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Washington houses of worship can reopen under new Inslee guidelines

The Cinerama movie theater opened in 1963, eventually fell into disrepair, and then was restored to its former glory and stocked with movie memorabilia in the late 1990s. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times) — The Cinerama movie theater opened in 1963, eventually fell into disrepair, and then was restored to its former glory. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

Entertainment

Vulcan to close its Arts + Entertainment division, which includes Cinerama and Seattle Art Fair

Vulcan on Wednesday said it is closing its Arts + Entertainment division, as well as its filmmaking entity, Vulcan Productions, by the end of the year. Cinerama was closed for renovations and Vulcan says it will remain closed for now, while the fate of the Seattle Art Fair is undecided. VIEW Updated 5:58 pm

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Trudi Hanson, food and beverage director at Skamania Lodge, spaces the tables and chairs in the Riverview Pavilion with a six feet measuring stick on Friday. Waiting until after Memorial Day weekend, Skamania Lodge is getting ready to reopen this week with a smaller staff and fewer guest bookings.

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Food & Drink

Crowds, fears in Skamania County: This is life in Phase 2 of coronavirus reopening

Pearl Jam played the first of it “Home Shows” Wednesday August 8, 2018 at Safeco Field in Seattle, WA. 207295

Music

Major COVID-19 virtual relief concert to feature Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews, Brandi Carlile and other Seattle stars

Tennis anyone? With golf and other sports making a return to competition, the question begs why not tennis? This suburban Seattle tennis court hasn’t seen action in so long that weeds are cropping up along the playing surface.

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Matt Calkins

Golf is back from the coronavirus shutdown, but Seattle tennis courts remain closed. Why?

Coronavirus

Regina Smith, lead animal keeper, introduces Cisco, a Harris’s hawk, to the otters. Cisco was timid at first, but slowly became curious about the otters and their playfulness.

During the coronavirus pandemic, animal keepers are bringing ambassador animals, or animals a part of the zoo’s educational programs, on trips outside their exhibits to more social animals.

Zoo workers and animals during the pandemic.

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A look inside Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo during the coronavirus shutdown VIEW

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How to properly wear a face mask to slow the spread of coronavirus

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010109 Mom Amanda and daughter Uzumma (CQ) take a walk in the gorilla area.

Local News

Amanda, Woodland Park Zoo’s 50-year-old gorilla, euthanized due to poor health

FILE — Larry Kramer in his apartment in New York on May 13, 2017. Kramer, the noted writer whose raucous, antagonistic campaign for an all-out response to the AIDS crisis helped shift national health policy in the 1980s and ’90s, died on Wednesday morning, May 27, 2020, in Manhattan. He was 84. (Joshua Bright/The New York Times) XNYT35 XNYT35

Obituary

Larry Kramer, playwright and outspoken AIDS activist, dies at 84

Ondrej Krivanek, co-founder and president of Nion Co. is seen with one of his company’s electron microscopes to be shipped to British Columbia, Sunday, May 24, 2020 in Kirkland. Krivanek is being awarded this year’s Kavli Prize in nanotechnology for breakthroughs in improving electron microscopes. 214047

Science

Kirkland master of the electron microscope wins one of science’s biggest prizes

This artwork by Donna Grethen refers to the spreading coronavirus and the uncertainty people are facing about how to stay safe and prepare.

Editorial

Our state needs to improve COVID spending transparency to increase public trust

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Lawsuit alleges chase that ended when Kent police killed a 20-year-old man violated department policy

Featured Columnist

‘I’m hiding from the bank’: How the bottom may be falling out of the coronavirus response

Education Lab

Washington’s constitution protects K-12 funding. The coronavirus will test that promise.

‘People don’t understand quite how bad this is going to be’: Washington colleges brace for coronavirus funding impact

Watch: It’s hard for some girls to get pads and tampons. Two middle-schoolers are trying to fix that.

17 and on the move, with many shelters closed and no assurances: Life as a homeless student amid coronavirus

Watch: Should I enroll my kids in virtual schools? Ed Lab Live tackles that and more

Business & Tech

A worker leaves Boeing’s Renton plant Wednesday morning, May 27, 2020. Boeing announced to employees Wednesday a first batch of almost 7,000 involuntary layoffs in the U. S., which added to more than 5,500 voluntary layoffs. It will cut almost 12,300 jobs company-wide. 214067

Boeing to cut nearly 10,000 jobs in Washington, more than 12,000 overall

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Nation & World

Wearing masks to protect against the new coronavirus, Anabel Garcia and her daughter Alexa Casanova, 2, watch Siamangs, a type of gibbon, at Zoo Miami as the zoo opens to members since it closed because of the new coronavirus, Wednesday, May 27, 2020, in Miami. Members will be able to visit the zoo May 27 through the 31st before it is opened to the general public on June 1st. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee) FLWL106 FLWL106

Embracing a new reality: Coronavirus may never go away, even with a vaccine

Times Watchdog

Venus Mills, Executive Director of Drug Free Business in Bothell has had her workers hit by false unemployment claims and faces possible costs increases herself, due to the fraudulent payments.

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How a Nigerian fraud ring dubbed 'Scattered Canary' targeted Washington state's unemployment system | Times Watchdog

Coronavirus Video

When COVID-19 began to crush Guayaba's music goals for 2020, they changed course and found a new outlet for creativity. (Ramon Dompor / The Seattle Times)

'No safety net for our art': A musician copes with loss of work... (1:51)

When COVID-19 shutdown potato processors, the Washington Potato Commission found it had too many spuds to keep in storage. To avoid food waste, the Emergency Food Network worked to giveaway 200,000 pounds of spuds. (Ramon Dompor / The Seattle Times)

The pandemic caused a potato surplus, now farmers give them away (1:49)

When the novel coronavirus outbreak canceled the rest of their season, Pacific Northwest Ballet dancers Sarah-Gabrielle Ryan and Kyle Davis built a ballet studio in their living room and started teaching via Zoom. (Corinne Chin / The Seattle Times)

Dancing through the pandemic – in a homemade studio (2:39)

Tricia Jenkins, an emergency room nurse, and her husband – also an essential worker – sent their two kids to live with her mom during the coronavirus pandemic. "I desperately miss my children," Jenkins said. (Corinne Chin / The Seattle Times)

ER nurse: 'I don't want to bring the virus home' (3:12)

Jessica Esparza became an ICU nurse just as the coronavirus pandemic reached Washington. Previously an oncology nurse, Esparza is often overwhelmed by how ill her COVID-19 patients are – "Nothing compares to this." (Corinne Chin / The Seattle Times)

Night shift nurse: 'Nothing compares to this' (2:56)

After the novel coronavirus outbreak shut down most of Pike Place Market, many Hmong flower farmers were left with nowhere to sell. It’s not the first time these families have had to overcome what felt impossible. (Corinne Chin / The Seattle Times)

With Pike Place closed, Hmong flower farmers cultivate resilience (5:55)

Michael Flor battled with coronavirus for 62 days at Swedish Issaquah. His stay makes him the longest coronavirus patient at a Swedish hospital. (Ramon Dompor / The Seattle Times)

After 62-day battle with COVID-19, 70-year-old patient leaves... (1:08)

As a sovereign nation, the Makah tribe leveraged its isolated location to protect the community from the coronavirus. Tribal members offer a look into life on the reservation while it's closed to outsiders. (Lauren Frohne / The Seattle Times)

Makah tribe fights COVID-19 with isolation and self-reliance (4:24)

Food & Drink

Trudi Hanson, food and beverage director at Skamania Lodge, spaces the tables and chairs in the Riverview Pavilion with a six feet measuring stick on Friday. Waiting until after Memorial Day weekend, Skamania Lodge is getting ready to reopen this week with a smaller staff and fewer guest bookings.

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Crowds, fears in Skamania County: This is life in Phase 2 of coronavirus reopening VIEW

Pacific NW Magazine

Photo goes with Touchstone story for Pacific Magazine by Ron Judd.

Sol Duc Falls in the Olympic National Park on the Olympic Peninsula.

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Ron Judd’s soul-restoring suggestions for where we go from here — once it’s safe to go outdoors

Editorials & Opinion

This artwork by Donna Grethen refers to the spreading coronavirus and the uncertainty people are facing about how to stay safe and prepare.

Our state needs to improve COVID spending transparency to increase public trust

Featured Columnist

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With the coronavirus death toll mounting, Trump keeps tweeting madly

Horsey Cartoon

A sad summer for Seattle

Sports

Seattle Seahawks offensive tackle Duane Brown (76) watches the game from the sidelines late int he 4th quarter as the Seattle Seahawks play the Los Angeles Rams at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on Sunday December 8, 2019.

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Seahawks OL Duane Brown staying in the moment as he prepares for 13th NFL season

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Seahawks OL Duane Brown staying in the moment as he prepares for 13th NFL season

Arts & Life

What’s the status of the Cinerama in Belltown? Is it undergoing renovations and will it ever reopen. Corner of Fourth Avenue and Lenora Street with an appropriately painted utility box in the foreground. The shuttered Warwick Seattle hotel, top right.

In Belltown

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Vulcan to close its Arts + Entertainment division, which includes Cinerama and Seattle Art Fair VIEW

Moira Macdonald

Vulcan to close its Arts + Entertainment division, which includes Cinerama and Seattle Art Fair

Photography

For no other reason but to send out “good vibes,” married couple Mike and Jacqui Schultz, who want to include mention of their camera-shy daughter Marley, have put up an inflatable in their Crown Hill neighborhood in Seattle, seen Sunday, May 24, 2020 during the coronavirus outbreak. They said it’s working, and many neighbors have responded with happy comments and have made regular visits during walks. 214046

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Magic dragon

Framed by small flags on veterans’ graves, bagpiper Neil Hubbard plays appropriate songs on Memorial Day at Floral Hills Cemetery in Lynnwood. Songs included “Amazing Grace,” “Going Home,” the anthems of the military branches, “America the Beautiful,” and more. Ref to gallery online. Hubbard walked the grounds and played for two hours.

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Local News

Bagpipes mark Memorial Day VIEW

Plenty of roam to roam on the Fisher Green lawn at Seattle Center with no Northwest Folklife Festival this weekend, except online.

Saturday May 23, 2020

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Local News

Sorry folks, no Folklife this weekend VIEW

Mount St. Helens in Washington State erupts May 18, 1980, with a fury more powerful than the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima. Hot volcanic ash spewed 60,000 feet into the air and turned day into night as the ash fell to the ground. Never before had a volcano erupted in an industrialized country in the middle of a major population center. This photo is one of a series of photos that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 in the General News category. (AP Photo/The Daily News, Roger Werth) MANDATORY CREDIT

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Mount St. Helens had been Washington’s most recently active volcano when it rumbled alive again with internal forces in March 1980. By May its northwest side was bulging ominously. On May 18, at 8:32 a.m., it erupted. The top 2,400 feet of the mountain were destroyed in an explosion that rattled windows as far away as Vancouver, B.C. Wind-borne ash fell thickly in Eastern Washington, disrupting transportation, agricultures and lives for weeks. Fifty-seven people died in the eruption.

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Photos: Mount St. Helens after 40 years VIEW