Mmm, Juicy Fruit: Workers armed with powerful steam cleaners washed away some 1 million bits of chewing gum Tuesday at Seattle’s ickiest tourist attraction, the “gum wall” at Pike Place Market.
It’s a good thing the cleaning crews obliterated the gummy mess, because if all that DNA went to a landfill, archaeologists in the year 2525 might assume they’ve discovered a mass grave site.
Seeing red: Critics say the minimalist all-red design of Starbucks’ 2015 holiday coffee cup is the latest assault in the War on Christmas, which has now dragged on almost as long as the war in Afghanistan.
If Starbucks knuckles under and rolls out some more Christmas-y cups, it need not send the red ones to the compost plant. They’d be perfect for Festivus, the day for airing of grievances.
He’s got an eye for a bargain: The Rolling Stones plan a concert tour of 12 Latin American cities in 2016, the venerable British rockers announced last week.
The tour was originally planned for this fall, but was delayed after the famously frugal Mick Jagger, 72, discovered he could earn double AARP credit card rewards by waiting until next year.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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