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Starting next month, the state won't require masks in businesses and schools, but that doesn't mean it's not smart to wear one. Lester Black Washington will go mask-off most places starting March 21, and vaccine verification for large events...

Keeping people in jail and prison longer doesn't deter crime, but it does exacerbate many root causes of harmful behavior. RSThis happens every year. Legislators, responding to their constituencies, put forth bills that use the threat of punishment to...

Courtesy Metro-Goldwyn-MayerThe most astounding thing about Cyrano is not that this film, based on a French comedy from the 1890s, begins with Peter Dinklage performing a sword-fighting rap battle. It’s that this is, in fact, how the original...

The worst beach-going experience of my life happened in July of 1985 on a beautiful, humiliating afternoon. I was five, the family was vacationing on Cape Cod, and I was experiencing the ocean for the first time in my...

Honestly same. Courtesy of the Frye Art MuseumThe first show is from LA-based painter Christina Quarles whose fleshy renderings of bodies positioned every which way—on their knees, backs, sides, shoulders—are thrown against patterned backgrounds to create stirring, moody paintings....

Vaccine cards, who needs 'em? ARTISTGNDPHOTOGRAPHY/GETTYMaybe the anti-vaxxers will stop acting oppressed: King County officials announced today that restaurants, bars, gyms, and theaters will no longer have to check customers' proof of vaccination start March 1. King County Executive...

The ostensibly pro-union Democrats who run both chambers in here yet again tanked a bill to allow their staff to unionize. YINYANG / GETTYOn Wednesday morning organizers say 105 legislative workers — including legislative aides, communications staffers, and others...

What is a man, other than a miserable pile of secrets? The Mystery of Irma Vep is a vampiric satire of Victorian melodrama and monster-pulp, written by the great playwright, performer, artist, and theater-rebel...

Watching Boeings vanishing act in Renton.... Charles MudedeRemember my post "Boeing Should Sell Its Renton and Everett Plants to China?" You should because it was written only a year ago and received a heap of predictable contempt because it...