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• City Council Candidate Jonathan Grant Calls for Firing Officer Cynthia Whitlatch

  08-09-2015 23:02 via thestranger.com
  
  Grant, right, side-eyes Burgess, left, during a recent debate.Seattle Channel
  "It's time to fire Cynthia Whitlatch," said citywide council candidate Jon Grant in a statement this morning, joining the Seattle-King County NAACP in calling for her dismissal."The Seattle Police Department and the City of Seattle need to start taking actions that restore the trust of the community in the police department," Grant continued. "This starts with firing Cynthia Whitlatch for inexcusable behavior harassin
  
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• Fifth baby orca born to southern resident killer whale population

  08-09-2015 22:37
  
  A new baby orca whale was spotted off Sooke, British Columbia, on Monday, the fifth offspring born since December 2014, in the J, K, and L pods that make up the southern resident killer whale population and spend much of their lives in the inland waters of Washington and B.C. “We hope that this year’s ‘baby boom’ represents a turnaround in what has been a negative population trend in recent years,” said the Center for Whale Research, based in Friday Harbor, whose st
  
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• Uber, Lyft, others likely to be allowed pick-ups at Sea-Tac

  08-09-2015 22:33
  
  Uber, Lyft, Sidecar and other app-based ride-hailing companies are likely to get legal access to pick up passengers at Sea-Tac Airport in the not-so-distant future.
  
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• This Weekend, "Awesome" Had to Perform an Encore in a Pioneer Square Alley

  08-09-2015 22:25 via thestranger.com
  
  "Awesome" outside Nordo Culinarium. They don't know just where it's at, they're just like an alley cat. Sean Nelson
  This weekend, the performance-art-concept-whatever-band "Awesome" staged their first shows in nearly five years—a few packed-out evenings at the Café Nordo Culinarium that ended, unintentionally, in an alley. During the final show, "Awesome" and the audience were evacuated from Nordo by the fire department but, as the video above documents, finished the show anyway.
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• 12 Things Overheard at Bumbershoot 2015

  08-09-2015 22:20 via thestranger.com
  
  "I'm freaking out. There aren't any Shishkaberry's this year. I looked all over! No roasted corn, either."Kelly O
  "I got a gyro, fries, and a cup of water during Social Distortion. It came to $19.20. NINETEEN DOLLARS AND TWENTY CENTS!""Oh no—does Deep Creep's singer Andrea Zollo have a broken leg?" Kelly O
  "I can't believe kids even know who Babes in Toyland are—so great." Kelly O
  "I can't believe those guys know Metallica! Also, doesn't it seem like everyone is wearing black this ye
  
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• Flying Lotus and Melvins Dominated Bumbershoot

  08-09-2015 22:12 via thestranger.com
  
  Melvins' Buzz Osbourne won Bumbershoot, hands down and hairs up. Kelly O
  I’ve been going to Bumbershoot since 2004 and this year’s lineup struck me as the least interesting during that time, musically speaking; the comedy bill was impressive, as usual. (To be fair, Bumbershoot's organizers had less time than usual to construct the schedule.) But there were some highlights amid the prevailing mediocrity. Flying Lotus (Saturday night at KeyArena) and Melvins (Sunday afternoon in Memori
  
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• Presidential Candidates on Drugs

  08-09-2015 22:10 via thestranger.com
  
  Every presidential candidate in the 2016 scuffle has to take drug-policy reform at least somewhat seriously. Rich Smith
  This is the first presidential election in US history that will require all the serious candidates, from both parties, to say at least quasi-intelligent things about drug-policy reform. Even Donald Trump (but I cannot yet admit a reality in which Trump’s candidacy is anything other than a covert reality-TV stunt that he’ll cash in on later).
  The cannabis-legalizatio
  
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• The Best Things To Do This Week

  08-09-2015 21:55 via thestranger.com
  
  We're having a big party at the Moore Theatre on Saturday, and you should come. Kelly O
  We know, that three-day weekend wasn't long enough. Don't worry—there are still plenty of things to look forward to this week, and we've compiled some of the best events our critics recommend into this list for you.
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  13th Annual Stranger Genius Awards
  Sean Nelson says, "All disclaimers duly disclaimed and all biases noted, the Genius Awards is the single most important and enjoyable local arts event
  
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• Cantwell is lone Senate Democrat not to declare position on Iran nuclear accord

  08-09-2015 21:31
  
  Three more Senate Democrats declared their support for the Iran nuclear agreement on Tuesday, with backers now claiming the 41 votes necessary to prevent a vote on any Republican resolution of disapproval for the accord. Just one Democrat — Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash. — has yet to declare a position on the accord, negotiated by the U.S. and five major powers — the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia and China — and Iran. Cantwell’s office is hinting that a
  
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• Politician, pundit, lobbyist Chris Vance is running for U.S. Senate

  08-09-2015 20:52
  
  Ex-Republican State Chairman Chris Vance has specialized in analysis, his sharp prose in Crosscut contrasting to the online news site’s sleep-inducing analyses of the 35th District, including a poll-backed prediction in 2010 that U.S. Sen. Patty Murray would lose her reelection bid. Murray won a fourth term, defying Vance’s crystal ball and numbers crunching by GOP pollster Bob Moore. Chris Vance:  Ex-Republican State Chairman is running against Sen. Patty Murray. Vance is takin
  
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• Oh Wow, You Have to Read Sherman Alexie on Being the Editor of Best American Poetry 2015

  08-09-2015 19:52 via thestranger.com
  
  He writes about the happiness, jealousy, disdain, and hope he's felt as a poet flipping through past installments of Best American Poetry. He writes about feeling "rather embarrassed" by the first poem of his chosen to be included in the anthology, years ago. He writes about being the editor of Best American Poetry 2015, and the little things you notice when you sign up for that job, for instance:None of us ever needs to write another poem about crocuses, or croci, or however you prefer to plura
  
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• Veit Stratmann's Vibrant, Anxious Seattle Floor Just Wants to Move You

  08-09-2015 19:04 via thestranger.com
  
  Choose a lane, but choose wisely. VEIT STRATMANN / SUYAMA SPACE
  The floor is making you do things. It's a work of art, but let's deal with it first as a floor. The floor is divided into parallel segments. They stretch from the door area of Suyama Space to the entrance of the Belltown architecture firm Suyama Peterson Deguchi at the back of the building. Each segment of floor is a strip of colored vinyl, in every color of the rainbow plus gray. To go forward, you choose a color. Walk forward in t
  
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• 10 Frames: What Bumbershoot 2015 Looked Like (Peaches, the Weeknd, Silent Disco, Ellie Goulding)

  08-09-2015 19:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Peaches and her killer light show. Brooklyn Benjestorf
  Aside from a bonkers and unexpected rainstorm on Saturday evening, this year's Bumbershoot fest didn't require much use of the collapsable canopy from which it gets its name. The musical acts were very much on point, with highlights including all three days of dueling local DJs at the Silent Disco hosted at EMP, the Weeknd's headlining set on Saturday night, Peaches slaying the Key Arena, and Ellie Goulding closing out the festival on the ma
  
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• The Morning News: Seattle Teachers Still Don't Have a Contract, But Seattle Kids Sent Their Cat to Space

  08-09-2015 17:56 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle teachers, instructional aides, clerical workers, nurses, and other school workers have voted to strike on the first day of school if a tentative agreement with Seattle Public Schools isn't reached. SB
  Seattle Teachers Union and School District Still Haven't Reached a Deal After Strike Vote: But the school district did agree to a guaranteed 30 minutes of recess on Saturday. KIRO reports that Seattle Public Schools superintendent Larry Nyland now wants to sue the union—the Seattle Ed
  
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• Guest Editorial: To Improve Public Transportation in Seattle, the City Council Should Pass an Employee Hours Tax

  08-09-2015 16:31 via thestranger.com
  
  An Employee Hours Tax could help add much-needed bus services. Ansel Herz
  Seattle’s transportation infrastructure and transit service lag years behind our city’s rapid growth. You can feel it any time you try to get across town during rush hour, by car or by bus.Move Seattle, the $930 million property tax levy for transportation improvements that will appear on the November ballot, will help alleviate some of our transit woes, but there’s another progressive tax that Seattle sh
  
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• Fred Cole of Dead Moon Hospitalized After Collapsing Onstage at Bumbershoot

  08-09-2015 12:17 via thestranger.com
  
  Fred Cole, right, is out of the ICU but still under observation. Courtesy the Agency Group
  Fred Cole of Portland rock institution Dead Moon cut the band's performance at Bumbershoot short Saturday after collapsing onstage due to a heart condition. The 67-year-old singer and guitarist doubled over near the end of the band's set after playing to a crowd of about 200 people. The group had burned through classic songs including "Walking on My Grave," "13 Going on 21," and "Goddamn I Hate The Blues"
  
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• ‘Speak American,’ Sarah Palin tells a bilingual Jeb Bush

  08-09-2015 01:37
  
  Candidates and citizens should “speak American” when in the United States, and undocumented immigrants should be “out of here,” former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin said in a Labor Day weekend CNN interview. Palin has emerged as a Donald Trump cheerleader in the 2016 campaign, after both flirted with runs at the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. Trump has taken Bush to task for delivering remarks in Spanish, the native tongue of his Mexican-
  
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• Trickle down politics: Candidate filmed urinating, dumped by Canada’s ruling Conservatives

  08-09-2015 00:08
  
  The ruling Conservative Party of Prime Minister Stephen Harper has lost two candidates in Canada’s upcoming election, one after being filmed by CBC-TV urinating in a coffee cup, and the other posting prank YouTube videos in which he pretended to orgasm on the phone and mocked people with disabilities. “This must be someone who’s adept at Stephen Harper’s trickle down theory of economics,” quipped opposition leader Thomas Mulcair, after TV viewers in the Great White
  
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