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• The Complete Local Sightings Film Festival Schedule

  25-09-2015 23:44 via thestranger.com
  
  Last night, Northwest Film Forum kicked off their Local Sightings film festival, a celebration of Seattle and of Northwest filmmakers. The festival will continue throughout the weekend and next week with a ton of excellent feature, short, and animated films, and all of the details are in one place on our Things To Do calendar. You can find ticket links, showtimes, and descriptions for all the shows there.
  Charles Mudede called this festival "brilliant," and recommends the entire thing. Don't mi
  
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• Sub Pop Co-Founder Bruce Pavitt Announces Stem8 New Digital Music Format

  25-09-2015 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  A new way to deal with music online Maciej Sojka/Shutterstock
  If history teaches us anything it's that when Bruce Pavitt (co-founder of Sub Pop Records) does something, it's worth paying attention to.That's why the news (via GeekWire) of 8Stem, a new digital music venture co-founded by Pavitt and Adam Farish, stirred me from my regular afternoon torpor. The extra cool thing about 8Stem appears to be that it shifts the focus from merely receiving/consuming music to co-creating/manipulating it. Or
  
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• Sub Pop Co-Founder Bruce Pavitt Announces 8Stem New Digital Music Format

  25-09-2015 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  A new way to deal with music online Maciej Sojka/Shutterstock
  If history teaches us anything it's that when Bruce Pavitt (co-founder of Sub Pop Records) does something, it's worth paying attention to.That's why the news (via GeekWire) of 8Stem, a new digital music venture co-founded by Pavitt and Adam Farish, stirred me from my regular afternoon torpor. The extra cool thing about 8Stem appears to be that it shifts the focus from merely receiving/consuming music to co-creating/manipulating it. Or
  
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• Attorney general sues influential union over reporting of $1.4 million in donations

  25-09-2015 22:48
  
  The state Attorney General’s Office has sued one of the state’s most influential unions for failing to report in-kind and monetary contributions — including almost $1.4 million in donations to its political action committee — in violation of Washington’s campaign finance law. The suit filed by AG Bob Ferguson, a Democrat, targets Service Employees International Union 775, a major supporter of such progressive causes as the $15-an-hour minimum wage and of Democratic
  
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• My Philosophy: Reporting Live from the Gutter

  25-09-2015 22:37 via thestranger.com
  
  Mackned (left) is one of the new rulers of the Seattle Underground.
  So summer is deader than Meek Mill's Canadian tour bookings, school is back in—shout-out to all the teachers, y'all deserve everything—and police are still jumping on black bodies like they were Wiz Khalifa's hoverboard. Jaywalking looks to be almost as dangerous as not properly signaling—and remember, we still don't know what happened to Sandra Bland. In Dallas, people were hateful and stupid enough to arrest
  
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• Decibel Festival Night 2 Highlights: Jlin, Bardo: Basho, Experimental Housewife, and More

  25-09-2015 22:36 via thestranger.com
  
  Bardo:Basho methodically elevated the crowd with her spiritual dub techno. Valerie Calano
  The initial agenda to spend the night at Re-bar’s Discwoman Showcase was derailed when I got a hankering to see versatile UK beatmaster Clark at Showbox and Fabric club resident DJ Daniel Avery at Crocodile. You know what they say about the best-laid plans… especially at Decibel Fest, where a nightly surplus of goodness keeps you in a chronic state of energy depletion euphoria. But rest assured
  
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• Three Books to Help You Get Started Cooking Your Own Food

  25-09-2015 22:31 via thestranger.com
  
  Cooking doesn't have to feel like this.Alexey Stiop/Shutterstock
  For this week's Back to School Guide, I wrote about how cooking your own food is easier than you think. Many of us have been tricked into thinking that cooking is precious, an activity best left to chefs and self-proclaimed (barf) "foodies." I call bullshit on that. Cooking is simply taking an active role in feeding yourself/keeping yourself alive. If you end up taking pleasure in it (and, with time, I suspect you might), even bett
  
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• The Frye Art Museum's Retrospective of Stranger Genius Award Recipients Opens Tonight

  25-09-2015 21:56 via thestranger.com
  
  A large-scale drawing (several feet across) by Lead Pencil Studio. Courtesy of Frye Art Museum
  Last night, the Frye Art Museum let Stranger staffers in to see a sneak preview of their show Genius / 21 Century / Seattle, which opens tonight. I'm totally biased, because the show consists of all of my favorite Seattle artists, and all of my colleagues' favorite artists—all the artists who've won Stranger Genius Awards over the years—but whoa the show is good.It includes 3D art by Jim Wo
  
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• Drunk of the Week: What Sort of Bachelorette Party Game Involves a Grapefruit?!

  25-09-2015 21:35 via thestranger.com
  
  I ran into this group of gals (and one fella) outside karaoke at the Crescent Lounge. Shooo, they were laughing so hard I could hardly understand a word they were saying! I never did find out the rules of the game they'd were been playing. It involved throwing a grapefruit, somehow, and maybe some… PANTYHOSE? I want to know what this game was! Read more >>>
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• John Boehner Is Resigning to Avoid Shutdown Strife

  25-09-2015 21:12 via thestranger.com
  
  One tweet that shows why John Boehner's resigning http://t.co/wYxOepqn66 pic.twitter.com/6AD7YVT2Nv
  — Vox (@voxdotcom) September 25, 2015
  By the end of October, John Boehner will have cried his last tear over this congress. He's folding up his gavel and going home because this town is full of CRAZY people. No longer will he have to negotiate the needs of the far right and the far-far-right. No longer will he have to try to look more politician-earnest than Joe Biden while staring at the ba
  
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• Live Music To See This Weekend: Non-Decibel Festival Edition

  25-09-2015 21:05 via thestranger.com
  
  A two-night tribute to Coltrane is happening at Tula's this weekend.It's true: we're enamored of Decibel Festival this year (we have a whole Decibel calendar dedicated to it!). Our heads are still throbbing from the last two days of pulsing abstract techno, and we haven't even gotten to Autechre, Dasha Rush, Pharmakon, Eskmo... BUT! For those of you looking for a respite, perhaps an electric guitar or even some singing, we've got you covered for the weekend. Here's our other recommended up and c
  
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• Judge holds striking Kelso teachers in contempt

  25-09-2015 20:41
  
  A judge ruled that striking teachers in Kelso are in contempt of court. The strike entered its eighth day Friday.
  
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• Big setback for franchises in legal challenge to Seattle’s $15-an-hour minimum wage plan

  25-09-2015 20:38
  
  The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday dealt a significant setback to the franchised-food industry’s legal attack on Seattle’s $15-an-hour minimum wage, refusing to grant an injunction that would have kept a key provision of the phased-in wage plan from going into effect. The International Franchise Assocation sought to block a provision that classifies franchise food outlets as large employers, meaning they must move to a $15 an hour wage more rapidly than small, family-own
  
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• Franchise group loses appeal over Seattle minimum-wage law

  25-09-2015 20:37
  
  The International Franchise Association lost its latest appeal against the City of Seattle’s minimum wage law when a three-judge panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an earlier court decision.
  
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• Police Reports Illustrated: Don't Bring a Knife to a Breakup

  25-09-2015 20:01 via thestranger.com
  
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• Ninth Circuit Upholds Seattle Minimum Wage Law

  25-09-2015 19:58 via thestranger.com
  
  Another loss for McDonald's. VYTAUTAS KIELAITIS/Shutterstock
  The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that Seattle's minimum wage law can go forward, agreeing with a judge's decision from back in March that denied the International Franchise Association's request to stop the law from taking effect.
  The IFA has argued that Seattle's minimum wage discriminates against franchise businesses because they must start paying a higher minimum wage more quickly than non-franchise small businesses. T
  
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• Skiing, climbing, global warming: French Alps show dilemma

  25-09-2015 19:54
  
  Researchers say the Sea of Ice is only the most accessible example of a problem the entire Alpine region is facing as warming mountainsides become more unstable and snowfall more inconsistent, threatening jobs and lives in a region heavily dependent on adventure tourism.
  
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• ‘It happened so fast,’ bus driver says of fatal collision with Duck vehicle

  25-09-2015 19:16
  
  The driver of a charter bus carrying North Seattle College students says it appeared the Ride the Ducks driver lost control just before veering into the bus and killing four passengers.
  
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• Investigators begin probe of deadly Aurora Bridge crash

  25-09-2015 19:16
  State transportation inspectors have begun their investigation into the deadly Aurora Bridge crash, and more than a dozen NTSB investigators are on their way to Seattle.
  
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• Our Planned Parenthood Fundraiser Ends in Two Hours!

  25-09-2015 19:13 via thestranger.com
  
  What terrorists did to the Planned Parenthood in Pullman. Courtesy Planned Parenthood
  First off, thank you to everyone who has donated to our Planned Parenthood fundraiser—we have raised thousands of dollars for women's health. If you'd still like to donate, you have until noon today to do so. And did I mention all the great prizes we're giving away?
  If you forward us a copy of your emailed receipt (email us at [email protected]) and tell us in 100 words or less why PP is important,
  
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• James Coupe's Chilling, Tender General Intellect Brings the Microeconomy to Your Art Collection

  25-09-2015 19:06 via thestranger.com
  
  AKTIONSART
  Amazon Mechanical Turk, or mTurk, is a website started in 2005 by Amazon. On mTurk, workers do micro-tasks online for micro-pay. More than 500,000 workers in 190 countries are registered. They're invisible and unregulated, typing away at half a million individual screens across the world.
  A Seattle artist thought he'd bring these unseen workers to light, and now they're on heartbreaking, mesmerizing display in an art exhibition four blocks from Amazon headquarters…
  
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• Awesome Welcome Home Hate Mail

  25-09-2015 18:58 via thestranger.com
  
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• Information for families of those hurt in Aurora Bridge crash

  25-09-2015 18:35
  
  An information line has been set up for families of those hurt and killed in Thursday's charter bus crash on the Aurora Bridge in Seattle. Here or abroad, those looking for information about their loved ones can call 206-461-3200.
  
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• Boy Scout leader arrested after child porn found on computer

  25-09-2015 18:33
  
  An assistant troop leader in Spokane has been ordered to have no contact with minors and is barred from participating in Boy Scout activities after he was arrested on suspicion of possession of child pornography.
  
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• From "Evil Mexican Plants" to Legalization—a Brief History of Local Reporting on Cannabis

  25-09-2015 18:27 via thestranger.com
  
  A national supplement about la bruja marihuana that appeared in the Seattle Daily Times, 1928. Courtesy of historylink.org.
  The first known reference to cannabis in a Seattle newspaper was published on March 16, 1913, in a Seattle Daily Times story with the clickbaity title: "Evil Mexican Plants That Drive You Insane."
  "The revolution in Mexico has brought with it not only the ravages of war, but also the degradation of the social conditions of soldiers and prisoners," the story begins. "One of
  
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• State wants to ban drone use at Capitol in Olympia

  25-09-2015 18:21
  
  A state agency wants to prevent most drone use on the Capitol campus and several other state properties.
  
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• The Morning News: After Yesterday's Fatal Crash, Renewed Questions about Ride the Ducks and the Aurora Bridge

  25-09-2015 18:00 via thestranger.com
  
  A crash yesterday between a Ride the Ducks vehicle and a charter bus is raising questions about Ride the Ducks and the Aurora Avenue bridge. Kelly O
  Four People Were Killed in Yesterday's Crash Between a Ride the Ducks Vehicle and a School Charter Bus: All four of them were "international students at North Seattle College out for a day of sightseeing and orientation on the tour bus before the start of classes on Monday," the Seattle Times reports. "An additional 12 people, including students, we
  
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• Students: Want to Get Involved in Local Activism?

  25-09-2015 17:19 via thestranger.com
  
  GEORGE PFROMM II
  What use is all that book learnin' if you can't take your school-debt-saddled, climate-change-spooked, America-changing, righteously radicalized self to the streets? Here are a few groups you might find yourself marching behind as you get acquainted with Seattle's activist scenes…
  
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• Students killed in collision include mother from Austria, 3 others from China, Indonesia and Japan

  25-09-2015 16:11
  Those killed in the Aurora Bridge collision include a 49-year-old woman from Austria, an 18-year-old man from Indonesia, a 37-year-old woman from Japan and a 17-year-old girl from China.
  
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• 17-year-old victim of Aurora Bridge collision still critical; students who died from Austria, China, Indonesia and Japan

  25-09-2015 16:11
  
  Harborview Medical Center is treating 15 patients, including a 17-year-old girl in critical condition, injured in the collision between a Ride the Ducks vehicle and a bus that killed four students from four different countries.
  
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• When it comes to mental health, a peer can be a life saver

  25-09-2015 16:00
  
  As a peer-to-peer counselor, Michael Hardie brings personal experience to helping people with mental health and substance abuse issues.
  
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• 700 illegal crab pots seized near Blaine

  25-09-2015 15:55
  
  The state Department of Fish and Wildlife says most of the pots belonged to Canadian commercial fishermen, who will cross the border without proper licenses when their own waters have been fished out.
  
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• Elderly couple in homicide-suicide near Lacey ID’d

  25-09-2015 15:49
  
  An elderly couple that died in an apparent homicide-suicide near Lacey have been identified.
  
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• Blabbermouth: Our Week-in-Review Podcast Talks to Kshama Sawant About Everything

  25-09-2015 15:03 via thestranger.com
  
  Episode 23 of our Stranger week-in-review podcast. (Now available on iTunes.)
  Wow, well, Seattle City Council Member Kshama Sawant is on the show for the first time this week and it’s a kinda epic conversation. Council President Tim Burgess has been saying Sawant lacks accomplishments, and she takes a swing back at her council colleague—or, actually, several swings. We also talk about China, what to do about local crime, what Socialism means to Sawant, and whether or not The Stranger
  
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• Aurora Bridge open for Friday-morning commute

  25-09-2015 14:38
  
  The Aurora Bridge is open in both directions Friday morning, following Thursday’s deadly collision between a Ride the Ducks tour vehicle and a charter bus
  
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• Questions about computers in class, and more of the week’s education news

  25-09-2015 14:03
  
  Classroom computer use may dampen achievement.A push to teach coding before reading.Fights over whether a fresh-food snack needs to be fresh.And plans toadd 260 new charters in Los Angeles.
  
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• Span’s narrow lanes a longtime safety concern

  25-09-2015 06:23
  
  Motorists commonly think the Aurora Bridge is unsafe, and the history shows many questions.
  
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• Duck rider heard ‘Oh, no!’ before Aurora Bridge crash that killed 4

  25-09-2015 06:03
  
  Four people, all international students at North Seattle College, died and 12 were seriously injured in a collision between a Ride the Ducks tour vehicle and a charter bus on the Aurora Bridge.
  
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• At least 3 fatal Duck-tour accidents nationally since ’99

  25-09-2015 06:03
  
  Before Thursday's collision, at least 3 other fatal accidents involving Duck vehicles had been reported since '99.
  
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• At least 3 fatal Duck-tour accidents nationally since 1999

  25-09-2015 06:03
  
  Before Thursday’s multiple-fatality collision in Seattle, at least three other fatal accidents involving Duck tourist vehicles had been reported nationally since 1999, federal records, news reports and interviews show.
  
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• State AG’s office sues SEIU 775 over political contributions

  25-09-2015 05:22
  
  The attorney general’s office has accused SEIU 775 of violating disclosure laws by failing to properly report $1.4 million contributed by the union to its political-action committee.
  
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• Drought not over, state officials say

  25-09-2015 05:07
  
  The statewide drought isn’t over yet. Winter rain and snow are expected to be less than normal.
  
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• Sadness in international-student community after tour-bus tragedy

  25-09-2015 05:03
  
  North Seattle enrolls about 900 international students each year, and the students on the bus, including the four who died, were among this year’s group.
  
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• Premera sued over security breaches

  25-09-2015 04:55
  
  A security breach disclosed in March has led to 38 lawsuits and continuing investigations into how the breach occurred and the consequences that may have followed.
  
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• Local outreach project hopes to help LGBTQ immigrants, asylum-seekers

  25-09-2015 04:24
  
  The local LGBTQ population is growing from outside the U.S., though resources haven’t quite caught up. A new project aims to address the needs of those seeking asylum.
  
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• Seattle’s Council District 3: “The Most Dangerous Woman in America” vs. a conciliatory community activist

  25-09-2015 04:08
  
  Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant was giving lip this week to China’s visiting President Xi Jinping, while District 3 opponent Pamela Banks was voicing support for specially trained “Violence Interrupters” to be deployed in Seattle neighborhoods that have experienced an uptick in shootings. The contest between Sawant and Banks offers a challenge to the old adage:  All politics is local. Pamela Banks, CEO at the Seattle Urban League and challenger in District 3 City
  
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