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The First Batch of 2014 Gregory Award Nominations Have Dropped: Including nominees for Theater of the Year, Outstanding Sound, Light, and Costume Design, and Outstanding New Play (see above). The remaining nominees will be rolled out over the next few days, and you can purchase your tickets to the Oct. 20 awards show right here.

Cafe Nordo Takes Over Old Elliott Bay Cafe Space in Pioneer Square: This is old-ish news, but fans of Cafe Nordo (the high-concept dinner plus theater that does not especially like to be called "dinner theater") should know that the peripatetic company is moving into the old Elliott Bay Cafe space in Pioneer Square. Nordo says its new "Culinariaum" will provide a space for long-run Nordo shows and also "act as a crossroads between the culinary and performing arts. We'll throw in literary and visual arts and a complete disregard for temperance, creating an unparalleled arts venue in Seattle." They're in the middle of raising funds for the project. (Full disclosure: Nordo affiliate Devin Bannon works at The Stranger.)

Traffic Mime! Buster Simpson wants a performing artist to conduct traffic at a dysfunctional spot at Pike Place Market, and he's got a full proposal, including science and precedent in other cities, for the mayor and the police chief to look at. Yes! As long as it's not actually a mime. Does anyone love a mime? We're sorry, mimes.

Four Hours of Continuous Black Constellation at the Frye: On September 5 from 6 to 10 pm, there will be a continuous milling-about at the Frye, in honor of featured artist Curtis R. Barnes's technique of drawing without lifting his pen. The performance will feature "musical interventions" in the galleries by members of the Black Constellation and special guests including Ishmael Butler and Tendai Maraire of Shabazz Palaces, Erik Blood, and OCNotes. The musicians will perform for more than four hours, "provid[ing] alternative enrichment and interpretation by harmonizing with the artworks, ambienc, and visitors," says the Frye. Tickets are free but reservations are required, and only 1,000 people will be allowed on the list. The list opens at noon August 8; check fryemuseum.org for details.

Feminist Mural in Amazonland: Seattle artists Yoona Lee and Dionne Gonzales have painted and put up a feminist mural for the "guerrilla garden" at Harrison and Minor, at the northwest corner of Cascade Playground. The piece, Yoona explains, "was designed as a tribute to the Cascade neighborhood—that gritty seat of industry in the early 20th century—and particularly to the female workforce, including its plucky laundresses (originally called 'waste girls,' a cringeworthy name). We wanted to represent the various industries that had been prevalent in the neighborhood and anchor the piece with a strong-willed, racially ambiguous laundress. The feminist slant came from us both working with the 3% movement in Seattle at our agency, Y&R Group Seattle." The mural will be up "as long as it lasts," located in a zone where public housing and Amazonian condos intersect. It was commissioned by longtime Cascade activists Candi Wilvang and Kim Johnson, who created the "Anarchy Garden" on a little patch of unclaimed dirt.

Less Testosterone, More Art?: Hyperallergic reports that the August edition of Current Anthropology contains research results on "the link between reduced aggression and cranio-facial feminization." Less fightin', more abstract thought. How feminized is your brow ridge?

Gannett Wants Newspapers to Fail on Their Own: Gannett, which owns a number of media properties including KING 5 and USA Today, has announced that it's going to "separate its broadcasting and digital businesses from its publishing division." This is obviously just an attempt to quarantine Gannett's money-losing newspapers from its money-making businesses. The death of newspapers ain't over yet!

Today in Twitter: Twitter is trying to make hashtags easier. And John Herrman says Twitter users should publicly show off their lists of blocked users.

Today in Bad Ideas for Movies: The Frozen people are going to adapt A Wrinkle in Time into a movie. Anna Minard, who does not like Frozen, is disconsolate over this news. Also, Ricky Gervais is reviving his David Brent character from The Office for a movie. You remember David Brent, right? From back when Gervais was funny?