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Krista Manuelson, manager of the rental side of Bella Umbrella, Seattle’s parasol emporium at Pike Place Market, with a pinwheel pagoda umbrella that was custom-made in the store. Bella is closing this week, and owner Jodell Egbert is setting up a new store in New Orleans. (Alan Berner/The Seattle Times) — Krista Manuelson, manager of the rental side of Bella Umbrella at Pike Place Market, holds a pinwheel pagoda umbrella that was custom-made in the store. Bella is closing this week. (Alan Berner/The Seattle Times)

Why Seattleites love to hate the poor umbrella

The city’s only brick-and-mortar umbrella shop is closing this week. One of the owner’s reasons: “Every day somebody would come in and tell me it was stupid to have an umbrella store in Seattle.”

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Washington State athletic director Bill Moos views the crowd attending an NCAA college football game against Utah on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013, at Martin Stadium in Pullman, Wash. (AP Photo/Dean Hare)

WSU football

Athletic director Bill Moos surprises WSU, leaves for AD job at Nebraska

Moos, a WSU alumnus, has taken the athletic director job at Nebraska vacated in September when the school fired Shawn Eichorst.

The two candidates for Mayor of Seattle, Jenny Durkan and Cary Moon, congratulate each other on their efforts following the event, Tuesday, September 12, 2017 at Pigott Auditorium on the campus of Seattle University. 203429

Seattle mayoral race

A hard look at the careers of Jenny Durkan and Cary Moon as they vie to lead the city

What can Seattle voters learn from the résumés of mayoral candidates Jenny Durkan and Cary Moon? A look at their professional and civic lives may leave voters with some questions.

FILE – In this Jan. 29, 2017, file photo, SAG-AFTRA President Gabrielle Carteris speaks at the 23rd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles. Carteris says people are finally saying “No more” about covering up sexual harassment, and that may lead to some meaningful change to a culture in Hollywood that has preyed on young women for decades. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File) NYHK105 NYHK105

Business

In Weinstein’s wake, is Hollywood truly capable of change?

Is meaningful change even possible in a business that relishes in its own mythology of ambition, ego, art and money, a business that has allowed and enabled systematic sexual harassment for so long?