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• Our Top Picks for Today at Bumbershoot

  05-09-2015 20:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Flying Lotus will perform at 9 pm.
  Bumbershoot starts at 1:30, which gives you exactly two hours to plan out your day there. Our Bumbershoot calendar has everything you need to do that—showtimes, biographies for every single artist, and recommendations from our critics. Plus, it's mobile-friendly, so you can refer back to it throughout the day.
  To give you a taste of what you'll find on the calendar, here are a few of of our top picks for today.
  MUSIC
  Fitz & The Tantrums"It’s a p
  
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• The Un-en-Bumbered Guide to Music This Labor Day Weekend

  05-09-2015 19:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Dead Soft: between three ferns.
  If you're going to Bumbershoot this weekend, you've already checked out our sweet guides, charted a course through the weekend with our handy calendar, and are sailing through life safe in the knowledge that you've got a calibrated compass and trustworthy captain at your side. Great! For the rest of you, let's talk alternatives for the weekend. After all, with the masses conglomerating at Seattle Center, the rest of the city is playing oyster to your metaphorical
  
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• Anti-Choice Terrorists Burn Down Planned Parenthood Clinic in Pullman, WA

  05-09-2015 17:53 via thestranger.com
  
  CBS:
  A pre-dawn blaze that heavily damaged a Planned Parenthood clinic was arson, fire investigators in Washington state determined Friday. Pullman Fire Department investigator Chris Wehrung also said a task force involving local agencies was investigating with the help of federal agencies. He declined to release other details. The fire started at around 3:30 a.m. Friday along SE King Drive and caused extensive damage, CBS affiliate KREM reported. Police said alarms in the building were tripped
  
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• Late Friday surprise: Supreme Court says charter schools initiative is unconstitutional

  05-09-2015 04:15
  
  The Washington State Supreme Court, in a late Friday surprise, delivered a ruling that the state’s voter-passed, billionaire-backed charter school initiative is unconstitutional. The high court’s 6-3 ruling found that the independently organized schools do not pass muster as common public schools and therefore cannot receive public funding. Bill and Melinda Gates: $3 million in support for 2012 charter schools initiative, just ruled unconstitutional by the state Supreme Cou
  
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• Washington State Supreme Court Strikes Down Charter Schools Law

  05-09-2015 01:52 via thestranger.com
  
  The Washington State Supreme Court says the state's charter schools law is unconstitutional. Washington State Supreme Court
  According to the AP: Pre-holiday news dump: APNewsAlert: OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ Washington Supreme Court rules voter-approved charter school law unconstitutional.
  — Rachel La Corte (@RachelAPOly) September 4, 2015
  The court's opinion is here. The state supremes were reviewing a King County Superior court decision that found certain segments of Initiative 1240 (I-1240)
  
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• Federal terrorism task force probes arson fire at Planned Parenthood clinic in Pullman

  05-09-2015 01:48
  
  The Inland Northwest Joint Terrorism Task Force is investigating an arson fire at Planned Parenthood in Pullman, which set off fire and burglary alarms at 3:30 a.m. Friday and caused significant damage to the building. The three-year-old clinic was scene of a major anti-abortion demonstration last month, one of several in Eastern Washington. As a result of the fire, it is now structurally unsafe. Ruic Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood: Its family planning clinics are under attack
  
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• Ex-Amazon Executive Greg Russell Is Leaving the Seattle Police Department

  05-09-2015 01:43 via thestranger.com
  
  Gregory Russell was hired away from Amazon. Now, after five months as the Seattle Police Department's technology chief, he's leaving. SPD
  I received a tip on Wednesday that Greg Russell, the former top Amazon executive who joined the SPD in March, is resigning. Today, the department confirmed that today is Russell's last day.Russell had been heralded as an experienced tech expert, change-maker, and unique asset at the department, which is in the midst of a Department of Justice-required reform p
  
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• I Would Like to Say a Few Words About the Mouse I Killed

  05-09-2015 01:34 via thestranger.com
  
  In memoriam.CreativeNature R.Zwerver / shutterstock.comWhen I slid out the trap from beneath Jen's desk, I noticed that the cow'rin,' tim'rous beastie stuck to the glue was far less furry than the mice who nibble hunks of cheese in storybooks. It was patchy, bald at its joints and on its haunches. It looked like a grandpa recent from a rough sponge bath.In that moment I was at the crux of several conflicts of interest. My colleagues and I were interested in finishing our stories, cropping our im
  
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• Ben Kingsley Meets the Ultimate WASP in Learning to Drive

  05-09-2015 01:16 via thestranger.com
  
  It’s a frequent lament among filmgoers older than 50: “Hollywood doesn’t make movies for adults anymore,” except it isn’t true. The movies get made, but studios direct the bulk of their distribution and marketing funds elsewhere. This year alone saw the release of I’ll See You in My Dreams, Ricki and the Flash, and Grandma. Now we have Barcelona-born director Isabel Coixet’s Learning to Drive which reunites her with Elegy costars Patricia Clarkson and B
  
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• If Seattle Teachers Strike on the First Day of School, You May Be Able to Send Your Kid to Camp Instead

  05-09-2015 00:44 via thestranger.com
  
  If teachers strike, Parks and Rec is expanding their after-school program for elementary school kids into day camps. SB
  Parents, fear not! If the Seattle Education Assocation—a 5,000-member union made up of Seattle's teachers, instructional aides, nurses, psychologists, and administrative workers—strikes on the first day of school, Mayor Ed Murray says you can try to send your kid(s) to Parks and Rec day camp on September 9, 10, and 11."While we still hope that an agreement will be r
  
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• Last-Minute Weekend Plans: 9 Cheap and Easy Things To Do This Long Weekend

  05-09-2015 00:30 via thestranger.com
  
  This is a burger from Li'l Woody's. You can get one of your own for free on Labor Day. Kelly O
  Believe it or not, there are things happening in Seattle this weekend that aren't Bumbershoot. If you did shell out the big bucks for it, you should go look at our complete guide to Bumbershoot, but, if you'd rather pay $15 than $150, we've got you covered. Here are nine cheap and easy things to do every day this Labor Day weekend.TODAY
  Rapture: Girl Pop Edition
  The dream of the ’90s is alive in
  
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