photo by taylor hain [flickr] via our group pool [#]. Eli Sanders tries to understand why the [student-funded] Daily is publishing offensive, right-wing, poorly reasoned, ill-informed, anti-gay editorials. [slog] Let’s try to not cynically compare the number of comments between that one, and this pro-Prop 8 one published the same day [uwdaily] and just accentuate the positive — it prompted Dan Savage to coin the term “douchesparkle“. [slog] Hell, with enough ...

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Photo courtesy of Wesa [flickr] via our group pool [#] Nickelsville is likely to move again, after a vote by University Congregational United Church of Christ (UCUCC) to allow the homeless encampment use of their parking lot at 45th and 15th for the next three months. (#) This will be the fifth move for Nickelsville since September- they began near the Duwamish River, moved to a parking lot nearby, camped out at ...

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PNB photos © Angela Sterling The moon always seems to be full in Maurice Sendak's illustrations. He's done some 90 children's books, two of them cherished icons (Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen), along with one ballet. As it happens, Seattle is the beneficiary of this unique venture into set-and-costume design: the wildly popular Nutcracker, which celebrates its 25th season this year. It was the early 1980s. Kent Stowell and Francia ...

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The new video from San Francisco band Birdmonster showed up in our inbox this morning. "Born To Be Your Man" is off their latest album From the Mountain to the Sea, and the video was directed by local photographer/filmmaker Matt Daniels of Think Lab. The info on the band's imeem page claims that the clip was "shot in the lush woods just outside of Seattle," but we can't exactly place the scenery. Anyone have ...

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Photograph by Shevill Mathers @ The Southern Cross Observatory If it is clear above you tonight, look up. You'll see this. And you will pay attention. Why will you pay attention? It's hard wired: "Your eye is like a digital camera," explains Dr. Stuart Hiroyasu, O.D., of Bishop, California. "There's a lens in front to focus the light, and a photo-array behind the lens to capture the image. The photo-array in your eye is called the ...

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