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• Want a Refund for Yesterday's Internet Outage? You Need to Call Comcast and Ask for One

  10-04-2015 23:19 via thestranger.com
  
  Look: even Comcast's service vans were down yesterday! Here's one getting towed. Christopher Frizzelle
  The #Comcastageddon Internet outage yesterday lasted almost nine hours and affected about 30,000 customers of the telecom giant around Seattle. That means some businesses, unable to function,reportedly sent their employees home. It meant cancelled teleconferences for Danni Askini, director of the Gender Justice League. Six thousand landline phone customers also lost service, meaning some weren'
  
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• Hwy. 99 fish-truck debacle prompts new traffic-response plan

  10-04-2015 23:09
  A city review of the epic tractor-trailer wreck that shut down Highway 99 for more than nine hours and snarled traffic across downtown revealed “systemic weaknesses” in the city’s response. New responses are planned.
  
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• Bracing for onslaught of mushroom hunters in Wash. forests

  10-04-2015 22:01
  
  A boom is expected in morel-mushroom hunters, both commercial and recreational pickers, on the wildfire-scorched lands of the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest.
  
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• Rep. Dave Reichert gets alleged death threat after too many mailings, emails

  10-04-2015 22:00
  Saying he was tormented by political fliers and emails, Michael R. Bocatch, 75, of East Wenatchee was charged with harassment after allegedly threatening to kill U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert and his congressional aide who answered the phone.
  
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• ByDesign Opens With a Fresh Doc about Dressing Hiphop

  10-04-2015 21:10 via thestranger.com
  
  We are fresher than the freshest fresh. CNN Films
  Tonight's screening of the much-talked about documentary Fresh Dressed, which opens the week-long ByDesign festival, is significant because very few people have actually seen it. There was no press screening for the film, no online screeners offered, and word has it that it will not be released anytime soon. I asked Courtney Sheehan, the program director at Northwest Film Forum, about the movie, about what we might expect to see tonight, as she i
  
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• Bruce Barcott’s book on legal weed: ‘This is far past high. This is stoned. And it is quite pleasurable’

  10-04-2015 21:01
  
  For his new book, “Weed the People,” Bruce Barcott took a clear-eyed look at the marijuana legalization issue and how it played out in Washington and Colorado, and in his own thinking.
  
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• What Is the Best Phrase in This Piece That Already Has "Vatican Orgies" in Its Headline?

  10-04-2015 20:40 via thestranger.com
  
  The Vatican is even gayer than we realized. Naked men at the Vatican / Shutterstock
  • "a gay lobby in the heart of the Holy See"
  • "orgies with Swiss Guards and Roman priests"
  • "celibacy-challenged prelates start snooping"
  • "screenshots of the priest"
  • "a little black book for anyone who might be interested in gay sex with priests"
  • "the errant priest"
  • "allegedly asks Baldon if he knows any young 17-year-old men who are 'thin and well endowed'"
  
  
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• Hal Hartley Completes Tragicomedy Trinity with Ned Rifle

  10-04-2015 20:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Ned Rifle is the final film in a trilogy that veteran indie director Hal Hartley began almost 20 years ago with Henry Fool. If you have not seen the first two films, which concern the parents, Fay Grim (Parker Posey) and Henry Fool (Thomas Jay Ryan), of Ned Rifle (Liam Aiken), you need not worry. Much of the relevant background is explained by Ned in the course of his journey from a witness protection program in a Christian-centered East Coast town to Seattle, where his evil, satanic, but intel
  
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• Why Roughly 220 Garfield High School Students Are Boycotting a Standardized Test, In Their Own Words

  10-04-2015 20:03 via thestranger.com
  
  The Obama administration and Washington State wants juniors to take a new standardized test. These Garfield High School students aren't having it. From left to right: Maddy Kennard, Dawit Nuguse, Kevin Nguyen, Chan Huynh and Jess Juanich. Kevin Nguyen
  Roughly 220 students at Garfield High School have opted out of taking a new standardized test called the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, part of federal Common Core curriculum and testing regimen promulgated by the Obama administration, and
  
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• Why More Than 200 Garfield High School Students Are Boycotting a Standardized Test, in Their Own Words

  10-04-2015 20:03 via thestranger.com
  
  The Obama administration and Washington State wants juniors to take a new standardized test. These Garfield High School students aren't having it. From left to right: Maddy Kennard, Dawit Nuguse, Kevin Nguyen, Chan Huynh, and Jess Juanich. Kevin Nguyen
  Roughly 220 students at Garfield High School have opted out of taking a new standardized test called the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, part of federal Common Core curriculum and testing regimen promulgated by the Obama administration, an
  
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• I Thought We Had Plans—Why Is There So Much Emotional Graffiti in Seattle Right Now?

  10-04-2015 19:45 via thestranger.com
  
  More shocking than dicks: Emotionally vulnerable, empathy-inducing graffiti is showing up all over Seattle. the stranger
  Before I moved to Seattle, graffiti rarely shocked me. I've seen enough music-venue greenrooms plastered with drawings of dicks that they may as well be doodles of daisies or hearts. The phalluses barely even register anymore. A tag like "Shitbarf" has the same effect as seeing a rat on the sidewalk. Yeah, it's pretty gross, but it doesn't surprise me.
  What startles me now is
  
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• Mary Kay and Vili: A Northwest Love Story

  10-04-2015 18:39 via thestranger.com
  
  And they said it wouldn't last...
  Mary Kay Letourneau Fualaau made national headlines in 1997 when she became pregnant with the child of her then-13-year-old student, Vili Fualaau. After their affair was made public, Mary, a former teacher in Seattle, went to prison for nearly eight years and gave birth to two of Vili’s daughters, one of which was born behind bars. Vili was just 15 years old when their second child was born. The couple married in 2005, just 10 months after Mary was release
  
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• Some Serious Manspreading on a Metro Bus

  10-04-2015 17:39 via thestranger.com
  
  People standing, man manspreading on the 9. Charles Mudede
  Should Metro follow the example Metropolitan Transportation Authority and wage a war on a behavior that is, to begin with, ugly and hogs space on a bus seat? The ethics of public transportation are not those of our society as a whole. Individualism might be at home in a corporate boardroom but it certainly has no place on a bus or subway. Manspreading is anti-social, and we are finding ourselves in a city whose increasingly complicated w
  
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• The Morning News: Alaska Lawmakers Tell Seattle to Back Off Shell, Kennewick Police Officer Wants to Fill His "Quota"

  10-04-2015 17:37 via thestranger.com
  
  Alaska House Speaker to Shell: If Seattle won't take you, come on over. fon thachakul/Shutterstock
  Alaska Lawmakers Tell Seattle and Washington Officials to Back the Fuck Off About Shell's Plans to Drill in the Arctic: In a proposed resolution, Alaska House Speaker Mike Chenault invites Shell to use an Alaskan port if the Port of Seattle rescinds the lease that will allow Shell to park its arctic drilling rigs in Seattle this spring, Sydney reported yesterday. Also, Chenault argues, if we really
  
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• 2-alarm house fire in W. Seattle, 1 person injured

  10-04-2015 16:25
  
  2-alarm house fire in W. Seattle, 1 person injured
  
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• Conversations with My Mom about Gay Conversion Therapy

  10-04-2015 16:12 via thestranger.com
  
  Usually happened on this freeway.trekandshoot / Shutterstock.com
  Before we go there: I love my mom. My mom is different now than she used to be. And the world is different. Imagine being the parent of a newborn boy in 1980. The year he turns 1, they discover AIDS. Couple years later, they discover what causes it (the French beat us to the discovery by a day). When the White House gets asked about AIDS, they literally laugh. It will be years before anyone figures out how it's transmitted.In 1990,
  
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• Seattle zoo agrees to short delay in elephants' move

  10-04-2015 15:33
  
  Seattle zoo agrees to short delay in elephants' move
  
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• UW regents consider letting public meet candidates for president

  10-04-2015 15:03
  
  University of Washington regents gave the first look at what qualities are most important to them and what kind of search they’d like to conduct.
  
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• Police Reports Illustrated: Stabbed for a MacBook

  10-04-2015 15:00 via thestranger.com
  
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• Comcast service restored to thousands of Seattle-area customers

  10-04-2015 06:19
  A severed fiber-optic line in South Lake Union caused a widespread outage for thousands of Comcast subscribers in the Seattle area Thursday.
  
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• Seattle attached to town homes in record numbers

  10-04-2015 06:06
  
  We have the highest rate of growth in the country for town homes.
  
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• Where there’s a pot of gold

  10-04-2015 05:46
  
  Where there’s rain, there’s a rainbow ... sometimes.
  
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• Legislature approves landslide mapping bill; measure heads to Inslee

  10-04-2015 05:46
  A bill requiring the state to expand detailed mapping of landslide and other geologic risks has cleared its final legislative hurdle.
  
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• Ensuring coffee-growing communities get a fair shot

  10-04-2015 05:46
  A number of organizations in Seattle are working with coffee farmers in developing countries to improve their lot.
  
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• New hearing ordered for suspected killer in 1978 cold case

  10-04-2015 05:31
  
  State supreme-court justices say a detective’s plea on behalf of a murder victim violated a plea agreement in the 1978 cold-case strangulation of an 80-year-old woman.
  
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• Zoo agrees not to move elephants until after April 15

  10-04-2015 05:19
  Woodland Park Zoo on Thursday said it won’t move its two elephants to Oklahoma City until after April 15, to allow ongoing court battles to play out.
  
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• Bellevue mayor on revised light-rail deal: ‘Lemonade with sweetener’

  10-04-2015 05:18
  
  Bellevue will get more land for development around a Sound Transit maintenance yard and save about $60 million in costs for a downtown tunnel under a proposed agreement to go forward with light rail on the Eastside.
  
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• Dueling state budgets split over which pot gets pot money

  10-04-2015 05:06
  
  Competing proposals by the House and Senate would change how tax revenue from legalized marijuana is spent. The Senate would have the bulk go to education; the House would have it spent mostly on programs the voter-passed initiative had in mind.
  
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• Regents consider open search for new UW president, hiring internally

  10-04-2015 04:38
  
  University of Washington regents are considering opening up their search for the UW’s next president, letting the public meet the finalists.
  
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• Patch to treat peanut allergies to get expedited FDA review

  10-04-2015 04:26
  The Viaskin Peanut skin patch tested by Seattle-area doctors and families uses small amounts of peanut protein to desensitize children to theallergen.
  
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• Homeowner killed by falling wall at construction site

  10-04-2015 04:09
  
  Homeowner killed by falling wall at construction site
  
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• Alaskan Lawmakers Tell Seattle to Butt Out of Arctic Drilling, Shut Down Boeing to Combat Carbon Emissions Instead

  10-04-2015 03:53 via thestranger.com
  
  Talking shit: Alaskan lawmakers say Seattle lawmakers should shut down Boeing if they're so worried about global warming. pavalena/Shutterstock
  Seattle's concern over hosting Shell's Arctic drilling rigs appears to have touched something of a nerve in Alaska. Today, Alaska's House Speaker Mike Chenault introduced a bill that, for all intents and purposes, instructs Seattle and Washington officials to back the fuck off from Shell's plans.Republican Mike Chenault of Alaska Alaska State Legislature
  
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• Award-winning author Ivan Doig dies; was ‘dean of Western writers’

  10-04-2015 03:31
  
  The Seattle writer, a much-lauded National Book Award finalistwhose tales were inspired byhisMontana childhood and the hardworking ethos of the West, died Thursday at age 75.
  
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• Senate Republicans Cut KEXP's New Home from Budget, Democrat Adds It Back in at Only Half the Money Needed

  10-04-2015 02:21 via thestranger.com
  
  A rendering of KEXP's planned new Live Room, where the station hopes to host hundreds of free live performances next year. SKB ARCHITECTS
  It’s been an emotional 24 hours for KEXP. Yesterday, the public radio station learned that it may not be getting the nearly $2 million it had expected from the state legislature to help fund its "New Home" project—the $15 million endeavor to renovate the Seattle Center and move the beloved local music broadcaster over there by the end of this year.
  
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• (The Rest of) Alan Lomax's Archive Is Now Online

  10-04-2015 02:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Holy BALLS and a half! I've just been floored by this NPR feature: "Alan Lomax's Massive Archive Goes Online." Fuck. YES! Alan Lomax is the son of famed folk collector John Lomax, and, like his father, spent his life collecting all types of field and folk recordings from all over the world; he sussed out anything and everything and now that anything and everything has been digitized and is streamable, for FREE! No more getting stuck in a YouHole™ for me, now I'ma be ears deep in nothing bu
  
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• Portland Producer Sean Pierce Brings the Dirty Techno Action to MOTOR Tonight

  10-04-2015 01:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Quick note about MOTOR XXIII, which is happening tonight at Kremwerk. The show features Portland's Sean Pierce, a new addition to Debacle Records' MOTOR imprint; his Transit EP comes out April 10 via the local experimental/electronic label.I've not heard the whole thing yet, but "Hive" hints that it'll be a foreboding collection of dirty, acidic techno that'll have you sweating bullets even as you feel like you're dodging them. More info about MOTOR XXIII—which also features performances
  
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• Two Dancers (Monica Bill Barnes & Anna Bass) and One Radio Host (Ira Glass) Perform in Seattle on Saturday

  10-04-2015 01:33 via thestranger.com
  
  What's this about?
  Monica Bill Barnes & Company and Ira Glass, host of This American Life, have been working together to combine two art forms that—as Ira puts it—“have no business being together—dance and radio.” The result is a funny, lively and heartfelt evening of dance and stories that brought down the house in its first test run at Carnegie Hall.
  Says the New York Times...
  Ms. Barnes, Ms. Bass and Mr. Glass are all self-deprecating hams, playing up the hu
  
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• Savage Love: Kinky Boys

  10-04-2015 01:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Joe NewtonI'm a straight male kinkster who used to do live performances as a rope bondage top, but I recently jumped out of the kink community. I just think I'll have better luck finding a long-term relationship with a girl from the vanilla world. So long as she's GGG, I can live with it. As much as I loved the sex/kink with people I met in "the scene," I never found anything/anyone for the "long term." My question: I'm unsure of how much I should share about my past. Should I tell vanilla girl
  
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• Call the Midlife—Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts Crush Out on Youth in Noah Baumbach's Painful, Funny While We're Young

  10-04-2015 00:30 via thestranger.com
  
  It's like Greenberg 2. Come alive in its presence.
  Intentionally or otherwise, writer-director Noah Baumbach's acutely perceptive, painfully funny While We're Young plays like a sequel to 2010's Greenberg. In that film, middle-aged crank Ben Stiller was both befuddled and bewitched by a game-for-anything millennial.
  This time, Stiller's Josh isn't a single sad sack, but a married sad sack. His career as a documentarian is stuck in neutral, his friends (including a fine Adam Horovitz as a Wilco f
  
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• Why Did 100 People Camp for 24 Hours in a Chick-fil-A Parking Lot in Bellevue?

  10-04-2015 00:26 via thestranger.com
  
  Why would 100 people sleep here on Wednesday night? They never heard of Nickelsville? Kelly O
  Controversial Southern fast-food chain Chick-fil-A opened today on the busy corner of NE 8th Street and 116th Avenue NE in Bellevue. Yesterday morning, at the asscrack of dawn, hundreds of people showed up at the edge of the restaurant's parking lot, armed with coolers, tents, sleeping bags, air mattresses, cornhole games, cribbage boards, and books. Oh, so many amazing books! By 5:30 a.m. exactly 100 p
  
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