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• Man, woman reportedly slashed with box-cutter near Bothell

  04-12-2014 23:46
  
  A man and woman have been critically injured in a possible domestic-violence incident near Bothell, according to the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office.
  
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• 2 women slashed with box-cutter near Bothell

  04-12-2014 23:29
  
  Two women have been slashed with a box-cutter near Bothell and one man has been detained, according to the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office.
  
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• Big Picture Management Rumored to Take Over the Varsity

  04-12-2014 23:29 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Kelly OWho will take control of the Varsity when Landmark Theatres ceases management of the venue next month?
  Today, The Stranger was informed that management at Belltown's Big Picture movie theater might be taking over management of the Varsity movie theater in the University District when Landmark Theatres ceases to manage the Varsity next month. All week, we've been hearing rumors of various film organizations and Seattle-area bookers being contacted by Landmark about taking
  
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• My Philosophy: Forever in Infamy

  04-12-2014 23:15 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Killer Mike
  You weren't surprised, surely. You knew what was coming. At least some of us did. If you are a legal adult and were sincerely caught unawares by the grand jury deciding not to indict pig Darren Wilson, e-mail me and I'll buy you lunch. Just expect it to be cheap, and me to be brief. Because I am not here for this shit.
  Wilson's testimony—did you read this crap?—is sickening, in both its intelligence-insulting ludicrousness (who has time to hand off a bun
  
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• Billy Eichner Does Taylor Swift Better Than Taylor Swift

  04-12-2014 23:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  WHO DOES NOT LOVE TAYLOR SWIFT? Well, the hilarious Billy Eichner really loves Taylor Swift. And he proves it by writing and performing the ultimate Taylor Swift song on Conan, called "Glitter and Ribs"—in fact, the song is SO good, that if Taylor Swift doesn't perform it herself, she's a idiot. Although I'd never say that out loud because I love Taylor Swift and WHO DOES NOT LOVE TAYLOR SWIFT? (If you're short on time, the song starts at 1:15.)
  
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• Last Night in Seattle, Stevie Wonder Talked About Ferguson, Eric Garner, and Gun Control

  04-12-2014 22:50 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Slog tipper Ed sent along YouTube user Zoltan Grossman's recording from last night's Stevie Wonder show at Key Arena. In the video, Wonder asks the audience, "can you believe that within one month, two grand juries—secret grand juries—declined to indict two policemen for the killing of two black men? I just don't understand that." Wonder asks why the officer did not relax his chokehold on Eric Garner, and he says that in his opinion "guns are too accessible to ever
  
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• The Contradictory Legal Layer Cake of Marijuana Laws Across Washington State

  04-12-2014 22:31 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Courtesy of the Municipal Research and Services CenterA snapshot of current municipal marijuana laws around the state.
  Yesterday, yet another Washington superior court judge ruled that counties can regulate or ban marijuana businesses, despite the passage of I-502, which legalized marijuana in the state.
  Cowlitz County Judge Michael Evans became the fourth to say so, agreeing with the state Attorney General's Office that "nothing in Initiative 502 overrides local governments' a
  
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• I-594 backers plan to ask Legislature for new gun laws

  04-12-2014 22:27
  
  Advocates of stricter gun laws will ask state lawmakers for new laws aimed at keeping firearms out of the hands of children, the mentally ill and domestic abusers.
  
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• 2 men, 1 cat doused with pepper spray at First Hill McDonald's

  04-12-2014 22:23
  
  Update at 1:09 p.m.: We're still trying to sort things out, but police are essentially supporting the story told my Joseph Malloy.
  
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• I-594 backers seek stricter guns laws

  04-12-2014 22:03
  
  Advocates of stricter gun laws will ask state lawmakers for new laws aimed at keeping firearms out of the hands of children, the mentally ill and domestic abusers.
  
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• The Stranger's New City Hall Reporter Is Heidi Groover!

  04-12-2014 21:53 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  The StrangerHeidi Groover: coming atcha, City Hall.
  Attention, People of Seattle! Heidi Groover is about to get in your city council's business. (And your mayor's business, and the business of the people who fund and run local political campaigns, and more!)
  Until recently she was covering City Hall for The Inlander, the alt-weekly over in Spokane—where they're better than us on gender pay equity by one measure, and where they're also ahead of us on police body cams. Cle
  
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• Ex-Santana Drummer Michael Shrieve on Whiplash's Evil Ways

  04-12-2014 21:45 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  As an addendum to Tuesday’s Slog post on drummers’ responses to the critically acclaimed movie Whiplash, we present the thoughts of Michael Shrieve. A longtime resident of Seattle, Shrieve is best known as the drummer for Latin-rock luminaries Santana during their peak years (1969-1974) and as the youngest musician to perform at Woodstock: He was 19. He also worked with some giants of avant-garde and progressive-music percussion, including Klaus Schulze and Stomu Ya
  
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• Public Defender Association Exploring Whether SPD Has Violated Protester Rights

  04-12-2014 21:41 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Kelly OPolice surround protesters holding a "die-in" in downtown Seattle on Wednesday.
  Staff attorney Patricia Sully at the Public Defender Association (PDA), a public defense firm based in downtown Seattle, says the organization is looking into the constitutionality of Seattle police responses to recent protests. The PDA is exploring whether police tactics used during Seattle's Ferguson-related marches may have "violated protesters' speech and assembly rights," Sully says in
  
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• Man arrested after using pepper spray in First Hill McDonalds

  04-12-2014 21:38
  
  A man has been arrested after Seattle police say he pepper sprayed customers inside a First Hill McDonald's restaurant on Thursday.
  
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• Customers pepper sprayed at Seattle McDonalds

  04-12-2014 21:31
  Customers pepper sprayed at Seattle restaurant
  
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• 2 people pepper-sprayed in McDonald's after man walks in with 'service' cat

  04-12-2014 21:31
  
  Customers pepper sprayed at Seattle restaurant
  
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• 1 pepper-sprayed in McDonald's after man walks in with service cat

  04-12-2014 21:31
  
  Customers pepper sprayed at Seattle restaurant
  
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• Are Protestors Really Ruining Seattle's Christmas?

  04-12-2014 21:30 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Last night I overheard a man, standing at the bus stop near the peaceful protest that started at Westlake Center, say to another man, "All they're doing NOW, is ruining Christmas." Then this editorial, in The Seattle Times happened.
  What do you think SLOG? Is Seattle's Christmas ruined?
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• Our Critics' Picks for Today

  04-12-2014 21:30 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  JAZZ, COMEDY AND STORYTELLING COME TOGETHER IN AHAMEFULO OLUO's NOW I'M FINE
  Now I'm Fine @ On the Boards
  Those who watched Ahamefule Oluo’s Now I’m Fine two years ago left the experience with the impression that something very unusual had just happened in Seattle. The show is not easy to describe because it fuses three elements that are rarely, if ever, fused: big band jazz, stand-up comedy, and storytelling. The music, composed by Oluo, is catchy, bold, and
  
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• Woman stabbed, robbed in Belltown

  04-12-2014 21:15
  
  Seattle police say the man pictured in this surveillance photo is suspected of stabbing a woman in a Belltown alley on Tuesday.
  
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• Chart: Everett-Seattle traffic busts the bus schedule

  04-12-2014 20:48
  
  Not only are Seattle area freeway trips getting slower, they've also been highly unpredictable lately, as this three-year chart by bus commuter Tim Ellis shows.
  
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• Winners claim $90M Powerball jackpot in Olympia

  04-12-2014 20:05
  
  An Auburn couple claimed a $90 million Powerball jackpot Thursday at the state Lottery headquarters in Olympia.
  
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• Republicans Struggle to Explain Away Eric Garner's Death

  04-12-2014 20:03 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  In the Morning News, Eli explained how the Seattle Times editorial board completely missed the point of Ferguson protests. This should not come as a surprise to anyone; the whole point of the Seattle Times editorial board is that the Seattle Times editorial board always misses the point. You know who else is missing the point of what protesters are protesting about? Republicans. (I almost wrote "white Republicans" there, but that would be a tautology.)
  Here's video of Republica
  
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• Many Happy Returns: Nine Years Working at One of the Last Indie Video Stores in America

  04-12-2014 20:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  There was something about walking through the door of a video store that made most people instantly forget every movie they ever wanted to see. As employees, we were keenly aware of this brand of amnesia and we all had our tricks to point aimless customers back toward the perfect rentals. Sometimes this involved a mini therapy session, prescribing cinema based on mood, demeanor, or the answer to the question "What was your day like?" Other times, if we were lazy, or if you wer
  
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• Lauryn Hill Narrates Film About the Black African Liberation Movements

  04-12-2014 19:57 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Concerning Violence: Nine Scenes From the Anti-Imperialism Self-Defense, a new documentary by the Swedish director, Göran Olsson, who gave us the excellent Black Power Mixtape, takes us back to the era of Frantz Fanon, the post–World War Two moment that saw an explosion of national independence movements in Africa and Asia. Fanon was a Martinique-born black psychiatrist who, in a nutshell, thought that the mental health of oppressed Africans would improve if they
  
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• Lauryn Hill Narrates Film About the Black African Liberation Movement

  04-12-2014 19:57 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Concerning Violence: Nine Scenes From the Anti-Imperialism Self-Defense, a new documentary by the Swedish director, Göran Olssonm, who gave us the excellent Black Power Mixtape, takes us back to the era of Frantz Fanon, the post-World War Two moment that saw an explosion of national independence movements in Africa and Asia. Fanon was a Martinique-born black psychiatrist who, in a nutshell, thought that the mental health of oppressed Africans would improve if they hurt,
  
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• Accused killer of Seattle wine steward takes the stand

  04-12-2014 19:15
  
  Thomasdinh “Dinh” Bowman took the stand Thursday morning in his murder trial for the August 2012 slaying of Seattle wine steward Yancy Noll.
  
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• Tina Fey's Sly History of Calling Out Cosby

  04-12-2014 19:08 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  It's been another tumultuous week for Bill Cosby, thanks to the lawsuit filed by the woman who claims Cosby molested her when she was 15 and the coming forward of three more alleged victims.
  But enough of recent history. This post is about honoring Tina Fey's pioneering jabs at the Cosby allegations.
  Exhibit A: This Weekend Update bit that aired on Saturday Night Live in 2005:
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  Exhibit B: This scene from a 2009 episode of 30 Rock:
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• Items near baseboard heater cause of West Seattle fire

  04-12-2014 18:57
  
  The Seattle Fire Department has determined that a Nov. 29 apartment fire  in West Seattle was caused by items placed close to an electric baseboard heater.
  
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• Land deal conserves rainforest on Olympic Peninsula

  04-12-2014 18:39
  
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• Jon Stewart on Eric Garner Grand Jury Decision: "If comedy is tragedy plus time, I need more fucking time."

  04-12-2014 18:27 via slog.thestranger.com
  
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• Man killed crossing railroad tracks in Mount Vernon

  04-12-2014 18:22
  
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• RIP, Small Faces Keyboardist Ian McLagan

  04-12-2014 18:06 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  God damn it. Another day, another obit, and this one cuts extra deep for me. Small Faces' keyboardist Ian McLagan died yesterday. The cause of death was a stroke; McLagan was just 69. This fucking sucks. McLagan, or Mac, was one of those rock guys whom you'd hope would be fucking awesome, like, just the coolest, laid-back, a feller you could drink with—and he WAS. Everyone loved him.
  
  McLagan first began playing beat music in London with a group called the Muleskinners,
  
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• The Morning News: Seattle Times Goes After "Rampaging" Protesters, Says They're "Doing More Harm Than Good"

  04-12-2014 17:36 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Ansel HerzThe Seattle Times Editorial Board is giving a lecture to Seattle protesters today. For example: "Local demonstrators need to ask themselves if they’re building the world they want, or destroying it. Anything less is a gratuitous exploitation of a senseless death. And that’s no better than the behavior they’re protesting."
  Seattle Times Editorial Board on the Rampage: Today the Seattle Times editorial board takes on Mayor Ed Murray, Seattle protester
  
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• Seeing the Future on the Highway

  04-12-2014 17:28 via slog.thestranger.com
  
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  We were on the highway heading to Portland. At one point, we passed a multi-vehicle collision that had just happened on the northbound lanes. Emergency vehicles were on the way. No one appeared to be dead. Behind the smashed cars, a jam began to form. Beyond it, we saw cars approaching, slowing, stopping, and becoming a part of the growing jam. Further down the road, we saw cars whose drivers and passengers had no idea that they were going to spend a good part of the cloud
  
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• State's 1st Powerball winners collect $90M prize

  04-12-2014 17:06
  
  Washington State's 1st Powerball winner to collect $90M prize
  
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• State's 1st Powerball winner to collect $90M prize

  04-12-2014 17:06
  
  Washington State's 1st Powerball winner to collect $90M prize
  
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• 7 Washington colleges at White House summit

  04-12-2014 15:43
  
  Representatives of seven Washington colleges and universities are in Washington, D.C., this week to participate in a White House summit on college access.
  
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• Man fatally shot in car at Pasco

  04-12-2014 15:19
  
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• Warmer temperatures bring showers

  04-12-2014 15:15
  
  Peel off a few layers, we're warming back up to normal December temperatures with highs in the mid-40s expected Thursday. Lows will be in the 40s as well.
  
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• Daily Rant&Rave: Doughnuts for marathoners

  04-12-2014 15:01
  
  RAVE  To the wonderful volunteers at Sunday’s Seattle Marathon who cautioned us about black ice in tricky areas, and double raves to volunteers who supplied Krispy Kreme doughnuts at mile 10. You all rock!
  
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• Report 3: Former Seattle Firefighter, Accused of a Hate Crime Against the Homeless, Takes the Stand

  04-12-2014 15:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Cienna MadridFormer Seattle firefighter Bob Howell on the witness stand yesterday. He and former Seattle firefighter Scott Bullene (back to camera, left) are facing hate crime charges for an alleged attack on homeless people in Occidental Park.
  I have been staring at the back of Bob Howell's head for weeks now. But I had never heard him speak until yesterday, when the 47-year-old former Seattle firefighter finally took the stand to defend himself against charges that he and two
  
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• Stolen car crashes into Seattle building

  04-12-2014 14:56
  
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• Fast-food workers in local cities participating in nationwide strikes

  04-12-2014 14:48
  
  Fast-food workers in local cities participating in nationwide strike
  
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• Fast-food workers in local cities participate in nationwide strike

  04-12-2014 14:48
  
  Fast-food workers in local cities participating in nationwide strike
  
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• Study: Killing wolves means more livestock attacks

  04-12-2014 14:43
  
  Scientists have found that, contrary to what many people think, killing wolves does not always reduce attacks on livestock.
  
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• Auburn man suing Domino's claims wire bristles were in pizza

  04-12-2014 14:32
  
  Man suing Domino's claims wire bristles were in pizza
  
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• Auburn man suing Domino's claims wire bristles left in pizza

  04-12-2014 14:32
  
  Man suing Domino's claims wire bristles were in pizza
  
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• Auburn man claims wire found in Domino's pizza sent him to the hospital

  04-12-2014 14:32
  
  Man suing Domino's claims wire bristles were in pizza
  
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• Boeing on track to deliver planned quota of 787 Dreamliners

  04-12-2014 14:20
  
  Boeing on track to deliver planned quota of 787 Dreamliners
  
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