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Music Magazine Deathwatch
Hardly two months have passed since the demise of Seattle's bi-weekly music paper The Rocket, and now another local keen-to-the-music-scene publication is on the verge of being vanquished.
Pandomag.com, an online magazine that sprouted from Pandemonium, a bi-weekly paper published in the early '90s, could soon be just a faint memory in our minds due to the loss of their web development company, Accelerated Web Development.
Stranger Personals
Pandomag.com was one of the first local publications to take the plunge into the World Wide Web when founder and publisher Jeff Daniels sold the paper to Accelerated Web Development back in 1996. With Dave Liljengren jumping into the editor's chair and many local writers contributing material, Pandomag.com was very successful, receiving two million page views in 1999, and even more in 2000.
"We just need space on a server computer," said Liljengren. Well, anyone know Paul Allen's number? Saving a piece of Seattle's music history from doom should be right up his alley. MEGAN SELING
Local Man Appointed to Thankless Job
President Clinton, in a flurry of lame duck activity, has just appointed Ron Chew, the executive director of the Wing Luke Asian Museum, to the National Council for the Humanities. (The Council advises the National Endowment for the Humanities and wields considerable influence over what the Endowment funds.) Chew, a Seattle native who has been overseeing the Wing Luke Museum since 1991 and has received several awards (including the Governor's Heritage Award from the Washington State Arts Commission), will be one of seven new appointees. In Arts News hopes that, under our new president, this position won't consist solely of joyless, futile efforts to preserve the simple existence of the Endowment for the Humanities. BRET FETZER
Boots Will Walk
The Seattle Department of Neighborhoods announced awards for 25 small projects last week, spanning everything from kiosks to streetscapes. Included in the batch is a possible plan for the long-neglected Hat 'n' Boots, those fading but beloved commercial icons. A Neighborhood Fund award of $6,025, matched by private contributions, has been dedicated to studying the feasibility of moving the Hat 'n' Boots to a new neighborhood park, which will be located four blocks from the Hat 'n' Boots' current location in the Georgetown neighborhood. TRACI VOGEL
Monolith
News sources announced last week that a group calling themselves "Some People" claimed responsibility for the appearance/disappearance/reappearance of the metal monolith gracing our city since New Year's. However, in late breaking news, another group calling themselves "Some Other People" claimed that they were responsible. It is yet to be seen if a third group, perhaps "Some Friends of Some People," will surface to clarify. TRACI VOGEL
Pow Power!
Those of you wondering what happened to the Pow Kid paintings stolen from Circus Contraption's cabaret can rest easy: The paintings have been returned. An unidentified person recovered the paintings from a "friend" who had stolen them, and returned them to Circus Contraption. In Arts News' faith in humanity is a wee bit restored. BRET FETZER
Young People, Submit
The Stranger announces its Second Annual Minor Writers Contest, open to writers at or under the age of 21. There are two categories this year--fiction and personal essay--and the overall winner will be published in an April issue of The Stranger, receiving other fabulous prizes as well. Tell us your stories of youth and debauchery! Send entries, no longer than 2,500 words in length, to: Minor Writers, The Stranger, 1535 11th Ave, Third Floor, Seattle, WA 98122.
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