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There are lots of ways to enter the New Year. Some, like these illegal base jumpers spotted leaping from the 30-story 800 Columbia tower on First Hill Monday will float before an ungraceful plummet as reality sets in.

Too bad there are no skyscrapers on Capitol Hill.

Around here, others, like TikTok user @boeinghobo, will roll in with all the grace of a wheel of gouda from the Capitol Hill TJ’s.

@boeinghoboGouda Get’r♬ Piece of Me – Skid Row

We know the cheesy video is a few weeks old but it is only getting better with age. Happy New Year!

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“It’s not a wine bar. It’s a cheese bar.”

Capitol Hill’s cheese monger has opened her Capitol Hill cheese bar.

Cheese, Sheri Lavigne says, is one of life’s “affordable luxuries.” Her new Culture Club Cheese Bar, opened in a 12th Ave microhousing development neighboring neighborhood microbrewery Outer Planet, is dedicated to showcasing that luxury in flights paired with northwest beers and cheese-friendly wines.

“Here’s exactly what it tastes like when you have a perfect pairing,” Lavigne says, ready to present yet another set of creamy, rich, flavors with just the right amount of cheesy funk or tang or both.

Five and a half years after she opened the Calf and Kid cheese counter inside Melrose Market, Lavigne has created a new venue where she can stretch out the relationship with customers and help take pressed curds to a whole new level but without requiring everyone to be a connoisseur.

“This is just as chill as Calf and Kid,” Lavigne said. “It’s not a wine bar. It’s a cheese bar.”

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