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Hash: A South Seattle girl goes out with three friends on a Saturday night, and returns home very late. In the early morning, the friends come to her door and ask her to come outside...
News Of The Weird: Weird and sometimes hilarious news from around the world.
Celebrating Tradition in Seattle's Heart: On Lake Union's south-end pier, wooden rowboats and sailboats with gleaming bright work invite the admiring eyes of boat lovers and casual tourists alike. Those boat lovers will flock to the center on July 4 - 7 for the 26th Annual Wooden Boat Festival.
Teacher Ted
A Mixed Bag of Court Rulings: Privacy and Religion in the Classroom: School may be out for the summer but it is far from being out of the woods when it comes to maintaining the separation of Church and State and protecting students' privacy rights with regard to random drug testing.
Continues through July
Seafair Starts this Weekend!: Summer means many things to many people: hot days, ice cream trucks, and maybe even a few vacation days. But for Seattle, the onset of summer means that Seafair is gearing up.
News Of The Weird: Weird.
There From Here
Monorail Democracy Now: Tara Peattie joins the push for a democratically elected Seattle Popular Transit Authority to oversee the future of the Monorail.
Hash: A Wallingford resident calls 911 at 7:30 p.m. on a Wednesday to report that a mental or drugged man is in front of her house yelling, grunting and dancing...
Icelandic Independence Day Celebration: On the 17th of June every year, Iceland celebrates its independence.
Fine Roman Hand
Wood Works--No Saw, No Chisel, No Hammer: Local print shop owner Paul Hunter produces small works of enduring beauty.
Just Dance!
Cut Loose at the Solstice Parade: Debut of a new column: Sean Patrick Donovan explores dance around Seattle, this time writing about his compatriots who are building floats to participate in the Fremont Solstice Parade.
Teacher Ted
What is School Good For?: When kids ask, "Why do we need to know this?" Ted Lockery knows the answer.
News of the Weird: The Wall Street Journal reported that Fidel Castro proposed in 1987 to alleviate a chronic milk shortage by trying to get his scientists to clone the most productive cows, shrunk to the size of dogs so that each family could keep one inside its apa
Hash: A northeast Seattle man comes home for lunch on a Wednesday and finds a threatening note on his front door...
Fine Roman Hand
A Full Peal of Grandsire Triples: Author Dorothy Sayers' books, ranging from translations of Dante to riveting mysteries, defy categorization. Steve Herold reviews his favorite, The Nine Tailors.
Columbia City
Fun Work For Free Wheels: At Bike Works, kids work hard at learning bike repair skills, and they are rewarded with free bicycles and a sense of pride.
ARTS
Blonde Ambition: Mae West is one of the most famous icons of the, er, "empowered" woman. Dirty Blonde, now playing at ACT Theater, contains all of Mae's infamous wit and razzle-dazzle.
News Of The Weird: Chuck Shepherd's weird news for the week.
There From Here
Viaduct: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?: The Alaska Way Viaduct must go. Will it go slowly and expensively, with planning, or quickly and perhaps more cheaply with the next major earthquake? And what will replace it? Tara Peattie addresses the question.
Teacher Ted
Elementary Students Reach Out for Peace: Three elementary schools, and singers from the Pacific Children's Choir, will premier an original song at a June 15 peace concert at Seattle Center.

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