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Posted on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 10:27pm

Homemade in Seattle: A Book of Wonders

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Folio 2011

If you already have tickets to SAM Remix, you can get a FREE copy (1 of 50 limited editions) of a beautiful hand-bound, two-sided book fresh "off the presses" from Folio 2011. Read more »

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Posted on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 9:01pm

More Things to Do This Halloween Weekend

Trick-or-treating? We’ve got you covered.

Want to stay in a watch a good scary movie? Double check.

Have an awesome costume and want to find something better than your typical, stand-around-until-the-punch-dries-up sorta party? Voila: Read more »

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Posted on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 7:42pm

Best Scary Movies to Watch on Halloween

Hello, old friend.

In case the weekend shut-ins among us need a little help rounding off the perfect horror movie marathon. (Watch at your own discretion – we can’t be responsible for any “accidents.”)

Listed in no particular order:

The Fly
You will never look at Jeff Goldblum the same way again.

Night of the Living Dead (1968)
The zombie movie that schooled the rest.

The Shining
Redrum.

Black Swan
Natalie Portman scares me. Read more »

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Posted on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 5:29pm

UPDATE: Viaduct for Dummies: Viaduct to Reopen Saturday, Ahead of Schedule

By: 
Kristen Russell
Alaskan Way Viaduct
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WSDOT photo

Word just in that the WSDOT will reopen the Alaska Way Viaduct on Saturday morning, two days ahead of schedule. The SoDo southbound offramp will reopen on Monday.

Though north-south travel along the waterfront will once again be possible, it might be so annoyingly slow that some of us will revert to our Viaduct-pocolypse workarounds. Picture yourself and thousands of your friends squeezing onto a 4-lane roadway (two in each direction), weaving through SoDo before rejoining SR99. Picture yourself celebrating when you finally hit 25 miles an hour. Read more »

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Posted on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 2:28pm

Who Were Those Liquor-Loving Ladies? LUPEC, That's Who

By: 
Cody Bay

As Ken Burns recently illuminated for us, women were at the forefront of the two most significant developments in our country's history of drinking: the enactment of Prohibition, and then its repeal. And when ladies' thirst roared in with the '20s, it wasn't pink cosmos they were drinking.  Read more »

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