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Safeco Ballpark Eats With Gabby the Girl Scout

By Rachel Belle Listen to Ballpark Eats with Gabby The Girl Scout
For some, going to a Mariner's game is as much about the hot dogs and beer as it is the home runs and RBIs, and the food at Safeco Field is no longer your average ballpark fare.

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Music Awakens An Old Man in a Nursing Home

By Rachel Belle
A pretty amazing video about the importance of music, and how it can awaken us physically, mentally and spiritually . _.

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Jamie Griswold

Dog counselor shares techniques for quieting barking dogs

Barking dogs can certainly be a nuisance, but after a law in Hawaii made it possible for "incessant barkers" to be evicted from their neighborhoods, dog owners had to get serious about stopping the noise.
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Pet Sounds: What is your cat or dog thinking?

By Rachel Belle   Listen to Feature: What’s your pet thinking? A visit with an animal communicator If you’ve ever had a pet, you’ve most likely wanted to know what it was thinking about or why it acts the way it does. I was lucky enough to get some of these questions answered when animal […]
15 years ago

Will You Get A Divorce? A Local Doc Knows!

By Rachel Belle Listen to Feature: The Man Who Can Predict Your Divorce He’s not a psychic, but within three hours of meeting you and your significant other, Dr. John Gottman can predict if you’ll divorce or not. “By watching them and coding their behavior and also looking at what is going on physiologically, in […]
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Josh Kerns

Do server farms in Quincy stink?

The huge buildings that house thousands of computer servers for tech titans like Microsoft and Yahoo have become a cash crop for Quincy.
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Jamie Griswold

How to set yourself up for that ah-hah creative breakthrough

That ah-hah moment where you come up with a new idea often seems like it comes from out of nowhere, but a new book says all those ideas come from one place, and there are things we can do to make ourselves more likely to flip on the light bulb.
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Criticized for skipping breakfast, KIRO Radio's Dave Ross was encouraged to hear that people don't ...
Stephanie Klein

Seattle Kitchen: Best brunch spots in town

It might be too late to squeeze into a restaurant for Easter brunch, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be thinking about future weekend food adventures.
15 years ago

Ross & Burbank weekly Knowledge-Off Quiz: Famous bad parents!

Seattle Morning News’ Bill Radke joined us a couple of times this week to talk about his anxieties over being a good parent. That gave us an idea for this week’s Ross & Burbank Knowledge-Off: Famous bad parents! Take this quiz and see how you do. WARNING: If you score a 3 or above, the […]
15 years ago

Careful How You Hold That Steering Wheel

If you were taught to drive with your hands at "10 and 2" on the steering wheel, you need to change your ways.

15 years ago

Etiquette For Nerds

By Rachel Belle Listen to Etiquette For Nerds Nerds have become a very important part of our lives. They bring us many of the things we love, like iPhones and robot girlfriends. But if there is one thing that many nerds struggle with, it’s etiquette and social cues. Realizing that software engineers and programmers might […]
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Jamie Griswold

Tow regulations to protect consumers held up by budget woes in Olympia

After the story surfaced of an Everett woman forced to pay a tow truck company over $500 for a one mile tow and tire change, Ross and Burbank wanted to check on the status of proposed legislation regarding towing regulation in Washington State.
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Hoodies and Beyond: What It’s Like To Be A Minority In Seattle

By Rachel Belle Listen to Being Muslim In Seattle Alright everyone, take a deep breath because I am a Seattle resident and I'm about to make a statement that is not politically correct: There are a lot of white people in Seattle.

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Women: Learn To Defend Yourselves!

By Rachel Belle Listen to Women: Learn to Defend Yourself
I was walking home alone last night, through downtown Seattle around midnight, and I wondered if I'd be able to protect myself if I was attacked.

15 years ago

All That And A Bag Of Chips?

A woman wrote an article for the Daily Mail saying her life is really, really hard because she's so beautiful.

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The attorney for Chuck and Judy Cox said her clients to not want what happened to them to happen to...
Jamie Griswold

Attorney: Parents of Susan Cox Powell want change

Josh Powell was never charged in the disappearance of his wife in 2009 and just two months ago killed his two sons. Evidence recently unsealed has many saying those events could have been prevented had the West Valley City Police Department acted on evidence they'd collected that could have kept Powell behind bars.
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Pastrami & Politics at Olympia’s Kitzel’s Delicatessen

By Rachel Belle Listen to Feature: Pastrami & Politics at Olympia’s Kitzel’s Deli When I saw that a new Jewish deli opened in Olympia, of course my mind went straight to the food. Kitzel’s Crazy Delicious Delicatessen makes it’s own corned beef and brisket for sandwiches, matzoh ball soup and super moist knishes. But when […]
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Jamie Griswold

Sugar is toxic?

In a special report for "60 Minutes," Dr. Sanjay Gupta presented information from recent studies that suggest sugar is a toxin. This has 97.3 KIRO FM host Dave Ross quite alarmed.
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Headed to Portland? Here Are the City’s Best Restaurants!

By Katie O. The Edible Correspondent, Seattle Kitchen While Tom and Thierry whoop it up at Taste Washington, I’ll be tasting Portland after receiving some recommendations from Eric Tanaka (A.K.A. “ET”), executive chef and partner at Tom Douglas Restaurants. As promised, here is a recap of the places he mentions in our interview along with […]
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Ross and Burbank weekly knowledge off: Disney cartoons

1 . Pluto first appeared in Disney cartoons in 1930, and has starred in many others . What breed of dog is Pluto? A . Labrador Retriever B.

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Jamie Griswold

Seattle Kitchen tips for making Kale tasty

Sometimes healthy dishes can be a little hard to stomach, but the Seattle Kitchen team has some tips to get even veggie haters to take a bite of one of the greenest foods around: Kale.
15 years ago

Marshawn Lynch Films a Movie in Seattle

By Rachel Belle Listen to Marshawn Lynch Filming A Movie in Seattle (with Gary Busey!)
Seahawk Marshawn Lynch is most famous for his epic 67 yard touchdown run against the Saints last year, but now he's exploring his artsy side.

15 years ago

Chinese going crazy for robo-toilet, but Luke just wants more bidets

“You hear these ads for the mattress stores and they’re always telling you that you spend a third of your life sleeping, but how much of that time is spent on the john?” wondered Luke as he pondered investing over $6,000 in an American-made robotic toilet that’s all the craze with newly well to do […]
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Jamie Griswold

Are we too Internet dependent?

A 9-hour internet outage in the KIRO FM newsroom made it very clear how much reporters, producers, and talk show hosts rely on digital tools. With David Boze comparing the crash to "an apocalypse," it prompted co-host Luke Burbank to ask "Do you think we're too Internet dependent?"
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