Today is Starbucks Bike to Work Day: Most cities in our region do not know how many cyclists use their roads because they do not count them. Cascade Bicycle Club wants to see official bicycle counts become commonplace around Puget Sound. But until then, the number we tally each year on Bike to Work Day has become the default indicator of our community's growing size and strength.... Sound, riders can stop by Commute Stations to pick up ...

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Sylvia Wolf has been director of the Henry Art Gallery for four weeks now, and already we have a few indications of what she's made of. First, Wolf's exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe's Polaroids—documenting for the first time the young photographer's first lens love—opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art May 3. This morning, Karen Rosenberg of the New York Times wrote about the show in the context both of Mapplethorpe and the endangered camera. "The ...

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