The Wing Luke Museum takes flight
The handsome new space is a striking work of architecture, and the exhibits make up a "meta-museum," continually asking questions about how a museum should relate to its community.
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Stories for June 5, 2008
Hey, hey, LBJ
For some reason, the best route for getting elected is still to run against government, making one wonder if a scientist, say, would ever think of applying for a research job by pointing out how much he or she hates science. This curious distrust of politics, running high in the Obama mania, also leads to a lot of historical injustice. Take the case of Lyndon Johnson, the forgotten president.
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Ruby Chow remembered: Brad Wong outlines the contributions from the life of a local political icon. ... Elite opinion on Obama: Jamieson, Sims and Locke, Horsey, Westneat. ...
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Pacific Northwest Ballet struts its Jerome Robbins stuff
Droll send-ups and Bernstein-scored brio recall the exuberant, formative years of American ballet.
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Neighborhood blogs: the mom-and-pop news business
Running on passion, ground-level media outlets have a business model that's still evolving — or no business model at all.
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Landlords mobilize as City Hall considers rental-housing inspections
For some of the more than half of Seattle residents who rent, such a program could mean better conditions without the onus of ratting out a landlord. For the 4,300 owners of an estimated 100,000 rental units, required regular inspections sound onerous.
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Forty years ago today, I spent the day on a packed airliner over the Atlantic, bound from Glasgow to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.The world was stumbling through a turbulent year. During my year's study at Edinburgh University, I had glimpsed my society from abroad. I'd watched the news clips of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination and of the rioting that followed. I'd watched the Johnson administration drawn ever deeper into a war that made no sense. My British friends were astounded that America in the 20th century seemed determined to repeat each and every mistake that the British had made in the 19th.
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