These Are the Acts You Must See at Upstream Music Fest
If you're going, we insist you check out these 19 artists.by Leilani PolkValerie June: Inherently worthy of your devotion. She'll be performing on Sunday at Upstream JACOB BLICKENSTAFF To go, or not to...
View ArticleEnergy company challenges new requirements for Maryland dam
DARLINGTON, Md. (AP) — Maryland’s largest hydroelectric dam has become the center of a legal battle between state environmental regulators and the energy company that owns it. The Bay Journal has...
View ArticleNew Poll Shows a Democrat Beating Dino Rossi in Race to Replace Rep. Reichert
But it's only one poll, y'all.by Rich SmithThe first truly independent poll of voters in WA-08 shows Jason Rittereiser (left) beating Dino Rossi 50 to 47. Courtesy of the Rittereiser, Schrier, and...
View ArticlePolice take armed man into custody in South Lake Union
Police closed streets in and around the 500 block of Terry Avenue North and ordered pedestrians to get indoors as negotiators tried to contact the man, who was reportedly in crisis.
View ArticleTicketfly Hack Screws a Bunch of Local Venues
by Katie Herzog This image appeared on Ticketfly's website this week.The Great Ticketfly Apocalypse of 2018 has stretched into a third day, prompting music venue staff all over the country to burn...
View ArticleWait, It's National Doughnut Day? Have You Heard of This?
Free donuts at Krispy Kreme and Walmart! And a fundraiser for a good cause at Mighty-O.by Christopher FrizzelleI hadn't. Getty Images/margouillatphotos A couple days ago I got a call from Walmart...
View ArticleMarlina the Murderer in Four Acts Is the Dark, Wry, Feminist Neo-Western...
by Andrew Wright After seven bandits invade her home, a widow hits the road with justice on her mind and five and three-quarters bodies in her wake. This astonishing neo-western begins with a sequence...
View ArticleInbox Jukebox: A Weekly Shortlist of Good New Music. Yuno, Lotic, GEMS, and More
This week's Inbox Jukebox includes praise for hot new tracks by Yuno, Lotic, GEMS, and more.by Dave SegalYuno is poised to be Sub Pop's next star. Yuno Yuno, "No Going Back" (Sub Pop). New Sub Pop...
View ArticleGroup sues Washington Fish and Wildlife over bear killings
The group said the state reportedly authorizes black bears to be killed to prevent them from stripping tree bark to eat sapwood, but that the program instead allows hunters to indiscriminately kill the...
View Article3 people injured in multivehicle crash on Seattle’s Aurora Bridge
All lanes of the bridge opened around 6:30 p.m. Friday after the crash roughly 1.5 hours earlier that closed the northbound portion completely and limited the southbound stretch to one lane.
View ArticleMulti-vehicle crash on Seattle’s Aurora Bridge injures 3 people, stalls...
All lanes of the northbound portion of the bridge remain closed as firefighters treat the victims and clear the scene. Two of three southbound lanes are also closed.
View ArticleMan gets 3 years for throwing Molotov cocktails at Seattle police during May...
Although the Molotov cocktails were not lit, one ignited Officer Paul Ducre Jr.'s pants when a flash-bang device went off. Ducre suffered burns on his right leg.
View Article‘We need to break some rules’ to fix Seattle’s homelessness crisis
The developer of a now-shelved steel modular housing project for the homeless says too many regulations got in the way. If we're going to do anything but tread water on this issue, he says, "we need to...
View ArticleAllyn Ann McLerie, veteran of Broadway, TV and film, dies at 91 in North Bend
Allyn Ann McLerie, who drew attention on Broadway when she was 21 in “Where’s Charley?,” then became a familiar screen presence through numerous movie and television roles, died on May 21 in North...
View ArticleAirbnb for cars? Getaround app lets users rent cars from strangers by the hour
An app-based service letting people rent their cars by the hour launched in Seattle last week as part of the growing attempts to innovate traditional means of getting around. Paul Erlandson, the...
View ArticleCrystal ski area ordered to control parking-lot runoff by Oct. 31
A federal judge says Washington state’s largest ski resort ignored responsibilities to complete pollution-control work under 2013 order.
View Article‘The Blob,’ a marine heat wave, caused massive die-off of West Coast birds
A massive die-off of Cassin’s auklets, murres and other birds in 2014 and 2015 has been linked to the marine heat wave known as The Blob.
View ArticleThe Soviets’ secret map of Seattle tells a lot about us
During the Cold War years, the Soviets ran a secret, massive program that produced a million maps of cities and places around the world. They were remarkably accurate and contained information not...
View ArticleWashington state bans medical records from open court during harassment lawsuits
With the #MeToo movement as a catalyst, the state Legislature passed a law that bans privileged medical and mental-health records and communications in most discrimination cases from reaching the...
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