February 7, 2008
Next fall, the yearly housing rates for UW students could increase by as much as $444.

January 25, 2008
As much as 48 percent of college undergraduates are in the first two years of mourning the death of a family member or close friend, according to a 2001 study by David E.

January 24, 2008
Losing a loved one can be one of life’s most traumatic experiences, especially during a young adult’s formative college years.

January 16, 2008
Ridership levels may ultimately decide the fate of streetcars in Seattle.

January 15, 2008
As the tracks of the South Lake Union Transit have been laid, numerous reports of bicycle accidents have turned up in these areas, particularly at the Fairview-Valley intersection, where left-turning bicyclists are hard-pressed to approach the tracks at a 90-degree angle.

January 14, 2008
However you spell it, Seattle’s new streetcar line provides downtown commuters with a viable alternative to driving.

August 15, 2007
Human beings were never born to read. That is the central claim at the heart of Proust and the Squid, the forthcoming book by Maryanne Wolf, director of the Center for Reading and Language Research and professor of child development at Tufts University.

August 8, 2007
Noah Parriott's music career started with a bang — or more specifically, a crash. A snowboarding accident in 1998 gave Parriott the starting grounds for inspiration and practice.

August 1, 2007
Last Saturday, The Seattle Times' Northwest Life section featured a swell article about a quaint past-time: hydroplane racing ("Race a thunderboat behind your bike!", Stuart Eskenazi, July 28). Written in the innocently childish vernacular of a 1950s-era boy, this first-person instruction manual described how to create an ideal aerodynamic wooden boat that won't flip as it's dragged behind one's bicycle.

August 1, 2007
Since the late 1980s, photographer Uta Barth has made art out of the act of looking. Citing vision as her primary subject matter, Barth takes blurry, off-center pictures of mundane objects and landscapes hoping to emphasize the cognitive processes at work within the viewer.

July 25, 2007
For anyone who's ever wondered what Seattle's Folklife Festival would be like if it rocked, it's about time to check out the Capitol Hill Block Party, a two-day extravaganza featuring more than 45 of the best new local and national rock and hip-hop artists as well as arts and crafts vendors.

July 25, 2007
Last week the new Tacoma Narrows Bridge opened to much fanfare — an estimated 60,000 people attended the ribbon cutting festivities.

July 18, 2007
What do football and electronic music have in common? Quite a bit, it turns out: energetic, drunken crowds crammed together in close quarters, elusive tight ends, the occasional ass-grabbing and a greater-than-average chance of scoring.

July 11, 2007
The big Live Earth concert event has come and gone, and certainly everyone can agree it was an unbridled success. Listeners around the world had the chance to enjoy stale music from the likes of The Police, Genesis and Garth Brooks, and a holographic Al Gore was beamed around the world to convert any remaining skeptics, most of whom were likely not even tuned in.

July 11, 2007
Before visiting Mouth Open, Teeth Showing, a new mixed-media exhibit at The Henry Art Gallery, one should give a listen to Sam's Town, The Killers' bombastic new album.

July 4, 2007
Exploring new ways to interpret life and communicate it to others is one of the great challenges of art. That it is also one of art's most fulfilling aspects is evident in two new career retrospectives opening at the Frye Art Museum, where two artists display not only isolated virtuosity but also evolving toolboxes of skills and techniques at their commands.

July 4, 2007
It's well known by now that American Idol runner-up <b>Blake Lewis</b> has the mad crazy beats-in-a-box and can give <b>Maroon 5's</b> Adam Levine a run for his money when it comes to producing androgynously high-pitched vocals.

June 27, 2007
This week, summertime finally gets into full swing, starting with tonight's Fall Out Boy show at the Tacoma Dome. The equivalent of a blockbuster popcorn flick, the concert also includes performances by (+44) (one of Blink-182's splinter groups), The Academy Is..., Paul Wall, and Cobra Starship, whose song "Bring It" appeared on last summer's Snakes on a Plane soundtrack.

June 27, 2007
This past weekend, the Burke Museum opened, a photography exhibit Yellowstone to Yukon, that aspires to the summit of all true artistic endeavors, seeking to both inform and inspire.

June 20, 2007
Don't you hate it when people repeat everything you say? Then you just might hate John From Cincinnati, a new HBO drama that has arrived just in time to ride out the waves left by The Sopranos (The question is, can it make any of its own?) In the second episode, the titular character, John Monad (played by Austin Nichols from Ann Arbor), takes great pains to copy the sounds coming from the bathroom stall next to his.

June 20, 2007
Not two weeks after Pretty Girls Make Graves played their farewell show at Neumo's, bassist Derek Fudesco (also formerly of Murder City Devils) returns with his new band, The Cave Singers. Their mellow, acoustic sound &mdash; think shoegazery while scuffling along a dusty country road; better yet, try camping in the Cascades &mdash; will certainly help ease you over the mid-week hump (tonight, Neumo's, doors at 8 p.m., 21+, $8, with Lightning Dust and Carrie Biell).

June 18, 2007

April 5, 2007
Self-described as "Absurdist Garage Art-Pop with Indie-Prog Sensibilities" and forming "a triangulation between the Beatles, They Might Be Giants and Ween," Seattle's seven-member "Awesome" (name spelled with the quotes) are a rising phenomenon.

March 29, 2007
There is no doubt that, to most of Seattle, Ballard is simply inconvenient. But this geographical circumstance is what makes Ballard the independent, quirky neighborhood that it is

March 8, 2007
Dropping into my seat to see Premonition, a new psychological thriller starring Sandra Bullock, I had the sinking sensation that I would leave the theater extremely pissed off.

March 1, 2007
Some people pray. Some people meditate. Other people drink excessively, take drugs and have lots and lots of wild, unbridled sex.

March 1, 2007

March 1, 2007
KEXP 90.3 FM started out as KCMU, a 10-watt station on the UW campus back in 1972. Meet John Richards, the host and producer of the station's popular morning show.

February 15, 2007

February 8, 2007

November 16, 2006