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RANDOM LINKS FOR 2/22/13

February 22nd, 2013 by Clark Humphrey

Seattle artist Ellen Ziegler’s mom was a ballet dancerâ€”and a onetime girlfriend of the great Mexican comic actor Cantinflas. Ziegler’s turning this story into a very-limited-edition art book.
In other news about local women and art and books and images of hotness, Charlotte Austin and Ciolo Thompson have created The Better Bombshell. In it, a variety of writers and artists of both genders contemplate that age-old issue of female role models and what they should be now.
Online “cyber-bullying” isn’t just for teens anymore. The disgraced now-former Snohomish County executive did it too.
The Oatmeal explains why “How to Suck at Your Religion.” (Essentially: if you preach brotherhood but practice bigotry, etc….)
The drive to preserve the Bauhaus coffeehouse’s building, by getting it named an official historic landmark: rejected.
The lawsuit challenging the Sonics arena scheme: rejected.
Even Republicans believe Tim Eyman’s “lying whore” comment against Gov. Inslee went too far.
PONCHO, granddaddy of Seattle arts fundraising groups (and inventor of the “charity auction”), is no more.
Can private tech colleges, charging $30,000 or more for degree programs, really solve Wash. state’s learning gap?
Eastern Washington, now with more radioactive sludge.
Life imitates Portlandia, at least 30 times.
Chuck Thompson at the New Republic derides microbrews, and the brewpubs who sell them, as icons of silly urban gentrificaiton. But they’re really, really tasty icons of silly urban gentrification.)
The sad tale of the “food critic on Food Stamps” finally has a happy ending. Ex-Tacoma News Tribune restaurant reviewer Ed Murrieta finally found a job, after spending years among the long-term unemployed. He now writes blurbs for Sacramento’s tourism board.
In Virginia, a white mom wants white kids not to have to read books about past racial violence.
I know I’m not the only one who still remembers LaserDiscs, those 12-inch analog video discs that were the best way to see movies at home in their day.
Here’s an artistic vision of a future car-free Manhattan, funded by (who else?) a car company.