ArtRoman Orgy at Seattle Art Museum Seattle Art Museum says that its 35-hour marathon concluding the Louvre's Roman art show will include gladiators, which sounds like a recipe for lameness that could reach Renaissance faire levels. It could be ironic-good. Or, if you're in the market for regular-good, there's the promise of simply being at the museum with Augustus and double-Elvis at 3:00 a.m.—and admission will be half off during the wee hours. (Seattle Art Museum, ...

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After much delay at the border I arrived in Seattle just as the last of the rush hour traffic was dying off. Driving via memorized Google guidance, I leave the I5 in search of my hotel The Roosevelt. As I’m checking in I get upgraded from a single room to a queen, which upon inspection seems to simply mean that my bed is larger because the room itself is tiny. I debate phoning down ...

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