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You get $5,000! And you get $5,000! And YOU get $5,000! Today, non-profit Black Fret announced their latest series of grants (totaling $55,000) that will go to 11 Seattle-area bands to do with as they please: Acid Tongue, Beverly Crusher, Black Ends, Caitlin Sherman, Da Qween, Parisalexa, SassyBlack, Shelby Earl, Sol, True Loves, and Zan Fiskum. The Austin-based non-profit launched a Seattle chapter in 2020 to provide financial relief to local musicians. According to their...

Movies set in Washington — from vampire flicks on the Olympic Peninsula to a film about workers’ rights protests in Seattle — are often filmed elsewhere. A new bill hopes to increase financial incentives to change that.

New stuff from the Gov: Inslee announced today that National Guard members will help staff hospitals and testing sites as providers struggle to keep up with Omicron's surge. Inslee also ordered a four-week pause on non-urgent procedures to help open hospitals' schedules. Like in the early days of the pandemic, he's asking for retired healthcare workers to temporarily return and serve. Here's what King County's COVID dashboard is looking like: Well, this got weird: "Pig.....

Can Olympia finally make it happen next year?

It's not every day you see a feature film crew on the sidewalks of Spokane, and it's even rarer to see Spokane actually playing itself...