Index to 1996 Misc. Columns
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1-4-96
Zygon-be-gone/7 Gables Theaters for sale again?/3-way taxi merger/Whole Toon Catalog fades to black/foam dancing -
1-10-96
More microbrew soda pops/more KCMU speculation/drag queens at a nudist camp?/Bill Bennett's cartoon show/the Microsoft-Radio Shack-Seattle nightclub connection/books I like/TV shows I don't like/betting on the Bud Bowl
- 1-17-96
Defending Nixon/a CD-(P)ROM game for
girls/Washington's first free-standing cocktail lounge/the "Starbucks of health care" -
1-24-96
The new band room at Sit &
Spin/hookers selling Candlebox albums?/Faux Faulkner writing contest/"A
Women"/naked mole-rats are beyond cool! -
1-31-96
Defending Apple Computer/save the Blob!/let it snow (x3) -
2-7-96
Griffey slams/Behring punts/The trouble
with Netcasting, revisited/Shell's weird credit card offer -
2-14-96
Net censorship/The coming TV cartoon
glut/Why Procter & Gamble's pushing fake fat/estrogen poisoning?/Another B-movie fanzine -
2-21-96
Steve Forbes compared to W.R. Hearst/NW
Cable News reviewed/Mattel vs. Hasbro/World
Wrestling Federation vs. Ted Turner/Upper Queene Anne lost to the
Upscale -
2-28-96
Legislature vs. strip clubs/fake "indie" film outfits/Phil Gramm/Fun neon signs/Nigeria's PR in Black newspapers -
3-6-96
The search for a new Adobe
abode/Lowry's logoff/Obscure satellite music channels/Gil Scott-Heron for Nike/Denny's for the Harlem Globetrotters/one less all-ages music space -
3-13-96
The small part of Buchanan's message
I like/State Legislature update/ex-Seahawks name contest results/an
Asian-American alterna-zine/love and media mergers/too much Cocktail Nation?/Edith Piaf, the original punk! -
3-20-96
More on Steve Forbes and Egg
magazine/Spud Goodman's sort-of return to TV/dumbed-down school textbooks/the true civic value of "the arts" -
3-27-96
DBX audio update/battling Courtney
Love impersonators/pirate radio/Washington Hall's fate/Johnny Rotten
sells out some more/Martin Pang mania/Paul Allen-Seahawks jokes -
4-3-96
A sex workers' zine/public access back in
TV Times/Vancouver's Ford Theatre/shot-in-Seattle underground
film debuts/fun with spell-checking/the great radio consolidation -
4-10-96
A Seattle singer's Esquivel connection/the global music biz vs. regional pop/vintage chain stores/Ross Shafer turns to "guy" comedy/home shopping on regular TV -
4-17-96
Bar-hopping by the numbers/is
rape punk?/Tropicana and Apollo 13/more pirate radio attempts/Mad
Cow Disease, the band -
4-24-96
New Kingdome uses/Subaru
ads for lesbians/Elvira Beer/Food Giant update/Vancouver, television city/Joey
Shithead, punk politician/Eastside "secession" campaign -
5-1-96
One more Paul Allen-Seahawks joke/phallic jokes in hamburger ads/a baseball fanzine/Seattle's best restaurants for cereal/what's more likely to get you, street crime or a car crash? -
5-8-96
"White pride" recruiters on campus -
5-15-96
Bob Blackburn Jr. meets Betty Page/C.
Love meets Bertolucci, sort of/end of 1991-era rock clubs/"Picasso and
Friends"/a Kingdome re-use suggestion -
5-22-96
the biggest conglomerate you never
heard of/No-Diet Days return/"progressive" politicians and the war against
the poor/fake microbrews -
5-29-96
"alternative" production
music/Off Ramp update/nightclubs paid off by cig companies/"naughty" hotel
ads/Newsweek's pathetic Seattle hype -
6-6-96
an essay, on the occasion of
Misc.'s tenth anniversary, about the city with which I have an
ongoing lover's quarrel -
6-13-96
The Church of Kurt Cobain/RKCNDY
update/masturbation as ad metaphor/Wobbly zine review/Olestra request -
6-20-96
KCMU News censored into
oblivion/"Grunge Gunk" hair goop/Food co-op vs. Aurora Ave./a
"poetry-free" zine review -
6-27-96
Sonics postmortem/Mickey Mouse goes to
Rio/Nazis and synchronized swimmers/CNBC misses the news -
7-4-96
Bon Marche loses another dept./more music clubs close/Hank Williams' minstrel influence -
7-11-96
Pike Place gentrification/sidewalk
suppers on Second/"profits from poverty"/McDonald's, Nike, and
Westlake Center -
7-18-96
Kids' rights/DIY jazz
CDs/Planet Hollywood vs. film-as-art/a literary zine on Mercer Island -
7-25-96
The incredible shrinking 206 area
code/phone-card speculation/Anton Chekov meets Cobain in Florida/"wraps"
rapped/faux-Altoids from Tacoma/ -
8-1-96
Lesbian artists stereotyped/women's
tops made from men's briefs/Olympics thots/Seattle cops vs. political
art/modem-tax threats/"fear of content" -
8-8-96
The Three Stooges and Pat Robertson/Xena, a clean girl in a dirty neighborhood/labia lifts/Olympix in Seattle?/The Shot vs. Watchmen -
8-15-96
a personal essay on family, heredity, and destiny -
8-22-96
Fun with bottle caps/Toaster Museum and RKCNDY updates/Billy Tipton Sax Quartet/soft drinks with gummy gunk added/new bus colors/the Unbomber strikes!/"Kill The Hippies" -
8-29-96
Jack vs. Shawn Kemp/sex and the car factory/Food Giant doomed/new local-art zine/"Joke of the Century"/Urban Decay cosmetics/"Ways to Praise Your Child" -
9-5-96
Rev. Farrahkan vs. Independence Day/movies to drink by/Orbitz pop update/nose rings and dress codes/no more Camel Cash? -
9-12-96
Virtual I-glasses/Spud Goodman's
return to local TV/Tacoma online tax dropped/conceptual artists and their
living spaces/generational empowerment via gambling? -
9-19-96
an end-of-summer clearance of local zine reviews -
9-26-96
Jack Kemp's disappearing act/Olestra, Westlake Center, and Spud Goodman updates/supermarket tabloids' death spiral -
10-3-96
Norm Rice, the
quick-cooking politician/REI's roots remembered/a fake indie zine by Red
Kamel's ad agency -
10-10-96
Who's more insulting to NW
women, eastern writer Annie Dillard or the Times'anti-Dillard
rant?/a legendary Seattle steakhouse reborn/the Ms' non-Miracle
Season II/let's buy KIRO! -
10-17-96
Reno: Land of Contrasts! (Expanded
online version) -
10-24-96
Special all-retail edition with a defunct mondo-video store, Best Products' withdrawal from Washington, Food Stamps for pizzas, the possible return of the dreaded Cologne Cult, a "Geek Chic" boutique, and potential us
es for the ex-REI site -
10-31-96
Election ennui/Murdoch vs. cable access in NYC/drug-store consolidation/what ever happened to Courtney Love? -
11-7-96
Grownup Halloween second
thoughts/NW Bookfest/the secret of extra-crispy fries/a cute Brian Eno
review -
11-14-96
Wal-Mart arrives
in Renton/more election ennui/getting violently ill from health drinks -
11-21-96
The mysterious connections
between Seattle and All My Children/QFC's plans for the Food
Giant building/bridal pix leave the Times/demographic cleansing
comes to Pio. Square/hate radio in exile -
11-28-96
The Fabulous Sports Babe,
a legend in her own mind/Son of the Blob goes religious/a new nickname
for REI/a really long local zine/meeting the "living Barbie" at Toys "R"
Us -
12-5-96
Demolishing the SCUD artists'
co-op/mourning a Tacoma rockzine/Free WIlly beverages/what's really wrong
with U District retail/Frasier's Seattle inaccuracies/snow
memories -
12-12-96
New local "political"
publications/Ernst Hardware's demise/more "alternative" beers/a twist
on "race-blind" actor casting -
12-19-96
Kingdome doomed?/California
Raisin haters/odd men are in!/why kids love Elmo/TCI's troubles -
12-26-96
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