Sad News
Movie-lovers mecca Video Vertigo, the narrow East Pike Street storefront crammed with everything from mainstream movies to gay porn and anime, is closing in mid-December. Vertigo's inventory will be for sale the weekend of December 18 and 19. AMY JENNIGES
Bad News
Stranger Personals
City Council Member Nick Licata cast the lone vote against Mayor Nickels' proposal to lift longstanding restrictions on the University of Washington's ability to lease property in the surrounding neighborhood and citywide. Don't believe Nickels' knee jerk commie-baiting mantra that Licata is against jobs, though. Licata just happens to be pro-neighborhood. Licata would have supported Nickels' measure if it had come with reasonable checks on the UW. For example, Licata wanted to limit expansion to 750,000 square feet directly around the current campus while offering an incentive for mixed-use development by letting the UW exceed the limit if 30 percent of a lease was slated for residential use. JOSH FEIT
Fucked Up News
On Monday, November 22, 50-year-old Stephen Byrne, angry that his ex-wife had custody of the former couples' two daughters, e-mailed friends about his murder-suicide plan. Later that day, police found Byrne and his daughters dead in Byrne's Edmonds home. The Seattle Times headline read: "Father kills two daughters, himself."
The following Sunday and Monday, the Seattle Times ran a lengthy paid obit for Byrne (including a cutesy picture of Byrne holding his daughters). "More than anything in the world, Steve loved his daughters," the ad read. "He was at every soccer game, every school performance, every important event in their lives... Know that this was a loving, good man who did the best he could while struggling against an incomprehensible burden."
After the obit ran for two days, the paper--planning to run the announcement once more -- finally thought to contact the mom, who, accordig to Seattle Times spokeswoman Kerry Coughlin, was ñOK with it."
NANCY DREW
Post Election News
A lot of the T-shirts, bumper stickers, and slogans from this past election year--once inspirational--are now just mocking, reminders of Bush's November 2 win. However, one T-shirt for sale in Seattle seems to have taken on a more defiant message post-election: "I Know All the Facts" it reads, above a likeness of Bush. "And I'm Taking Him Out," it reads below. Before the election, the T-shirt was a reference to voting Bush out of office, says the shirt's designer, Marc Samuelsson. However, the shirt now conjures up more radical action. "It can be interpreted as a more direct method [of taking the president out]," Samuelsson now says. "But I don't advocate that because I don't want to make him a martyr." Samuelsson has sold 30 shirts. NANCY DREW
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