After deciding who should be president, the state of the university housing system, and how good my sister's stuffing is, we got down to the real knock-down, voices raised discussion: when, exactly...
John Silber, the bad-boy former president of Boston University, has a new screed out, a book entitled Architecture of the Absurd. It's an attack on the excesses of ego-crazy architects, who put up...
Our Thanksgiving tradition: The people who have toiled through the most meal-prep over the years (my sister and mother-in-law) fly from points East and West to rendezvous at'ꀦgasp...a restaurant for...
You used to rate cities' cost of living by the Cheeseburger Index, the price of an average cheeseburger. And Seattle used to score well, though we doubt it does these days.
So now comes the Guinness...
It's an annual rite in Seattle: 'Tis the season to piss on a holiday. One year it was King County discouraging employees from using the phrase "Merry Christmas" because it was not religiously neutral...