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Tonight's the night that a major art show known as Artomatic opens to the general public starting at 6 p.m. It's located near the Pentagon in Crystal City, Virginia and is a block away from the Crystal City Metro stop. Here's the official promo video for Artomatic. With over 1,000 artists and with Artomatic being just across the Potomac River from Washington, DC, there are bound to be some...
DailyKos (Washington) - Fri 8:51 a.m. - 15 clicks 
After two intense days of setting up, I finally finished with setting up my exhibition space at Artomatic in Crystal City, Virginia (located just across the Potomac River from Washington, DC). Here are a few previews of what to expect if you visit my space in person. My exhibit will be located on the 10th floor in a room that’s around the corner from the elevators. For this year’s Artomatic ...
DailyKos (Washington) - Thu 8:06 p.m. - 16 clicks
Michael Baumgartner, current State Senator (6th-R) and opponent to Maria Cantwell, came to Western Washington University today to talk to students with slightly grammatically incorrect campaign material. A few students stopped to talk, but most students were huddled around the very enthusiastic evangelical preacher yelling to students in Red Square or were targets of three [...]...
Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog - Wed 8:44 p.m. - 17 clicks
In an email to his supporters, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH10) has decided that he will not run for further Congressional office in the State of Washington, saying that he would work for change outside of Congress instead. Dennis Kucinich's seat was eliminated after redistricting from the 2010 Census, pitting him in a primary against long-time Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH9). Kucinich lost th...
DailyKos (Washington) - Wed 1:46 p.m. - 16 clicks
Friends, you know I almost never use the word hero. But really, how else can you describe a police officer like (soon to be former) Sergeant Todd Frazier? Here’s a picture of (soon to be) Officer Frazier being awarded a Meritorious Service Medal by Renton’s own Commissioner Gordon, Chief Milosevich : From the Renton Patch : Milosevich presented the Meritorious Service Meda...
DailyKos (Washington) - Wed 11:10 a.m. - 14 clicks
Heather , on the Gentlelady from Spokane... I find it sad and disheartening to listen to the likes of McMorris Rodgers make excuses for her party being on the wrong side of bigotry, sexism, hatred and allowing for violence to escape prosecution if you believe the person the act was committed against is a second class citizen. Me too. Sad and disheartening, but not the least bit surprising....
Upper Left - Tue 5:07 p.m. - 21 clicks
For only $10, 97.3 KIRO FM is coming to... Tacoma. Yes, for ten bucks plus tax, you can watch a Kiro host in what they describe as "an intimate" setting. Insert 10 dollars for the next ten minutes. In what......
BlatherWatch - Mon 11:30 a.m. - 19 clicks
Rep. Jay Inslee (D) SurveyUSA for KING-TV. 5/8-9. Washington voters. MoE: ±4.2% ( 2/13-15 in parentheses): Jay Inslee (D) : 38 (39) Rob McKenna (R) : 40 (49) Undecided 22 (12) Back in February, it looked like the gubernatorial race was starting to slip away from the Democrats, with two polls by respected pollsters (national robo-pollster SurveyUSA and solid local pollster Elway...
DailyKos (Washington) - May 11 - 3 clicks
In working on next week’s Washington Weekly Briefing, we ran across this from the “1 year ago” file … The Washington State Republican Party, meeting at Bellevue, for an annual dinner on May 6, ran a straw poll to assess the support there for the various presidential contenders. 357 ballots came in, and split deeply [...]...
Ridenbaugh Press (Washington) - May 10 - 4 clicks
News item from the 1854 Washington Pioneer in Olympia. Local lawyer Ruddell with massive foreign turnips! Read all about it! Wait, this is news? The fake news that Abraham Lincoln filed a patent for a newspaper like Facebook in the 1840s is funny in the sense of how many people fell for it. Its also interesting in how its actually true in one sense. It wasn't so much Abraham Lincoln...
Olympia Time - May 9 - 2 clicks
1. Calavara.com has a pre and two post ( one and two ) Arts Walk posts. The best part is the in-Arts Walk art . 2. Mark over at Notes on the State of Olympia states the obvious. But, its worth repeating a lot : The Arts Walk on the Friday night before Procession is the realization of Olympia’s potential. ... Tonight, we’ll embrace standing on the sidewalk; we’ll experience something new, ...
Olympia Time - May 7 - 2 clicks
If you're a serious baseball nerd and a serious local history nerd, you probably know that Olympia was a member of the national minor league system from 1903-1906. Sadly, you're also misinformed, as the Southwest Washington League didn't make it into 1906, but current records (incorrectly) indicate otherwise. But, most important to me isn't really how the team played, but where ex...
Olympia Time - Apr 30
In the run up to worldwide action by the Occupy Movement on May 1st I have a few thoughts I'd like to share. Let's call it my attempt to call out those who may seem well meaning, but who's actions ultimately can do irrevocable damage to our movement. My advise and plea is, that if your a troublemaker or anarchist into gratuitous violence or meaningless petty property destru...
ArtistDogBoy - Apr 29 - 2 clicks
...but Cathy McMorris Rodgers isn't very representative of a lot of folks in her district. Publicola , via Carl ... ...Republicans in the House, led by Washington State Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA, 5) are pushing an alternative proposal—which McMorris Rodgers, incredibly, said will protect “the true victims of domestic violence and sexual assault”—that does not provide ...
Upper Left - Apr 28 - 2 clicks
This is like something you would see in a third-world country. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/... The Washington State Republicans showed their committment to Democracy when the leader of the King County GOP abruptly canceled the Republican caucus after a Ron Paul supporter was elected chairperson of the caucus. Participants (who were duly elected by their neighbors in the ...
DailyKos (Washington) - Apr 25
Its not my fault they were around 14,000 years ago. This is very close detail of a map of the spillways of the Puget Lobe from this amazing document : Sarah from McCleary Chronicles brings us the backup pipe dream of a shipping canal that would've passed through McCleary. The problem with the Puget Sound to Grays Harbor/Columbia River canals was always a lack of water and a lack of a ...
Olympia Time - Apr 25
1. Rock show at the library. Isn't exactly a rare thing, but man, only in Olympia, right? Snazzy Bouquet: Now I want a donut . 2. Happens so rarely, but this blog has something worth linking to. Thurston Pundits: Honoring local greatness 3. Steven Willis, of Evergroove Fame, goes back to Evergreen for a lecture. This sort of thing, when a local Evergreen alum connects back to the campus, happ...
Olympia Time - Apr 22
Cranberries are produced commercially in only five states. There were 38,500 total acres under cultivation in the U.S. as of 2011. Massachusetts (13,000 acres) and Wisconsin (18,000 acres) are the heavy hitters of the cranberry world. New Jersey (3,100 acres), Oregon (2,700 acres), and Washington (1,700 acres) fall into the second tier. &n...
DailyKos (Washington) - Apr 21 - 4 clicks
Last week, the White House let it be known that President Barack Obama would be once again paying a visit to the Real Washington a few days into May. Details of the planned trip were not released at the time, but all of the President’s recent trips here have been almost exclusively for fundraising, so [...]...
Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog - Apr 18
Floyd McKay has in Crosscut a detailed look at the emerging – and it does continue to emerge – race in the new Washington 1st district, the part of northwestern Washington located roughly well east of I-5 and west of the Cascades. He focuses on two key points (well, three if you could the lunacy [...]...
Ridenbaugh Press (Washington) - Apr 18
Politico has obtained an audio file of Rob Mckenna, Republican candidate for governor of the state of Washington, reassuring an audience of union workers that he is not Scott Walker, that he will not govern like Scott Walker, and that Washington is not Wisconsin. ...
DailyKos (Washington) - Apr 18
Thought this was settled. After losing a primary election in his home turf of Ohio, Representative Dennis Kucinich seemed to have bowed to the inevitable, and didn’t bring back up the talk of running for Congress from somewhere else in the country. Like Washington, where some months back he seemed to be semi-campaigning. But now, [...]...
Ridenbaugh Press (Washington) - Apr 16
