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• Westlake Park protest canceled Friday night to help caroling competition

  05-12-2014 23:53
  
  It appears Westlake Park will be a protest-free area on Friday night, although one had been scheduled.
  
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• Viaduct, soil sinking near stranded Bertha

  05-12-2014 23:46
  
  The Alaskan Way Viaduct and nearby soil have sunk 1.2 inches this fall alongside stranded tunnel machine Bertha, senior state engineers said Friday afternoon.
  
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• Trouble at the Ferris Wheel: A True Story in Comic Form

  05-12-2014 23:15 via slog.thestranger.com
  
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• Tiger cubs make their debut at Point Defiance Zoo

  05-12-2014 23:07
  
  Sumatran tiger triplets born two months ago have gone on public display Friday at a zoo in Washington state.
  
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• No injuries in Seattle freight train derailment

  05-12-2014 23:00
  
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• The Rolling Stone Rape Story Correction Is About a Failure of Journalism, Not a Failure of Trust

  05-12-2014 23:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  The internet is currently exploding over Rolling Stone's correction of a story written by Sabrina Rubin Erdley about an account of gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity house. Shamefully, the correction puts the blame on "Jackie," the subject of the story, for pretty much everything:
  Because of the sensitive nature of Jackie's story, we decided to honor her request not to contact the man she claimed orchestrated the attack on her nor any of the men she claimed partic
  
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• You Know Things Are Bad When Even George W. Bush Recognizes America's Problem with Racism

  05-12-2014 22:08 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Christopher Halloran / Shutterstock.comWhen this dimbulb says you've got a problem, you've probably got a problem.
  Yesterday, the internet split into three factions: you had the people who could only talk about Ferguson, Eric Garner, and the protests that have spread across the country over the last week; you had the media folks who were obsessed with the meltdown at The New Republic, in which a large chunk of the staff quit in indignation; and you had the people who were obse
  
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• You May Think You Know Seattle Grunge History, but You Don't No Seattle

  05-12-2014 22:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  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 Birth, Helltrout, Shug, Thrillhammer, Pod, Calamity Jane, or Vampire Lezbos? Do the Ones or Bundle of Hiss ring a bell? Did you know they include renowne
  
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• Downtown traffic Friday night: sing or escape early

  05-12-2014 21:54
  
  UPDATE, 12:35 p.m. | The downtown protest by the Justice 4 Mike Brown group has been canceled, according to a tweet from the organizers. It will be rescheduled for Sunday.
  
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• Electronics recycling in Washington down slightly

  05-12-2014 21:51
  
  Unwanted televisions and outdated computers provide tons of work for a business here called E-Waste.
  
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• Our Critics' Top Picks Today

  05-12-2014 21:30 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  SAVAGE LOVE LIVE: THE "IS CHRISTMAS SEXY?" EDITION
  Savage Lovecast Live @ Neptune Theatre
  Not only does tonight bring a live taping of the internationally adored Savage Lovecast, it’s also a motherfucking holiday extravaganza, aimed at determining once and for all “Is Christmas sexy?” Among the festivities: smart, dirty songs from singer/songwriter Rachel Lark, fleshy writhings by the Solid Gold Christmas Dancers, onstage high jinks by the Human Menorah an
  
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• No charges for SPD officer who punched handcuffed woman in head

  05-12-2014 21:07
  
  Seattle police officer Adley Shepherd not charged after punch incident
  
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• Peter Pan Live: That Wasn't the Hate-Watch We Asked For!

  05-12-2014 21:05 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Last night's big television event was the live taping of Peter Pan starring Girls Allison Wilson as Peter and Christopher Walken as Cap'n Hook, and the Twitterverse was practically salivating in anticipation—because there's nothing they love more than a good old-fashioned HATE-WATCH. Unfortunately for them, it didn't turn out that way for a couple of reasons: (1) Allison Williams kind of preemptively ruined the Hate-Watch by saying that people who only watch things to hat
  
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• Downtown traffic tonight: sing, protest, or escape early

  05-12-2014 21:04
  
  The first Friday in December usually presents one of Seattle's toughest evening commutes, because The Great Figgy Pudding Caroling Competition blocks Fifth Avenue, drawing about 10,000 singers and spectators to the streets around Westlake Center. For people not enjoying holiday merriment, traffic to
  
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• Bellevue’s diverse, its government is not, so city’s adopting a plan

  05-12-2014 21:03
  
  Bellevue is 42 percent minority, but the city’s own workforce is 86 percent white and almost 70 percent male. A new city diversity plan hopes to address that and better serve the community.
  
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• Wake Up to Eiderdown Records' Cosmic "Late Night Music"

  05-12-2014 20:45 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Eiderdown Records keeps it local with latest releases by Fungal Abyss and Hound Dog Taylor's Hand.
  Seattle guitarist and Hollow Earth Radio DJ Adam Svenson runs Eiderdown Records, a micro indie label that issues fantastic subterranean music—mostly on cassette—exploring inner space and cosmic expanses. He's been doing an excellent job at this for the last three years, and his last two releases—Hound Dog Taylor's Hand's Live at the Comet (skronky, Sharrock-ian j
  
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• Endangered Puget Sound killer whale found dead

  05-12-2014 20:45
  
  The death of an endangered Puget Sound orca found on Vancouver Island in Canada might have been related to pregnancy issues, a research group said Friday.
  
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• Friday Night Shocker: Capitol Hill Basement Poetry Reading Becomes a Robitussin Fever Dream

  05-12-2014 20:30 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  The art gallery/event space TMRW Party skulks belowground like a refugee hiding from the shiny new Capitol Hill rising above. Its charm lies in its distinct lack of charm; it's a subterranean chamber with some junky furniture and a gleaming white corner for performances. Unlike, say, the polished pizzazz of the nearby Sole Repair, this is an event space that puts people first, forces artists to turn it into something special. Local poet (and frequent Stranger contributor) Sara
  
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• This Virtual Reality Shopping App Makes Me Want to Spend My Life in Digital Malls

  05-12-2014 20:24 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  PCA party guest tries out the Prizmiq virtual shopping app on an Oculus Rift.
  You have probably never seen a group of human beings get this excited about a photograph of a shoe. I followed an e-mail invitation to Belltown, followed some signs into an alleyway, walked in a doorway to an elevator with a sign taped to it reading "Please step into the time machine," pressed the up button, which was labeled "To the Future," and found myself in the penthouse offices of a Seattle star
  
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• City Attorney Will Not Press Charges Against Westlake Security Guard Who Pepper Sprayed Raymond Wilford

  05-12-2014 20:17 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Alex Garland
  Will the pepper-spraying Westlake Center security guard—the one who sprayed a black man in the face, instead of dealing with the shirtless white man who protesters said was yelling racial epithets and instigating fights on August 9 outside the downtown shopping center—be punished?
  Not by the Seattle City Attorney's office, which has decided not to charge him with assault.
  "He appears to have discharged the pepper spray in self-defense," said spokespers
  
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• No felony charges for SPD cop's bone-breaking punch of handcuffed woman

  05-12-2014 20:12
  
  King County prosecutors will not file felony charges against a Seattle Police officer seen on video punching and seriously injuring a handcuffed, intoxicated woman after arresting her for investigation of  domestic violence.
  
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• Cuffed for class? Man runs into high school to avoid arrest

  05-12-2014 20:06
  
  A man who had pulled up at Kentwood High School Friday morning to drop off a relative made a dash for class himself after he was stopped by police.
  
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• No felony charges for Seattle police officer's bone-breaking punch of handcuffed woman

  05-12-2014 19:37
  
  King County prosecutors will not file felony charges against a Seattle Police officer seen on video punching and seriously injuring a handcuffed, intoxicated woman after arresting her for investigation of  domestic violence.
  
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• Sleater-Kinney Hits Public Access, Grammy Nominations Roll Out on Twitter

  05-12-2014 19:27 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  On Wednesday night, the great American punk band Sleater-Kinney made their first public appearance since announcing their reformation and forthcoming new album (No Cities to Love, due January 20 on Sub Pop). The site of this appearance: The Chris Gethard Show, which describes itself as “the most bizarre and often saddest talk show in New York City.” During the show, the band answered questions in a five-minute interview with Gethard, participated in a call-in Q&A, a
  
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• Music News: Sleater-Kinney Hits Public Access, Grammy Nominations Roll Out on Twitter

  05-12-2014 19:27 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  On Wednesday night, the great American punk band Sleater-Kinney made their first public appearance since announcing their reformation and forthcoming new album (No Cities to Love, due out January 20 on Sub Pop). The site of this appearance: The Chris Gethard Show, which describes itself as “the most bizarre and often saddest talk show in New York City.” During the show, the band answered questions in a five-minute interview with Gethard, participated in a call-in Q&
  
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• Judge: Uncle Ike's pot store can stay open until 2015 suit is heard

  05-12-2014 19:11
  
  A  judge ruled Friday that Uncle Ike's Pot Shop can continue operation until the court hears a full lawsuit next November.
  
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• Spokane Has More Women Among Its Highest Paid Employees Than Seattle

  05-12-2014 18:30 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  City of Seattle.City Council Member Jean Godden is still talking about gender pay equity.
  Earlier this week, City Council Member Jean Godden held a town hall meeting where, over little sandwiches and paper coffee cups, she reminded everyone she’s not giving up on gender pay equity.
  “It’s way past time we got serious,” she said. “We must end these disparities and we must do it in our lifetime.”
  Between a panel discussion and a chance for counc
  
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• The Morning News: God vs. Pot in the Central District, Plus Bus Driver Bathroom Complaints

  05-12-2014 18:12 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Christopher FrizzelleChurch supporters are upset about how close Uncle Ike's Pot Shop is to Mount Calvary Christian Center
  God vs. Pot: The Central District church trying to get Uncle Ike's Pot Shop out of its neighborhood is back in court today. KIRO reports the church claims the shop lied about how close it would be to a park and teen recreation center and the Liquor Control Board didn't give the church enough notice. They'll be out in full force at the downtown courthouse to
  
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• Three semis crash on Snoqualmie Pass

  05-12-2014 17:31
  
  Three semis crash on Snoqualmie Pass
  
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• Alderwood Mall, Ferguson, Eric Garner, and the Rise of the Cheap Economy

  05-12-2014 17:15 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  CMThe managers at Alderwood Mall call this a business opportunity.
  During a recent visit to the Alderwood Mall, Krishanu Ray was informed by a kiosk operator named Malachi Raine that the mall was doing everything it could to cut costs. The maddening pressure to make money, to turn a quick profit, to squeeze every little penny out of the massive structure was even found in the smallest details. Ray:
  He's noticed watered down hand soap in the bathroom and a switch to inferio
  
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• Oregon's Multnomah County approves $15 minimum wage

  05-12-2014 16:33
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Suspect in 4 Portland bank robberies arrested

  05-12-2014 16:03
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Woman trapped after hitting tree in Bothell

  05-12-2014 15:57
  
  Woman trapped after tree falls on car in Bothell
  
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• Police arrest teens during break-in at Bothell car dealership

  05-12-2014 15:54
  
  After a break-in triggered an alarm at Brooks Biddle Automotive in Bothell, police arrived on the scene and caught several teens dropping keys as they ran away, according to KIRO.
  
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• Canada hopes avian flu is contained to 4 farms

  05-12-2014 15:38
  
  Canadian officials hope an avian flu outbreak has been contained to four quarantined poultry farms in British Columbia.
  
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• Friday's forecast: Rain in Seattle area; freezing rain on passes

  05-12-2014 15:27
  
  Morning's showers should taper off with a high near 51 in the Seattle area on Friday, according to the National Weather Service forecast.
  
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• Seattle church leaders back in court for lawsuit against pot shop

  05-12-2014 15:19
  
  Seattle church leaders back in court for lawsuit against pot shop
  
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• Daily Rant&Rave: Mud flap your truck, please

  05-12-2014 15:01
  
  RAVE To the Seattle city crew for coming out and fixing a curb that had a metal piece sticking up about 6 inches on the same day I called the hotline to report it. Thanks for quick action!
  
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• Police Reports Illustrated: Hot Juicer

  05-12-2014 15:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
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• Group of teens arrested in Bothell car lot burglary

  05-12-2014 14:43
  
  Group of teens arrested in Bothell car lot burglary
  
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• 8 hurt in chain-reaction crash in Whatcom County

  05-12-2014 14:25
  
  Whatcom County crash injures 8
  
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• Bellingham robbery spree could be work of same person

  05-12-2014 13:52
  
  Bellingham rbbery spree could be work of same person
  
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• Bellingham rbbery spree could be work of same person

  05-12-2014 13:52
  
  Bellingham rbbery spree could be work of same person
  
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• Childhaven helps children overcome abuse and neglect

  05-12-2014 10:40
  
  Fund For The Needy: For Amy Scott, the love that the staff at Childhaven showered her with as a preschooler has helped her break a generational cycle of addiction and neglect — and she now makes a point to kiss and cuddle her own kids. “I just teach them love,” she said of Maya, 8,
  
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• 1 killed in Bothell car-pedestrian collision

  05-12-2014 07:32
  
  A pedestrian died after being struck by a car on Highway 527 in Bothell Thursday evening, according to the Washington State Patrol.
  
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• Skiers, rescue units help injured hiker on Mount Rainier

  05-12-2014 06:51
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Ferguson protesters tap into tension on Capitol Hill

  05-12-2014 06:11
  
  What do businesses on Seattle’s Capitol Hill have to do with a police shooting a couple thousand miles away? Turns out this neighborhood, often known as a haven from intolerance and bigotry, can also be seen as a microcosm of the nation’s racial tension — especially in regards to
  
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• Bellevue is diverse, but its City Hall is lagging

  05-12-2014 05:45
  
  Bellevue is more racially diverse than Seattle, but the city’s own workforce is 86 percent white and almost 70 percent male. A new city diversity plan hopes to address that and better serve the community.
  
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• Medicaid lawsuit targets school consultants

  05-12-2014 05:32
  
  The state Attorney General’s Office on Thursday filed a lawsuit against a consulting company that gave guidance on Medicaid reimbursements to the Centralia School District and dozens of other districts.
  
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• Future of Starbucks is here: blend of roastery, high-end coffee shop

  05-12-2014 05:28
  
  A unique hybrid of roastery and high-end coffee shop opening Friday in Seattle is Starbucks’ latest tweak to its brand, underscoring the coffee empire’s penchant for constant reinvention as it unveils ambitious growth targets.
  
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