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• National Pie Day brings crusty locals together in Ballard

  27-01-2015 23:57
  
  Mary Schile celebrates National Pie Day with a fundraiser at the Salmon Bay Ballard Eagles; Shirts Across America raises money to send local high-schoolers to help in New Orleans, still rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina.
  
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• Adam Smith: Republicans have only partisan motives on Benghazi panel

  27-01-2015 23:56
  
  WASHINGTON -- He's called it a "witch hunt" that has already wasted millions of taxpayers' dollars.
  
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• SL Letter of the Day: Noise Makers

  27-01-2015 23:53 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Originally posted on September 18, 2013.
  My question is one of etiquette. My lesbian wife and I live in an apartment. The noise pollution between flats can be pretty bad. Anyone who lives in the building is aware of this, and keeping noise down after certain hours is a common courtesy. I wouldn't play loud music after a certain hour, or let doors slam, or break out the drum kit. If any of these things happen after around 11:30 p.m. on a work night, I don't think I'd feel any qu
  
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• Another Person Has Died Falling Onto the Freeway from a Homeless Encampment

  27-01-2015 23:49 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  HGA man police believe was staying in a homeless encampment fell from this retaining wall to his death early this morning.
  As Sydney mentioned in Morning News, a man died early this morning after falling from a retaining wall on the James Street offramp of Interstate 5.
  Police believe the 41-year-old man was living in a small nearby homeless encampment, says Seattle Police Department detective Drew Fowler. But they couldn't find any witnesses to the fall—about a 30-foot
  
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• Hugely Popular Greek Singer, Aphrodite's Child Member Demis Roussos, RIP

  27-01-2015 23:35 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  If you'd ever heard Euro-pop singer and former Aphrodite's Child vocalist, Demis Roussos sing, you'd know his beautiful voice WAS aural sunlight; it figures then, I learned of his death during yesterday's unrepentant, dead of winter sunshine. Most folks, if they knew him, prolly recognize him as a bearded crooner who sang the very '70s and very easy UK Top 10, "Forever and Ever." Me, however, as a graying long-hair fan of Aphrodite's Child, never followed up on Roussos's pop re
  
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• Republican Senator Kills the "Kill-Bertha" Bill

  27-01-2015 23:23 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Washington State LegislatureSenator Curtis King (R-Yakima), Kill-Bertha-bill-killer. Rawr!
  To recap: On Monday, two Republican state senators, Doug Ericksen (R-Ferndale) and Michael Baumgartner (R-Spokane) floated a bill that would mandate the Bertha tunnel's demise. Today, that bill got kicked over to the Senate transportation committee. And now the chair of that committee, Republican Senator Curtis King of Yakima, says that the "Kill-Bertha" bill won't even get a hearing.
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• Last Night's Episode of The Bachelor: Chris is Boring, Ashley I. is a Virgin, Ashley S. is on Another Planet (and Possibly Drugs)

  27-01-2015 23:14 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  In my wildest dreams, The Bachelor is the longest con, and no one—not the bachelors, not the bachelorettes, not the contestants, not the limo drivers—is an actual person. Ha! We were tricked! The “I love yous” and marriages have all been fake and humanity is still intact. But alas, no one is that talented/horrible at acting, and we’re on the fourth episode of the 19th season. And I am completely sucked in.
  Before we go any further, what we need t
  
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• Heroin deaths in Snohomish County a serious problem

  27-01-2015 22:47
  
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• Elysian Brewing CEO on Anheuser-Busch Sale: "They Want Us to Create More Cool Shit."

  27-01-2015 22:45 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Elysian BrewingElysian Cofounders Dick Cantwell, Dave Buhler, and Joe Bisacca.
  Last Friday, news broke that local microbrewery Elysian Brewing was being acquired by global corporation Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s largest brewer. The transaction isn’t finalized yet (that will happen in about forty days), but the announcement shocked many Seattleites, some of whom vowed to never drink Elysian beer again.
  “The reaction has actually been less than what we w
  
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• What to Wear This Super Bowl Sunday: Here's 12 DIY Ideas

  27-01-2015 22:35 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Only five more days till the biggest pep rally Seattle's ever known! But what are you gonna wear?
  Kelly O1. Find some yarn
  Kelly O2. Sew yourself a cape and some new underwearx
  Kelly O3. Paint those nails!
  Kelly O4. Or paint some jewelry you that already own
  Kelly O5. Shave a hawk into your hair
  Kelly O
  Kelly O(Or give yourself a true-blue blue mohawk!)
  Kelly O6. Airbrush your own t-shirt
  Kelly O7. Or get a jacket from the thrift store, and paint 12's all over it
  
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• Bill proposes state covering postage on Washington ballots

  27-01-2015 22:31
  
  Covering return postage for the state’s all-mail balloting would cost about $1 million for a presidential election and about $2.7 million for the next two years, a Senate committee was told Monday.
  
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• Disney Reportedly Considering Chris Pratt for Indiana Jones Reboot: What Do You Think?

  27-01-2015 22:30 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Helga Esteb / Shutterstock.comI could have used any number of glamorous pictures of Chris Pratt standing on a red carpet to illustrate this post, but I like this 2013 photo of Pratt and Adam Scott eating whipped cream straight from the can a hell of a lot more than any of those photos.
  This morning, the big geek news was the Fantastic Four reboot teaser trailer, which looks to me like a wholesale ripoff of Christopher Nolan cliches, from the Interstellaresque voiceover and imag
  
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• French Prog-Rock Giants Magma to Play the Crocodile April 3

  27-01-2015 22:15 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Remember back in December 2014 when rumors were circulating about a Seattle date for French prog legends Magma's 45th anniversary tour? Well, the rumor's come to pass: The Crocodile will host Christian Vander and company April 3 (all ages!).
  You can purchase tickets here, for a reasonable $25 ($50 VIP ticket gets you a meet & greet and a poster).
  If Magma don't do "Soleil d'Ork" or "Spiritual" on this tour, I'll sulk for a couple of minutes.
  
  
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• Rude awakening: Police find wanted man hiding in stranger's bed

  27-01-2015 22:00
  
  The Wenatchee World
  
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• I Think I Think You Are Totally Wrong Is Totally Wrong, or, How David Shields and Caleb Powell's "Quarrel" Takes Up All the Air in the Room

  27-01-2015 22:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  David Shields: Look at this guy, just taking up space.
  David Shields takes up too much goddamned space.
  It's not that he's a bad writer, although he has written some very bad books (about which more soon). It's just that he's everywhere. Shields looms large over the University of Washington's MFA writing program as its Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence, and his back-flap biography is stuffed full of accomplishment. He's published 16 books, been translated into 20 langu
  
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• GOP senators' bill to kill Bertha and tunnel project goes nowhere

  27-01-2015 21:34
  
  UPDATE, 12:22 p.m.: Sen. Curtis King, R-Yakima, Tuesday afternoon announced that the bill to stop the Highway 99 tunnel project and tunnel drill Bertha would not get a hearing in the state Senate.
  
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• Licata Staffer Lisa Herbold Considering Council Run

  27-01-2015 21:27 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Courtesy of Lisa HerboldLisa Herbold: The next Nick Licata?
  With veteran progressive council member Nick Licata out of this year's council games, will one of his staffers step up to fill his shoes? Maybe!
  There's been speculation that Lisa Herbold, a longtime Licata aide, is considering a run. And even though she told us last week she wasn't planning to jump in, she says that over the weekend she decided to "consider reconsidering."
  "The issues that I care most about are at th
  
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• False Prophet Scores a True Coup, Booking UK Techno Giant Regis, Feb. 8 at Kremwerk

  27-01-2015 21:15 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  The False Prophet monthly at Kremwerk just landed its biggest booking to date: Regis, aka British techno dark magus Karl O'Connor. The producer/DJ—famous in underground-electronic circles for his intensely high-speed, heady, and banging techno-noir productions—will be playing Sunday February 8. The previous night, O'Connor will be performing at a High & Tight function in a Seattle warehouse with David Sumner as Sandwell District. [See an upcoming Data Breaker co
  
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• Oregon man accused of stabbing friend in neck, skull

  27-01-2015 21:12
  
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• A Street-Level View of Ukraine's Renewed Warfare

  27-01-2015 21:11 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Chris CollisonTraining exercise for Ukraine’s first volunteer medical battalion.
  As you may have heard over the weekend, Russia's "little green men"—Russian troops in unmarked uniforms—and Russian-backed insurgents resumed open warfare in eastern Ukraine, shelling cities and killing civilians. Around ten people (some say six, some say thirteen) were killed when a mortar hit a bus stop in Donetsk and somebody (but everyone seems to think it was the Russians) fi
  
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• Governor Inslee Opposes Kill-Bertha Bill

  27-01-2015 20:43 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Washington State Department of TransportationGovernor Inslee used to be all-smiles about the deep-bore tunnel project. Now he's facing flack from Senate Republicans.
  On Monday, we caught wind that Senate Republicans Doug Ericksen (R-Ferndale) and Michael Baumgartner (R-Spokane) were going to introduce a bill that would end the Bertha tunnel project as we know it. Today the bill was read and referred to the committee on transportation.
  Ericksen and Baumgartner's bill would halt
  
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• Inslee climate bill gets first hearing today

  27-01-2015 20:35
  
  OLYMPIA -- Gov. Jay Inslee's proposed cap-and-trade bill will get its first public hearing before state lawmakers Tuesday afternoon.
  
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• Wading through the Insufferable Pre-Super Bowl Bullshit News Cycle

  27-01-2015 20:31 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Spike FriedmanBeastcakes (made with official BeastMode weed) and Skittles are just one way to handle your pre-Super Bowl anxiety.
  We’re deep into the insufferableness of no football before really important football, and I’m already feeling anxious. Anxious enough to buy some Mariners opening day tickets. Anxious enough to comb through over a hundred dip recipes to pull out nine to make for Sunday. Anxious enough to watch the end of last Sunday’s game 35 more t
  
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• The Dropkick Murphys "Literally Hate" Scott Walker, but He's Running for President Anyway

  27-01-2015 19:53 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Suzanne Tucker / Shutterstock.comThe people of Wisconsin love Scott Walker so much that they made a giant portrait of him! (That's what's going on in this picture, right?)
  This morning, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker announced the formation of a committee to investigate the possibility of running for president. This, of course, means that Scott Walker is running for president. To give you an idea of what Walker's angle is going to be, his committee is named "Our American Reviv
  
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• This Morning's Best Long Read: Jonathan Chait On the Return of Political Correctness and the Online Swarm of Illiberal Liberals

  27-01-2015 19:42 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  You should read the whole thing. I want to highlight this bit:
  If a person who is accused of bias attempts to defend his intentions, he merely compounds his own guilt. (Here one might find oneself accused of man/white/straightsplaining.) It is likewise taboo to request that the accusation be rendered in a less hostile manner. This is called “tone policing.” If you are accused of bias, or “called out,” reflection and apology are the only acceptable respon
  
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• Hundreds seeking Kalakala mementos from demolition company

  27-01-2015 19:06
  
  Hundreds seeking Kalakala mementos from demolition company
  
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• Missing Seattle teen returns home

  27-01-2015 18:57
  
  Seattle police say that a 13-year-old girl who went missing on Jan. 16 has returned home.
  
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• Savage Sitcom Sells to ABC

  27-01-2015 18:30 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Get a good look at Dan Savage now, before Hollywood's gay mafia gets its paws all over him
  I mean, it's not like we've never heard Stranger Editorial Director Dan Savage singing the theme song to Alice behind the closed door of the executive bathroom, so it wasn't a complete surprise to learn this morning, while perusing the "trades," that ABC TV had picked up a pilot created and executive produced by Savage. It may surprise you to learn that the show, which remains untitled, c
  
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• Snoqualmie Pass reopens after morning closure to remove trees

  27-01-2015 18:29
  
  UPDATE, 9:25 a.m. | All lanes are open on Interstate 90 over Snoqualmie Pass following a closure to remove downed trees.
  
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• The Morning News: Seattle Wants to Get Rid of the Death Penalty

  27-01-2015 17:42 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Galgoczy Gabriel/ShutterstockThis image is supposed to make you feel gross and weird. It's also what the death penalty looked like for a long time.
  Everyone Is Wondering Why We Still Have the Death Penalty in 2015: On Monday, a unanimous Seattle City Council, Mayor Ed Murray, and City Attorney Pete Holmes asked state legislators from the area to end the death penalty at the state level. The decision arrives while two King County death penalty trials—one for Christopher Mo
  
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• The Morning News: Seattle Leaders Against the Death Penalty, Senate Republicans Against Bertha

  27-01-2015 17:42 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Galgoczy Gabriel/ShutterstockThis image is supposed to make you feel gross and weird. It's also what the death penalty looked like for a long time.
  Everyone Is Wondering Why We Still Have the Death Penalty in 2015: On Monday, a unanimous Seattle City Council, Mayor Ed Murray, and City Attorney Pete Holmes asked state legislators from the area to end the death penalty at the state level. The decision arrives while two King County death penalty trials—one for Christopher Mo
  
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• An Idea Concerning the Death of Kingfish Cafe

  27-01-2015 17:31 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Kelly OShould Kingfish Cafe go out of business forever?
  After ordering a glass of Vinho Verde (one of the best refreshments in the world) and "Fries With Eyes" (fried smelt served like french fries) at the bar of the Coastal Kitchen, I was recognized by an old friend. She had been out of town for much of the previous decade, she now had a family, and she and her friend, who sat next to her at the bar, were kind of bummed because a plan to eat at Kingfish Cafe, which was three
  
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• Who is the 12th man?

  27-01-2015 15:31
  
  Data plays a bigger-than-ever role in the way we experience televised sports -- and rest assured, there will be no player stat left unturned during Sunday's big game.
  
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• Snoqualmie Pass closed Tuesday for hour starting at 8:30 a.m.

  27-01-2015 15:28
  
  Headed over the Cascades? Crews will be removing some downed trees from Snoqualmie Pass on Tuesday morning and the pass will be closed in both directions at 8:30 a.m. for about an hour.
  
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• Man killed after fall onto I-5 in Seattle

  27-01-2015 15:23
  
  Man killed after fall onto I-5 in Seattle
  
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• Microhousing Opponent to Challenge Sally Clark for At-Large Council Seat

  27-01-2015 15:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Kelly OBill Bradburd, on the far right, was part of a group that opposed a mall in Rainer Valley in 2009.
  Everyone's favorite on-one-hand-on-the-other-hand city council member, Sally Clark, has a new challenger for one of the two new at-large positions on the council.
  But don't get too excited. It's not some radical ready to unseat Clark and push the council ever leftward. It's (reportedly) this guy: Bill Bradburd, a neighborhood activist who's gotten most of his attention in
  
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• Micro-Housing Opponent to Challenge Sally Clark for At-Large Council Seat

  27-01-2015 15:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Kelly OBill Bradburd, on the far right, was part of a group that opposed a mall in Rainer Valley in 2009.
  Everyone's favorite on-one-hand-on-the-other-hand city council member, Sally Clark, has a new challenger for one of the two new at-large positions on the council.
  But don't get too excited. It's not some radical ready to unseat Clark and push the council ever leftward. It's (reportedly) this guy: Bill Bradburd, a neighborhood activist who's gotten most of his attention in
  
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• Man dies in fall onto a Seattle freeway ramp

  27-01-2015 14:49
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Food trucks could start serving alcohol

  27-01-2015 14:24
  
  Food trucks could start serving alcohol
  
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• Push in Olympia to broaden ban on using smartphones while driving

  27-01-2015 07:19
  
  Legislation expected to be filed this week in Olympia would go beyond the current ban on texting-and-driving. Lawmakers will now consider barring drivers from emailing, Web browsing and the like.
  
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• Federal Way cop car plows into house; officer didn't shift to 'park'

  27-01-2015 06:41
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Push in Olympia to broaden ban on using cellphones while driving

  27-01-2015 06:37
  
  Legislation expected to be filed this week in Olympia would go beyond the current ban on texting-and-driving. Lawmakers will now consider barring drivers from emailing, Web browsing and the like.
  
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• Monday was another day of record-breaking warmth in Seattle

  27-01-2015 06:32
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• A family’s legacy rides with its GOHAWKS license plates

  27-01-2015 06:27
  
  GOHAWKS is a vanity license plate that could fetch big bucks if resold. Not a chance, says the family that’s had it for 40 years: It’s their dad’s legacy.
  
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• Bills to abolish death penalty introduced in Legislature

  27-01-2015 06:03
  
  A bipartisan group of state lawmakers has introduced legislation that would halt the death penalty in Washington state.
  
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• Shooting reported at Westfield Southcenter mall, 1 minor injury

  27-01-2015 05:07
  
  Update at 8 p.m.| Tukwila police arrested four people after a fight during which someone fired a handgun inside Southcenter mall Monday afternoon.
  
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• 3 arrested in 3 separate drive-by shootings in Seattle within 24 hours

  27-01-2015 04:28
  
  A King County District Court judge set bail Monday for three suspects in three separate drive-by shooting incidents.
  
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• Seattle mayor, councilmembers oppose zoo's plan for elephants

  27-01-2015 04:15
  
  Seattle Mayor Ed Murray and fivemembers of the City Council sent a letter to the Woodland Park Zoo president and CEO Monday asking that the zoo’s two elephants be sent to a wildlife sanctuary, rather than to another zoo.
  
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• State to get $48M from feds to help house homeless

  27-01-2015 03:38
  
  Washington will receive $48.2 million in federal money for more than 200 projects that shelter homeless adults and children or prevent them from ending up sleeping in parks or cars in the first place.
  
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• Olympia mom accused of cutting her 3 young children's throats

  27-01-2015 03:14
  
  The Associated Press
  
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