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First, happy birthday to Edith Head, the Oscar-winningest costume designer in Hollywood history, who would’ve been 116 today if she’d only proven as immortal as her creations. Also, the above Google Doodle saluting Head is gorgeous.

Second, continued congratulations to Seattle’s Mark Mitchell, whose Burial show at the Frye has inspired some great supplementary work, from Jen Graves’s Stranger piece to Marcy Stone-Francois‘s prize-winning documentary short on Mitchell’s life and work, which you should immediately watch below.

David Schmader—former weed columnist and Stranger associate editor—is the author of the solo plays Straight and Letter to Axl, which he’s performed in Seattle and across the US. His latest...