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FILM

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Cats? In our solar system? It’s more likely than you think in this inscrutably strange film blending sci-fi, action, and horror. Director Ngai Choi Lam tells the hallucinatory tale of three aliens—one

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This session lawmakers in Olympia failed to move on legislation to increase the supply of market-rate housing statewide, which means Washington’s hot-hot market will stay hot, and our housing deficit will likely continue spiraling out of control. That’s bad news for people looking to buy homes, and bad news for lower-income renters forced to compete for apartments with well-off people gainfully employed by our region’s neato technology companies.

Setting that particular part of the issue aside for a moment, Democrats did do well to dedicate hundreds of millions of dollars (mostly from federal sources) to help fund affordable

The mask stays ON in health care facilities and on transit. ERNESTO RYAN/GETTY

Mask-off: Today is the last day of Washington state’s indoor mask mandate. You can lose the mask at restaurants, gyms, grocery stores, etc. unless of course the business wants to enforce its own policy, in which case don’t be a dick? People do not make $17 an hour to deal with your meltdowns. “Well, actually silver foxes, Gov. Inslee and King County Executive–” shut up. Shut up, shut up, shut up. You are such a nerd and you have zero class solidarity.

There are some places where you still have to wear a mask and again, I’m

More of this! Soon! All over the state! COURTESY OF THE FILM AND MUSIC COALITION

Twilight. Sonic the Hedgehog 2. The Killing. All are films or TV series set in Washington but shot out of state because our film incentives fucking suck. Or, they did suck. After years of advocacy, Washington’s film industry is about to get a lot more competitive.

Today, the Washington State Senate and House passed a bill that will majorly update and expand the state’s Motion Picture Competitiveness Program (MPCP), an initiative to attract more film productions to our sexy state. The bill increases the program’s funding cap from $3.5 million—among the worst incentives offered by

This evening the House held a lovefest for House Democratic Majority Leader Pat Sullivan (left), who will retire this year. SCREENSHOT from TVW

The Washington State Legislature is closing up shop today: Democrats in the Legislature expect to wrap up work between 7 and 8 pm, which will mark the fifth year in a row that lawmakers turned in their work on time — the last time that happened was 1899. Right now the House is at east until 7 pm. The Senate’s now heading to the floor to vote on bills that would give businesses a B&O tax break and incentivize cities to build affordable housing.

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I had a few hours before a gallery opened that showcased the art of LeRon Wilson, an artist I met in Detroit in 2019. It was in LA’s Arts District. I was dropped off on the corner of Alameda and Sixth. In the south, the towers of downtown. Behind me, warehouses, lofts, galleries. I decided to walk toward downtown to see a building I had failed to visit during my past trips to the City of Angels, John Portman’s Westin Bonaventure Hotel. It was made famous by its prominence in a book that in 1991 made postmodernism the leading theory of what many considered to be a new social

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MUSIC

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Neptune Theatre (Tues Aug 23)

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The Showbox (Fri Nov 11)

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Showbox SoDo (Tues June 7)

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Picture it: December 23, 1987. You’ve been waiting all summer for the season premiere of your favorite show, Dynasty. What outrageous slapping fights will the obscenely wealthy Carringtons get into this time? What giant-shouldered Nolan Miller gowns will Joan Collins strut around the mansion wearing? Will they just let the Stephen character be gay for once in his life?

The show starts. They’re doing the recap from last season. You see all the familiar scenes of weddings and arguments and secret rendezvouses from last season. And then, mixed in the middle of the recap, one of the characters is shown stepping onto a spaceship.

Wait, what?

It’s true —