A battle of the bands explodes in Portland’s Nob Hill neighborhood.
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FoodNerd experiences the typical Seattle gardener’s dilemma: What to do with a bumper crop of zucchini?
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In 2003, I wrote a column for the Stranger suggesting that Seattle’s lack of late night pizza options was loaded with significance. Times have changed for the better.
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Last night, after staying at work until 11 to re-write a 900-word article on the emergency contraception trial (I lost the first version—does that even happen anymore?), I glumly set out up the Hill in the heat with my headache, pedaling toward home. Man, what’s with this headache? Oh right. I hadn’t eaten all day. [...]
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Josh Cohen, aka BikeNerd, files a “Last Night” that has nothing to do with bikes. It has to do with delicious Asian food on Queen Anne.
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Last Night, (Saturday night actually), I saw a great documentary, The Oath, at the Northwest Film Forum. Mostly filmed in Yemen, it’s about Osama bin Laden’s former bodyguard—now a chatty taxi driver in Yemen’s lively capital city, Sana’a. He’s also the brother-in-law of bin Laden’s former driver, Salim Hamdan, of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, the landmark [...]
More »Last night (Saturday night actually), shambling back from Old School Frozen Custard, my date and I didn’t feel quite done with the night. We decided to stop in at the Northwest Film Forum, which is right around the corner from the ice cream shop, to see what was playing. (We’d checked the SIFF choices and [...]
More »Last night, I had a large chocolate malt at Old School Frozen Custard on Capitol Hill. While everyone worships Molly Moon’s, I’ve always been let down by the place. The outlandishness of the choices only highlights the fact that the flavors are actually more Ramones (one note) than Talking Heads (multi-layered). And the service is [...]
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Last night, I attended a SIFF screening at Pacific Place of Countdown to Zero, a devastating film about the possibility of that Reagan-era concern, nuclear annihilation. The film’s basic argument: Today’s concerns about climate change and other environmental calamities aren’t going to matter much if we blow ourselves up first.
More »Last night, I had dinner at the new vegan spot on Broadway, the Highline. It’s on the second floor at the corner of Broadway and John where that weird place with the Lamborghini sticking out of the roof—what was that place called? Sharks?—used to be. Right above the Castle Super Store.
More »Last night, I saw Gordos, a SIFF feature at the Egyptian. It was a knee-slapper—a dark comedy about five overweight Spaniards who meet in group therapy.
More »Last night, my family and I hit up the new taco trailer at 23rd and Union in the Central District. Pretty swanky, eh? But to anyone who lives near that troubled corner, the taco trailer is a total godsend. Through the 12 years that I’ve lived two blocks away, the intersection has remained a stagnant scar on the [...]
More »I just got an email from Wes, our ad director. Have we lost our ethical bearings, letting our ad guy write copy about a restaurant? Nah. It’s just that Erica, Camden, and Chris and I are so swamped covering politics these days, we don’t have social lives. Here’s Wes: Last night, I had some kick-ass [...]
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Last night, I decided to see what this Capitol Hill thing is all about. (The kids say it’s groovy up there!) So I ventured into Guanaco’s Tacos Pupuseria (in the same building that houses Hana and Kimchi Bistro, and which FoodNerd Angela Garbes raved about here). My dining partner ordered a sampler with one pork [...]
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