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• Woman Sues Homosexuals in Federal Court—All Homosexuals

  05-05-2015 23:21 via thestranger.com
  
  Man, I hope I get deposed! Omaha World-Herald:An Auburn woman claiming to be an ambassador for God and his son, Jesus Christ, is suing all homosexuals. Sylvia Driskell, 66, asked an Omaha federal judge to decide whether homosexuality is a sin. Citing Bible verses, Driskell contends “that homosexuality is a sin and that they the homosexuals know it is a sin to live a life of homosexuality. Why else would they have been hiding in the closet?” Driskell wrote in a seven-page petition to
  
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• N. Idaho police officer in critical condition after shooting

  05-05-2015 23:16
  A northern Idaho officer is in critical condition after being shot and a suspect is in custody.
  
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• UW Med Center gets cancer-care help from IBM super computer

  05-05-2015 23:01
  The University of Washington Medical Center is teaming up with IBM’s Watson super computer to provide faster treatments based on cancer patients’ genetic profile.
  
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• Oregonian Media Group chairman leaving for Eugene newspaper

  05-05-2015 22:59
  The chairman of The Oregonian Media Group is moving south to take over as editor and publisher of The (Eugene) Register-Guard.
  
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• Landlord: Provide dog stool sample or be evicted

  05-05-2015 22:46
  
  Landlord: Provide dog stool sample or be evicted
  
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• What Is This Guy Doing? Shirtless Dance Moves? Almost Naked Modeling? Half-Clothed Performance Art?

  05-05-2015 22:09 via thestranger.com
  
  Last Friday, a shirtless man was seen sitting in a basketball hoop in Cal Anderson Park. Yes, actually sitting in the hoop. As if a hoop were a chair.
  A basketball hoop is not a chair. Photo by Brian BritiganCan you imagine being a cop? Can you imagine the rampant nakedness you have to encounter day to day? "Um, we have a naked man in a basketball hoop." "Roger that." Conversations like that daily. Plus increasing scrutiny from the outside world about every little thing cops do.According to an e
  
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• Is the Port About to Debate the Shell Arctic Drilling Decision Behind Closed Doors?

  05-05-2015 22:07 via thestranger.com
  
  The Polar Pioneer, the Arctic drilling rig en route to Seattle. Kelly O
  Yesterday, Mayor Ed Murray delivered a huge blow to the Port of Seattle when he announced that the city's Department of Planning and Development found that hosting Shell's Arctic drilling fleet was not in compliance with its 20-year-old land use permit for the space at Terminal 5. In other words, the port would have to reapply for the permit, which could put a major kink in Shell's timeline for drilling. Not long after Murra
  
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• Sen. Murray urges stronger enforcement of birth-control coverage

  05-05-2015 22:01
  U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, in a letter co-signed by 38 fellow senators, urged Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell to provide greater clarity and enforcement of birth-control coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
  
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• Mike Huckabee Is Not Going To Be President

  05-05-2015 21:39 via thestranger.com
  
  Mike Huckabee launched his campaign for the Republican nomination today in Hope, Arkansas, the working/overworked town/metaphor where both Huckabee and Bill Clinton grew up. Spoiler alert: Huckabee is not going to be the next president of the United States because Mike Huckabee is not going to be GOP nominee in 2016. The NYT—after noting that Huckabee has more challengers to his right now than he did when ran in 2008—stuck a knife in Huck and gave it a few brisk turns:
  One problem f
  
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• Steel Yourself for Give BIG!, Seattle's Yearly Philanthro-splosion

  05-05-2015 21:19 via thestranger.com
  
  If you donate a little of your money to a Seattle nonprofit today, people with even more money will "stretch" it. John Criscitello
  If you are in any way connected with Seattle's arts or nonprofit community, today is a special day—the day when your inbox spills over with pleas to "Give BIG!" in the Seattle Foundation's annual, one-day rodeo of altruism.For some, those emails can have a diminishing-returns effect: There is an inverse relationship between feeling badgered and feeling charitab
  
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• The Fifth Annual Substrata Festival of Experimental Music Will Also Be the Last One

  05-05-2015 21:15 via thestranger.com
  
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  Festival organizer/musician/producer Rafael Anton Irisarri has revealed the lineup for Substrata 1.5—which will be the fifth and last time this exceptionally curated experimental-music event happens. Taking place July 16-18 at Chapel Performance Space, Substrata 1.5 once again boasts an international, diverse bill, including mercurial Ukrainian pianist/composer Lubomyr Melnyk, Seattle folk singer/guitarist Tiny Vipers doing an analog-synth/tapes ambient set, microsound
  
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• After 12 Years of DIY, Zach Burba's Lowercase Weirdo Pop Band Iji Has Made a Record in a Studio

  05-05-2015 20:51 via thestranger.com
  
  Now that’s what I call poptimism. ZACH BURBA
  Zach Burba started making music as iji (pronounced "eeh-hee") 12 years ago, when he was 15 years old. Burba moved to Seattle from Phoenix in 2008 and has been involved in the local underground and DIY scene ever since, putting out numerous singles, cassettes, splits, and something like 11 full-length albums as iji, with an ever-changing carousel of bandmates and collaborators. He has also toured as much as possible. "I've been around the country
  
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• The Population of Trees in Seattle

  05-05-2015 20:33 via thestranger.com
  
  There are approximately 4.35 million trees in Seattle. Photo by Charles Tansley
  The answer to a question that first appeared in my mind in the late part of a long night: There are 4.35 million trees in Seattle. Wikipedia's estimate of humans in the city is just above 650,000.We live in a big city (people), but we live in an even bigger forest (trees). And as the great writer Jonathan Raban once pointed out to me, the forest dominates the day with its green leaves and the city the night with its
  
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• 'It's brutal': Extreme sellers market taking toll on buyers

  05-05-2015 19:39
  
  'It's brutal': Extreme sellers market taking toll on buyers
  
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• City-owned pot shop struggles to break even

  05-05-2015 19:31
  
  The Cannabis Corner — a small marijuana store just off state Highway 14 in North Bonneville — opened its doors March 7. Leaders of the tiny Columbia River Gorge city had big hopes for their experiment, aiming to use the store’s sales to alleviate North Bonneville’s ailing bud
  
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• Blaine Wetzel Wins James Beard Award for Best Chef Northwest

  05-05-2015 19:14 via thestranger.com
  Blaine Wetzel won his second James Beard award last night.
  Last night at the James Beard Restaurant and Chef Awards in Chicago, Blaine Wetzel, chef of the Willows Inn on Lummi Island, was named Best Chef Northwest. Impressively, this is actually 29-year-old Wetzel's second Beard award, having taken home honors last year as national rising star chef.
  In a very personal acceptance speech, Wetzel, whose fiancé, Raquel Ruiz Diaz, was involved in a hit-and-run accident in her native Paraguay ear
  
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• Today Is the Day Virginia Woolf Brought Her Mom Back to Life, 88 Years Ago Exactly

  05-05-2015 19:07 via thestranger.com
  
  That's Virginia Woolf's mom on the left. Her name was Julia. LitHub
  On May 5, 1895, Virginia Woolf's mom died suddenly in the dark of morning. Woolf was 13 years old. She was taken downstairs to kiss her mother goodbye.My father staggered from the bedroom as we came. I stretched my arms out to stop him, but he brushed past me, crying out something I could not catch; distraught. And [my half-brother] led me in to kiss my mother, who had just died.
  Woolf wrote later that kissing her "was like kiss
  
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• The Morning News: Seahawks' Draft Pick Investigation Gets Seriously Questioned, And So Do Warren Buffett's Lending Numbers

  05-05-2015 17:56 via thestranger.com
  
  The Seattle Times spoke to two witnesses to the night of Frank Clark's arrest, casting doubt over the team's investigation of the allegation that the draft pick hit his then-girlfriend. Mat Hayward / Shutterstock.com
  Seahawks Investigators Didn't Speak to Witnesses Other Than Frank Clark About the Night of His Arrest: "Two women say they found the girlfriend of Seahawks draft pick Frank Clark sprawled half-naked on her hotel-room floor and barely moving the night of his arrest on charges of dome
  
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• Now That Ben Carson Is Running for President, Let's All Laugh

  05-05-2015 16:54 via thestranger.com
  
  We are not a monolith! Christopher Halloran / Shutterstock.com
  Real-life Key & Peele skit Ben Carson is running for president! Huzzah! The famed neurosurgeon with the inspiring rags-to-riches story of growing up with a single mother in Detroit to become one of the most famous doctors in America has decided that he’s the best choice to lead this country. Also, he’s a homophobic hatemonger. So much to love!Now, while some may say that tinkering around in brain parts (quite difficul
  
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• Florida Couple Faces Jailtime, Lifetime on Sex-Offender Registry, For Having Sex On a Beach

  05-05-2015 16:39 via thestranger.com
  
  So... back in 2008 a British couple was sentenced to two years in prison for having sex on a beach in Dubai, and that was held up as an example of the insanity of sharia law—and crazy, repressive sex-negativity.On Monday an American couple was found guilty of having sex on a beach in Florida:
  A jury Monday found a couple guilty of having sex on Bradenton Beach after only 15 minutes of deliberation. The convictions carry a maximum prison sentence of 15 years. Jose Caballero, 40, and Elissa
  
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• Florida Couple Faces Jail Time, Lifetime on Sex-Offender Registry, for Having Sex on a Beach

  05-05-2015 16:39 via thestranger.com
  
  So... back in 2008, a British couple was sentenced to two years in prison for having sex on a beach in Dubai, and that was held up as an example of the insanity of sharia law—and crazy, repressive sex-negativity.On Monday, an American couple was found guilty of having sex on a beach in Florida:
  A jury Monday found a couple guilty of having sex on Bradenton Beach after only 15 minutes of deliberation. The convictions carry a maximum prison sentence of 15 years. Jose Caballero, 40, and Eliss
  
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• House burns on Mercer Island

  05-05-2015 15:36
  
  House burns on Mercer Island
  
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• Firefighters deal with exploding bullets during Mercer Island fire

  05-05-2015 15:36
  
  House burns on Mercer Island
  
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• City council to consider deal to preserve part of Bothell golf course

  05-05-2015 15:23
  
  City council to consider deal to preserve part of Bothell golf course
  
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• National Fire Officials Predict Another Risky Wildfire Season in the Northwest This Summer

  05-05-2015 15:15 via thestranger.com
  
  The Carlton Complex wildfire in 2014 was the biggest wildfire in Washington's history.Tom Reichner/Shutterstock
  In April, Mother Jones' Tom Philpott wrote about why Washington state is screwed (the answer being, "Drought, dammit"). But a new map shows why Washington may be double-screwed: wildfire season.
  The National Interagency Fire Center, which combines the powers of nine federal agencies to fight wildfires, put out a report last week anticipating wildfire conditions from May through July. M
  
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• Public input wanted on traffic chokepoint near JBLM

  05-05-2015 15:03
  
  Public input wanted on traffic chokepoint near JBLM
  
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• Bonney Lake police conducting patrols to ensure child safety in cars

  05-05-2015 14:30
  
  Bonney Lake police conducting patrols to ensure child safety in cars
  
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• Man accused of shooting ‘wrong’ barking dog dies before trial

  05-05-2015 14:05
  
  Man accused of shooting ‘wrong’ barking dog dies before trial
  
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• Hawks didn’t interview witnesses to ugly hotel incident involving draft pick

  05-05-2015 09:01
  
  Seahawks defend their choice and insist he never struck his then-girlfriend,but the team’s investigators never talked to witnesses.
  
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• Father of slain baby calls on shooters to surrender

  05-05-2015 08:46
  
  Martrice Grant, the father of 1-year-old Malijha Grant, who was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting in Kent last month, says he’s not a gang member, despite the contention of police that the shooting was related to afeud between rival gangs.
  
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• Bothell council to take up golf-course deal Tuesday

  05-05-2015 08:46
  
  The conservation group Forterra has offered to purchase the Wayne Golf Course’s front nine under an agreement that will come before the Bothell City Council on Tuesday. The deal would hold the land for three years so Bothell can raise money to buy and preserve it.
  
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• Police report relates victim’s injuries, Clark’s denial

  05-05-2015 08:31
  
  Excerpts from the police report.
  
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• Plenty say “May the 4th Be With You”

  05-05-2015 08:01
  
  Many “Star Wars” fans donned their costumes Monday to join in festivities at the EMP Museum.
  
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• Seattle teachers call 1-day walkout over state budget

  05-05-2015 07:46
  
  Seattle teachers voted Monday to strike on May 19 in an appeal for more funding from the Legislature, joining colleagues in about two dozen other school districts.
  
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• UW: Information on air ambulances in Marysville shooting was wrong

  05-05-2015 07:31
  UW Medicine officials say its air ambulance program gave inaccurate information last year about the location of its helicopters during the emergency response to the shootings at Marysville-Pilchuck High School.
  
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• Steve Harvey schools Garfield smart aleck

  05-05-2015 07:16
  The comedian stops by to dole out wisdom to high-schoolers; Martin Short supports Gilda’s Club Seattle; ‘The Memory Care Plays’ at Taproot; and the King of Scandinavian humor celebrates 90 years.
  
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• Activists renew court battle, say elephants at risk in failed move

  05-05-2015 07:01
  Activists have renewed their legal fight to have Seattle’s two Asian elephants sent to a sanctuary in California rather than the Oklahoma City Zoo.
  
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• Buffett concedes default rate on mobile-home loans could be much higher

  05-05-2015 06:46
  
  Warren Buffett earlier had touted a 3 percent default rate to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders to rebut claims of predatory lending in a Seattle Times and Center for Public Integrity probe into Berkshire’s mobile-home subsidiary, Clayton Homes.
  
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• Mayor: Port needs new permit to host Shell oil-drilling fleet

  05-05-2015 06:31
  
  The rigs and support vessels headed to Seattle for moorage and maintenance do not fit under the current permit for Terminal 5, Ed Murray said Monday morning.
  
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• Acting state auditor wastes no time firing Kelley associate

  05-05-2015 05:31
  As indicted state Auditor Troy Kelley took his leave on Monday to fight federal charges, stand-in Jan Jutte also released legal guidance the Auditor’s Office received on how an elected statewide official could step away from his job.
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Is "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Right For You?

  05-05-2015 02:25 via thestranger.com
  
  I'm a 34-year-old mostly straight woman in the Southwest US. My amazing boyfriend is 30 and straight. We've been together about 2.5 years, and we love and respect each other dearly and deeply. Here's the issue:while we both prefer monogamy, we both realize that we'll be sexually attracted to others throughout our lives, and I don't want either of us to get bored sexually. However, neither of us knows how to deal with the thought of our partner being sexually intimate with someone else. I'm afrai
  
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• Food Guy Anthony Bourdain Is a Stooges Fan

  05-05-2015 02:00 via thestranger.com
  
  You may find it hard to swallow, but Bourdain's quite fond of the Stooges' "Penetration." Tinseltown/Shutterstock.com
  Tho' I like to eat, I've never paid much attention to author and TV personality Anthony Bourdain. I do, however, recognize his name and know what he seems to be THE fave foodie guy. Well, surprisingly, he's also a bit of a head who, like Jesus, LOVES the Stooges! Yup, and he recounts his high-school era affection for this past Saturday's Tumblr preview of his show Parts Unknown(l
  
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• Seattle police: No charges for man stuck in basketball hoop

  05-05-2015 01:31
  Seattle police aren’t pursuing charges against a shirtless man with a hammer who managed to get himself stuck in a basketball hoop on May Day.
  
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• Police: No charges for man dangling from Seattle basketball hoop

  05-05-2015 01:22
  
  Police: No charges for man dangling from Seattle basketball hoop
  
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• New Council Member John Okamoto Sworn In, Calls on Council to Find "Common Interests"

  05-05-2015 01:18 via thestranger.com
  
  The Seattle City Council's newest member: John Okamoto. City of Seattle
  In a meeting mostly absent the same hostilities that defined his appointment last week, the Seattle City Council's newest member, John Okamoto, was sworn in today.In a speech from the dais, Okamoto said it was "a day my grandparents would not have thought possible when they stepped off their boats from Japan on the Seattle waterfront to a foreign and hostile land; a day my parents would not have thought possible when they we
  
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• Age of Ultron Is Heroically Overstuffed

  05-05-2015 01:16 via thestranger.com
  
  "This is serious business."
  Even those whose nerd blood runs lukewarm should acknowledge the skill with which The Avengers did its thing, throwing together multiple franchises into a jumbo combo pack that somehow didn’t feel like a letdown. Age of Ultron is, it must be said, a clunkier affair than its predecessor, shoehorning too many new characters into a narrative that devotes more time to setting up future conflicts than to resolving the ones in the constantly exploding now. And yet, wh
  
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• Former apartment tenant suspect of leaving explosives in garage

  05-05-2015 00:46
  
  Former apartment tenant suspect of leaving explosives in garage
  
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• Alki neighbors fight Verizon cell antennas

  05-05-2015 00:41
  
  Alki neighbors fight Verizon cell antennas
  
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• John Oliver Takes on Standardized Tests, Citing Seattle High School Boycott

  05-05-2015 00:16 via thestranger.com
  
  Last night, the irrepressible John Oliver took on the Obama administration and its push for standardized testing. At about the two-minute mark, he cites the fact that every junior at Nathan Hale High School, which is near Northgate, opted out of the Smarter Balanced tests last month. (Juniors at Garfield High School also boycotted the tests.) "The only other thing that an entire class of juniors has managed to agree on," quips Oliver, "is that The Scarlet Letter could be told much simpler with e
  
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