I may have moved to the worst city—ever!—for dating, but at least it's the manliest based on "the number of U.S.-made cars driven in the city, number of sports bars and BBQ restaurants, number of home improvement and hardware stores as well as manly salty snacks consumption."...

Image via CrunchBase It is tough, you have a great contractor job at Microsoft, then the economy changes and you are staring down the barrel of job loss or wage cuts. This is a hard choice to make, there are few jobs out there, you have to be the best of the best to get employed, and many contractor...

We knew that Hearst's moves in Seattle -- saying in early January that it would sell or close down the Post-Intelligencer -- was just a dry run for San Francisco. After all, the Hearst-owned Chronicle has bled more than a quarter of a billion dollars by most estimates since Hearst bought it in 2000....

Image by maebmij via Flickr Mini Microsoft, the insider who has railed against Microsoft policies, plans, and hiring for years is taking a break from blogging. He has done this before and they usually do not last that long. Even Joseph Tartakoff over at the Seattle PI is wondering what is up with th...

"Garbage piles up, even after snow has melted," reads a December 29 Seattle Post-Intelligencer story posted to the Web site Sunday evening. Yet nowhere in the story by staffers Brad Wong or Eric Nalder was any blame for the garbage glut laid at the doorstep of the city's Democratic chief e...

Liberal political cartoonist David Horsey defended the New Yorker's satire of the Obamas with his July 15 Seattle Post-Intelligencer drawing (shown at right, for a larger size check the P-I Web site here) while raising some left-wing tropes about the presumptive GOP nominee. "For all the irony-...

If Greenpeace wanted attention, it got it: The organization released a report this week rating supermarkets on the sustainability of their seafood selection, and a lot of people pretended to be shocked, shocked, that any environmentally dicey fish were being sold. Notably, of course, the National Fi...

It’s hard for a Northern California local-foods booster like me to imagine never having been to a farmers’ market (my first trip was at age 11 or 12), but I loved seeing this article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: “First Trip to the Farmers Market? 7 Tips from the Pros.” The ...

It took me six months of living in Japan before I got used to the traditional practice of slurping my noodles, but the guys at Seattle’s Boom Noodle are hoping it doesn’t take their customers quite that long. To help folks get into the slurp groove, they’ve been known to pass out &...

Saying that he's "breaking our hearts," Seattle Post-Intelligencer "Big Blog" breaking news editor Candace Heckman is chagrined about the probable demise of Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D-N.Y.). Yet while Heckman praised Spitzer as an intrepid friend of Everyman, the populist defender of ...