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• No, Jeb Bush Is Not the "Republican Obama"

  04-02-2015 23:53 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Mykhaylo Palinchak / Shutterstock.com"Wait, who are they calling the Republican me?"
  David Frum wins the coveted "Dumbest Article of the Day" award for his Atlantic story, "Is Jeb Bush a Republican Obama?" Look. I understand that at this early stage, journalists need to fill column inches by floating the most ridiculous theories possible. And I know Bush is trying to paint himself as a kinder, gentler compassionate conservative "right to rise" Republican. But this is just fuck
  
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• Vaccine exemptions exceed 10% at dozens of Seattle-area schools

  04-02-2015 23:50
  
  Whether it's the measles outbreak at Disneyland or comments by likely presidential candidates Chris Christie and Rand Paul, it seems there is vaccination news almost every day. Just last week, an infant in King County was confirmed to have the virus.
  
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• Explore this: Vaccine exemption rates for every Washington school

  04-02-2015 23:49
  
  Do you know how many kids at your neighborhood school aren't vaccinated?
  
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• The Reading Party Is in Three Hours! Look at These Photos of the New Fireside Room!

  04-02-2015 23:43 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Courtesy of Sorrento HotelTonight will be the first reading party in the spiffed-up room.
  It's purrrrfect weather for the reading party, don'tcha think? The city all soaked in rain? New issue of The Stranger on the streets? Remodeled Fireside Room waiting for you? Maybe it's because the reading party had to be canceled last month, but I'm extra in the mood for the reading party tonight. You've never been to the reading party? This is what the reading party is. Paul Matthew Moor
  
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• The Reading Party Is in Three Hours! Look at the Newly Refurnished Fireside Room!

  04-02-2015 23:43 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Courtesy of Sorrento HotelTonight will be the first reading party in the spiffed-up room.
  It's purrrrfect weather for the reading party, don'tcha think? The city all soaked in rain? New issue of The Stranger on the streets? Remodeled Fireside Room waiting for you? Maybe it's because the reading party had to be canceled last month, but I'm extra in the mood for the reading party tonight. You've never been to the reading party? This is what the reading party is. Paul Matthew Moor
  
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• Last Seahawks flag raised over Seattle Space Needle

  04-02-2015 23:43
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Police describe squalor, stench at Lake Stevens home where 3 young children left alone

  04-02-2015 22:56
  
  Update at 1:55 p.m.: A judge in Snohomish County on Wednesday afternoon set bail at $100,000 each for the parents of the three children allegedly left alone in a squalid Lake Stevens home.
  
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• Industrial hemp gets state Senate approval

  04-02-2015 22:13
  
  OLYMPIA — Industrial hemp would be allowed to be grown in Washington state under a measure passed by the Senate.
  
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• Puget Sound Blood Center changes name to Bloodworks Northwest

  04-02-2015 22:04
  
  Puget Sound Blood Center, the 71-year-old blood-collection and distribution agency, has changed its name to Bloodworks Northwest to reflect a reach that has grown beyond the Seattle area, officials said Wednesday.
  
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• Feds list orca Lolita held in Miami Seaquarium as endangered

  04-02-2015 21:59
  
  The federal government has decided to list Lolita, an orca caught 44 years ago in Penn Cove and held at Miami Seaquarium, as protected under the Endangered Species Act.
  
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• Senate passes bill allowing growing industrial hemp

  04-02-2015 21:31
  
  Industrial hemp would be allowed to be grown in Washington state under a measure passed by the Senate.
  
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• Colored Vinyl Ain't So Groovy, Says Curmudgeonly Music Editor Mike McGonigal

  04-02-2015 21:30 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  imagefactory/ShutterstockPretty... and problematic.
  Mike McGonigal—former Seattleite and Stranger contributor, current music editor for Detroit's Metro Times weekly paper—wrote a funny rant about the prevalence of colored vinyl on the market for that publication's blog. The post—which doubles as a screed against press releases whose e-mail subject headers are rendered in all caps, which I cosign—was inspired by news of Georgia metal band Mastodon reissui
  
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• For video-game designer Kathie Flood, no thongs, no gore

  04-02-2015 21:23
  
  “If you want to make a different kind of game, you need a different demographic building the game.”
  
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• Feds list orca held in Miami Seaquarium as endangered

  04-02-2015 21:23
  
  The federal government has decided to list Lolita, an orca caught 44 years ago in Penn Cove and held at Miami Seaquarium, as protected under the Endangered Species Act.
  
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• Police describe squalor, stench at Lake Stevens home where young children left alone

  04-02-2015 21:15
  
  The stench of feces, human and cat urine and rotting food was overwhelming to police who responded Saturday to the Lake Stevens home where three abandoned children were found in squalid conditions, according to a newly released court document.
  
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• What Do You Think of the Magic Mike XXL Trailer?

  04-02-2015 21:09 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  I saw Magic Mike on a Saturday afternoon at a suburban cineplex packed to the rafters with women. It was one of the best moviegoing experiences I've ever had—everyone was screaming and giggling and generally losing their minds. I appreciated that director Steven Soderbergh managed to make Tampa look exactly like Tampa; everything had an edge of Floridian smarm to it that film doesn't always capture. And the movie surprised me by being a solid study of what it means to be
  
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• Restaurant Openings in Ballard, Belltown, Capitol Hill, and Georgetown; Edouardo Jordan to Open Salare in Ravenna

  04-02-2015 21:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Aubrey PickFish stew with heirloom beans at Belltown's new Shaker + Spear.
  Now Open
  Ballard’s Hotel Albatross is a collaboration between Zach Harjo (Ocho) and Keith Bartoloni and Andrew Church (both of Hazlewood). Located in the building that housed an Azteca Mexican restaurant for more than three decades, Albatross serves classic tiki cocktails and street food-style dishes. It also houses a late-night walk-up window called—wait for it—Sexy Alley Puffy Tacos,
  
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• Taciturn Athletes, Rap-Related Fatalities, and a New Addition to the Pantheon of Awesome Seattle Losers

  04-02-2015 20:50 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Marshawn Lynch, performance poet.
  MONDAY, JANUARY 26 This week of taciturn athletes, rap-related fatalities, and one passionately anticipated Super Bowl kicked off with another woman coming forward with claims of being drugged and raped by Bill Cosby. Today's subject: Cindra Ladd, a philanthropist and former entertainment executive who's been married to film producer Alan Ladd (aka the man who green-lit Star Wars) since 1985. As she writes in her first-person essay at the Huffi
  
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• Report: Marshawn Lynch won't be fined for Super Bowl week actions

  04-02-2015 20:20
  
  Report: Marshawn Lynch won't be fined for Super Bowl week actions
  
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• Match Proves Patrick Stewart Can Fix (Almost) Anything

  04-02-2015 20:10 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  (Match plays at Sundance Cinemas today and tomorrow.)
  
  Building a film around Patrick Stewart is a great way to hide flaws in your filmmaking skills. Stewart is such a terrific, watchable actor that he even makes dreck like Star Trek: Nemesis seem better than it is. Even better, Match is a small-scale personal drama, and so Stewart dominates the production, imbuing it with his charm. You want to like Match, but those few moments when Stewart is off-screen remind you that the fl
  
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• Man stuck head-first in rail car rescued after 18 hours

  04-02-2015 20:02
  
  Man stuck head-first in rail car rescued after 18 hours
  
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• Neighbor of Clark County shooting range grazed by bullet

  04-02-2015 19:24
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• In Your Opinion, Is This Week's Stranger Inflammatory, Racist, or Racially Inflammatory?

  04-02-2015 19:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Read the whole new issue of The Stranger right here!
  
  1. In the film section, IJEOMA OLUO exploits a seemingly innocuous Kevin Costner movie, transforming it into another opportunity to complain about race relations in America. What kind of spirited racial discourse was Oluo expecting when she attended a screening of a Kevin Costner film? Has Costner starred in anything worthwhile over the past two decades? Did Oluo enter the theater expecting to see racism solved by the end of
  
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• Firefighters rescue man stuck inside railway car after walkers hear yells, see feet

  04-02-2015 18:49
  
  UPDATED, 9:30 a.m.
  
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• Firefighters rescue man trapped inside abandoned railway car near Shilshole

  04-02-2015 18:31
  
  UPDATE 9:30 A.M.
  
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• Firefighters rescue man trapped inside oil tank car near Shilshole

  04-02-2015 18:03
  
  A man who was apparently trapped in an oil tank car stopped on the tracks near Shilshole since Tuesday night has been rescued, according to the Seattle Fire Department.
  
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• RIP, Underground Performance Space the Josephine

  04-02-2015 18:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Ballard venue the Josephine, a long-time bastion of adventurous underground music and other species of unhinged performance arts, ceased operations Tuesday, February 3. However, Josephine lease holder and show booker Malaki Stahl says in an e-mail interview that the tenants who live in the space and work for the venue have not been evicted. "We are there at least until the end of this lease and may continue to rent there depending. The people who live there will remain, as far
  
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• The Morning News: UW President Leaves for Texas, a State That Actually Focuses on Higher Ed

  04-02-2015 17:41 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  University of WashingtonSee ya, suckers! Outgoing University of Washington President Michael Young will become the president of Texas A&M. He says Texas pays more attention to its public universities than ours does.
  UW President Michael Young Departs for Texas A&M: "One of the attractions, he said, was the amount of money Texas lawmakers are interested in investing in the university system," reports the Seattle Times. "He expressed disappointment that Washington lawmakers haven
  
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• Creationists Upset About the Appearance of a "Biological Fact" in a Super Bowl Ad

  04-02-2015 17:16 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Screenshot from YouTube "We did not come from the sea, we came from Adam."
  Our belief in progress should be shaken by the fact that a president in our late times could not make without great trouble a speech like the one delivered by John F. Kennedy in 1962 at a dinner for the America’s Cup crews. In that speech, JFK stated that it is "a biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean." A half-centu
  
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• Ballard ‘hold-out house’ set for foreclosure auction

  04-02-2015 16:36
  
  Ballard ‘hold-out house’ going to auction
  
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• Welcome to the Sasquatch! 2015! Lineup!

  04-02-2015 16:26 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Trevor CrumpTy Segall at the Sasquatch! announcement party last night.
  Oh boy, it's time to start thinking ahead to summer short shorts and beer bongs (finally). The Neptune hosted the annual Sasquatch! lineup announcement party last night, with music from the Young Evils, Tacocat (disclaimer: I am in this band; this show was fun), and headliner Ty Segall, who played a solo acoustic set. So who IS playing this year's Sasquatch! over Memorial Day weekend (that's May 22-25)? Oh
  
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• No bail for man accused of stabbing father in Albany

  04-02-2015 15:53
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Man shot in North Seattle motel parking lot

  04-02-2015 15:15
  
  A man was shot early Wednesday morning in a motel parking lot in the 12000 block of Aurora Avenue North, according to the Seattle Police Department.
  
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• Forecast: Series of rain storms headed for Northwest

  04-02-2015 15:06
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• SUV overturns, spills stolen mail on I-5 at Lynnwood in police chase

  04-02-2015 15:01
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Everyone in Olympia Has a Pot Plan, But the One Gaining Traction Is Terrible

  04-02-2015 15:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Left: Senator Ann Rivers (R-La Center). Right: Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles (D-Seattle). They've authored deuling pot plans.
  It's progress that Washington State's most high-profile drug war is presently being fought with bills and proposed amendments in the hushed chambers of the Capitol building in Olympia. But it's still a goddamn mess.
  This year, lawmakers are under pressure to reconcile our largely unregulated medical marijuana market with the highly regulated recreational ma
  
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• Unique crosswalk installed in Edmonds

  04-02-2015 14:32
  
  Unique crosswalk installed in Edmonds
  
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• The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water: SpongeBob Still Exists. He Shouldn't.

  04-02-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water: SpongeBob Still Exists. He Shouldn't.
  
  by Denis C. Theriault
  
  
  
  My favorite thing about SpongeBob SquarePants is knowing that the guy who voices SpongeBob's fat and dimwitted best friend, Patrick, is the aging Bill Fagerbakke—aka "Dauber" on Coach.
  
  Right below that is knowing that the guy who plays SpongeBob's boss, Mr. Krabs, is Clancy Brown—better known as th
  
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• The Duke of Burgundy: Let's Play Master and Servant

  04-02-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The Duke of Burgundy: Let's Play Master and Servant
  
  by Kathy Fennessy
  
  
  
  The Duke of Burgundy is the kind of specialized, fetishistic item that doesn’t just list a credit for costume design, but for lingerie and perfume, too. Director Peter Strickland, a Hungary-based Brit, never explains what “Je Suis Gizella” smells like. On the basis of his third film, which draws from the more decadent strains of 1970s s
  
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• Play: A Movie About Bad Black Boys in Sweden

  04-02-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Play: A Movie About Bad Black Boys in Sweden
  
  by Charles Mudede
  
  
  
  Before Ruben Östlund became a big deal with Force Majeure, he made a very controversial film called Play (2011), which is set in Gothenburg, the second biggest city in Sweden, and is about a pack of black boys who terrorize and rob white boys they meet in malls and on the streets.
  
  This is not an easy film to watch. The black boys (the sons of poor
  
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• Concerning Violence: A Documentary About the How the Oppressed in Africa Put a Hurt on Their Oppressors

  04-02-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Concerning Violence: A Documentary About the How the Oppressed in Africa Put a Hurt on Their Oppressors
  
  by Charles Mudede
  
  
  
  Concerning Violence, a new documentary by Swedish director Göran Olsson, who gave us the excellent The Black Power Mixtape, takes us back to the era of Frantz Fanon, the post–World War II moment that saw an explosion of national independence movements in Africa and Asia. Fanon was a Marti
  
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• Federal Way restricts where panhandlers can beg

  04-02-2015 08:40
  
  Federal Way restricts where panhandlers can beg
  
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• UW loses its top Dawg: Young off to Texas A&M

  04-02-2015 06:15
  
  University of Washington President Michael Young has accepted a job at Texas A&M University and will take the helm of that institution this spring.
  
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• State to pay $2.5M over sex abuse endured by former foster child

  04-02-2015 06:07
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• After Virginia Mason superbug, Patty Murray urges FDA action

  04-02-2015 05:58
  
  U.S. Sen. Patty Murray has called on the federal Food and Drug Administration to finalize guidelines and step up tracking after a deadly superbug outbreak tied to contaminated medical devices at Virginia Mason.
  
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• Norwegian weekly gets reprieve as owner searches for a buyer

  04-02-2015 05:54
  
  The country’s last Norwegian-American newspaper may put out its last issue this month. Norwegian American Weekly began publishing 125 years ago under its initial name, the Washington Posten, and was later known as the Western Viking until 2006.
  
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• Secession talk a split from reality

  04-02-2015 05:47
  
  Why so many proposals to split us up, including in Seattle? Threatening to secede may feel liberating. But those who want to split would probably be hurt the most.
  
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• Hankering for a bean burger, woman burgles fast-food joint, cooks one up

  04-02-2015 05:24
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Enrollment falling far short of state health exchange’s goal

  04-02-2015 05:24
  
  The Feb. 15 deadline is looming for people to sign up for individual insurance plans sold through Washington Healthplanfinder. But, for a number of reasons, enrollment numbers are considerably short of goals.
  
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• Former Seattle police official appeals his high-profile firing

  04-02-2015 04:54
  
  The lawyer for former Seattle police Lt. Donnie Lowe cited a lack of evidence that his client engaged in domestic violence and dishonesty, but a city attorney argued that there was ample proof to justify his firing in 2013.
  
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