Some things seen around town recently, starting with longtime street musician Richard Peterson strolling through Pioneer Square and announcing (as he has done several times before) that “this is my last day on the streets.” I met him at the end of a tiring week schlepping print MISCs around town, and could instantly sympathize with the sentiment/threat.

You know that big white fabric rectangle on the back of the Bon Marche parking garage, that had a sign at the bottom apologizing that Salmon Streaming had been suspended due to the power shortage? Now we finally get to see what the heck Salmon Streaming is. It’s a short, looping, silent film projected onto the giant outdoor screen at night. Sponsored by Seattle City Light, it’s a promo film for fishery-restoration efforts near its Ross Dam project in the Skagit Valley. It’s also an odd bit of nature imagery in the heart of Seattle’s most urban-decay-looking block.