Earshot | Great American songs, revivedNow that jazz is the subject of high art and the object of serious, scholarly pursuit, it sometimes seems as if in order to be good, the... Read more |
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Screenwriters on Strike Over Stake in New MediaHollywood writers took to the sidewalks, if not quite the streets, on Monday, as last-ditch bargaining failed to avert the first industrywide strike in more than 19 years. Read more |
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Don't expect a "tell-all" book from Brit's momWhen author Lorilee Craker accepted her latest assignment, pop phenom Britney Spears had only shaved her head. Things got worse from there... Read more |
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Frazettas become Ortega's epic taleNow maybe someone can come up with an exciting backstory for Monet's haystacks paintings. Meanwhile, as they say in the funny books, Seattle... Read more |
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Crafts | Seattle's a hotbed for funny fuzzy creaturesWith a little plush and pluck, it seems you can anthropomorphize just about anything. Witness the curious, yet somehow endearing, collection... Read more |
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Can't Brit catch a break?Celebrity gossip, famous birthdays and other tidbits, compiled from Seattle Times news services. Read more |
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Reconnecting with Cuba on stage and tableEduardo Machado loves green plantains. He craves yuca with lime, and Moros y Cristianos (Moors and Christians), a mixture of bacon, tomato... Read more |
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"ABC" a metaphysical page-turnerDavid Plante's beautiful, otherworldly new novel is that improbable creation, a metaphysical page-turner reminiscent of other books around... Read more |
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Drew Carey picks an issuePeople Carey picks an issue Bob Barker famously closed each episode of "The Price Is Right" with a pitch to spay and neuter pets. His successor is taking... Read more |
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A strong woman in a fragile Oregon frontierMolly Gloss opens her latest novel with this no-nonsense line: "In those days, even before the war had swept up all the young men from the ranches, there were girls who came through the country breaking horses." Read more |
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Bad shotCelebrity gossip, famous birthdays and other tidbits, compiled from Seattle Times news services. Read more |
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Book bounty: Fall brings time to cultivate new ideasBefore we know it, autumn will turn to winter. We'll be turning too — to planting bulbs for next spring, making plans for next season... Read more |
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Spears' sons can visitCelebrity gossip, famous birthdays and other tidbits, compiled from Seattle Times news services. Read more |
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An insider outdoorsPhotographer mary randlett shoots landscapes drenched in the quintessential Northwest palette — a thousand shades of gray. A glint of sunlight... Read more |
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Peg Bracken, sassy author who skewered cuisine, dies at 89Peg Bracken, 89, who wrote witty best-selling books tweaking the pretensions of gourmet-food preparation and proper etiquette, died Oct... Read more |
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Showing Britney the loveCelebrity gossip, famous birthdays and other tidbits, compiled from Seattle Times news services. Read more |
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New Books | "Wake Up and Smell the Planet""Wake Up and Smell the Planet: The Non-Pompous, Non-Preachy Grist Guide to Greening Your Day" edited by Brangien Davis with Katharine Wroth... Read more |
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Mythmaker straddles the old, new West"The Next Rodeo: New and Selected Essays" by William Kittredge Graywolf, 256 pp., $15 Before he published his critically praised first novel... Read more |
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Blair's book dealCelebrity gossip, famous birthdays and other tidbits, compiled from Seattle Times news services. Read more |
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The Ralph Lauren look: Hefty book marks 40 yearsHe's been called a fashion legend — an icon whose innovation and vision brought us timeless classics, leaving an indelible and enduring... Read more |
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Writers on the Picket Line Would Feel a Varying PinchAs the Writers Guild of America begins picketing, it must deal with complications created by the economic disparity among its members. Read more |
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The Little Gold Man Made Me Do ItWithout Oscar hopes, a lot of movies would never get made. Read more |
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In Stetson or Wig, He?s Hard to Pin DownHeath Ledger loses himself in Todd Haynes?s menagerie of Dylan impersonators. Read more |
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