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Here's the latest from the streets of the East Precinct. Don't forget this Thursday night's EastPac meeting with SPD's Assistant Chief Sanford in attendance.

• 'Store-invasion' robbery ends in arrest: Another incident involving a group entering a Capitol Hill-area business, attempting to distract employees and, the bad part, snatching an electronic device ended with an arrest went down on E Pike last Saturday. Here's the account provided by a stylist at Emerson Salon of the group attempting the heist, their modus operandi and some details of how the stolen phone was recovered:  

I was the only stylist (we have no reception staff and are all self employed) who was able to greet these individuals (all the other stylists were with clients.) The male individual asked about the price of a haircut. Another was a shorter female who asked the price to do hair at Emerson Salon and I fielded their questions as they remarked," we're just checkin' this place out." I gave the male my business card and my coworker's business card in regards to hair services. Another male individual entered and attempted to walk upstairs to our laundry and break area. I stopped him by saying," Excuse me, you can't go up there. We only allow employees up there." to which he replied," I"m just checkin it out." to which I replied," We don't even let clients go up there so we'd appreciate it if you didn't."

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This individual retreated from the stairs and and  by my coworkers station while  I watched him closely. I saw he picked "something" up. He moved away from the station and I could tell he was trying to hide his hand as he remarked,"Oh, that's my phone."

I observed him moved towards the front area and at that time I saw the phone and the credit card swiper attachment to the phone that is unique ONLY to this coworkers iphone. I said frankly, pointing,"Thats not your phone, its my coworkjers phone."

He tried to walk away from me and I said again,"Thats not your phone, She has a different swiper! Give me the phone. " I paused and waited a second then I grabbed his arm. he snatched it away. i grabbed his hand again. I said again,"that's not your phone. give me the phone!" he moved away. He opened the front door, and my other coworker was outside talking with a client he'd just finished with and saw what was happening. He "bodychecked" this male individual and then the altercation moved to the sidewalk. I tried to grab his arm a THIRD time and apparently I was screaming,"Its not your fucking phone. Give me the fucking phone!!!" 

Then the male ran towards broadway running south. I called 911. 3 coworkers went following after him. Cops called 3 min later and they had the guy and the iphone. Apparently, a good samaritan/strong gay man tackled him until the cops could arrest him after he saw one of my coworkers running to catch up with him.

The SPD report on the incident corroborates the stylist's details. In April, we reported on a similar theft at a massage studio on Broadway.

• E Pine office safe burglar makes big haul: A thief broke into a third-floor business office in the 600 block E Pine sometime in the overnight of Friday May 18th and made off with a safe full of cash and coin. The SPD report on the burglary doesn't make the amount of cash stolen public but the thief made off with a safe full of coins and bills, police say. The crime is being investigated as a felony level theft meaning at least $5,000 was taken. The burglar left no signs of breaking into the building's ground floor but police found pry marks on the door to the office.
• E Howell storage break-in: A burglar stole thousands of dollars worth of goods in a break-in of the storage lockers at a building in the 500 block of E Howell last week. Police found the locks had been bent or broken on several lockers in the Tuesday night burglary.
• Caretaker chases off man trying to break into empty building: A man living as a caretaker in an empty Harvard Ave E apartment building called police last Saturday afternoon after somebody tried to break into the building. The man told police he has lived in the empty building "for years" and has had "several encounters with trespassers, and transients trying to enter and squat in the building" but typically can handle the situations himself.

UPDATE: Following a wave of criticism, the City Council's land use committee has unanimously voted to strip out commercial zoning changes in lowrise and midrise neighborhoods from the Regulatory Reform package.

Allow ground-floor commercial uses in Lowrise 2 and 3 (LR2 and LR3) zones that are within urban centers or station area overlays (with permitted uses and standards similar to those in Midrise and Highrise zones)

"We need to do a better job of engaging with the community and having a dialogue," Council member Mike O'Brien said.

Committee chair Richard Conlin said that he supports the amendment to remove the new zoning but that he still believes the changes in commercial zoning would be beneficial and that this part of the legislation might be taken up again. He also left the door open to punting on the idea altogether. "We may be wrong in our assessment," Conlin said of the process that led to the creation of the small retail proposals.

Conlin said the remainder of the legislation will move forward.

Original Report: Capitol Hill residents again filled the City Council chambers Wednesday morning as Richard Conlin and the Council's land use committee pushed forward on Regulatory Reform legislation that would overhaul the city's development process and open up areas of multifamily-zoned neighborhoods to small commercial uses.

"I've just been in shock that my city council would even think to work this way," one homeowner who addressed the committee said Wednesday morning.

Many called for the committee to postpone any decisions on Regulatory Reform until a more complete community process on Capitol Hill can be completed.

"Have you realized yet that you have awakened a sleeping giant?" another speaker asked. "You have united the people of Capitol Hill in a way that we've never been united before," the man said.

Many speakers said they were longtime homeowners who had just become aware of the reform legislation last week as the Capitol Hill Coalition group increased its effort to spread the word about the potential commercial changes (see their flyer below) and the Capitol Hill Community Council approved a resolution opposing the measures.

Another speaker said the Council's actions could "destroy an oasis of residential goodness forever."

While the reform package is a citywide set of updates to zoning laws and regulations, some of the elements focused on areas near transit stations and within official "urban centers" apply singularly to Capitol Hill.

CHS began reporting on the sprawling Regulatory Reform legislation in March. In the time since, the council committee has attempted to shape the "corner store" elements of the package so that commercial changes would be limited to arterials, smaller retail spaces and even by restricting certain types of businesses in specific areas like banning restaurants from the lowrise/midrise commercial zones on Capitol Hill.

The proposed set of code overhauls was set in motion by a City Council resolution last spring setting up a framework for changes to Seattle's regulatory structure to boost the economy and create more jobs in the city. City planners then worked with "a roundtable of business, environmental, and neighborhood leaders" to craft seven proposals that range from raising the number of living units a development must contain before triggering an environmental review to codifying home-based businesses.

The Seattle Times looked at that "roundtable" process and documented what it calls the power of "developer interest" in driving the eased development rules. "Records show the mayor's group worked to stay out of public view and communicate "more confidential stuff," as one put it, via private email," the Times writes.

Beyond the issues around public process and the encroachment of mixed-use development into residential areas, other elements of Regulatory Reform have been lauded for its elimination of minimum parking requirements in areas served by mass transit and helping to potentially untangle the increasingly byzantine process of developing property in Seattle.

The committee is considering seven amendments that Council members hope will shape the legislation to help alleviate the fears voiced by the community members who spoke Wednesday morning:

If commercial uses are ultimately allowed in Lowrise 2 and Lowrise 3 (LR2 and LR3) zones in Urban Centers and Station Area Overlay Districts, decrease the maximum permitted floor area of such uses from 2,500 to 2,000 square feet.

Prohibit any commercial enterprises that locate in eligible LR zones from installing electric signs (non-illuminated signs and externally illuminated signs would be permitted).

Allow businesses that locate in eligible LR zones to apply for street use permits to place merchandise displays in certain portions of the right-of-way.

Require DPD staff to provide an annual report to the City Council on the number, type, and location of new commercial uses that may be permitted to operate in LR2 and LR3 zones in Urban Centers and Station Area Overlay Districts.

Require commercial uses in multifamily zones to meet the same odor standards as apply in commercial zones.

Clarify that the nightlife disturbance provisions in the Municipal Code apply to nonresidential uses located in any zone (see Item #7 on the agenda for the May 23 PLUS Committee meeting).

Allow renewals of temporary use permits with terms of up to six months to be processed as Type 1 decisions, except for renewals of permits issued for transitional encampments and facilities for light rail transit construction, which would remain Type 2 decisions. Retain all other existing rules regarding the issuance and duration of temporary usepermits.

It has been a couple weeks since we learned the latest twist in the drama around Bauhaus Coffee, the Melrose Building and the Pinevue Apartments. The developers say they won't be tearing the buildings down. What that will mean, exactly, will shake out in coming weeks. In the meantime, here is another take on the situation from our friends at Sprudge. What does the original Bauhaus mean to Seattle's coffee culture? Parts of the answer may surprise you -- "...the coffee at Bauhaus has never been very good, and the stereotype of the snooty, aloof barista may owe a small part of its origin story to Bauhaus," Sprudge writes. The rest, however, is mostly a love poem. We've paired the offering with a piece sent in to us by videographer Aurea Astro capturing some of the ambient sights and sounds of a few moments inside Bauhaus. You'll find both, below.

Sprudge -- Seattle: From Bauhaus To Our House
Seattle cafes, like the walking tours of patriotic Boston or a visit to a National Park lodge, offer a kind of living history of place and time. They are to be cherished, but also to be enjoyed, utilized, dirtied and cleaned; historic cafes are alive in the best possible sense. When you’re talking about Seattle’s historic cafes, there are so many to choose from, but to me, the big three are Cafe Allegro (opened in 1975), Espresso Vivace (in 1987) and Bauhaus, which opened in 1993. These each played a major role in the progressive elaboration of what it means to be an American independent cafe. They each have their strengths and fans, and while I spent my formative years mainly in Vivace, where I worked as a barista, I recognize Bauhaus’ incredible historical influence, and have been disheartened to follow the news that it is being threatened, first with closure, and now with extensive “retrofitting” and modification. This is, in some ways, a proper eulogy for what Bauhaus means right now, in its current state, an epitaph this cafe assuredly deserves. more...

For more on the block of Pine at Melrose, check out these essays shared on CHS:

• Why Capitol Hill's Bauhaus block matters
• Save Bauhaus? Better save the Pinevue Apartments, too
• The welcoming patina of Capitol Hill's favorite interiors

CHS can say it until we're SPD blue in the face -- the city's crime rates are relatively low and Capitol Hill is relatively safe. We'll be updating the numbers again soon. We assume datapoints like these haven't changed greatly. Incidents like this can blow any rational discussion away. If you're concerned about safety on the Hill and East Precinct policing, consider checking out this Thursday's edition of the monthly EastPac meeting.

This month's gathering of the East Precinct Advisory Council is dedicated to hearing more about SPD's plans to meet Department of Justice demands for reform of the city's policing policies. But part of every meeting is dedicated to discussing community concerns and neighborhood "hot spots." If you're worried about crime in your area of the Hill, stop in and let the SPD brass in attendance know.

Asst. Chief Sanford presents the 20/20 plan at 5/24 EastPAC meeting

Thursday, May 24th
6:30 to 8:00pm
Seattle University's Chardin Hall, Room 142
1020 East Jefferson 
(Enter on 11th and Jefferson, park free in front of building)  

In March of 2011, the US Department of Justice began an investigation of the Seattle Police Department, focusing on whether SPD "engaged in a practice of unconstitutional policing through the use of excessive force and/or discriminatory policing". DOJ's findings conclude that these deficiencies do in fact exist, particularly within a "subset of officers who use force improperly".  For the entire report, please see:

http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/spl/documents/spd_findletter_12-16-11.pdf

In response to the DOJ findings, the Mayor's Office and Police Department released it's own reform plan, "SPD 20/20 -"A VISION FOR THE FUTURE", identifying 20 changes to be implemented in 20 months.

SPD's Assistant Chief Mike Sanford will be presenting the 20/20 plan at our May 24th EastPAC meeting. Please review the plan before the meeting- http://www.seattle.gov/spd2020/ -and come prepared with questions, concerns, in support of or opposition to this plan, as well as additional suggestions for better policing.

Police are looking for a robbery suspect brazen enough to pay for his dinner using a credit card stolen in an armed street hold-up on Capitol Hill.

Police believe the man highlighted in these pictures is responsible for two street robberies in which he threatened his victims with a revolver. Details on the first incident in which a man was robbed of his wallet at gunpoint on April 30th are below. CHS reported on the second incident in which two women were robbed of their purses on May 4th at Summit and E Olive.

SPD today asked for the public's assistance identifying the man and posted these images from surveillance video captured at a Seattle-area restaurant where the suspect allegedly paid for the meal -- and left an unusually large tip -- using the stolen credit card.

Seattle police are looking for help identify a man suspected in two recent armed robberies on Capitol Hill.

The suspect first robbed a man near Summit Avenue and E. Thomas Street on April 30, and then mugged two women near Summit Avenue and E. Olive Street on May 4.

During both incidents, the suspect wore a bandanna over his face, and was carrying a revolver. Detectives believe he is a Hispanic male, between 22-29 years old, 5’6 to 5’8, with dark hair, possibly in a ponytail.

The suspect was later captured by surveillance cameras at a restaurant, where he paid his bill and left a large tip using one victim’s credit card. If you recognize the suspect in the photos, please call 911 or contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

That's show biz. The woman who has helped fill summer nights in Cal Anderson Park with quirky, campy and queer cinema is moving on to a new role. Three Dollar Bill Cinema has announced that executive director Rachel Brister is leaving the non-profit to join the Greater Seattle Business Association. Details on her move -- and this summer's slate of Brister-inspired flicks planned for Cal Anderson -- below.

Brister, left, is moving on (Image: Three Dollar Bill Cinema)

Meanwhile, 2012 marked the 17th year for Three Dollar Bill Cinema's Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. 

As for what she'll bring to the GSBA from her years coordinating gay film and events on Capitol Hill, Brister said it has been a lesson in giving.

"I've learned how important it is to do events for your community," she said. "It's really nice to be able to just give something back."

Brister tells CHS she'll continue to be busy in the Capitol Hill community -- she currently serves on the community council among her non-cinematic activities. More from Brister on her move in a statement sent out by Three Dollar Bill, below.

For now, you can plan to celebrate Brister's new gig and outdoor cinema with this summer's Cal Anderson roster. Stay tuned for 

• PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE -- July 27th
• VIVA LAS VEGAS' -- August 3rd
• THE WIZARD OF OZ -- August 10th
• THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT -- August 17th

The theme? Road trip. Films start on the darker end of dusk in the southeast corner of Cal Anderson Park. You can learn more at threedollarbillcinema.org.

CHS is a longtime community partner of Three Dollar Bill Cinema.

"Deciding 8 years ago to move across the country to become the Executive Director of Three Dollar Bill Cinema is the best decision that I have ever made. I love Seattle and I have thoroughly enjoyed getting to know so many wonderful parts of Seattle's LGBT and film communities. I am grateful to call myself a member of those communities. I have felt welcome since my first day on the job and I can't thank the Three Dollar Bill Cinema Board and staff enough for welcoming me then with such open arms. 

It is almost impossible for me to sum up my feelings around leaving Three Dollar Bill Cinema. This decision was not at all an easy one to make. Three Dollar Bill Cinema has shaped my life in Seattle and my position has taught me so much about what it means to truly work for a community and a cause. I have worked with an amazing, dedicated, and supportive staff and Board of Directors. I have been humbled by the size and skill of Three Dollar Bill Cinema's volunteer corps. And I have been in awe of Three Dollar Bill Cinema's growing and enthusiastic audiences year after year. I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to guide and grow Three Dollar Bill Cinema to where it is today. I look forward to this organizations very bright future.

I am thrilled to be joining the staff of another organization that combines a community and a cause, the Greater Seattle Business Association (GSBA). The intersection of business and philanthropy is something that has always been important to me. My new position of Deputy Director will allow me the opportunity to combine business development and community leadership to expand economic opportunities for the LGBT community and those who support equality for all. 

I'd like to thank the staff, Board of Directors, and volunteers of Three Dollar Bill Cinema, as well as the Greater Seattle community for the opportunity to work with an organization that I love dearly for the past 8 years. I feel so fortunate to have been given this opportunity.

 My passion for Three Dollar Bill Cinema, its mission and programs will never waiver. Thank you all for the support you have given to this organization and to me over the past 8 years. I look forward to seeing all of you in the audience at the next Three Dollar Bill Cinema screening."

This is your Manhattan without Drugs (Image: Manhattan)

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• One of the most interesting stories of the Capitol Hill food and drink economy over the last three years has been the rise of Laura Olson and Chris Pardo as some of the most active innovators in the scene. In relatively rapid succession, the duo's Pterodactyl Group has opened Po Dog, Auto Battery, Grim's, Manhattan Drugs and, now, The Social/EVO Tapas on Capitol Hill. CHS fields rumors on a semi-regular basis of plans for more. For now, however, there will be less.

Olson and Pardo are out at 12th Ave steakhouse concept Manhattan Drugs leaving a man in control of the restaurant who, until now, had been a silent partner in the project funding the restaurant from its beginning. Though, really, remaining Manhattan partner Jin Park remains silent, at least as far as CHS is concerned. We talked to a representative for the investor turned restauranteur to ask about what happened and what's next at the restaurant -- now re-dubbed to a simplified, and focused Manhattan.

"What you're going to see are very subtle shifts," Park's rep told CHS. "We think it should represent a higher focus for fine dining."

"It's been known for drinking and fun place to be -- that was what Pterodactyl is known so well for," he said. "There needs to be a higher focus placed on fine dining. There was a bit to be desired on that front."

That last part is probably an understatement. You can give this brutal review from the Seattle Weekly a read for a taste of what was was amiss at the Drugs-incarnation of the restaurant.

To achieve the goal of producing a higher quality experience, the re-energized Manhattan plans to do more to empower the people running its kitchen to succeed. It's part of the reason Park is staying out of the spotlight -- chef  Khampaeng Panyathong should have a chance to shine.

Meaty issues at play at Manhattan (Image: Manhattan)

The plan, the representative said, is to give the executive chef "complete control" of the menu to allow the chef to be "more inspired" and bring "more fun elements" to the offerings. "The old menu was more represenatitive of what other steakhouses around town had," the representative said. You can expect more surprises with the new slate.

"The main face is KP," the rep said of the new Manhattan.

Other parts of the plan are more about making a deeper investment in Manhattan as a fine dining experience. There are plans for a more up-to-date selection of wines and pairings. Manhattan also plans to invest in its staff. "We brought in some new staff with more experience in fine dining establishments," the rep said.

More experience can cost more. The rep also insists Manhattan's new ways will maintain the restaurant's current price points. 

"We just want to make sure that the restaurant and its space can be as succesful as possible," the rep said. "It fills a niche but at the same time we want to be hitting price points and quality. If those things require a larger investment, so be it but I don't want to get into that."

We first reported on the plan for Manhattan Drugs last September. Just before New Year's, the new joint snuck under the 2011 wire and debuted.

The new Manhattan is very careful not to trash its old self -- the rep wouldn't comment on why these kinds of initiatives weren't part of the restaurant from the start. 

But the break-up of the partnership was certainly never in the plans. "Things changed as events happened," the rep said and would not comment further.

Via email, Pardo told CHS only "our vision for the direction of the restaurant differed."

"We love the space and wish them success in all their endeavors," Pardo wrote.

Manhattan and Auto Battery are CHS advertisers. 

• Speaking of The Social, here are pictures from the new dance club's first Friday night.

• Our food and drink coverage didn't become so, what would you call it... comprehensive until 2009. So our source for determining May birthdays is a little shallow. Holler if there are birthday boys and girls we're missing. In the meantime, Capitol Hill congratulations to Healeo (2009), Porchlight (2009), Highline (2010), Sitka & Spruce(moved to Hill in 2010), Elysian Capitol Hill (1996), Sun Liquor (2006?), Marjorie (2010), The Confectional (2011),Artusi (2011), and Skillet (2011).
• Off Hill, celebrate 20 years of Cafe Flora.

• Free burgers Memorial Day Monday at Li'l Woody's.
• Stranger's Bethany Jean Clement manages to deliver another brutal review of a Capitol Hill restaurant with compassion and, dare we way it, love.
• Canon nominated for something else.
• 3 of Seattle's top 10 waffles can be found on Capitol HIll or in the CD.
• Yes, somebody held up Capitol HIll's take-and-bake Zaw Pizza.
• Poppy does TV:
• Nope, we don't know what happened to the "new owner" for Pike Street Beer.
• The Broadway state liquor store rights are back on the auction block.
• Barrio is celebrating "Heat Week" with a jalapeno eating contest on June 9th.
• Plum is looking for people interested in joining a CSA to bring Hand-Farmed Organics to Capitol Hill.
• Marjorie has a new chef.
• Want to pretend you're Molly Moon? Here's how to make her salted caramel ice cream. Without a machine.

Seattle Police are looking for this man who a woman says attacked her in a frightening incident in late April on Capitol Hill. Details on the attack and the attacker's description from SPD are below. We'll follow up with more as we learn it.

Seattle police need your help identifying a man who attacked a woman on Capitol hill last month.

On April 28, 2012, the victim made plans to meet a friend at a club near Boylston Avenue E. and E. Olive Way. At approximately 10:30 p.m.,the victim parked her car near a coffee shop on E. Olive Way. The victim was using a GPS App on her phone to navigate her way from her car to the club.

The suspect approached the victim at E. Olive Wy and offered to escort her to the club. They walked eastbound on E. Olive Wy. He led her northbound on Belmont Av E. and then turned eastbound on E. Thomas St. The victim looked at her phone and realized they were going in the opposite direction of the club. The suspect led her into an alley off of E. Thomas St and said this would get them back toward the club.

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The suspect had a lanyard, attached to keys, hanging out of his pants pocket. When the two walked into the alley, the suspect fell a step behind the victim. He dropped his lanyard/keys onto the ground. The suspect picked up his lanyard/keys, reached over the victim’s head, wrapped the lanyard around her neck, and began to strangle her from behind.

The victim fell backward on to the ground and the suspect straddled her, pinning her to the ground. The suspect punched the victim in the head and face. The victim fought back. She punched the suspect several times in his face and believes the keys she had in her hand may have cut his face. The suspect covered the victim’s mouth with his right hand, and she bit down on that hand. The suspect then ran off northbound through the alley toward E. Thomas Street.

The suspect is described as a white male, 23-25 years old, 5’09 tall, 170 pounds, slender build, dirty blond or strawberry blonde hair with a short buzz cut. He was wearing a white baseball cap, beige “Members Only” jacket, beige/khaki work pants (similar to Dickie’s brand), white tennis shoes (with white soles).

The suspect may have lacerations to his face and a bite wound on the inside of his right hand.

Anyone with information about the whereabouts of this suspect or information about this incident is asked to call the Seattle Police Department Sexual Assault tip line at 206-684-4882.  Anonymous tips are welcome.

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After a few false starts, Capitol Hill's first new dance club to open in years debuted Friday night to an enthusiastic crowd and with only a few reported hiccups. Is it hot in here or is it just me!?!

It's me.

Picture of the first Friday night at The Social and its little friend EVO Tapas Kitchen, below.

The Social project is one of this year -- the Laura Olson-Chris Pardo-Alex Garcia-backed the Social and Broadway's Q Capitol Hill. This is how the Social's social media-savvy backers described their venture:

We are excited to announce our latest venture: The Social - a three level 12,000 sqft ultra lounge/ restaurant and nightclub. The Social is located on East Olive and will feature three distinct rooms, including four bars and a 3000 sqft restaurant. The entertainment venue is being designed by award winning Capitol Hill firm Pb Elemental (recently named one of the Decades Best by Seattle Magazine). Our focus is to provide a well designed, fun, and high quality venue for the LGBTQ community. The Social is a joint venture of three Capitol Hill small business owners Alex Garcia (Emerson Salon, Banyan Branch), Shanon Thorson and Laura Olson (Po Dog, Auto Battery, Grim's) . Drawing on their specific talents we will be featuring a gourmet food menu, holding daily events and drawing from national and international DJ talent. The Social is scheduled to open this summer, watch for updates onhttp://www.facebook.com/TheSocialSeattle. We are excited to join the expanding scene on East Olive with Tommy Guns, CC Attles and Fred Wildlife Refuge.

Early on, the Social gained some buzz for its plan to incorporate technology and social media into its experience. We don't know about the iPads but we noticed the club issuing drink coupons via its Facebook page. Kinda beats Groupon, no? The club has also walked a fine line around its positioning as a gay dance club. "Everyone is welcome at The Social!" Garcia told Seattle Gay Scene. "All people, gay or straight, will feel comfortable. We want it to be a place where everyone can come in with their friends and have a good time."

We visited Todd Nordahl to talk about his food+drink component of the project here. 

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Thanks to CHS contributor Douglas McLaughlin for all of the pictures. His slideshow below will take you from an early evening at EVO into the night at the Social.

Artist Jeff "Weirdo" Jacobson will be creating a mural today (inspired by the upcoming June 1st SAMRemix) from 11:30am - 7pm outside of The Stumbling Monk on Capitol Hill. Swing by and watch the mural creation in process! 

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