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• Mayor Murray pushes medical-marijuana regulation to next year

  03-12-2014 23:35
  
  Mayor Ed Murray plans to propose a structure for medical marijuana regulation in January instead of this month said Jason Kelly, a spokesman for the mayor's office. Councilmember Nick Licata will hold a hearing on the framework of the regulatory license on Dec. 10, but won't be discussing specific b
  
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• 3 nurses assaulted at state psychiatric hospital

  03-12-2014 23:33
  
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• The Masterpieces of the Forgotten Inventor of Light Art Live on a Side Street in Seattle

  03-12-2014 23:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  You've never heard of Thomas Wilfred? Neither has just about anybody these days. Born in Denmark in 1889, Wilfred was the first known person to use light itself as a stand-alone art medium. He spent his life crusading for his invention—"lumia," the art of light—beginning with cigar-box experiments up in his room in 1905 and ending with an installation that ran continuously at the Museum of Modern Art for more than a decade after he died in 1968. All these years lat
  
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• The Silent-Reading Party Is Tonight! With Piano from 6 pm to 8 pm!

  03-12-2014 22:59 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  In a city where you can't count on anything to last (goddamn it, I'm going to miss you, Harvard Exit) at least there's still the reading party. Enjoy life while you can.
  It's the first Wednesday of the month! Which means the reading party is tonight! Yessssss. In case you're unaware, the silent-reading party is where you bring something to read (to yourself, silently) while a musician plays music and waiters bring you things and a fire crackles in the fireplace. The musician
  
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• A Brief Interview with Daniel Riddle of Hitting Birth, the Best Band on the No Seattle Comp

  03-12-2014 22:45 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  On Soul Jazz Records’ new compilation No Seattle: Forgotten Sounds of the North-West Grunge Era 1986-1997 (featured in this week’s Stranger), no group sounds odder or more out of step with that time’s prevalent sound than Portland’s Hitting Birth. On “Same 18,” they deviate from the collection’s hard-rock status quo with some lunging, white-knuckled, industrial funk rock. Hitting Birth recorded three albums in the first half of the R
  
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• A Brief Interview with Daniel Riddle of Hitting Birth, the Best Band on No Seattle Comp

  03-12-2014 22:45 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  On Soul Jazz Records’ new compilation No Seattle: Forgotten Sounds of the North-West Grunge Era 1986-1997 (featured in this week’s Stranger), no group sounds odder or more out of step with that time’s prevalent sound than Portland’s Hitting Birth. On “Same 18,” they deviate from the collection’s hard-rock status quo with some lunging, white-knuckled, industrial funk rock. Hitting Birth recorded three albums in the first half of the R
  
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• Headline of the Day

  03-12-2014 22:30 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  About 100 brains missing from University of Texas
  Well, technically it was yesterday's Headline of the Day, but let's get to the important part: It seems that about half of 200 brains transferred to University of Texas from Austin State Hospital in 1986 have gone missing. One of them is believed to be the evil brain of Charles Whitman, who is known for nothing other than shooting people from the University of Texas Tower in 1966. "It would make sense it would be in this group.
  
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• Killing wolves to protect livestock doesn’t work in long run, WSU study says

  03-12-2014 22:27
  
  Rob Wielgus, a WSU researcher, noticed something interesting when he studied reports of wolf attacks on sheep and cattle in the Northern Rockies: When wolves were killed to reduce livestock predation, the number of dead sheep and cows rose the following year.
  
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• $90 million Powerball prize to be claimed Thursday

  03-12-2014 22:18
  
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• The Found Footage Festival Brings Its Latest Treasures to Seattle

  03-12-2014 22:10 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Central CInemaThe fruits of a lifetime spent watching random videos found at garage sales and Salvation Armies.
  For the past ten years and counting, the Found Footage Festival has toured the country, with co-founders founders Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett presenting their carefully curated found video treasures on the big screen. Tomorrow and Friday, the Found Footage Festival land at Seattle's Central Cinema. In advance of the shows (one on Thursday, two on Friday), I chatted u
  
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• Spokane deputies arrest red kettle theft suspect

  03-12-2014 22:05
  
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• A Brief History of the Proto-Feminists Who Built the Harvard Exit

  03-12-2014 22:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
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  The Woman’s Century Club was founded in July, 1891 by 10 prominent Seattle women to address the important issues of what those founders believed would be “the century of the woman.” The club’s founding president was suffragette Carrie Chapman Catt, a woman who got things done. The founder not only of the Woman’s Century Club, but of the League of Women Voters, Catt was also president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1920
  
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• Driver dies as car plunges off Puget Drive in Renton

  03-12-2014 21:34
  
  UPDATE, 9:45 a.m. | Police say the 2014 Lexus was speeding erratically when it left the road at a curve, plunged over an embankment and crashed into trees.
  
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• Handful of protesters gather at Seattle City Hall

  03-12-2014 21:31
  
  There's a heavy police presence at Seattle City Hall Wednesday in advance of an expected protest.
  
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• The Seattle Freeze Has Begun to Thaw

  03-12-2014 21:20 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  bkThis morning, these roofs were covered in ice—the thaw is underway.
  Remember Seattle a week ago today, when people were walking around without jackets and using the word "balmy"? According to weather guru Cliff Mass, in those days we were breathing air that had been sent over from Hawaii. In 24 hours, the wind shifted and the Arctic came to us—suddenly, we were breathing air that was coming down from the Yukon.
  We've been getting some sun with our cold while our t
  
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• Cantwell raises cash for Landrieu, who bashes her "windmills" focus

  03-12-2014 21:17
  
  Democratic U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell sent out a fundraising appeal Wednesday morning for fellow Sen. Mary Landrieu, the embattled Louisiana Democrat fighting to retain her seat in a runoff election.
  
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• I Quit My Job at the Harvard Exit Three Weeks Ago After Working There For Seven Years. I Just Learned It’s Closing. I Will Miss It.

  03-12-2014 21:08 via slog.thestranger.com
  
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  I remember my first night at the Harvard Exit seven years ago, standing among the century-old projector, grand piano, ottomans and other furnishings with clawed feet and thinking, “I will like this job and be happy here.” It was the first time I’d ever felt that way about a job. The high ceilings and ornate woodwork made every room feel like a church, especially the auditoriums. The first time I cleaned the upstairs auditorium after a show (the film wa
  
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• Grand Jury Does Not Indict NYPD Officer for Eric Garner's Choking Death

  03-12-2014 20:50 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Another police officer walks away from a potential grand jury indictment:
  A grand jury voted Wednesday not to indict New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, multiple sources confirm.
  Pantaleo put 47-year-old Garner into a chokehold during an arrest for selling untaxed cigarettes on July 17.
  Back in August, a medical examiner ruled that the chokehold is what caused Garner's death.
  Police reform needs to become a national issue. And I'm not just
  
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• A Heartbreaking Week of Flubbed Justice and High-School Whoremongering

  03-12-2014 20:50 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24 This week of flubbed justice, high-school whoremongers, and extended national protest kicks off in Missouri, where this afternoon the St. Louis County prosecutor's office revealed that the findings of the Ferguson grand jury tasked with deliberating murder charges against police officer Darren Wilson for his fatal shooting of the unarmed, 18-year-old Michael Brown would be announced tonight at 9 p.m. EST—a ridiculous proposition that ensured the fraug
  
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• Burien sporting goods burglar drove around store’s interior

  03-12-2014 20:42
  
  Burien sporting goods burglar drove around store’s interior
  
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• Police looking to identify Lacey jewelry thief

  03-12-2014 20:17
  
  Police looking to identify Lacey jewelry thief
  
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• Meet the four-legged actors in the 5th Ave’s ‘A Christmas Story’

  03-12-2014 19:55
  
  A cast of canine thespians steals the show in “A Christmas Story”; Seattle Children’s has an arboreal fundraiser.
  
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• The Morning News: Scuffles at Zoo Board Over Elephants, More Ferguson Protests

  03-12-2014 19:50 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Moments by Mullineux/Shutterstock
  Tensions Flare Over Elephants: "Free Chai, free Bamboo," shouted protesters outside a meeting of the Woodland Park Zoo board of directors, referring to two Asian elephants at the zoo who they want moved out to a sanctuary. "Just another zoo won’t do. Make them safe, make them merry," they yelled, before rushing the doors, reports the Seattle Times.
  Feds Unveil $342 Million Duwamish River Clean-Up Plan: The Environmental Protection Agency
  
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• 3 nurses at state psychiatric hospital assaulted

  03-12-2014 19:33
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• I Love Television: My Anaconda Don't Want None

  03-12-2014 19:30 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  This week on television, prepare yourselves for two moral abominations: Allison Williams of Girls playing the title role in Peter Pan (NBC, Thurs Dec 4, 8 pm), and then the Discovery Channel's Eaten Alive (Sun Dec 7, 9 pm)—in which a human adult is fed to a giant anaconda. (I could've added this week's 2 Broke Girls... but that's enough abominations for one column.)
  NOW. Allison Williams climbing into a green little boy suit is one thing—in fact, it's a very erotic
  
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• Everett bikini barista stands used for prostitution being demolished

  03-12-2014 19:11
  
  Everett bikini barista stands used for prostitution being demolished
  
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• Hanford’s B Reactor closer to becoming national park

  03-12-2014 19:10
  
  Hanford’s historic B Reactor appears close to becoming part of a new national park after the U.S. House Rules Committee released the annual bill that authorizes military policy overnight Tuesday.
  
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• Renowned kayaker who died in Stillaguamish identified

  03-12-2014 18:27
  
  %%%b359e8f27e51ddb9fafb3ac54e7a42ca%%%A renowned kayaker who was attending UW Medical School has been identified as the man who died in the Stillaguamish River, near Granite Falls, on Nov. 30.
  
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• Arizona Pastor Finds Biblical Cure for AIDS

  03-12-2014 18:25 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  It's head-smackingly simple: Kill all the homos like God told us to.
  
  Turn to Leviticus 20:13, because I actually discovered the cure for AIDS. We could have an AIDS free world by Christmas if we follow this. “If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.“ And that, my friend, is the cure for AIDS. It was right there in the Bible all along…
  
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• CWU leaving 57 positions unfilled to close budget gap

  03-12-2014 18:08
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• A Link Between Bill Cosby and Proust's The Captive ?

  03-12-2014 17:09 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  In the fifth book of Marcel Proust's long novel Remembrance of Things Past, The Captive (La Prisonnière in French), a strange thing about the narrator, who shares his first name with the author, is revealed. He can only have sex with his girlfriend (and captive) Albertine (he basically imprisons her in his apartment), when she is sleeping. Not only that, it's also implied that she sometimes fakes sleeping so that he can get around to having sex with her. Like Vladimir N
  
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• A Link Between Bill Cosby and Proust's The Captive?

  03-12-2014 17:09 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  In the fifth book of Marcel Proust's long novel Remembrance of Things Past, The Captive(La Prisonnière in French), a strange thing about the narrator, who shares his first name with the author, is revealed. He can only have sex with his girlfriend (and captive) Albertine (he basically imprisons her in his apartment), when she is sleeping. Not only that, it's also implied that she sometimes fakes sleeping so that he can get around to having sex with her. Like Vladimir Na
  
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• Driver dies as car travels off Puget Drive in Renton

  03-12-2014 17:04
  
  One person was killed when a car traveled off South Puget Drive, down an embankment in Renton early today, Renton police reported.
  
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• Stolen lingerie returned to another Tualatin store

  03-12-2014 16:59
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Fatal accident closes Puget Drive in Renton

  03-12-2014 16:22
  
  At least one person has died in a single-vehicle crash in Renton, Renton police reported at 7 a.m.
  
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• RIP, Rolling Stones Sax Player Bobby Keys

  03-12-2014 16:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Saxophonist Bobby Keys died yesterday; he was 70. Most folks will remember him from his decades long tenure as sax man for the Rolling Stones. Um, he's the one blowin' the horn during the "Brown Sugar" solo and during their groovy West Coast sike anthem "Can’t You Hear Me Knocking."
  
  Keys began playing sax after hearing King Curtis records; Curtis' playing was striking, as Curtis didn't play his horn with jazz phrasing, but rather he phrased his notes like he was playing
  
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• Store donating tools, appliances stolen from Habitat for Humanity site

  03-12-2014 15:55
  
  Store donating tools, appliances stolen from Habitat for Humanity site
  
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• Reports of fatal car accident in Renton

  03-12-2014 15:55
  
  At least one person has died when a vehicle veered off Benson Road and over an embankment in Renton on Wednesday morning, according to reports from KIRO.
  
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• One dead in crash down Renton embankment

  03-12-2014 15:34
  
  One dead in crash down embankment in Renton
  
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• Avian flu outbreak on British Columbia farms

  03-12-2014 15:19
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Othello student forced to unclog toilet with bare hands

  03-12-2014 15:10
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Daily Rant&Rave: Thanksgiving: Macklemore is cool, taxi uncool

  03-12-2014 15:00
  
  RAVE To Macklemore for graciously posing for pictures with several teenage fans, including my granddaughter, on the ferry to Whidbey Island on Thanksgiving day. He gave them a memory for a lifetime.
  
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• Anonymous Seattle Police Video Requester Wants All of Obama’s Body Cams to Upload Straight to YouTube

  03-12-2014 15:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Alex GarlandWhat if this Seattle police officer had a body cam and its recordings went straight to YouTube?
  The anonymous programmer who has been politely terrorizing (and subsequently helping) the Seattle Police Department with body camera public records requests over the last three months has taken his cause to the White House. The programmer—a man in his 20’s known mainly by his e-mail address, [email protected], and who wants to remain unidentified&#
  
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• Another glitch afflicts an estimated 6,000 health exchange customers

  03-12-2014 14:56
  
  About 6,000 enrollments in health plans offered by the Washington Healthplanfinder insurance exchange were improperly canceled because of an error, according to the Washington Health Benefit Exchange, which manages the exchange.
  
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• Man tries to lure teenage girls into car in Olympia

  03-12-2014 14:39
  
  Man tries to lure teenage girls into car in Olympia
  
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• Protesters concerned about elephants try to get into zoo’s board meeting

  03-12-2014 13:59
  
  Protesters concerned about elephants try to get into zoo’s board meeting
  
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• The Unlikely Birth of No Seattle

  03-12-2014 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  You May Think You Know Seattle Grunge History, but You Don't No Seattle
  
  by Dave Segal
  
  
  
  In September the revered British label Soul Jazz released a two-CD/four-LP compilation titled No Seattle: Forgotten Sounds of the North-West Grunge Era 1986–97. The lineup may resonate with music fans who lived in the Northwest during the comp's time span—or perhaps not. Do you remember Nubbin, Crunchbird, Hitting
  
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• The Babadook: You'll Be Scared to Look in the Mirror

  03-12-2014 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The Babadook: You'll Be Scared to Look in the Mirror
  
  by Sean Nelson
  
  
  
  Australian writer/director Jennifer Kent’s intelligent, impeccably designed creepfest about a single mom, her adorable nutbar son, and a sinister picture book draws on organically frightening elements—darkness, silence, old black-and-white cartoons, and silent films—to create an unsettling trespass into the unspeakable emotional conflict
  
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• Quality Women of Good Will

  03-12-2014 13:00 via thestranger.com
  A Brief History of the Proto-Feminists Who Built the Harvard Exit
  
  by Sean Nelson
  
  
  
  
  An edited excerpt from “Tea at the Ladies’ Club.” Originally published in the January 22, 1998, issue of The Stranger.
  
  
  
  
  The Woman’s Century Club was founded in July, 1891 by 10 prominent Seattle women to address the important issues of what those founders believed would be
  “the century of the woman.” T
  
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• Point and Shoot: A Well-Crafted Documentary About a Very Particular Kind of Fool

  03-12-2014 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Point and Shoot: A Well-Crafted Documentary About a Very Particular Kind of Fool
  
  by Paul Constant
  
  
  
  Matthew Vandyke is a very particular kind of fool—the kind who believes that because he was born an able-bodied white American man, he is owed an adventure, even though he doesn’t want to do the hard work and preparation to earn the quest he embarks upon. (Think Grizzly Man’s Timothy Treadwell or Into the Wil
  
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