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The old-fashioned, quiet-looking roadside Roanoke Inn holds a happy crowd of regulars, for it’s “Where Friends Meet Friends.” (Bethany Jean Clement / The Seattle Times)
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Seattle-area bar classics: Please don’t go to this secret Mercer Island spot

At least, please don't go inundate the Roanoke Inn right away. Out of respect for the regulars, let's pace ourselves when checking out this hidden treasure.

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Local News

Joe Vinson walks home with his fourth grade son, Quentin, 9, on the way home from River Ridge Elementary School along Military Rd. S. in SeaTac Tuesday, January 31, 2023. The school is in the Kent school district, although it is located in SeaTac. New apartments have opened in a busy, lower income neighborhood, without new walkways for kids. A lapse by drivers on the fast roadway could kill. Unlike the politically potent safe streets movement in Seattle and certain other towns, this neglected part of Kent like much of the US still treats walk safety as an afterthought, in one of the area’s few affordable communities for families. 222901

For these WA kids, the daily walk to school is a hazardous trek

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A robot nicknamed Icefin operates under the sea ice near McMurdo Station in Antarctica in 2020. The pencil-shaped robot is giving scientists their first look at the forces eating away at the Thwaites glacier. Two studies published Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023, show the rate of melting isn’t as fast as feared, but fracturing is taking the heaviest toll on the glacier. (Schmidt/Lawrence/Icefin/NASA PSTAR RISE UP via AP) CLI401 CLI401

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Food & Drink

The Roanoke Inn’s Wednesday pot roast special is tasty in a good, basic way, served with classic brown gravy that’s nicely salty, mashed potatoes doing their job and plain broccoli that’s pleasingly got some life left in it. (Bethany Jean Clement / The Seattle Times)

Seattle-area bar classics: Please don’t go to this secret Mercer Island spot

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Arts & Life

Tony Wetzsteon attends as many as three karaoke events per week across Seattle. At Dreamland, he sang “Shakin’ All Over” by Johnny Kidd & the Pirates and “Mother” by Danzig.

High-energy karaoke nights in Fremont may make you feel like a rock star

Photography

Fern Schultz, left, from Olympia shows Bryan Keleman a duck she is decorating at the Decoration Station. Duck Brunch held “My Ducky Valentine” at the Eastlake Bar and Grill in Seattle on Saturday, February 11, 2023. Duck Brunch is a pop-up party held monthly, always at different venues, always with a different theme, and always featuring rubber ducks.
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Eastside Catholic’s Alex Elston squeezes between Rainier Beach defenders Mario Clark (left) and Ni’Raye Ballard for a bucket in the firt half. 222976
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Photos: Rainier Beach vs. Eastside Catholic at Metro League boys basketball championship VIEW

Lakesides Claire O’Connor looks for points in the paint, but gets called for traveling in the first half. 222975
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Seattle area priests of the area’s many Ethiopian Orthodox Churches, as well as other church officials are joined with demonstrators at Westlake Park to protest the Ethiopian government, accusing it of constant attacks and trying to split the church by not recognizing only Patriarch Abuna Mathias as its head of leadership, or synod, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023, in downtown Seattle. Rain didn’t stop large numbers of congregants of the area’s many Ethiopian Orthodox Churches from showing up to listen to speakers, and to pray, chant and sing before marching to the Space Needle.
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