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When is a military coup a "pro-democracy protest"? When the US government says so. Alex MacLeod writes. - seattlestar.net/2019/05/its-…
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Image credit: Erika Wittlieb. CC0/Public Domain license. In 2009, Heath Ledger posthumously received an Academy Award for his... - seattlestar.net/2019/04/is-a…
Omar Willey contemplates the changes of 22 years, via Theater Simple's remount of Master and Margarita. - seattlestar.net/2019/04/the-…
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We dig into the past to salvage this week's Free Thing: a program for converting mathematical proofs into music. - seattlestar.net/2019/04/free…
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Poetry from the apoplecalypse by Pam "Gangnam Style" Carter. - seattlestar.net/2019/04/here…
KOMO News 4 expedites the release of "Seattle Is Dying 2: A Modest Proposal," a follow up documentary to their hard-hitting... - seattlestar.net/2019/04/that…
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Welcome to The Seattle Star‘s endorsements for the 2019 Seattle City Council elections. Are you sick and tired of... - seattlestar.net/2019/03/our-…
Omar Willey returns to the subject of anonymous photography in this latest piece about the blues and the news. - seattlestar.net/2019/03/enco…
We are big fans of Cornucopia Radio from Sheffield. Over the past eleven years they have been putting out fine material that ranges... - seattlestar.net/2019/03/free…
Still from The Private Life of a Cat. CC0/Public domain license. This week we draw upon our publisher's vast trash heap of... - seattlestar.net/2019/03/free…
This week we bring you Tacoman Nick Stokes' anti-choose-your-own-adventure novel, You Choose. - seattlestar.net/2019/03/free…
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In honor of the late Paul Hoskin, we bring you - seattlestar.net/2019/03/free…
On the heels of the CBC report on sexual abuse in amateur sport, David Telles-Langdon calls for a real way to protect young athletes. - seattlestar.net/2019/02/prot…
Freely we share with you an excellent collection of writing about sound and documentary film, Soundings. - seattlestar.net/2019/02/free…
Omar Willey's column on anonymous photographs considers why people hate photography. - seattlestar.net/2019/02/enco…