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• State Senate passes expanded ban on using phone while driving

  10-03-2015 23:01
  A bill to expand Washington’s texting-while-driving ban to include all cellphone use while driving, except for certain hands-free functions, passed the Senate 35-14 Tuesday.
  
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• Former Office of Film + Music Director James Keblas "Strongly Considering" a Run for City Council

  10-03-2015 22:06 via thestranger.com
  
  James Keblas has worked at a creative agency since being fired last year by Mayor Ed Murray. Now he's thinking about running for city council. Courtesy of James Keblas
  This year's city council free-for-all (literally every seat is up for grabs because of the new district system) has attracted lots of activist-y types. That's meant plenty of talk about about rising rents and transportation planning, and not so much about art or music or film. Enter James Keblas, the longtime art
  
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• Friend of Molly Conley recalls the night she was randomly killed

  10-03-2015 22:03
  
  Defense in Molly Conley murder case goes after police work
  
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• Defense in Molly Conley murder case goes after police work

  10-03-2015 22:03
  
  Defense in Molly Conley murder case goes after police work
  
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• Right Now, a Packed House Is Telling Seattle's Port Leaders They're "Hurtling Us Recklessly Into Destruction"

  10-03-2015 21:53 via thestranger.com
  
  Right now at the Port of Seattle's public meeting. It wasn't supposed to be about the port's decision to host Shell's Arctic drilling rigs, but that's what it's about now that hundreds of protesters have shown up. Sydney Brownstone
  That Port of Seattle meeting we were telling you about? It's packed with hundreds of people upset with Seattle's five port commissioners (Courtney Gregoire, Tom Albro, Bill Bryant, John Creighton, and Stephanie Bowman) over their decision to allow Sh
  
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• Rachel Lark Performs a Special Show in Seattle on Friday

  10-03-2015 20:46 via thestranger.com
  
  Rachel Lark, the amazing SF-based singer-songwriter who has made two appearances on my podcast, will be performing a special show at the Independent Pizzeria in Madison Valley this Friday night. "The evening will feature her original music and a themed dinner by critically acclaimed chef Joe Heffernan," says the press release. Heffernan will be creating special dishes to pair with Lark's music—dishes that will paired up with songs like "Warm, Bloody, and Tender" and "Flo
  
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• Police: Bank robber had underground bunker in Sammamish

  10-03-2015 20:36
  
  Police: Bank robber had underground bunker in Sammamish
  
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• Investigators searching underground bunker linked to bank robber

  10-03-2015 20:36
  
  Investigators searching underground bunker linked to bank robber
  
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• Bank robber's underground bunker discovered in Sammamish

  10-03-2015 20:36
  
  Police: Bank robber had underground bunker in Sammamish
  
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• Alaska begins nonstop Seattle-JFK flights in Sept.

  10-03-2015 20:16
  
  One daily round-trip flight between Sea-Tac Airport and New York’s JFK as Seattle-based Alaska keeps expanding service
  
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• I Was the MFA Student Who Made Ryan Boudinot Cry

  10-03-2015 20:05 via thestranger.com
  
  He disparaged people whom I love, respect, and admire. JAMES YAMASAKI
  I'm the guy who made Ryan Boudinot cry. I'm the MFA student who wrote a book about child abuse, a book about my experience in the Troubled Teen Industry—a billion-dollar network of private, for-profit prison camps for kids. (That's right: You can outsource your child abuse now.)
  For the record, I personally don't care that Ryan made a joke about child abuse that pissed everyone else off. I love jokes. E
  
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• Alan Bishop's Indonesian-Pop Tribute Band Koes Barat to Release Sub Pop LP on Record Store Day

  10-03-2015 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Koes Barat: Alan Bishop's love letter to Indonesian psych-/garage-pop heroes the Koeswoyo brothers. Sub Pop
  Ex-Sun City Girls member Alan Bishop and his band Koes Barat will release their self-titled album on Sub Pop for Record Store Day (April 18; the label's other RSD release is Father John Misty's heart-shaped "I Loved You, Honeybee" 7"). The 11-track album reflects Bishop's obsession with the popular '60s/'70s Indonesian psych-garage group Koes Bersaudara (aka Koes Plus), w
  
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• Uncle Ike's Offers Later Sunday Opening and Free Parking to "Reduce Tensions" with Church Next Door

  10-03-2015 19:51 via thestranger.com
  
  The owner of Uncle Ike's says he'll open later on Sundays and offer his parking lot to churchgoers to "reduce tensions" with the church next door. Ansel Herz
  After protests and a fizzled lawsuit, Uncle Ike’s Pot Shop is offering an olive branch to the church next door: a later opening time on Sundays and free parking.
  Last fall, soon after the recreational weed store opened, Mount Calvary Christian Center’s Pastor Reggie Witherspoon led a rally protest
  
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• A New Neighborhood Bar and Bakeshop, a Vegan Filipino Pop-Up, and a Few Chances to Donate Money to Culinary Causes

  10-03-2015 19:36 via thestranger.com
  
  Former pop-up Coyle's Bakeshop opens its doors in Greenwood this Friday, March 13. Charity Burggraaf
  Opening This Week:
  This Thursday, March 12, Jude's Old Town will open in Rainier Beach. Jude's promises to be a solid neighborhood bar; it's owned by Rainier Beach resident Beau Hebert, who has mastered a winning local watering hole formula at his other business, Lottie's Lounge, in Columbia City. Like Lottie's, Jude's will feature fresh pub food, craft beers on tap, wine, an
  
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• Yesterday Was a Bad Day at the Supreme Court

  10-03-2015 19:31 via thestranger.com
  
  An aerial view of the base at Guantánamo Bay. Everett Historical/Shutterstock
  Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak al Janko can't catch a break. The Syrian man was jailed by the Taliban, tortured by al-Qaeda (under suspicion of being a Western spy), then held at Guantánamo Bay for seven years, during which his lawyers say he was "subjected to techniques that were, on information and belief, designed and intended to break him down both physically and psychologically" (beatings, sle
  
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• Why We Should Be Giving Hell to Port Commissioner Courtney Gregoire

  10-03-2015 18:28 via thestranger.com
  
  Commissioner Courtney Gregoire made a pretty killer argument for the commission's role in protecting the world from Arctic drilling, but her actions haven't followed through. Yet. Don Wilson/Port of Seattle
  The Port of Seattle is holding a public meeting this afternoon (1 p.m.!) at the airport. But there's one thing that's missing from the agenda: The port's decision to let Shell use Seattle as an Arctic drilling homeport.
  The Seattle city council and Mayor Ed Murray have now p
  
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• Authorities looking for man who tried to steal toddler in Sprague

  10-03-2015 18:16
  Video cameras captured a man taking a child from a stroller and running away with the toddler in his arms, according to the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office.
  
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• I Told You So: The Dance Cartel Show at Velocity Was Unbelievably Good

  10-03-2015 18:14 via thestranger.com
  
  Rainbow Fletcher and Hypernova at OnTheFloor last Friday Christian Palmer
  At the opening night of The Dance Cartel’s Seattle show, OnTheFloor, I stood between a pair of cool dads in band shirts and watched as a dancer jumped on my friend’s back and pretended to ride him like a horse. Pink and white lights flashed through the room and the bass reverberated through my boots. OnTheFloor, with about an 80/20 ratio of theatrical spectacle to open-floor dance party, is
  
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• Man in attack on Renton barista surrenders in Idaho

  10-03-2015 18:04
  
  Man in attack on Renton barista surrenders in Idaho
  
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• Ferguson Is the Point Where Budget Cuts, Car Dependency, and the US's Racial History Collided

  10-03-2015 18:02 via thestranger.com
  
  In the movie Strange Days, two "bad apples" in the LAPD murder a rapper. 20th Century Fox
  After Point Break (1991), Kathryn Bigelow directed Strange Days (1995), an underrated cyberpunk thriller set in the final days of the second millennium. The core of the movie, which stars Ralph Fiennes as an end-times dandy and a dealer of a hot but illegal technology, is two murders committed by two white police officers. Their victims are a black rapper and a member of his crew. But t
  
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• Glory Hole Rededicated in Alaska

  10-03-2015 16:47 via thestranger.com
  
  They even got a priest to come by and sprinkle holy water on the Glory Hole. Says the Friendly Atheist...
  The “Glory Hole” is the actual name of a Christian shelter in Juneau, Alaska. They have no idea, do they…?
  The gays stole the rainbow—symbol of God's post-flood, post-mass-extermination covenant with humanity—from Christians. I suppose it's only fair that Christians would steal the glory hole—symbol of furtive, truck-stop and college-camp
  
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• Japan releases Oregon woman held for shipping Adderall

  10-03-2015 16:46
  A young Oregon woman jailed in Japan because she shipped Adderall, which contains amphetamine, has been released from a Japanese detention center, a U.S. senator said Monday night.
  
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• The Morning News: Democrats Call on State Senator Honeyford to Resign, But Now We Have the Apple Watch

  10-03-2015 16:44 via thestranger.com
  
  Students were the first to call on State Senator Jim Honeyford to resign over his racially insensitive remarks. Erin Haick
  Washington Democratic Party Calls for State Senator Jim Honeyford to Resign: The Washington State Democrats have launched a petition calling for state senate leadership to ask State Senator Jim Honeyford—the legislator who said that the "poor are more likely to commit crimes, and colored most likely to be poor—to resign. The petition follows a s
  
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• 14-year-old boy arrested in Bellingham gropings

  10-03-2015 16:13
  
  14-year-old boy arrested in Bellingham gropings
  
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• Seattle leaders against payday loan bills under consideration by lawmakers

  10-03-2015 15:22
  
  Seattle leaders against payday loan bills under consideration by lawmakers
  
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• Here’s Something We Could Do Right Now to Help Low-Income Renters

  10-03-2015 14:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Tenants at the Lockhaven Apartments in Ballard protested last year after their rents were suddenly doubled. More about that here. Ansel Herz
  Here’s an awful thing that’s happening to low-income people in this city right now: A group of tenants lives in an older, affordable apartment building somewhere. Suddenly, their rents skyrocket. With no way to pay double or triple the rent for the same apartment, they all leave. Finding a new place is hard and expensive, so so
  
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• Kidnapper seen on camera running with baby in arms

  10-03-2015 13:29
  
  Kidnapper seen on camera running with baby in arms
  
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• Local franchise owners fighting Seattle’s $15 minimum wage

  10-03-2015 12:53
  
  Local franchise owners fighting Seattle’s $15 minimum wage
  
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• City to study whether it can block base for Shell drilling fleet

  10-03-2015 06:27
  
  City officials announced a shoreline-permit review Monday that could delay or stop the Port of Seattle’s plan to serve as a base for Shell Oil’s Arctic Ocean drilling fleet.
  
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• Who owns Seattle’s elephants? Suit challenges zoo’s control

  10-03-2015 06:01
  
  Activists seek to stop the transfer of elephants Chai and Bamboo to the Oklahoma City Zoo, arguing that Seattle was wrong to transfer ownership from the city to Woodland Park Zoo years ago.
  
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• Suit against Army in couple’s murder gets 2016 trial date

  10-03-2015 05:46
  
  Judge sets trial in lawsuit by families of couple slain by members of a secret Army group that was plotting to assassinate President Obama.
  
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• Hearing set for man who drove girlfriend’s body to Western State

  10-03-2015 05:23
  An Everett man accused of killing his girlfriend, then driving to Western State Hospital and notifying staff there he had a body in his car, is expected to have a probable-cause hearing before a judge at the King County Jail on Tuesday afternoon.
  
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• WSDOT to postpone 12 weeks of Aurora bus-lane closures

  10-03-2015 05:16
  A 12-week sign-installation project on Aurora Avenue North can be done later rather than starting Wednesday, WSDOT says.
  
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• Book-It keeps the pages coming to life on stage

  10-03-2015 05:16
  Book-It Theatre raises $126,000 and Brooks running shoes hosts an event for the Detlef Schrempf Foundation.
  
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• Jury in Molly Conley murder trial hears friends’ hysterical 911 calls

  10-03-2015 05:15
  
  Opening statements got under way Monday morning in the trial of the man accused of killing a Seattle teen in a drive-by shooting in Lake Stevens nearly two years ago.
  
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• Beloved Venue the Funhouse to Re-open in El Corazon's Lounge

  10-03-2015 05:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Funhouse co-owner Brian Foss can now book his "dream bands" in a bigger room. Seattle wins. Kelly O
  After a long search and some setbacks, Brian Foss and Bobby Kuckelburg will re-open the Funhouse—the popular Queen Anne punk/metal-oriented dive bar that folded in 2012—in Eastlake Avenue club El Corazon's lounge space on April 1. Foss and Kuckelburg will become joint owners and managers with El Corazon's Dana Sims, with all sharing equal ownership of the company and
  
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• Beloved Venue the Funhouse to Reopen in El Corazon's Lounge

  10-03-2015 05:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Funhouse co-owner Brian Foss can now book his "dream bands" in a bigger room. Seattle wins. Kelly O
  After a long search and some setbacks, Brian Foss and Bobby Kuckelburg will reopen the Funhouse—the popular punk/metal-oriented dive bar that folded in 2012—in Eastlake Avenue club El Corazon's lounge space on April 1. Foss and Kuckelburg will become joint owners and managers with El Corazon's Dana Sims, with all sharing equal ownership of the company and the building
  
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• Vet loses faith in VA care after surgeries, amputation

  10-03-2015 04:47
  
  A longtime Veterans Affairs volunteer lost confidence in VA health care after treatment for a shattered leg bone ended with an amputation below his knee.
  
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• Catching rays

  10-03-2015 04:46
  
  Anglers get in some fishing before rainy weather returns.
  
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• Hearing set for man who drove dead body to Western State

  10-03-2015 03:01
  An Everett man accused of killing his girlfriend, then driving to Western State Hospital and notifying staff there he had a body in his car, is expected to have a probable-cause hearing before a judge at the King County Jail on Tuesday afternoon.
  
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• 911 calls describe night girl was randomly killed

  10-03-2015 02:29
  
  Molly Conley murder trial starts in Snohomish County
  
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• You Can Follow This Dead Polar Bear to Tomorrow's Port Commission Meeting

  10-03-2015 02:04 via thestranger.com
  
  Mad about Seattle's decision to become Shell's Arctic drilling homeport? Here's how to get to tomorrow's public port commission meeting at the airport.
  If you've ever wanted to go to a Port of Seattle public meeting—like, oh, maybe the one tomorrow afternoon that a bunch of environmentalists and labor organizers will be attending to address the port's decision in support of Arctic drilling—you might want to follow this map that The Stranger art department created.
  
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• Heavy Metal's Illegible Fonts

  10-03-2015 01:28 via thestranger.com
  
  You know what's NOT scary? The melted candle-wax font.
  I'm admittedly NOT a metal head, bro, or dude. I DO, however, have some hesher tendencies. I like some late-'70s metal and PLENTY of the '60s long haired and heavy, but the Nu and Death and Doom and Speed and all the rest of the contemporary genres, y'all, I'm just not into 'em. I feel my lack of a taste for contemporary metal is due to four personal truths: 1.) I can't wear leather jackets, 2.) my sweet, beautiful baby fa
  
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• If a Tunnel Boring Machine Breaks Underneath Seattle, Do We Have a Right to Know Why?

  10-03-2015 00:16 via thestranger.com
  
  "Looks white and gold to my eyes." - Slog reader "cliche," winner of last week's Bertha before-after transformation caption contest. WSDOT
  The Washington State Department of Transportation held another update with the Seattle city council this morning regarding our iconically broken tunnel-boring machine. The front end of the machine is now fully exposed in the pit (woo?) and now the contractor has to dissemble all of Bertha's parts (yay?).
  In the middle of WSDOT's update, ho
  
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