Seattle Weekly, January 27, 2016

January 27-February 2, 2016 | VOLUME 41 | NUMBER 4

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Everyone Danni Askini talks about the fight to preserve LGBT rights in Washington.

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Seattle’s doctors in training have a bright future, but they also carry a unique burden.

By Casey Jaywork

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n a balmy summer day in 2012, Katie Benziger was on her feet.

As a second-year resident MD, she was used to perambulating the hallways of Harborview Medical Center, where she healed the sick and honed her craft. There were junior doctors to supervise, patients to advise, nurses to consult, and all the other myriad tasks of running a public hospital. She was also pregnant. Very.

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ince 2006, it’s been illegal in Washington state to discriminate against LGBT people. But that may be about to change.

Riding a wave of outrage over new rules that clarify transgender rights under the 2006 law, several bills in the state legislature aim to bar trans people from bathrooms and locker rooms that match the gender they identify with. While the Democrat-contolled House is expected to block the bills from becoming law, Senate Bill 6443 stands a good chance of passing in the GOP-controlled Senate, which would lend considerable legitimacy to the anti-trans cause. SB 6443 would repeal the administrative rule, issued by the state Human Rights Commission under the authority of a 2006 law, which guarantees trans people access to “gender-segregated facilities” consistent with their lived gender. SB 6443 would also bar the Commission from making any future rules regarding bathroom access.

We spoke with Danni Askini, executive director of the Gender Justice League, about her own experiences as a trans woman using public restrooms, and what these laws would do to Washingtonians.

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Real Outrage, Fake Solutions, and Seattle’s Homelessness Crisis

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By this logic, steps taken by Mayor Ed Mur-

ray in the past few months to address the city’s homelessness epidemic—namely the creation of tent cities and, last week, the designation of parking lots for people living out of their cars and RVs—have only encouraged people to pursue a life of wretchedness. The clear implication of this argument—and just so you don’t think we’re making this up, tune into KIRO FM 97.3 for an

hour or so this afternoon and hear it for yourself—is that those now living on Seattle’s streets would simply stop doing so if things were made just a little more uncomfortable for them. That is, maybe if there was just a little more rain; or a few fewer blankets; or a little less warm soup; or a slightly greater risk of being raped or killed while they sleep in an unsanctioned encampment; or a little less dignity for their children when they walk to school, then the homeless would get their acts together and get jobs and become productive members of society. Maybe if the city impounded all illegally parked RVs, depriving their owners of a home and thus rendering them all the more dependent on taxpayer services. Maybe if those caught with heroin were thrown in jail, making them, by definition, wards of the state.

Sure, maybe this would end the crisis. Or maybe it would just change its nature—to an overcrowded-jail crisis or a death-by-exposure crisis.

The anger Seattle now feels toward this epidemic is understandable. From Seattle Weekly’s Pioneer Square office we are all, daily, confronted with the ravages of untreated mental illness and drug addiction. At times it borders on physical intimidation. We’ve had our car windows smashed and property stolen. It sucks.

But anger alone should not count as a solution. Last night, after we went to press, Mayor Ed Murray was scheduled to deliver his strongest defense yet of his administration’s policies. In prepared remarks, he made many of the points we’ve made here. But most important, he took on the bullies who have come to dominate our city’s conversation about homelessness.

“On a personal note, the most painful part of this discussion has been the vilification and degradation of homeless people—at public meetings, on the radio, and in social media—as filthy, drugaddicted criminals. Often these attacks have gone unchallenged," he said.

We as a newsroom have some reservations about how Murray is handling the crisis—especially the lack of transparency as his agencies clear out unsanctioned encampments—but we must commend the mayor for recognizing that the city’s residents deserve better than cheap demagoguery; that they deserve real solutions; and that those solutions must listen to our better angels. E editorial@seattleweekly.com

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ate last week, a phenomenon meteorologists call an “atmospheric river” passed over western Washington.

While not particularly cold, the weather system was drenching, dropping between 1 and 2 inches of rain in Seattle in a single day. Moisture like that can make nighttime lows of 44 degrees feel much, much more bitter.

Around 7 p.m. Wednesday, the rain fell hard on the long line of men and women who had lined up for dinner at Union Gospel Mission in Pioneer Square. The line stretched well out the shelter’s door, and no eave or awning protected huddled figures from the rain. If they were to eat, they would endure the soaking.

After a utilitarian meal eaten in a fluorescent-lit cafeteria, some of the men in the group were able to spend the night indoors on a shelter bed, trying to get dry in a damp room packed with humanity.

Others went back into the foul weather, either to trek to another shelter, find some dry ground to curl up on outside, or feed an addiction. It’s possible some prowled cars or burgled a garage for bikes or iPhones to sell for drugs before sleeping fitfully beneath a bridge. Those who slept outside woke up the next morning to even heavier rain.

A stupefying narrative is going around Seattle right now: that the life described above is so desirable that it is turning the city into a sort of Club Med for the nation’s destitute. According to this belief ’s adherents, the reason for our spike in homelessness has nothing to do with soaring housing prices or prescription-opioid addiction or a mental-health system that has degenerated into a demonstrably abject failure. No, the reason is that due to softheaded liberal policies, life on the streets has become the good life. The word is out, and bums are leaving the moderate climes of Los Angeles and Miami Beach to grab a wet chunk of pavement for themselves in the Emerald City.

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Danni Askini » FROM PAGE 1 SW: What’s your response to the argument that we need these laws to protect vulnerable or traumatized women from “men” showing up in their locker room?

DA: [Conservatives claim] that somehow non-discrimination protections prevent you from being prosecuted or arrested. If a police officer shows up someplace and you commit a crime—say, you’re engaging in lewd or illegal conduct—you’re not going to be able to say to that police officer, ‘Oh, I have a right to be engaged in this because of the non-discrimination laws.’ The officer’s going to laugh at you and arrest you. My response would be that 50 percent of transgender women have been sexually assaulted. Many of the people who are saying that they think that transgender women should be extracted from women’s bathrooms and locker rooms have probably shared a bathroom and locker room with a transgender woman and never known. If you look at arguments for discrimination against gays and lesbians 20 years ago, the same arguments were made: “Oh, if gay men were allowed to be in bathrooms and they’re being protected, they’ll molest little boys.” No difference.

While you were in high school in Maine, you were assaulted in a school bathroom, correct?

Between biology class and Algebra 2, I went to use the boys’ room. At the time, it was just before I had told people that I was transitioning [from male to female]. I had very long hair, I looked very feminine.

There were two guys in the bathroom when I walked in, and as I walked into the toilet stall one of them kicked open the door before I got a chance to lock it. They grabbed me [by the neck] and said, “Faggot, don’t use the fucking men’s

room.” [They] pulled me out of the bathroom stall and pushed me toward the door and said, “If we fucking see you in here again, we’ll kill you.”

So that was the last time I used the men’s room.

And you’ve also been sexually assaulted?

I’m a survivor of that experience as well, and I know how that has made me feel afraid of men. I completely empathize with other women who’ve had the same experience. But being targeted or being blamed for violence that is perpetuated by men—I am not a man.

I am a woman. And I’ve also been a victim of sexual assault as a woman.

Have you, or any trans constituents that you know of, spoken with any of the legislators sponsoring these bills?

No. Rolling into someone’s office [who] has openly said that they think you’re a pedophile or you’re going to sexually assault people—it’s a little bit of an obstacle to overcome the fear that that person is not going to react kindly to you or be hostile to you. And trans people are largely victimized.

So just getting people to agree and go do that is immensely challenging.

How would these bills affect trans people’s daily lives?

If you can’t use the restroom, how can you work? I don’t know about you, but I have to pee once at least, twice, maybe three times in an eight-hour day. [This law] gives me two options: face violence or violate the law. Those are the two options that trans people in Washington will be left with. E

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A public hearing on SB 6443 will take place today, Jan. 27, at 1:30 p.m. at the state legislature in Olympia.

This interview has been edited for length.

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“We need to consider the tremendous benefits to our economy of continuing to build out a subway system.”

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I Just finished your review of Bar Melusine.

This service-charge discussion is very tough. We were big fans of Renee Erickson. We recently ate at The Whale Wins and ordered apps and I disagree with the statement that the rail should main courses. We specifically asked for the apps have been underground in the Rainier Valley. I first. Of course, we received our main courses feel that having it above ground has played a big first, then the apps. The 20 percent tip was part in the improvements going tough to swallow. The server on in those neighborhoods. didn’t really apologize or seem Send your thoughts on They are cleaning up. The art has interested. It reminds me of this week’s issue to traveling to Europe where the for the most part been left alone for all to enjoy, and there is more letters@seattleweekly.com tip is always included, and the a sense of neighborhood than servers get paid no matter how bad the service. there used to be. It doesn’t make I have been doing an informal poll of our those impacts if it is not visible and passengers are not witnessing daily life there. servers in Seattle and Vancouver as we just got back from a quick trip. We are asking our Linda Jannsen Anderson, via Facebook server if they would prefer to keep the gratuity system the same or go with the $15-per-hour I think it is a bit simplistic to mention a $5 bilidea. Out of approximately 20, only one server, lion figure for excavating a transit tunnel [under who was at a Denny’s, wanted to move away the ship canal] without putting that number in from the traditional tipping system. a wider perspective. One must also consider the I do not have the answer, but it is not addbroader cost to our economy in lost productivity, ing a mandatory 20 percent service charge to time, fuel costs, wear and tear on vehicles, etc. as the bill. we sit in endless traffic. Some estimates I’ve seen suggest the economic impact could be as high as Ed Thomas, via e-mail $2,000 per Seattle household per year. And that’s even before you consider the added costs to comI DON’T KNOW WHY YOU SAY GOODBYE merce as traffic slows the movement of goods And in our cover story, culture editor Kelton Sears and services provided by local industry. So if we’re reported on the troubling trend of Seattle musialready losing hundreds of millions a year, it seems cians packing up and leaving town—among an investment in tunnels saves us in the long run. them La Luz, Stasia Irons of THEESatisfaction I think we need to consider the tremendous and Nils Peterson—and explored why they do it. benefits to our economy of continuing to build Sears writes the issue is more complicated than you out a subway system, and perhaps at the same might think, but some readers found it be quite time to curtail our mindless billion-dollar spendsimple, really. ing on roads and cars (and their ancillary costs like insurance, car payments, accidents, DUI, I think it’s money. If folks could make a lot of court costs, environmental costs, etc.) which have money and stay busy in the Pacific Northwest, run out of capacity for serving us. they’d stay. But they can’t, so they go somewhere that offers the chance of at least one of christopherboffoli, via seattleweekly.com those things. If it doesn’t work out, they move back to where they probably have roots and Sound Transit and its contractors are outpersupport. Seattle is not unique in this. forming their contracts. We have really good construction and engineering teams bringing Travis Hartnett, via Facebook E us great projects. U-Link is going to open soon, way ahead of schedule and $100 million-plus Comments have been edited for length and clarity.

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$60K Struggle » FROM PAGE 1

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Residents are the workhorses of the public-

health system, constituting about a fifth of King County’s doctors. Highly trained but cheap, these junior doctors run a years-long gauntlet of late nights and early mornings in pursuit of full doctor status. The term “resident” is actually a remnant of an earlier time when apprentice-doctors literally resided at their hospital, often without pay. Even into the 1980s, it was common for residents to work 120 of the 168 hours in a week.

As do truck drivers and pilots, residents become less competent with less sleep. (In one recent study, “serious medical errors” increased by 36 percent when residents were sleep-deprived.)

Residents’ pay rates are fairly even across the country, a standard kept in order to discourage med-school graduates from shopping around for lucrative programs. On paper, this income puts them solidly within the middle class, earning between $50,000 and $70,000 per year depend-

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hour or more most residents spend each weeknight reviewing notes on new patients.

Despite the protections provided by the ACGME’s 2003 decision, residents in Seattle say that they are still struggling. For Seattle doctors— including Benziger and the 1,500 other residents and fellows (doctors doing a second residency in their sub-specialty) at University of Washington hospitals—it is not only the yoke of an 80-plushour work week that weighs on them, but also the financial pressures of living in one of America’s most expensive cities. For Benziger, this meant putting her schedule before her pregnancy; for others,

$1,330 North Beacon

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t 36 weeks, Benziger’s belly bulged like a basketball, but as a resident—that is, a doctor who has finished medical school and is completing her multi-year apprenticeship— she didn’t have time to sit on the bench, despite her own doctor’s strict instructions to take it easy.

Benziger’s blood pressure had been running high for a month and a half, putting her at risk for health complications as her delivery date edged closer. Her doctor “wanted me to cut back on my hours,” she says, and take some bed rest. So she did, for a couple of days. But in an apprenticeship system where residents regularly work 80-hour weeks, taking any more time off wasn’t a real option.

“Pregnancy,” she says, “was very much an afterthought.”

That afternoon, she got a call from her doctor saying that the results of a recent blood test were concerning. Benziger was to stop work, go home, and come in for a checkup the following day. “My attending basically had to bring me home,” she says, referring to the senior doctor who supervises her.

The next day she went to Swedish Hospital for what she’d thought would be just an ultrasound, only to learn that she’d be staying, under observation, for two weeks.

Benziger remembers feeling both relaxed and nervous: The unrelenting but predictable stressors of work were held at bay, replaced by the gentle, ominous wait of an uncertain patient in a tiny, unfamiliar hospital room. There was another concern.

If pregnancy complications ate up too much of her time, she risked—besides lost wages—missing her board exams and, possibly, that year’s deadline for jobs and fellowships.

Still, it was nice to take a load off and just read trashy magazines between the white sheets of her hospital bed. Some friends came by to lend moral support by painting her nails purple. “At this point, it was abundantly clear that work was over and I was just going to sit there until the delivery,” she says.

Then the baby’s heart rate began to drop.

A nurse rushed into Benziger’s room. “I’m your labor and delivery nurse,” she said.

“That’s funny,” replied Benziger. “I didn’t know I needed one.”

She did need one. Benziger’s blood pressure was one symptom of pre-eclampsia, a condition that sometimes shows up in stressed-out pregnant people when the placenta hasn’t adequately dug into the parent’s internal organs. The important part of the term is “pre-,” since eclampsia itself is just a five-dollar word for pregnant seizures of such violence that they can literally kill.

To keep Benziger’s condition from worsening, hospital staff tried to induce labor, even though the baby wasn’t due for another month. When that didn’t work, the knives came out. Covered in sterile blue surgical sheets, awake but numbed by local anesthesia, Benziger could see her colleagues’ eyes as they cut the child out of her.

it means letting student loans default, borrowing money from family, or otherwise contending with the stresses of working poverty usually endured only by unskilled laborers. It is this combination of superhuman work schedules and sub-living wages that has recently driven UW’s residents to unionize, demanding better pay and better benefits.

But it wasn’t until Libby Zion, scion of celebrated journalist Sidney Zion, died under the care of resident physicians at New York Hospital in 1984 that the casualties of overworked residents truly came under scrutiny, leading to state-level reforms in 1989 that gradually spread across the country. In 2003, under threat of federal legislation that would limit residents’ hours, the Accredited Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) capped residents’ work hours at an average of 80 per week. That limit doesn’t include “home call” hours, which require residents to be available by phone for questions and to zip into the hospital if needed. Nor does it include the

ing on seniority. But that salary pencils out to between $13 and $17 an hour—close to the city’s minimum wage. That’s a little more than the average hourly rate for a telemarketer and a little less than that of a secretary.

Andrew Korson, a 34-year-old gastroenterology fellow in his sixth year of apprenticeship, says that with a wife and two young kids in Seattle, he doesn’t command a living wage. “As far as making ends meet, it’s a challenge to support [my] family,” he says.

At roughly $64,000 per year, how is that possible? Cost of living, says Korson; Seattle is the

10th most expensive rental market in the country.

In addition to their regular work hours, most residents have regular “on call” hours during which they must be able to race to their workplace within 20 or 30 minutes. In practice, this means that residents have to own a car and live fairly close to the center of Seattle, where rents are highest. For instance, average rent for a one-bedroom apartment is about $1,800 per month on Capitol Hill, but only $1,600 in the U District and Columbia City, according to renters’ website Zumper. And since most residents are in their late 20s and early 30s, many of them have small children and need a larger, more expensive abode.

Graham Strew is a fifth-year fellow specializing in ear, nose, and throat medicine. With two other residents, Strew covers four hospitals. He says he takes home $3,000 to $3,300 per month, and spends about half of that on rent for his one-bedroom apartment. Strew reckons he pays another $240 every month for parking. He says he can’t afford the $500-per-month minimum payment on his student loans, so “I basically have had to put my loans into forbearance,” meaning that his debt grows by $900 per month during the six years of his residency. Strew is not alone: The average aspiring doctor graduates from medical school with $166,750 of debt—debt that does not go on hold during a residency.

“I wasn’t expecting to come into residency and make a lot of money,” he says. “What I [also] wasn’t expecting was that during my five years here, my rent would go up 30 percent.”

Low pay, long hours, and the inflating costs of Seattle living led residents like Strew, Korson, and Benziger to join the UW Housestaff Association, which became a formal union for residents in the fall of 2014, despite opposition from the UW. That union, comprising about 1,500 residents, is currently in negotiations with the UW for higher pay, free parking, and better child care, according to Amity Neumeister, assistant dean of graduate medical education and a member of the UW’s bargaining team. Specifically, the union wants the same pay as the lowest-paid physician assistants in the country (a wage increase in the neighborhood of 40 percent), a child-care subsidy of $400 per month, and a childcare grant of $5,000 per year.

Neumeister says that the UW wants “to continue to work collaboratively with the union to come up with a collective bargaining agreement that we think supports their education and training, and we are committed to continue with providing them with one of the most excellent educations that they can receive.”

That’s not a “yes.” Neumeister says that free parking and subsidized child care would be inconsistent with the UW’s treatment of other employees.

“Everybody pays for parking on the UW campus, including the president,” she says.

On the other hand, UW president Ana Mari Cauce also receives a car stipend of $1,000 per month, according to The Seattle Times. And according to the union, a confidential UW-commissioned survey conducted by the consulting firm Milliman found that 84 percent of residency programs nationally offer free or subsidized parking.

As for the salary raise, Neumeister calls the union’s proposal “what we would consider a relatively significant increase.”

Would the UW consider a smaller raise? “We are in the midst of negotiating that right now,” she says.

Another request that has received less attention in negotiations is maternity leave. UW offers none to residents beyond the 12 work weeks of unpaid leave required by the state Family Care Act, which essentially protects residents who take unpaid leave from losing their job and medical insurance (but which kicks in only after a resident’s first year). Paid

leave is limited to three weeks of vacation and two and a half weeks of sick leave per year, which in practice gets used as maternity (or paternity) leave by residents like Benziger. By comparison, according to the Milliman survey, 88 percent of residency programs nationwide offer maternity leave.

Margot Herman had her second child during her first year as a UW gastroenterology fellow.

She’d previously completed a three-year internal medicine residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. “When I was at Mayo Clinic,” she says, “it was very easy for me to have a child there. I had six weeks of paid [maternity] benefits, and then I used up some vacation. So I was basically paid for eight weeks to take care of my child.

“I didn’t realize how great that was at the time,” she says, but she soon learned. Herman and her husband tried to remain financially independent when they moved to Seattle, but after several months of barely seeing her kids, she says, she decided to fall back on family money. “It was a very hard adjustment,” she says, “the first year moving here. I felt a lot of guilt about how much we were spending and how much we were burdening my family.

“I’ll be 35 by the time I no longer need to borrow money from someone,” she says.

Herman acknowledges that her ability to dip into a parental piggy bank is an advantage not available to all residents, and worries that making family support a de facto requirement for residents will keep students from less-advantaged circumstances from being able to become full-fledged doctors.

She also thinks there’s an element of women’s lib in this fight: Without maternity benefits like paid leave and child care, she says, women are forced to traverse a harsher road to full doctorhood.

“As a physician,” she says, “it just drives me nuts . . . that we’re [acting] as if this isn’t a major issue for gender equality.”

It’s been three and a half years since Benziger’s emergency C-section. Sitting in her home, she watches her son, Theodore, bound across the carpet.

Artifacts of domesticity surround them both: The floor is strewn with children’s toys, the kitchen counter with produce and cooking utensils.

Recalling the circumstances of the birth, she’s not bitter. “It’s funny. When you’re going through it, it doesn’t seem so dramatic, but in retrospect it’s like, yeah, that was pretty crazy,” she says.

After half a decade of doctoring, she’s on the cusp of completing her second residency and going into the private labor market, where her income, now about $62,000 per year, will probably at least triple. Depending on specialty, median annual incomes for full-fledged physicians range from about $220,000 to $450,000.

That ain’t peanuts, as her gastroenterological colleague Margot Herman readily acknowledges. She anticipates a starting salary north of $200,000 once she completes her fellowship. “It’s a lot of money,” she says. “I think [my family is] going to be more than comfortable once we’re through this.”

She’d better hope so. Loaded with student debt, Herman is compelled to prioritize salary in her job search. After completing a residency, she says, “You’re $200,000 in [student] debt . . . and you have to pay those loans back, which is a lot. And the other issue is that you’ve either been struggling for a long time and cutting corners, or holding off from having a family, or borrowing money from family and, just—you have to get out of that.

“It makes decisions pretty clear for most people, that they have to earn a good income after training.”

Is this fair? In its own way, perhaps: Residents labor years for their prize. They give a lot, then they get a lot. Starve, then feast.

But as Herman and others point out, however justified this three-year gauntlet may be when applied to ideal residents, there’s also the issue of access. Just who gets the option to slave away for half a decade in hopes of hitting the jackpot later on? Not poor people, if your residency program pays so little that the only way to get through it is to borrow from family. And fewer women, if your residency program dispenses with maternity leave.

Equitable access—making the hard bargain of residency available to all—is part of what spurred Herman and the other UW residents to unionize and bargain, even though they don’t stand to personally benefit from changes that will be years in the making if they happen at all.

“At this point,” says Herman, “this whole union and everything, it’s not going to affect me, probably. I’m at the point in my training where I feel like I’ve gotten through the rough patches.

“I don’t feel like a victim, personally, but I do feel really sorry for other people that have to go through this in the beginning. Especially if you’re going to be at UW the whole time. It’s a really hard place to financially get through because it’s such an expensive city to live in.”

The union’s negotiating platform, she says, is “not really for us at this point. It’s for the people after us.” E

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However fair the union’s demands may be, they’re moot if there’s no way for the UW to fund them.

According to Neumeister, there isn’t.

“We are committed to providing our trainees a competitive salary with competitive benefits while they’re here at the University of Washington,” she says. “But . . . it would not be economically feasible for us to provide that level of ” remuneration.

Are the residents worth it? As far as the UW’s balance sheet is concerned, the answer has to be yes. A study published last year in the Journal of Surgical Education found that on average, tasks performed by residents bring in about $70,000 in revenue per year—about $95,000 per year if you don’t count first-year residents. On top of that, more than $15 billion in federal funding goes to subsidize graduate medical education nationwide each year, or about $100,000 per resident. In other words, the direct revenue brought in by residents slightly exceeds their salary—yet they also bring in another $100,000 per year in federal subsidy. Another analysis by the Rand Corporation compared the costs of using internal-medicine and cardiology residents versus regular employees (doctors and other medical staff, depending on the task). That analysis found that using residents instead of market-rate staff saves hospitals between $100,000 and $350,000 per year per resident.

These facts gnaw at residents like Korson, who says he once used charity care at a UW clinic when his UW insurance didn’t cover the full cost of treatment. He says another resident recently qualified for food stamps, which requires applicants to have no more than about $1,000 in assets, though the exact number varies depending on family size.

“The bottom line is that . . . it still is a challenge for me as a 34-year-old with a graduate degree to take care of my family,” says Korson. “This is a career. We’re all fully-fledged adults . . . We should not qualify for this degree of state or federal subsidy.”

Some on the Seattle City Council agree. In a letter sent last month, councilmembers Kshama Sawant, Mike O’Brien, and M. Lorena González and then-councilmembers Jean Godden and Nick Licata urged president Cauce to “meet the [union’s] reasonable demands.”

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Regulating Airbnb may come down to whose numbers Seattle City Council believes.

Businesses Are Open (But for How Long?)

BY SARA BERNARD

CD shops say the city owes them money for construction mayhem.

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Last week nearly 15 business owners in the area united at Brereton’s shop to discuss a plan of action. The owners plan to collectively confront Mayor Ed Murray in person in the coming week. Brereton has also contacted an attorney who will be able to formally ask the city for financial compensation on the owners’ behalf. In the meantime, Brereton and other owners will continue to make their struggles public.

In 2014, amid the rebuilding of the seawall, the city offered waterfront businesses money to compensate for loss of business due to heavy construction. This deal has ensured that longtime waterfront landmarks, like Ivar’s Acres of Clams, will be there when normalcy returns to Alaskan Way. SDOT’s Sheridan says the two situations are not comparable. The city had planned to maintain access to waterfront businesses during construction. But the project became so extensive that the city offered businesses up to $15 million in exchange for closing their doors for the duration of the construction. Sheridan notes that the waterfront businesses that remained open during the construction were not financially compensated.

As a policy, the city does not provide direct financial compensation to businesses under construction impact, Sheridan says.

“Our goal is to complete projects like 23rd Avenue as quickly as possible, allowing residents and businesses to return to their normal lives,” Sheridan says in an e-mail. “While there is short-term disruption, an improved 23rd Avenue will serve the neighborhood and its businesses well for the next several decades.”

When the inevitability of road construction

After contacting the mayor’s office for three

Wen Melegrito stands amid the construction.

comes to a business district, the Seattle Department of Transportation delivers construction notices door-to-door, meets with business owners to discuss concerns, and staffs a 24-hour construction hotline, according to SDOT spokesperson Richard Sheridan. It also provides those familiar signs that read: “Businesses are open.”

It shouldn’t come as a shock that many business owners say the signs don’t do much to bring in business.

The construction has brought more harm than a drop in business, many of the owners say. Wen Melegrito’s storefront window was recently the victim of an eight-foot crack, which he says happened from “drilling and shaking” on the sidewalk outside his store, WGM Jeweler & Co. At one point during construction, the sidewalk surrounding his store was completely blocked, he says.

“It’s very slow, all of the customers are complaining. All of them. It’s hard to come down there, they say. There’s no parking, they say. It is closed, they say,” he said.

Much of the frustration expressed by business owners seems to dovetail with the wider anxiety in the Central District that the forces of New Seattle are squeezing out long-time residents and business owners alike. They see saving the businesses on 23rd as a matter of civic preservation, and have pointed to another major SDOT project, the seawall replacement, as a model for how they should be treated during the process.

weeks and using Facebook to get the word out, Brereton didn’t hear a peep from the office until Tuesday night, two hours after the meeting ended. The e-mail response apologized, but said that the mayor hadn’t been able to attend the meeting.

“It’s like what’s going on on 23rd Avenue isn’t happening,” Brereton says. “It’s crazy that there’s this dead silence.”

Councilmember Kshama Sawant, whose district includes the Central District, has responded to the business owners’ concerns on Twitter, and sent staff to the meeting. Someone from Councilmember Burgess’ office also responded to Brereton’s concerns, but simply listed the resources that SDOT provides to businesses under construction impact.

Uncle Ike’s Pot Shop owner Ian Eisenberg says he has received “nothing” from the city.

His pot shop is doing great, and he says he doesn’t want to complain. But he has seen a drop in business at his car wash Sea Suds, and an increase in graffiti on the property since the construction began.

“The city has public meeting after public meeting about the importance of small businesses, and the 23rd Avenue street review could be very well be the death of half of the small businesses in this neighborhood,” he says. “It would be great if we had an advocate; it’d be nice if someone from the City Council showed up.” E

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t’s hard to say who is more pissed, Sara Mae Brereton or her landlord.

The landlord is upset because Brereton still hasn’t paid January rent. Brereton is upset because she might not be able to pay January rent.

Brereton owns 701 Coffee in the Central District and is leading a group of nearly 20 businesses on 23rd Avenue that have been impacted by heavy road construction in the area.

Simply put, they’ve had enough, and they want financial support from the city.

The 23rd Avenue Corridor Improvements Project began last June and dominates 23rd Avenue from South Jackson Street to East John Street. By early 2017, the street should have one lane in each direction instead of two, be repaved, and have wider sidewalks, new streetlamps, and a new water main to replace the 100-year-old one that runs below the street.

These upgrades—which when complete will likely benefit the area’s businesses—have rendered the corridor an eyesore: a maze of cones, potholes, orange detour signs, tape, and construction vehicles. It can be difficult even to see 701 Coffee from across the street.

The project is currently one of the longest street-maintenance projects in Seattle, running nearly a mile and half. From South Jackson Street to East Union Street, northbound travel is completely closed until spring. Many sidewalks in the area are blocked, forcing pedestrians to zigzag back and forth across the street if walking longer than a block. Some Metro stops have been closed, and bus routes have been rerouted.

Brereton considers herself lucky if she gets 25 customers a day. Before construction, she saw closer to 70. The only reason they haven’t gone out of business is that her wife also works and has been able to support them, Brereton says.

“Just because my fuckin’ door is open doesn’t mean I’m not essentially closed down,” she says. “Who wants to come in here when there’s jackhammering right outside my door and the building is shaking?”

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ent is too damn high. And to some, vacation rental services like Airbnb and VRBO could be part of the problem. Are they shrinking the city’s housing stock, and thus shoving up rents, by enabling property owners to make more money renting to tourists than they would offering the space to long-term residents?

That possibility led to one of the recommendations to come out of the Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda (HALA) report: Seattle should explore the idea of collecting hotel taxes from these platforms, then dedicate the funds to affordable housing.

“Left unchecked, there is concern that online rental platforms, like Airbnb and VRBO, just might provide enough financial incentives to cause homeowners to switch long-term rentals to short-term vacation rentals,” wrote Councilmember Tim Burgess in a blog post last week. “At a time when we face a shortage of affordable rental housing, this issue deserves a closer look.”

It’s a process that will take months. But the reason Burgess published the post now, he says, was to “start getting reactions from people. And, by the way, we are.” His staff have received scores of e-mails from both points of view: people who see any potential regulations as a threat to their ability to be a rental host, and people who believe their neighborhoods are filling up with full-time Airbnb rentals (and hate it). “We’ve heard from both and everybody in between.”

What the City Council decides to do about this debate will likely involve hard data on how these platforms are actually being used in Seattle.

Perhaps as a result, Airbnb—on track to be the largest hospitality company in the world—just released several reports that analyze its impact on Seattle, and the numbers are designed to allay our fears: In December, their study found that 81 percent of all Airbnb hosts in Seattle are primary residents of their homes (as opposed to absentee landlords), and almost 80 percent are renting their entire home on a short-term basis for fewer than 90 days a year.

“157 days is the tipping point when you’d outcompete what you’d get on the private market for a long-term rental by doing short-term rentals,” said David Owen, regional head of policy for Airbnb, during a small press conference the service held last week to highlight the data. “The vast majority of the activity on our platform [in Seattle] falls well below that number.”

But data journalist Murray Cox, who runs the website Inside Airbnb, has found something quite different: According to his analysis, 38.6 percent of the entire-home Airbnb units in Seattle are occupied an estimated 169 nights a year by Airbnb guests. His data comes from the publicly available information on all current listings, which in Seattle has jumped from 2,711 to 3,818 since last August.

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news&comment Data Wars » FROM PAGE 9 Airbnb’s data sources for its studies are less clear. It employs “proprietary bookings data” to draw its conclusions, for one thing. During a recent publicity stunt in New York City, it offered the public a sneak peek into that proprietary data, and Buzzfeed reporters found an interesting disclaimer: Airbnb’s calculation of the median number of nights booked were based on listings that had been active for 12 full months. The listings that had come online more recently than that weren’t included.

His data tool “is not an apples-to-apples comparison” with Airbnb’s data, says Cox, which makes it difficult to know what’s going on.

“Some of the statistics that they use I would question,” he says, and using questionable statistics “as the core argument in cities that are threatening to regulate you, I think, is dishonest.”

Last week, Airbnb released a second report, “The Impacts of Home Sharing in Seattle,” conducted by independent economic research firm Land Econ

hopes the city’s regulations will differentiate Group. Like the December report, this one also between people using Airbnb to supplement offers some impressive stats: From August 2014 to their own income versus those “edge” users.

July 2015, Airbnb generated a total of $178 million “Some cities have one set of regulatory rules in revenue for Seattle, including $108 million in for primary resident home-sharing,” Owen direct spending on Seattle businesses; as a result, it says, “and another more also supported 1,700 jobs. intensive regulatory Capitol Hill’s Airbnb Using questionable structure for those who guests alone spent $5 milstatistics “as the core do want to operate lion in the neighborhood. full-time vacation “We hope this argument in cities that are those rentals.” He objects, report is the first of many steps in working threatening to regulate you, by the way, to a recent study by the American with the City of Seattle I think, is dishonest.”

Housing and Lodging and members of the Association that found larger community to that nearly 30 percent of Airbnb revenue in 12 create common-sense regulation,” the report major U.S. cities comes from property owners summary reads. The company began collecting operating full-time vacation rentals. The study and remitting occupancy taxes in Washington has a clear conflict of interest, he says, since state last October, and just announced to the its lead researcher spent a decade as a senior U.S. Conference of Mayors that it could make executive at major hotel chains and has been the country’s 50 largest cities an extra $2 bilformally engaged with the Association. lion in tax revenue over the next decade.

“There are obvious fears in cities where “I think level-setting amidst the noise is housing is expensive about anything that useful,” says Airbnb’s Owen, adding that he

would make housing less available and more expensive,” he says. “I live in San Francisco; I have those fears. I live them every month when I write that rent check.” But it’s worth noting that “the listings on our platform take up less than one percent of the housing stock in the city of Seattle. So even if every one of them was a full-time hotel that had been taken off the market—which they are not—the impact on the market would be nonexistent.”

Still, says Councilmember Mike O’Brien, the city has its own work to do to determine that impact. “If it’s one or two” properties that are flipping from long-term to short-term housing, “that’s one thing. If it’s thousands and thousands, that’s another thing. I think to make good policy decisions, we need to better understand that. And frankly I don’t know that Airbnb is the one that’s going to share that data with us in a transparent way.”

On whether or not Tim Burgess has confidence in Airbnb’s data, it’s still too early to tell.

“I’m agnostic on that,” he says. E

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Court of Public Division

ON THE BLOGS

Online outrage silences a vital voice in Wallingford.

BY DANIEL PERSON

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Schwartz learned about the post when he got a call from Ivar’s Salmon House shortly after it went up The restaurant had been contacted by a Wallyhood reader—a frequent antagonist on the blog, according to Schwartz—and asked to pull their advertising due to the language used by Fisk. In fact, all his advertisers had been contacted before anyone reached out to him—maddeningly typical of the way things work in the blogosphere.

“It’s the nature of online discourse—they’ll be unpleasant if they don’t have to look me in the eye,” Schwartz says. “Anytime I posted something with an opinion, there would be some people who would disagree with it, and other people who would disagree with it rudely.”

Schwartz deleted Fisk’s post and issued an apology. Most advertisers were ready to move on, but hateful comments kept coming in. “You know, it gets old. When this last flare-up happened, ... It turned my stomach; I said, ‘This isn’t fun.’ ” Soon thereafter, he published a farewell post.

According to frequent Wallyhood contributor

Eric Fisk, the strength of a blog like Wallyhood is also its weakness: By speaking up for the neighborhood, it gave voice to viewpoints that are typically ignored in civic discourse. But that didn’t make those viewpoints any less ignored.

“Being a blogger at the neighborhood level was very frustrating,” he said. “The mayor has yet to visit Wallingford since he was elected. . . . He’s like the George W. Bush of mayors.

“If I felt the city gave a crap about what neighborhoods think, I would think yes, maybe I can change the way the city engages in the neighborhoods.” But the city, Fisk says, doesn’t give that essential crap. In recent months, Fisk has penned strongly worded posts questioning housing density, transportation policy, and whether CVS is better than Bartell’s (that one got 78 comments).

Two weeks ago Fisk published a blog post complaining about the city’s decision to allow the Ride the Ducks’ WWII-era amphibious vehicles back onto Seattle streets following a deadly accident involving one of the vehicles on the Aurora Bridge last September. The city’s solution to the risk highlighted by the crash was to keep the vehicles off Aurora, which necessitated more Duck traffic through Fremont and Wallingford.

In an attempt to illustrate the absurdity of putting WWII vehicles back on city streets, he spoofed the highly outdated mindset of 1940s Americans. While the post has been removed, Schwartz paraphrased it as: “Why do we need these amphibious assault vehicles? ‘Let’s go get Hirohito, Tojo, and Hitler! Kill the Japs!’ Well, that’s what people were thinking when these vehicles were made.”

Said Fisk: “You know how the Internet is, I didn’t put it in the correct context. Some people got offended and it created a really stupid set of complications.”

For Erika Bigelow, who sits on the Wallingford Community Council, the closing of Wallyhood is a loss. “I’m really sad about it.

There’s Nextdoor, but it really seems to be about people being like, ‘Hey, why are there helicopters flying over?’ It’s not a good informational piece.”

Bigelow says the circumstances of the blog’s closure makes it all the worse. “I’m so irritated at this guy. He called the sponsors? How mean can you be? That just destroyed something good for a lot of people,” she said. “And they didn’t even do it under their own name. That’s what really gets me.” (A call to the man in question for comment was not returned).

Again, Schwartz emphasizes that much more went into the decision than just the controversy over the Ducks post.

Fisk—who has an African-American daughter and is very confident he’s not racist—completely agrees with Schwartz’s decision to close the blog, but wishes he’d waited a little longer to dampen the impression that the controversy was what did it in. “I wish the blog could have gone out on a high note,” he said. “It’s going to be missed, sure, but being missed and being something that’s sustainable are two different things.”

Still, voids have ways of drawing people back in. Not long after announcing he was closing the site, Schwartz published a new post. It carried a disclaimer.

“I know, I just wrote that we’re done here, but lots of folks had been asking about the helicopters over Wallingford the other night . . . ” E

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ordan Schwartz started the neighborhood blog Wallyhood seven years ago, right after the birth of his son.

It occurred to him then that he knew very few of his neighbors, and was in general disconnected from what was going on in Wallingford.

He wanted his son to grow up with a sense of community, and started the blog to that end.

“Starting the blog for me was about learning the neighborhood,” Schwartz said the other day. “But along the way I kept hearing from people who had that same sense of disconnection from the neighbors, and they were saying the blog was solving that for them.

“The stories that resonated with them were the little things. Meet this guy with the camera. Or learn about this piece of art. Someone’s cutting down an old tree. People loved that kind of thing,” he said.

Wallyhood was one of a number of neighborhood blogs to crop up in Seattle in the late-aughts. However, the heyday of the neighborhood blog quickly passed, as more and more Internet traffic migrated to Facebook and, in the arena of neighborhood chit-chat, Nextdoor.

But Wallyhood hung on, remaining a notably strong voice for the leafy Craftsman paradise that is Wallingford. The site could seethe with provincial righteousness toward City Hall. It could also revel in the sorts of little mundanities that make a neighborhood a neighborhood.

“I always said I didn’t want to be a traditional media outlet,” Schwartz said. “I didn’t want it to just be unbiased, objective reporting. I wanted to be more like neighbors talking over the fence with each other.”

So it was with a keen sense of loss that many in Wallingford received the news last week that Wallyhood was shutting down, immediately and probably permanently.

As Schwartz tells it, the site’s closure was the kind of eventuality that accompanies most creative projects in which the work far outstrips the pay. But the inevitable came a little quicker on account of a single post that caused the kind of tempest-in-a-teapot outrage so common in the world of web publishing—a victory-of-thetrolls tale that once again raises the question of why anyone bothers to say anything online.

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MUSIC17 FILM18 DANCE20 DINING21 PICKLIST23 ing from Puerto Rico, he began his research and came across Alexander Cockburn’s 2000 recounting of the protests, 5 Days That Shook the World: Seattle and Beyond. He began reading the stories of the protests and looking closely at the photographs taken by Allan Sekula.

“There is one of a woman on her knees, in one of the intersections, surrounded by people,” Yapa recalls. “Long red hair, obviously has been hit by a baton or something and she is bleeding from her forehead. What looks like a stranger is tending to her wound and her hands are clasped together in front of her face, so she is praying or maybe just in pain. That really struck me and it really exemplified the protest. I thought, What is this woman doing here and what is new about the world that there is a protest where this woman is willing to be beaten or tear-gassed for the rights of people in a country three continents away, the rights of a kid who makes shoes in Bangladesh or Sri Lanka?”

A year later, Yapa was in the Labor Archives at the University of Washington library, digging through 25 boxes of materials that had been collected after the smoke had cleared. He read diaries, news articles, and testimonies from the City Council hearing following the protests.

He found VHS tapes that he says hadn’t been viewed in more than a decade. For two weeks he took it all in, essentially living in the basement of the UW library, he says. Then he went hunting for more. He received five hours of police-scanner recordings from the city archive and discovered hours of audio files recorded on the streets that day by sound artist Christopher DeLaurenti.

“That kind of research really gave the texture to the book,” he says. “Having those resources really just opened it up for me.”

Still, Yapa is adamant that, while his novel is a reflection of the truth, it is not meant to be true.

The reality that inspired the fiction.

A Pennsylvania native who currently lives in Woodstock, N.Y., Yapa is not of this city. To the not surprising that as an author he fully inhabits attentive Seattle reader, there will be reminders these characters. But it wasn’t easy. of this, pieces of the landscape that were never “When I started the project I didn’t really really there: the “gray project towers to the north” realize what I was getting myself into,” Yapa says that the novel’s 19-year-old hero Victor sees as from Montreal, where he is visiting his girlfriend he walks to the protest; the sawdust on the floor during a break in the book tour that will land of Pike Place Market where the Sri Lankan delhim in Seattle this week. “I just started writing egate is manhandled by an aggressive cop. And some characters. I thought of the ideas and I just then there are the outright omissions. The infastarted writing. Then I was 100 pages in and I mous Black Bloc anarchists are never mentioned; thought, I need to go to Seattle.” neither are the labor marchers who arrived from Yapa had been to Seattle before, for a sixHusky Stadium to support the blockade or month stint as a stoned, drifting 19-year-old. It the closing of the ports up and down the West took a long time for him to return, though. The Coast. Most challenging, though, are the journey began on a beach in Puerto Rico in intentional departures, which include 2009 while on winter break from his casting an entirely new police chief to MFA program at Hunter College. play the role infamously bungled by There he read Libra, Don Delillo’s Elliott Bay Norm Stamper. fictional account of the life of Lee Book Company For a reader who lived through Harvey Oswald written 25 years 1521 Tenth Ave., 624-6600, the WTO protests, these deparafter the assassination of JFK. “I elliottbaybook.com. Free. tures could very well distract to the 7 p.m. Sat., Jan. 30. was casting around for novel ideas, point of frustration. Yapa underand I was blown away by the idea stands this and expects it. But he also that you could have a historical novel hopes that readers can make room for that was about recent history and that one more perspective. was particularly American,” he says.

“It’s one story among a thousand,” Yapa says.

The WTO protests sprang to mind. A Penn “But if anything came out of the protest, it’s the State student at the time, Yapa had watched idea of consensus and horizontal democracy and from a great distance and with great interest as the idea that we all tell our own story and we all the tear-gas canisters flew. He was an economicbring our own history to the telling of the story. geography major, studying the machinations of So I brought my specific history of being biracial globalization while following in the footsteps and having a dad from Sri Lanka who was a of his college-professor father, who also worked World Bank consultant and that whole history as an advisor to the World Bank. As a budding of being a geographer; I brought that to this.” E novelist, he thought there might be something in the protest for him to explore. After returnmbaumgarten@seattleweekly.com

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the personal history of an author who was never there. It’s dangerous territory for a novel to rewrite recent history. Yet Yapa’s story does not pretend to be fact. Rather, the book seeks to unpack a greater truth at play when people go to war with a system they cannot escape.

It does so by following seven characters— a pair of officers, a pair of activists, a delegate, the chief of police, and a young man who appears to belong to no tribe—all of whom arrive at the intersection of Sixth and Union through different means. Each carries a conflicted past and mixed motivations. Personal histories clash as the day’s events unfold in blood and tear gas to the soundtrack of thousands of voices chanting. Befitting the hectic scene, Yapa’s writing is crisp and quick.

He toggles back and forth from the external, where his characters intensely catalogue the dangers that surround them, to the internal, where the dangers are less well-defined. The emotional intensity does at times wander into sentimentality, but overall the characters are well-drawn. They live, they breathe, and they bleed.

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he date is November 30, 1999. A group of protesters is on lockdown, blockading the intersection at Sixth and Union in downtown Seattle.

Other groups are doing the same in the intersections that surround the Washington State Convention Center. They, along with thousands of other activists clogging the city’s streets, are attempting to shut down the World Trade Organization’s Ministerial Conference, scheduled to take place at the Center. They are succeeding, but the police are agitated. A confrontation is imminent.

This is a scene we should all find familiar. It is the penultimate moment of the massive protests against globalism that took over Seattle at the tail end of a century dominated by markets, when a global system of American-style democratic capitalism seemed inevitable.

A defining event in the history of this city, the protests would become a harbinger of a new protest movement, an embarrassment to our city leaders, and fodder for numerous nonfiction books and films.

It is also the scene of Sunil Yapa’s debut novel, Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist. Yapa’s protest is not the same as the one you will find in history books, but one formed from sensory memory, years of contextualizing research, and

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“Unzip my skin and rip me from limb to limb,” one of many delightfully freaky lines on this album, which include “Blood and guts that you can trust!” and “You can shit/You can heal/You can usher in new vibrations.” casualhex.bandcamp.com (cassettes via Halfshell Records) Nu Era

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id you know “White Privilege II” was just one of many songs that came out of Seattle this month? It’s true! While you were busy attempting to solve Schrödinger’s Macklemore paradox (in which, according to Facebook quantum mechanics, Macklemore is simultaneously using his platform to unpack the problem of white supremacy while also being a problematic white supremacist), a lot of great bands and groups from Seattle put out excellent records that didn’t trend on your social-media sidebars. Maybe that’s because two of them were recorded in a dingy renovated office space and are both really noisy. Maybe. I’ll have to ask Mark Zuckerberg about it when we meet to talk about our conflicted feelings about “White Privilege II.” Anyhoo, let’s get to it.

Miscomings

Bag of Knives Featuring incredible vocals that sound like SpongeBob SquarePants huffing helium and screaming into an elevator shaft, this debut record from brand-new Seattle no-wavers

Miscomings is a beautiful, beautiful mess. The three-piece caterwauls through five glorious tracks that throw the zoinked-out structures of US Maple, a healthy respect for atonality, and blown-out lo-fi menace all into a rusty blender.

It’s hard to pick a favorite, but the highlight might be lead-off track “Ding-Dong”—a cartoonish pastiche of pretty overtone guitar harmonics and noodly off-notes, punctuated by immensely satisfying doom-laden power chords that finally rip the tune wide open for the coda.

And man, I can’t stress how great that terrifying falsetto is. As far as we can tell, the band hasn’t played out much yet, but I can’t wait to get my eardrums busted live and in person when Miscomings does venture out of the basement (or into someone else’s basement). The sticky layer of lint-covered filth that coats the album comes thanks in part to engineer Ian Kurtis Crist (Bat, Bosnia, formerly of Health Problems) who recorded Bag of Knives at his DIY studio Office Space in the span of one day. January was a good month for Crist and Office Space, as he also recorded our next favorite local record there . . . miscomings.bandcamp.com

Casual Hex

Fleshed Out Casual Hex is not only one of the best band names in town, but one fully befitting this newish Seattle group’s witchy take on post-punk. Thanks to the strange chorus effect on front woman Erica Miller’s vocals, every line she sings sounds as though it’s being chanted by five people in a moonlit coven. Casual Hex flirts with full-on no-wave anarchy at times, bending anchor riffs out of yo-yoing waves of noise as they do on the up-tempo “Sacred Plush” and “Ego Sick,” but for the most part the band stays tightly wound around Jessie Odell’s crunchy, gothic bass lines. Those dark, driving dirges keep things on lock as Miller’s guitar ventures off into necromantic, warbling interludes—one of the trio’s signature moves best executed on standout tracks “Soul Sack” and “Skin Suit.”

This latter song features the repeated chorus

Jamie Blake

Home EP Given the insane success of similar Soundcloudbased electronic producers like Odesza, I’m surprised Seattle’s Jamie Blake isn’t on a world tour right now. Blake’s impressively polished Home EP features the same chirping, pitch-shifted vocal samples and organic-gone-electronic stylings that Odesza does, but is notably less all-encompassing than some recordings by his more populist peers, whose sound can get watered down trying to be everything at once. Blake instead hones in on a few key elements—the ambient oomph of future bass and an amped-up take on hiphop that layers classic canned kick/snare tones over shuffling undercurrents of natural drums and disembodied vocals—giving all his songs a distinct rushing-forward feeling. In an alternate universe, “No One Sees Me Like You” could soundtrack a really cool tropical Mario Kart level. If that isn’t a rousing endorsement, I don’t know what is. soundcloud.com/jamie_blake E

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Armadilla Lexus The production on Armadilla Lexus, the brilliantly playful new album from Seattle hiphop supergroup Nu Era, is all over the place in the best way possible. In a city replete with retroobsessed beatsmiths, Nu Era totally steers clear of easy sonic references over the course of the imaginative 11 tracks here—instead crafting a unique brand of shuffling, time-warped warmth perfect for our stoneriffic Pacific Northwest environment. Album opener “Rose Garden” sounds like a chopped soul song in reverse, beaming down to Earth on a solar wave that’s both meditative and celebratory all at once. The vibe carries over to the almost-raucous “Judkins Park,” which submerges the joyous vintage sample it’s built on low enough in the mix that you never quite reach full-blown party mode.

It’s a mature decision that makes the song all the more interesting while guest MC Blu tears it up with his effortlessly staccato flow. While Chima Abuachi, Zac Millan, Blaine Rochester, and Andrew Savoie can more than hold it down on their own, the star-studded array of guest vocalists on Armadilla Lexus, including scene veteran RA Scion and up-and-comer DoNormaal, really take it over the top, especially when Thaddeus David (of Moor Gang) goes in on “Scottie,” a bravely minimalist track that rides chiefly on kick, snare, and some undulating white noise. nueramusic.bandcamp.com

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Rampling owns almost without as the third character in the shot, saying a word. ticking loudly like a bomb about Courtenay is superb, but this is to go off. (Kate is thinking of buying Rampling’s movie. Often cast for her Geoff a wristwatch as an anniversary preselegant looks and aura of unapproachable ent, but it might be too late for that.) mystery, here she plays a woman caught off The letter says that the body of Geoff ’s forguard, her complacency shaken. When Geoff mer girlfriend—her name was Katya, which makes a speech at the anniversary party, he goes is a little close to home—has been found in on for quite a while. But our eyes are on Kate. an Alpine glacier, a half-century after she fell Rampling’s body language and tight, careful to her death while she and Geoff were hiking smile are perfectly deployed here. 45 years of across Europe. Kate had heard about Katya going along with it are coming to a head. before, all those years ago, but apparently the Movies have a tendency to romanticize subject hasn’t come up since. The letter hits secret-keeping, I think; it’s often an evocaGeoff hard, and of course it would. But in the tive plot device. One of the refreshing things week leading up to the couple’s anniversary about 45 Years is the way it takes apart that party, Kate comes to realize that Katya’s ghost notion, instead showing the harm that might may have been haunting the marriage from the come from an unacknowledged secret between beginning. two people. What else has or hasn’t happened Perhaps Kate has never realized this; perhaps because of Geoff ’s feeling for a dead woman? she has willfully chosen to ignore it. That we’re What else was put into ice all those years ago? not sure is one of the quiet triumphs of Haigh’s 45 Years creates a haunted miniature by allowfilm. He focuses on Kate’s week, as she soldiers ing those questions to be raised, then letting on with her errands while it dawns on her that them hang in the air like smoke. E Geoff may have always held on to “my Katya,” as he unthinkingly blurts out when first reading film@seattleweekly.com

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Cruise in Risky Business. Still, sometimes I long for a little more friction.

In Wevers’ work Brahms and Tights, set to the For The Ghost Behind Me , the evening’s final composer’s Violin Concerto, the choreographer performance, choreographer Dominic Walsh has created long, silky strings of movement for an seems intent on telling a story. The cast is ever-changing combination of dancers. His assigned specific characters, and as bits and current ensemble of Kyle Johnson, Jim pieces of a narrative unfold, one element Kent, Patrick Kilbane, Mia Montestands out: Justin Reiter as Puppet abaro, Tory Peil, Thomas Phelan, Master. He opens the work bobbing Cornish Playhouse up and down among the onstage and Justin Reiter has technique 201 Mercer St., to spare—they dive and twist musicians, cueing them and eggwww.whimwhim.org. through every permutation of the ing them on. In a black hood and $25-$30. 8 p.m. choreography. Movement folds a bright-blue beard, he appears to Fri.- Jan. 29 - Sat. Jan 30. back on itself like a Möbius strip; do the same for the dancers, setting long turning sequences change directhem up and sending them on their tion, change body part, change dynamway as they bumble along. From time to ics; partners change in mid-motion, sometime he uses a spotlight to point out some one times in midair. But what begins as thrilling starts or thing—the shadows on the back wall of the to overwhelm us; Wevers may be riding Brahms’ stage hover above their actions, looking a bit like score as it swells and subsides, but on first viewing Balinese wayang kulit shadow puppets. While it’s a challenge to follow the larger patterns. The there is a sense of an ongoing squabble among rare stillness or tableau provides a much-needed the rest of the cast, the Puppet Master has the reorientation before the next plunge. final say, zeroing in his spotlight on one hapless Overflow, which Wevers commissioned from character, then turning off the light. The score choreographer Mark Haim for this program, by the Two Star Symphony, a premiere (as are all does indeed brim over with quiet mystery. Haim three dances), has a mordant quality, the accoruses his musical skills to play against the lush dion and glockenspiel giving it a klezmer edge. romanticism of the Prelude and Liebestod from Acting as a curator as well as a choreographer, Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. There is both joy Wevers continues in a building mode with his and sadness here, but also moments of levity and still-young company. Last year he put his dancers pedestrian action; he inserts everyday gestures on a season-long contract; this year he’s extend(like folding a paper fortune-teller or snapping ing the season to three programs, for which he’s fingers) throughout the work so that we see a commissioned new works from artists at the fuller picture of the humans onstage. As the front of their profession. Lack of friction aside, dance opens, a narrow scrim begins to lower on this, the second of those programs, shows that one side of the space, slowly piling up on the Whim W’him may have a fanciful name, but is floor. Just when we’ve started to take its presence accomplishing some substantial work. E for granted, footprints appear on it as it condance@seattleweekly.com

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I notice that many men have chosen salmon as their meat topping, and I’m doubtful that this is a traditional Somali ingredient. Indeed, Warsame tells me that Somalis rarely eat fish, and when they do it’s always a whitefish. Seattle, it seems, has added its mark to this ancient culture. “Living here, we have become addicted to salmon,” he says grinning. I love that; it’s the story of food everywhere, the assimilation of regional influences creating an entirely unique riff on the original.

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While some diners choose one starch oup! Soup! Soup!” shouts a man in or the other, many order both in a combo short staccato bursts as he maneuvers called a “Federation.” I decide to do the a cart with complimentary bowls of same. The pasta is very lightly covered goat-bone broth around tables filled with tomato sauce. I opt to top mine with nearly 100 men—many of them wearing with lamb shanks, two huge Flintstonekufis, the tight-fitting, round caps traditionally sized ones. The meat is tender and mildly donned by Muslims, as well as thawbs, cotton flavored—signature spices of the cuisine and silk gowns that fall to their feet. I’d driven are cumin seeds, cardamom, cloves, to Tukwila on the advice of a Somali Uber and coriander seeds—and comes driver who told me there were many with lots of grilled onions.

Somali restaurants near SeaTac. When two unpeeled bananas However, I had no idea that Juba Restaurant and Cafe show up alongside it, I’m perplexed lunch on a Friday coincided with 14223 Tukwila but, again, quickly catch on by jumu’ah, noon prayer, at a mosque International Blvd., observing the men beside me. The next door to Juba, the halal Tukwila, bananas are peeled, broken up, restaurant I’d chosen as my intro242-2011. and laid atop the dish, and eventuduction to the cuisine. ally incorporated into it as another As crowds of men file in, I tentaingredient. While Ethiopians use spongy tively take a seat and hope that my presinjera bread to pick up the various meats and ence isn’t unwelcome. In fact, the diners don’t vegetables with their hands, bananas serve a give me a glance. The owner, Abshir Warsame, similar purpose in Somali cuisine, often becoma friendly man in a red thawb with a beaming smile, explains that most of the men are cab driv- ing a tool with which to swipe a chunk of meat or clump of rice. Sometimes, though, hands do ers or airport employees on their lunch break, all the work, scooping up mouthfuls. Fingers hungry and hurried. Friday is his busiest time of glisten with oil and the men lick them unselfthe week due to the prayer service, and indeed consciously before burying them back in the at least three or four waiters scurry around the large, rectangular, bare-bones space, taking orders, heap. Some, however, use utensils, and I decide to stick with my fork. delivering food, clearing plates, and filling bowls of steaming soup.

As I try to make sense of the menu, I sneak While my $18 lamb feast fills me up, I’m curiglances at nearby tables, smiling to myself at two ous to try other dishes, so I also order the beef young men with red Nike hightops visible below steak with chapati. While chapati is a common the hem of their gown and a soccer jersey peekIndian flatbread, the traditional Somali version is ing over the top. Most of the tables of two are called sabaayad/kamis, and it’s a tad oilier. At the sharing platters of rice and pasta piled with varirestaurant, however, the menu surprisingly uses ous meats, which the men eat with their hands. the Indian nomenclature. Large pieces of boneThe pasta surprises me, until Warsame reminds less grilled skirt steak thinly cut are served with a me that Somalia was once a colony of Italy. Like fresh green salad and tomatoes and a side of about the Vietnamese with their French baguettes, the 10 squares of chapati. To give the gentle, slightly Somali kept the noodles. sweet beef a kick, I squirt it with copious amounts

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JANUARY 28

Thursday Geraldine Brooks

Not one to shy away from the most well-worn tales in the long, harsh arc of humanity, Geraldine Brooks has committed her latest work of historical fiction, The Secret Chord, to an Old Testament favorite, King David. Slayer of a giant, writer of psalms, builder of a nation, wooer of Bathsheba, father of Solomon—this profile serves as the “scaffolding,” as Brooks puts it, that she utilizes to build a story that The New York Times called “thundering, gritty, emotionally devastating.” A Pulitzer Prize winner for her 2005 novel March—a Civil War tale in which she imagines the military service of the father from Little Women—Brooks likely pulled from her time as a Middle East correspondent

McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St., 621-2230, lectures. org. $15–$60. 7:30 p.m. MARK BAUMGARTEN

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Friday

Constellations

According to multiverse theory, there is a version of your life in which you see this play and another in which you do not. In the former version, you will wake up the next day well aware of the genius of young British playwright Nick Payne, who was propelled by this 2012 drama into the upper echelon of contemporary playwrights. You will recall the romance of theoretical physicist Roland and beekeeper Marianne told with wit and brevity as this production, directed by Desdemona Chiang, explores the couple’s relationship through the kaleidoscopic lens of the multiverse. And your perspective on the world will shift ever so slightly. In the other version of your life, you will never know any of this. You will sit at home, you will eat takeout, and you will binge-watch Everybody Loves Raymond. It’s your choice. Seattle Repertory Theatre, 155 Mercer St., 443-2222, seattlerep.org. $34–$67. 7:30 p.m. Ends Feb. 21. See our review next week. MARK BAUMGARTEN

Timbrrr! Winter Music Festival

The Timber! Outdoor Music Festival, held each summer in Carnation, Wash., was just too much fun—too successful, too many awesome bands, too much revelry—to contain it all in one fest. Enter Timbrrr!, Leavenworth’s wintry version: two days and nights of revelry and music with some frigid temps and snowy peaks thrown in. Artists this year include Fruit Bats (you definitely know their sweet single “When U Love Somebody”); Seattle’s soul diva Grace Love & the True Loves; the jazzy, horn-forward

Industrial Revelation; and the trippy, electronic Hibou. Other cold-season perks: Hot-toddy happy hours at the Festhalle, discounts on Stevens Pass lift tickets, four hours of highly competitive “Leisure Games”—including cornhole, tether toss, and giant Jenga—and way more than enough beer, brats, and ye olde Bavarian font to keep the tourists happy. 1001 Front St.,

Ave. S., 722-3009, columbiacitytheater.com. $10 adv./$12 DOS. 21 and up. 8 p.m. KELTON SEARS

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Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture

Architecture may define the character of a home, a city, even a nation. But can it also help change the character of a nation? Visionary architect Louis Kahn thought so. He spent his career dreaming up new forms, and his magnum opus, the National Assembly Building of Bangladesh—part of a complex of buildings in Dhaka that became symbolic of order and cooperation during great national strife—remains one of the great triumphs of 20th-century engineering. Curated by the Vitra Design Museum, “Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture” is the first major retrospective of his life and work, including models, interviews, and drawings from his extensive travels. On January 29, from 4 to 6 p.m., there will also be a special screening of My Architect, a biographical documentary of Kahn by his son. Bellevue Arts Museum, 510 Bellevue Way N.E., Bellevue, 5190770, bellevuearts.org. $12. 11 a.m.–6 p.m. Ends May 1. T.S. FLOCK

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With a little tweaking, Velocity Dance Center’s Bridge Project could stand in for a reality television competition show—four emerging choreographers who are still clarifying their vision and honing their skills get four weeks each to make a new work. Velocity supplies the rehearsal space and a stipend, while the audience gets the results. This year’s cohort includes Nathan Blackwell, Stephanie Liapis, Ashleigh

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The Intruder Release Party

If it weren’t for The Intruder, this newspaper might not have a dedicated weekly comix section. Started in 2012 with ringleader Marc Palm as its unofficial “editor,” the free quarterly newsprint comics anthology has served as a vital incubator and showcase for a rising crop of Seattle cartoonists and illustrators, a scene that has exploded in the past couple years thanks to the Short Run festival and Cafe Racer’s monthly Dune drawing night. The Intruder’s unwieldy crew of artists—including countless Seattle Weekly contributors including Tom Van Deusen, Joe Garber, Seth Goodkind, Brian Dionisi, Marie Hausauer, Max Clotfelter, Brittany Kusa, Ben Horak, Darin Shuler, Scott Travis, and James Stanton—have packed their drippy, psychedelic doodles into the 18th issue, which will be available at tonight’s release party. Catch the crew before it’s too late—The Intruder is officially ending its run after its 20th issue, so enjoy the madness while you can. Spin Cycle, 321 Broadway E. Free. 7–10 p.m. KELTON SEARS

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Many groups have tried to replicate the seemingly easy magic of Portishead. But cool beats and a beautiful voice are more difficult to make work than it first appears. Haelos may very well have cracked the code, though. Appearing early least year with “Dust”—a single that features a seductive duet between Lotti Benardout and Arthur Delaney or Dom Goldsmith (I can’t tell which) set over a humming, crunching, clapping beat that culminates with the refrain “This love ain’t mine”—the East London trio was quickly signed by Matador Records and has since proven more than a fluke, releasing a series of slinking after-party tracks that bode well for its debut full-length release in March—to be followed by a Coachella slot in April. This will be the trio’s first time in Seattle. Let’s give them a warm welcome. Sunset Tavern, 5433 Ballard

for The Wall Street Journal in telling her Iron Age tale, so perhaps she will speak of the more modern and less fictitious events in the region during this Seattle Arts & Lectures appearance.

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This band is a goddamn riot. Rocking a trash-fi punk sensibility the four-piece dubs “barfcore/ fartcore,” the group has written some of the most gloriously scrappy power-chord-powered jams to wriggle their way out of Seattle’s basements in years. “Assholes,” the band’s latest antiasshole single, is a masterclass in less-is-more songcraft, eking anthemic hooks and crazy energy out of the atonal scritch-scratch of the pick against the guitar strings. The band does more with this noise in two and a half minutes than most bands manage to do with 15 chords in five. Every song the group writes is designed for scream-alongs, something they make easy with their instantly catchy melodies. The icing on the cake is the band’s literal embrace of trash, as it frequently performs wearing bizarre neon-colored wigs amid a carefully curated onstage sea of Goodwill detritus. Mommy Long Legs’ glittery garbage heap is more than worth a wade-through. With Wimps, Boyfriends. Columbia City Theater, 4916 Rainier

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Seattle Chamber Music Society

In many of Franz Schubert’s instrumental works, his characteristic fecundity and generosity can come off as sprawl; but the epic journey that is his String Quintet leaves you with a sense of visionary expansiveness. Despite its size—nearly an hour—it’s rich with moments of profound intimacy and inwardness to equal

any of his songs. It’s a work of extremes, in more than its length. The beatific calm and vast silences of the slow movement are interrupted by an aria for violin and cello that throbs like Verdi, while this mood scheme is flipped in the third movement—a stamping dance surrounds a nearly motionless chorale. This 1828 work, finished just a couple months before Schubert’s death, will provide a grand climax to the Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Winter Festival. Also on the program, music by Arensky, Lutoslawski, and Ravel, with Shostakovich’s Cello Sonata on the free pre-concert recital at 2. Benaroya

Recital Hall, Third Ave. & Union St., seattle chambermusic.org. $50. 3 p.m. GAVIN BORCHERT

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On the band’s immortal first records, F# A# ∞ and Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven, it cemented a blazingly unique brand of dark, doomladen, Wagnerian grandeur that would inspire artists in fields as far-flung as black metal, indie rock, pop, and even film, with director Danny Boyle citing the music as a chief influence for his post-acocalyptic 28 Days Later. The group’s well-received new album, Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress, continues the trend—nothing new to hear here, but if it ain’t broke (is already broke?), don’t fix it. Expect lots of grainy footage of burning buildings and military operations at the show, and make sure to bring extra cash to buy some of the anarchist literature the group sells as merch—literature that almost got them arrested for being suspected terrorists in Oklahoma in 2003.

With Vast Plains. Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9442, neumos.com. $25. 8 p.m. All ages on Jan. 29, 21 and up on Jan. 30.

There’s probably no better way to watch Blade Runner than on an overwhelmingly enormous screen inside a giant metallic blob, which is exactly what is happening this weekend as EMP screens director Ridley Scott’s cut of the dystopian sci-fi noir classic as part of its Campout Cinema series. Based on Phillip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the film stars Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard, an Earth-bound cop whose sole mission is to terminate “replicants,” superhuman androids who have escaped from offworld colonies. A recent meme traveling around the Internet sent shudders through our collective spines by noting that Blade Runner is set in 2019, three years from now, paired with an image of what Beijing looks like today. Of course, they looked identical. Dystopia is now. EMP’s Sky Church, 325 Fifth Ave. N, empmuseum.org. $12. 21 and over. 7:30 p.m. Thurs., Jan. 28.

Charlie Jan Anders, the editor of Gawker’s science fiction and fantasy sub-site i09, has gloom and doom front and center in her new book All the Birds in the Sky, which she will read and sign tonight. Set in an alternate-universe San Francisco amid an impending apocalypse, the story follows two lifelong friends, Patricia and Laurence, as they work in very different ways to try and halt the end-of-days. Patricia, a gifted graduate of a secret academy for magical kids, attempts to save the world through . . . magic.

Laurence, however, is more of a gearhead, working with a group of engineers to save everyone through the promise of technology. Does this sound strikingly similar to real-world Seattle to anyone else? Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way N.E., thirdplace books.com. 7–8:30 p.m. Thurs., Jan. 28.

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We stood there, smoking cannabis in the late-afternoon sunshine, eagerly discussing the evening at hand. At some point a woman wearing an apron advertising a community group came out of a building near us. Seeing the apron, I assumed she was affiliated with a business nearby, and I wondered if maybe the business could smell our smoke. I mean, technically, it is still illegal to toke in public.

As she passed us, she coolly eyed us up and down. I smiled at her, but she didn’t smile back.

Her face was stern, perhaps disappointed.

I didn’t smoke there again that evening; I simply went to the other side of the building. Nothing about this is really shocking. People smoke outside shows all the time.

Yet it stuck with me. I’ve thought about that moment several times over the past six months.

A small, simple, frustrated part of me thinks, “Why are we still tripping on this kind of stuff?

I know I’m a good person. She’s just old-school.

She needs to get over it.”

Other facts, though, bear revisiting. All three of us were white. The woman checking us out was black. And we were standing plainly out on the street in Columbia City, a community that has seen considerable gentrification in the past few years as its black community has shrunk (or been shrunk) to make room for people who look more like me.

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industries attached to them, have ravaged black communities across this country. These drugs have also been an excuse for banks to deny loans, schools to deny admittance, judges to deny custody, bureaucracy to deny social services, and law enforcement to falsely arrest, seize property, close legitimate businesses, and end lives. In this reality—which exists still on the federal level and in the majority of states—there really isn’t much of a difference between cannabis and harder drugs. Not because of the chemical effects on the people using them, but because of the social, legal, and economic ramifications of “drug users” being a part of their community.

Even though marijuana is now legal on the state level in Washington, that doesn’t mean that the playing field is now level. It is still illegal to toke outside for everyone, yes—but I don’t think it’s not too bold to suggest that if you’re white, it’s a little less illegal.

As a white person, I can smoke outside a show with little to no fear of law enforcement fucking with me. I can smoke on the stoop in front of my apartment. I can smoke on my walk home from work. I can pretty much smoke anywhere. But would I feel so free if I were a person of color, instructed by a history that indicates that this act, even now, is a big risk?

That evening, with a few quick tokes, I confirmed for that woman every shitty thing about white privilege. Looking back, my disregard is embarrassing.

There we stood, not hiding, not worried, not thinking of anything but just our short smoke and the night ahead.

Not thinking of the generations of black people who had been hiding the very same activity in the very same spot; not thinking of how the illegal drug trade helped keep a lid on that neighborhood’s economy in the past; not thinking how the legal drug trade could be furthering future gentrification.

So what to do? In a city where we are on the frontier of legalization, and learning how, as a community, we are going to conduct ourselves, we still have a long way to go.

Funneling some tax revenue from cannabis sales into small-business loans for black people might be a way to start.

And to the woman in Columbia City, I apologize. I’m sorry for my ignorance and shortsightedness in that moment, and I hope I show you a little more respect for your neighborhood, your history, and your struggle in the future. E stashbox@ seattleweekly. com

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