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"Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years" by Julie Andrews

Cozy up on the couch with these 6 paperbacks as weather gets cooler

October 28, 2020 at 11:59 a.m.

Outdoors, the temperatures are dropping; indoors, the couch is calling. Should you need a new paperback to keep you company there, here are six brand-new ones ready for you. "Home...

Sonics legend Shawn Kemp to open Seattle’s first Black-owned marijuana dispensary

October 23, 2020 at 10:57 a.m.

Just a stone's throw away from where he used to rattle rims and enthrall the green-clad fans inside KeyArena, Sonics legend Shawn Kemp is embarking on a new endeavor. The...

Bunny, a 14-month old sheepadoodle, and her owner Alexis Devine, share a kiss in their Tacoma home Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020. Devine, an artist in Tacoma, is teaching her dog Bunny to communicate with buttons.

Woman teaches her Sheepadoodle how to communicate using buttons

October 20, 2020 at 12:41 p.m.

SEATTLE—If you have a pet, you've probably wished at some point that it could talk to you. Too bad that's impossible ... or is it? Alexis Devine would tell you...

A Starbucks Coffee shop is seen in 2018 in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. By 2025, Starbucks wants people of color represented in at least 30% of roles in corporate operations and 40% of retail and manufacturing roles.

Starbucks puts money behind diversity talk: Executive pay tied to goals

October 15, 2020 at 2:34 p.m.

Starbucks plans to significantly boost racial diversity among its workforce — and it's making that goal a factor in the pay of its senior executives. By 2025, the Seattle coffee...

Wenwen Jiang is a doctoral student in epidemiology and one of the lead authors of the daily COVID-19 Literature Report produced by faculty and students at the University of Washington. (Greg Gilbert/The Seattle Times/TNS)

Suffering from COVID-19 science overload? This University of Washington team wades through the deluge so you don’t have to

October 14, 2020 at 10:02 a.m.

Remember early spring, when it felt like we were all plunged into a crash course in epidemiology, heads spinning with terms like "R-naught," "flatten the curve" and "herd immunity?" Every...

Review: How J.K. Rowling’s ‘Troubled Blood’ made me not care about 2 characters I’d loved

September 30, 2020 at 8:49 a.m.

Goodbye, Strike and Robin. I'll miss you. When I first heard that J.K. Rowling had begun writing detective fiction, I wasn't particularly excited. I didn't grow up with Harry Potter...

VERY TAX-FRIENDLY STATES | To count as a very tax-friendly state for retirees, states must either have no state income tax, no tax on retirement income or a significant tax deduction on retirement income. These seven qualifying states have friendly sales, property, estate and inheritance tax rates too.

To pass the time in a pandemic ‘prison,’ seniors get creative

September 23, 2020 at 11:54 a.m.

When John Suzick moved into the Brookdale Assisted Living facility in West Seattle, his 700-square-foot unit felt just fine. He had a view of the water and room for all...

A 737 Boeing Max is pictured on he tarmac with its signature winglet and fuel-efficient engines March 11, 2019, outside the company's factory on March 11, 2019 in Renton, Washington. The Max has its bigger engines placed further forward on its wings than earlier 737 models.

Is the Boeing 737 Max now safe to fly? Here’s a look at the jet’s past problems and future challenges.

September 14, 2020 at 10:49 a.m.

Shrouded by the darkest clouds in its history from the unprecedented pandemic-driven collapse of the airliner business, Chicago-based Boeing has one glimmer of a silver lining left for 2020: The...

Are you binge-watching reruns of your old favorite TV shows? You’re having a natural response to COVID-19

September 1, 2020 at 8:46 a.m.

One weeknight in July, at the end of a particularly exhausting workday spent monitoring pandemic news and conducting interviews that increasingly felt like therapy sessions for all involved, I sat...

New Amazon Fresh grocery store format about to open in California — and soon the Chicago area

August 31, 2020 at 9:45 a.m.

Amazon invited some customers to preview the new grocery store format it has developed in California and said Thursday it will open to the public in the coming weeks, after...

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