Reporter @seattletimes, formerly @thestranger. [email protected].
Joined August 2008
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Arguably, the largest, most active Shinto shrine on the mainland U.S. is in L̶o̶s̶ ̶A̶n̶g̶e̶l̶e̶s̶ S̶a̶n̶ ̶F̶r̶a̶n̶c̶i̶s̶c̶o̶ S̶e̶a̶t̶t̶l̶e̶ Granite Falls, WA, pop. ~4,700. Why? And why (given Shinto's enduring popularity in Japan) so few shrines overall?
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Unless newspapers are connected with and listening to the all communities they purport to serve, they cannot hope to understand the significance of major events in these communities.
Case in point:
Ft. Lawton, 1970. Native activists scale the fences and bluffs of an Army base in protest. The precursor events are nuanced, complex. The Seattle Times front-page coverage is not.
We reexamine—and critique—that reporting here, in A1 Revisited:
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Assignment: Write about vegan restaurants in Portland.
Rules of engagement (self-imposed):
1. Banish clichés (“smug” vegans, “cruel” omnivores, etc.). Do not acknowledge, even in jest.
4. Don’t even touch the Portland-vegan-strip-club situation. It’s a trap. (I mean, if you had 10,000 words, sure—go for it. But you don’t. So don’t.)
Hello all. I'm working on a story about the 2021 return of Seattle-to-Alaska cruise ships—have you ever worked on a cruise ship? Anybody you know worked on a cruise ship? If so, give me a shout.
The remarkable history of one rambunctious Seattle fringe theater. Featuring: gleefully grotesque musicals, fond reminiscences from Paul Giamatti, brazen art crimes, and a wad of gum stuck in a urinal that made all the difference. seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-…
Sometimes, during the intensity of CHOP, I'd look around Cal Anderson Park and wonder: "What the hell was going on on this scrap of land 30 years ago? 50? 150? 300?" I got a chance to spend some time finding out.
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Seattle ticketing company Brown Paper Tickets just ordered to pay $9M in restitution to 45,000 customers around the globe. Some are owed a few bucks. Some are owed tens of thousands of dollars. seattletimes.com/entertainme…
Human composting: It's finally here, after nearly 10 years of research, design, changing state law, and—most importantly—people getting over their icks. seattletimes.com/life/recomp…
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Stunned to watch this and compare it to the rows of police in riot gear, armored vehicles, pepper balls, flash bangs and tear gas response during protests outside one Seattle police precinct last summer.
Trump supporters break into the U.S. Capitol Building after storming the police line here in Washington #DC #Trump #DCRally #BreakingNews
The group of a couple hundred has paused in front of the SPD East precinct building. Someone suddenly banged a drum, and an instinctive flinch rippled through the crowd—sounded like the first salvo of a flash bang barrage.
Naje (right) and Tiana at Seattle Central College. Tiana: “If people of a certain demographic can approach a government building with guns because they don’t want to wear masks, we should be able to sit peacefully in the street protesting for basic rights.”
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The Seattle National Lawyers Guild says its observers were subject to “indiscriminate use” of pepper spray and blast balls and were directly sprayed and shoved during yesterday’s protests. They called on Chief Best to investigate and discipline officers.
