Culture
Ash Wednesday: It's a counter-cultural thing
Remembering our mortality, accepting responsibility, confessing to sins: There are a few of our culture's least-favorite things.
Remembering our mortality, accepting responsibility, confessing to sins: There are a few of our culture's least-favorite things.
For American basketball fans of Asian heritage, there's never been a player like Jeremy Lin.
Comfort food (don't hold the fat!) is spreading around town. In Ballard, there's a second comfort factor, as well: a line-up of ethnic eateries makes it easy to jump from one national cuisine to the next.
This week's cast: Sweeping Santorum, "Severe" Mitt, Jesuitical Obama, Basketball McGinn, and Walla Walla's Gay Marriage star.
What if the hollowed-out cities of the East Coast set out to lure back their prodigal sons and daughters? What would it take?