Paper Palate

Northwest favorites including hazelnuts, halibut, and Walla Walla onions will be on the menu as Chinese President Hu Jinto visits the home of Microsoft founder Bill Gates this evening. The Seattle Times reports this morning more than 100 guests, including Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, as well as former Governor Gary Locke, may attend […]

In early March, Seattle Times asked West Side readers to create a piece of original art using marshmallow Peeps. Those Seattlites are a creative bunch! The newspaper received nearly three hundred entries. From witty to political to inspirational, readers sent in a plethora of Peeps sculptures, photographs, and dioramas.

Photograph by Emily Cates and Jeanne Gold/Seattle
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It isn’t often a newspaper article moves me to action. School reform? Maybe. Immigration? Possibly. Weapons of mass destruction? Perhaps. But in reality, the daily newspaper doesn’t usually move me further than the box of recyclables. So when today’s edition of the Seattle Times moved me all the way to the supermarket up the block, […]