The financially strapped Columbia City Cinema on Rainier Avenue S.—currently showing the Wolverine movie, Sunshine Cleaning, and The Soloist—will get a grant from the Rainier Valley Community Development Fund, the Rainier Valley Post reports. The $50 million fund was set up to help businesses make it through light rail construction. I’m a huge fan of the cinema, both because it shows a nice range of indie and first-run movies, and because it only charges $2 for popcorn. (Plus I like that they offer nutritional yeast—a culinary hangover from my vegan years). Not sure what the cinema has to do with light rail, but I’m glad it’s safe for now.

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  3. @2: Skye, not only is the internet a race you’ve won, you’re also wearing the exact same shoes I was going to wear.

    Such a terrible movie.

  5. And people wonder why light rail went over budget. This fund is probably administrered by the “Save Our Valley” idiots who extorted it from ST in the first place.

    I sure hope they save enough in the fund to “educate” the “diverse cultures” that they need to look both ways before crossing a railroad track. That should take at least three milliion dollars in expense to women and minority owned printing businesses.

  6. Another wise use of transportation dollars. Subsidizing $2 movies.

    Btw, Save Our Valley folks were cut out of the funds, only the collaborators got to apply for funds. It’s an unwritten code. Our Seattle style of Chicago payoffs.

  7. @5,

    Light rail went over budget because the initial budget figures sold to the voters were lowballed to get it passed.

    The City of Seattle put the money up for the Rainier Valley Community Development Fund, not Sound Transit.

    While I’m sure this is a lovely theater, it isn’t located on the light rail route, so why it’s eligible for these funds (which ought to go to the businesses who were screwed by the long construction process) is beyond me.

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