I got too old to be a good editor of the free-circulation Seattle Weekly and dawdled about moving on until 1997. It’s happened elsewhere. The periodicals lounge feels as if the magazines exist merely to decorate the walls of some Pottery Barn catalog spread. The Voice once was a good paper but it was always a managerial zoo, and Stern shortly afterward lost interest in his journalistic fling, selling the Voice empire to a highly leveraged new entity. Browse downstairs at the Vancouver library’s children’s department, with its full, waist-high shelves (annoying for adults but perfect grasping height for children) and clean new carpet (all the better for sprawling on), and you’ll lose yourself again in A Wrinkle in Time and Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. The recent Lost Wages Assistance program pumped an extra $625 million to Washington’s unemployed. It’s embarrassing. Turning the library into a community center will please a multitude of local cultural groups. Update: Today, Mayor McGinn made this statement: “We appreciate the decision by the Seattle Weekly to disassociate from Backpage.com. He says his work is demanding (it is), and that he’s barely interested in even masturbating. We began with a capital injection of $75,000, plus a loan(!) That will not do at all. Cruise Craigslist and meet strangers for cocktails and/or other activities. Weeklies kept cooking up breakthrough publishing ideas, exploiting them until the mainstream media coopted them: personal ads, phone personals, extensive entertainment listings, free distribution. If Portland, we reasonably said to ourselves, why not Seattle? We need them because books are slow and unsexy, because the activity they foment is solitary and the wisdom gained from a lifetime of reading doesn’t fade like the half-life of an Internet posting. Everywhere in the campaign literature, in newspaper articles, in stump speeches, we’re reminded that libraries aren’t just about books! One good thing about this attempted reform of American journalism is that there were no chains at first but instead a lot of local experiments, tied to local sensibilities. The formula mostly avoids the topics other media are covering, refuses to endorse candidates, and reflects an alienated, libertarian disdain toward local do-gooders. An odd formula for Seattle, I should think, though better for the deracinated, mavericky Sunbelt towns like Phoenix and Houston. He is now the director of. House approves HEROES Act; Senate, White House not on board yet. In my view, it takes a non-profit, member-supported, web-only model such as Crosscut to make it happen. My hope in the 21 years of editing and publishing Seattle Weekly was to straddle that big culture divide, to blend the civic ideals of a northern-tier progressive city with the impatient, irreverent, alt-culture of the new creative-economy Seattle. Confession time: I lost focus around 1990. These libraries have become the civic hubs that Seattle boosters dream of, but they’ve done it by showcasing their books, not hiding them. Good luck, mate. Count 'em: Seattle Times (49.5 percent owned by the McClatchy Co.), The Stranger (with minority Chicago owners), KOMO (up for sale), public broadcast stations, and assorted local blogs like Geekwire, SportspressNW,  a few state dailies such as the Wenatchee World. LA Weekly, eventually bought by Village Voice, was an attempt to bring a sophisticated New York radicalism to Los Angeles. Please share your story tips by emailing editor@seattleweekly.com. I have been looking at jobs here in the N.Y.C. Thankfully there are counterexamples. A museum of museums. In 2006, Seattle Weekly reported on a lawsuit brought against today’s billionaire owner Paul Allen by one of his Hollywood executives, Abbie Philips. Dear Dategirl, In August, I met a wonderful man (age 39) when we both lived in Seattle. An argument for keeping the next library bibliocentric. Good and worthwhile, yes, but an afterthought. Who cares if you’re single for a while? in September, and after a weeklong Sometime in the 1970s, librarians decided they no longer worked in libraries. Miranda Bhattacharyya ’always put the well-being of others before herself,’ family says. Nowhere is this more evident than at the downtown Seattle Public Library. In Vancouver a clear display-bin is bolted to the end of each shelf, which allows librarians to entice browsers with favorite titles. Forget about this going-nowhere relationship and take advantage of the fact that you have a free place to stay in one of the most expensive cities in the universe. Context and presentation become integral parts of a book’s lure. If your job is too stressful for sex, you either get a new job or you learn to deal with it. I want to speak for the idea of a library as a place for books, and for books as a social and cultural good that requires no apology. Here's why they think they can handle the job's unusual collection of responsibilities.

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