Tour leader sets sights on changing the world
Even on a trip to India designed to change the world, photographer Amanda Koster made room for the colorful and the sublime. She led her idealistic tour group -- a...
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Web site brings back the art of telling jokes
Have you heard this one? Two men are at the beach. One has, like, 25 women swarming around him. The other friend gets jealous and leans in and says, "Hey...
Seattle housing is near the bottom
Nobody can deny now that Seattle-area home prices have declined. The question is: Have they hit bottom? A typical house in Seattle and King County sold for less in December...
The real Kurt Cobain
For his 1993 book "Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana," journalist Michael Azerrad was granted several midnight-to-dawn interviews with Kurt Cobain. These interviews took place between December 1992...
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1 Vintage Cottages By Molly Hyde English Gibbs Smith, $29.95 Author Molly Hyde English gets the bigger byline, but the many reasons you're likely to add this book to the...
Student pops up with idea
Sitting on a desk in his middle school classroom, 6th-grader James Gentry is confident and curious. Cradled in his hands is another hand, a yellow one made with a wad...
Evolutionary psychology proves a divisive topic
Women are the reason men do everything. Most neurosurgeons are men and most kindergarten teachers are women. Beautiful people have more daughters. These are a few of the conclusions from...
What’s the deal with bees?
Give Jerry Seinfeld the right opening to make a joke, and he'll take it. During a recent Chicago preview of "Bee Movie," a computer-animated film that represents the "Seinfeld" star's...
Stupid Ex Tricks have a way of backfiring
Everyone does stupid things sometimes. So said Alejandro Valencio, the poor lovesick sap who recently got trapped inside his ex-girlfriend's chimney in Evansville, Ind., after he became convinced he could...
Using online tech to promote social change
With their laptops open, blogs abuzz and hand-held cameras streaming live video to the Internet, hundreds of technology entrepreneurs and enthusiasts gathered recently in Seattle to talk about the present...