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• Will Someone Please Adopt Scruffles, the GOP Kitten?

  28-02-2015 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Here at The Stranger, we're terribly concerned about the rising number of homeless pets—which is why we're devoting space every week to animals considered to be unadoptable for ideological reasons. WON'T YOU OPEN YOUR HEART AND HOME TO ONE OF SEATTLE'S UNWANTED KITTENS?
  Meet Scruffles, the GOP Kitten. She's a 4-month-old, short-haired tabby, and she loves warm snuggles. Also...
  • Scruffles thinks evolution is a construct invented by atheists. She firmly believes th
  
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• Metalhead: Death, Metal, and Rebirth in Freezing Iceland

  28-02-2015 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Not even corpse paint can heal Hera’s intense grief.
  Not even corpse paint can heal Hera’s intense grief.
  After witnessing her older brother Baldur’s grisly death in a farm accident, 12-year-old Hera seeks solace in heavy metal, the music he had loved—transforming herself by wearing his Slayer shirts and leather jackets, playing his Judas Priest records, and learning to shred on his electric guitar. The film takes place in Iceland, both the landscape and
  
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• State Senate doing its oily best to ignore us on transportation

  28-02-2015 07:27
  The state Senate is doing its best to ignore a plan that would tax big polluters to pay for transportation. But it’s catching on with a group that used to matter in democracy: the people.
  
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• Nathan Hale to boycott test, risking fed funding to state

  28-02-2015 07:27
  
  A Seattle high school is in hot water with state schools chief Randy Dorn over its refusal to give some state-required tests this spring.
  
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• Activists hope to trample zoo plan to send elephants to Oklahoma

  28-02-2015 07:27
  
  After two years of turmoil, Woodland Park Zoo’s two remaining elephants are being sent to the Oklahoma City Zoo.
  
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• Gas-tax increase hits surprise bump in state Senate

  28-02-2015 07:11
  The GOP-controlled Senate began floor votes Friday on a state transportation package, only to have the progress brought to a halt by Democrats, who tried to use a recent GOP rules change on tax votes against the Republicans.
  
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• Third autopsy of man shot by Pasco police raises questions

  28-02-2015 07:02
  A third autopsy performed on the body of Antonio Zambrano-Montes, the man fatally shot Feb. 10 by Pasco police, raises questions about how many times he was shot.
  
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• Man charged after Kent girl, 12, is taken from school

  28-02-2015 06:47
  A 34-year-old Seattle man accused of luring and abducting a 12-year-old girl from her Kent school was charged with second-degree kidnapping.
  
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• Sexting doc suspended indefinitely, state says

  28-02-2015 05:28
  A Seattle anesthesiologist who sent dozens of sexually explicit texts and photos while supervising surgeries has had his medical license suspended indefinitely, state health officials said.
  
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• ‘Paul’ Patu, South Pacific Islander advocate, dies at 70

  28-02-2015 05:28
  
  Von Tresckow “Paul” Patu, a longtime advocate for Seattle’s South Pacific Islander immigrant community and a Seattle Public Schools community liaison, has died.
  
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• 60 tribes gather in Tulalip to talk marijuana

  28-02-2015 05:28
  
  Tribal leaders, lawyers and marijuana-industry representatives gathered in Tulalip for the nation’s first tribal marijuana conference, an event that served as much as a policy debate on the merits of legalization as it did an educational session.
  
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• Former junior high school teacher sentenced for voyeurism

  28-02-2015 03:37
  
  Former junior high school teacher sentenced for voyeurism
  
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• Father sentenced for daughter's murder: 'I hate myself more than anything in the world'

  28-02-2015 03:17
  
  Father sentenced for daughter's murder: 'I hate myself more than anything in the world'
  
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• Garage Night, Back Alley Beat, is Tonight at Lucky Liquor

  28-02-2015 02:31 via thestranger.com
  
  Gosh, this is actually a well-designed flyer.
  Back Alley Beat is a hopeful new monthly garage rock, freakbeat, and psychedelic dance night at a relatively new South End bar, Lucky Liquor. I think, as this night is still sorta jelling, the resident selectors are still a loose, rotating buncha record nerds, but tonight's line-up features the high waisted, footstompin' selector mysteriously only known as Strawberry, the ever present rhythm AND blues selector Stevie Dee, plus the m
  
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• U District night spot should lose liquor license, says Seattle city attorney

  28-02-2015 02:17
  The City of Seattle has asked the state Liquor Control Board to suspend the liquor license of Fusion Ulta Lounge, a University District nightclub.
  
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• Will woonerf ever be enough in South Lake Union?

  28-02-2015 02:08
  The Seattle Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey City Council, going Dutch, paves the way for a parklike street.
  
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• Do You Like Horror Films? DON’T WATCH THE TRAILER FOR The Lazurus Effect!

  28-02-2015 02:07 via thestranger.com
  
  Resting Bitch FaceI love horror films. I seriously, most-truly, REALLY-REALLY DO! Just ask my mom. What I DO NOT love are movie trailers that give too much of the film away. This trailer below (don’t watch it!) pretty much features every single scary “jump in your seat” moment of the entire film. What gives? It also leaks the fact that its best male actor (sorry, Evan Peters) stand-up comedian Donald Glover (a.k.a. rapper Childish Gambino) most certainly DIE
  
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• Do You Like Horror Films? DON’T WATCH THE TRAILER FOR The Lazarus Effect!

  28-02-2015 02:07 via thestranger.com
  
  Resting bitch face.I love horror films. I seriously, most truly, REALLY-REALLY DO! Just ask my mom. What I DO NOT love are movie trailers that give too much of the film away. This trailer below (don’t watch it!) pretty much features every single scary “jump in your seat” moment of the entire film. What gives? It also leaks the fact that its best male actor (sorry, Evan Peters), stand-up comedian Donald Glover (aka rapper Childish Gambino), most certainly DIE
  
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• Man charged with abducting girl, 12, from her Kent school

  28-02-2015 02:06
  A 34-year-old Seattle man accused of luring and abducting a 12-year-old girl from her Kent school in January was charged Friday with second-degree kidnapping.
  
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• Bartender Crush: Aaron at Redwood

  28-02-2015 02:06 via thestranger.com
  
  Brooklyn Benjestorf
  Name: Aaron
  Where: Redwood
  Buy Him A Shot Of: Redwood's house-made kombucha. "I like any of our fantastic kombucha cocktails," Aaron says. "There are many variations—a melon one, a cranberry jumpoff, one with whiskey, gin, and vodka now."
  Ask Him To Make You A: Shot and a beer.
  What He's Doing When He's Not At The Bar: "Working on music for Slowdance. Or probably drinking at the bar."
  Words To Live By: "Risk it all."
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• Woodland Park Zoo to send elephants to Oklahoma

  28-02-2015 02:01
  
  Woodland Park Zoo’s two elephants are being sent to Oklahoma City Zoo.
  
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• Poster of the Week by Benjamin K. Shown

  28-02-2015 01:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Once again this week, in a sea of densely packed, garishly colored posters, the one that really stands out is the one with a little breathing room. Poster by Benjamin K. Shown
  (benjamink.com).
  
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• Legendary Trance Guitarist to Join Kinski at Neumos Feb. 28

  28-02-2015 01:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Sandrider + Kinski by Sandrider
  Seattle hard rockers Kinski will be joined onstage Saturday night at Neumos by Jakob Sjöholm, guitarist for legendary Swedish trance rockers Träd, Gräs & Stenar. He'll be playing on one long number, according to Kinski guitarist/vocalist Chris Martin, that will close their forthcoming album on Kill Rock Stars, released June 2 and titled 7 (or 8). "The song is called 'Bulletin of the International String Figure Association'̵
  
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• Legendary Trad Gras Och Stenar Guitarist to Join Kinski at Neumos Feb. 28

  28-02-2015 01:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Sandrider + Kinski by Sandrider
  Seattle hard rockers Kinski will be joined onstage Saturday night at Neumos by Jakob Sjöholm, guitarist for legendary Swedish trance rockers Träd, Gräs & Stenar. He'll be playing on one long number, according to Kinski guitarist/vocalist Chris Martin, that will close their forthcoming album on Kill Rock Stars, released June 2 and titled 7 (or 8). "The song is called 'Bulletin of the International String Figure Association'̵
  
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• Leonard Nimoy's Musical Legacy: A Playlist

  28-02-2015 00:46 via thestranger.com
  
  The first of many albums released by Leonard Nimoy in the late '60s and early '70s.
  Time was when a person who aspired to a career in show business was expected to have several talents. The late Leonard Nimoy was a trouper of the old school, with an old school actor's survival instinct. We all know the role of Spock both defined and kind of destroyed his life as a castable character actor—though I would point to his post-Star Trek work on Mission Impossible and in Philip
  
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• History on Ice in Red Army—How the USSR Won Six Hockey Gold Medals but Lost Its Soul

  28-02-2015 00:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Red Army: A hockey team that was technically part of the Soviet military.
  In Gabe Polsky's last day of filming in Moscow, Viacheslav "Slava" Fetisov—a hockey legend and former minister of sports in Russia—finally agreed to an on-camera interview for the documentary Red Army. Polsky had been calling and calling, but the former captain of the Soviet national hockey team said he wasn't interested. At the last minute, Fetisov said he'd give Polsky 15 minutes. The interv
  
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• UPDATE: Cafe Nordo's Long-Delayed Staircase Is Finally Under Construction

  28-02-2015 00:20 via thestranger.com
  
  Cafe Nordo's Erin Brindley contemplates a void where a staircase should be. Kelly O
  Well, that didn't take long. This week's paper included a story about Cafe Nordo trying to finish their new Culinarium in Pioneer Square—in the old Elliott Bay bookstore—which was being delayed largely due to a staircase. They said their contractor, Seattle Construction, claimed there was a "steel shortage" because of all the building in the city, so they couldn't get the metal they
  
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• UPDATE: Café Nordo's Long-Delayed Staircase Is Finally Under Construction

  28-02-2015 00:20 via thestranger.com
  
  Café Nordo's Erin Brindley contemplates a void where a staircase should be. Kelly O
  Well, that didn't take long. This week's paper included a story about Café Nordo trying to finish their new Culinarium in Pioneer Square—in the old Elliot Bay bookstore—which was being delayed largely due to a staircase. They said their contractor, Seattle Construction, claimed there was a "steel shortage" because of all the building in the city, so they couldn't get the m
  
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• 48 Hours After We Wrote About It, Café Nordo's Long-Delayed Staircase Was Finally Under Construction

  28-02-2015 00:20 via thestranger.com
  
  Café Nordo's Erin Brindley contemplates a void where a staircase should be. Kelly O
  Well, that didn't take long. This week's paper included a story about Café Nordo trying to finish their new Culinarium in Pioneer Square—in the old Elliot Bay bookstore—which was being delayed largely due to a staircase. They said their contractor, Seattle Construction, claimed there was a "steel shortage" because of all the building in the city, so they couldn't get the m
  
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• Drunk of the Week: What Color Is This Dress Thong?

  28-02-2015 00:18 via thestranger.com
  
  The entire staff of The Stranger is divided. I mean, it seems pretty obvious *to me* what color this lovely lady's thong is, but for some reason, we're still all arguing about the hue. HELP!
  What color do YOU see? Kelly O Read more Drunkeness here.
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