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• Beloved Issaquah rooster likely killed by dog

  29-04-2015 23:47
  
  McNugget, the rooster familiar to folks who frequent an Issaquah parking lot, has apparently met a grisly demise.
  
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• Jesse Jones finds lawyer who missed clients’ court dates

  29-04-2015 23:43
  
  Jesse Jones finds lawyer who missed clients’ court dates
  
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• SB Alaskan Way Viaduct reopens after truck loses load

  29-04-2015 23:40
  
  The southbound Alaskan Way Viaduct was blocked midday Wednesday after a pair of huge spools became loose on a flatbed truck near Seneca Street.
  
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• One for the Regrets Issue

  29-04-2015 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  For the record, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at ACT is not, in fact, a radically minimalist production. It does involve a set, and actors, and even press photographs that can be printed in newspapers.
  We regret the error.
  But, to make it up to you, below the jump is the press photo for Cat that ACT doesn't want you to see."Now you know where the expression 'thick as a Brick' came from, baby." Marxiano.com
  And that's how you play inside baseball.*
  * To explain: The man in the photo is ACT p.r. liaison
  
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• I Love Televison: The Devil, You Say!

  29-04-2015 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Daredevil defending his neighborhood from gentrification.
  Attention, everybody! I have a new addiction this week, and... no, it's not cocaine. My new addiction is... no, it's not rough sex. My new addic... NO, IT'S NOT STRANGLING KITTENS! JESUS, YOU PEOPLE! I haven't strangled a single kitten since I was forced to defend myself against Jeffrey Dahmer's kitten—which totally deserved it, by the way! My new addiction is the Netflix superhero series Daredevil, and it's totally disrupting my li
  
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• Bumbershoot 2015 lineup includes Chance the Rapper, The Weeknd, Punch Brothers

  29-04-2015 23:00
  
  The fest, now in its 45th year, will be held Sept. 5-7 at Seattle Center.
  
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• Curren$y, the Diplomats, and Jarv Dee

  29-04-2015 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Curren$y more than does justice to his premier strain.
  This week's column is brought to you amid the American Horror Story: the death of Baltimore man Freddie Gray, who somehow had his voice box crushed and 80 percent of his spine severed while in the back of a police van. See also: the off-duty officer found not guilty of shooting and killing Chicago woman Rekia Boyd while she walked to the store with friends—because, after all, they were apparently making too much noise. You know black f
  
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• How Black Lives Matter is Changing Environmentalism, According to Seattle's New Environmental Justice Manager

  29-04-2015 21:26 via thestranger.com
  
  Sudha Nandagopal, new program manager for the city's environmental justice initiative, also has some concerns about William Shatner's $30 billion Puget Sound water pipeline idea. Bill Phillips
  Sudha Nandagopal is 33 years-old, slight, and answers short questions with long, thoughtful answers. As the program manager of Seattle's newly-created Equity and Environment Initiative in the Office of Sustainability and Environment, it's her job to come up with an environmental agenda for the mayor that p
  
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• Playwright Yussef El Guindi's "Threesome" Is Headed to New York After Its Seattle Run

  29-04-2015 21:23 via thestranger.com
  
  After its Portland and Seattle productions, Seattle playwright Yussef El Guindi's bedroom storm heads to New York. Courtesy of Portland Center Stage
  In about six weeks, Seattle will get to see Yussef El Guindi's new play Threesome, which concerns a hetero Egyptian American couple that is having a little sexual difficulty and invites a young, white American man into the bedroom. (The white American is played by Seattle actor Quinn Franzen, a member of the Satori Group who, I'm given to understand
  
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• 95% of Garfield juniors refuse to take new high-school tests

  29-04-2015 20:51
  
  The number of high-school juniors in Seattle declining to take a new state test keeps growing, with 80 percent or more at five high schools exercising their right to “opt out.”
  
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• Bumbershoot 2015 lineup includes Chance the Rapper, The Weeknd, Neko Case

  29-04-2015 20:51
  
  The fest, now in its 45th year, will be held Sept. 5-7 at Seattle Center.
  
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• Bumbershoot 2015 Lives! Here's the Lineup!

  29-04-2015 20:39 via thestranger.com
  
  My all-time favorite reason to eat Shishkaberry's three times a day, for three days, is BACK! After a shake-up late last year and questions as to weather Bumbershoot would be able to keep going, the festival (now ran by AEG) is most certainly going to happen. And here's who's playing:It's baaaaaaaack![ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Viaduct reopens after semi loses load of giant spools

  29-04-2015 20:27
  
  Truck loses giant spool on southbound Alaskan Way Viaduct
  
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• Driver of oversized truck that slammed into viaduct cited

  29-04-2015 20:27
  
  Truck loses giant spool on southbound Alaskan Way Viaduct
  
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• Japanese Noodles and Ice Cream on Capitol Hill, Chicken and Waffles in the CD, and Dining Out for Life All Over Town

  29-04-2015 20:24 via thestranger.com
  
  Kurt Farm Shop will begin serving ice cream on Friday, May 1. Kurt Farm Shop
  Openings
  Wakefield Bar has opened its doors in Belltown, next door to the Rendezvous. Wakefield is pouring beer, wine, and cocktails (with a focus on local distillers). The food is by chef Thomas Dodd, formerly sous chef at Capitol Hill’s Marjorie.Japan-based Kukai Ramen & Izakaya will open their third Seattle-area location on Capitol Hill tomorrow, April 30. (The other two locations, in Bellevue and Northgate
  
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• Pointing Out That Randy Boehning Is Bi = Biphobia

  29-04-2015 19:56 via thestranger.com
  
  The jokey/assholey post I wrote yesterday about Randy Boehning, the anti-LGBT North Dakota state legislatorouted by a guy he was trying to pick up on Grindr, is being called biphobic. But the jokes and assholery were directed at Boehning—his actions, his excuses, his Grindr handle (TopMan! Yes, with an exclamation point!)—not at bisexuals or bisexuality. I noted in the post that Boehning was being called a gay men all over the Internet despite the fact that he said he's also attract
  
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• The City Council Is So Over Being Nice to Kshama Sawant

  29-04-2015 19:21 via thestranger.com
  
  Kshama Sawant is pissing off her fellow council members, but that may only strengthen her base. Dan Nolte, City of Seattle
  Everyone’s talking about Kshama Sawant’s actions throughout the recent process of appointing a new temporary city council member.
  She was “grandstanding.”She was “exploitative and mean."
  She “lost the plot.”Meanwhile, her fellow council member Sally Bagshaw is hammering on her for hosting a town hall in city council chambers about re
  
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• The Morning News: King County Approves New Radios for Emergency Responders, Student Boycott of Standardized Test Grows

  29-04-2015 17:56 via thestranger.com
  
  Yay! New, functioning radios are on the way for first responders in King County. Possohh/Shutterstock
  Proposition to Replace Radios for Emergency Responders Passes: By a large margin, too: 65 to 35 percent. (All because of the SECB's endorsement, of course.)
  Ninety-Five Percent of Garfield High School Juniors Are Boycotting the SBAC Test: "In Seattle," the Seattle Times reports, "the protests continue to grow despite warnings that they could put the state’s federal funding at risk." The Ga
  
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• Jeffrey Toobin Slams Scalia

  29-04-2015 17:50 via thestranger.com
  
  A guy yells "homosexuality is an abomination!" in the SCOTUS today and Scalia says "[That] was rather refreshing." Um... what?
  — Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) April 28, 2015Yesterday it looked like I was only person appalled by Justice Scalia's "refershing" response to the heckler who interrupted arguments about same-sex marriage—but I wasn't alone, as it turns out. Jeffrey Toobin:
  There was a shocking, ugly moment during the argument of Obergefell v. Hodges, the same-sex marriage case
  
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• Snohomish HS lockdown lifted; no gunman found

  29-04-2015 17:21
  
  Snohomish HS lockdown lifted; no gunman found
  
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• Repeat After Me: May Day Is Coming. It's Not the Apocolypse.

  29-04-2015 16:08 via thestranger.com
  
  May Day, circa 2013. Ansel Herz
  For the past two years, I've covered the annual "Oh shit it's happening again" runup to May Day in Seattle. This year, May Day—traditionally a day of protest against injustice towards workers and immigrants that's been marred by minor outbreaks of vandalism and heavy-handed police responses—falls on this coming Friday.On Monday, Seattle police held a press conference to say what they always say: they're prepared.
  The demonstrations scheduled so far inc
  
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• Repeat After Me: May Day Is Coming. It's Not the Apocalypse.

  29-04-2015 16:08 via thestranger.com
  
  May Day, circa 2013. Ansel Herz
  For the past two years, I've covered the annual "Oh shit it's happening again" runup to May Day in Seattle. This year, May Day—traditionally a day of protest against injustice towards workers and immigrants, that's been marred in recent years by minor outbreaks of vandalism and heavy-handed police responses—falls on this coming Friday.On Monday, Seattle police held a press conference to say what they always say: they're prepared.
  The demonstrations sch
  
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• Lion cub escapes zoo exhibit, complicating elephant move

  29-04-2015 15:59
  
  Lion cub escapes zoo exhibit, complicating elephant move
  
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• What Living Next to a Condo Construction Site Taught Me About Seattle's Noise Ordinances

  29-04-2015 15:15 via thestranger.com
  
  And the number to call if someone's jackhammering your dreams apart at dawn. ROBERT ULLMAN
  Right across the street from the First Hill building I live in, construction workers are busily transforming a vast cement pit into a high-rise condominium named Luma. Its website describes the completed structure as a "half haven, half hotspot" with a long list of unsurprising attributes. In deliberate contrast to "the grandeur of the surrounding historic homes," for instance, Luma "makes a modern mark" w
  
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• Task force meeting to tackle transportation worries

  29-04-2015 15:02
  
  Task force meeting to tackle transportation worries
  
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• Trap set for bear seen in I-5 median near Stanwood

  29-04-2015 14:38
  
  Trap set for bear seen in I-5 median near Stanwood
  
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• State legislators return to work for special session

  29-04-2015 14:15
  
  State legislators return to work for special session
  
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• Crappy Comedy, Nepalese Tragedy, and a Huge Step Forward for Transgender Awareness

  29-04-2015 14:04 via thestranger.com
  
  Pot-loving people get SO EXCITED when the numbers 4 and 20 land near each other. THINKSTOCK
  MONDAY, APRIL 20 This week of crappy comedy, Nepalese tragedy, and a huge step forward for transgender awareness in America kicked off with 4/20, the popularly acknowledged, sloppily defined "marijuana holiday" that's also a twice-daily clock occurrence that doesn't actually mean anything but boy do pot-loving people get excited when the numbers 4 and 20 land near each other. Stories on the origin of 4/20
  
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• Abandoned, sunken boat being recovered in Mukilteo

  29-04-2015 13:37
  
  Abandoned, sunken boat being recovered in Mukilteo
  
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• Clouds of Sils Maria Looks at the State of 21st-Century Hollywood

  29-04-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Clouds of Sils Maria Looks at the State of 21st-Century Hollywoodby Charles MudedeThose who are familiar with the films of the great French director Olivier Assayas will receive useful information from the place I locate his latest feature, Clouds of Sils Maria, in the body of his previous work: It’s somewhere between Irma Vep and Late August, Early September. The first is about the state of cinema; the second is built and feels like a deep novel.In Clouds, the director takes a look at the sta
  
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• Ayako Fujitani Is Flawless in Man from Reno

  29-04-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Ayako Fujitani Is Flawless in Man from Renoby Charles MudedeThis post-neo-noir is directed by Dave Boyle and stars Ayako Fujitani, who plays a celebrated Japanese writer, Aki Akahori, hiding from her fame in a cozy San Francisco hotel. A mysterious man enters her life, and turtles mysteriously appear in her toilet tank, and the mystery of a suitcase is deepened when it is stolen. More and more strange things happen to her and also a sheriff (Pepe Serna) investigating a murder.The leading reason
  
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• Adult Beginners Says It's Time to Grow Up

  29-04-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Adult Beginners Says It's Time to Grow Upby Kathy FennessyThere are worse comedies than Adult Beginners, but only so many that are less funny. On the plus side, producer-turned-director Ross Katz's theatrical debut reflects the current economic climate, so it may play better in the future as a snapshot of 2015.Nick Kroll (Kroll Show) plays Jake, a Manhattan entrepreneur who invents a Google Glass-like device for which he solicits funds from friends (Joel McHale, Mike Birbiglia) in hopes that it
  
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• Adult Beginners Could Be Funnier

  29-04-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Adult Beginners Could Be Funnierby Kathy FennessyThere are worse comedies than Adult Beginners, but only so many that are less funny. On the plus side, producer-turned-director Ross Katz's theatrical debut reflects the current economic climate, so it may play better in the future as a snapshot of 2015.Nick Kroll (Kroll Show) plays Jake, a Manhattan entrepreneur who invents a Google Glass-like device for which he solicits funds from friends (Joel McHale, Mike Birbiglia) in hopes that it will make
  
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• Washington teacher’s first thought: Get student’s gun

  29-04-2015 09:01
  Teacher Brady Olson’s quick action might have spared the student’s life in Monday’s incident at a high school in Lacey, Thurston County. A school police officer said he was close to taking a shot at the boy with the pistol.
  
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• Cheers to 1,000 days straight of saltwater swims

  29-04-2015 08:46
  
  The Notorious Alki Swimmers celebrate a member of their group’s reaching 1,000 consecutive days of swimming in cold, Pacific Northwest saltwater with a group swim and a potluck in West Seattle on Monday.
  
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• More ‘superbug’ cases detected at Virginia Mason, but outbreak appears over

  29-04-2015 08:31
  At least 39 people are now included in an outbreak of multidrug-resistant infections spread by contaminated medical scopes at Virginia Mason. But health officials say the hospital has successfully halted the outbreak.
  
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• Oil producers hope to boost flow of tar-sands crude to West

  29-04-2015 08:16
  
  Already, some tar-sands crude reaches northern Washington refineries via pipeline, and that capacity could dramatically expand. An industry association forecasts volume will climb 88 percent by 2020.
  
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• Levy passes to upgrade emergency-radio network

  29-04-2015 08:01
  A levy to replace and upgrade King County’s emergency radio network was being approved by voters in a special election Tuesday.
  
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• Seattle woman robbed at gunpoint in garage

  29-04-2015 07:35
  
  Seattle woman robbed at gunpoint in garage after yoga
  
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• Disbelief over state plan to spray neurotoxin into oyster beds

  29-04-2015 07:31
  
  The state has approved plans to spray in Willapa Bay a neurotoxic pesticide that has a warning right on the bottle: “Do not apply directly to water.” What could go wrong?
  
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• Face-lift work in sight for I-90 tunnels

  29-04-2015 07:16
  
  Members of the media and WSDOT and Sound Transit employees view the suspension cables that support the lid over I-90 at Mount Baker in Seattle on Tuesday.
  
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• UW surgeon, 74, bound for Nepal to aid earthquake victims

  29-04-2015 06:46
  A University of Washington spine specialist is part of a crew of emergency-medical workers heading to Nepal, with plans to set up a field hospital with resources to care for 10,000 people over 90 days.
  
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• USGA to hold fan event at Lake Union Park during U.S. Open

  29-04-2015 06:46
  A free fun fest at Seattle’s Lake Union Park is among the events planned to broaden enthusiasm for June’s U.S. Open in Pierce County.
  
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• Lion cub escaped from zoo exhibit on day of elephant move

  29-04-2015 06:46
  A 6-month-old lion cub escaped from its exhibit on the same day that Woodland Park Zoo’s two elephants were being loaded for shipment to Oklahoma City. The public was never in danger, zoo officials say.
  
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• State whooping-cough cases continue to rise

  29-04-2015 06:31
  Nearly 400 cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, have been diagnosed in Washington state so far this year, compared with 85 a year ago.
  
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• Joni Mitchell Is Not in a Coma. Plus: Refused Returns, Grimes Stumps for TIDAL, and Nicki Minaj Raises the Bar (Mitzvah)

  29-04-2015 05:29 via thestranger.com
  Don't read TMZ, Joni! It's never worth it!Courtesy Saint Laurent
  • Can no one tell us what is going on with Joni Mitchell? As Dave Segal reported yesterday, TMZ published the news that the beloved singer/songwriter, who was hospitalized last month, had slipped into a coma. The allegation was swiftly refuted by her authorized fan site, but speculation about Mitchell's condition has been rampant. My God, the woman is an icon and media outlets can't even get the facts straight. Stop the madne
  
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• Deceased climber's daughter heading to Nepal

  29-04-2015 03:50
  
  Deceased climber's daughter heading to Nepal
  
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• Why Governor Jay Inslee Isn't Fighting Harder to Stop Shell's Arctic Drilling Rigs

  29-04-2015 03:01 via thestranger.com
  
  How Governor Jay Inslee Dealt with the "Keep It in the Ground" Argument Over Arctic Drillingby Sydney BrownstoneIn late February, Washington Post science reporter Chris Mooney seized on a new frontier in the debate over how to best confront global warming. President Barack Obama had just vetoed the latest Keystone XL pipeline bill, and Mooney said the president's move was in sync with environmentalists' latest, confrontational supply-side argument against the Keystone XL project and others like
  
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• What Living Next to a Condo Construction Site Taught Me About Seattle's Noise Ordinances

  29-04-2015 03:01 via thestranger.com
  
  What Living Next to a Condo Construction Site Taught Me About Seattle's Noise Ordinancesby Marti JonjakRight across the street from the First Hill building I live in, construction workers are busily transforming a vast cement pit into a high-rise condominium named Luma. Its website describes the completed structure as a "half haven, half hotspot" with a long list of unsurprising attributes. In deliberate contrast to "the grandeur of the surrounding historic homes," for instance, Luma "makes a mo
  
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• What I Learned About Feminism from Binge-Watching All Six Seasons of Maude

  29-04-2015 03:01 via thestranger.com
  
  What I Learned About Feminism from Binge-Watching All Six Seasons of Maudeby Ijeoma OluoI must admit that before I received the recently released box set of the 1970s sitcom Maude—aka "Television's First Feminist"—I'd seen only a few clips of the iconic show. While Bea Arthur's other masterpiece, The Golden Girls, is still in heavy syndication (as it should be, because every single episode is a goddamn national treasure), Maude has not had the same lasting popularity. Despite being f
  
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