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Things to Do in Seattle: It’s Museum Week Northwest
Score two-for-one admission to a slew of museums in and around Seattle
By Seattle magazine staff May 19, 2014
This article originally appeared in the May 2014 issue of Seattle magazine.
!–paging_filter–pThrough Friday, May 23, more than 40 local museums—including EMP Museum, Pacific Science Center, Museum of Glass and The Museum of Flight—are offering two-for-one admission deals and special events during Museum Week Northwest. Key in a href=”http://www.museumweeknw.com” target=”_blank”museumweeknw.com/a to pick your cultural poison./p
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Seattle Author Wins Pulitzer Prize
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Seattle author Tessa Hulls has added a Pulitzer Prize to her growing list of accolades for Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir. The 2025 Pulitzers were announced May 5. Feeding Ghosts won in the “Memoir or Autobiography” category. As Seattle magazine wrote in a profile of Hulls last year, Feeding Ghosts “braids together the narratives of…
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Book Excerpt: Old White Man Writing
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