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• Hundreds march in Seattle to protest deaths by police

  06-12-2014 23:49
  
  More than 600 people of all ages and races were marching Saturday from Garfield High School to the Seattle Police Department headquarters downtown to protest police brutality.
  
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• Hundreds march in Seattle to protest police brutality

  06-12-2014 23:24
  
  Hundreds of people were marching from the Central District to downtown Saturday to protest police brutality in the wake of the recent deaths involving police nationally.
  
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• Oh dag, we reviewed some albums! The newest from Heldon, Screens, and Cooly G

  06-12-2014 23:15 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  HELDON
  Allez-Téia
  (Superior Viaduct)
  Throughout the 1970s, the French progressive group Heldon released seven great-to-essential albums. Their 1975 sophomore album, Allez-Téia, captures Heldon during a phase when they were more about lofty hovering ambience than the infernal propulsion and dystopian nightmare visions that would mark their last few full-lengths. Throughout Allez-Téia's seven tracks, there exists a scintillating contrast between otherworldly s
  
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• PSE charging too much, attorney general contends

  06-12-2014 22:50
  
  Puget Sound Energy customers are being overcharged by as much as $35 million dollars a year and deserve a refund, according to the state attorney general.
  
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• Driver arrested after patrol car rammed in Eastlake

  06-12-2014 22:01
  
  Seattle police say they arrested a 25-year-old man who used a stolen car to ram a patrol car Friday morning in the Eastlake neighborhood.
  
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• See So Pitted and Do Some Vintage-y Holiday Shopping at Chop Suey's ArtAche Market Dec. 7

  06-12-2014 21:26 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  If you're looking for a spot to do some holiday shopping for your unconventional friends and family members who appreciate unique, hand-crafted goods—with the bonus of hearing good DJs and Seattle post-punk titans So Pitted at the same time—the ArtAche Market at Chop Suey offers several options. According to organizer Marz Martinez, this Sunday's market is the biggest ArtAche yet, presenting over 30 local vendors and artisans peddling vintage clothes, soaps, gems, c
  
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• New Column! Children’s Letters to Santa

  06-12-2014 20:50 via slog.thestranger.com
  
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• Instructions for Today's Student March Against Police Brutality

  06-12-2014 20:47 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  The student march begins at noon at Garfield High School. On the day after the Ferguson decision, when Seattle high school students marched from the Central District to the downtown federal building, this is what it looked like:
  ESNovember 25, Madison and 12th.
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• CBS and Dish Network reach deal

  06-12-2014 20:04
  
  Update, 11 a.m.: CBS Corp. and Dish Network have reached a deal after a brief blackout of Seattle's CW Network channel. View full story here.
  
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• CBS, Dish Network reach deal to end brief blackout

  06-12-2014 19:38
  
  CBS Corp. and TV provider Dish Network Corp. say they have reached an agreement that ends a contract dispute that led to a short programming blackout in 18 local markets.
  
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• Thousands lose power in South Seattle and Burien

  06-12-2014 19:38
  
  About 9,700 customers in South Seattle and Burien were without power Saturday morning, according to Seattle City Light.
  
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• Court battle rages long after Susan Powell’s disappearance

  06-12-2014 19:13
  
  Five years after Utah mother Susan Powell went missing, a court battle is raging over millions in life insurance money between her parents and the family of her husband, the only suspect in her disappearance.
  
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• Our Critics' Picks for Saturday

  06-12-2014 19:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: ANONYMITY EDITION
  It's A Wonderful Life @ Cornish Playhouse
  "What's unique about Theater Anonymous is summed up in its tagline: "Nobody knows the cast, not even the cast." To prepare for this one-night-only performance of It's a Wonderful Life, each actor rehearsed one-on-one with the director, and tonight's show brings the full cast together onstage for the first and last time. The great finishing gimmick: Cast members sit in the audience, unknown
  
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• Sammamish woman charged in crash into house that killed 2

  06-12-2014 16:19
  
  A 68-year-old Sammamish woman was charged with vehicular homicide and vehicular assault after allegedly plowing her new Jeep through her lakefront home in May in a crash that killed her husband and son-in-law and seriously injured her daughter.
  
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• Daily Rant&Rave: Grow up, race-car wannabe

  06-12-2014 15:01
  
  RAVE To the kind person who found my Fitbit bracelet at Fred Meyer and turned it in to customer service, and to the folks there who were so helpful when I called to see if it had been found. I use my Fitbit every day to help motivate me in my exercise program, so getting it back after it dropped off
  
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• Reasons for joy, but not in crime stats

  06-12-2014 07:27
  
  Even good news can make you sullen when you’re being spun. But some acts are so genuine they can cheer even the grumpiest among us.
  
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• Viaduct and soil sink near stranded Bertha

  06-12-2014 06:50
  
  Update, 9:40 p.m.|
  
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• Viaduct and soil sinks near stranded Bertha

  06-12-2014 06:30
  
  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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• Viaduct sinks an inch as workers dig to repair Bertha

  06-12-2014 06:19
  
  Exactly a year after tunnel machine Bertha stalled underground, word comes that the Alaskan Way Viaduct sank 1.2 inches this fall. What does this mean for the Highway 99 tunnel?
  
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• Zoo CEO: Public views welcome on elephants

  06-12-2014 05:16
  
  Woodland Park Zoo officials say they will look into ways to make board meetings more accessible after members of the public and news media were kept out earlier this week.
  
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• Driver fatally injured after car-train collision in Sodo

  06-12-2014 04:51
  
  Update at 7:52 p.m.: The car hit a BNSF grain train bound for Seattle, BNSF spokesman Gus Melonas said. The mile-long train stopped after crews were alerted to the crash, which also delayed four other freight trains.
  
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• Videotape of Apple’s Steve Jobs played in antitrust trial

  06-12-2014 04:42
  
  Apple’s late CEO, Steve Jobs, gave a firm defense of Apple’s software, which blocked music from services that competed with Apple’s iTunes store in a videotaped deposition.
  
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• Renowned UW educator John Goodlad dies at 94

  06-12-2014 04:37
  
  John Goodlad, a retired University of Washington professor and researcher who spent more than six decades asking the big questions about the role of education in a democratic society has died at age 94.
  
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• CBS blacks out Seattle's CW Network channel

  06-12-2014 04:06
  
  CBS Corp. has blocked Dish Network customer access to its owned-and-operated local channels, including Seattle’s KSTW-TV, because of a disagreement between the two companies regarding program fees.
  
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• Driver fatally injured after car hits train in Sodo

  06-12-2014 04:04
  
  Update at 7 p.m.: Witnesses told police that the collision victim drove around a line of cars stopped for the railroad crossing, drove into the oncoming lanes and was crossing the tracks when a northbound train hit the car, the Seattle Police Department said.
  
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• 1 person fatally injured after car hits train in Sodo

  06-12-2014 03:29
  
  Update at 6:28 p.m.: The driver, an adult male, has died from his injuries, according to the Seattle Fire Department.
  
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• Coast Guard proposes Bering Strait shipping route

  06-12-2014 03:21
  
  Last year ships went through the Bering Strait 440 times, twice what it was in 2008, according to a study in the journal Marine Policy. Now the U.S. Coast Guard is proposing a new shipping channel through the strait.
  
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• Sammamish woman charged in crash into lake that killed 2

  06-12-2014 02:40
  
  A 68-year-old Sammamish woman was charged with vehicular homicide and vehicular assault after allegedly plowing her new Jeep through her lakefront home in May in a crash that killed her husband and son-in-law and seriously injured her daughter.
  
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• Prosecutors charge violent felon with break-in and gun thefts from sporting good store

  06-12-2014 02:38
  
  King County prosecutors charged a 43-year-old felon on Friday in connection with an alleged attempt to steal firearms from the Big 5 sporting-goods store in Burien early Tuesday.
  
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• The Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce, The Stranger and Cal Anderson Park Present: The Holiday Hotspot

  06-12-2014 02:32 via thestranger.com
  
  Saturday, December 6 and Sunday, December 7, Capitol Hill
  Enjoy a weekend full of FREE holiday festivities and cheer on Capitol Hill between Union-Pine and Broadway-12th Ave.!
  Seattle Support Group's pop-up Christmas Tree Lot will be open from 10am-5pm behind Havana. You'll find free coffee in the tree lot from Caffe Vita, cocoa, cider and free portraits by Seattle comic artist Elaine Lin. Kids' Party takes place at Elliott Bay Book Company from 11am-1pm on Saturday with a per
  
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• Council Member Nick Licata Marches With Thousands at Eric Garner Protest in New York City

  06-12-2014 02:25 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Hannah K. LeeCity Council Member Nick Licata marched with protesters in New York City last night in response to a grand jury's decision not to indict the white New York City police officer who put Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, in a chokehold that caused his death.
  The New York Times, reporting on the protest, said that "thousands of people marched from Foley Square and Sara D. Roosevelt Park on the Lower East Side, converged on Canal Street and then swarmed to the West Si
  
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• Dead Puget Sound killer whale may have been pregnant

  06-12-2014 02:23
  
  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.
  
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• Second Annual Psychedelic Holiday Freakout

  06-12-2014 02:17 via thestranger.com
  
  Friday, December 12 and Saturday, December 13, Ballard
  The second annual Psychedelic Holiday Freakout show is coming to Ballard venues the Sunset Tavern, Conor Byrne and Salmon Bay Eagles Club! Don't miss amazing performances by Fly Moon Royalty, Smokey Brights, Fox and The Law, Guantanamo Baywatch, Country Lips, Craig Markel & The 88th St. Band, Gerald Collier, Swearengens, Gibraltar, Duke Evans, Our Mother the Mountain and more!
  More info and tickets HERE.
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• Pot store stays open, judge rules, until church’s suit heard

  06-12-2014 02:16
  
  A Central District marijuana store can stay open while a lawsuit brought by a neighboring church awaits its day in court.
  
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• Moisture Festival's New Year's Eve Extravaganza

  06-12-2014 02:13 via thestranger.com
  
  Wednesday, December 31, Hale's Palladium
  Ring in the New Year with Moisture Festival! Varietè performance, dancing, laughter and appreciation of the good times are the themes of the grand New Year's Extravaganza. Enjoy a spectacular Moisture Festival show and party. Also included in the ticket price: complimentary special treats from the people at Pecado Bueno (Sin Well), and a champagne toast at midnight. Godfrey Daniels will fill the room with giant, red balloons when t
  
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• Frye Art Museum Presents: #Social Medium

  06-12-2014 02:06 via thestranger.com
  
  Now through Sunday, January 4, Frye Art Museum
  #Social Medium: It's that thing where you love an image and that painting goes in an exhibition. The Frye Founding Collection is crowd-curated. The Wall Street Journal says, "The show is a hit," and The Huffington Post agrees that it's, "Not only a beautifully condensed cross section of the world's taste in art, but also a compelling portrait of our present day modes of connection and communication."
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• The Song of the Day Is the Alice Cooper Group's "Fields of Regret"

  06-12-2014 02:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Sorry in advance if this jam is a buzz-killer. Look, I know I oughta be all like, "TGIF! LET'S PARTY!", 'cause it's Friday and shit, but I LERVE this Alice Cooper Group jam, "Fields of Regret." God damn, there really is ZERO cheer here; the song's plodding psychedelic expansiveness comes on like that odd uncomfortable feeling of having taken a bit too much STP way too early on a sunny day.
  
  This song is on ACG's first LP, Pretties for You, which is unlike any other Alice Cooper
  
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• Now the Soil Around Bertha Is Sinking

  06-12-2014 01:52 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Washington State Department of TransportationThe Bertha rescue pit in downtown Seattle. Tomorrow, it will be exactly one year since our expensive tunnel-boring machine stopped working.
  Mike Lindblom at The Seattle Times has the news: "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. The settling shows that the tunnel team is having trouble controlling the soil, crucial
  
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• Sammamish woman charged in crash that killed 2

  06-12-2014 01:52
  
  A 68-year-old Sammamish woman was charged Friday with vehicular homicide and vehicular assault after allegedly plowing her new Jeep through her lakefront home in May in a crash that killed her husband and son-in-law and seriously injured her daughter.
  
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• New Ayn Rand Novel to Screw Up the Lives of a Whole New Generation of White College Kids

  06-12-2014 01:26 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  catwalker / Shutterstock.comTogether, we can stamp out human kindness! Get it? Get it? Eh?The best thing I can say about Ayn Rand is that she didn't write very many novels. I'm grateful to her for that, because she's already single-handedly responsible for helping generations of young affluent white people believe that they've pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps. Imagine if she'd also written a fantasy trilogy about the importance of the free market, say, or a Da Vinci
  
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• Over-the-top enhancement plan is ripe for roasting

  06-12-2014 01:12
  
  The Wrap by Ron Judd
  
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• Figgy Pudding Dodges a Protest? (Also, WTF Is Figgy Pudding?)

  06-12-2014 01:03 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Christopher Elwell/ShutterstockThis, apparently, is figgy pudding.
  So, for a while there it looked like Figgy Pudding—the annual Seattle caroling event that benefits a downtown food bank, not the supposedly edible substance—was going to be sharing space with protesters who have taken to Seattle's streets in connection with the Mike Brown and Eric Garner decisions.
  But, um, the possibility of this happening made a lot of people have a lot of feelings:
  
  And now Seattl
  
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• A disciplined approach to punishment at school

  06-12-2014 01:02
  
  It stands to reason: Kick troubled students out of school and they often come back even worse. The Kent School District is trying to tackle this national problem by overhauling the way it handles discipline. But its answers spark even more questions.
  
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• Poster of the Week by Jim Clithero

  06-12-2014 01:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Is this a giant snake about to pounce on a poor, unsuspecting wizard? Or is it an evil wizard about to send a horrible snake-monster to devour his enemies? Only artist Jim Clithero knows for sure.
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• Can a Former Actress from The Wire Use Showbiz to Return to Showbiz?

  06-12-2014 00:30 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  In the opening scene of Robert Greene's new documentary Actress, a woman in a red party dress and high heels stands before a carefully lit kitchen sink, washing and drying dishes in dreamy slow motion. The dramatic lighting and deep color saturation suggest that most empathetic channeler of women's dramatic fantasy Douglas Sirk, while our brunet subject—shown strictly from behind in her cinched-waist dress—recalls the domestic eroticism of Anna Magnani, archetypal
  
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• Hey Holiday Shoppers! Have You Tried the New Shit 'N' Shop Yet?

  06-12-2014 00:15 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Did you know that in the ladies bathroom at Westlake Center you can now, with just a slippery flick of your finger, go shopping at Amazon's new "Stall Mall" while you're lounging on the public toilet? IT'S TRUE! But will you?
  Kelly O
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• Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, and The Homesman

  06-12-2014 00:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Tommy Lee Jones is one sneaky motherfucker. With hardly anybody noticing, and with only two theatrically released films, he's become one of the best directors working today—and arguably the best when it comes to westerns. As an actor, Jones has been in some of the greatest films in the genre, from Lonesome Dove to No Country for Old Men, but few expected him to start directing great westerns, too: First there was 2005's fantastic The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada,
  
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