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• Seattle Rock Band Minus the Bear Now Minus Drummer Erin Tate

  30-01-2015 23:30 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Yesterday on their Facebook page, Seattle's Minus the Bear announced that drummer Erin Tate has left the group "due to personal and creative differences." On his Twitter, Tate wrote, "No bad blood with the guys. I love all 4 of them as much as my REAL brother. I wish nothing but the best for all. Kill it!"
  About the Tate departure, MTB members Dave Knudson, Jake Snider, Cory Murchy, and Alex Rose further noted:
  Erin is one of those rare talents and we consider ourselves lucky t
  
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• Oregon college: Saudi royal did not get a degree there

  30-01-2015 23:00
  
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• We Went Backstage at Cirque du Soleil and Asked 6 People: What Are You Doing?

  30-01-2015 22:45 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  When I rolled up to the new Cirque du Soleil KURIOS tent, set up earlier this week at Marymoor Park in Redmond, I kinda secretly hoped Jessica Lange's Elsa Mars, wearing some weirdly glamorous silk bathrobe, would come out and greet me with her bad German accent. Then I decided I just watch too much TV.
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  This is Amelie. She has a real-deal, most excellent French Canadian accent. She's KURIO'S publicist. "This is Cirque du Soleil's newest traveling show. We have 46 perfor
  
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• Police: Seattle firefighter attacked wife in front of kids

  30-01-2015 22:39
  
  Police: Seattle firefighter beat wife in front of kids
  
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• Police arrest suspect in Everett home arson fire

  30-01-2015 22:16
  
  UPDATE, 1:12 a.m. | Authorities say the suspect in an Everett arson was arrested Friday morning when he returned to the scene.
  
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• Man accused of setting wife on fire in Snohomish

  30-01-2015 22:04
  
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• Snoqualmie making ice cream again after listeria problems resolved

  30-01-2015 22:02
  
  Snoqualmie Gourmet Ice Cream Inc., which supplies ice cream, gelato, custard, sorbet and other products to Seattle-area stores and restaurants, has resumed production after listeria at the Snohomish plant sickened two men.
  
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• Seattle’s Sundance No-Show—Is Washington’s Film Incentive Fund Too Small To Help Seattle Film Industry?

  30-01-2015 21:57 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Mark Duplass and Joshua Leonard in Lynn Shelton's Humpday, the film whose success at Sundance in 2009 ushered in a heyday of strong, government-supported Seattle film presence at the festival.
  Last week, the Sundance Film Festival opened without a single feature from Seattle for the first time in eight years. On the same day, MovieMaker Magazine posted its annual list for the best cities to work "as a filmmaker," and for the first time in five years, Seattle was not on that li
  
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• Another Sign of the Decline of the Local Film Industry?

  30-01-2015 21:57 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Charles MudedeSeattle's fading Hollywood dream.
  Last week, the Sundance Film Festival opened without a single feature from Seattle for the first time in eight years. On the same day, MovieMaker Magazine posted its annual list for the best cities to work "as a filmmaker," and for the first time in five years, Seattle was not on that list. Are we seeing smoke to an actual fire? Last week, a number of local filmmakers attributed the Seattle's absence from Sundance to the early
  
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• Peter Mountford and Matt Briggs Headline the New Issue of Moss, a Magazine That Values (and Pays For) NW Lit

  30-01-2015 21:40 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  mosslit.comClick on the image to go directly to Moss.
  Earlier this week, the second issue of literary magazine Moss (tagline: "An online journal of the Northwest") was published at mosslit.com. You can read it for free on the site, or you can download a .PDF of the issue, also for free. (Issue number one is still available, too.) At just over 80 pages, Moss represents a substantial afternoon's worth of reading, and it offers a nice mixture of fiction and non-fiction. This issue
  
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• Allegation of marijuana theft surfaces against SPD officer at center of golf-club case

  30-01-2015 20:52
  
  A day after placing Seattle police officer on desk duty, the Police Department is reviewing a new allegation that the officer previously stole marijuana from evidence for her personal use, a department official said Friday.
  
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• Eat Like a Local: Some Secrets of Seattle's Food World

  30-01-2015 20:50 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Barbara "Basia" Patrick, PB Kitchen’s head chef, serves up cabbage rolls, pierogi, and more every week at the Polish Home Association.
  Seattle is in the midst of a restaurant boom. New restaurants are opening at a rate that seems faster than our stomachs' ability to sustain them. But quietly toiling away in every neighborhood are unassuming places that also deserve your attention. These stalwarts fuel the city and form its culinary identity.
  Close to my heart and my home
  
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• Marshawn Lynch’s mode: just about that brand, boss

  30-01-2015 20:41
  Marshawn Lynch may get fined for wearing a “Beast Mode” hat this week. But it’s been a boon for a booming brand that Lynch wants to sell in department stores around the country.
  
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• 5 places to watch the Super Bowl in Seattle

  30-01-2015 20:39
  
  We’ve rounded up some places that are throwing their doors open to all for viewing parties on Feb. 1.
  
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• Mike McCready, Seattle Symphony team up for annual Sonic Evolution

  30-01-2015 20:29
  
  Seattle Symphony music director Ludovic Morlot and Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready have teamed up for SSO’s annual Sonic Evolution concert, a tribute to musicians who embody the city’s spirit. The concert includes a new piece by McCready.
  
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• NFL Commissioner: No decision yet on Lynch discipline

  30-01-2015 20:24
  
  NFL Commissioner: No decision yet on Lynch discipline
  
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• Yakima gang detectives investigate fatal drive-by shooting

  30-01-2015 20:21
  
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• Chekhov's Three Sisters Is a Cleaver of Doom

  30-01-2015 20:01 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Chris BennionThe three sisters: Masha (Alexadra Tavares), Irina (Sydney Andrews), and Olga (Julie Briskman).
  There's plenty of traffic on Seattle stages this weekend—Cineastes at On the Boards, The Piano Lesson at Seattle Rep—but I can personally recommend two shows: Strawberry Theater Workshop's Our Town, which was reviewed in this week's paper, and the Seagull Project's gorgeously ruinous production of Three Sisters at ACT.
  If Our Town gently probes at the sweetne
  
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• Council Members Clash over When They Should Be Able to Kick People Out of Meetings

  30-01-2015 20:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Seattle ChannelWhile he's berating council members, Alex Tsimerman usually also does a Nazi salute because he's the worst.
  Sometimes, being a member of the Seattle City Council is all kittens and ping pong and passing history-making minimum wage legislation. Other times it’s people yelling “The fuck are you doing?!” or calling you “gangsters” or “Nazis,” or “The Gestapo."
  Those are all actual things Alex Tsimerman an
  
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• Bremerton may enlist goats in battle against waterfront rats

  30-01-2015 19:41
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Snohomish schools to use ‘panic button’ smart phone app

  30-01-2015 19:35
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Navy wants new station at Port Angeles for submarine escorts

  30-01-2015 19:30
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• The Top Five Things to Do in Seattle Today: Erik Blood, Leatherdaddy, the Bridge Project, and More

  30-01-2015 19:30 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Brian O’SheaErik Blood has transformed himself into a legit frontman.
  ERIK BLOOD
  Fri Jan 30 at 9 pm at Lo-Fi
  Erik Blood's most recent album was the lauded Touch Screens, a pornography-addled rock/pop gem that was as fascinating for its subject matter as it was for witnessing Blood transform himself into a legit frontman. He’s since released volume one of Canons, a collection of mostly instrumental works fusing ambient, experimental electronics, and shoegaze into
  
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• The American Economist James K. Galbraith Reveals a Critical Piece of Information about Greece's New Finance Minister

  30-01-2015 19:10 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Kostas Koutsaftikis/ShutterstockGreece's new Marxist-leaning finance minister has a secret that could make the markets happy.
  James K. Galbraith is an American economist, the author of several books, a professor at the University of Texas, and the son of a famous American economist, John K. Galbraith. Tonight, he speaks at Town Hall about the ideas in his 2012 book Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis. (The main conclusion in
  
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• Ex-Girlfriend Says Golf Club Cop Cynthia Whitlatch Is "a Racist" Who Once "Stole Marijuana" from SPD Evidence

  30-01-2015 18:40 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Courtesy of Corinne PuruckerCorinne Purucker, left, said she dated SPD Officer Cynthia Whitlatch, right, from 2004 to 2006.
  When ex-Tukwila Police Officer Corinne Purucker watched this video on Slog the other day, she recognized Cynthia Whitlatch, the Seattle police officer now at the center of a controversy over her arrest, without apparent cause, of an elderly black man walking through Seattle.
  In a phone conversation with The Stranger, Purucker agreed to go on the record be
  
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• Poultry quarantine in Okanogan County for avian flu

  30-01-2015 18:30
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Man runs off with Camp Fire candy cash at Mill Creek

  30-01-2015 18:03
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Everett home fire was arson, authorities say

  30-01-2015 17:58
  
  Everett firefighters extinguished a small fire in a home early Friday morning, which residents described as arson.
  
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• The Morning News: Murray Signs New Law to Hire More Low-Income Workers on City Projects

  30-01-2015 17:31 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  HGMayor Ed Murray looked downright giddy to be signing priority hire legislation yesterday.
  Mayor Signs Legislation to Hire More Workers from Low-Income Neighborhoods on City Jobs: Yesterday, Mayor Ed Murray signed so-called "priority hire" legislation passed by the city council earlier this month. This is significant because a review of some of Seattle's biggest public projects found that only 6 percent of workers on those projects lived in the city. The new law will require t
  
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• Mitt Romney's Not Running for President in 2016

  30-01-2015 17:17 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  American Spirit / Shutterstock.com"Uh, on second thought, uh, never mind. Ha ha!"
  In a conference call and in a bland statement to his supporters, Mitt Romney just confirmed that he's not running for president in 2016. The statement reads, in part, "After putting considerable thought into making another run for president, I've decided it is best to give other leaders in the Party the opportunity to become our next nominee." (Personally, I think what happened is that Romney go
  
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• MSNBC's Rachel Maddow vs. RNC BFF Bryan Fischer

  30-01-2015 17:07 via slog.thestranger.com
  
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  Weird that the Israeli media would object to the GOP crawling into bed with a group that argues that Jews have no First Amendment right to practice their faith and that Jews shouldn't be allowed to immigrate to the United States. Who could've predicted?
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• Costco to return $2.2B to shareholders via special dividend

  30-01-2015 16:23
  
  Costco has declared a special dividend of $5 per share that will result in approximately $2.2 billion being returned to shareholders.
  
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• Sly Stone Will Be Awarded Years of Unpaid Royalties

  30-01-2015 16:12 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Since 2014 was nothing but bad-news bears all around, and the beginning of 2015 has been tipping into SUCK (RIP: Kim Fowley, Dallas Taylor, Edgar Froese, and Demis Roussos), it's a relief to actually hear some good news!!
  Dig this headline: Sly Stone Awarded Millions In Unpaid Royalties After Court Ruling.
  Sly Stone has been the midst of a massive, complicated legal battle for the last several years to reclaim millions of dollars in royalties that he has never received. After
  
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• Morning fog, but blue skies for Blue Friday; rain for Super Bowl

  30-01-2015 16:07
  
  Planning for part of your Super Bowl party to be outside? Better get out the tent.
  
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• Snohomish County schools getting panic button app

  30-01-2015 15:57
  
  Snohomish County schools getting panic button app
  
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• Dozens of schools installing panic buttons

  30-01-2015 15:57
  
  Dozens of schools installing panic buttons
  
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• Mishka, a new sea otter, coming to Seattle Aquarium

  30-01-2015 15:41
  
  Get ready for a new otter at the Seattle Aquarium this weekend.
  
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• Blue Friday events happening around Western Washington

  30-01-2015 15:26
  
  Blue Friday events happening around Western Washington
  
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• Slog Poll: Which of These Mustaches Would Win in a State Legislature Fight?

  30-01-2015 15:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Washington State LegislatureIs the 'stache of Republican Senate Majority Leader Mark Schoesler (left) big enough to absorb the state's carbon emissions on its own, without raising taxes? Would the subdued bristles of Democratic House Speaker Frank Chopp (right) stand up in a fight over Bertha costs?
  I have spent a lot of time looking at these mustaches.
  The one on the left belongs to State Senator Mark Schoesler (R-Ritzville), Senate Majority Leader. The one on the right belong
  
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• Central Wash. residents say DNR failed them in battling Carlton Complex fires

  30-01-2015 14:51
  
  Government agencies failed to react fast enough to smaller fires that grew last July into the largest wildfire in state history, Central Washington residents told legislators Thursday.
  
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• Police cracking down on drunken drivers over Super Bowl weekend

  30-01-2015 13:57
  
  Police cracking down on drunken drivers over Super Bowl weekend
  
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• Seattle-area Boys & Girls clubs challenge Boston clubs to fundraising contest

  30-01-2015 07:22
  
  “DON’T LET OUR CLUB KIDS WEAR PATRIOTS COLORS!” says the headline on a website set up by the Boys & Girls Clubs of King County.
  
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• Pedestrian badly hurt when struck by car in University District

  30-01-2015 06:52
  
  A pedestrian was badly injured after being struck by a car in Seattle’s University District Thursday evening, according to the Seattle Police Department.
  
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• Sea-HAWKS! Call of migrating Seattle fans rings in Arizona

  30-01-2015 06:14
  
  Thousands of Seahawks fans are making their way from Seattle to the Phoenix area for Super Bowl XLIX, with or without tickets, and making the area their own.
  
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• Shell poised to resume drilling off North Slope

  30-01-2015 05:51
  
  Shell Oil plans to resume exploratory oil drilling in the Arctic waters off Alaska this summer. The decision could create local jobs by turning a Seattle port terminal into an fleet hub, but environmental groups are opposed to a lease now under negotiation.
  
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• Vietnamese taught at school with community in mind

  30-01-2015 05:48
  
  Educators behind a new Vietnamese-language immersion program at White Center Heights Elementary School — the only such program in the state — hope to prove the power of dual-language learning.
  
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• House supports judicial review of mental-health decisions

  30-01-2015 05:25
  
  The Washington state House passed a bill Thursday to allow family members to ask a judge to review cases whenever a designated mental-health professional decides not to detain someone who could be a danger to themselves or others.
  
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• $12 minimum-wage bill advances after fiery debate

  30-01-2015 05:14
  
  OLYMPIA -- A bill to boost the state minimum wage to $12-an-hour over four years passed out of a House committee Thursday, but not before an opposed GOP lawmaker ripped minimum-wage activists as entitled in a "kids-these-days" diatribe.
  
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• Nobody hurt in explosion, fire at auto-parts store near JBLM

  30-01-2015 05:14
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Steinbrueck gives a mixed report on city’s ‘urban villages’

  30-01-2015 05:09
  
  Former City Councilmember Peter Steinbreuck presented his study of Seattle’s growth, including its 20-year-old “urban village” strategy and found that the strategy is working, but the growth is uneven and poorly tracked.
  
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