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Austin comes home for Oso concert Valley’s ‘Voice’ contestant to help mudslide victims with fundraiser show this weekend BY CAROL LADWIG
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Mount Si baseball finding the hits against Sammamish Page 9
Lots of egg hunts, family excitement around Valley Page 11
INDEX Opinion 4 On the Scanner 6 8 Movie Times 14 Legal Notices Classifieds 15-18 19 Calendar
Vol. 100, No. 47
Things are falling into place for Austin Jenckes, a singersongwriter who grew up in the Valley. He has just returned to his Nashville home after his final appearance on NBC’s “The Voice,” and two whirlwind performance tours that started immediately after the show. He’s marrying his longtime friend and girlfriend, Brittany Townsend, this August, and is working on his next album, scheduled to come out this fall. And this week, he accomplished what he
moved to Nashville to do, become a professional musician. “This week, I’m signing my first publishing deal,” Jenckes said in a telephone interview. “That basically means I’ll be paid to write songs, and that includes my songs for myself, and for other people.” He can’t say who the publishing house is, until the deal is final, but he can say how he feels about it. “I’m really, really excited about that, it’s a huge step for me,” he said. “It’s a way for me to get my music out there.” The contract, as much as his achievement of making it into the top 10 finalists on “The Voice,” then going on tour to meet some of the thousands of fans his appearance on the show won him, has made his dream a reality. SEE AUSTIN, 5
Death at the Falls
A Bellevue woman fell to her death last week at Snoqualmie Falls. Valley police were called by the Bellevue Police Dept. on Tuesday evening, April 8, to find the woman, reported missing by her family. According to Snoqualmie Police Chief Steve McCulley, the family had noticed that she had been looking for places to commit suicide. Her search had seemed to focus on Snoqualmie Falls. McCulley said the woman appeared to have traveled to Snoqualmie by bus. Police checked the Falls that night, but didn’t find the woman, and couldn’t see anything from the misty viewpoint or approach from below due to high water levels. The next morning, mist obstructed the viewpoint. Later that morning, a tourist noticed a body below the Falls. Firefighters descended and retrieved the woman’s body. The last time someone died at Snoqualmie Falls was on April 6, 2013, when a Sammamish man jumped to his death. If you are considering suicide, contact the Crisis Clinic of SeattleKing County on their 24-hour help line, (206) 461-3222.
AUSTIN JENCKES
Glamour ‘girls’ Is Fall City ready for drag queens? Divas surprise at twice-monthly show BY CAROL LADWIG Staff Reporter
Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo
The Lady Chablis, a popular Seattle drag performer was the special guest of Night Queen Sundays Feb. 23 show paying tribute to black divas. Fall City Bistro hosts Night Queen Sundays on the second and last Sunday of each month, with a different theme and special guest for each show.
From the neck down, the look was casual, sweats in fact. On top, though, it was all glam and sparkles, with long false eyelashes and a foot-high blonde wig. The martini-swirling phenomenon underneath it all was making the look work, while simultaneously working the Fall City Bistro on a Sunday evening in February. “Good morning!” Akasha Manila greeted the guests trickling in for dinner, “good to see you! I just woke up!” Manila’s sleepy claim fit perfectly with the “Divas” theme of the night’s show. It probably wasn’t true though, because this particular diva, like his fellow performers, was already made-up for her appearance in the semimonthly “Night Queens” drag show at the bistro, and doing makeup takes a while. “It takes me about two and a half hours,” said Versatina Vogue, one of Manila’s costars, also known as Thaddeus Wilson. That’s longer than Manila (Louie Alfajora) or LaSaveona Hunt (Jaquan Price) need, but they have the right eyebrows for drag. SEE DRAG SHOW, 14
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