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By Jonathan Cunningham at 11:12 pm

Arts & Culture [audio:http://publicola.net/wp-content/uploads/10.-Snow-Motion-For-Tyrone.mp3] THEESatisfaction “Snow Motion” Trying to pick your favorite THEESatisfaction song of 2009 is a difficult task. It’s almost like having to pick your favorite offspring. The female hip-hop duo matured right before the very eyes of Seattle’s music community, seemingly one show at a time. With each gig, THEESatisfaction got weirder and more outer [...] read more →

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By Jonah Spangenthal-Lee at 10:07 pm

News Police are investigating a stabbing in Lake City this evening after a woman was stabbed at a home in the 12300 block of 33rd Ave NE. We’ll post more details when we get them. We’ll be posting info on Twitter tonight as well. Follow us @seacrime. read more →

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By Jonah Spangenthal-Lee at 6:15 pm

News Police have shut down 10th Avenue just south of Roanoke Street after receiving a report about a possible bomb on a Metro bus. More info coming. UPDATE: CHS is at the scene and says information about the suspicious package/possible bomb came from the bus driver. UPDATE x2: Just heard an officer over the radio saying [...] read more →

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By Brian Slodysko at 4:04 pm

News The headline pretty much says it all. State Senator Tracey Eide (D-Federal Way) wants to upgrade talking on your cellphone while driving from a “secondary”  to a “primary” offense.  Currently police can only issue cellphone citations if they have already pulled a motorist over for a primary offense—something like failing to use a turn signal, [...] read more →

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By Jonah Spangenthal-Lee at 3:44 pm

News A warning to drivers: road rage goes both ways. According to a police report, a witness flagged down a police officer on December 22nd after a red Nissan was left in the middle of the road near 5th and Olive with the engine running. As the officer was examining the vehicle, a man walked up [...] read more →

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By Jonah Spangenthal-Lee at 1:31 pm

News Seattle police say a “Good Samaritan” got smacked around earlier this month after his one-man war on drugs went awry. At 9:00 p.m. on December 22nd, police were called to deal with a fight on a Metro bus near 137th and Aurora. One of the men involved—apparently the suspect in the assault—told police he was [...] read more →

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By Lady Bird at 12:57 pm

News Lest readers think my M.O. is to go to restaurants on opening night and slag on them for failing to live up to my inflated expectations, take note: I waited a full week to go to the Spice Room, the new, hotly-anticipated Thai restaurant in Columbia City. And guess what? I loved it. I’m going [...] read more →

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By Lady Bird at 12:27 pm

Arts & Culture Lest readers think my M.O. is to go to restaurants on opening night and slag on them for failing to live up to my inflated expectations, take note: I waited a full week to go to the Spice Room, the new, hotly-anticipated Thai restaurant in Columbia City. And guess what? I loved it. I’m going [...] read more →

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By Jonah Spangenthal-Lee at 12:26 pm

News On Christmas Eve, police were called to the Holman Road QFC after they received several reports of possible looting. According to a police report, witnesses told police that although QFC’s sign indicated it was closed on Christmas Eve, there were a number of people coming in and out of the store carrying groceries. Officers rolled [...] read more →

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By Erica C. Barnett at 11:26 am

News Next month marks PubliCola’s one-year anniversary. Throughout December, we’ve been re-posting our favorite Cola articles from our first 12 months. (Apologies to those who don’t like the reprints, but we’ve got thousands of new readers these days who haven’t seen some of our greatest hits. December, in fact, has been a record month for us, [...] read more →

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By Chris Kissel at 11:23 am

News 1. The Bathhouse Ensemble is a group of fresh-out-of-college thespians whose only previous credit is a production of “The Pillowman,” which happens to be the most excellent and disturbing play written in the last 20 years. Tonight they’re putting on The Compleat Wks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged), an interactive, partly improvised riff on Shakespeare’s entire [...] read more →

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By Jonah Spangenthal-Lee at 11:09 am

News As we Twittered last night, police called out K9 units and the Guardian One helicopter to track down two robbery suspects in the Rainier Valley. Shortly before 2:00 a.m., a group of three men assaulted and robbed a 25-year-old man waiting at a bus stop on Rainier Ave S and S Myrtle Street. Police caught [...] read more →

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