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RANDOM LINKS FOR 3/30/12

March 29th, 2012 by Clark Humphrey

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Arts consultant Colleen Dilenschneider believes museums need to stop depending onÂ huge blockbuster shows and do more to build regular day-to-day audiences.
Sorry to say, but the Village Green Nursery in West Seattle isn’t out of the underwater-mortgage woods yet.
It took a year-long special investigation to determine that no, an instructional assistant at a Seattle elementary school did not kiss a student’s foot.
Sometimes whole swaths of the universe can coalesce at a single moment, such as a meeting on whether to allow a McDonald’s at Sea-Tac Airport.
Here are more pix of the new 520 bridge, images that are far prettier than the real thing will ever be.
And here’s a pic of the new Capitol Hill mixed-use project with live-theater spaces on the ground floor, an image far prettier than that real thing will ever be.
The bid to keep the NBA’s Kings in Sacramento (and hence out of Seattle) has hit a few snags; while a new developer has a new arena scheme, that would be built on land he doesn’t own and isn’t for sale.
State Sen. Val Stevens, tireless opponent of gay rights and corporate-lobbyist suckup extraordinaire, is retiring. Fun fact: Stevens used to be a director of ALEC, the infamous megabucks lobby group that supplies right-wing state legislators across the country with pre-written extremist legislation.
Syndrome of the day: Now you’re supposed to worry about yourself if you keep too many files on your computer.
Jim Hightower has more details about the right wing war against the Post Office.
James Silver at the Atlantic claims perhaps 1 in 10 Wall Street operatives is a “psychopath.”
The story of a movie song, and the need to acquire the right to its use, is a tale that meanders through Iran, France, Portugal, Florida, Connecticut, a leaking boat, and the cast ofÂ As the World Turns, until it stops with a retired female airline pilot.
We close with fun ’60s pop-star collage covers from 16 magazine.

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