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• City Council committee hearing on medical-marijuana regulation

  10-12-2014 23:54
  
  The Seattle City Council is holding a Finance and Culture Committee hearing today and will be discussing medical-marijuana regulations. Watch here. The medical pot section of the hearing should kick off around 3:25 p.m.
  
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• What Do You Think of Pixar's New Inside Out Trailer?

  10-12-2014 23:32 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  The first full trailer for Inside Out, Pixar's first original movie since 2012, was released today and, well, to put it mildly, I'm not very excited by this:
  
  
  So we've got the stereotypical dad thinking about sports and the stereotypical mom thinking about romance and a stereotypical communication gap between them. Only each character is made up of five characters, each stereotypically defining a personality trait, which makes the whole thing even more stereotypical. Predict
  
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• Man suspected of stabbing woman in Belltown arrested

  10-12-2014 22:47
  
  A 38-year-old man suspected of stabbing and robbing a woman in Belltown earlier this month was arrested Tuesday night, Seattle police said.
  
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• 'Tuba Man' killer pleads guilty to Bellevue nightclub slaying

  10-12-2014 22:41
  
  A man who was convicted as a teenager of killing street musician Ed "Tuba Man" McMichael pleaded guilty Wednesday afternoon to an unrelated fatal shooting in Bellevue on Christmas Eve 2012.
  
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• Seattle mayor to appear on Wednesday's "CBS Evening News"

  10-12-2014 22:35
  
  Seattle Mayor Ed Murray is due to appear Wednesday on the national TV program "CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley" to discuss race relations in America.
  
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• High winds bring record temps; big storm coming Thursday

  10-12-2014 22:27
  
  Gusts as high as 71 mph were reported Wednesday on the coast. A strong windstorm will blow through Western Washington Thursday, with sustained winds of up to 50 mph forecast.
  
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• High winds bring warm temps; big storm coming Thursday

  10-12-2014 22:23
  
  Gusts as high as 71 mph were reported Wednesday on the coast. A strong windstorm will blow through Western Washington Thursday, with sustained winds of up to 50 mph forecast.
  
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• Man threatens customers, torches sign at Roosevelt shop

  10-12-2014 22:17
  
  Seattle police say a man set fire to a sandwich board at a Roosevelt coffee shop and threatened to burn the business down.
  
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• Author Meghan Daum on Opting Out of Middle Age, the Dubious Enterprise of Personal Essays, and Other Unspeakable Topics

  10-12-2014 22:15 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Maybe it was when 'journaling' became a verb..." Veteran writer Meghan Daum is speculating on how the first-person literary essay lost its New Journalism luster and became the default mode of feelings-based expression for internet self-publishers. "I wonder if it comes out of self-help culture, in a way," she says. "The '80s was the birth of confessing on TV and Phil Donahue and Oprah, and the sort of 'soul journey.' I think maybe a lot of that sensibility got folded into the
  
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• Plans for salvage logging after wildfires a ‘drop in the bucket’

  10-12-2014 22:06
  
  State and federal agencies plan to salvage-log less than 1,500 aces of trees that burned in the Carlton Complex Fires this summer — a tiny fraction of the timber that burned in the 256,000-acre fire.
  
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• That Guy Who Took a Year Off the Internet Has Some Advice for You

  10-12-2014 22:02 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  A while back, I wrote about the free application SelfControl, which allows you to cut yourself off from certain websites for a pre-determined amount of time. In the post I quoted Grist's David Roberts, who had decided to "take a year off" from the internet:
  I think in tweets now. My hands start twitching if I’m away from my phone for more than 30 seconds. I can’t even take a pee now without getting “bored.” I know I’m not the only one tweeting in t
  
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• French Prog Legends Magma Rumored to Be Hitting Seattle for Their 45th Anniversary Tour Next Year

  10-12-2014 21:45 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger has learned that plans are afoot for pioneering French prog-rock group Magma to tour North America in 2015 as part of their 45th anniversary celebration. There's talk of both Seattle and Portland dates. Nothing is confirmed yet, but we'll let you know when/if it is.
  Led by powerful, bombastic drummer Christian Vander, Magma essentially created a new genre, Zeuhl, which features an invented language (Kobaïan) and a mythological backstory about humans fleeing E
  
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• Senate GOP adds a committee and subtracts some Democrats

  10-12-2014 21:22
  
  Though it still calls itself the Majority Coalition Caucus, Republicans won an outright majority of the state Senate in last month's election.
  
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• Lawmakers parse $1.1 trillion spending bill for local impact

  10-12-2014 21:08
  
  WASHINGTON -- The $1.1 trillion spending bill filed by House appropriators late Tuesday likely will avert a federal government shutdown after Thursday. But lawmakers (or, more accurately, their staff) were combing through the omnibus legislation Wednesday morning to tally how much money will fl
  
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• City Complains About the Cost of Sending Cops to Protests, Asks Marchers to Apply for Permits

  10-12-2014 21:03 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Alex GarlandThe Seattle Police Department's response to a December 8 protest, called by local anarchists, that drew about a dozen people. The department says it has spent nearly $586,000 in protest-related overtime for officers since November 13.
  As Ansel mentioned in Morning News, Seattle Police took to the Blotter last night to urge protesters to apply for permits for their events so police can better plan their response.
  SPD spokesperson Sean Whitcomb tells us the request c
  
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• Police: Officers confront disturbed man who torched Aberdeen house

  10-12-2014 20:57
  
  Police: Officers confront disturbed man who torched Aberdeen house
  
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• I Ate 10 Boxes of Macaroni and Cheese in Two Days, All in the Name of Journalism

  10-12-2014 20:50 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  I assume everyone has a secret shame food they eat alone, late at night, over the sink or in the glowing spotlight of the open refrigerator. Left alone with a container of sour cream, I will eat spoonful after glorious spoonful with nothing but a little Tapatío drizzled on top. But on the rare occasion I take my shame eating to the couch, nothing pairs better with my secret shame show (SECRET'S OUT: Gilmore Girls, always rented from Video Isle) than taking down an entire
  
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• Thousands without power as high winds hit

  10-12-2014 20:38
  
  Day of heavy rain to be followed by high winds around Puget Sound
  
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• Record apple crop slightly less than estimate

  10-12-2014 20:37
  
  The 2014 apple crop came in 3 percent less than forecast but is still a record 150 million boxes, the Washington State Tree Fruit Association said in a report Tuesday on the harvest.
  
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• Police: Felon killed former Tacoma lawmaker in jealous rage

  10-12-2014 20:33
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Report 5: Defendant Admits to Kicking Homeless Man's Stuff, Says, "I didn't assault anyone."

  10-12-2014 20:19 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Cienna MadridAssistant City Prosecutor Joe Everett yesterday at the trial of three people accused of a hate crime against homeless people in Occidental Park.
  Tuesday morning's cross-examination of Mia Jarvinen, one of three defendants on trial for allegedly attacking a group of homeless men in Pioneer Square last spring, was swift and brutal:
  “You testified on Friday that you worked in a soup kitchen before,” began Assistant City Prosecutor Danielle Malcolm. “
  
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• 10 Frames: sex.wav, Rave of Thrones, and So Pitted at ArtAche

  10-12-2014 20:05 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  A sampling of shots from last weekend.
  Brooklyn BenjestorfDress for the job you wish you had: At the monthly sex.wav party at the Mercury, partiers bedecked themselves in fetish inspired fashion with tributes to bondage and rope play.
  Brooklyn BenjestorfShadow dancers: A couple of cuties get down next to the projection screen at sex.wav.
  Brooklyn BenjestorfMellow yellow: One of sex.wav's hosts, Siobhan Hawkins, awaiting the ritual sacrifice.
  Brooklyn BenjestorfHodor!: Kristi
  
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• I Love Televison: Have a Very Creepy Christmas

  10-12-2014 19:30 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  As we're all well aware, Christmas is the second creepiest of all holidays. (The first is obviously Easter, which offers a troubling, uneasy mix of adorable bunnies, pagan birth rituals, and crucifixion snuff porn.) Now, I love Santa... don't get me wrong. But sneaking down chimneys—FOR WHATEVER REASON—is a clear violation of our privacy and civil rights. In fact, there are a ton of odd things about this holiday, which are gleefully put on display in annual holiday
  
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• Prosser pot grower finally finds charities to take $14K donation

  10-12-2014 18:11
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• The Morning News: NAACP Calls on Seattle Police to Fire Officer Who Punched Woman

  10-12-2014 17:42 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  KING 5"I definitely do think he should have been charged with a crime," Miyekko Durden-Bosley told KING 5. "It just hurts. It devastates."
  Should SPD Officer Adley Shepherd Lose His Job? After King County Prosecutors declined to bring charges against him, both the woman he punched in the back of his patrol car and the NAACP are calling for him to be fired. "That punch was a retaliatory act, not a tactical act,” said Seattle-King County NAACP President Gerald Hankerson at
  
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• Walking, Proust, and South Seattle

  10-12-2014 17:31 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Carrie ClogstonA view of South Seattle from a bathroom in Columbia Tower.
  In the current issue of A&P you will find a piece I wrote called "Parts of South Seattle I've Imprinted with Proust." It concerns my walks around South Seattle while listening to an audiobook of Marcel Proust's The Capitive, which is the fifth volume of his 3000-page novel Remembrance of Things Past. These walks, which happened two years ago, left permanent marks (or word clouds, as I call them) on differ
  
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• Deputies say man took heroin, needles to Oregon court

  10-12-2014 17:23
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• King County to allow tent cities for next decade

  10-12-2014 17:11
  
  King County to allow tent cities for next decade
  
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• Day of heavy rain to be followed by high winds

  10-12-2014 16:42
  
  Day of heavy rain to be followed by high winds around Puget Sound
  
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• Rick Santorum Is So Totally Running for President

  10-12-2014 16:28 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Christmas comes early. This time out he's not going to focus as much on slapping birth control pills out of the mouths of sluts or attacking the marriages of couples whose genitals aren't as diverse as Santorum might like. No, he's going to reach out to blue collar workers... by attacking immigrants:
  Santorum argues that the reemergence of immigration as an issue will work in his favor because he takes a tougher line than many other Republicans do. “I take the approach t
  
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• No gentrification in Seattle? A new study makes the case

  10-12-2014 16:25
  
  It's a familiar story in Seattle: Well-paid young professionals move into the neighborhood, property values and rents spike, and suddenly everything goes upscale.
  
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• Study: Seattle remains untouched by gentrification

  10-12-2014 15:31
  
  It's a familiar story in Seattle: Well-paid young professionals move into the neighborhood, property values and rents spike, and suddenly everything goes upscale.
  
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• What it means to be American: We’ve hit lowest point in debate

  10-12-2014 15:23
  
  It doesn’t seem that we’re really that troubled by torture. The only guy who is, John McCain, is the one who was once a victim of it.
  
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• Guest Editorial: Let's Invest to Eliminate Poverty in Seattle

  10-12-2014 15:01 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  City of SeattleSeattle City Council President Tim Burgess (upper left) is in Washington, D.C. today at the White House Conference on Early Learning. He argues that doing more to invest in this city's children "will produce huge dividends."
  Brain scientists, doctors, nurses, criminologists, economists, school principals, and teachers all agree that investing early—very early—in our children makes sense and will produce huge dividends for all of us.
  Smart investments
  
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• Daily Rant&Rave: Don't spread germs in the cream and sugar

  10-12-2014 15:00
  
  RAVE To the young lady who took off her gloves and gave them to a very cold gentleman sitting on the sidewalk in downtown Seattle.
  
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• Prosser pot grower having trouble giving away $14,000

  10-12-2014 14:59
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Madrona man takes matters into own hands to catch burglar

  10-12-2014 14:59
  
  Madrona man takes matters into own hands to catch burglar
  
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• Levee work incomplete as Skagit River forecast to flood

  10-12-2014 14:42
  
  Mount Vernon levee work not complete as Skagit River to flood
  
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• Rats spotted near food in downtown Seattle grocery store

  10-12-2014 14:18
  
  Rats spotted near food in downtown Seattle grocery store
  
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• North Seattle boat fire spreads to adjacent home

  10-12-2014 13:44
  
  North Seattle boat fire spreads to adjacent home
  
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• Protesters Worry About Undercover Officers in Their Midst

  10-12-2014 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle Protesters Worry About Undercover Officers in Their Midst
  
  by Ansel Herz
  
  
  
  On the night of December 8, a band of 15 protesters marched two blocks, from Niketown to Westlake Park in downtown Seattle. One man's cardboard sign read "Shut It Down," and some protesters said they were out to draw attention to the "intersectionality of capitalism and racism."
  
  When the group arrived at Westlake, a man wearing a S
  
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• Charles Dickens and Karl Marx: Together at Last in Play Factory Theatre's Tiny Tim Is Dead!

  10-12-2014 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Charles Dickens and Karl Marx: Together at Last in Play Factory Theatre's Tiny Tim Is Dead!
  
  by Brendan Kiley
  
  
  
  A couple of weeks ago, as protesters interrupted the annual tree-lighting ceremony in downtown Seattle and families in Christmas sweaters complained bitterly that their holiday tradition was being ruined, the two sides were perfectly dramatizing a 170-year-old tension between two unlikely books: A Christ
  
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• Royals wrap up NYC visit with Sept. 11 museum tour

  10-12-2014 07:28
  
  Britain's Prince William and his wife, Kate, wrapped up their three-day visit to New York with events that included a black-tie reception, a basketball game in Brooklyn, and a somber visit to the Sept. 11 museum.
  
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• Prosecutors: Before tossing son off bridge, Oregon mom researched insanity defense

  10-12-2014 07:17
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• FBI leaves door open on agents’ impersonating reporters

  10-12-2014 06:50
  
  In the wake of protests by The Associated Press after an FBI agent in Seattle impersonated an AP reporter to facilitate an arrest, FBI Director James Comey said Tuesday his agency could, on rare occasions and with “significant supervision,” employ such a ruse, again.
  
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• Man arrested in death of former Washington lawmaker in Alaska

  10-12-2014 06:41
  
  A former Washington state representative working as an assistant district attorney in Alaska was killed Monday night in a shooting.
  
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• Policing for recent Seattle protests cost nearly $600K

  10-12-2014 06:34
  
  Demonstrations in Seattle that followed recent grand juries' decisions to not indict police officers who killed unarmed men in Ferguson, Mo., and New York City have cost the city nearly $600,000.
  
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• New Everett logo looks a lot like existing corporate brand

  10-12-2014 06:12
  
  A Seattle designer is defending his contest-winning logo for the city of Everett, after it was pointed out it is similar to the logo of an investment company.
  
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• NAACP blasts decision not to prosecute officer who punched woman during arrest

  10-12-2014 05:53
  
  Gerald Hankerson, president of the Seattle King County NAACP, sharply criticized King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg over his finding that Seattle police Officer Adley Shepherd acted lawfully when he punched a woman, fracturing two bones in her eye orbit.
  
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• New report on torture by the U.S. hurts

  10-12-2014 05:48
  
  It doesn’t seem that we’re really that troubled by torture. The only guy who is, John McCain, is the one who was once a victim of it.
  
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