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Spears' sons can visit

Celebrity gossip, famous birthdays and other tidbits, compiled from Seattle Times news services. Read more

An insider outdoors

Photographer mary randlett shoots landscapes drenched in the quintessential Northwest palette — a thousand shades of gray. A glint of sunlight... Read more

Peg Bracken, sassy author who skewered cuisine, dies at 89

Peg Bracken, 89, who wrote witty best-selling books tweaking the pretensions of gourmet-food preparation and proper etiquette, died Oct... Read more

Showing Britney the love

Celebrity gossip, famous birthdays and other tidbits, compiled from Seattle Times news services. Read more

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

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

Blair's book deal

Celebrity gossip, famous birthdays and other tidbits, compiled from Seattle Times news services. Read more

The Ralph Lauren look: Hefty book marks 40 years

He's been called a fashion legend — an icon whose innovation and vision brought us timeless classics, leaving an indelible and enduring... Read more