As Koi Walker tells it on her website, she set out to document the race and got blown off by Mayor Greg Nickels, the incumbent. So she started focusing on the underfunded and less experienced candidates in the race — and of course ended up with a great story when environmentalist Mike McGinn won an unlikely victory.

Walker is having an invitation-only showing of the movie next weekend, but you can see a trailer here.

The filmmakers plan to offer DVDs through their Facebook page sometime in August.

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WASHINGTON (AP) – Tucked into the new health care law is a requirement that could become a paperwork nightmare for nearly 40 million businesses.
They must file tax forms for every vendor that sells them more than $600 in goods.
The goal is to prevent vendors from underreporting their income to the Internal Revenue Service.
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Subtract the mainstream FM-dial oversaturation, and you have the same exact circumstances which surround the recent explosion of sidechain compression in blogworld buzz acts. Sidechain compression, in layman’s terms, is a method by which parts of a given song are ducked around a drum hit, effectively warping the sound, creating a “sucking,” washy quality. Sidechaining is all over Toro Y Moi’s stuff, not to mention the majority of so-called chillwave acts, from Neon Indian to Teen Daze. I’ve been detecting more and more of it lately, and—as with autotune—there’s no shortage of ballsy artists willing to take the effect about as far as they can, sidechaining their tracks until they’re nothing but a big, washy pulse.

So: is sidechain compression the new autotune?

Discuss.

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• A Target? In Seattle? If only Seattlest HQ had a fainting couch. The national big-box retailer has purchased a three-story space on 2nd Avenue between Pine and Union streets. [Seattle Times]
• It’s a majorly eventful weekend in the city, with Seafair and closures on I-5 and I-90 making for some seriously snarled traffic. [Seattle Times]
• President Obama signed legislation to provide emergency funding to fix the storm-damaged Howard Hanson Dam. Engineers expect to start work this fall, in hopes of avoiding an ugly flooding scenario. [KING5]

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Moody in static cling form (Photo: The Anne Bonny)

When Moody opened The Anne Bonny three-and-a-half years ago at its former location on Olive Way, he says he sought a change from his previous day job working in a warehouse.  “I just didn’t want to have a regular job,” Moody said, “and I had always loved stores like this.”  He had envisioned opening a store like The Anne Bonny sometime much further down the road as a retirement venture, but the opportunity emerged, and within four months the store was open for business.

“Everything in the store on day one I had acquired over the four-month period before,” Moody said.  Moody accumulated many of the store’s quirky wares – which includes everything from furniture, to clothing, historic photographs, and an enormous wooden cross – from estate sales, and he recalled a drive from Austin, Texas, to Seattle as being particularly fruitful.

A year-and-a-half ago, Moody moved The Anne Bonny to its location at Summit Ave. and Mercer St., where rent cost a quarter of what it did at the Olive Way location. However, the reduced rent did not necessarily make paying the bills any easier.

“I don’t know what I make per hour,” Moody said, “but I know it’s not very much money.  I could work in a bar two days a week and earn what I’m making six days a week here.”

Making small, independent businesses survive in Capitol Hill has been a struggle for a variety of reasons, as we have seen in recent weeks with the announced closures of Broadway News and Pho 900.  Moody feels that part of the challenge has been getting customers to shop regularly at small businesses like his.  “Talking about supporting small business does not actually support them,” he said.  “What’s important to small businesses is people patronizing them.”

“It’s a very small segment of the population that will look into a small business before they go to an Ikea,” he said.

Moody’s short-term plan is to focus on earning more money, however that may be.  He has performed for years with local music acts Murder City Devils and Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death, and he suggested perhaps focusing more on his music or art.  “[Managing The Anne Bonny] has been good,” said Moody.  “I’m proud of what I’ve done, and I’m looking forward to figuring out what I’m going to do next.”

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