Politics
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Protester Arrests: 2007-17

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Anna Faktorovich
April 09, 2017

Civil disobedience has been practiced by peaceful protesters long before Henry Thoreau penned the essay with this name after a night in jail for refusing to pay the poll tax. In the US, when protester arrests are mentioned, Rosa Parks’ and Dr. Martin Luther King’s bus protest comes to mind together with an understanding of its roots in the Indian independence movement, led by Mahatma Gandhi. In the last decade, there has been a spike in...

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Arts & Culture
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How To Shoot With A Long Telephoto Lens

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William Lulow
April 09, 2017

Long telephoto lenses serve the purpose of bringing your subject closer and making it appear larger in the frame so that the viewer can see details that would normally be too small to see otherwise.

Long telephoto lenses:

Are usually heavy and require a tripod (some long lenses are actually mounted on the tripod and then the camera is attached to the lens) Compress distances and therefore,...
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Entertainment
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Jumping Around with Jeffrey Gurian | Maniscalco’s Pop Up Show, Stars on the Red Carpet and Dan Soder

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Jeffrey Gurian
April 07, 2017
THIS COLUMN ORIGINALLY APPEARED ON theinterrobang.com Comedy Stars Take Over Red Carpet

Red carpets are always fun and exciting, but also always a little daunting as well as you never know where they’re going to place you, and in what order the celebs are...

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Women
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In the Spotlight | Gennette Cordova

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April 06, 2017

We recently had the opportunity to interview Gennette Cordova, founder of Via Seattle

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African American
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Meet the Women of Via Seattle

Patricia Vaccarino
April 06, 2017

The March 18 panel featured a stellar line-up of creative talent: Essayist Emery Desper; Katrina Felicitas, Owner and Creative Director of Genuine Gem; Cristina Martinez, Designer, Owner of June & Mars; the singer and songwriter Alana Belle; the HellaBlackHellaSeattle Podcasters Jasmine Jackson and Alaina Caldwell; Visual Artist Yasmin Almo YASSA; and Photographer Erica Daniels, Owner of Emazing Photography. 

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Women
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Via Seattle is the start of something big

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Patricia Vaccarino
April 06, 2017

​On Saturday March 18, Via Seattle launched its first public event—a panel named Artists We Will Be. The event drew a sizable crowd of mostly women, and most important of all, the sea of faces was dominated by women of color.  The panel was composed of eight women artists and creative talents, all of whom are emerging stars in their own right.

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Politics
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Channeling Nelson Mandela

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Annie Searle
April 04, 2017

How far can our great institutions, whether courts of law, public libraries or even universities go to preserve the values and freedoms most of us have enjoyed? If the three branches of government were designed to provide a system of checks and balances on power, then where are we on the spectrum right now? How much worse will it get before course corrections begin? 

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Entertainment
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Jumping Around with Jeffrey Gurian

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Jeffrey Gurian
March 31, 2017

Jumping Around with Jeffrey Gurian: Nikki Glaser, Jeffrey Ross, Shawn Wayans & Chaunté Wayans

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