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• Ski report: Foot of snow allows Crystal Mountain, White Pass to open in April

  02-04-2015 23:46
  Despite a terrible 2014-15 Cascade ski season, White Pass and Crystal Mountain are open in April after a late snowfall.
  
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• McEnroe: I thought I had to kill 6 victims in Carnation

  02-04-2015 23:16
  
  Convicted killer Joseph McEnroe, testifying in the penalty phase of his trial, said he thought he had to killthe sixvictims.
  
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• How Do You Dance About Technology and Fascism? Choreographers Kate Wallich and Alice Gosti Discuss Ambitious New Shows

  02-04-2015 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Sofa, so good. Kate Wallich at On the Boards April 2–5. COURTESY OF KATE WALLICH
  This week at On the Boards, choreographer Kate Wallich and her company, The YC, will live-Instagram themselves while dancing onstage in between rows of fake potted plants. Later in April, choreographer Alice Gosti's five-hour durational performance piece involving dance, choral music, and the haunting vocals of composer Hanna Benn will premiere at Saint Mark's Cathedral. The subject matter for the performances
  
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• Man pulls gun after flirting is rebuffed by Muslim woman

  02-04-2015 23:14
  
  A man who pulled out a handgun when his advances were rebuffedby a Muslim woman at a SeaTac gas station is being sought for an allegedhate crime.
  
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• Names of public workers not private during investigations, court says

  02-04-2015 23:02
  Public employees don’t have a right to privacy about the fact that they’re being investigated, the state Supreme Court ruled.
  
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• Todd Beamer HS evacuates for bomb threat

  02-04-2015 23:01
  
  Todd Beamer HS evacuates for bomb threat
  
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• Environmentalists Officially Want You to Join Their "Flotilla of Kayaks" to Stop Shell's Arctic Rigs

  02-04-2015 22:49 via thestranger.com
  
  Eric Ross, 28, center, helps inflate a blimp out of the back of a U-Haul truck. To the right is Bill Moyer, 49, co-founder of the Backbone Campaign. Joshua Kelety
  At 8:30 a.m. this morning, a quartet of activists tugged a semi-inflated, 30-foot-long blimp out of a U-Haul truck parked next to the US Coast Guard facility on the downtown waterfront and floated it up 200 feet.
  The blimp had one message: "Join the Flotilla!"One thought kept cycling through my brain as I watched the activists fill up
  
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• How the Seattle City Council Will Fill Sally Clark's Seat

  02-04-2015 22:19 via thestranger.com
  
  Want to replace Sally Clark? Now's your chance.
  This morning, Seattle City Council Member Sally Clark announced she's leaving the city for a new job in 10 days. Now, Council President Tim Burgess has announced the process the council will follow to replace Clark, which he hopes to finish by April 27.In a statement, Burgess said the council “should appoint an experienced ‘caretaker’ who pledges not to seek election to the council this year.”The city clerk will accept appli
  
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• Pedestrian hit, killed by train in Centralia

  02-04-2015 22:17
  
  Pedestrian hit, killed by train in Centralia
  
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• Film in Washington Is NOT a Lost Cause—Why You Should Support SB 6027

  02-04-2015 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Last week's Stranger included a piece by Charles Mudede about Washington State's film incentive and its relationship to a new television show that the two of us hope to shoot here in the future. We felt this article represented a missed opportunity to educate readers about how our state's Motion Picture Competitiveness Program works and why every Washington State resident—regardless of their affiliation with the film community—should support Senate Bill 6027, which seeks to expand t
  
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• Film in Washington Is NOT a Lost Cause—Why Every WA Resident Should Support SB 6027

  02-04-2015 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Last week's Stranger included a piece by Charles Mudede about Washington State's film incentive and its relationship to a new television show that the two of us hope to shoot here in the future. We felt this article represented a missed opportunity to educate readers about how our state's Motion Picture Competitiveness Program works and why every Washington State resident—regardless of their affiliation with the film community—should support Senate Bill 6027, which seeks to expand t
  
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• Seattle's Medical Records Offers Electroconvulsive Therapy on Record Store Day

  02-04-2015 21:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Electroconvulsive Therapy Vol 3 – Obscure Singles Circa 83-86(MR-049) by Various Artists
  Over the last five years, Seattle-based Medical Records* has been one of the most trustworthy sources for reissues and archival digs of old synth-based music and shoegaze rock (as well as an astute judge of new electronic-music talent). Headed by Dr. Troy Wadsworth, Medical—in conjunction with Crispy Nuggets blog—is ameliorating Record Store Day's glut of unnecessary major-label repackaging
  
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• Every Child Deserves a Mother and a Father

  02-04-2015 20:58 via thestranger.com
  
  HuffPo:
  Goodyear police said a 37-year-old man is suspected of stabbing his wife to death Thursday evening in front of at least one of their seven children. John Davis, 37, called 911 regarding a family fight, and police later found 35-year-old Michelle Davis stabbed to death at the family home... Police said the daughter called 911 and frantically pleaded for help at the same time John Davis called 911 while crying hysterically and apologized for killing his wife. The daughter told police she s
  
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• Social worker: Lake Stevens children found in filth 'smiling and happy' during earlier visit

  02-04-2015 20:55
  
  Social worker: Lake Stevens children found in filth 'happy and smiling' during earlier visit
  
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• Sally Clark Takes a New Job at the University of Washington, Will Leave Council April 12

  02-04-2015 20:54 via thestranger.com
  
  Sally Clark will leave the city council in 10 days to take a new job at the University of Washington starting May 18.
  We already knew Seattle City Council Member Sally Clark wasn't running for reelection, meaning she'd be leaving office at the end of this year. Today she announced she's bailing even sooner than that.
  Clark has accepted a job as the University of Washington's new director of regional and community relations, and her last day on the council will be April 12. At least part of that
  
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• Cafe Juanita's Holly Smith Reveals the Two Local, Seasonal Ingredients She's Most Excited About—and How to Prepare Them

  02-04-2015 20:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Penn Cove mossels and bronze fennel are the best things in season.
  What's the thing in season right now you're excited about and why?
  I'd say bronze fennel and Penn Cove mussels. The mussels are great right now and a sign that spring is here. Bronze fennel begins to appear all over the wakening gardens of Seattle as well. I love putting them together. A new favorite dish is a rare slice of roasted Fermin Ibérico de Bellota Presa pork with charred spring salad onions, Penn Cove mussels, and
  
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• Police release photos of SeaTac hate crime suspect

  02-04-2015 19:31
  
  Police release photos of SeaTac hate crime suspect
  
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• Vancouver man pleads guilty to laundering $158,000

  02-04-2015 19:31
  A Vancouver man pleaded guilty to nine counts of money laundering after using his former employer’s corporate credit cards to make unauthorized purchases of about $158,000.
  
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• Sign Up for The Stranger's New Food & Drink Newsletter!

  02-04-2015 19:26 via thestranger.com
  
  Kelly O
  Hey, Seattle! Want to stay up on the city's latest restaurant and bar openings, industry news, restaurant reviews, and food and drink events? Sign up for The Stranger's brand new Food & Drink newsletter.Just click here to sign up, and we'll send the goods straight to your inbox every week.And while you're at it, be sure to check outThe Sauce, our freshly launched magazine all about eating and drinking in Seattle.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Man sentenced in Port Angeles kidnapping, murder

  02-04-2015 19:11
  
  Man sentenced in Port Angeles kidnapping, murder
  
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• Abandoned children OK in earlier visit, social worker said

  02-04-2015 19:01
  
  Seven months before CPS took custody of three children found alone inan unheated and filthy Lake Stevens home, a social worker visited and reported the house was clean and tidy.
  
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• What Do You See When You Look at This Attic? Part Two of Everyone Sees Through You

  02-04-2015 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  This attic is one of 21 paper backgrounds Sheila Heti discovered in a 1940s-era paper-doll set for Freudian analysts. On top are three paper dolls chosen at random. George, a gay man who used to have a secret relationship, was asked what he sees when he looks at this scene.
  George is a gay man of 32 whose professional life is just adequate enough to support him. He works in electronics. His most significant romantic relationship was with a beautiful man named Lee, but that relationship was a sec
  
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• Carnation killer takes stand in penalty phase of trial

  02-04-2015 18:28
  
  Carnation killer Joseph McEnroe takes stand in penalty phase of trial
  
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• Carnation killer Joe McEnroe takes stand, tries to avoid death penalty

  02-04-2015 18:28
  
  Carnation killer Joe McEnroe takes stand, tries to avoid death penalty
  
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• Seattle Restaurant Owner Behaving Badly

  02-04-2015 18:21 via thestranger.com
  
  Spotted, on same day #Seattle's $15/hr minimum wage starts: downtown restaurant enacting 2% "wage equity surcharge." pic.twitter.com/9bcCfjFYdQ
  — Lindsay Cohen (@lindsaycohen) April 2, 2015Lindsey Cohen, a reporter at KOMO, declined to name the restaurant but she says she's reached out to the owners to get more info. So a fuller report—and the name of the place—should be coming soon.
  UPDATE: It's Tom Douglas and he's doing it at all of his restaurants. Seattlish isn't having it
  
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• Indiana To Amend Anti-LGBT "Religious Freedom" Law

  02-04-2015 17:48 via thestranger.com
  
  Indiana's Republican-controlled legislature will amend it's brand new anti-LGBT "religious freedom" law to "clarify its intent." The intent, of course, was to legalize discrimination against LGBT people by religious bigots. That didn't play well locally, nationally, or internationally, and Indiana's governor is done defending the law. (Mike Pence's White House ambitions? Also done.) The Indy Star, which issued a dramatic, front-page demand that the legislature "FIX THIS NOW" earlier this week,
  
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• Racism Has Nothing to do With Capitalism

  02-04-2015 17:34 via thestranger.com
  
  Nelson George from The Lost Treasures of R&B at Elliott Bay Book Company. Charles Mudede
  I have to make this as clear as possible. Racism and capitalism are not the same thing, in the way capitalism and democracy are not identical. Racism and democracy are in fact much older than capitalism, which, in my opinion, began with the founding of the Bank of England (1694), an institution that coupled one form of the market (finance, money lending) with one of the main functions of the state (war). Cap
  
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• The Morning News: More Lightning Hits the Seattle Area, State Republicans Propose Cutting College Tuition by 25 Percent

  02-04-2015 17:12 via thestranger.com
  
  This is what the sky looked like yesterday evening above the Squire Park neighborhood about an hour before lightning flashed overhead and thunder set off car alarms.KR
  In Federal Way, Lightning Struck a Tree in the Front Yard of an Elderly Couple’s Home: And then “traveled through the root system to the home. The lightning blew out drywall in the house, damaged the gutters and caused a gas line to rupture.” Luckily, the couple wasn’t hurt.And We Could See More Lightning i
  
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• Trooper attacked by pedestrian walking on Ship Canal Bridge

  02-04-2015 15:23
  
  Trooper attacked by pedestrian walking on Ship Canal Bridge
  
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• Wrong-way driver’s car wedged under semi in Kent

  02-04-2015 15:11
  
  Wrong-way driver’s car wedged under semi in Kent
  
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• Metro Won't Run This Bus Ad, but Not Because It Looks Horrible

  02-04-2015 15:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Yikes.
  The latest move from city council member Kshama Sawant and her supporters in the minimum wage fight is this bus ad. Organizers from 15 Now, the group Sawant founded and which pushed for the city's new minimum wage law, say it's a response to the city being too slow to roll out its education and enforcement efforts and a way to get the message out to workers about their new wages.I can appreciate this whole "Get your shit together, City Hall" attitude from Sawant's camp, but can we talk ab
  
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• Wildlife agents say law requiring locked garbage cans would curb bear problems

  02-04-2015 14:11
  
  Wildlife agents say law requiring locked garbage cans would curb bear problems
  
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• Mayor announces Expedia's move from Bellevue to Seattle

  02-04-2015 13:39
  
  Mayor announces Expedia's move from Bellevue to Seattle
  
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• VA breaks ground on $152 million hospital-expansion project

  02-04-2015 09:16
  
  A new mental-health and research building at Seattle’s Veterans Affairs hospital campus will expand capacity to treat the growing number of veterans seeking care.
  
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• Signs of The Sonics’ legendary sound

  02-04-2015 08:16
  
  The legendary band The Sonics signed autographs for a long line of fans Wednesday in West Seattle before opening its upcoming tour at the Moore Theatre on Thursday.
  
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• GOP plan to cut college tuition by 25% wins praise; others cautious

  02-04-2015 08:16
  Republicans have proposed lowering tuition at the state’s colleges and universities by about 25 percent.
  
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• Troy Kelley: Federal probe isn’t affecting state Auditor’s Office

  02-04-2015 07:46
  
  State Auditor Troy Kelley said the federal investigations surrounding him and an employee of the office aren’t hurting the work of the Auditor’s Office.
  
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• Kids, jails a bad combination; society can do better

  02-04-2015 07:31
  A King County plan to reduce reliance on jailing kids should focus everyone’s attention on helping all children thrive.
  
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• Oregon lawmakers hear testimony on gun-control bill

  02-04-2015 07:16
  A passionate debate over gun control in Oregon drew relatives of people killed during a mall shooting, law-enforcement officers and gun owners as Democrats in the Legislature push to expand background checks to cover private sales.
  
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• Former UW coach Jim Lambright pleads guilty in domestic-violence case

  02-04-2015 07:16
  
  Former Washington football coach Jim Lambright has pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in connection with a domestic-violence dispute with his granddaughter last year.
  
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• Phillips won’t seek re-election to King County Council

  02-04-2015 03:11
  Longtime King County Councilmember Larry Phillips will not seek re-election this fall.
  
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• Plan to cut college tuition by 25% wins praise, but others cautious

  02-04-2015 02:46
  Republicans have proposed lowering tuition at the state’s colleges and universities by about 25 percent.
  
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• Joni Mitchell is Reportedly "Awake and In Good Spirits" Though Still in Intensive Care

  02-04-2015 02:45 via thestranger.com
  
  The sound you're hearing is a LOT of Joni Mitchell fans finally exhaling
  Good news. NPR reports:
  After being found found unconscious in her home Tuesday afternoon, folk music icon Joni Mitchell has been hospitalized in Los Angeles. "She is currently in intensive care undergoing tests and is awake and in good spirits," according to her website.
  Mitchell "regained consciousness on the ambulance ride," her website says.
  No other details have emerged about why the 71-year-old singer required medical
  
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• Marilyn Manson at the Showbox Seattle

  02-04-2015 02:35 via thestranger.com
  Much like Emily Nokes, I was also a teenage Marilyn Manson fan. I really wanted to see him in Seattle last weekend, but I was too busy chasing around cheeseburgers and nipple-free summer-weather-leathers in California. HOW WAS IT? Somebody tell me! Also, please enjoy these pictures by live music sharp shooter KT Wright.Manson's "Hell Not Hallelujah Tour" at the Showbox KT WrightManson and "bestie" Twiggy Ramirez KT Wright
  Is Twiggy's bass is bigger than him? KT Wright
  The Pale Emperor... with st
  
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• Last chance for state’s first charter school as concerns deepen

  02-04-2015 02:16
  
  The state commission governing charter schools says First Place, the state’s first charter, has 10 days to prove it is adequately addressing problems that could sink the school.
  
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• UW Refuses to Comply with City's Minimum Wage Law for Student Employees

  02-04-2015 02:15 via thestranger.com
  
  This sort of pro-worker campus propaganda was everywhere today. Ansel Herz
  Just in time for Seattle's new minimum wage law to take effect, the UW announced yesterday it will raise the minimum wage of all non-student employees to $11 per hour, starting today. It hadn't been clear whether the university was going to comply with the new law, as it waited on a state Supreme Court decision regarding whether municipalities can legally dictate pay at bodies like the Port of Seattle (another public enti
  
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• Kelley: Federal probe is not affecting auditor’s office

  02-04-2015 02:01
  State Auditor Troy Kelley responded Wednesday to questions by the governor over whether the federal investigation surrounding Kelley is affecting the work of the auditor’s office.
  
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• Free Will Astrology for the Week of April 1

  02-04-2015 02:00 via thestranger.com
  
  FESTA/SHUTTERSTOCKARIES (March 21–April 19): "Choconiverous" is an English slang word that's defined as having the tendency, when eating a chocolate Easter bunny, to bite the head off first. I recommend that you adopt this direct approach in everything you do in the coming weeks. Don't get bogged down with preliminaries. Don't get sidetracked by minor details, trivial distractions, or peripheral concerns. It's your duty to swoop straight into the center of the action. Be clear about what
  
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• UW experts shed light on false positives in prenatal tests

  02-04-2015 01:46
  Growing numbers of pregnant women are seeking prenatal blood tests to check for genetic problems with their babies, but UW researchers have documented a key reason forfalse-positive results.
  
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• Ex-UW coach Lambright enters plea in domestic-violence case

  02-04-2015 01:46
  Former University of Washington football coach Jim Lambright has pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in connection with a domestic-violence dispute with his granddaughter last year.
  
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