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Need a ride? ReachNow’s new ride-hailing app to compete with Uber, Lyft

ReachNow, the company that offers short-term rentals of BMWs and Mini Coopers, is launching a ride-hailing service that will compete with Uber and Lyft. The service will be included in a new app available to download on iOS and Android...

Seattle Chamber Music Society debuts an ear-boggling piece by a ‘Dark Knight’ composer

Concert review Every summer, a brand-new piece of chamber music comes to life through the efforts (and the wallets) of the Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Commissioning Club. This year’s world premiere, by the prominent film composer James Newton Howard (“Batman...

Book by rising Democratic star Kamala Harris coming in 2019

NEW YORK (AP) — Sen. Kamala Harris, a rising star in the Democratic Party who is sometimes cited as a possible presidential contender in 2020, has a book deal. Penguin Press announced Tuesday that Harris’ “The Truths We Hold: An...

‘Persimmon Nights’ at Cafe Nordo plays out like a glossy movie melodrama

Theater review Backed up by a smooth, jazzy all-gal instrumental combo, a pair of gussied-up chanteuses harmonize on the “West Side Story” anthem, “Tonight,” on the Latin classic “Besame Mucho” and on other tried-and-true standard tunes, crooning lyrics in Korean,...

Watch: Late-night hosts skewer Trump’s news conference with Putin

Stephen Colbert basked in the applause of his studio audience on Monday night. “Thank you for that. I need that tonight in ways I don’t always need it, because today has shaken me to my core,” Colbert confessed. “And I...

‘Deadliest Catch’ co-star Edgar Hansen pleads guilty to sexually assaulting teen girl

Reality-TV fisherman Edgar Hansen pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a teenage girl in September, but he’ll face no jail time under a plea deal quietly reached last week with Snohomish County prosecutors. Instead, Hansen, 47, received a 364-day suspended jail...

TV picks for Sunday: Open wide, Shark Week is coming

“Shark Week’s 50 Best Bites” A look back at Shark Weeks of past summers before the 30th annual Shark Week shark-centric specials kick off the summer TV event July 22; Craig Ferguson, Tracy Morgan, Andy Samberg and others count down...

A book lover’s lasting legacy: 5,000 books given to Yakima Valley Libraries

YAKIMA — When longtime Yakima businessman William Luebke died in 2017, associates remembered his work in auditing and accounting and the years he managed the Yakima Meadows horse track. But for most of his life, he also was a...

A connoisseur of saviors in capes and tights

BRYN MAWR, Pa. — Batman has the Batcave. Superman has the Fortress of Solitude. Michael F. Finn has two upstairs rooms in the house he shares with his family in Bryn Mawr. One room, where Finn reads and relaxes, is...

A critic sells books by the seashore

WIGTOWN, Scotland — Isak Dinesen had a farm in Africa. Recently, if only for a day, I had a bookstore in Scotland. It wasn’t easy to get to Wigtown, in the remote Dumfries and Galloway region of Scotland, in time for...

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