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• Just Announced: The Complete Bumbershoot 2015 Schedule

  27-08-2015 23:35 via thestranger.com
  
  Neko Case will perform on Sunday at 9:30 pm. Read Dave Segal's review here.
  The complete schedule for Bumbershoot was just announced, and it's live on our Things To Do calendar right now!
  Everything you could possibly need to plan your weekend at Bumbershoot is on there: performance times, stages, band photos, SoundCloud links, and even links to buy your tickets, in case you haven't done that yet. Plus, we have music, comedy, words and ideas, and visual art recommendations from our critics!What
  
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• Records Show Officer Cynthia Whitlatch Believes She Was Investigated Because of Her Race

  27-08-2015 23:27 via thestranger.com
  
  Officer Cynthia Whitlatch was praised by SPD in 2013 as "one of our many great officers." SPD
  Public records obtained regarding the investigation of Cynthia Whitlatch—the Seattle police officer who came under fire for her arrest last year of then-69-year-old William Wingate, who is black, for allegedly swinging a golf club at her patrol car—reveal that the officer, who is white, believes she is a victim of reverse racism.The Office of Professional Accountability (OPA) carried out the
  
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• There Was "a Large Sewage Spill" in Lake Washington Wednesday Morning

  27-08-2015 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  If you're in Lake Washington right now, you might want make like that guy.Kelly O
  UPDATE: This was originally posted on Wednesday, August 26, but I'm bumping it up because the city has just alerted us "Swimming beach will remain closed at least until Friday afternoon." Shit!I don't know what you're talking about, Heidi. The people with shitty jobs at City Hall are working today. They don't give a crap about the primary or the council races. They're up to their eyeballs in another problem.Accordi
  
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• Savage Love: Ashley's Ashes

  27-08-2015 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  JOE NEWTON
  Please do a public-service announcement about the Ashley Madison hack, and request that NO ONE look up information on ANYONE other than their own spouse. I'm a former AM user. I've been married to my wife for 20 years. We met when we were both 20 years old. Seven years ago, I made a selfish decision to have an affair, and five years ago, my wife found out. She hated me for a while, but we worked things out. I have been faithful since then, and our marriage is better than ever. Since
  
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• EPA wants $367,500 penalties on Jorgensen for faulty cleanup work on the Duwamish

  27-08-2015 22:55
  
  Losing patience with faulty work in the heralded cleanup of industrial waste from Seattle’s Duwamish Waterway, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a six-figure penalty against a steel producer that is a major presence on the river. The EPA wants $367,500 in penalties against the Earle M. Jorgensen Co. for repeatedly failing to meet needed and agreed-upon requirements in its portion of the Duwamish cleanup. The Duwamish River:  Due to industrial contamination, the low
  
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• Griffey in wig, downtown Spokane featured in Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’s new music video

  27-08-2015 21:20
  
  After coming down from “Thriftshop” mania, hometown hip-hop heroes Macklemore and Ryan Lewis ducked out of the spotlight just long enough to put together some new music, and Thursday they released their anthemic music video to plug it. In the style fans have come to know and love from the duo, the music video for “Downtown” is soaked in retro style and local nostalgia, set in Lewis’s hometown of Spokane, despite the song’s references to Macklemore’s home
  
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• Video: Lowering Bertha's cutter head

  27-08-2015 21:11
  
  This time-lapse video shows the slow process of lowering Bertha's cutter head and drive unit back into the 120-foot access pit.
  
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• 10 Great Tracks Pitchfork Left Out of Its Best Songs of the ’80s List

  27-08-2015 20:54 via thestranger.com
  
  A meta-love song supreme, left out of the Pitchfork list for some unfathomable reason.
  All best-music lists are subjective and open to nerdy nitpicking, including Pitchfork’s recently posted 200 Best Songs of the ’80s rundown, which has been stirring up the social mediasphere lately. The site’s staffers and contributors composed a decent enough list (kudos for Liquid Liquid’s “Optimo,” My Bloody Valentine’s “You Made Me Realise,” ESG’s
  
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• An Email Exchange With One of the Few Women on Ashley Madison

  27-08-2015 20:20 via thestranger.com
  
  Yesterday, moments after reading widely circulated Gizmodo piece that revealed how few women were on Ashley Madison (and that many of the actual real created by actual women were barely active), and not long after I was interviewed about the hack on the CBC's program Q, I got an email from a woman who said she used Ashley Madison. We had an interesting email exchange about her experiences. I'm posting here with her permission.
  Thank you for the perspective you keep bringing to this. It is like
  
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• McDermott backs accord to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons

  27-08-2015 20:19
  
  With a nod toward the Obama administration’s “steely resolve,” Seattle’s Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott has announced his “enthusiastic support” for the agreement between the United State and five major powers under which Iran will curb development of a nuclear weapons capacity in exchange for a lifting of trade sanctions. U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott:  Yes to Iran nuclear accord. “The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action is an extremely well-conceived
  
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• Hillary's Piles of Wall Street Gold Are So Bright She's Gotta Wear Shades

  27-08-2015 20:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Progressives to Clinton: Will you continue to take backdoor bribes from Wall Street? Marianne Campolongo / Shutterstock.com
  Progressives often criticize Hillary Clinton for her cozy relationship with Wall Street. Their evidence: her top donors. How could she really mean what she says when she talks about reducing income equality by growing incomes for the middle class when her top five donors include four banks and a law firm?I'm sympathetic to this argument, even though I don't want to be. Isn'
  
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• Seahawks Lose Two Preseason Games, Which Doesn't Matter at All

  27-08-2015 19:24 via thestranger.com
  
  If you disagree with me, allow me to set fire to the strawman that is your argument. f11photo / Shutterstock.comThis week I overheard someone say that they’re genuinely worried about the Seahawks because of their 0-2 record through their first two preseason games. “Genuinely worried” were the words I heard, in reference to preseason football results. It was an existentially horrifying moment.
  This is completely unacceptable behavior for so many reasons, the first few of which c
  
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• Mayor Murray Will Temporarily Hold Off on Hookah Lounge Crackdown

  27-08-2015 19:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Mayor Ed Murray has said the 11 hookah lounges in the city violate the state ban on indoor smoking. Now, his administration will give the lounges a chance to change their business model to come into compliance. City of Seattle
  PubliCola has the news this morning that the mayor's staff will hold off on shutting down hookah lounges until they see what comes of a meeting with the lounge owners expected to happen today or tomorrow.
  “We’ve been trying to do a sit down because it seems lik
  
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• In Food News: New Savory and Sweet Thai Spots, Charlie's Space Being Redeveloped, PFI Founder Big John Passes Away

  27-08-2015 18:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Wann Yen, from the owners of Thai Curry Simple, serve Thai shaved ice with ingredients like mangoes, dates, evaporated milk, sweet corn, and smoked coconut.Dawn FornearSoi and Wann Yen Are Open
  Two notable new Thai restaurants have recently opened, one specializing in the deeply savory Issan cuisine, the other entirely devoted to Thai sweets:• Soi, which translates to “side street,” specializes in traditional Thai food, particularly funky, spicy, and boldly flavored dishes (such
  
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• The Morning News: Seattle Children's Warns of Potential Infection Risk, Taxpayers Paid for Mayor's Security in Israel

  27-08-2015 17:37 via thestranger.com
  
  An autoclave sterilizes medical instruments. Hospital officials said the equipment was sterilized at the right temperature and length of time, but had debris on them anyway. Stas Walenga/Shutterstock.com
  Seattle Children’s Bellevue Clinic Says Patients at Risk of Possible Infection: Up to 12,000 children and young adults could be at risk of infection after it was discovered that reusable surgical instruments were not properly cleaned, reports the Seattle Times. Hospital administrators have
  
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• You Must Watch This 15 Minute Set On Gun Control By an Australian Comedian

  27-08-2015 17:36 via thestranger.com
  
  Required viewing—essential viewing. Via Vox:
  Australian comedian Jim Jefferies was the victim of a home invasion once. He was tied up and beaten, and his girlfriend was threatened with rape. So you might think he'd sympathize with the idea that Americans want guns to protect their families. Quite the opposite—he does an excellent job of summing up why so many foreigners are baffled by America's gun culture.
  He does a better job making a case for gun control—and puncturing the
  
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• Climbing the Space Needle, 1 step at a time

  27-08-2015 06:04
  
  The high-speed elevators in Seattle's iconic Space Needle take visitors to the top of the 605-foot structure in just 41 seconds. Now, the stairs, that's an entirely different experience.
  
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• KIRO 7 obtains report on officer-involved shooting in Olympia

  27-08-2015 03:31
  
  KIRO 7 obtains report on officer-involved shooting in Olympia
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Forgiveness and Ashley Madison's Innocent Victims

  27-08-2015 03:08 via thestranger.com
  
  I'm home for the summer from college and will go back in a few weeks. I have two little sisters and an older brother who lives across the country. I've always thought my parents had a great marriage, but last week I came home to find my dad tossing my mom around the living room. He found her email address on Ashley Madison, confronted her, learned about affairs, and went berserk. My dad has never been a violent man and has always been in control of his temper. But what I saw last week terrified
  
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• There Was "a Large Sewage Spill" in Lake Washington This Morning

  27-08-2015 02:57 via thestranger.com
  
  If you're in Lake Washington right now, you might want make like that guy.Kelly O
  I don't know what you're talking about, Heidi. The people with shitty jobs at City Hall are working today. They don't give a crap about the primary or the council races. They're up to their eyeballs in another problem.According to a 5:02 pm news alert from Seattle Public Utilities:
  Seattle’s Seward Park swimming beach has been ordered closed following a large sewage spill Wednesday morning into Lake Washingto
  
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• The NRA’s Olympia lobbyist defends ivory handled guns, takes on “huge billionaire” Paul Allen

  27-08-2015 02:13
  
  The National Rifle Association’s Olympia lobbyist Brian Judy makes a new argument on why Washington voters should reject a ban on trafficking of endangered species when they mark November ballots.  Lots of gun enthusiasts own irearms with handles made of elephant ivory. After going after entrepreneur Nick Hanauer during the Initiative 594 battle last year, Judy has now drawn a bead on Seattle Seahawks owner Paul Allen, who has championed Initiative 1401.  The initiative would pro
  
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• The NRA’s Olympia lobbyist defends ivory handled guns, takes on ‘huge billionaire’ Paul Allen

  27-08-2015 02:13
  
  The National Rifle Association’s Olympia lobbyist, Brian Judy, makes a new argument on why Washington voters should reject a ban on trafficking of endangered species when they mark November ballots: Lots of gun enthusiasts own firearms with handles made of elephant ivory. After going after entrepreneur Nick Hanauer during the Initiative 594 battle last year, Judy has now drawn a bead on Seattle Seahawks owner Paul Allen, who has championed Initiative 1401.  The initiative would prohib
  
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• Federal Judge Calls The Stranger's Reporting on SPD "Inflammatory," but It's Clear He Learned from It

  27-08-2015 01:54 via thestranger.com
  
  This is Judge James Robart—the final word on SPD reform. He wore the same red bowtie in today's hearing. USCourts.gov
  In this week's The Stranger, I wrote about how local police reform advocates are raising questions about the federal oversight of the Seattle Police Department—in particular, about the degree of civilian oversight. "The consent decree created all kinds of ways of measuring improvement," said Seattle-King County NAACP President Gerald Hankerson. "But those are not refl
  
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• Hey, City Hall, Call Me Back. Seriously, Can Someone Please Call Me Back?

  27-08-2015 01:06 via thestranger.com
  
  Is no one in charge? City of Seattle
  Sometimes, the nine members of the Seattle City Council decide to slow their already glacial train of incremental almost-progress to a halt and just take a li'l two-week nap. This is called "council recess," and it is fucking boring.
  One of these recesses is happening right now. Interesting fact: Did you know city hall reporters don't get two-week naps in August? The only thing that's happened since the primary is, after an initial e-vite, Jean Godden uninvit
  
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• Rachel Lark Talks "Warm, Bloody, and Tender," Period Sex, and How I Wound Up Smeared With Blood In Her New Music Video

  27-08-2015 00:34 via thestranger.com
  
  Rachel Kramer Bussel interviewed Rachel Lark for Salon about her new music and her new role as "the poster girl for period sex." A sample...
  What would you say to women who are categorically against period sex?
  I would be interested in why. It’s interesting that you say women; there are a lot of women who are uncomfortable with it when the guys they’re with would be okay with it. That’s definitely a dynamic I’ve encountered before. I think it’s unfortunate that wom
  
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• The Stranger's Fill-in-the-Blank "Why I'm Leaving Seattle" Form Letter for Artists

  27-08-2015 00:26 via thestranger.com
  
  The rise of social media (to say nothing of the rise of the cost of living) has made the "Dear Seattle, I'm moving away" letter more popular than ever. We've all thought about writing one, opting instead for a click of the Like button and a heartfelt "THIS" in reply. Here's a tool to help you draft your own version of this all-too-familiar sentiment, because you're probably too busy working 80 hours a week to pay the rent you can't afford to write it yourself. As always, you're incredibly welco
  
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