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• Stolen school bus crashes into patrol car

  01-05-2015 23:28
  
  School bus stolen, still lost in Snohomish County
  
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• School bus stolen, still lost in Snohomish County

  01-05-2015 23:28
  
  School bus stolen, still lost in Snohomish County
  
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• Feds Finalize Rules for Crude Oil Trains, and Some (Including Senator Maria Cantwell) Aren't Very Happy About It

  01-05-2015 22:51 via thestranger.com
  
  Derailed tank cars after the 2013 Lac-Mégantic disaster, which killed 47 people in Quebec. meunierd / Shutterstock.com
  Today, the federal Department of Transportation finally publishedrules to regulate oil trains. These trains have a history of derailing and shooting fireballs several hundred feet high into the sky, and currently run directly beneath downtown Seattle multiple times a week.It's been nearly five months since the DOT missed its deadline to come up with safety standards for hig
  
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• May Day 2015: What's Happening Now in Seattle

  01-05-2015 22:36 via thestranger.com
  
  Editor's note: This post will be updated throughout the day, with most recent posts at the top. For breaking news on May Day 2015 as it's happening, follow us @strangerslog, @heidigroover, @Ansel, @sydbrownstone, @AGarlandPhoto, and @drunkoftheweek. Or keep checking back on this post for more updates.
  This is what the #BlackLivesMatter rally at MLK Memorial Park looked like around noon. Kelly O
  The #BlackLivesMatter protest is on the move:
  Really feels like 1:1 cops and protesters here. #MayDayS
  
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• Saturday, May 2, Is Independent Bookstore Day, Because Literature Deserves a Party, Too

  01-05-2015 22:29 via thestranger.com
  
  Not pictured: ecstatic celebration. kelly o
  "California Bookstore Day's logo is a super-cute little bear," said Independent Bookstore Day cofounder Pete Mulvihill. "My favorite thing that happened on the first Bookstore Day was someone hand-sewed a bear, decorated it, and took it to every bookstore that was participating in the event. We had reached the real, true, hardcore book nerds. It's just a giant, fun party."
  Mulvihill and his wife, Samantha Schoech, spearheaded the organization of the fi
  
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• How We Might Have Written About Baltimore If Baltimore Were In Another Country

  01-05-2015 22:26 via thestranger.com
  
  Some "civil unrest" ...somewhere. smallroomphoto/Shutterstock
  I wish I'd seen this before my previous post—Karen Attiah at the Washington Post takes a pass at how the American press would be writing about Baltimore if Baltimore were in another country:
  Black Americans, a minority ethnic group, are killed by state security forces at a rate higher than the white majority population. Young, black American males are 21 times more likely to be shot by police than white American males.
  The Unite
  
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• The 2015 HUMP Tour Comes to Seattle!

  01-05-2015 22:24 via thestranger.com
  
  First things first: Um... I had nothing to do with the creation of the above HUMP! promo video. It's very well done—it's great, actually. Andy Blubaugh is an amazing filmmaker. But all that shit about how sexy I supposedly am? Blurgh. I know it seems implausible when I say that I didn't see this thing before it was posted to YouTube... but I didn't see this thing before it was posted to YouTube. I'm a busy and I have to budget my time carefully and Andy Blubaugh did such an amazing job on
  
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• Cruise ship season begins in Seattle, giving businesses a boost

  01-05-2015 21:20
  
  Cruise ship season begins in Seattle, giving businesses a boost
  
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• Mamiffer+Daniel Menche, Marielle Jakobsons Head Up 8th Annual Debacle Fest

  01-05-2015 21:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Guitar subversive Pink Void at last year's Debacle Fest; she's also performing this year. Allyce Andrew
  Debacle Fest has announced most of the lineup for its eighth annual event, which happens July 10-11 at Columbia City Theater this year. An exemplary exhibition of various experimental-music mutations, Debacle has booked some of the West Coast's most adventurous musicians working in the drone, electronic, space-rock, improv, and minimalist styles, including Mamiffer+Daniel Menche, Sarah Davachi
  
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• Debacle Fest Announces Exemplary Experimental Music Line-Up

  01-05-2015 21:05 via thestranger.com
  Guitar subversive Pink Void at last year's Debacle Fest; she's also performing this year. Allyce Andrew
  Debacle Fest has announced most of the lineup for its eighth annual event, which happens July 10-11 at Columbia City Theater this year. An exemplary exhibition of various experimental-music mutations, Debacle has booked some of the West Coast's most adventurous musicians working in the drone, electronic, space-rock, improv, and minimalist styles, including Mamiffer+Daniel Menche, Sarah Davachi
  
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• Debacle Fest Announces Exemplary Experimental Music Lineup

  01-05-2015 21:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Guitar subversive Pink Void at last year's Debacle Fest; she's also performing this year. Allyce Andrew
  Debacle Fest has announced most of the lineup for its eighth annual event, which happens July 10-11 at Columbia City Theater this year. An exemplary exhibition of various experimental-music mutations, Debacle has booked some of the West Coast's most adventurous musicians working in the drone, electronic, space-rock, improv, and minimalist styles, including Mamiffer+Daniel Menche, Sarah Davachi
  
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• When Is a Demonstration a Rally, When Is It a Riot, and When Is It a Rebellion?

  01-05-2015 20:49 via thestranger.com
  May Day 2012: What do you call this? BK
  Last night, I met up with a friend who was born in Baltimore and asked him what he thought of the current situation—which some observers are calling a "riot" and others, like political commentator and Morehouse professor Marc Lamont Hill, are calling an "uprising." (It was a deft move by prosecutors to announce the charges against police on the morning of May Day and before the weekend.)
  My friend talked about the deeply entrenched racism of Maryland
  
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• What's Happening in Seattle on May Day 2015

  01-05-2015 20:34 via thestranger.com
  
  Editor's note: This post will be updated throughout the day, with most recent posts at the top. For breaking news on May Day 2015 as it's happening, follow us @strangerslog, @heidigroover, @Ansel, @sydbrownstone, @AGarlandPhoto, and @drunkoftheweek. Or keep checking back on this post for more updates.
  #BlackLivesMatter protest at MLK Memorial Park:
  Former member of Black Panthers says today's racism is new "manifest destiny." pic.twitter.com/Ncrb21Pcz6
  — Heidi Groover (@heidigroover) May 1
  
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• New Music Study Says 33 Is the New "Old"

  01-05-2015 20:25 via thestranger.com
  
  According to new research, 33 years old will be the year you stop listening to new music, and begin blasting *NSYNC in your car.* In data derived from Spotify listeners (combined with Echo Nest "artist popularity data"), pop culture/tech blog Skynet & Ebert broke down the age and gender of music listeners, and produced a few nifty graphs documenting what you already suspected... once you hit age 33, your days of listening to new music is pretty much over! From S&E:
  Via Skynet & EbertThe
  
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• Money missing from safe in Bothell police evidence room

  01-05-2015 20:03
  
  Money missing from safe in Bothell police evidence room
  
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• The Stranger Obtains a Secret Transcript of the Koch Brothers’ Auditioning of Republican Candidates

  01-05-2015 20:01 via thestranger.com
  
  The Koch brothers, who will spend almost $900 million on this presidential campaign, have been auditioning Republican candidates in Dana Point, California. mandritoiu / ShutterstockLights up on SCOTT WALKER, TED CRUZ, RAND PAUL, MARCO RUBIO, and JEB BUSH huddled under one side of a large proscenium. They are auditioning for the role of Republican Jesus Christ Superstar. CHARLES and DAVID KOCH, who plan to spend $889 million on this election, approach the lectern. The crowd falls silent as the Ko
  
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• State’s Health Benefit Exchange struggling for viability

  01-05-2015 19:57
  With enrollment in Healthplanfinder insurance plans lower than expected, the exchange faces shortfalls that could cause serious financial problems and even pose questions about its survival.
  
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• Michael Medved: Beating cancer ‘will inform everything I talk about from here on out’

  01-05-2015 19:46
  
  After a bout with throat cancer, the conservative radio host and movie critic is looking forward to being part of the 2016 conversation.
  
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• Major road closures over Lake Washington this weekend

  01-05-2015 19:41
  
  Major road closures over Lake Washington this weekend
  
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• Alan Keyes: Legalizing Gay Marriage a 'Just Cause For War'

  01-05-2015 19:40 via thestranger.com
  
  He shall fight you at the rehearsal dinner, he shall fight on your wedding day, he shall fight you at your wedding reception. He shall fight you in the buffet line and by the chocolate fountain and on your honeymoon. He shall never surrender!
  Joining other Religious Right activists who warn that the Supreme Court will spark a civil war if the it strikes down bans on same-sex marriage, Alan Keyes writes in WorldNetDaily today that a ruling in favor of gay rights will “be just cause for war.
  
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• Watch Bernie Sanders's First Press Conference as a Presidential Canidate

  01-05-2015 19:23 via thestranger.com
  
  After announcing his candidacy, Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent (and avowed socialist) from Vermont, held a brief press conference to provide an outline of the issues he is to push during his presidential run. I want to first point out, however, that none of these issues are really socialist. They are all pretty much the kind of meat and potatoes served by social democracy.It's also important to observe the difference between social democracy and socialism. The former is not opposed to c
  
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• Watch Bernie Sanders' First Press Conference as a Presidential Canidate

  01-05-2015 19:23 via thestranger.com
  After announcing his candidacy, Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent (and avowed socialist) from Vermont, held a brief press conference to provide an outline of the issues he is to push during his presidential run. I want to first point out, however, that none of these issues are really socialist. They are all pretty much the kind of meat and potatoes served by social democracy.It's also important to observe the difference between social democracy and socialism. The former is not opposed to c
  
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• The Underground Is Massive Charts the Irresistible Rise of EDM

  01-05-2015 19:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Positive mutations.
  Electronic dance music is winning. Turn on the radio, look at the Billboard charts, check YouTube views, gaze at attendance numbers for EDM festivals—you'll see a dominant force sweeping the mainstream and making commercial rock's once-formidable punch seem feeble. Actually, not sweeping. Swept.
  Music journalist (and former Seattleite) Michaelangelo Matos has spent the last three-plus years working on his new book, The Underground Is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music
  
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• Chefs ‘horrified’ by plan to spray neurotoxin on oyster beds

  01-05-2015 18:01
  
  Taylor Shellfish says the pesticide is safe for use in Willapa Bay and Grays Harbor, but Seattle eateries are scrambling to make sure the oysters they serve aren’t affected.
  
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• The Morning News: SPD's Protest Training Manual and a Federal Title IX Investigation at Western Washington University

  01-05-2015 17:51 via thestranger.com
  
  May Day, 2013 Ansel Herz
  It's May Day. Wonder How the Cops Are Trained to Deal With Protesters? Ahead of today's May Day protests, Ansel reports on a 2013—and maybe still in use today—training manual from the Seattle Police Department: "The document discusses crowd control formations, mass arrests, and how to strike protesters with batons. (The Department of Justice found in 2011 that 57 percent of baton usage by Seattle police was unnecessary or excessive.) It doesn't include a sing
  
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• Six Baltimore Police Officers Charged in Death of Freddie Gray

  01-05-2015 17:45 via thestranger.com
  
  NYT:
  Prosecutors here, in an unexpected announcement, said Friday they had probable cause to file homicide, manslaughter and misconduct charges against police officers in the death of Freddie Gray, who died after sustaining a spinal cord injury while in police custody.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Republicans In Colorado Vote for More Abortions

  01-05-2015 17:24 via thestranger.com
  
  A private donation in 2009 funded an experimental program in Colorado—to the tune of $5 million dollars—that provided free or cut-rate IUDs and other forms of long-lasting contraception to teenagers in that state. How'd that experimental program do? It did great:
  A program that provides contraceptives to low-income women contributed to a 40-percent drop in Colorado's teen birth rate over five years, according to state officials. The program, known as the Colorado Family Planning Init
  
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• IRS does second search of Troy Kelley’s home computers

  01-05-2015 17:16
  
  Newly unsealed search warrants show that after federal agents searched state Auditor Troy Kelley’s home in March, they sought amore detailed search of his personal computers.
  
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• Document Shows "Undercover" Police Gathered Information on May Day Protesters. Will They Do It Again This Year?

  01-05-2015 17:02 via thestranger.com
  
  Some Seattle police won't be in uniform at today's May Day protests. They'll be "undercover" or in "plainclothes," depending on your preferred terminology. Ansel Herz
  Here's a riddle. On Tuesday, the Seattle police department, through longtime spokesperson Detective Sean Whitcomb, said it has notused undercover police officers during past May Day protests.
  But the department's Incident Action Plan for May Day in 2012 identifies multiple squads of "undercover" officers to be deployed in the prote
  
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• Traffic alert: Brace for May Day delays, possible detours

  01-05-2015 17:01
  
  May Day protests are likely to delay traffic in downtown Seattle, though transportation agencies can’t predict where and when.
  
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• This Week on the Blabbermouth Podcast: Dan Savage, Mike McGinn, and Joni Mitchell!

  01-05-2015 15:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Blabbermouth: Episode four of our Stranger week-in-review podcast. BrAt82/Shutterstock
  Dan Savage is on Blabbermouth this week talking about the tip and how to use it. Kathleen Richards is on, too, talking about risk-shifting in restaurants. And former Seattle mayor Mike McGinn is on as well. He says he can identify a bit with Kshama Sawant these days. She got in trouble this week for not being Seattle nice enough with her council colleagues. "They've never liked Kshama," explains McGinn. (He al
  
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• Voluntary recall over as local ice cream maker opens tasting room

  01-05-2015 15:39
  
  Voluntary recall over as local ice cream maker opens tasting room
  
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• Police Reports Illustrated: The Cubicle Whisperer and the Non-Existent Safe

  01-05-2015 15:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Callan BerryCallan Berry [ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• May Day precautions taken by Seattle businesses, big and small

  01-05-2015 14:34
  
  May Day precautions taken by Seattle businesses, big and small
  
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• Rihanna is Puma’s New Don Draper, Kendrick Lamar Tosses Sweetgreen’s Salad, and Titus Andronicus Make a Bipolar Rock Opera

  01-05-2015 14:16 via thestranger.com
  
  This is Rihanna's new ad campaign for Puma. Puma is a kind of shoes. Rihanna is a singer. She did that song "S&M." It stands for "Sneakers & Money"
  • Rihanna is a shoe salesperson at last! As you may know, back in December the sportswear company named Rihanna as its new creative director; and now we've got the singer in her first ad since the declaration, featuring the slogan, "Always Faster." She looks flawless as usual, even when she's trying to start a resurgence of the '90s visor t
  
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• Rihanna Is Puma’s Don Draper, Kendrick Lamar Tosses Sweetgreen’s Salad, Titus Andronicus Make a Bipolar Rock Opera

  01-05-2015 14:16 via thestranger.com
  
  This is Rihanna's new ad campaign for Puma. Puma is a kind of shoes. Rihanna is a singer. She did that song "S&M." It stands for "Sneakers & Money"
  • Rihanna is a shoe salesperson at last! As you may know, back in December the sportswear company named Rihanna as its new creative director; and now we've got the singer in her first ad since the declaration, featuring the slogan, "Always Faster." She looks flawless as usual, even when she's trying to start a resurgence of the '90s visor t
  
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• Rain-soaked Seattle has nation’s highest water bills

  01-05-2015 12:46
  
  Here’s why monthly water expenses around the country seem to defy logic.
  
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• Majestic spires

  01-05-2015 09:46
  
  Mount Rainier looms majestically in this view of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
  
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• Dozens now sick with E. coli after Milk Makers Fest

  01-05-2015 09:46
  Four people have been hospitalized and at least 28 others are sick with dangerous E. coli infections linked to an agricultural festival in Lynden in April, health officials said.
  
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• ‘Big fan’ of state universities says elite schools don’t ensure success

  01-05-2015 09:46
  
  New York Times opinion writer and author Frank Bruni offers advice for getting the most out of an education at a large public university.
  
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• Supreme Court to hold off on punishing lawmakers over education funding

  01-05-2015 08:01
  The state Supreme Court will hold off on whether to punish lawmakers over the lack of a K-12 school-funding plan until after the special legislative session ends.
  
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• Seattle tunnel-beating victim sues Constantine, Metro, others

  01-05-2015 07:31
  
  A 21-year-old woman who was beaten in Seattle’s bus tunnel more than five years ago has filed suit against King County Executive Dow Constantine, law enforcement, retired law enforcement and King County Metro officials claiming they failed to protect her from attackers.
  
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• Opening Day traffic warnings

  01-05-2015 06:16
  Drivers should adjust for the start of boating season and continuing work on I-90.
  
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• ‘Storywallah’: sharing true tales to foster understanding

  01-05-2015 05:31
  The topic will be “misunderstood” Sunday when a “Storywallah,” a live, storytelling event, showcases the experiences of our region’sSouth Asian community.
  
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• The Contemporary Return of Record Clubs?

  01-05-2015 02:35 via thestranger.com
  
  Today I happened to run across a Gizmodo feature from this winter, "There's A Netflix For Vinyl Records Now." Huh? A "Netfix for records," you say?!"Well, no, not exactly—it looks more like a contemporary twist on the old album mail order services your parents subscribed to. And tho' it IS pitched as a "rental," you really don't rent the records; you preview them, presumably to buy them. So, it IS similar to the Columbia House Record Club, but isn't modeled on CHRC's bait-and-switch scheme
  
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• Bartender Crush: Adé at Re-bar

  01-05-2015 02:18 via thestranger.com
  
  Brooklyn Benjestorf
  Name: Adé
  Where: Re-bar
  Buy Him A Shot Of: HornitosAsk Him To Make You A: Margarita
  What He's Doing When He's Not At The Bar: "I'm either performing, rehearsing, making music, or hanging out at Pony," he says.
  Words To Live By: "Ask questions then answer riddle."[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Medical examiner’s office attributes MMA fighter’s death to kidney failure

  01-05-2015 02:16
  An Aberdeen kick boxer, Jameston Lee-Yaw, 47, died following a mixed martial arts fight Saturday night at the SouthShore Mall. He was initially taken to Grays Harbor Community Hospital after the fight then transferred to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle where he died Monday.
  
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• 2 homes destroyed, 1 damaged in West Seattle fire

  01-05-2015 01:51
  
  Multiple homes on fire in West Seattle
  
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• The First Wild Wolf Found in King County in a Very Long Time May Have Been Killed on the Interstate

  01-05-2015 01:35 via thestranger.com
  
  Let's think about this image of a gray wolf and not about what a gray wolf may have looked like on the median of I-90.Geoffrey Kuchera/Shutterstock
  It had a black coat and was female, according to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. Past that, federal forensic scientists are still investigating the identity of a dead animal found between Exit 38 and Exit 42 on I-90 on Tuesday. But officials suspect it was a wild gray wolf.
  If they're right, and if the animal wasn't a hybrid or a part
  
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• Savage Love: Age Play

  01-05-2015 01:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Joe NewtonMy partner is 31 years older than I am. I know the math: He'll be 60 when I'm 29. But that isn't the problem. The issue is he's been a lifelong bachelor and never been monogamous. He's fucked hundreds of women and is close friends with a lot of his former fuck buddies. Because of our four-year friendship before we hooked up, I know a lot about his sex life. The problem isn't jealousy—and it isn't knowing he's fucked every woman he's friends with or that he fucked someone else af
  
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