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Category: Media & Culture

The sounds of late winter in the Pacific Northwest

March 4th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Media & Culture

Drip, splash, patter, patter: What a soaking late winter rainstorm sounds like around the lowlands of the Pacific Northwest.

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Another take on Ellen DeGeneres and the stars

March 4th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Media & Culture
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Live-drawing the Oscars

March 2nd, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Media & Culture

Live-drawing the Oscars While host Ellen DeGeneres was busy entertaining viewers of the 2014 Academy Awards, New Yorker cartoonist Bob Eckstein was sketching notable scenes

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Ellen DeGeneres stages impromptu photo shoot in the aisle at the Academy Awards

March 2nd, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Media & Culture
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Ken Jennings: Arthur Chu is playing Jeopardy! the right way

February 28th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Media & Culture

Ken Jennings: Arthur Chu is playing Jeopardy! the right way Ken Jennings delivers an entertaining and spirited defense of Jeopardy! contestant Arthur Chu, already a

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74,476 reasons you should always get the bigger pizza

February 28th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Media & Culture

74,476 reasons you should always get the bigger pizza NPR explains that bigger pizzas are almost always a better value. So next time you’re at

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Newspapers across America fail to identify wind power critic as hired gun for oil industry

February 28th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Media & Culture, Our Environment

Newspapers across America fail to identify wind power critic as hired gun for oil industry Media Matters takes note of all of the newspapers that

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Seattle’s Paseo, Bakery Nouveau make Yelp’s Top Twenty Places to Eat list

February 27th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Media & Culture

Seattle’s Paseo, Bakery Nouveau make Yelp’s Top Twenty Places to Eat list Two establishments in Seattle – Paseo and Bakery Nouveau – have made the

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The current time on every continent, visualized

February 27th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Media & Culture, World Community
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How to follow politics and events in British Columbia, our northern neighbor

February 26th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Media & Culture

It’s no secret that traditional media outlets in the United States don’t do a very good job reporting on world news or events abroad, except

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The Onion: American Airlines to phase out complimentary cabin pressurization

February 25th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Humor & Satire, Media & Culture, Public Planning

The Onion: American Airlines to phase out complimentary cabin pressurization The Onion brilliantly satirizes the U.S. airline industry’s less-for-more trend, mocking the endless cost-cutting moves

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What’s he smoking? NRA’s Ted Nugent suggests U.S. is becoming like Nazi Germany

February 24th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Media & Culture

What’s he smoking? NRA’s Ted Nugent suggests U.S. is becoming like Nazi Germany Ted Nugent apparently can’t help himself. The right wing rocker’s latest inflammatory,

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Ocean Breeze by Yuma Okamoto

February 23rd, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Art, Media & Culture

Ocean Breeze by Yuma Okamoto

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How ironic: “House of Cards” threatens to leave Maryland unless state gives them bigger tax break

February 21st, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Art, Media & Culture

How ironic: The producers of “House of Cards” are threatening to leave Maryland unless state gives them bigger tax break In a letter to Governor

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Winter has returned to Sochi

February 20th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Media & Culture
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Must-watch Tonight Show clip: Brian Williams raps “Rapper’s Delight”

February 20th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Media & Culture

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon presents NBC News anchor Brian Williams, rapping “Rapper’s Delight” with Lester Holt.

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Night view of Sochi, Russian Federation

February 20th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Media & Culture
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Coming soon to a store near you…

February 15th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Media & Culture

You’ll find posters advertising green clothing, jelly beans, colored eggs, shamrock-shaped decorations, and edible chocolate rabbits. With the increasingly lucrative Valentine’s Day “holiday” now behind

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Public Knowledge calls on federal government to stop Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger

February 12th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Media & Culture

An enlarged Comcast would be the bully in the schoolyard, able to dictate terms to content creators, Internet companies, other communications networks that must interconnect

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Murooned: Business ethics

November 29th, 2013 Andrew Villeneuve Art, Media & Culture
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Former Republican staffer says his party has morphed into “an oligarchy with a well developed public relations strategy”

August 12th, 2012 Andrew Villeneuve Media & Culture, Party Politics

Let’s face it: The Republican Party is no longer a broad-based conservative party in the historically accepted sense. It is an oligarchy with a well-developed

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