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• Daily Rant & Rave: Grinches at Westlake tree lighting

  02-12-2014 23:55
  
  RAVE To the PCC employee who answered the phone one minute before closing at 11 p.m. the night before Thanksgiving when I frantically realized I’d forgotten to buy potatoes for Thanksgiving dinner and asked if I could still come and get some. She said “yes,” greeted me at the door
  
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• Drummers Relatively Upbeat About the Film Whiplash

  02-12-2014 23:54 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  The 2014 film Whiplash portrays a young jazz drummer’s (Miles Teller) tumultuous relationship with his professor (J.K. Simmons) at the prestigious Shaffer Conservatory. The student, Andrew Nieman, aspires to be one of the greats of jazz. His mentor, Terence Fletcher, puts him through a series of mindfucks and episodes of physical and verbal abuse in order to elevate Nieman to that exalted realm—or maybe he's just a sadistic bastard on a power trip. Nieman is so dri
  
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• Kirkland man arrested for threatening Ferguson officer

  02-12-2014 23:38
  
  Ferguson death threats after Mike Brown shooting lead to Kirkland man's arrest
  
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• Megan Amram's Science...for Her! Is an Actually Funny Cross Between a Textbook and Cosmo

  02-12-2014 23:31 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Megan Amram is a writer for Parks and Recreation. More importantly, she's the author of one of my all-time favorite tweets:
  They call me the Titanic because I once went down on a bunch of Irish peasants
  — Megan Amram (@meganamram) July 28, 2013
  
  So we know that Amram can write a tweet. And we know she can write a funny 21-minute situation comedy. (Fun fact: She got her job at Parks and Recreation because she was so funny on Twitter. This is an amazing story that will
  
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• How Stevie Wonder Helped Cure My Mother’s Cancer, Literally (Sorta), and Other Miracles

  02-12-2014 23:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  If y’all don’t mind, I’d like to take this time and space to thank Mr. Stevland Morris—the world-famous entertainer known as Stevie Wonder—for so, so much. Of course for making a bunch of hugely inspirational, influential, unparalleled music, for being a Black national hero, for helping make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a thing, all that—but there’s something, a couple things, really a lot more close to home for which I have always been
  
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• Former Seattle City Council aide weighing 4th District bid

  02-12-2014 22:50
  
  He recently left his job as aide to Seattle City Council President Tim Burgess, his resume is packed with government work and he shares his views via a self-published Northeast Seattle newsletter called 4 to Explore.
  
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• We Asked 12 People at a Ferguson Protest: What Do You Want?

  02-12-2014 22:30 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Kelly O"I want people to make their own signs, and use their own voices, when protesting. Honesty."
  
  Kelly O "I want a dead cop. An eye for an eye, a cop must die."
  Kelly O Roger "More visibility."
  
  Kelly O (R-L) Veronica "Justice." Emily "Revolution." Jessica "More awareness."
  
  Kelly O Erin "I want police to think about how they can make changes. And better transparency."
  
  Kelly O Christina "To help foster peace for the people." HR "Police accountability.
  
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• A Prosecutor Has to Be Almost—or Actually—Trying to Not Get a Grand Jury Indictment

  02-12-2014 22:24 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  bkA Seattle demonstrator on the steps of the US District Courthouse the day after Prosecutor Bob McCulloch announced that the Ferguson grand jury had refused to indict Officer Darren Wilson.
  This has made the rounds on some news sites already, but in case you haven't seen it—based on the most recent data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, Ben Casselman at FiveThirtyEight calculated that US Attorneys prosecuted 162,351 federal cases between Oct 2009 and Sept 2010.
  That
  
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• Kirkland man charged in threats to kill Ferguson cop, family

  02-12-2014 22:23
  
  Federal prosecutors have charged a Kirkland man with making interstate threats against the life of former Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson and his family.
  
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• Kirkland man accused of threatening to kill Ferguson officer

  02-12-2014 22:10
  
  Federal prosecutors have charged a Kirkland man with making interstate threats against the life of former Ferguson, Mo. police officer Darren Wilson and his family.
  
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• Pickup rolls down Oregon embankment; 3 dead

  02-12-2014 21:47
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Body found in Chinatown-ID park

  02-12-2014 21:28
  
  Seattle police are investigating a suspicious death at a park in Chinatown-International District.
  
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• Hey, Straight Men! Stop Having Gay Sex With Your Wives and Girlfriends!

  02-12-2014 21:14 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Jeremy Hooper draws our attention to this lunatic:
  If a man has anal sex with a woman, he is committing a homosexual act on a woman, being that in homosexual acts the rectum is always the substitute for the vagina, so think about that next time you want to degrade your wife… even if she says she enjoys it… that doesn’t make the act less degrading or more right.
  [snip]
  Next, is the issue of pornography. Pornography, even man-woman porn is homosexual in nature,
  
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• At height of AIDS crisis, nurse ran secret leftover drug pipeline

  02-12-2014 21:04
  
  For two decades, Carol Glenn was at the center of an unsanctioned international drug recycling network that provided HIV/AIDS medications to needy patients around the world.
  
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• Burn bans lifted for King, Pierce, Snohomish counties

  02-12-2014 20:56
  
  Burn bans affecting King, Pierce and Snohomish counties have been lifted.
  
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• Deputies arrest 1 at Burien Big 5 burglary

  02-12-2014 20:53
  
  Update at 11:52 a.m.: Deputies say there is extensive damage inside the Big 5 store. Only 1 suspect found inside.
  
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• A Comparison of Indistinguishable Rival Businesses in the Alderwood Mall Food Court

  02-12-2014 20:50 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Nestlé Toll House Cafe by Chip vs. Mrs. Fields Cookies
  As a child, if I successfully managed to beg my mother to buy the golden bag of Nestlé chocolate chips instead of the ugly generic brand, life was good. We would bake Toll House cookies, and I'd eat them straight out of the oven, warm and gooey. Nostalgia is a bitch, I thought to myself as I crunched my way through a dry, nearly burned, stale-tasting chocolate chip cookie from the Nestlé Toll House Cafe by C
  
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• Winner hasn't claimed $90 million Powerball ticket bought in Auburn

  02-12-2014 20:48
  
  The state's first winning Powerball jackpot ticket was sold in Auburn on Saturday and state lottery officials are waiting for the winner to claim the whopping $90 million jackpot.
  
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• Kennewick shooting suspect caught in Oregon

  02-12-2014 19:56
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Saint Louis Police Department Responds to Rams Protest By Melting Down on Social Media

  02-12-2014 19:44 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  On Sunday, as you've heard, five players for the St. Louis Rams took the field giving a "hands up don't shoot" gesture, a sign of support for Ferguson protesters. Almost immediately, The St. Louis Police Officers Association announced that it was "profoundly disappointed" with the gesture, calling it "tasteless, offensive and inflammatory." They also called for "the players involved to be disciplined and for the Rams and the NFL to deliver a very public apology."
  Let's unpack
  
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• Bremerton doctor arrested on rape charges; 15 more women step forward

  02-12-2014 19:24
  
  Bremerton doctor arrested on rape charges
  
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• Bremerton doctor arrested on rape charges

  02-12-2014 19:24
  
  Bremerton doctor arrested on rape charges
  
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• Police block marchers from mall in latest Westlake protest

  02-12-2014 19:19
  
  Hundreds of police greeted protesters at Westlake Center mall Monday night, blocking their access and keeping watch as they took to downtown streets to protest the Ferguson grand jury decision.
  
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• UW student robbed of cash, cellphone

  02-12-2014 19:06
  
  UW student robbed of cash, cellphone
  
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• Police keep close watch on Westlake protest

  02-12-2014 19:05
  
  Hundreds of police greeted protesters at Westlake Center mall Monday night, blocking their access and keeping watch as they took to downtown streets to protest the Ferguson grand jury decision.
  
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• Book borrowed 65 years returned to Spokane school

  02-12-2014 18:55
  
  A 1946 copy of "Gone With the Wind," long thought lost, was returned to Rogers High School's library in the wake of a handwritten letter and a promise to waive a late fee that began accumulating 65 years ago.
  
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• UK Bans Production of Porn Featuring Female Ejaculation

  02-12-2014 18:53 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  It's just one of ten items on a list of sex acts and practices that UK-based porn producers are no longer allowed to include in their films:
  Pornography produced in the UK was quietly censored today through an amendment to the 2003 Communications Act, and the measures appear to take aim at female pleasure. The Audiovisual Media Services Regulations 2014 requires that video-on-demand (VoD) online porn now adhere to the same guidelines laid out for DVD sex shop-type porn by the B
  
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• Deputies on scene of burglary at Burien Big 5

  02-12-2014 18:19
  
  King County deputies are on the scene of a commercial burglary in Burien at the Big 5 store in the 100 block of Southwest 148th Street, according to a tweet from the King County Sheriff's Office.
  
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• Daily Rant&Rave: Grinches at Westlake tree lighting

  02-12-2014 18:16
  
  RAVE To the PCC employee who answered the phone one minute before closing at 11 p.m. the night before Thanksgiving when I frantically realized I’d forgotten to buy potatoes for Thanksgiving dinner and asked if I could still come and get some. She said “yes,” greeted me at the door
  
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• Traffic messy all over Seattle area

  02-12-2014 18:01
  
  Traffic is bad all over the Seattle area with the southbound commute on I-5 particularly bad, according to the Washington State Department of Transportation. Everett to Seattle is up to 150 minutes.
  
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• SW 148th Street closed in Burien due to burglary

  02-12-2014 17:18
  
  King County deputies are on the scene of a commercial burglary in Burien in the 100 block of Southwest 148th Street, according to a tweet from the King County Sheriff's Office.
  
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• The Future of Spotless Minds Is Near: Scientist Implants a Happy Memory in a Mouse

  02-12-2014 17:13 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  CM
  This is my understanding of an experiment conducted by Karim Benchenane of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris: The lab mouse had a traumatic experience in a part of its cage. But when it slept, and as its mind organized, replayed, and recorded the events that happened while awake (even with humans, most of the memories of one's daily experiences are formed while sleeping), the scientist manipulated the memory-forming process in such a way that a good
  
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• The Morning News: Protesters Marched Again Last Night, Organizers Vow to Continue

  02-12-2014 17:10 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Ansel HerzA cab driver, Abdinasser Omar, joined the protesters and gave an impromptu speech: "People need to come out and stop the system of bullets."
  Protesters Marched on Capitol Hill Last Night, Blocked Traffic at Westlake Center: And they prayed. Organizers say they’ll continue their efforts until Darren Wilson is indicted.
  Chanting, "I pray for Mike Brown, he was kneeling on the ground." A woman in the crowd is crying. pic.twitter.com/t8t7yhe2nt— Th
  
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• Main rail line open between Seattle-Everett

  02-12-2014 17:05
  
  The main rail line between Seattle and Everett, Washington, has reopened for passenger traffic after crews cleaned up trees and debris from a weekend mudslide.
  
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• One in custody after wild crash, standoff at Burien business

  02-12-2014 16:34
  
  Burglar drives vehicle through Burien business
  
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• Police investigate stabbing at Tukwila apartment complex

  02-12-2014 16:08
  
  Tukwila Police officers responded Monday afternoon to a report of a stabbing in the 14200 block of 42nd Avenue South.
  
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• The Ladies of London's Subcultures, C. 1980

  02-12-2014 16:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  It's rare I think "AWESOME" when I see a link to anything connected to Buzzfeed, but when I saw THIS, Visible Girls: London's Lost Female Subcultures (sussed via Dangerous Minds, actually), I clicked through. These pictures are awesome and I really suggest y'all all take a peek....um, you gotta click here to view the pictures via Flickr™, 'cause I have NO legal right to post a teaser photo!
  In the early 1980s, photographer Anita Corbin documented the “informal unifo
  
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• Aircraft carrier Stennis testing flight operations

  02-12-2014 15:19
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Woman wanted in South Sound fraud, ID theft case

  02-12-2014 15:12
  
  Woman wanted in South Sound fraud, ID theft case
  
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• Plotting Next Steps Towards High Speed Municipal Broadband for Seattle's Internet-Hungry Masses

  02-12-2014 15:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Remember when local comedian Brett Hamil fucking nailed it in a video-blog bemoaning his sluggish Internet service? He's back with a follow-up—still waiting, six months later, for Mayor Ed Murray to make up his mind about whether to pursue building a high-speed municipal broadband network in Seattle:
  
  Well, Brett (and everyone who uses the Internet), the wait's unlikely to end anytime soon. For now, the city's sending mixed signals.
  For one, the city's Chief Technology Of
  
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• 6-ton excavator stolen in SW Washington

  02-12-2014 14:59
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Most Wanted fugitive arrested in Redmond

  02-12-2014 14:37
  
   Police say a woman wanted in a Seattle store robbery was arrested in Redmond after someone recognized her from the Washington’s Most Wanted Facebook page.
  
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• Vote to choose new Seattle schools chief postponed

  02-12-2014 14:11
  
  Vote to choose new Seattle schools chief postponed
  
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• Police release photo of Burlington armed robber

  02-12-2014 13:56
  
  Police release photo of Burlington armed robber
  
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• Winning $90M Powerball ticket purchased in Auburn

  02-12-2014 13:39
  
  Winning $90M Powerball ticket purchased in Auburn
  
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• Mystery shopper scam appearing in Snohomish

  02-12-2014 13:34
  
  Mystery shopper scam appearing in Snohomish
  
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• Portland protesters file complaints against police

  02-12-2014 07:18
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Thieves steal $2,400 in lingerie from Oregon store

  02-12-2014 07:13
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• GOP state senators elect Mark Schoesler majority leader

  02-12-2014 07:04
  
  GOP state senators Monday elected Sen. Mark Schoesler, R-Ritzville, their new majority leader. Schoesler replaces outgoing Sen. Rodney Tom, a Democrat, who retired this year rather than run for re-election.
  
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• Dispatches from Tonight's Ferguson Protest

  02-12-2014 05:44 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Ansel Herz8:15 PM: Seeing the protesters, cabbie Abdinasser Omar, 45, stopped, got out, and gave a speech on the protest megaphone. "This is more important than money," he said. "People need a defense from the cops... People need to come out and stop the system of bullets."
  The Stranger's Ansel Herz is at tonight's protest, which has wound from Westlake Mall up to Capitol Hill and back down to the street in front of Westlake. Updates on our Twitter feed, @strangerslog.
  
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