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7 skills Seattle Times features staffers learned from YouTube videos while home due to coronavirus


From baking a Japanese-style souffle cheesecake to making trivets out of wine corks, here's what our features staffers recently learned from YouTube videos.




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Sunday Best: Delicately lovely costumes from the ghost of PNB’s ‘Giselle’


Until it's time to gather once more, to dance and to celebrate dance together, let us admire these hauntingly beautiful costumes from Pacific Northwest Ballet's canceled April production of "Giselle."




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From ‘Jeopardy!’ to opera, our arts critic picks 6 of the best events to watch or listen to May 1-7


Here are a few arts-and-entertainment-y online diversions for the week, from near and far, including Seattle Opera on KING-FM and New York City Ballet.




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Watch: 11 stories of home and homelessness, from people who’ve seen it up close


Homelessness looks different for everyone. For some, it’s living in your car. For others, it’s couch-surfing, or sleeping in a tent or under a bridge. For the 11 speakers at our recent storytelling event, Stories About Home, it’s looked like all of these things and more.




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‘It’s what you dream for’: Soak in the sights and sounds from the Sounders’ MLS Cup parade in Seattle


Watch as Seattle Sounders fans celebrate the team’s second MLS Cup in a parade to Seattle Center.




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MLB employees — from players to execs — become the subjects of a huge coronavirus study


MLB employees, from players to stadium workers to executives, are participating this week in a 10,000-person study aimed at understanding how many people in various parts of the United States have been infected with the coronavirus.




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The Korean Baseball Organization is back from the coronavirus shutdown. Is this what Mariners games will look like?


The quality of the games, which include a handful of former big-league players, isn’t great. But it’s real, live baseball being broadcast by ESPN. Beyond the joy of watching baseball, these games provide a glimpse of what Mariners games and other MLB matchups might look like if/when they return.




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From 760 miles away, a mother’s agonizing wait for a death or a recovery


A 70-year-old mother in Portland, Ore., thought she was most at risk in her family for the coronavirus. Her fears became real for her adult son in Utah — and all she could do was stand by for word.




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Alan Lund, who taught and directed music throughout the Seattle area, dies at 81 from coronavirus complications


Alan Lund taught music in the Bellevue and Highline School Districts, and directed music for the Seattle Opera Chorus, the Eastside’s Cascadian Chorale, the Boeing Chorale and, most notably, the Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan Society.




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Bill to address racial inequity in cannabis licenses gets OK from Washington House


House Bill 2870 would require the Liquor and Cannabis Board to prioritize applicants who represent communities disproportionately impacted by the war on drugs.




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Photos for April 29 from around the world: Testing continues for coronavirus


Here are selected photographs as the nation and the world deal with a COVID-19 pandemic that has affected nearly every corner of the planet.




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Images from around the world: People wear masks while working, shopping, even protesting





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Photos from May 7, 2020, as coronavirus affects people around the world


Explore the news of the day with these images from our country and around the world.




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Sounders FC launches coronavirus relief fund, with $500,000 investment from Adrian Hanauer


In an effort to help local communities as they struggle with the adverse impacts brought on by the spread of the novel coronavirus, Seattle Sounders FC announced Wednesday that the club is launching a relief fund, with an initial investment of $500,000 from Sounders owner Adrian Hanauer and his family.




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Cornelius ‘Moose’ Lawyer, 84, who finally made it to Little League World Series, dies from coronavirus


Cornelius "Neil" Lawyer was born in a one-room sharecropper's house in rural Mississippi and became the first in his family to graduate from college before settling in Bellevue after living for years in Belgium.




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‘I lost two sisters and my mom in two weeks’: West Seattle man grieves deaths of 3 family members from coronavirus


In a span of 13 days, Raymond Lee and his brother, William, lost sister Regina Lim Lee, 58; mother, Susie Chin Lee, 82; and sister Willa, 60, to the novel coronavirus. Three beloved women gone in less than two weeks.




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Esther Bryant Kyles and Pastor Edwin Kyles Jr., who helped those in need, die within days of each other from coronavirus disease


The couple, who were married for 23 years, are among the hundreds of people in Washington state who have died after testing positive for coronavirus.




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Alan Lund, who taught and directed music throughout the Seattle area, dies at 81 from coronavirus complications


Alan Lund taught music in the Bellevue and Highline School Districts, and directed music for the Seattle Opera Chorus, the Eastside’s Cascadian Chorale, the Boeing Chorale and, most notably, the Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan Society.




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Zillow, Redfin will start flipping houses again as homebuying demand rebounds from coronavirus slump


The rival Seattle-based digital brokerages reported stronger-than-expected revenue in the first three months of the year, but ended the quarter sunk in the red.




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You can still immerse yourself in the arts with these online concerts, shows and more, from Seattle and elsewhere


Here in Seattle — and everywhere else — live arts events have been put on pause. But we can still immerse ourselves in the arts, from rebroadcasts to livestreams, podcasts to social media. Here’s just a tiny sampling.




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7 skills Seattle Times features staffers learned from YouTube videos while home due to coronavirus


From baking a Japanese-style souffle cheesecake to making trivets out of wine corks, here's what our features staffers recently learned from YouTube videos.




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From ‘Jeopardy!’ to opera, our arts critic picks 6 of the best events to watch or listen to May 1-7


Here are a few arts-and-entertainment-y online diversions for the week, from near and far, including Seattle Opera on KING-FM and New York City Ballet.




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Alan Lund, who taught and directed music throughout the Seattle area, dies at 81 from coronavirus complications


Alan Lund taught music in the Bellevue and Highline School Districts, and directed music for the Seattle Opera Chorus, the Eastside’s Cascadian Chorale, the Boeing Chorale and, most notably, the Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan Society.




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Analysis: Pac-12 winners, losers, trends and takeaways from the 2020 NFL draft


Here's a look at how the Pac-12 stacked up against other conferences during the NFL draft.




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Here are the best reader creations from Round 1 of The Seattle Times Pantry Kitchen Challenge


We asked Seattle Times readers to make something with green beans, an egg, tomato sauce and potatoes and to tell us what you created — and our readers did not disappoint. These 12 were the strongest entries.




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3 NY children die from syndrome possibly linked to COVID-19


NEW YORK (AP) — Three children have now died in New York state from a possible complication from the coronavirus involving swollen blood vessels and heart problems, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday. At least 73 children in New York have been diagnosed with symptoms similar to Kawasaki disease — a rare inflammatory condition in children […]




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Photos for April 29 from around the world: Testing continues for coronavirus


Here are selected photographs as the nation and the world deal with a COVID-19 pandemic that has affected nearly every corner of the planet.




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Images from around the world: People wear masks while working, shopping, even protesting





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Photos from May 7, 2020, as coronavirus affects people around the world


Explore the news of the day with these images from our country and around the world.





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Alan Lund, who taught and directed music throughout the Seattle area, dies at 81 from coronavirus complications


Alan Lund taught music in the Bellevue and Highline School Districts, and directed music for the Seattle Opera Chorus, the Eastside’s Cascadian Chorale, the Boeing Chorale and, most notably, the Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan Society.




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3 NY children die from syndrome possibly linked to COVID-19


NEW YORK (AP) — Three children have now died in New York state from a possible complication from the coronavirus involving swollen blood vessels and heart problems, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday. At least 73 children in New York have been diagnosed with symptoms similar to Kawasaki disease — a rare inflammatory condition in children […]




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Travel from New York City seeded wave of U.S. outbreaks


New York City’s coronavirus outbreak grew so large by early March that the city became the primary source of new infections in the United States, new research reveals, as thousands of infected people traveled from the city and seeded outbreaks around the country. The research indicates that a wave of infections swept from New York […]




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Frontier just became the first U.S. airline to require passenger temperature screening


Frontier Airlines said Thursday it will require passengers to have their temperatures taken before boarding flights, starting June 1, in an effort to make traveling safer during the coronavirus pandemic. Anyone with a temperature of 100.4 or higher will not be allowed to fly, the budget carrier said. While the move is a first for […]




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Here are the best reader creations from Round 1 of The Seattle Times Pantry Kitchen Challenge


We asked Seattle Times readers to make something with green beans, an egg, tomato sauce and potatoes and to tell us what you created — and our readers did not disappoint. These 12 were the strongest entries.




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Frozen in place: Americans are moving at the lowest rate on record


People move far less than they used to: Just 9.8% of Americans moved in the year ending in March, according to newly released data. That was the smallest share since the Census Bureau started tracking it in 1947.




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Why Harry and Meghan moved to Frogmore Cottage and now will repay the cost of renovations


Prince Harry and wife Meghan have agreed to give up their royal titles and repay several million in housing expenses, stirring up another sensation in Britain. It wasn’t so long ago that some in the United Kingdom were upset about the renovations of the residence in question: Frogmore Cottage. On Saturday, Buckingham Palace announced the […]




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7 skills Seattle Times features staffers learned from YouTube videos while home due to coronavirus


From baking a Japanese-style souffle cheesecake to making trivets out of wine corks, here's what our features staffers recently learned from YouTube videos.




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Tekashi 6ix9ine releases new video from home confinement


NEW YORK (AP) — Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine lit up social media on Friday, releasing a new song and video created during his home confinement just weeks after being freed from a Manhattan federal lockup over coronavirus fears. In “Gooba,” the multi-tattooed rapper whose real name is Daniel Hernandez puts on a rainbow-colored performance accompanied by […]




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Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy dies from coronavirus at 75

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy, the duo whose extraordinary magic tricks astonished millions until Horn was critically injured in 2003 by one of the act’s famed white tigers, has died. He was 75. Horn died of complications from the coronavirus on Friday in a Las Vegas hospital, according to a […]




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Alan Lund, who taught and directed music throughout the Seattle area, dies at 81 from coronavirus complications


Alan Lund taught music in the Bellevue and Highline School Districts, and directed music for the Seattle Opera Chorus, the Eastside’s Cascadian Chorale, the Boeing Chorale and, most notably, the Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan Society.




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Microsoft push brings medical supplies from overseas to aid in state’s coronavirus fight


In arguably the most ambitious and unique procurement effort in company history, technology giant Microsoft is leveraging its global supply chain to bring tens of thousands of badly-needed medical supplies — including 240,000 N-95 surgical masks — to the Puget Sound in anticipation of coronavirus hospitalizations. Supplies began arriving on Monday.




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The Backstory: Why don’t people know all these great products came from Seattle?


NO CITY OR region gets to choose what it’s best known for. That, alas, typically is an artifice assembled over time, often by scribes, compilers of baseless listicles, guidebook authors, societal observers and other self-appointed pundits, usually from far-afield havens of misinformation (such as the East Coast). Those depictions of place — for current purposes, […]



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The Backstory: Let’s hope we learn from the lessons of the last ’20s decade


HISTORICAL RESEARCH at times truly feels like a time warp. For me, that’s been the case for almost five years, since I launched a thesis-level study of what at first seemed a small, never-fully-explained outbreak of arch-conservative political radicalism in a Northwest town (the Charles H. Fisher affair in Bellingham, at what’s now Western Washington […]



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Need workout ideas? Use these common household items or find workout routines on Instagram from many Seattle-area gyms


Don't have any dumbbells? Tape some rolls of quarters together. Sick of pushups and situps? Many Seattle-area gyms have been posting workouts on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube, so follow along and keep your fitness going.




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Sunday Best: From New York Fashion Week, a gown reminiscent of a bouquet of flowers


The Oscar de la Renta collection from New York Fashion Week walks the catwalk in this week's Sunday Best.




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Sunday Best: Just in time for spring, a parade of wintry jewel tones from Paris Fashion Week


Forget spring and summer — in the world of fashion, the season is fall 2020. Do keep up, dear reader.




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Sunday Best: Delicately lovely costumes from the ghost of PNB’s ‘Giselle’


Until it's time to gather once more, to dance and to celebrate dance together, let us admire these hauntingly beautiful costumes from Pacific Northwest Ballet's canceled April production of "Giselle."




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Sunday Best: A 1919 Vogue cover from a shelter-in-place puzzle


Arts critic Moira Macdonald brings a glimpse of cherry blossoms, if only in puzzle form, for this week’s edition of Sunday Best.




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Sunday Best Greatest Hits: A fairy-tale gown from French designer Sylvie Facon


There aren’t any red carpets right now, no premieres, no movies at the theater — so let’s take a stroll back through Sundays Best past, shall we?