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• Send Us Your Valentines!

  24-01-2015 23:15 via slog.thestranger.com
  
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• Mascots, pot reform, political retirees: your politics week in review

  24-01-2015 22:29
  
  While you were obsessing over the State of the Union or Deflategate, Washington state politics moved forward. Here's what you may have missed:
  
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• Woman arrested after drive-by shooting in Belltown

  24-01-2015 22:15
  
  A 20-year-old woman was arrested early Saturday in connection with a drive-by shooting in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood.
  
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• Fantasy-league sports bills would make it legal to bet

  24-01-2015 19:23
  
  A proposal introduced by lawmakers in Olympia would legalize placing money on fantasy sports by reclassifying fantasy-league competitions as “contests of skill” rather than gambling.
  
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• Girls, 11 and 15, injured in suspected DUI crash in Puyallup

  24-01-2015 19:17
  
  Update, 10 a.m.: Police say two girls, ages 11 and 15,  were injured in the head-on collision in Puyallup Friday night. This corrects original reports that a 12-year-old girl was injured.
  
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• The Top Five Things to Do in Seattle Today: W. Kamau Bell, The Vaselines, 'It's Gonna Blow' Screening, 'A Streetcar Named Desire,' and More

  24-01-2015 18:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Comedian W. Kamau Bell is recording his Seattle gigs for a new album.
  W. KAMAU BELL
  Sat Jan 24 at 7 and 9 pm at Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute
  Back in 2005, the marvelously prickly comedian W. Kamau Bell became the first to tell an Obama joke on Comedy Central. “That dude is cool,” Bell said, but his name is “too black” for America. “Who’s running for president? …Black Osama?!” Bell was just signed to Kill Rock Star
  
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• Daily Rant&Rave: Traffic circle rules revisited

  24-01-2015 15:01
  
  RAVE To the kind gentleman who rescued a couple of 90-plus-year-old women who’d waited 45 minutes for a cab that never showed up at the restaurant.
  
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• Girl, 12, injured in suspected DUI crash in Puyallup

  24-01-2015 07:13
  
  Police say a 12-year-old girl was seriously injured after a head-on collision in Puyallup Friday night. The driver of one of the cars is suspected of DUI. The girl was a passenger in the other car, according to the Puyallup Police Department.
  
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• UW reviewing record number of freshman applications

  24-01-2015 06:32
  
  The admissions staff at the University of Washington's Seattle campus has a lot of work cut out for them this winter. The university received a record 36,528 freshman applications for the 2015 academic year, 16 percent more than last year.
  
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• $9,000 for two? Seahawk fans feel sacked by Super Bowl prices

  24-01-2015 06:30
  
  Daydream believing: two of you attending the Super Bowl. Not gonna happen, unless you have $9,000 to spare.
  
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• Bills would legalize fantasy football betting in state

  24-01-2015 06:28
  
  A proposal introduced by lawmakers in Olympia would legalize placing money on fantasy sports by reclassifying fantasy-league competitions as “contests of skill” rather than gambling.
  
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• Arizona rolls out the unwelcome mat for Seahawk fans

  24-01-2015 06:12
  
  What’s really griping Arizona residents is that their plan wasn’t just to furnish the dance floor for Super Bowl XLIX, they wanted to be the belle of the ball.
  
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• Race to Alaska by sail, paddle: daring dash for a $10,000 prize

  24-01-2015 05:44
  
  Early in June, a motley fleet of small boats will assemble off Port Townsend, and at the sound of a starting gun, race northward. Later that month — or perhaps the next month — one of them will arrive in Ketchikan, Alaska, to collect a $10,000 prize and some rare bragging rights.
  
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• Seattle City Council to lose another veteran council member in Rasmussen

  24-01-2015 05:33
  
  Longtime Seattle City Councilmember Tom Rasmussen said he won’t seek re-election, the second council member to announce this week that he’s stepping down at the end of the year. Nick Licata is the other.
  
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• Annual count finds many more homeless in King County

  24-01-2015 05:27
  
  The annual One Night Count in King County found many more people sleeping on the street or in their cars.
  
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• Sharp jump in county’s homeless population in overnight count

  24-01-2015 05:21
  
  The annual One Night Count in King County found many more people sleeping on the street or in their cars.
  
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• Man arrested in Hawaii crash that killed Issaquah bicyclist

  24-01-2015 05:20
  
  Police have arrested a man in connection with an April 2014 car crash in Hawaii that killed a bicyclist from Issaquah.
  
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• Rare type of syphilis infects 6 statewide, leaves 2 blind

  24-01-2015 04:39
  
  Six people in Washington have been stricken with rare ocular syphilis infections since mid-December, including four in King County. Two became blind. Health officials urge monitoring and testing.
  
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• Final debt payment for Kingdome expected early, thanks in part to Seahawks

  24-01-2015 04:39
  
  The Kingdome has been gone for nearly 15 years, but its debt lives on. Yet not for much longer — thanks in some small way to the success of one of its former tenants: the Seattle Seahawks.
  
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• Lawmakers try to legalize fantasy football in state

  24-01-2015 04:34
  
  A bill introduced by three lawmakers in Olympia would legalize placing money on fantasy sports leagues by reclassifying fantasy competitions as “contests of skill” rather than gambling.
  
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• 4 robbed, assaulted in Seattle's Kobe Terrace Park

  24-01-2015 04:12
  
  Police are looking for three suspects after they reportedly robbed four people at gunpoint and took several items, including clothing, in an International District park Friday afternoon.
  
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• Police arrest 2 alleged burglars found hiding in Genesee Hill shed

  24-01-2015 03:31
  
  Officers arrested two alleged burglars after they found the pair hiding in a shed on West Seattle’s Genesee Hill Friday afternoon, police said.
  
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• Transit Advocates Dance on the Grave of Tom Rasmussen

  24-01-2015 02:50 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  City of SeattleCouncil Member Tom Rasmussen has a mixed record as chair of the transportation committee.
  “Halle-fucking-lujah.”
  That’s just one of the words I heard today while asking around about Council Member Tom Rasmussen’s decision not to seek re-election.
  It came from Roger Valdez, the director of Smart Growth Seattle, who in recent years has lobbied the council in favor of micro-housing.
  “He is the worst council member there is,” Val
  
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• Chop Suey to Retain Talent Buyer Jodi Ecklund and Remain a Music Venue

  24-01-2015 02:33 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Jodi Ecklund, left, will keep on bookin' for Chop Suey.
  Chop Suey's new owners and popular talent buyer Jodi Ecklund have come to an agreement to keep her on staff, and the club will remain committed, as Ecklund put it in an e-mail to The Stranger, to being "a live music venue with a heavy focus on continuing to foster the local music community." Chop Suey's last show was on January 20; its schedule is currently empty, as Ecklund was instructed to cease booking beyond that date
  
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• SL Letter of the Day: Wonderful Fiancé Turns Out To Be Total Shit Stain

  24-01-2015 02:28 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Female and 26. My wonderful boyfriend (now fiancé) asked me to marry him at Christmas. I said yes without hesitation. Super love him and totally want to be with him forever. Dreams do come true, right? Nope.
  There was a friend of mine that he took issue with. He'd been my friend for almost a decade. I slept with him in the not-so-distant past, but it was the past and it hadn't amounted to anything. We maintained a friendly, non-sexual, relationship. My fiancé insisted
  
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• How to Make It Through a Weekend Devoid of Seahawks Football, Plus a Team Update

  24-01-2015 02:15 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Ken Durden/ShutterstockYou're better off not watching football this weekend.
  For those of you newly insufferably hooked on football, I have a dire warning:
  You’re in that bye weekend before the Super Bowl, where you know there’s no football. You’re going to be aimlessly flipping around TV looking for football, and suddenly you’ll see something glimmering on ESPN. Professional football players? Playing football? It can’t be. And you’ll rub yo
  
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• Seahawks tattoos: Die-hard 12s show loyalty with permanent ink

  24-01-2015 01:57
  
  With another run at the Super Bowl, local 12s are getting inked to show their loyalty.
  
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• Pot-related calls to poison-control centers grow in Washington, Colorado

  24-01-2015 01:57
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• White Center man pleads guilty to fatally stabbing mother

  24-01-2015 01:41
  
  A 44-year-old man pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on Friday, admitting he stabbed his mother 18 times in the neck after breaking down her door in a drunken rage in November 2012.
  
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• Rape Jokes Aren't Edgy, but W. Kamau Bell Is

  24-01-2015 01:31 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell throws down tomorrow at Langston Hughes Cultural Arts Center.
  First of all, did you know that W. Kamau Bell has an entire podcast about Denzel Washington? HE HAS AN ENTIRE PODCAST ABOUT DENZEL WASHINGTON. An entire podcast. About Denzel Washington. Feel free to ignore everything else I'm about to write and just think about that.
  And second of all, I don't know if people understand how special and inspiring Bell's erstwhile TV show Totally Bia
  
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• Borrowed Love: S.O.S. Band's Mary Davis Sings About Matters of the Heart

  24-01-2015 01:30 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  S.O.S. Band: Mary Davis and her colleagues, taking their sweet, sweet time.
  The beginning of S.O.S. Band's "Just Be Good to Me," off their 1983 album On the Rise, is just incredible. There is a cry from what sounds like the urban wilderness. It is the cry of a woman. She seems to be suffering in the worst way. What kind of trouble is she in? We know that whatever it is, it is unrelated to war, or work, or politics. "Just Be Good to Me" is an '80s R&B tune (produced by the l
  
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• OMG One-Thousand-Foot Water Slide Coming to Seattle in July! I Hope!

  24-01-2015 01:20 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Slide the City Could this possibly be real?
  I saw this last night in a NyQuil stupor and assumed it was fake because if it's not then THIS IS THE BIGGEST NEWS EVER! Forget the Super Bowl, a company called Slide the City has chosen Seattle as a location to set up a 1,000-foot Slip 'N Slide (okay, remember the Super Bowl again—that's over three football fields long, apparently) party to which attendees are encouraged to bring "water buckets, floaties, and water guns (non-r
  
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• Drunk of the Week: Have You Ever Laughed So Hard You Peed Your Pants?

  24-01-2015 01:05 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  For the record, the two sisters in this photo DID NOT PEE IN THEIR PANTS. Because they're sisters, though, this photo reminds me of the time my own sister, with a pair of pantyhose pulled over her face, told me a joke that was so frickin' funny (or maybe it was funny because she looked so insane telling it, with her smooshed up hose-face) that "tears" just started rolling down my legs. I could not stop. Has this ever happened to you? Tell me over here! >>>
  Kelly O
  
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• UPDATE: One More Hour To Win a Pair of Tickets to See Our Town at 12th Avenue Arts TONIGHT

  24-01-2015 01:04 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Win a pair of tickets for tonight's show!
  Stranger Genius-winning theater company Strawberry Theatre Workshop wants to send some lucky Slog reader on a high octane thrillercoaster ride to the extreme edge of sanity, which is to say, to the humble hamlet of Grover's Corners, NH, setting of one of one of the most durable innovations in the history of the legitimate stage, Thornton Wilder's Our Town. Behind the quaint architecture of the play's milieu rests a devastating metaphysi
  
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• Casting doubt on those mediocre Seahawks

  24-01-2015 01:03
  
  The Wrap by Ron Judd
  
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• Want the New Hugo House to Have a Theater? You Gotta Tell 'Em

  24-01-2015 01:03 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Brett Love, performance binge-watcher who sat through 270 shows in 2014 and all-round spirit animal of the Seattle theater scene—especially the fringier, world-premierier part of it—is rallying the troops on Facebook.
  As you're probably aware, Hugo House is going to be torn down and rebuilt on the same piece of Capitol Hill property, but bigger and hopefully better.
  The House is currently looking for input on what the rest of us would like to see in the new space
  
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• Testimony in Monfort, McEnroe trials to resume Monday

  24-01-2015 00:52
  
  Following a break, testimony in two death-penalty trials being heard in King County Superior Court in Seattle will resume Monday.
  
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• The Hypocrisy of Tim Burgess on Progressive Taxation

  24-01-2015 00:16 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Seattle.govAlternate picture here.Last week, Seattle City Council President Tim Burgess published a blog post bemoaning "Our State's Regressive Tax Structure."
  We need more progressive taxation! Hear hear! This is something we've been braying about at The Stranger for years. It's wonderful to hear that Burgess is on the same page!
  But Tim Burgess is a hypocrite, because while he wants the state legislature to raise taxes on the wealthy and ease the burden on working families, h
  
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• Counterfeit Seahawks jerseys seized from Washington man in Arizona

  24-01-2015 00:00
  
  UPDATE 2:58 p.m.
  
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