, but by far the mos

The Girls Next Door: Life in the centerfold.

Taschen has just published "The Playmate Book: Six Decades of Centerfolds" ($39.99), by Gretchen Edgren, a contributing editor to Playboy, and the book is a testament to Hefner's fidelity to his vision.

Focus on foreign cash in 1974 crash

New revelations in the decades-old murder of a notorious Seattle strip club operator: killed by a hitman who thought he'd been double-crossed on a counterfeiting deal.

CD has chapters, but Neko Case doesn't play by the book

Great review of Neko Case's new album and selections from an interview with her.

Lewis Lapham Lights Up

Interesting interview and overview of Lewis Lapham's tenure as editor of Harper's magazine.

Peter's Big Plan

Personal checks to go way of dinosaurs

Competition forces corporate shake-up at Larry's

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