The P-I is celebrating [http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/thebigblog/archives/128202.asp] its coverage of diacetyl [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/344277_diacetyl21.html], a butter-flavored chemical additive often found in microwave popcorn and butter-substitutes.
It's bleak midwinter on Vashon Island and you'd think the garden would have sense enough to hunker down and wait for better weather. Thankfully, no. Outside the dining room window, a pink viburnum (Viburnum x bodnantense) is in full bloom on the year's shortest day, a joyful counterpoint to the driz
Caution: trying to do something nice can be fraught with hazards, but don't give up on sending good cheer.
The county once before ran ferries, only to be rescued by the state. Now the state is too broke to keep the passenger boats running, and the county has got the bug again. It's expensive, there are other solutions, and Vashon Islanders were once dead set against passenger-only ferries. But hey, nosta
Arts circles are abuzz over a long, prominently played New York Times investigation of the Seattle Symphony, which was published Sunday and reprinted Monday in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Not surprisingly, the symphony is hoping the bad publicity will pass. The only comment so far is in the form
