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Something wicked this way codes: The rise of the tech villain in pop culture

Movie villains are packing up their cloaks and picking up their sweatshirts.

How our Winter Olympians fared: No medals, but personal triumphs for athletes with Northwest ties

None of the thirteen Winter Olympians with ties to the Pacific Northwest is coming home from the Beijing Games with a medal. Still, many of the Northwest's elite skiers, skaters and sliders will leave Sunday's closing ceremony with feelings of accomplishment, or relief just to have made it through the ever-present COVID-19 testing gauntlet, not to mention the geopolitical tensions of competing on Chinese soil in 2022.

Pipeline of short track speedskaters from Washington to Olympics grows longer

A roller skating rink in Federal Way, Washington, has a remarkable track record of minting future ice skating Olympians. The rink is probably best known for being the early training ground for Apolo Ohno, among others. The streak continues now for an eighth consecutive Winter Olympics with a new short track speedskater on Team USA named Corinne Stoddard. But meanwhile, the storied roller rink is for sale.

A paid holiday in March? It'd be Women's Suffrage Day if Washington state lawmakers vote yea

Washington state workers and perhaps many others could get an extra day off in honor of women getting the right to vote. That idea for a Women's Suffrage Day holiday got a friendly reception on the opening day of Washington's 2022 legislative session.

Arts & Life

Bosco brings villain drag from Seattle to 'Drag Race'

Tonight the 14th season of RuPaul's Drag Race launches on vH1. This time, Seattle's own Bosco will compete against America's top queens.

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Noche Buena: Tacoma chef shares her family’s Christmas Eve tradition

Noche Buena is about family gatherings and food for the Filipino community. One Tacoma chef shares her family's Noche Buena traditions.

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Casual Friday: Our guilty music pleasures

Everyone was talking about their Spotify Wrapped top music of the year this week. But the real question is, when is it okay to start blasting the holiday tunes? Plus, sports (and some concerts) are getting so pricey in the city that people just aren't going. We dig through it all with The Stranger's Chase Burns and Jas Keimig.

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Civil political discourse is alive and well at 'Civic Saturday'

Social Distancing may be drawing to a close, but that doesn’t mean folks are eager to come together just yet. The potential unity among Americans, involving civil civic discourse, continues to prove a bumpy road, to say the least. But according to the speakers in this talk, it’s a journey still worth committing to, having ‘faith’ in, and suffering through, together.

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'The resilience of native women': These Navajo matriarchs heal and educate through dance

Thousands of American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls are missing - many presumed murdered, their families denied the dignity of laying their bodies to rest. "Art Heals: The Jingle Dress Project" honors these women and their land, and educating non-native people along the way.

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'This came from a dream.' How this Navajo family is healing with dance

Eugene Tapahe never dreamt the coronavirus pandemic would bring the world to a stop. Nor could he have known when the virus struck that another pandemic a century earlier - and a tradition that grew out of it - would send his family on a 30,000-mile journey to heal.