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• 90 drug arrests kick off new push against downtown crime

  23-04-2015 23:46
  
  More than 90 people suspected of selling heroin, methamphetamine, prescription narcotics, cocaine and marijuana were arrested since Wednesday as part of the city’s latest effort to clean up the downtown business and retail core.
  
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• Disgraced Designer John Galliano Isn’t Mentioned in Thrilling Documentary Dior and I

  23-04-2015 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Disgraced designer John Galliano isn’t mentioned in Frédéric Tcheng’s thrilling documentary Dior and I. Instead, it begins with replacement Raf Simons’s arrival. Filling in the hole, Simons has just eight weeks to produce his debut collection for the House of Dior.
  A powerful anxiety weights all scenes, even to the very end—but the gorgeous fashion visuals and prolonged footage of atelier staff stifles any sense of exhaustion. Wearing clinical white lab coats,
  
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• Did a "Bomb" Train Full of Volatile Crude Oil Pass By Tuesday's Mariners Game?

  23-04-2015 22:50 via thestranger.com
  
  This was taken at around 8:15 p.m. at Tuesday night's Mariners game. Courtesy of David Perk
  Maaaaaybe it wasn't the thrill he was looking for. A spectator at Tuesday night's Mariners game caught a glimpse of what appeared to be a crude oil unit train moving past Safeco Field.The attendee took video and photos while taking a walk behind the scoreboard, but didn't want to be credited for them. David Perk, a friend of the photographer's who was also at the game, passed along the images on that pers
  
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• NFFTY, a World-Class Film Festival for Young Filmmakers, Opens Today

  23-04-2015 21:33 via thestranger.com
  
  Daniele Pinto in a short film, How Do You Like My Hair?, that screens at NFFTY Screenshot from Vimeo
  The directors of the films I have seen in this year's National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY) are from around town, around the country, and around the world. They are are also between the ages of 20 and 25. The festival, which is in its ninth year and is the largest of its kind (250 films by emerging and unknown filmmakers), opens tonight at the glamorous and state-of-the-art theater Ci
  
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• Seattle puts off food-scrap fines until next year

  23-04-2015 21:31
  Fines for putting food scraps in the trash won’t take effect in Seattle until 2016, Mayor Ed Murray said Wednesday. The start date was initially supposed to be July 1.
  
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• What the Future of Policing in Seattle Looks Like, According to the SPD's New Technology Boss

  23-04-2015 21:17 via thestranger.com
  
  Meet the SPD's new tech boss, hired away from Amazon and originally from Scotland: Gregory Russell. SPD
  Last month, Seattle police chief Kathleen O'Toole announced the hiring of Gregory Russell, a former vice president at Amazon, to the SPD's IT department. I sat down with Russell last week to talk about his experience and goals for Seattle, including his take on disclosure of data, body cameras, drones, the mesh network, and racially biased policing. At Amazon, he used to work with the C.I.A.,
  
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• Things Got Tense at Last Night’s Screening of the Cobain Documentary Montage of Heck

  23-04-2015 20:56 via thestranger.com
  
  Director Brett Morgen: "This is just my experience with the materials." Libby Denkmann
  HBO’s new documentary about Kurt Cobain, Montage of Heck, premiered in Seattle last night at Cinerama. I’m still sorting out how I feel about it, but it certainly stirs up a lot of emotions. (You can read Emily Nokes’s review here, and Sean Nelson’s interview with Morgen here.) Director Brett Morgen, on hand for the event, acknowledged this fact before the screening: He said he had spen
  
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• Brett Morgen Deflects Criticism at Last Night’s Screening of Montage of Heck

  23-04-2015 20:56 via thestranger.com
  
  Director Brett Morgen: "This is just my experience with the materials." Libby Denkmann
  HBO’s new documentary about Kurt Cobain, Montage of Heck, premiered in Seattle last night at Cinerama. I’m still sorting out how I feel about it, but it certainly stirs up a lot of emotions. (You can read Emily Nokes’s review here, and Sean Nelson’s interview with Morgen here.) Director Brett Morgen, on hand for the event, acknowledged this fact before the screening: He said he had spen
  
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• Dreaming of Pierogi: Sebi's Bistro Serves Pillowy Dumplings and Other Polish Treats

  23-04-2015 20:50 via thestranger.com
  
  The food at Sebi's is not light, but it is rich and comforting. Kelly O
  The morning after my first meal at Sebi's Bistro in Eastlake, I found myself lying in bed thinking about pierogi—specifically the platter of pillowy, half-moon-shaped dumplings I had happily plowed through the night before. Seemingly every culture has its own version of fillings wrapped in dough, but I wanted to know more about these Polish treats.
  According to The Oxford Companion to Food, "Poland has changed shape an
  
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• 18-Year-Old Wounded in a Shooting Near Columbia City

  23-04-2015 20:48 via thestranger.com
  
  A shooting occurred in Columbia City last night. Charles Mudede
  Almost exactly a week after a bullet in a drive-by shooting in Kent hit the head of a one-year-old girl in the backseat of a car (she eventually died from the injury), the leg of an 18-year-old man was hit by a bullet fired into his car, which was parked near Columbia City. Though both incidents are considered by investigators not to be random, no arrests have been made—a fact that is much more glaring in the week-old shooting
  
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• Police: 95 drug dealers and thieves arrested in downtown Seattle

  23-04-2015 20:38
  
  Police: 95 drug dealers and thieves arrested in downtown Seattle
  
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• City claims Downtown Seattle is safer

  23-04-2015 20:38
  
  Police: 95 drug dealers and thieves arrested in downtown Seattle
  
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• Sub Pop Takes a Page From Amazon's Book in New Recruitment Video

  23-04-2015 19:56 via thestranger.com
  
  You've obviously seen the now-notorious Amazon.com HR tool,"Life in Seattle" which is sort of the 16 Points on the Cultural Revolution of corporate recruiting videos. Well, now another cherished local business has responded with its own celebration of Seattle's fun possibilities. And when they met... it was murdah! Well played, Sub Pop, you lovable rogues.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Ten Questions from Kshama Sawant for the City Council Finalists

  23-04-2015 19:34 via thestranger.com
  
  Council member Kshama Sawant has no time for the apolitical. She wants to know where city council finalists stand on rent control and the Black Lives Matter movement. Kelly O
  The process of replacing Sally Clark on the city council has been weird from the start. The timeline is super-short (part of that is because of requirements in the city charter), council members haven't publicly discussed why they supported the applicants they did, and the meeting for the public to weigh in is at 4 p.m. on
  
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• Food News: Renee Erickson Eliminates Tipping, New Restaurants for Queen Anne, the Central District, and Belltown

  23-04-2015 19:18 via thestranger.com
  
  Starting May 4, diners will no longer tip servers and bartenders at Renee Erickson's the Whale Wins, Walrus and Carpenter, and Barnacle.Brooklyn Benjestorf
  Renee Erickson Eliminates Tipping
  This week, chef Renee Erickson, along with business partners Jeremy Price and Chad Dale, announced that, effective May 4, tipping will be eliminated at her restaurants the Whale Wins, the Walrus and the Carpenter, and Barnacle. Instead, customers will pay an 18.5 percent service charge. In a statement, the ow
  
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• Food & Drink News: Renee Erickson Eliminates Tipping, New Restaurants for Queen Anne, the Central District, and Belltown

  23-04-2015 19:18 via thestranger.com
  
  Starting May 4, diners will no longer tip servers and bartenders at Renee Erickson's the Whale Wins, Walrus and Carpenter, and Barnacle.Brooklyn Benjestorf
  Renee Erickson Eliminates Tipping
  This week, chef Renee Erickson, along with business partners Jeremy Price and Chad Dale, announced that, effective May 4, tipping will be eliminated at her restaurants the Whale Wins, the Walrus and the Carpenter, and Barnacle. Instead, customers will pay an 18.5 percent service charge. In a statement, the ow
  
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• Amazon testing package delivery to car trunks

  23-04-2015 18:40
  
  Amazon testing package delivery to car trunks
  
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• Wanna Sound Smart About Writing? Or Hiphop? Talk about BreakBeat Poets.

  23-04-2015 18:27 via thestranger.com
  
  Morgan Parker gives you the feels and the laughs. Kwesi AbbensettsIn its early years, Poetry magazine threw its weight behind the Imagist movement, which included now canonical poets like William "Red Wheelbarrow" Williams, Ezra "the Fascist Sympathizer" Pound, and H. "My Name Is Hilda Doolittle But For Obvious Poetry-Type Reasons I Need To Go By H.D." D.With the help of Pound, Poetry magazine also launched the Objectivist poets. But all that happened back in the 1920s and '30s. This month, Poet
  
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• Man pulled from submerged car at Tacoma marina identified

  23-04-2015 17:50
  
  Man pulled from submerged car at Tacoma marina identified
  
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• New WaPo/ABCNews Poll: Support for Same-Sex Marriage at Record High

  23-04-2015 17:36 via thestranger.com
  
  The timing couldn't be better. WaPo:
  A record-high 6 in 10 Americans support same-sex marriage and a similar share say individual states should not be allowed to define marriage as only between a man and a woman, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. The national debate on same-sex marriage moves to center stage next week, when the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on whether state restrictions on same-sex marriage are unconstitutional.
  This is the first major poll to find that supp
  
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• New WaPo/ABC News Poll: Support for Same-Sex Marriage at Record High

  23-04-2015 17:36 via thestranger.com
  
  The timing couldn't be better. WaPo:
  A record-high 6 in 10 Americans support same-sex marriage and a similar share say individual states should not be allowed to define marriage as only between a man and a woman, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. The national debate on same-sex marriage moves to center stage next week, when the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on whether state restrictions on same-sex marriage are unconstitutional.
  This is the first major poll to find that supp
  
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• The Morning News: Fight Over Crows in Portage Bay, Shooting in Columbia City

  23-04-2015 17:26 via thestranger.com
  
  In Portage Bay, one family is accused of feeding crows too generously, drawing massive amounts of bird poop and scenes out of "The Birds." redpip1984/Shutterstock
  War of the Portage Bay Crows: "In the Portage Bay neighborhood in Seattle, crows have been at the center of an epic, nearly two-year neighborhood battle," reports Erik Lacitis. "Even the cops have been called in. And it’s all been about one family feeding crows in an apparent never-ending buffet."
  Man Shot While Sitting in Car in
  
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• Troopers: Deputy may have caused crash that caused man to lose legs

  23-04-2015 16:51
  
  Troopers: Deputy may have caused crash that caused man to lose legs
  
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• La Center teen’s prom proposal lands him suspension

  23-04-2015 16:33
  A teen who strapped fake explosives around his body in a stunt to ask a date to the prom has been suspended from school.
  
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• Neighbors upset with family feeding dozens of crows

  23-04-2015 15:18
  
  Neighbors upset with family feeding dozens of crows
  
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• Girl who gets gifts from crows ruffling neighbors’ feathers

  23-04-2015 15:18
  
  Neighbors upset with family feeding dozens of crows
  
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• Emergency responders holding child abduction drill in Lakewood

  23-04-2015 14:59
  
  Emergency responders holding child abduction drill in Lakewood
  
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• Caught on camera: Thieves steal $10,000 worth of liquor from restaurant

  23-04-2015 14:28
  
  Caught on camera: Thieves steal $10,000 worth of liquor from restaurant
  
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• Burglars caught on camera- again

  23-04-2015 14:28
  
  Caught on camera: Thieves steal $10,000 worth of liquor from restaurant
  
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• Ways you can keep your neighborhood safe from squatters

  23-04-2015 14:00
  
  Ways you can keep your neighborhood safe from squatters
  
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• Anonymous donor pays off landslide victim’s $360K mortgage

  23-04-2015 08:16
  
  Tim Ward was hurt, his wife was killed, and their home destroyed in the slide a year ago. He had been trying to settle his loan when an investor was touched by his plight.
  
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• State Senate kills campaign-contributions bill

  23-04-2015 07:46
  The Republican-controlled state Senate has killed a bill that would require disclosure of donors to nonprofits that spend money on elections.
  
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• All ashore that’s going ashore

  23-04-2015 07:46
  
  This abandoned sailboat on the beach at Mukilteo was quite a sight Wednesday morning.
  
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• 170,101 sign up for health insurance on the exchange in its 2nd year

  23-04-2015 07:46
  High Medicaid enrollments and more people buying insurance in the private market resulted in fewer than expected in the exchange insurance market.
  
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• Steve Gordon pleads guilty to federal wire fraud after posing as Steve Ballmer, bankers

  23-04-2015 07:16
  Steve Gordon, who worked for the Sonics and several other NBA teams and longtime friend of Steve Ballmer, enters guilty plea in U.S. District Court.
  
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• Fire rescue in Ravenna

  23-04-2015 07:16
  
  Residents of Ravenna house suffered minor smoke inhalation on Wednesday.
  
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• Seattle backers to press case for N. 130th St. light-rail stop

  23-04-2015 07:08
  Backers of a Sound Transit light-rail station along I-5 at North 130th Street, which offers good bus, bicycle and walking access, will try Thursday to wedge it into elected officials’ plans for the Northgate-Lynnwood line.
  
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• Suit filed over former council member Sally Clark’s collision with cyclist

  23-04-2015 07:01
  The suit, which says former City Councilmember Sally Clark was performing official business at the time of the May 12, 2012, collision in Tacoma, alleges negligence on her part.
  
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• Earth Day volunteers get to the root of the ivy problem

  23-04-2015 07:01
  
  Seattle Prep students and staff/faculty volunteered at 17 sites throughout Seattle in honor or Earth Day.
  
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• Des Moines council member quits after slap on school bus

  23-04-2015 07:01
  
  Jeanette Burrage, the school-bus driver accused of slapping a 6-year-old autistic boy, resigned Wednesday from the Des Moines City Council.
  
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• Neighbors at war over feeding of crows in Portage Bay

  23-04-2015 06:31
  
  When one family began feeding crows in the Portage Bay neighborhood of view homes, and attracting them in large numbers, a nearly two-year neighborhood battle ensued.
  
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• John M. Davis, who founded Seattle law firm, dies at 101

  23-04-2015 06:19
  
  John M. Davis founded the Seattle law firm that became Davis Wright Tremaine and grew into one of the country’s most successful law firms.
  
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• With a remodel, the Sorrento goes from stodgy to chic

  23-04-2015 04:46
  
  A Seattle landmark gets with the times.
  
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• UW’s STARS helps low-income students shine

  23-04-2015 03:31
  Good students from low-income backgrounds soar to meet high expectations at UW.
  
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• The Man Who "Broke The Music Business" Only Served Three Months in Prison

  23-04-2015 03:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Holy moly!! Dig this DEEP New Yorker feature, "The Man Who Broke the Music Business", which traces the digital file sharing underground's ascension to its eventual collapse. Turns out, most of the leaked new releases were sourced from one guy, Lydell "Dell" Glover, a rank and file worker in a North Carolina pressing plant. As a strict record nerd, I've never been keen on downloading; I want the THING, a record, but GOD DAMN, the story of how this one guy contributed to the sinking of the record
  
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• At Seattle Central's Earth Day Rally: Mayor Murray, the Yes Men, and the Greenpeace Six

  23-04-2015 02:12 via thestranger.com
  
  Mike Bonanno (real name: Igor Vamos) of the Yes Men pretending to be vice president of Shell's public relations. A few very vocal people in the crowd didn't recognize the artist/satirist. SB
  If you walked past the Seattle Central Community College campus this afternoon, you may have noticed a giant planet sitting on the sidewalk. That's because it's Earth Day! EARTH DAY! EARTH DAY! And Earth Day is why SCCC students hosted a star-studded, climate-focused rally this afternoon.Mayor Murray opened
  
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• Free Will Astrology for the Week of April 22

  23-04-2015 02:00 via thestranger.com
  
  fESTA/Shutterstock
  TAURUS (April 20–May 20): I usually have no objection to your devoted concern (I won't use the phrase "manic obsession") with security and comfort. But there are rare phases in every Taurus's life cycle when ironclad stability becomes a liability. Cruising along in a smooth groove threatens to devolve into clunking along in a gutless rut. Now is such a phase. As of this moment, it is healthy for you to seek out splashes of unpredictability. Wisdom is most likely to grow
  
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• The High List: Psychedelic Drawings, Disco Overalls, Sea Puppies, and More!

  23-04-2015 01:20 via thestranger.com
  
  ABBA, aka Sweden's pride, aka the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music.
  'Emily Ann Pothast: Works on Paper'
  ART Through May 10, Cairo (507 E Mercer St)
  The artwork of Emily Ann Pothast explores beautifully psychedelic and spiritual realms without falling into the cheesiness often associated with those two words. The rich textures and colors of her drawings of eyes, patterns, and geometric shapes are a perfect portal for your metaphysical ponderings...
  
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• Alaska Airlines to start additional Seattle-Yakima flights

  23-04-2015 01:01
  
  Sister carrier Horizon Air will start additional flight Oct. 5 after city of Yakima pushed hard for more service.
  
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• How I Got Seasick (And Almost Peed My Pants) While Riding Around In a Rubber Boat With Greenpeace

  23-04-2015 00:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Have you read Sydney Brownstone's excellent piece about the gigantic Arctic drilling rig that's headed for Seattle? You should. That Polar Pioneer is a frickin' MONNNNSTER. I went with Sydney to Port Angeles to take photos while she did reporting. Greenpeace generously offered to take Sydney and I out on their boats to get a closer look at the creepy Artic drill as it creeped, so creepily, into the Straight of Juan de Fuca. For me, it felt like an unexpected adventure on the high seas. I remembe
  
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