weekly weekly report : unnamed edition
As usual, here’s a rundown of what to expect as you’re flipping through
the pages of your favorite weekly. Also as usual, it doesn’t include
everything (since both papers have online tables of contents) and the
links will show up when they’re available on both sites (or whenever my
afternoon procrastination instincts set in).
 the Stranger |
 Seattle Weekly |
| density watch |
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| Still pro-density. This week’s villain: Nickles kowtowing to big business who aren’t hip to the re-zoning scene [#]! |
Still skeptical. This week’s dramatic revelation: Knute Berger almost falls for the fancy models at the Vulcan Discovery Center [#]! |
| in other news |
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| Amy “skateboard coverage MVP” Jenniges profiles [#] Seattle’s raddest mom — Kate Martin, who is not only lobbying for better locations for skateparks, but also transformed her front yard into a skate course for her kids — and covers efforts by local bikers to document the dangerous world of cycling [#]. |
Instead of a full feature, this week’s Weekly includes a condensed chapter of former Seattle police chief Norm “WTO” Stampler’s new biography. In a truly weird bit of pagination, the chapter is interspersed with a street corner (the infamous Sixth and Union) interview/profile [#]. |
| interesting approaches to arts coverage |
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| Easier to write (and read) than a complete book review: Sean Nelson dissects [#] a paragraph from Ian McEwan’s Saturday. |
Steve Wiecking uses this week’s column as an occasion to interpret recent television appearances by Tom Cruise and to offer the movie star advice [#]. |
| articles about coffee |
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| Apparently a big week for coffee in the weeklies. In addition to the Victrola Wi-Fi situation [#], the Stranger includes an article by Sara Dickerman that scolds area cafes for selling crappy corporate muffins [#]. Although she requests reports of other pastry atrocities, I’d like to endorse the weekend scones at Local Cafe in the hope that wider recognition will make them a weekday phenomenon. |
Meanwhile, Heather Logue takes the Seattle Weekly reader on a tour of cafes that happen to be open sort of late at night [#]. Although the article is called “24 Hour Coffee People”, none of the profiled shops are open all night. Maybe this is a commentary on the shortage of all night caffeine stops — she had to venture to Kirkland to include a place that closes at 11 pm. |
| overlapping picks? |
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| We have a winner! Both the “Stranger Suggests” [#] and the “SW This Week” [#] recommend Circus Contraption for your Friday night. It is also worth noting that in it’s “Brain City”[#] |
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| representative sentences |
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| “She talks about conservatives the way people who hate their fathers talk about their fathers — her hatred doesn’t have any detachment or distance . . . ” [#] “The truth of the matter is, some of the best books in the last 10 |
” . . . if Homme’s playing with himself here, nobody ever said autoeroticism couldn’t be sensual” [#] “Art is less dangerous than drugs, which is why people get into it, but “OK, so the swing phenomenon fizzled as a hipster trend.” [#] |
