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Cleaning Up the Child-Care Mess The City Council and workers’ unions are trying to bring universal pre-K to Seattle. But they aren’t working together.

4 Lessons in Drone Self-Defense

BY NINA SHAPIRO

BY MATT DRISCOLL

ast week, Seattle City Council members voted to put two preschool and childcare proposals on the November ballot.

They also decided to pit the measures— one drawn up by the city, one by a partnership of two unions—against one another. It is, in short, a confusing mess, one that city officials are still trying to sort out, never mind voters. To help, SW spent some time talking to the players involved.

he future is here, and it can be downright creepy sometimes. The most recent reminder came just last week, when a woman called to complain of a drone hovering outside her 26th floor apartment. Naturally, the flying camera freaked her out. As a public service, we called the police to get some tips on dealing with drones. Here are a few things to keep in mind.

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sweeping plan, now known as Initiative 107. It would, of course, create the professional development institute they were pushing. And it would affect absolutely all child-care facilities, including centers, home-based businesses, preschools, and before- and after-school programs for older kids.

The city’s plan, in contrast, applies only to 3- and 4-year-olds in bona fide “classrooms,”

ting a drone with a BB gun is much harder than it looks. Secondly, according to Seattle Police spokesperson Sean Whitcomb, you’d be putting others at risk and opening yourself to possible criminal charges. “We would recommend against the use of any firearm—pellet or otherwise—in the city limits,” he explains.

not covering home-based facilities. It’s also essentially a pilot program that starts small and ramps up, to 2,000 children in four years.

Both plans aim to keep costs for parents affordable. The city plan would be free to families earning less than 300 percent of the federal poverty level (roughly $72,000 for a family of four), and would charge those earning more according to a sliding scale. I-107 states that “No family should pay more than 10 percent of income on child care.”

What’s this I hear about a minimum-wage clause in I-107? Didn’t we resolve that issue already? Indeed, we did—at least if the City

Where will the money come from? Good ques-

How will the measures be presented to voters? That’s still up in the air. Word around

tion! In the city plan, the source of funding is made clear: a property-tax levy that would cost owners of a $400,000 house $43 a year. I-107, though, contains no funding mechanism.

That leaves open the question of whether the initiative really will keep costs down. The city claims that the 10-percent provision amounts to an unfunded mandate that could give rise to lawsuits from families having to pay more. Not at all, says Strickland, who adds that the provision is not an enforceable mandate but an “aspirational” goal. The city would be left to figure out how to achieve it, with no particular timetable specified.

In this way the city’s plan is far more concrete, though it fails to address astronomical child-care costs outside the narrow slice of the market that overlaps with preschool.

Water balloons. Throwing water balloons at a drone seems like a much better idea—but risks are still involved. Gravity comes into play, Whitcomb explains, as do property rights. “It’s just being aware of who’s below,” he says of throwing water balloons or causing a disabled drone to fall from the sky.

Whitcomb also reminds us that if a drone isn’t being employed for criminal ends, damaging one could result in misdemeanor charges against its attacker.

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Council’s $15-wage plan, passed last month, survives a variety of attacks underway, including a competing initiative and a lawsuit. But the unions filed their initiative before the city’s wage plan was hammered out, and then got locked into its language. Now they’re in the tricky position of defending a separate, faster track of wage hikes for child-care workers.

the Council is that the ballot will first ask voters if they approve of either measure, and then, in a separate item, instruct approving voters to pick one of the two. Got that? The unions are saying that they are still exploring whether voters could choose both, despite a Council vote that seeks to rule that out. City Attorney Pete Holmes’ office, which makes the final call, is not commenting at this point.

Can this get any more confusing? Probably. As election season gets underway, the city and unions will likely campaign not only for their measure, but against the competing measure. For two plans with similar goals, this is a train wreck. E

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sportsball » The Legacy of the Sonics Lives On, But for How Long?

Last week, Bothell High’s Zach LaVine (pictured) became the latest Seattle-area kid picked in the first round of the NBA draft. That makes 11 first-rounders in the past 10 years, an unprecedented yield of basketball talent. It might just be coincidence, but the childhoods of the 11 first-rounders all coincide with the thrilling, volatile era of Sonics basketball when Shawn Kemp and Gary Payton ruled the court. The correlation doesn’t prove anything, but the connection between the mid-’90s Sonics and the area’s basketball flowering is more than correlative. Payton served as a mentor to many young Seattle hoopsters. But now that Seattle is indefinitely NBA-less, will talented athletes move in a different direction? Read the complete column at seattleweekly.com. SETH KOLLOEN

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What is the difference between the two measures? In the end, the unions drew up their own

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A citizens arrest. If you do believe a drone is being used for illegal purposes like voyeurism, Whitcomb says seizing the flying machine is perfectly within your rights.

“Let’s say you’re sunbathing in your yard, you see a drone, and you think it’s being used for criminal activity,” Whitcomb says. “You can smack it with a tennis racket, then hold it for police.” Or if you live in a high-rise, Whitcomb says simply, “Just close your blinds and call police.”

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In case you’re wondering, it’s totally legal to be naked in your apartment 100 percent of the time.

While many seem to be frightened by the idea of a drone snapping nude photos of them, it’s also true that a drone might think twice about peering into apartment 2B if it gets more of a look-see than it bargained for. “Nudity in your own space is completely legitimate,” Whitcomb reminds us.

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Council started working on a plan for universal pre-K, a concept that has been catching on around the country as a way to close the achievement gap and make sure all students are ready for school.

Spearheaded by Councilmember Tim Burgess, the idea focused on quality. Among other stipulations, teachers would be required to get college degrees in early-childhood education, and would be compensated with salaries matching those of K-12 teachers.

That raised concerns among two unions, SEIU 995 and the American Federation of Teachers, who had formed a partnership aimed at organizing preschool and child-care workers. The unions worried that existing workers would be “thrown under the bus” by the new plan, as Karen Strickland, president of AFT Washington, puts it. Many such workers wouldn’t be able to meet the higher expectations in the four-year time frame laid out by the city proposal, the unions reckoned. They also wanted a broader plan that tackled pay and professional development for all child care, not just the narrow segment of “preschool” that caters to 3- and 4-yearolds, which is all the city wanted to take on.

So the unions and the city met a number of times over the past year to try to come up with a plan both could support. They couldn’t. The unions insisted that they (or a group like them representing workers) participate equally with the city in a new professional development institute that would set staff requirements, among other functions, seeing this as giving workers a voice. The city, according to Burgess, saw this as giving the unions a no-bid contract and “veto power” over essential standards.

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The Northwest’s Worst Politicians (Whom You Elected)

A horndog, a boozer, two sleazebags, and a bounty of blowhards who disgrace our democracy.

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ood people elect bad politicians. This truth knows no borders and no political affiliation. In the pursuit of the public power afforded by our great democracy, jackasses abound, and every once in a while—perhaps quite often—some of them fool us into believing they’re interested in serving the public, rather than their own puerile needs.

And they do fool us. When Idaho Republicans elected John McGee to the State Senate, they didn’t expect him to one day drunkenly careen into a constituent’s yard in a stolen SUV. And Snohomish County voters couldn’t have known that they’d be paying for the intimacy kit that their county executive Aaron Reardon purchased to assist in his affair with a bodybuilder.

So it is on this Independence Day that we present the Worst Politicians of the Northwest.

We’ve asked reporters and editors from our fellow alternative weeklies to share the two lowest bottom feeders who have somehow risen to the top in each of their states. Read, be dismayed, and try to do better come this November. Mark Baumgarten

Washington

by Ellis E. Conklin, Seattle Weekly

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Former Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon

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Reardon was the golden boy, the rising star of the Democratic Party in Washington state. Brash and cocky as a rooster, sure, but someday, most political observers agreed, he would sit in the governor’s mansion.

When he was sworn into office in 2004, Reardon was the youngest county executive in the nation. His fall from grace began a couple of years ago when a very tan bodybuilder named Tamara—also a county social worker—came forward to reveal her long affair with Reardon, a married man with two young children. There were junkets, most of them put on the county’s credit card, and even an intimacy kit containing condoms and lubricants purchased during one of their trysts at a boutique hotel in Washington, D.C. In Chicago, he skipped out on the Democratic Leadership Council conference by faking a headache, then hailed a taxi to have dinner and drinks with Tamara. Reardon weathered scandal after scandal—the out-of-control drunkard

of a planning director he hired who groped a building-industry lobbyist on a golf course; allegations of using county resources for his campaign; a Washington State Patrol investigation into his travel.

Then came the final straw, which smacked of Nixonian politics: One of his staffers concocted a phony name and made publicrecords requests of county employees’ conversations with police about Reardon’s involvement with Tamara. His staff was also tied to Web pages that attacked Reardon’s political opponents. Reardon resigned last year and called for an independent investigation into “false and scurrilous accusations.” He is said to be living in exile somewhere in Arizona.

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State Senator Pam Roach

Pam Roach has the temperament of a thundercloud, with an in-your-face personality and a penchant for screaming at and berating staff members and fellow lawmakers that once got her banned from Republican caucus meetings.

Roach, who has represented a conservative suburban district southeast of Seattle for 24 years, cemented her Rottweilerian reputation in 2006 when she threw a tantrum after someone removed a bouquet of roses from her Senate floor desk. Rising red-faced from her seat, she bellowed, “I am incensed that anyone would move or touch anything on a senator’s desk, and I want to find out who took my flowers and moved them, and I intend to take action.”

Roach has no off switch. She works without a net—or a filter. She is constantly gaveled down. Legislative reporters grab their notepads when she gets up to speak, for who knows what will come out of her mouth.

On her blog, Pam Roach Report, she has written, “It is women like me who pass on the genes we hope our sons have when they go to Iraq or Afghanistan. It is women like me who do not show fear.” She’s been reprimanded repeatedly for her tirades, and was told on one occasion to seek professional help after staffers accused her of illegally obtaining employees’ e-mail messages and brandishing a handgun at one of them. One Olympia aide said her verbal attacks were commonplace: “We call it ‘being Roached.’ ”

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Former Senator and GOP Majority Caucus Chairman John McGee

McGee began winning elections before he was 20 years old and didn’t stop until he became chairman of the Idaho Republican Majority Caucus; he had become the face of what many considered the future of the Idaho GOP. But today, at 41, McGee has had that face plastered on more mug shots than campaign posters, and is considered a political pariah.

Following a June 2011 drunkdriving arrest, McGee admitted to imbibing a bit too much at a Father’s Day golf tournament. He was also charged with stealing an SUV that night (complete with a utility trailer) and crashing it in a neighbor’s front yard, prompting a bathrobe-clad woman to rush to her bedroom window. Police said McGee emerged from the wreckage, mumbled something about the woman being an angel, made some passing remarks about driving the stolen vehicle to Jackpot, Nevada, and promptly passed out.

McGee, who by then was an Idaho state senator, saw that his political career was hanging in the balance. So he underwent a series of mea culpa TV interviews in which he spoke in hushed tones about how eager he was to “move forward.”

But after he retained his Republican leadership and returned to the Idaho statehouse politically unscathed, it turned out that some of McGee’s moves were more than forward—they were inappropriate. A female staffer said he had sexually harassed her on several occasions at the state capitol; according to her, McGee exposed himself, asked for sex, and groped her. He was sentenced to 90 days in jail, but released after 44 days “for good behavior.” He hasn’t been heard from, at least publicly, since.

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Former House Representative Phil Hart

Hart represented Idaho’s panhandle for four terms in the state House of Representatives. But he spent almost as much time in state and federal courtrooms as in the capitol. Hart appeared on most citizens’ radar with his sponsorship of something called the Idaho Silver Gem Act, which would have allowed Idahoans to pay taxes

using silver bars—mined in his home district.

But Hart had no intention of paying his own taxes; he stopped filing returns in 1996.

At last count, the IRS says, Hart owes feds around $500,000, and the state of Idaho says he owes about $53,000 to its tax commission.

But Hart’s real chutzpah came when he regularly argued that his status as a state legislator granted him protection from dealing with tax authorities. Meanwhile, he continued to tangle with the Idaho House ethics committee, which ultimately decided to let its fellow legislator skate away unscathed.

Perhaps most important, Hart was regularly re-elected to the legislature by wide margins.

And in a peculiar twist, he was reportedly found asleep in his car at a rural rest stop in April 2012 where a woman had been shot. Idaho police ended up clearing Hart and sending him on his way, saying it was just a bizarre coincidence.

Too many scandals eventually caught up with Hart, and he lost a 2012 GOP primary. But his epitaph is far from being written: Federal authorities say they’re still laying the groundwork for criminal tax charges against the former lawmaker.

Montana

by Alex Sakariassen, Missoula Independent

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State Representative Jerry O’Neil

In fall 2012, O’Neil, a Republican from Columbia Falls, drew national media attention when he requested that the state pay his legislative wage in gold and silver. But his letter to Montana Legislative Services was largely laughed off.

The response was in keeping with the public reaction to much of O’Neil’s 12-year legislative record. During the 2013 legislative session alone, he introduced bills to eliminate the minimum wage for high-school dropouts, limit the federal government’s ability to regulate firearm restrictions, and allow criminals to opt out of jail time by submitting themselves to corporal punishment. Of the last proposal, O’Neil famously told the Associated Press in January 2013: “Ten years in prison or you could take 20 lashes, perhaps two lashes a year?”

Professionally, O’Neil calls himself an “independent paralegal.” He has been at odds with the Montana State Bar and the state Supreme Court’s Commission on Unauthorized Practice ever since 2001, when a district judge wrote a letter stating O’Neil was engaged in the “unauthorized practice of law.”

All this adds up to a long and predominantly

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by Aaron Mesh, Willamette Week

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BLOWHARD

State Senator Art Wittich

The call for campaign finance reform has escalated dramatically since the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in the Citizens United case.

Much of the concern centers on the shadowy world of so-called dark-money groups—politically active nonprofits that aren’t required to disclose their donors. No politician in Montana is more closely tied to dark money than Wittich, a Republican from Bozeman and the 2013 state Senate majority leader.

For years, Wittich’s law firm acted as the registered agent for the Colorado-based American Tradition Partnership (ATP). Formerly known as Western Tradition Partnership, the nonprofit was featured in a 2012 exposé on Frontline.

Wittich’s firm also represented ATP in its challenge to Montana’s Corrupt Practices Act, which barred corporate spending in state campaigns for a century. The act was overturned.

Relying in part on information contained in several boxes of documents recovered from a meth house in Colorado, Montana’s Commissioner of Political Practices has issued eight rulings of campaign-practice violations against ATP over the past year. One of them was tied to Wittich’s 2010 primary bid.

The commissioner also ruled this year that Wittich violated campaign law during that race by coordinating with and accepting corporate donations through ATP. A District Court judge recently declined a recommendation that Wittich be removed from the 2014 ballot. So the senator will again bid to run—in a district where he does not reside.

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Oregon Republican Party Chairman Art Robinson

Give the Oregon GOP credit for thinking outside the box. They could have chosen just any old Tea Partying climate-change denier as a leader.

Instead, they found Robinson.

A chemist and newsletter publisher who bases his operations in Cave Junction, Robinson has been spreading the gospel of nuclear power and Christian homeschooling since the 1980s. He ran two losing challenges to U.S. Representative Peter DeFazio—campaigns that brought fewer votes than headlines about his views on public schools (they’re child abuse) and nuclear waste (a little exposure is good for us). He has advocated sprinkling radioactive waste over the ocean from airplanes to strengthen our immune systems.

Robinson might just be your run-of-themill country kook—Grizzly Adams meets Dr. Strangelove—except that his views have tapped a lucrative vein of the paranoid style in American politics. (He raised about $1.2 million in each of his congressional races.) That fundraising power was too much for the cash-strapped state GOP to resist—it elected him chairman last fall, deciding that extremism in the pursuit of money is no vice.

Robinson immediately proved he isn’t shy about asking for contributions. Weeks after his appointment, he mailed every household in Josephine County and requested a urine sample. He explained the fluids would be used in tests that would “improve our health, our happiness, and prosperity.”

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Don’t worry, it’s still in the CD player.

6. Yell. A LOT. 7. Drink more cheap beer.

You’re not getting any younger.

8. Go to your nearest Walmart and buy the biggest, most expensive American flag you can find. Because you know what, buddy? Freedom ain’t free, bro.

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The time has come, folks. Soon your neighbor, Terry, will be trying to pawn off his wife’s “special” deviled eggs. And with those eggs will come the opportunity to reflect on this wonderful nation’s history. If you are anything like me, then each Fourth of July you may be asking yourself, “How do I pack all the freedom into just one day?” Well, fear not, my dear reader, for I have made this easy to follow 8-step guide on how to get the most bang for your buck this Fourth of July.* 1. Buy fireworks. Not the wussy ones . . . the real big fuckers.

2. Get rid of your healthcare policy. There is nothing more American than not having health insurance.

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Clackamas County Chairman John Ludlow

Portland may be known nationally as a frivolous paradise of banjos, naked bike rides, and fairtrade coffee. But its commuter communities have nourished a resentful Republicanism dead serious about stopping what they call “Portland creep.”

The face of this anti-Portland movement is Ludlow, a brawny real-estate broker with a shaved head that suggests Lex Luthor as a high-school coach. His bid for Clackamas County chair was funded by a timber magnate and propelled by a populist revolt against light rail. Once elected, he tried to break contracts the county had signed years earlier to extend rail lines south from Portland.

But it’s his demeanor in Clackamas—a largely rural county of 380,000 that’s becoming more Stepford all the time—that’s been the most embarrassing. In a planning meeting last summer, he yelled, “Do you want a piece of me?” at a fellow commissioner.

You can’t say voters weren’t warned. When he ran for county chair in 2012, lawn signs went up

that declared, “John Ludlow is a bully.” Ludlow had previously been removed from the planning commission in Wilsonville, where he served as mayor, for what one city councilor called “rude, combative, argumentative, and disrespectful” behavior toward the public. Ludlow sued, and in 2003 a judge restored him to his position, ruling that his objectionable ways were actually protected speech.

A personnel complaint filed by the county’s lobbyist in April claims that when news broke about the Boston Marathon bombing, Ludlow declared it was likely the work of “a damn A-rab.” Of suspects in a local shooting, he allegedly said, “I bet they were Mexicans.” And when former county board member Ann Lininger was appointed to an open state legislative seat this year, Ludlow said she succeeded because “she does a good job of sticking out her perky titties in people’s faces.”

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onathan Malindine is a man with a lot going for him. He lives in one of the most gorgeous cities in the country—Santa Barbara, Calif.—and is on a Ph.D. track in cultural anthropology at UCSB. His wife has an established career as a private chef for some of Hollywood’s biggest names, and his darling 2½-year-old is currently collecting likes by the hundreds on her dad’s Facebook page.

But there’s something Jonathan doesn’t have that most of the rest of us do: two hands.

I came to know Jonathan from the time I spent in Alaska, that “last great place,” where the days can be so rowdy—considering variables like wild animals, terrible weather, and the kind of binge drinking that gives Robert Downey Jr. a run for his money—that you’re lucky to make it out alive. This is a reality Jonathan knows quite intimately: On July 4, 2000, his right hand was blown off by commercial explosives in Craig, in southeast Alaska.

“I’m a little wary about being a poster child for fireworks safety,” he wrote when I reached out online, “only because I didn’t lose my hand to fireworks. It was commercial explosives.”

Because it was the Fourth of July, he writes, everyone just assumes that’s what happened. At the time of the incident, he too thought he was lighting harmless fireworks.

“It was 2 a.m. and everyone was drinking,” he tells me via phone a few hours later. “Some outlaw had stolen these commercial explosives off his logging job site, and he gives one to me. It just looked like an awesome firework to me,” he says.

For some perceived slight, this person had it out for Jonathan, and rigged the bomb with a quicklighting fuse. “It had this really long fuse and I thought I’d have more than enough time to light

it and get away.” He only had “a second” before it exploded, he says. “That guy told me he was trying to kill me.” #onlyinalaska A difficult recovery followed. “At the time I was working on fishing and diving boats, pulling in lines and helping divers with their hoses. I couldn’t do that anymore,” he says. He incurred PTSD as a result, too. “To this day, it freaks my body out when I hear loud, unexpected noises. It’s this body-memory thing.”

But he admits that back in his early 20s, he thought he was invincible. “I was reckless with my body,” he says. Now, as a husband and father, it’s difficult for him to imagine putting himself in another situation like that. “I have lots of new responsibilities, and it would be crazy to act like what I do doesn’t matter to my family.”

That said, Jonathan offers three tips for celebrating safely with fireworks—provided there are no sociopaths in your circle with access to anything more potent: “Don’t light anything you can’t identify. Don’t light fireworks while they’re in your hand.

Whatever you’re lighting, do it and move away.”

With such a painful chapter firmly behind him, you’d think the man would have written off Alaska for good. When I ask him what he’s doing this coming holiday, he laughs. “You know what?

I’m going to be back in Alaska, in Craig, where all this happened. As part of my doctoral work, I’m helping that community work toward creating a Native Alaskan Cultural Center and Museum.”

Will he be celebrating with any fireworks?

“You know, I used to light a firework once a year on July Fourth, as an act of self-defiance.

To get back on the horse,” he says. “I don’t really do that anymore.” E gelliott@seattleweekly.com

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Of course you can never go wrong with a juicy burger. Well, actually you can, but not if you follow these dos and don’ts from Nick Novello, supervising chef de cuisine of Skillet Diners and maker of one of the best burgers in town.

DON’T go to the freezer.

DO check out your neighborhood butcher.

Don’t skimp on quality—get a nice 80 percent beef/20 percent fat all-natural beef patty.

DON’T overcook your burger. Constantly flipping your patty and pressing it on direct flames will squeeze all the juices out and cause flare-ups on the grill, all that flavor burning right up.

DO cook it medium rare. Flip your burger once!

Really, just once. I wait for signs that it’s ready to be flipped: blood cooking through, change in color. Once this happens, flip it. Then add cheese; use something like a blue, fontina, or brie. When the cheese is melted, you’ve got medium rare.

DON’T use a bunch of spices.

DO keep it simple: freshcracked black pepper and kosher salt. Anything more and you’re making meatloaf.

You don’t have to make a sauce from scratch— or even serve one at all, since the meat’s natural juices and flavors should really steal the show.

But there’s no shame in being a finger-lickin’ sauce lover. One easy, homemade version: Just grill some fruit (like peaches) and onions and add vinegar to taste.

Or try taking your favorite store-bought sauce and giving it a blast of bourbon or beer, as Jason Brzozowy of Tilth does. If you tend to go for spicier, heavier sauces, a few dashes of fresh citrus can brighten them up.

OFF THE GRILL If you really want to surprise (and hopefully delight) people, you might forgo the grill altogether and serve your meat inside the Northwest Vietnamese Crepe that Kyle Nicholson from San Juan Island’s Duck Soup Inn makes.

Stuffed with smoked pork shoulder (which I recommend just buying from Bourbon & Bones) and spot prawns, it’s an interesting and really delicious take on surf & turf. The beauty of this recipe is that the crepe batter can be premade and brought in a cooler on camping trips. The crepes can even be cooked in a pan over a fire pit.

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(Yield: 1½ qts) INGREDIENTS

½ cup dry split mung beans (or substitute lentils) 3 cups coconut milk (or substitute rice, almond, or dairy) 2 cups rice flour (or substitute wheat or other grain) 1 tsp. ground ginger 1 tsp. ground coriander ½ tsp. salt 2 tsp. sugar 1 tsp. ground turmeric 2 tsp. canola oil

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Place dried mung beans in blender with ¼ of the liquid, and purée until smooth. Add the remaining ingredients and continue to purée. Heat skillet over medium heat and coat generously with oil.

Nonstick pans work well. Pour batter into hot pan and distribute evenly. When edges of the crepe are set and start to crisp, begin to add your prawns and pork over half the crepe. Cover the pan with a lid or place in a hot oven for 2–3 minutes to cook the prawns. Place herbs over proteins and fold in half like an omelet. Serve as is, or with a dipping sauce such as nuoc cham or vinaigrette.

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THE SIDES Whether served before the meal or right alongside it, indulgences like coleslaw and potato salad never go out of style. But you can add a tasty twist to them—or try something completely out-of-the-box. Maria Hines and Jason Brzozowy at Tilth make a slaw out of Brussels sprouts (below) and do a “smoked” potato salad (for the recipe, go to seattleweekly.com/food).

For something really inventive, go with Wilson’s “Grilled Guacamole”: Simply grill avocados (on all sides), red onions, jalapeños, and a lime.

Chop them all together with some fresh cilantro.

Another fun twist on Mexican: Take a traditional pico de gallo salsa recipe and swap out cubes of watermelon for the tomatoes (or let the two fruits co-exist; yes, the tomato is a fruit). The rest is the same: serranos, onion, lime juice, salt.

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2 lbs. Brussels sprouts, outer leaves removed, thinly sliced 1 cup thinly shaved radicchio 1 cup thinly shaved fennel 1 Honeycrisp apple, thinly sliced, julienne 1 bunch picked italian parsley leaves ⅓ cup apple cider vinegar 1 tsp. caraway seed 2 tsp. Dijon mustard 1½ cups olive oil Salt and fresh black pepper

DIRECTIONS

In a mixing bowl, combine sprouts, radicchio, fennel, apple, and parsley leaves. In a small bowl, whisk together caraway, Dijon, and olive oil to make a vinaigrette. Lightly dress the slaw and season with salt and lots of fresh black pepper.

THE DESSERT

(makes one batch or eight servings) 4 bottles of inexpensive dry white wine 1–2 cups pear brandy (to taste) 1 cup Domaine de Canton (ginger liqueur) 6 bottles San Pellegrino grapefruit soda ½–1 cup shrub* of green apple, grapes, and fennel Serve on rocks with 2 tsp. fruit mixture.

RED SANGRIA

(makes one batch or eight servings) 4 bottles of inexpensive dry red wine 1–2 cups brandy (to taste) 6 bottles San Pellegrino blood-orange soda ½–1 cup shrub* of strawberries and rhubarb Serve on rocks with 2 tsp. fruit mixture. * Though either of these recipes will taste just fine without the shrub, it’s pretty simple to make. It’s just the remains of fruit that’s been fermented for at least a week in vinegar and sugar. A general ratio to go by is 1 part fruit/1 part white vinegar/a quarter-part sugar. Mash the fruit of your choice with sugar and refrigerate overnight. Then add the vinegar and let sit refrigerated for 1 week. Strain and serve, or keep refrigerated until ready to use.

BEER SANGRIA

(makes one batch or eight servings) In this version of sangria from our drink columnist, Zach Geballe, you get the best of both worlds: beer and wine. Instead of wine, use a Belgian beer for your base (about 8 pints). Add cut-up apples, stone fruits, and fresh strawberries, and about an ounce of brandy per serving.

Says Geballe: “It’s a strange yet captivating drink: fruity but dry, refreshing yet a bit potent.”

WINE SPRITZERS

These are the easiest of all to make: combine your favorite white wine with soda water, 1 cup wine to ½ cup soda. Liven it up by choosing a flavored soda or adding a splash of a fruity liqueur. I like to then add frozen blueberries in lieu of ice cubes (which also make a nice addition to a glass of non-alcoholic lemonade).

No Fourth of July bash is complete without s’mores. But take them to the truly decadent side and replace the graham crackers with your favorite cookies (like ginger snaps).

You can smash the traditional marshmallow between them, but instead of plain old Hershey’s squares, go with a rich chocolate truffle.

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ntil last month, there were two things I had never done in my life of which I was particularly proud. I had never watched Titanic—still haven’t, actually.

And I had never touched a gun. A real gun, that is. I had a dalliance or two with a BB gun while tromping about the Wisconsin farmland of my youth. But live firearms are another story.

As a child I didn’t hate guns; they were as American as the Walmart out north of town.

It’s just that, as my friends bonded with their fathers by sitting with them in cold, damp hunting shacks, I connected with mine while reading the newspaper at McDonald’s, talking about sports and war and politics.

At that point, the late ’80s and early ’90s, shooting massacres were a rarity, and the 24-hour news cycle that churns those massacres for ratings was just being born. I can recall only one conversation about guns: My dad recounted a day in the ’60s when a student brought a revolver to my hometown’s junior high school and shot the vice principal dead.

We had a gun—a .22 caliber rifle that my father inherited from my grandfather, a farmer. Only once do I remember my father using it. On a summer’s night, coyotes began yipping in the distance. As their shrieks grew closer, my father went to his and my mother’s bedroom and emerged with the gun.

I watched out the window as he marched to the field’s edge and looked out to where the livestock grazed. No coyotes. He never fired.

I remember, while snooping, finding the .22 in my father’s closet, leaning against an inside wall. I never touched it. I wonder now if it was loaded.

As I grew older, the fact that I had never touched a gun became more than a curious detail in my life—something much larger than never having seen the second-highest-grossing film of all time. When two students entered Columbine High School in 1999 with an arsenal and murdered a dozen students and a teacher, I remember sitting next to a friend training to be a teacher. He was in tears. From that moment forward, I openly

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As we all know, massacres have only grown more common. As the body count has increased, my relationships with my old neighbors who once sat in hunting shacks with their fathers has become strained. After the Sandy Hook elementary-school shooting in 2012, I raged against friends online and expected my representatives to do something. When they didn’t, I finally shut down out of exhaustion. Scores of school shootings later, I am still exhausted. But I am also scared. My wife is a school teacher. I work in a part of town where gunfire is familiar. I know that, by count, there is a gun for every American in this country. I don’t have one, which means that someone else has two (or likely 27). I will survive without seeing Titanic, but will I if I don’t know how to use a gun?

As I get comfortable with the weapon, my fear fades. My blood pressure drops.

And so I called my friend Rick and asked him

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to take me to the range. Rick is the most responsible guy I know—a former Marine who’s settled down with a young family, a few firearms, and a disaster-preparedness plan that makes mine (two gallon jugs of water in the basement) look as pathetic as it is. He says yes.

I show up at Rick’s for a safety course before we head to the range. He has a couple of requests: that I don’t name him in this article (Rick is not his real name) or share the number or specific details about his guns. And he has a few rules: “Treat every firearm as if it were loaded.” “Do not point the muzzle at anything you are not willing to destroy.” “Keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to fire.” “Be sure of your target and what’s behind it.”

Then he places an unloaded .45 on the table in front of me. I pick it up, feel its weight in my hand—and just like that, my high ground is ceded.

But as I go through a few drills with Rick, something replaces my self-righteousness: know-how.

As I get comfortable with the weapon, my fear fades. My blood pressure drops. I feel confident.

Then I start telling Rick about my dad, suddenly remembering his deeper history with guns. My dad was in the Army during the Vietnam War. He never saw combat, but during a brief stint in artillery earned the designation of sharpshooter—even though he’d shot a gun only a couple of times in his life. “He didn’t have any bad habits to fix,” Rick says.

At the range, I am following my father’s footsteps. With Rick’s excellent tutelage and my lack of bad habits, I am punching round after round through the middle of the target (pictured on the previous page). It’s exhilarating—not because of the power in my hand, exactly, but because I am actually pretty good. After I empty the magazine, Rick taps me on the shoulder.

“Hey, I just want you to take a moment and look around,” he shouts.

“See, these aren’t ‘gun people,’ ” Rick says. “These are just regular people.”

I agree with him. This place is like a bowling alley, I think, each stall filled with people popping off rounds while friends and family look on. And yet I could never imagine spending an afternoon with my father here. It’s just too loud to have a decent conversation. E

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The brewing cooperative Flying Bike has announced it will open a bricks-and-mortar location in Greenwood. After a year of searching, the group’s board of directors is settling down and hoping to open its doors in early 2015.

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The Ballard Beer Company will be opening any day now, and when it does, you’ll be able to knock back several pints from local breweries without leaving your bar stool. The watering hole will dedicate several of its 15 taps to beers from neighborhood breweries.

Wine Enthusiast has released its picks for America’s 100 best restaurants for wine; Canlis and Wild Ginger made the cut for Seattle. Elsewhere in Washington, Walla Walla’s The Marc and Woodinville’s The Herbfarm also made the list.

Skillet has launched a happy hour at its Ballard and Capitol Hill restaurants. The “Golden Hour” menu is available daily 3–6 p.m. and 10 p.m.–close, and features “re-imagined Skillet favorites” like a smokedlamb corndog, new cocktails, and cold beer.

Happy hour is also new at Tilth, every day from 4:30–6:30 p.m. on the patio, at the counter, and in the sunroom. The menu consists of classics like duck burgers, Theo Chocolate ganache cake, and Skagit River Ranch steak tartare, plus monthly seasonal specials. A rotating drink menu currently includes a lavender daiquiri and a Pimm’s Cup. E morningfoodnews@seattleweekly.com

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Top: vintage vibes. Bottom, l-r: white-bean bruschetta; spiked espresso with tiramisu.

So back to those coffee cocktails: Four are

available daily, listed on a chalkboard behind the marble-topped bar. Served in flutes, each is filled with belly-warming alcoholic goodness: a mix of espresso, grappa, and various Italian liqueurs, some with cream. They are sweet enough to pass for dessert, yet not so sweet as to forgo pairing with a slice of tiramisù cake—nicely structured (instead of a moussey mess) and topped with a generous layer of bittersweet chocolate. Bewitching, dark, and smooth, the drinks alone are worth the visit.

But come too for the easygoing, yet attentive service; food that’s a comforting, familiar part of the Italian-American lexicon; and a Capitol Hill vibe that keeps this new trattoria full and bustling with young and old on weeknights and weekends alike. You won’t go away discussing the sublimity of a particular dish, but that’s OK. You’ll be too full and happy to care. E

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Forget ice cream and fro-yo. The best icy treat this week is Little Uncle's shaved ice in Pioneer Square—seasonally updated with plenty of big chunks of Rainier and Bing cherries.

Layered into the ice, which is pulverized by an antique ice-grinding machine the owners bought in Thailand— green with a gold dragon on it—are the cherries, their sweet juice, and the sweeter condensed milk. Topping it all off are tiny basil seeds. Asian shaved ice is usually too cloyingly sweet for me, but the addition of cherries here gives it a slightly sour edge. Get one while you can; owner Wiley Frank can’t commit to its being on the menu next week, though he says that of course cherries will still be in season. E MORGEN SCHULER

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On my first visit, I ordered the spring onion soup special, expecting it to be of the disappointing cream-laden potato-leek ilk. Instead, the bowl of light-green broth, made from a housemade veggie stock, was sweet and redolent of onion. It wasn’t there on my next visit, but I hope it comes back.

Standards like the rigatoni al sugo (with meat or marinara) or the pesto gnocchi bring no surprises but are pleasantly stalwart. The lasagna, unfortunately, was on the dry side. A more “inspired” ravioli dish, with mushrooms, Treviso, and spring vegetables, is unique for its unapologetic vegetable-forward flavor, but a bit of fat would bring a modicum of decadence.

Aside from pasta, the seared lamb chops with roasted fennel served over a faro salad with vinaigrette were cooked perfectly and needed only a dash of salt. The brightness of the faro coordinated happily with the lamb. The classic involtini di pollo—rolls of chicken breast filled with prosciutto, asiago, herbed ciabatta, and braised greens—didn’t fare as well. But while the chicken was slightly overcooked, it was hard not to take solace in the rich filling.

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ne thing that immediately stood out when I moved to Seattle from New York was the scarcity of Italian trattorias. I wasn’t looking for anything earth-shattering, just a place that was dependable and homey. In New York, between the awful touristy restaurants in what’s left of Little Italy and the hallowed temples of Mario Batali’s Babbo or Del Posto, there exist hundreds upon hundreds of these small, inviting “red sauce” restaurants. Head to any neighborhood blindfolded, throw a stick, and it’s sure to land in a bowl of Bolognese.

Here in Seattle, however, a small Italian population means that when you want Italian, you usually head to an Ethan Stowell place, Il Corvo (if you can get a seat), or somewhere more inventive (and expensive) like Spinasse or Agrodolce. Speaking of Italian immigrants: In the early 1900s, Rainier Valley was the largest enclave of them, though now most reside on the south side. In fact, Seattle Weekly’s very first issue, March 31, 1976, contains a restaurant review of Filiberto’s in Burien (still open) titled “Life Is One Long Search for a Good Italian Restaurant.” That search continues.

That’s why I was excited to try Corretto on Capitol Hill. Housed in the former Panevino spot, the restaurant, owned by Travis Rosenthal (of Rumba and Tango), has as its main conceit Italian coffee cocktails (caff è corrètto is coffee “corrected” with a dash of liqueur), which were developed with Brandon Paul Weaver of Slate Coffee. (More on those later.) But what really makes Corretto stand out is its casual but funky atmosphere: a focal wall of black-and-white floral-patterned wallpaper with a real Italian bicycle suspended in the center; deep navy-blue walls opposite it charmingly crowded with goldand black-framed photographs of the rustic Italian countryside and Roman ruins (some from Rosenthal and his wife’s honeymoon).

That cozy, quirky ambience extends to the food itself: non-fussy Italian standards from chef Laura Licona (formerly of Osteria La Spiga) with enough details to bring distinctiveness. While bruschetta has long since given up any pretentions to cool, Corretto reminds you just why it became so popular in the first place. One night I was there it was served in the traditional Caprese style, toasted with roasted tomatoes, mozzarella, and slivers of basil. The tomatoes were skinned, though, which made them extremely juicy and spreadable—a very nice touch.

Another evening it was served with a whitebean purée and delicious bits of crispy fried leeks.

I would say that this simple appetizer was the epitome of summer, except I reserve that designation for Corretto’s Soliloquy in CM cocktail: gin, apricot liqueur, simple syrup, muddled basil, and the juice of cherry tomatoes served in a dainty vintage crystal glass (most of their glassware is, delightfully, of the Italian-grandmother variety). The bruschetta, by the way, is part of the happy-hour menu, offered 4:30–6:30 p.m. and

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Her interest in jam started as a hobby when she landed her first job on a strawberry farm in New Haven, Vermont. She continued perfecting her recipes after moving to Seattle and working as a cook at Sitka & Spruce.

“Preserves were the calm counterpart to line work,” she says. Later, working in the kitchen at Theo Chocolate, she learned the ropes of product development, food production, and marketing, and came across Rachel Saunders’ The Blue Chair Jam Cookbook—a veritable bible for jam makers.

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She recalls “weekends of humid, sticky work, furious in pace because of a sale on peaches at the market or all our tomatoes ripened at once. I hated peeling tomato and peach skins.

If I could go back in time, I’d tell my dad to buy nectarines. They’re much easier to work with.”

Still, those sticky weekends imparted an appreciation for preserving the seasonal bounty, which she has made into a side business, V Smiley Preserves. Her fascinating flavors and use of local ingredients have led to extraordinary products you can find on the menu at The Whale Wins and on sale at the West Seattle and Madrona farmers markets and a growing list of local shops like Metropolitan Market and The London Plane. Smiley also sells subscriptions at vsmileypreserves.com.

“I wanted to start a side project—not necessarily a jam company, but a way for me to cook a lot of jam, learn the subject in depth, and share the product with friends,” Smiley says.

But Smiley was determined to make her jam with honey, a departure from traditional recipes using sugar. Though she had read it would add an unwelcome flavor, she was drawn to the local availability of honey and enjoyed its biological link to fruit flowers.

“But would anyone who knew way more about cooking than me think me a fool for jamming with honey?” says Smiley, who studied writing and art history in college.

She spent a year and a half making 40 different jams and marmalades, each with honey.

She chooses fruit that pairs well with honey, and considers texture and pectin content when coming up with flavors like pear, Persian lime, and vanilla marmalade. She makes every ingredient—for example, candied ginger— from scratch, with the exception of the liquor component in the liqueurs she sometimes incorporates. Smiley also sources close to home: “Except for California citrus, all the produce comes from Washington State, is often organic, and always sustainably farmed,” she says.

When she first got going, Smiley found support in Renee Erickson and Marie Rutherford, chef de cuisine at The Whale Wins, where Smiley now works. “They knew I was at home making stupid amounts of jam. I brought in a variety of flavors for Marie and then-sous chef Bobby Palmquist [now chef of Barnacle] to taste,” she says. “It was winter at the time, but when spring came they offered to put my apricot jam on the menu with Little Brown Farm chèvre. Renee and her partners are very supportive of the entrepreneurial spirit.” E Citizen Food features willful adventurers in food culture—who typically have a day job outside a kitchen. Know someone who fits that bill? If so, send info to nsprinkle@seattleweekly.com.

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“My family and I have been loyal customers of an Italian restaurant in Seattle for years . . . We dined there on average three times a month with an average tab of $400 with tip. However, three weeks ago we arrived on our usual day and time and did not see our ‘People’ . . . My daughters

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“When dining alone I am particularly aware of the quality/amiability of service . . . Does the host/hostess seat the solo diner facing the back wall or the restrooms? Does the server grab a halfused, fingerprint-covered water jug from the adjacent table and plunk it unceremoniously in front of you, or does s/he bother to bring you a fresh one?

When I have politely declined these situations, I often get the eye-rolling treatment from waitstaff.

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place where people feel welcome.”

Besides McIntyre and Butler, she cites local authors including Greg Bear, Terry Brooks, Neal Stephenson, and Matt Ruff—many of whom have taught at or done drop-by lectures at Clarion West.

(Here I’ll advance my own theory about our D&D-playing, sci-fi/fantasy-reading demographic hotspot: It’s partly the weather, which forces people indoors to read. Romance and mysteries are two other categories that do well in the Northwest.

But I also point to Boeing, and later Microsoft and Amazon. The postwar years drew many engineers, and their bookish sons and daughters, to the region; and our booming software/tech industry likewise skews readers toward the nerd side of the bookstore.)

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very few years, in regular cycles, we’re reminded of the power of genre fiction.

The success of Star Wars made sci-fi a mainstream phenomenon in the ’70s. Once dismissed as Beowulf-lite, the Lord of the Rings cycle became a paperback bestseller in the ’60s, then the movies created an even bigger readership. Harry Potter made the jump out of the juvenile aisles of the bookstore; and, more recently, the Hunger Games and Twilight adaptations have proven the power of the YA category.

Then there’s the current HBO hit Game of Thrones, a very adult-oriented show based on the fantasy series A Song Emilia Clarke as Game of Thrones’ Daenerys Targaryen. of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin.

Suddenly a pop-culture figure after our 30th anniversary,” says Bobanick. “What a decades toiling in TV, sci-fi, and fantasy writing, lot of people don’t realize is that there’s this tiny Martin visited Seattle two summers ago for a little local organization and it’s known internasold-out reading at Town Hall. What fans of the tionally. It’s like Pilchuck.” show and his books may not have noted, however, Bobanick continues, “The organization has an was that Martin was also here to teach a writing interesting history. It was first started by female class at the Clarion West Writers Workshop, writers at a time when not a lot of women were writing sci-fi. It’s very focused on diversity. Hiswhich has been bringing such noted authors to torically this has been a male-dominated field Seattle for the past 30 years. (Neil Gaiman, Ursula and a white-male-dominated field. We try to K. Le Guin, and Chuck Palahniuk are other past recruit an equal ratio of male and female stuprominent visiting instructors; the late Octavia Butler liked Seattle so much that she moved here.) dents.” (Tuition runs $3,600, with some scholarship money available.)

This July is no different. Out-of-town scribes drop in to teach writing students in one-week shifts, then do a Tuesday-night reading at UniverNeile Graham was once a Clarion West student sity Book Store. These events are typically well(in ’96) escaping poetry-land and her MFA; attended, which speaks to the enduring popularity today she runs the summer workshop, which of sci-fi and fantasy in the Northwest (more on goes something like this. Eighteen students are that below); also, many past Clarion students have accepted from 100-plus applicants from the U.S., settled in Seattle, so each summer’s residency proCanada, the UK, and countries as disparate as gram is something like a homecoming.

Nigeria, Brazil, and Malaysia. They live together But, for those of us outside the “speculative in a rented UW sorority house, take classes daily, fiction,” community, we might well ask, What is write a short story a week (in English), and criClarion West? tique one another’s work. (The instructors lodge nearby and keep office hours.)

“It’s really intense because of the schedule,” says Before her hiring nine months ago, “I’d never Graham. “You are taken out of your day-to-day life, heard of it,” says executive director Caroline and writing becomes your main vocation.” Also, the Bobanick. That’s because if you’re not already a 18 students are forced into sudden community, like fan, the sci-fi/fantasy community is a somewhat college freshmen. “They’ve seen the same shows closed, hermetic world (especially before the and read the same books,” but they’re also still Internet). What she learned was that Clarion strangers, Graham notes. “Usually we have two or actually dates back to 1968, when it was founded three locals, as well as international students.”

by Robin Scott Wilson at Pennsylvania’s Clarion Why, besides the draw of Clarion West, is State College. One of the students attending, there such a concentration of fantasy and sci-fi Vonda N. McIntyre, came to Seattle and estabreaders and writers in the Pacific Northwest? “It’s lished Clarion West in 1971–73. A student from a wonderful mystery. I wish I knew why,” says ’73, J.T. Stewart, then relaunched Clarion West in 1984 (with Marilyn J. Holt), and it’s been run- Graham. “A lot of our grads end up here. There’s a big fan community as well. It has become a ning continuously ever since. “We just celebrated

And, related to that pet theory, when did the old sci-fi and fantasy categories get umbrellaed under the catchall of “speculative fiction?” “ ‘Speculative fiction’ is just more inclusive,” says Bobanick. Besides sci-fi and fantasy, “it also includes magical fiction and horror and slashfic.” During the last decade, she particularly credits “the Harry Potter effect” for steering young writers into the magical realm.

Even so, “Most of our students are in the science-fiction and fantasy genres,” says Bobanick.

“The focus of Clarion West is short stories. A lot of these writers will go on to publish in magazines like Asimov and Lightspeed.” And, no surprise given the success of Game of Thrones, “We’re thinking about adding screenwriting workshops.”

Hollywood is certainly giving the sword-andscepter genre a hard look; and one of McIntyre’s historical novels from the ’80s, The Moon and the Sun, has already been filmed, starring Pierce Brosnan as King Louis XIV, with a release date set for next year. Graham also mentions Clarion West grad Christopher Barzak, whose paranormal novel One for Sorrow has been adapted into the Liv Tyler-starring movie Jamie Marks Is Dead, which premiered at Sundance this year.

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One of Changalvaee’s poster designs.

The poster work of Raad and Changalvaee is full of gorgeous, flowing Arabic script, mystical daggers, and, perhaps most interesting, a distinctly modern sense of layout and design. The clash of ancient cultural tradition with today’s visual sensibilities is what gives their work such a distinct air. (Examples were on view during last weekend’s Iranian Festival at Seattle Center.) Now based in Connecticut, the married artists give a talk tonight, sponsored by the local chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Two-Headed Imagomancy will be both lecture and performance, incorporating the old Persian storytelling art of Pardeh-khani, in which an illustrated curtain accompanies a spoken tale. Raad and Changalvaee, modern through they are, will “reappropriate” the traditional form by throwing in multimedia visuals. Folklore and myth, it seems, are increasingly freeing themselves from the ancient and reinstating themselves in the here and now.

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Beatles played Seattle on August 21, their third stop on a 23-city tour. But what if you weren’t lucky enough to live in one of those cities? Or what if you needed extra incentive to purchase the records, buy concert tickets, or watch their Ed Sullivan appearances? That’s what A Hard Day’s Night, cannily released in August (with STARTIN G the eponymous album), was all about. It’s both a genius marketing device and an enjoyably shaggy comedy-with-music. American teenagers already knew the songs in ’64 (“Can’t Buy Me Love,” “She Loves You,” etc.), and they’d seen the Beatles on newsreels and TV. But what the first Beatles movie did was cement these four personalities in the public imagination.

Never mind that John, Paul, George, and Ringo were the somewhat-manufactured roles devised

by Brian Epstein, their manager; A Hard Day’s Night gave these characters room to roam.

Director Richard Lester and screenwriter Alun Owen built upon each moptop’s popular persona, layering gag upon gag on what we thought we knew about them. Was Ringo really the lazy, irresponsible one or George the quiet one? No, and it really doesn’t matter. The Beatles were cheerfully selling themselves in a vehicle that combines English music-hall humor with the cinematic energy of the French New Wave. Fifty years later, we’re still happily buying. (Through Thurs. Also plays SIFF Cinema Uptown.)

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And certain renowned visual artists (Morris Graves, Roger Shimomura, etc.) have referenced that period in their work. But this is a broader show, more folk art than fine art.

Over 120 objects will be on view, many of them humble wood carvings, furniture, even toys made from scrap items at Minidoka or Manzanar. The more polished drawings come from professional artists like Ruth Asawa, Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani, Chiura Obata, and Henry Sugimoto. Some of the more touching items—like a samurai figurine made from wood scraps, shells, and bottle caps—come from family collections, not museums; they’re precious keepsakes from a shameful historical era. As for the show’s title, gaman roughly translates as “enduring the seemingly unbearable with patience and dignity.” (Through Oct. 12.)

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Given the forecast for this fall’s midterm elections, no further progress on that front can be expected.

So how did we get into this muddle of guns versus public safety? That’s the subject NYU law professor Waldman addresses in The Second Amendment: A Biography (Simon & Schuster, $25). Why the curious subtitle? Because amendments, like laws, are living, breathing, mutable creatures. Since its birth in 1789, Waldman convincingly argues, the Second Amendment has grown into something quite different than the founders intended. All can agree we started with this: “A well regulated militia, being necessary for the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed,” though scholars can debate the placement of a few commas. For the next two centuries, Waldman writes, bearing arms was understood not to be an individual right but a matter of public self-defense. Nor did the National Rifle Association consider it an individual right until 1977, when insurgent leadership began funding new legal theories and backing Republican politicians.

Those politicians appointed judges sympathetic to those new theories, and all those forces precipitated the District of Columbia v. Heller decision, six months before Obama’s 2008 election.

If there’s a positive takeaway from Waldman’s rather depressing account, it’s that the NRA got what it wanted in only 31 years. Old amendments can be redefined in a single generation.

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Keira Knightley is Greta, faithful girlfriend to up-and-coming rocker Dave Kohl (Adam Levine) and an aspiring songwriter herself. (Knightley performs her own songs, which bear some resemblance to Aimee Mann’s.) After Kohl scores a record deal, the pair moves to Manhattan, where he’s quickly seduced by the industry’s trappings.

When Greta turns to fellow busker Steve ( James Corden), he whisks her out to an open-mike night in the Village, where she’s discovered by down-onhis luck record exec Dan (Mark Ruffalo).

After some late-night beer-fueled banter, Dan and Greta team up to make a record. Rebuffed by Dan’s partner Saul (Mos Def ), the pair resolves to go the DIY route—with financial assistance from Dan’s former client TroubleGum (CeeLo Green).

Meanwhile we learn of Dan’s difficult separation from his family and Greta’s struggles with Kohl.

Obviously we expect these two to connect, just as in Once. That film worked for me (and many others) because I could buy the central couple played by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová (both of them real musicians). Begin Again feels more like something purchased in a SoHo boutique. Greta’s supposed thrift-store chic simply reads as Knightley being expensively styled as Annie Hall.

The film becomes too much the glossy, magazine-cover fantasy: Where in the known world would you find CeeLo, Levine, and Mos Def— who comes around in the end—all banking on one unproven songwriter’s raw talent? While Carney is again peddling the notion that a musician with a dream can get discovered, the reality of “making it” in the music biz has everything to do with hard work—not simple luck, as is the case here.

Although much of Hellion, set in southeast Texas, feels off-the-shelf and familiar, debut writer/director Kat Candler isn’t one to provide easy salvation for her characters. The situation here is very much post-recession, with a family struggling against forces large and small. Recently widowed Hollis (Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul) insists on repairing the family’s storm-ruined beach house home near Galveston, even though it’s obviously doomed to foreclosure. Meanwhile back home, his two sons are unsupervised and running wild: 10-year-old Wes and, particularly, the budding 13-year-old delinquent Jacob ( Josh Wiggins), who’s fond of setting fires, skipping school, talking back, and riding motorcycles. Trying to intervene, but gently, is Aunt Pam ( Juliette Lewis, once the hellion herself, refreshingly cast against type).

How did the mom die? That’s one of those annoying, looming secrets that Candler leaves to the end to answer (and it turns out not to matter very much). Her treatment of the Wilson family is more a sociological case study than a nuanced portrait. Everyone’s a predictable type, and the story similarly hews to template. Naturally Jacob is acting out, owing to grief and an absent father. And of course Child Protective Services comes calling. Aunt Pam swoops down for the younger boy, and a remorseful Hollis weeps manly tears in private. And, midway through the movie, one of Jacob’s pack members produces a stolen handgun—which we know must be fatefully fired in the third act.

Candler’s Hellion has the misfortune of following two much better stories about at-risk boys in the South: the recent Joe and last year’s My Name Is Mud (whose director, Jeff Nichols, helped produce Hellion). If it lacks their artfulness, this movie does get the blighted textures exactly right. The Wilsons are a family slipping ineluctably out of the middle class, with empty kitchen shelves, broken-down cars, and overtaxed parents (if they’re home at all).

That decline drives Hollis to despair (and the bottle), while Jacob seems only to be gathering rage. Here’s a post-millennial kid bound for

the Army, jail, or worse. There are no resources for him and his family, of course, because this is low-tax, low-service Texas, where there are plenty of good jobs in the prison industry.

In one memorable scene, Jacob and his pals smash shaken-up soda bottles with a baseball bat, surprised by the strength of their anger.

They’ve got the green diamond to themselves—have no teams been organized? Are there no dads left to coach?—with a giant gas plant hissing indifferently in the background.

Their urge to destroy echoes the socioeconomic wreckage around them. These kids are your future, Candler is saying, and don’t be surprised when they come creeping into your house at night with a gun. BRIAN MILLER

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Afghanistan by the end of 2016. Also during the interim, Hetherington was killed while covering Libya’s civil war. ( Junger’s tribute, Which Way Is the Frontline From Here, played on HBO last year.)

So how is it that we are back in the Korengal with the same motley assortment of soldiers, the same Taliban firing at them, the same patrols and pastimes, the same boredom and complaints, the same hilltop quagmire as before? Essentially because Junger—and this is not to impugn his motives—had plenty of footage remaining, and he got talked into it. And there are worse reasons for making a movie.

Back in ’10, Junger had also written a companion book, War, about the lure of combat to men.

This time around he has less to say. And the soldiers essentially say the same things.

After finishing his tour, “I’d rather be there than here,” one nostalgic ex-soldier declares.

Another, while at Restrepo, envisions it as a ski resort: “This place could be sports heaven, if they’d just stop shooting at us.” Of their mission to draw fire, says a soldier safely back in Italy, “We were definitely bait.”

The problem here is that the geopolitical situation has changed too much for Junger since filming in 2007–08 (before Obama’s election). Now there’s Bowe Bergdahl, the VA scandal, the recent elections in Afghanistan, and the new Republican fantasy that we ought to be putting more boots on the ground there and in Iraq, not less. We need to be looking ahead at this point, not back.

Junger and Hetherington got some invaluably candid post-combat confessions from these young soldiers; but where are they today, six years later?

Working at Walmart? Re-enlisted? On drugs?

Married and coaching pee-wee soccer teams in the suburbs? How have these men been changed by a war that was mostly pointless and—after the 2011 killing of Osama bin Laden—inconclusive?

Culled from the archives, Korengal isn’t exactly a failure of journalism. It’s merely a footnote to a superior, then-timely film. But there’s little reason to see it today.

(Note: Korengal veterans Jeffrey Thompson and Damon Wilson are scheduled to appear with current soldier Elliot Alcantara on Friday. Congressman Jim McDermott is scheduled to appear with Vietnam vet and author Karl Marlante on Saturday. See landmarktheaters.com for details.)

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This new documentary about Ebert focuses perhaps too much on the cancer fight. This is understandable; director Steve James—whose Hoop Dreams Ebert tirelessly championed—had touching access to the critic and his wife Chaz during what turned out to be Ebert’s last weeks.

It’s a blunt, stirring portrait of illness. The character we knew from the TV show (it had a lot of different titles) is right there: Before submitting to a brief but uncomfortable hospital procedure and needing some distraction/solace, Ebert insists on having “Reelin’ in the Years” play on his laptop for the duration. To the end, the man had a sense of art as a transforming element.

The movie’s no whitewash. The most colorful sections cover Ebert’s young career as a Chicago newspaper writer, which included hard drinking and blowhardiness. Some friends acknowledge that he might not have been all that nice back then, with a nasty streak that peeked out in some of his reviews and in his partnership with TV rival Gene Siskel. Although Siskel died in 1999, other observers are around to testify to the mutual dislike that eventually turned into a complex kind of closeness. (Whether or not you liked them as critics, there was something exhilarating about seeing people disagree so loudly in the cause of aesthetic passion.) Among the fascinating nuggets that emerge is Siskel’s longtime fear that Ebert would take another offer and leave the show; he was thrilled when Ebert married (at 50), because the demands of family and mortgages would tie his partner down.

Life Itself gives fair time to those who contended that the Siskel and Ebert TV show weakened film criticism. Ebert’s own writing sometimes fills the screen, along with clips of a few of his favorite films, yet this isn’t sufficient to explore Ebert’s movie devotion, which was authentic.

Still, this is a fine bio that admirably asks as many questions as it answers. As for the people onscreen who keep asking how Ebert could possibly have written the screenplay to the 1970 Russ Meyer sexfest Beyond the Valley of the Dolls : Folks, you’re really not paying attention. ROBERT HORTON

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by Susan Sarandon. Grandma hooks up with a swinger (Gary Cole, too little used) whose son (indie stalwart Mark Duplass) is set up as a possible escort for Tammy. This is where the movie gets tricky: We’ve met Tammy as an uncouth, foul-mouthed dope, but now we’re expected to play along as emotional realities are introduced into what had been a zany R-rated comedy. That kind of shift can be executed, but McCarthy and Falcone haven’t figured out the formula yet.

Tammy does perk to life when McCarthy gets to play her signature scenes: charged situations featuring odd people, with enough space for her non sequiturs and improvisations. The early scene in which she’s fired is a dandy—Falcone plays her boss, a man whose heavy perspiration Tammy labels “medical.” She later robs a fast-food outlet, in an extended and funny scene played with a bag over her head. (You know a performer has defined her comic persona when she scores big laughs with her face covered.)

Occasionally McCarthy manages to make even a raunchy one-liner ring true, as when she aggressively and prematurely kisses Duplass and he backs her off: “I don’t want your tongue down my throat.” Her reply—“Where do you want it?”—is offered lewdly but also with a weird kind of innocence that catches something truly sad about the character. Of course the problem is that Tammy’s so extreme she’d be unbearably pathetic if taken straight. The movie can’t handle that, so—while McCarthy remains an interesting test case for defining a leading lady in Hollywood—this one’s a misfire. ROBERT HORTON E

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“It’s my first day off in a little while,” she tells Seattle Weekly in a recent phone call. “I’ve just had a wonderful Mexican meal, and it was perfect.”

The New York–based songwriter is on the West Coast on the first leg of a North American tour that will dip in and out of Europe before ending in December. “It’s pretty aggressive,” she says, “but you kind of have to hit the ground running. I have two new band members, and we’re getting into a groove. The shows are only going to get better.”

It’s a new setup for the artist. For one, she’s touring with a group of pros that she hand-picked herself (“I’ve always just brought my friends with me,” she says). For another, the songs her ensemble are interpreting—from her latest full-length, Are We There—are the first batch she’s self-produced since her critical breakthrough in 2012 with Tramp, an album bearing the unmistakably lush production of the National’s Aaron Dessner. “I ended up feeling like the cast of characters who played on that record overshadowed the songwriting,” she told Rolling Stone recently. “Like there was a stamp from them.”

She elaborates on the thought. “I’m a middle child, and I feel like I have control issues. I had a lot of people putting me under their wings, and it was time to take the training wheels off. I was ready.”

Making such a move was a long time coming.

Van Etten’s first release, Because I Was in Love, a sparse, mournful folk album in the tradition of Vashti Bunyan, was recorded after a painful breakup. “I was so broken when I wrote that. I moved into my parent’s basement, and learned how to record on GarageBand.” Her producer for that album, Greg Weeks, took the job because, she says, “his heart went out to me.”

On her latest, songs like “I Love You But I’m Lost” are still filled with self-referential lyrics and lean toward the introspective, even morose. Yet there’s a distinct break from Tramp’s professional-

grade polish, with the songwriter merging the intimacy of her stripped-down bedroom recordings with a few well-used production techniques.

It’s a superb vehicle for her songwriting style—an intensely personal one that comes from a place not easily shared with others. ”I write whenever I’m going through a dark time or don’t know how to communicate my feelings,” Van Etten says. She then tries to make that material relatable to others, to keep her music from being self-indulgent or “me just being brokenhearted.”

And then there are her vocals, which seem to relish in their new freedom, fluttering and soaring over lyrics like “Break my leg so I can’t walk to you/Cut my tongue so I can’t talk to you/ Burn my skin so I can’t feel you/Stab my eyes so I can’t see.”

“Growing up, I listened to a lot of doo-wop music, but a lot of it was out of my range, so I noticed that I automatically sang harmony to sing along,” says Van Etten, an alto, who was also in church choir as a youth. “Working in the choir, it’s really incredible to sing with a group of people and work together and not be competitive.”

Ultimately, collaborating as part of a larger artistic community with musicians like Dessner, Julianna Barwick, and Beirut’s Zach Congdon gave her the confidence to go solo. “It’s a little emotional looking back when I was starting, writing songs in my parents’ basement. Just recording in the studio is a trip to me,” she says. “But as soon as I started to pursue music seriously, as soon as I learned to trust people, it slowly started to happen. When I started doing that, I saw things grow organically.”

It’s no coincidence she’s happier now, too. “I’m more stable, more competent, more confident,” she says. “I’ve made peace with my past.” E gelliott@seattleweekly.com

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Few artists can boast a career as wide and well-regarded as NICK CAVE, whose work spans decades as well as creative arenas, in music via The Birthday Party, Grinderman, and with the Bad Seeds (whom he’ll perform with at the Paramount), as well as acting and writing. And somehow each project that bears his name is spiritual, thought-provoking, and beautifully off-kilter. Reviews for this tour confirm his talents, which will be followed by a July 10 screening at the Grand Illusion of a new documentary about him, 20,000 Days on Earth, which Rolling Stone called “staged, stylized, and weird as fuck.” With Mark Lanegan. The Paramount, 911 Pine St., 682-1414. stgpresents.com/ paramount. 8 p.m. $51.25. DAVE LAKE SUSY SUN is one of those artists you can’t help but love if you are young, somewhat angst-ridden, and wondering why on earth boys (or girls) are so weird/can’t commit/love to break your heart. But she does it all with an angelic voice that is wonderfully Auto-Tune-free and a plucky piano-pop sensibility that recalls Sara Bareilles, even if it doesn’t have quite the same spunk. The local classically trained pianist’s latest effort, 2013’s Wanderlust EP, explores that maddening emotional territory between “I swear I’ll never love someone again” and “Oh no, here I go again, and I can’t stop myself!”

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8 p.m. $10 adv. 21 and over. AZARIA C. PODPLESKY Just as Louis C.K. is often described as a “comedian’s comedian,” San Francisco’s CASTLE is a metal band’s metal band. Its latest record, Under Siege, is a purist interpretation of metal. There’s no hardcore or sludge crossover, just monster hooks and soaring vocals. It’s a brutal approach, which they use for epic, fantastical storytelling. With BlackQueen, Caligula. Chop Suey, 1325 E. Madison St., 324-8005, chopsuey.com. 8 p.m. $10. 21 and over. DUSTY HENRY CLIPPING.’s brand of experimental/noise hip-hop is similar in its unconventional sound to that of a group like Death Grips, only with a slightly tamer rapping style. Its sound is full of glitch and chaos that is always weird, and at times scary—it’s party music for art kids.

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Abandoned Vehicle AUCTION!!!

07/11/14 @ 11AM 4 Vehicles

1993 TOYOTA TER2 051WWQ 1994 VW JETTA AEL0986 (RUNS W/KEY) 1994 NISSAN SENTRA ADP6695 (RUNS W/KEY) 1990 NISSAN 3ZXCP AKN5222

Preview 10-11AM 14315 Aurora Ave N.

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Bring your heart and hands... we’ll show you the rest You can help wild songbirds in one of PAWS’ most unique wildlife volunteer positions. As a Bird Nursery Caretaker, we’ll teach you how to prepare food and hand feed orphaned baby birds until they’re ready to fly home.

Help us, help them. It’s an experience you’ll never forget.

Visit paws.org for details, or call 425.787.2500 x818

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