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• Malfunctioning striper leaves trail of yellow paint on I-5 near Everett

  26-05-2015 23:52
  
  A state Department of Transportation striper truck malfunctioned and left a thick line of yellow paint down the middle of the southbound carpool lane on Interstate 5 near Everett on Tuesday.
  
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• Mayor to Introduce Medical Marijuana Enforcement Plan That's Likely to Shut Down at Least 50 Dispensaries

  26-05-2015 23:51 via thestranger.com
  
  Ahead of new state rules for medical marijuana, the city plans to shut down dispensaries that didn't have a business license before January 2013 or sell to kids and people without doctor's recommendations. The Stranger
  At a press conference this afternoon, Mayor Ed Murray will announce his plan to shut down misbehaving medical marijuana dispensaries and allow others to operate until next summer, when a new state law effectively kills Washington's separate medical marijuana market.
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• Why You Still Can’t See the 20-Foot-Long Mural from the OK Hotel Bar After 14 Years

  26-05-2015 23:16 via thestranger.com
  
  OK Hotel mural by Jeff Mihalyo at AXIS.
  It’s 1994, and Tia Matthies and Steve Freeborn were adding a bar to their music venue, the OK Hotel. They commissioned local painter Jeff Mihalyo to create a mural for the back bar, to be completed in 1998 in time for their 10th anniversary as owners of the OK Hotel. Mihalyo, who had been designing their graphics since 1990, agreed to paint a work celebrating the history of the venue and the people who made it tick, but demurred on one point…
  
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• A Tour of the Capitol Hill Light Rail Station That's Set to Open in Early 2016

  26-05-2015 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  The station is $150 million under budget and 6 to 9 months ahead of schedule. Next year, you'll be able to stroll into this station, hop on trains that arrive every six minutes, and get to UW or downtown in four minutes.Ansel Herz
  Lest the Bertha boondoggle hog all the limelight, let's not forget that Capitol Hill has its own tunnel project. The only difference is that everything about it is wonderful. Instead of tunneling to build a massive highway, the project is to build a subway line connect
  
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• Want to be Seattle’s civic poet? There’s still time

  26-05-2015 22:57
  
  The city of Seattle is seeking applications for a new city position — a sort of poet-in-in-chief. The Office of Arts & Culture is accepting applications through Thursday, May 28, for the newly created position of  Civic Poet. The Civic Poet program was inspired by the Poet Populist program,  created by Seattle City Councilman Nick […]
  
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• Cougar sighting, bomb threat at Snohomish middle school

  26-05-2015 22:24
  
  Students at a Snohomish middle school endured a cougar sighting and a bomb threat on Tuesday.
  
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• Spokane County Sheriff: 3 dead after fire in Colbert

  26-05-2015 22:16
  
  The Spokane County Sheriff's Office says two people have been found dead after a house fire in Colbert, an unincorporated area north of Spokane.
  
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• Spokane County Sheriff: 2 dead after fire in Colbert

  26-05-2015 22:16
  
  The Spokane County Sheriff's Office says two people have been found dead after a house fire in Colbert, an unincorporated area north of Spokane.
  
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• 2 dead after fire in area north of Spokane

  26-05-2015 22:16
  
  The Spokane County Sheriff's Office says two people have been found dead after a house fire in Colbert, an unincorporated area north of Spokane.
  
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• 12 Folklife Fashions Reviewed by a 4-Year-Old

  26-05-2015 22:15 via thestranger.com
  
  I went to Northwest Folklife this past weekend with a tiny, excellent human named Babette. She's 4-years-old. Oops, sorry—I mean, FOUR AND A HALF YEARS OLD. Here's what she had to say about the fashion and the people we saw..."They look nice. I think she's holding Toothless. Toothless the Dragon. He's cute." Kelly O
  "I don't like him! He looks scary... MOM!" Kelly O"I like it. I have a fuzzy hat at home. It's an an owl." Kelly O
  "Ninja turtles! The red one is my favorite. Raphael." Kelly O
  
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• Seattle’s best restaurants? Classics revisited

  26-05-2015 21:51
  
  Canlis, The Herbfarm, Wild Ginger, Dahlia Lounge, and more: We sent our restaurant critic back to Seattle and the Eastside's most enduring dining spots to see if they still pass muster.
  
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• New Things to Haunt in 21st-Century Poltergeist

  26-05-2015 21:46 via thestranger.com
  
  New Things to Haunt in 21st-Century Poltergeist by Andrew WrightIt’s hard to overestimate the wondrous damage that Steven Spielberg and Tobe Hooper’s Poltergeist has done to tender young brains over the years, transplanting the creaks and groans of the Old Dark House genre and moving them directly under your bed. Even if the technology has moved on, it remains timeless. That said, here’s the remake. While not exactly necessary, it thankfully carries over the deviant wit of its namesake, in
  
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• Police: Man shot, killed in Spokane tattoo shop

  26-05-2015 21:42
  
  Spokane police are looking for a suspect in connection with an incident in which a man was shot and killed.
  
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• Police: Man shot, killed in Spokane at tattoo shop

  26-05-2015 21:42
  
  Spokane police are looking for a suspect in connection with an incident in which a man was shot and killed.
  
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• Man shot and killed in Spokane

  26-05-2015 21:42
  
  Spokane police are looking for a suspect in connection with an incident in which a man was shot and killed.
  
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• John Hodgman Used Instagram to Weigh in on John Roderick, the Seattle Times, and #Rockergate

  26-05-2015 21:23 via thestranger.com
  
  You may have thought this subject ended with my phoned-in Slog post shortly before Memorial Day Weekend, but no! Sometime Stranger contributor John Hodgman (aka this guy) had some thoughts as well. Part one re @johnroderick
  A video posted by John Hodgman (@johnhodgman) on May 20, 2015 at 5:58pm PDT Part 2
  A video posted by John Hodgman (@johnhodgman) on May 20, 2015 at 6:05pm PDT3
  A video posted by John Hodgman (@johnhodgman) on May 20, 2015 at 6:08pm PDT 4
  A video posted by John Hodgman (@johnh
  
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• John Hodgman Used Instagram to Weigh in on John Roderick, Seattle Times, and #Rockergate

  26-05-2015 21:23 via thestranger.com
  
  You may have thought this subject ended with my phoned-in Slog post shortly before Memorial Day Weekend, but no! Sometime Stranger contributor John Hodgman (aka this guy) had some thoughts as well. Part one re @johnroderick
  A video posted by John Hodgman (@johnhodgman) on May 20, 2015 at 5:58pm PDT Part 2
  A video posted by John Hodgman (@johnhodgman) on May 20, 2015 at 6:05pm PDTA video posted by John Hodgman (@johnhodgman) on May 20, 2015 at 6:08pm PDT A video posted by John Hodgman (@johnhodgm
  
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• Will Autechre's North American Tour Land at Decibel Festival?

  26-05-2015 21:10 via thestranger.com
  
  Autechre's Sean Booth and Rob Brown, the Lennon & McCartney of mind-bogglingly complex electronic music.
  Via FACTLegendary UK electronic-music duo Autechre have announced details for their fall North American tour (see itinerary after the jump), and if you look at the mysterious date after Portland, you can deduce that they may be playing Seattle's Decibel Festival, which happens Sept. 23-27. (I've asked Decibel director Sean Horton if this is the case, but he's yet to respond; he attended D
  
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• Mayor’s pot plan: License the ‘good actors,’ crack down on violators

  26-05-2015 21:01
  
  A new proposal from Seattle Mayor Ed Murray would give Seattle tighter control of marijuana businesses. It could shut down more than 50 medical dispensaries.
  
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• Burger Face-Off: Loretta’s’ Tavern Burger vs. Dick’s’ Deluxe

  26-05-2015 20:51 via thestranger.com
  
  Dick's' Deluxe: Seattle's truest culinary equalizer. Tobias Coughlin-Bogue
  Dick’s Drive-In’s Deluxe hamburger is one of the most quintessential Seattle food items. Anyone who has waited in line at the Dick's on Broadway at 1:47 a.m. can attest to this. This brightly lit bastion of late-night grease and convenience brings together the disparate social factions of Seattle in a way that few other places can. It is the city's truest culinary equalizer. Not to mention a damn good hamburge
  
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• Burger Face-Off: Loretta’s Tavern Burger vs. Dick’s Deluxe

  26-05-2015 20:51 via thestranger.com
  
  Dick's Deluxe: Seattle's truest culinary equalizer. Tobias Coughlin-Bogue
  Dick’s Drive-In’s Deluxe hamburger is one of the most quintessential Seattle food items. Anyone who has waited in line at the Dick's on Broadway at 1:47 a.m. can attest to this. This brightly lit bastion of late-night grease and convenience brings together the disparate social factions of Seattle in a way that few other places can. It is the city's truest culinary equalizer. Not to mention a damn good hamburger
  
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• A sampling of National Spelling Bee vocabulary questions

  26-05-2015 20:51
  
  OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Here is a sampling of vocabulary questions from Tuesday’s preliminary test at the Scripps National Spelling Bee. For the test, participants are asked to spell 12 words and define 14 words. Of the 285 spellers in the bee, roughly 50 will advance to the semifinals based on their scores on […]
  
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• ‘Throwback Tuesday’: For some, spelling bee runs in families

  26-05-2015 20:50
  
  OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — At the annual National Spelling Bee barbecue, 15-year-old Anna Turner was one of many former spellers sporting the official T-shirt from the year she competed. But it wasn’t entirely by choice. Anna, of Woodway, Texas, had a chance to make it back to the bee this year — but she […]
  
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• Ernesto Pino memorial set Monday at 5th Avenue Theatre

  26-05-2015 19:51
  
  The local chef and author, a fixture at theater premieres and charity events, died unexpectedly on April 30.
  
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• Ernesto Pino memorial set for Monday at 5th Avenue Theatre

  26-05-2015 19:51
  
  The local chef and author, a fixture at theater premieres and charity events, died unexpectedly on April 30.
  
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• Dennis, retired SPD bomb-sniffing dog, passes away

  26-05-2015 19:29
  
  Dennis, a retired Seattle Police Department bomb-sniffing dog, passed away over the weekend after a long battle with lung cancer.
  
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• Judging the Mariners: How Will the Season Shake Out?

  26-05-2015 19:18 via thestranger.com
  
  One of these Mariners is good and has no beard. The other one is bad and has too much beard. Jeff Allison/Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)People who make sweeping statements about baseball teams say you can’t judge a baseball team until Memorial Day. Well, yesterday was goddamn Memorial Day, so it’s time to judge the Seattle Mariners. Let’s do it by really beating this judgment conceit all the way to death, shall we?On the charge of being a good young pitcher:
  Taijuan Walker: INNOCENT for
  
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• High school, college students plan walkouts over funding issues as Sen. Murray in town

  26-05-2015 19:17
  
  High school, college students plan walkouts over funding issues
  
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• High school, college students concerned about school funding issues

  26-05-2015 19:17
  
  High school, college students plan walkouts over funding issues
  
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• Supreme Court to hear Texas Senate districts case

  26-05-2015 18:57
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear an important case about whether states must count only those who are eligible to vote, rather than the total population, when drawing electoral districts for their legislatures. The case from Texas could be significant for states with large immigrant populations, including Latinos who are children […]
  
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• Study: Next 100 days deadliest for teen drivers, passengers

  26-05-2015 18:21
  
  Study: Next 100 days deadliest for teen drivers, passengers
  
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• A Poet Defending Vanessa Place Equates Signers of the Petition Against Her with the Cop Who Killed Mike Brown

  26-05-2015 18:04 via thestranger.com
  
  Okay, that's just crazy.Gajus / Shutterstock.com
  Ron Silliman is a big-time thinker and important member of a large poetry movement that started in the 1970s called, annoyingly, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E. He's written over 30 books, winning the Poetry Foundation's Levinson Prize and a Kelly Writer's House Fellowship along the way, and this year he's teaching at the University of Pennsylvania. His blog is followed by many academics, but judging by the arguments he makes in defense of Vanessa Place’s
  
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• Passenger traffic booming at Sea-Tac Airport

  26-05-2015 17:58
  
  Passenger traffic booming at Sea-Tac Airport
  
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• Death of toddler run over by father ruled an accident

  26-05-2015 17:19
  
  PASCO, Wash. (AP) — The Franklin County Coroner’s Office says the death of a toddler who was hit by a truck driven by his father was an accident. The Tri-City Herald reports (http://is.gd/XdG7Jw ) that 13-mont-old Quinn Axel Kysar was in the backyard of a home on West Sagemoor Road north of Pasco on Monday […]
  
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• The Morning News: A 63-Hour Protest, Washington's Space Asteroid Business, and India's Awful Heat Wave

  26-05-2015 17:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Chiara D'Angelo spent three nights hanging off an anchor chain in Bellingham to protest Shell's Arctic drilling plans. Reese Semanko
  Twenty-Year-Old College Student Spent 63 Hours Attached to a Shell Arctic Vessel: Chiara D'Angelo climbed on an Arctic Challenger anchor chain in Bellingham on Friday night and came down Monday morning.
  We Could Hear Closing Arguments in the Monfort Murder Trial This Week: No one's denying Christopher Monfort killed Seattle police officer Timothy Brenton, but will
  
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• Morning News: A 63-Hour Protest While Dangling from a Shell Vessel, and the Local Company that Wants to Mine Astroids

  26-05-2015 17:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Chiara D'Angelo spent three nights hanging off an anchor chain in Bellingham to protest Shell's Arctic drilling plans. Reese Semanko
  Twenty-Year-Old College Student Spent 63 Hours Attached to a Shell Arctic Vessel: Chiara D'Angelo climbed on an Arctic Challenger anchor chain in Bellingham on Friday night and came down Monday morning.
  We Could Hear Closing Arguments in the Monfort Murder Trial This Week: No one's denying Christopher Monfort killed Seattle police officer Timothy Brenton, but will
  
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• Morning News: A 63-Hour Protest While Dangling from a Shell Vessel, and the Local Company That Wants to Mine Asteroids

  26-05-2015 17:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Chiara D'Angelo spent three nights hanging off an anchor chain in Bellingham to protest Shell's Arctic drilling plans. Reese Semanko
  A 20-Year-Old College Student Spent 63 Hours Attached to a Shell Arctic Vessel: Chiara D'Angelo climbed on an Arctic Challenger anchor chain in Bellingham on Friday night and came down Monday morning.
  We Could Hear Closing Arguments in the Monfort Murder Trial This Week: No one's denying Christopher Monfort killed Seattle police officer Timothy Brenton, but will an
  
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• Seattle mayor to announce new marijuana regulations

  26-05-2015 16:56
  
  Seattle mayor to announce new marijuana regulations
  
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• Seattle mayor introduces new marijuana legislation for ‘safer, more consistent’ access

  26-05-2015 16:56
  
  Seattle mayor to announce new marijuana regulations
  
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• "Yo, I'm a Mulatto," Novelist Mat Johnson Writes in an Essay for Buzzfeed This Morning

  26-05-2015 16:50 via thestranger.com
  
  He goes on to say:
  I actually love the word mulatto. I love it for its rolling linguistic sound — moo-lah-toe — sliding off my tongue the way Lolita did for Humbert Humbert. But I also love mulatto for the illicit pleasure of watching the uncomfortable cringe the word sometimes elicits from others, even when I say it to describe myself: an African American novelist who just happens to look like a washed-up Latvian rugby player. The discomfort is a response I’ve encountered from
  
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• Sweltering temperatures in India leave 750 dead in 5 weeks

  26-05-2015 16:30
  
  HYDERABAD, India (AP) — More than 750 people have died in southern India since the middle of April as soaring summer temperatures scorch the country, officials said Tuesday. The southeastern states of Andhra Pradesh and Telengana have been hit the hardest. More than 550 people have died from the unrelenting heat in Andhra Pradesh since […]
  
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• In Girl Scouts, young women find their way to STEM careers

  26-05-2015 16:30
  
  At their annual luncheon, the Girl Scouts of Western Washington talk tech education; and ArtsFund honors Tom Skerritt and Ann Ramsay-Jenkins.
  
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• Officials want new public toilet in Pioneer Square by end of year

  26-05-2015 16:01
  
  Officials want new public toilet in Pioneer Square by end of year
  
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• Police: 17-year-old boy killed in Burlington park shooting

  26-05-2015 15:48
  
  Police say a 17-year-old boy is dead following a shooting at a park in the Skagit County city of Burlington.
  
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• Search resumes for those missing in Texas floodwaters

  26-05-2015 15:36
  
  WIMBERLEY, Texas (AP) — Recovery teams resumed the search Tuesday for 12 people who are missing after a rain-swollen river carried a Texas vacation home off its foundation and slammed it into a bridge downstream. In Houston, authorities recovered three more bodies from the floodwaters — two of them in the city and a third […]
  
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• 12 missing after flooding in Texas sweeps away vacation home

  26-05-2015 15:36
  
  WIMBERLEY, Texas (AP) — Recovery teams were resuming the search early Tuesday for 12 people who are missing after a rain-swollen river in Central Texas carried a vacation home off its foundation, slamming it into a bridge downstream. The hunt for the missing picked up after a holiday weekend of terrible storms that dumped record […]
  
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• North Bend café to reappear with return of ‘Twin Peaks’

  26-05-2015 15:32
  
  North Bend café to reappear with return of ‘Twin Peaks’
  
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• Snohomish deputy fatally shoots man early Tuesday

  26-05-2015 15:10
  
  The Snohomish County Sheriff's Office is investigating the fatal shooting of a man early Tuesday by a deputy near Monroe.
  
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• Study peeks into healthy brains to hunt Alzheimer’s culprit

  26-05-2015 14:59
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Sticky plaque gets the most attention, but now healthy seniors at risk of Alzheimer’s are letting scientists peek into their brains to see if another culprit is lurking. No one knows what actually causes Alzheimer’s, but the suspects are its two hallmarks — the gunky amyloid in those brain plaques or tangles […]
  
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• GOP likely to feel the heat if court decision guts Obamacare

  26-05-2015 14:58
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Supreme Court ruling due in a few weeks could wipe out health insurance for millions of people covered by President Barack Obama’s health care law. But it’s Republicans — not White House officials — who have been talking about damage control. A likely reason: Twenty-six of the 34 states that would […]
  
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