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USA, 1988–1998, 30 minute episodes, Directed by Alan Rafkin

The creators of Murphy Brown really screwed themselves over with what must’ve seemed at the time like a great idea: Incorporate classic Motown songs into just about every episode of this sitcom about life behind the scenes at an evening news show. How

When a smoke was a smoke… The Grand Illusion at The Grand Illusion

Jean Renoir’s The Grand Illusion is, of course, up there with films like Citizen Kane, M, The Godfather, Third Man, and so on. Though made only two years before Germany launched the Second World War, it’s about the First World War and mostly set in a German prisoner-of-war camp. The film stars the great Austrian-American director/actor Erich von Stroheim, who plays a German aristocrat, Rittmeister von Rauffenstein, who bonds with one of the camp’s prisoners, a French aristocrat named Captain de Boëldieu (Pierre Fresnay). Other French prisoners come from the top of its society—Rosenthal (Marcel Dalio), the

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Chef and restaurateur Ethan Stowell’s downtown restaurant Cortina, which has been closed since early on in the pandemic, reopens its doors for happy hour and dinner service today, with chef Roger Harper at the helm.
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Councilmember Sara Nelson outsmarts the Seattle Department of Human Services. Very sigma. Seattle Channel screenshot

While others waited for the city to issue a report on the effectiveness of hiring incentives, Councilmember Sara Nelson put forward a resolution declaring the council’s intent to lift a budget proviso so that the Seattle Police Department could start offering signing bonuses to cops again. Had she waited for the report, she would have read that the city is not sure that these programs actually work to draw more officers.

Over the past two years, over 300 cops at SPD have turned in their badges. Many city leaders blame this ongoing hemorrhaging for the

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Freakout Records and The Crocodile bring you a spectacular weekend mini-fest full of indie royalty and local favorites. Some highlights out of the more than 40 artists include dreamy singer-songwriter Molly Burch, guitar-driven rockers Smokey Brights, hip-hop duo Armand Hammer, Afrobeat ensemble Antibalas, and soul-grunge star Shaina Shepherd. 
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Set in Eastern Ukraine in 2025, Atlantis follows the aftermath of a war with Russia. The land has become an uninhabitable desert, water is a scarce commodity, and a border wall is in progress. When a shellshocked former soldier meets a woman while exhuming

Washington’s capital gains tax would only hit people who’ve reaped millions by putting their money into Wall Street, venture capital firms, and hedge funds. BO ZAUNDERS/GETTY IMAGES

Shortly after Tim Eyman failed his quest to block “personal income taxes” and repeal a new tax on capital gains all at the same time, a few wealthy conservatives launched a campaign to simply repeal the capital gains tax. If successful, the “Repeal the Capital Gains Income Tax” campaign, or I-1929, would strip away half a billion dollars per year for childcare and education. Luckily for the children, the campaign is already off to a bumpy start.

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Virginia Foxx doesn’t want the government to control our lives so she voted against capping insulin cost. Interesting logic, friend. C-Span screenshot

Protect Indigenous Women: Yesterday, Gov. Jay Inslee signed the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s and People’s Alert System, sponsored by Rep. Debra Lekanoff, the only Indigenous lawmaker in the State Legislature.

‘I am proud to say that the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s and People’s Alert System came from the voices of our Native American leaders,’ said Lekanoff, a member of the Tlingit tribe and the bill’s chief sponsor. ‘It’s not just an Indian issue, it’s not just an Indian responsibility. Our sisters, our aunties, our grandmothers

The bird beef happened here… Charles Mudede

There is a South African rap track I really like to play now and then. It says: “Sleep is for the rich.” Fair enough. The poor can’t sleep because for them it’s either staying awake (working for beans) or hitting the streets. That said, let’s turn to the city of Seattle. It seems that we are in need of a 206 track that says: “Seattle is for the rich, [chete].” Watching the back of this line in a rhyme would be evidence provided by Gene Balk. The Seattle Times columnist wrote: “In more than half of the city’s census tracts, the majority of

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