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- The Florida Marlins are playing a home series at Seattle this summer, since U2 will be performing in their stadum. [ESPN]
- Analyzing Obama's salmon joke. [Seattle Times]
- Seattle's city attorney wants to close down Jiggles, the new gentleman's club across the street from a private elementary school. [KING]
- Tim Lincecum's Seattle condo is damn depressing. [Seattle Weekly]
- A KING5 poll tells us what we already know (but need to hear again): Installing tolls on the 520 bridge just means drivers will switch to I-90. [KING via PubliCola]
- Annexing White Center would be prohibitively expensive--even with all the bodega-related tax revenue. [WCN]
- An enlightening history of Olympia beer that includes fraud, bathhouse trysts and the dearly departed "stubbies." Reading this piece earns you the right to call it Oly. [Seattle Weekly/Voracious]
- We just really liked this sweet story of a woman forced to sell her ailing husband's records, her belated realization that her husband liked to hide money in record sleeves, and the good people of Bop Records who took the time to dig through 1,500 records to unearth $3,553 for her. [MyBallard]
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