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• Why a Local Author Has Sixteen Chairs in His One-Room Apartment

  16-01-2015 23:29 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  WILLIE DAVISPeter Mountford and a table.
  Peter Mountford, the local author of the very good novel A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism, has a great Modern Love column up at the New York Times. Topics discussed include divorce, furniture, shoes, and why people don't have dinner parties anymore. It's titled "How I Came to Live in a Chair Emporium," and you should go read it.
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• SL Letter of the Day: Violating New Rules

  16-01-2015 23:03 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  My girlfriend and I decided before we went on separate trips—mine was for a court case in Philadelphia, her's for her mother's birthday party in Chicago—that we would probably be okay with each other sleeping with other people as long as we discussed it beforehand to make sure we are taking each others feelings into account.
  We had ground rules clearly laid out. After my two day drive up, she called me and told me that she had a guy eat her out and if it was okay fo
  
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• Trial to begin Tuesday for defendant in Carnation slayings

  16-01-2015 22:34
  
  Opening statements in the death-penalty trial of Joseph McEnroe will be Tuesday after the state Supreme Court on Friday denied a defense request to postpone the trial until at least early February.
  
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• Find Out How MOTOR Is Running Seattle's Electronic Underground

  16-01-2015 22:15 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  RILEY SCOTTSam Melancon: MOTOR is his “happy, fun crossover night.”
  "Watch these guys build sonic vehicles and take you for a ride," says Timm Mason, aka Mood Organ, describing a typical episode of MOTOR, a monthly event that's pushed Seattle's electronic underground into overdrive during the last two and a half years. A prime mover in MOTOR's Northwestern stable of synthesizer masters, Mason is one of nine live performers participating in MOTOR XX, a special eight-
  
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• House bill proposes vacating marijuana misdemeanors

  16-01-2015 22:03
  
  Lawmakers discussed Friday whether adults should be allowed to have their misdemeanor convictions for marijuana conviction thrown out if they were over 21 at the time of the offense.
  
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• RockCreek's Problematic "Hip-Hop Brunch" Menu

  16-01-2015 21:46 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  This is the furthest thing from brunch at RockCreek.
  People love the food at Fremont's RockCreek. Former Stranger food critic Bethany Jean Clement wrote that Chef Eric Donnelly's food "makes you happy to be alive, right here, right now." I have friends who rave about their brunch service as well.
  Earlier this week, I got a press release announcing RockCreek's new "Hip-Hop Brunch" series, which will be held the last Sunday of every month "and include a live local DJ and awesom
  
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• The Supreme Court to Hear Gay Marriage Cases

  16-01-2015 21:43 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  This is a big fucking deal. Chris Geidner:
  The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will take up four cases challenging state bans on same-sex couples’ marriages—a long anticipated move that could lead to nationwide marriage equality. The cases ask the justices whether Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, and Tennessee bans on same-sex couples’ marriages and bans on recognition of same-sex couples’ marriages from out of state violate the Constitution’s d
  
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• High Fives to Sub Pop for Signing California Psych Rocker Morgan Delt

  16-01-2015 21:15 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Sub Pop Records announced yesterday that it has signed LA psych-rock auteur Morgan Delt. Last July, when Delt played Chop Suey, Sub Pop's A&R staff was out in full force scoping that night's headliners, Fever the Ghost. But Delt must've made a greater impression then, because he's the one with the new contract. Delt immediately becomes one of Sub Pop's stranger artists, as his debut album, Psychic Death Hole (reissued as Morgan Delt by Trouble in Mind last year), demonstrates.
  
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• Seattle celebrates Blue Friday: Raising the 12th Man flag, downtown rally

  16-01-2015 21:01
  
  It's Blue Friday in the Land of the Seahawks.
  
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• The Mayor Says He Should Use Fewer Words When Talking About Bertha

  16-01-2015 20:37 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Washington State Department of TransportationMayor Ed Murray at the tunnel bill signing back in 2009.
  Use your words, Mayor Murray. USE. YOUR. WORDS.
  KUOW published an interview with the mayor yesterday, in which the station asked Murray about Bertha's possible effect on building a future fourth tunnel downtown. We tried to untangle his initial thoughts about the elusive fourth tunnel idea last week.
  He did not do a very good job re-explaining them.
  First, the may
  
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• Guns, taxes and football: things Inslee said Friday

  16-01-2015 20:33
  
  With the first week of the legislative session in the bag, Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee held a news conference Friday morning to give his thoughts on guns, taxes, football and other issues. The highlights:
  
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• The Seahawks Are One Insufferable (and Serious) Step Away from Another Super Bowl

  16-01-2015 20:16 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Mat Hayward/ShutterstockThis Sunday the Seahawks will face their hardest matchup in months.
  While it’s always time to be insufferable here on the Insufferable Journey to Rewinnining the Super Bowl, this week’s matchup against the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship game is a time to also be serious. Insufferablerious, if you will. The Seahawks are very close to the Super Bowl, but to get there they’ll have to fight through the hardest matchup they have f
  
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• A Political Cartoonist and an Islam Expert Walk Into a Bar and Talk about Charlie Hebdo

  16-01-2015 20:15 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  (Think & Drink begins at 7:30 pm at Naked City on Tuesday, January 20th. The panel is free.)
  Milt PriggeeThis is one of the two cartoons Milt Priggee drew immediately after the Charlie Hebdo massacre. Click on the photo to visit his website.
  Next Tuesday, January 20th, Humanities Washington is hosting a special edition of their Think & Drink reading series at Naked City Brewery & Taphouse. Moderator Ross Reynolds will lead a conversation about the Charlie Hebdo mass
  
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• Walter Jones kicks off Blue Friday raising Space Needle's 12th Man flag

  16-01-2015 20:02
  
  It's Blue Friday in the Land of the Seahawks.
  
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• Out on the Conservative Fringe, Ben Carson Says Republicans Should Be More Like ISIS

  16-01-2015 19:30 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Christopher Halloran / Shutterstock.comHere's some free advice, Ben Carson: never argue that you're not crazy. It makes people think you're crazy.
  Republican presidential hopeful Dr. Ben Carson, who is a brain surgeon, can't stop saying stupid things. Yesterday at a Republican gathering, he compared ISIS to American patriots of old. In the speech, Carson ultimately reached a conclusion that Republicans should be more like ISIS. "They got the wrong philosophy," Carson admitted a
  
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• State feeding hay daily to 500 elk near Ellensburg

  16-01-2015 19:21
  
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• The Boy Who Came Back to Reality: Man Admits He Didn't Go to Heaven as a Child

  16-01-2015 19:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  One bullshit "I visited heaven" memoir by a little boy down...
  The young boy at the center of best-selling book The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven has admitted that he made the whole story up. Alex Malarkey’s story of visiting angels and heaven after being injured in a car crash when he was 6 years old was billed as “a supernatural encounter that will give you new insights on heaven, angels, and hearing the voice of God,” but publisher Tyndale House is now taki
  
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• Growers struggle with glut of legal pot in Washington

  16-01-2015 18:32
  
  Washington’s legal marijuana market opened last summer to a dearth of weed. Some stores periodically closed because they didn’t have pot to sell. Six months later, the equation has flipped, bringing serious growing pains to the new industry.
  
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• The City Council Is About to Approve Priority Hire Legislation. Here's What That Means.

  16-01-2015 18:31 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Josh BisCouncil Member Sally Clark sponsored the priority hire bill.
  In a city where just six percent of employees on big publicly-funded construction jobs actually live in the city limits—and just a quarter live in the county—the Seattle City Council is poised to approve new rules forcing contractors to hire more local workers from traditionally disadvantaged groups.
  A low proportion of local workers on construction jobs matters for a bunch of reasons, from the hea
  
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• Rates for sexually-transmitted diseases decline as partners get free antibiotics

  16-01-2015 18:25
  
  A Washington state program that gives people with chlamydia or gonorrhea free antibiotics for their partners boosted use of the medicine and may have cut infection rates, a new study finds.
  
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• Google Glass Dead?

  16-01-2015 18:05 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Google Glass will be no more. OBAMA'S SECOND TERM ROCKS— Gabe Ortíz (@TUSK81) January 16, 2015
  
  They're shutting down their "explorer program" and may be killing the hated product entirely.
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• The Morning News: Liquor Board Pays Off Records Requester, Murray Says It's Too Early for a Tunnel Plan B

  16-01-2015 18:04 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Givaga/ShutterstockThis is probably how the Liquor Control Board will deliver the nearly $200,000 it's paying a records requester to go away.
  Liquor Board Pays Off Gadfly: The Washington State Liquor Control Board has settled with a man who frequently requests records and complains that the board has violated open public meeting rules. In November, a judge agreed with him and found that the board had committed 17 open meeting violations when it was creating the rules for the n
  
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• Deputies ask for tips in Lake Stevens homicide investigation.

  16-01-2015 18:02
  
  The Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office said Friday morning that detectives are looking for information about the slaying of Summer Francis Smith.
  
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• Wrong-way driver dies in crash on Hwy. 522, west of I-405

  16-01-2015 17:56
  
  UPDATE 8:45 a.m. | A woman is dead after a wrong-way crash near Woodinville Friday morning.
  
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• Women's College Cancels Annual Production of The Vagina Monologues...

  16-01-2015 17:53 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  ...because Eve Ensler's 1996 play isn't inclusive of the experience of trans women who don't have vaginas and trans men who do. So it will no longer be performed at Mount Holyoke. Elizabeth Nolan Brown reacts:
  I just can't get on board with the logic of Mount Holyoke's dismissal, similar strains of which have been seen elsewhere recently. Last January, for instance, a fundraiser for a Texas abortion-advocacy group came under fire because of its title, "A Night of a Thousand Vag
  
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• A Note on Manspreading and the Ceiling Escape Hatch on Metro Buses

  16-01-2015 17:37 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  CMThe kings of Metro are in the habit of opening the escape hatch when there is no emergency.
  What we always have to understand is that we live in a society whose main values do not rise from below but fall on us from above. The absence of this understanding also means at the same time the absence of an explanation as to why a large number of those in the middle class (a class that is in fact much smaller than it believes it is) have such an aversion to taxes. The taxpayer re
  
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• Suspect in cold case killings avoided capture in Wash.

  16-01-2015 16:54
  
  Before his arrest this week in the early 1990s killings of two women in Phoenix, Bryan Patrick Miller eluded possible capture nearly 13 years ago in Washington state.
  
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• PLU adjunct faculty withdraw union vote, say they'll try again

  16-01-2015 16:30
  
  Adjunct faculty members at Pacific Lutheran University, who won a precedent-setting national victory last month when the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) endorsed their right to form a union, have scrapped their first union attempt after about a third of the votes were challenged.
  
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• Fatality closes Hwy 522 just west of I-405

  16-01-2015 16:07
  
  The Washington State Patrol is investigating a fatality on Highway 522 just west of the interchange with Interstate 405.
  
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• Forecast: Morning showers, but warm; snow in the mountains

  16-01-2015 15:32
  
  It's almost  balmy out there for a January Seattle day, with an expected high in the low 50s, according to the National Weather Service forecast.
  
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• Daily Rant&Rave: Kind construction workers lift wheelchair

  16-01-2015 15:01
  
  RAVE For the two kind construction workers who rushed across the street from where they were working to help a woman who was having difficulty getting the man she was pushing in a wheelchair over the curb while crossing the street. They lifted the chair from the street to the sidewalk, a simple task
  
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• Police Reports Illustrated: Hanger Management

  16-01-2015 15:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Callan Berry
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• Man accused of stabbing grandparents at a Mill Creek home

  16-01-2015 14:55
  
  A man who allegedly stabbed his grandparents in Mill Creek has been tracked down by police dogs and arrested, according to a news release.
  
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• Marysville man: ‘We were all scared’ during historic Selma march

  16-01-2015 09:16
  
  Fifty years ago, the Marysville man walked with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil-rights protesters from Selma to Montgomery, Ala.
  
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• Giant crane to lift 4 million pounds of tunnel drill Bertha

  16-01-2015 06:58
  
  A mammoth red crane is being readied to perform a 4 million-pound lift in the next phase of tunnel machine Bertha’s rescue operation.
  
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• Forum on race: ‘There are so many silences to be broken’

  16-01-2015 06:37
  
  More than 300 people attended an event at Seattle’s Mount Zion Church Thursday night to examine repercussions of the controversial grand-jury decisions not to indict the police officers who killed two unarmed black men last year in Missouri and New York.
  
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• Help is on the way for drivers frustrated by backups near Port

  16-01-2015 06:36
  
  Seattle will use traffic police and vacant land to try to relieve congestion when truckers converge on Harbor Island again Friday morning.
  
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• Lakewood cop killer’s getaway driver to get new trial, court rules

  16-01-2015 06:30
  
  The state Supreme Court ruled that prosecutors misstated the law to jurors when they convicted Darcus D. Allen. He was the driver of Maurice Clemmons, the man who shot and killed four police officers in Pierce County in 2009.
  
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• How to store solar energy for a rainy day? A really big battery

  16-01-2015 06:29
  
  The Snohomish County PUD dedicated its first battery system Thursday designed to store power from wind or solar generation for later use during high demand.
  
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• Forum addresses race, community

  16-01-2015 06:06
  
  More than 300 people attended an event at Seattle’s Mount Zion Church Thursday night to examine repercussions of the controversial grand-jury decisions not to indict the police officers who killed two unarmed black men last year in Missouri and New York.
  
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• Renton clerk stabbed in robbery improves

  16-01-2015 04:54
  
  The man accused of slitting a clerk’s throat during a robbery of a Renton video-game store on Wednesday is being held in King County Jail without bail after a judge found probable cause to detain him.
  
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• A tasty tale of growth and food in Seattle’s Jewish community

  16-01-2015 04:45
  
  Seattle’s Jewish population is growing with transplants coming to work at local high-tech companies, and many of the newcomers are looking for community. Food will inevitably play a big part in that community building.
  
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• Free drugs for partners helps fight STDs, study finds

  16-01-2015 02:58
  
  A Washington state program that gives people with chlamydia or gonorrhea free antibiotics for their partners boosted use of the medicine and may have cut infection rates, a new study finds.
  
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• Banning cheese at a Seahawks tailgate raises a slight problem

  16-01-2015 02:54
  
  Cheese is banned Friday at any “tailgating” at the Bainbridge Island City Hall, in support of the Seahawks in its Green Bay game. Problem is, most cheese we eat here doesn’t come from Wisconsin.
  
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• Happy Birthday, Captain Beefheart

  16-01-2015 02:53 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Today is Captain Beefheart's 74th birthday and, normally, as I'm a gushy Beefheartist, I'd be getting gushy and whatnot, right? Well, I'm also a MST3K/Riff Trax fan and I just discovered my Beefheart and Riff Trax worlds collide over the awesomely awful Mexican B-movie called The Brainiac!
  HUH?! Yup, turns out, details from The Brainiac is incorporated into the narrative for “Debra Kadabra,” the first track off Frank Zappa and the Captain’s collaborative albu
  
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• Seattle-area tributes to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

  16-01-2015 02:49
  
  An open house at Northwest African American Museum, a tree-planting and marches are all planned on and around the Martin Luther King Jr. Day federal holiday — Monday, Jan. 19.
  
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• Seahawks wagers by politicians a boost for local businesses

  16-01-2015 02:43
  
  Politicians like to make friendly wagers when their home teams are making a Super Bowl run. So far, two dozen Washington businesses have seen their products in the spotlight during the Seahawks’ playoff runs.
  
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• Free drugs for partners helps fight sex diseases, study finds

  16-01-2015 02:35
  
  A Washington state program that gives people with chlamydia or gonorrhea free antibiotics for their partners boosted use of the medicine and may have cut infection rates, a new study finds.
  
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• Sawant gets second opponent in Seattle City Council race

  16-01-2015 02:34
  
  Seattle’s socialist City Council member, Kshama Sawant, has picked up a second opponent in her 2015 campaign to represent the council’s super-liberal 3rd District.
  
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• PLU adjunct faculty lose union vote, say they'll try again

  16-01-2015 02:07
  
  Adjunct faculty members at Pacific Lutheran University, who won a precedent-setting national victory last month when the National Labor Relations Board endorsed their right to form a union, appear to have lost a vote to unionize.
  
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