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Fast times and loads of fun, despite expensive gas

Photo story: Drag racing today is a AAA-sanctioned activity for high school students — on a track, without alcohol, and with plenty of supervision. But high-priced fuel takes a toll.

L.D. Kirshenbaum is a Seattle-based journalist with just enough expertise to know that automobile tires are not made from solid rubber.
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Nickels peeks under the Cascade Curtain and gets pissed off

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Joel Connelly, blogging from the Democratic National Convention in Denver, had a nugget from Seattle's strongman mayor, Greg Nickels.

The mayor's block party weekend

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Sydney Orchestra admits it mimed performance at Olympics opening gala

Too much at stake to take a chance with live performance, says an official at the Melbourne orchestra, which was used to pre-record some of the music for the 2000 Summer Olympics.

The making of an effective arts board

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As economy softens, it just gets worse for newspapers

More cuts, consolidations, offers to sell, and pay freezes. Now online advertising growth is also slowing. A number of newspapers could run out of time before finding a new model, analysts warn. Here's a broad overview of the red ink.

Howard Schultz drops his lawsuit against the Sonics, ending any possibility of a return

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Rowing with the sunrise

On Lake Union in Seattle.

Mountain meadow

Showdown vote in Alaska over fisheries and mining

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A Stumptown weekend

Portland is one cool town. As a lifelong Washingtonian, I've always considered Seattle my city, whether growing up in the rural community of Arlington or living on Whidbey Island for the past 33 years. But after spending a weekend in Portland, defection is not out of the question. I'm not surprised that a growing number of our South Whidbey "kids" have decided to make Portland their new home town.

An all-737 fleet now: Alaska Airlines retires its last MD-80

Mountain meadow

Flip Side » Space Needle.

The funny thing about Seattle ...

Our humor writer shares the top ten jokes he's collected in a not very funny city.

'Drill their brains out!'

The real superpower threat: Luxembourg

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A Stumptown weekend

Portland is one cool town. As a lifelong Washingtonian, I've always considered Seattle my city, whether growing up in the rural community of Arlington or living on Whidbey Island for the past 33 years. But after spending a weekend in Portland, defection is not out of the question. I'm not surprised that a growing number of our South Whidbey "kids" have decided to make Portland their new home town.

A soda company's porn-star-studded past: what the P-I didn't mention

New restrictions to bottom-trawling off Alaska, Northwest coasts

Lifestyle / Leisure » Jack Lewis wearing his old Filson jacket.

The Filson of my dreams

A Seattle clothier makes a jacket so tough and so dear, it's hard to part with, even for a new one.

No longer in the garden: pesky starlings

Soaking up B.C.'s Sunshine Coast

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