Index to 1997 Misc. Columns
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1-2-97
Stadia debacle cont./alternative is dead! -
1-9-97
The anti-aesthetic of hard-porn
video/Michael Moore/the Evita look/a bitter soda/the new Value
Village/another viewpoint on TicketMaster/a "goliath of the sky" -
1-16-97
Behind the Marvel Comics
bankruptcy -
1-23-97
Ebonics explained/scary
new ads for Pontiac and Blockbuster/new store, Math n'
Stuff -
1-30-97
Hattie's Hat gets
reblocked/more weird ads/pirate radio doom?/Larry Flynt
explained, once and for all/Seattle Wrappes in Oregon -
2-6-97
More Hendrix fetishization/magnetic
fake-pierced
jewelry at the Seattle Gift Show/KSTW's new owners/Vox Populi
Gallery R.I.P. -
2-13-97
The Capitol Club and the
coming-O-age of the Blank Generation/the mainstream press suddenly
discovers 20-year-old "youth" subcultures/the return of Fizzies/how to
solve the Fred Meyer vs. Leary Way neighborhood squabble/a Valentine's
quip -
2-20-97
ASUW Experimental
College's hiatus/"antiquing"/a regional book distributor's
troubles/the Weekly for sale/weird news item of the
week -
2-27-97
If the Kingdome goes,
where will the Home Show go?/KidStar Radio dies/retail changes/deaf lib at a local Mardi Gras party/Microsoft compared to
Family Feud -
3-6-97
how I became four-fifths the
man I used to be -
3-13-97
The leisure/labor
contradiction that is GameWorks/the wonder that is Boeing
Surplus/the memory that was Sunny Jim -
3-20-97
If reading automatically
makes you smarter, how does Publishers Clearing House fool all
those mag subscribers?/sheep-cloning puns/a pseudo-Russian
literary zine/local TV owner shuffle -
3-27-97
More on the greatly
exaggerated "Death of the Book"/GameWorks update/Reese's
Cookie Cups and Starburst Fruit Twists/microbrew sales going
flat? -
4-3-97
Goodbye Courtney/Goodbye
Trident Imports/Hello 'Potty Training Kelly' doll/Hello wood computer
mice/Hello
KONG-TV/'Who That?' to public-TV announcers -
4-10-97
John Fogerty's
non-participation in the Saul Zaentz lovefest/Landmark
Theaters' new logo/Cocktail Culture and nostalgia for
liberalism -
4-17-97
An essay for the 35th
anniversary of the Seattle World's Fair asking whatever happened
to Century 21 -
4-24-97
The masculinization of
Japanese snacks/the end of Cyclops/the end of Mayor Rice's
regime/a cocktail-girlie mag/Soundgarden sendoff -
5-1-97
Nordstrom's (and the
fashion biz's) woes/"Italian" sodas from Bothell/a
bike-messengers' zine/the Seahawk stadium vote/cigars and babies/advice to
young
writers -
5-8-97
The rise of QFC
supermarkets/the fall of My Suzie's
restaurant/chocolate-flavored frozen veggies/no sports-logo
tax, darn it!
- 5-15-97
Royko remembered/a
dumb Seattle-set rock novel/a dumber Virginia-set rock novel/a
cool Seattle-made cocktail zine
- 5-22-97
Why I'm leaning toward supporting
the Seahawk stadium scheme/TCI's plans for low-definition TV/a private
quasi-lottery for a house/more on
glycerol ester of wood rosin
- 5-29-97
A '70s new age sex
church returns/Dennis Rodman dolls/more new area codes
- 6-5-97
The at-long-last
reincarnation of the Off Ramp club/Nike's flat sales/a video
arcade's hygiene rules/a cereal made just for box-collecting
speculators/a local industrial zine/Allen Ginsberg's legacy
reconsidered
- 6-12-97
Some thoughts about
life and society upon turning 40
- 6-19-97
Think! energy
bars/local TV news implodes/no more Virtual i-Glasses/end of
the cafe cereal craze/'Sexy Moms'/the sublime sluttiness of
British Cosmo
- 6-26-97
a visit to remote and
exotic Corvallis, Oregon (a.k.a. Beaver Territory)
- 7-3-97
Cloud Room doomed?/the
hidden social significance of Fraggle Rock/PMS Crunch
candy/Fox News Channel's weird promos/what do you do with a
surplus Kingdome?
- 7-10-97
New cafe, the Coffee
Messiah/Cinerama theater update/life after cigarette
billboards/the decline of daytime 'reality' talk shows/win for the
chance to smash a genuine Chihuly!
- 7-17-97
Jim Goad's Redneck
Manifesto and the eternal war between white trash
and white cash/why Microsoft wouldn't buy CBS/health spas and
other body businesses
- 7-24-97
Calling for a 12-month
moratorium against Seattle artists moving to New York or
California (with reader comments added 7-28-97)
- 7-31-97
Alternatives to the CD
jewel box/"Right o-on?"/gooey candy for X-treme
sportsters/Burger King "Dino Tenders"/call for entries to the
Misc. Midsummer Reading List
- 8-7-97
Defending Seafair
again/collectible hot sauces/the US/Canada Salmon War
escalates
- 8-14-97
the first Misc.
Midsummer Reading List
- 8-21-97
DIY-culture guidebooks
published by Disney/new indie moviehouse/more book
superstores?/end of the art journal Aorta
- 8-28-97
The (brief) local
disappearance of Zippy the Pinhead/estrogen and
intelligence/the Seahawks' new corporate name/a
quasi-troubling Redhook Ale slogan/the Nitelite Cafe gone
yuppified/a live fringe-theater play in an abandoned movie
theater/a search for formerly-popular music forms that haven't
been revived by hipsters -
9-4-97
Replacement Spice
Girls?/Reader's Digest troubles/Zippy brought
back
- 9-11-97
Musical genres that
haven't gone hip (yet)/Denny's goes 'diner'
- 9-18-97
Diesel clothing
catalogs and whether parody is really just an excuse/can the
cigar mania be stopped?/Seattle Olympics in 2012?/the Ken
Griffey Jr. collectible statue/Seattle Weekly's new
look
- 9-25-97
More forgotten musical
forms/worry beads for Mariner fans/an "anti-Internet-hoax"
hoax
- 10-2-97
How to voluntarily
complicate your life/autumnal skies return/Mariners playoff fever
returns/a 'sedentary
Sousa band'/a stilt walker at an airport birthday party/Liz
Taylor's favorite deodorant
- 10-9-97
Bye-bye Shawn Kemp and
Marv Albert/bye-bye Seattle Scroll/Microsoft's online
layoffs/what do they call Smurfs in Spain? -
10-16-97
Heaving Las Vegas, a
slightly askew travelogue (expanded online edition)
- 10-23-97
Airbus's Super
Transporter plane compared to Thunderbird 2/a strip club's
public political pleas/Sonics sans Scheffler/Alien
Pops/another local women's zine/who's more powerful, Sabrina
or Buffy?
- 10-30-97
Why I love the
Monorail Initiative/the official Seattle Monopoly game/a
'restaurant graveyard' location revisited/hotel neon revived
- 11-6-97
David Duchovny doesn't
(heart) Vancouver/what's irony, really?/another radio station
that doesn't know what decade it is/sex on the brain/scanning
video images straight into the eyeballs/Halloween roundup
- 11-13-97
Why the Seattle
political-media machine's afraid of the Monorail
Initiative/downtown yuppification vs. strippers/the Pike-Pine retail
renaissance/author Wm. Vollman's vision of hell
- 11-20-97
'Secrets for Making
Love Work'/theater funding, yesterday and today/Smack Ramen--eat it, don't
shoot it up/Lincoln High: great film set, lousy school site/'Topper'
author's modesty/what'll future generations fetishize about
today?
- 11-26-97
Fun with latex/more
fun with variety meats/the big QFC-Fred Meyer merger/gay disco
turns into piano bar
- 12-4-97
What future
generations will fetishize about the '90s (cont'd)/it's
official: Austin's the Next Seattle!/remembering The
Blob/blaming everything on El Nino/new clothing boutique, the
New York Exchange
- 12-11-97
Sex toys and Tacoma
(the two great tastes that go great together)/a Supersucker's
doppelganger/an all-woman Rosencrantz &
Guildenstern/breakfast and a movie
- 12-18-97
Five years after the
'Seattle Scene' hype's peak/happy 50th, Chubby and Tubby!
- 12-24-97
Hasbro's holiday
layoffs/lesbians in the Girl Scouts/Cell phones and fake
football teams/fewer Cap. Hill clothing spots/a cool new
pop-music zine/truth behind 'Swing Revival' hype/Perry
Farrell's goddess worship
- 12-31-97
The In/Out List for
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