KUOW dropped some Durkan texts: The public radio station s story confirms a report from the
Seattle Times about the city s public records office recreating missing texts to and from Mayor Jenny Durkan during the protests and the rise of CHOP last summer. Those texts appear to come from group chats the Mayor had with staffers, and they re pre-ttay, pre-ttay, pre-ttaaaaaaaaay funny.
A couple quick takeaways: Durkan and former Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best get pumped when Brandi Kruse, a news commentator for the local Fox affiliate, plans to shadow the cops. The vaunted former chief of police described the fallout of Sawant leading protests into City Hall thusly: no issues. (As I wrote yesterday, a reactionary group with dubious mailer strategies is trying to make that moment a very serious issue.) Durkan also politely condescends to
Coen Brothers’ ‘Scarface’ Remake Among 22 Film Projects to Nab California Tax Credits
Other films include projects by Eva Longoria, Steven Soderbergh and Jason BatemanBrian Welk | March 1, 2021 @ 9:03 AM
The Coen brothers attend the Hail, Caesar! premiere
22 feature films have been selected to receive a round of tax credits from the state for filming within California, and among them are the remake of “Scarface” written by the Coen Brothers as well as new films by Eva Longoria, Steven Soderbergh and Jason Bateman.
The California Film Commission selected 11 indie and 11 studio projects in this latest round of the Film & TV Tax Credit Program, with 61 projects applying during the latest period, and the state setting aside $86.9 million in tax credit allocations. The California Film Commission’s executive director Colleen Bell says this latest round of projects to bring in $642 million in overall in-state spending, with more than $430 million going to below-the-li