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• Winter Beertail Alert: The Fernet ‘Bout Me

  23-10-2015 23:09 via thestranger.com
  
  The weather is no longer appropriate for cerveza-ritas. Kelly O
  I have to remedy a major omission from my article about Seattle’s best beertails: the winter beertail. Research for the article took place over the course of our lovely, long summer, leading to a list heavily weighted toward the crisp and refreshing. By the time the article came out, it was verifiably sweater weather—I was sitting in the Hideout, taking refuge from a chilly October evening, and the thought of drinking ev
  
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• Lawsuit: Ex-Seattle cop slammed woman's head on ground

  23-10-2015 22:52
  
  A Seattle cop fired last year after cyberstalking his ex-girlfriend is now accused of detaining a woman and slamming her head on the ground without cause outside WaMu Theater.
  
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• WSU says candidates won’t be named in search for president

  23-10-2015 22:46
  
  The governing board for Washington State University doesn’t intend to reveal the names of candidates for that university’s top job before appointing a new president next year.
  
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• A Short, Really Depressing Documentary About the Housing Crisis in the Bay Area (and How It's Affecting Seattle)

  23-10-2015 22:28 via thestranger.com
  
  Want to know why so many Californians are moving to places like Seattle and Portland? If you think the housing crisis is bad here, watch this: [ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• The case for Tim Eyman’s Initiative 1366, making the Legislature do the people’s will

  23-10-2015 22:24
  
  (Editor’s note:  We are taking a look at major choices on the November ballot.  Presented here is the case for statewide Initiative 1366.  Coming up will be the case for a no vote on I-1366.) Tim Eyman put it right in a recent -mail blast for Initiative 1366:  “Our opponents are not very bright.  They consistently ignore what the voters have clearly said over the past 22 years and instead spend their time obsessing over lil ol’ me.” Tim Eyman, chi
  
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• My Philosophy: The Game's The Documentary 2

  23-10-2015 22:06 via thestranger.com
  
  So a decade ago, I went hard as hell on The Game's debut, The Documentary. I said I heard "a shyster straining overhard to pitch me: endlessly referencing creased Dickies, Converse, and '64 Impalas." (No, hater—Doctor's Advocate got a glowing review a year later.) Ten joints later, and Jayceon "Chuck" Taylor has given the world The Documentary 2 (and 2.5), an album worthy of being likened to a movie. His first solo album since 2012's underrated Jesus Piece, this is not only The Game's bes
  
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• Oregon rejects ex-Gov. Kitzhaber’s request to pay legal bills

  23-10-2015 21:44
  
  Gov. Kate Brown rejected John Kitzhaber’s request for the state to pay legal bills from an ongoing influence-peddling investigation.Kitzhaber resigned in February amid questions of whether his girlfriend used her position for personal financial gain.
  
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• The Seattle Public Library Rebrand Meeting Will Be Open to the Public

  23-10-2015 21:41 via thestranger.com
  
  The meeting will take place in the Washington Mutual Foundation Meeting Room 1 on the 4th floor of the Central Library on Wednesday, Oct. 28 at 5 pm.Kelly O
  Next Wednesday you could choose to watch the GOP candidates try to out-crazy each other in the mountainous yoga studio that is Boulder, Colorado, or you could do something that has a direct and immediate affect on your life by attending the Seattle Public Library's board meeting concerning the rebrand.In case you haven't heard, Marcellus Tur
  
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• Seahawks Fail to Blow Lead Against 49ers Who Blow

  23-10-2015 21:39 via thestranger.com
  
  Victory! We improve to 3-4 after a dominating 20-3 win over the @49ers.
  📷's [https://t.co/RbNEo3gdal]#SEAvsSF pic.twitter.com/5WeISeRwJi— Seattle Seahawks (@Seahawks) October 23, 2015 The Seahawks responded to a short week of heartbroken rest with a dominant 20-3 win over the hapless San Francisco 49ers. And given my experience of trying to do stuff while heartbroken? That’s really impressive. I can’t imagine trying to prepare for an NFL football game while blasting Das
  
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• WSU starts program to help students pay for college

  23-10-2015 21:30
  
  Washington State University has launched a new program designed to help more students pay for college. Students can open a savings account with an interest rate of up to 400 percent and use the funds to pay for college.
  
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• Opening Night! BenDeLaCreme Is Brilliant, There's No Question, But You Know What I Wish BenDeLaCreme Would Do Next?

  23-10-2015 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  I put out a homo bat-signal about BenDeLaCreme's extra performances of Cosmos yesterday, and after seeing the show, I'm glad I did. If you're a fan of performance or drag or jokes or enjoying yourself it's absolutely worth the ticket price.And if you're a BenDeLaCreme fan specifically, and you're going to really love Cosmos, because it's all BenDeLaCreme all the time—running around grabbing his own props, doing his own costume changes onstage, interacting with other characters via fake vi
  
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• How Hurricane Patricia exploded overnight into biggest ever in Pacific

  23-10-2015 21:28
  
  Winds increased from 85 miles per hour Thursday morning to more than 200 miles per hour by early Friday, meteorologists say.
  
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• Lost Washington woman survives 16-mile night hike

  23-10-2015 21:26
  
  A 25-year-old Mercer Island woman was chilly but unhurt after hiking 16 miles through the night when she got lost in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness.
  
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• Here's the Official Trailer for Jessica Jones... and It Looks Goooood!

  23-10-2015 21:20 via thestranger.com
  
  Courtesy Netflix
  We've seen a number of teasers for the upcoming Netflix/Marvel jam Jessica Jones (debuting Nov 20)—and finally here's the official trailer. And while those teasers may have focused on the lighter side of Jessica's super-powered character (smashing alarm clocks, one-sided bar brawls), this trailer gets dark (like Daredevil dark), and quick. Here we see the carnage left behind by Killgrave (David Tennant) who controls people—including Jessica—with his mind, destr
  
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• How to Really Punish the Incorrigible Fast Drivers of Rainier Avenue

  23-10-2015 21:19 via thestranger.com
  
  There are a lot of fast cars on Rainier Avenue South. Charles MudedeAnother car accident happened on Rainier Avenue South yesterday. One of the crash victims was ejected from his seat and ended up on the street, and the other got trapped inside the crunched vehicle. Excessive speed was seen as a factor in the accident, which happened at 1:15 a.m. and caused a long and mind-numbing traffic jam the following morning.Those who live close to or regularly cross Rainier Avenue will not be surprised to
  
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• Parents of Marysville shooting victims want records from school district

  23-10-2015 21:07
  
  One year after the deadly shooting at Marysville-Pilchuck High School, the parents of the students killed or injured say they will file a lawsuit if they don’t soon receive the records they have requested.
  
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• Top Concerts Around Town For Your Pre-Halloween Weekend

  23-10-2015 20:59 via thestranger.com
  
  2 Chainz comes to town on Saturday. Randy Miramontez / Shutterstock.com
  It's another strong weekend for fans of fusion jazz (Being John McLaughlin), brainy dance music (YACHT), big name hiphop (2 Chainz), and all manner of other live music around town. Let's take a peek.
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  King Khan & BBQ Show
  Travis Ritter says: "The BBQ’s double-duty ramshackle drum kit and Khan’s fierce guitar playing power forward with smart, raw songs delivered with wry humor and sardonic wit. The King K
  
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• Jeb Bush "Fixes" His Staffers' Salaries by Cutting Them 40 Percent

  23-10-2015 20:43 via thestranger.com
  
  You can tell how serious a candidate is by how many exclamation points his name has. Andrew Cline / Shutterstock.com
  Poor befuddled Jeb Bush is watching his campaign slowly sink into the quicksand, with a huge behind-the-scenes shakeup cutting staff salaries and reassigning jobs. Yeah, sure, that'll turn everything around.
  At this point, it's probably just a matter of weeks before he's sitting alone in his office, putting the finishing touches on his announcement that he's dropping out of the ra
  
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• I, Anonymusic: It's Better to Shut Up Than to Sing Along

  23-10-2015 20:29 via thestranger.com
  
  STEVEN WEISSMAN
  To the woman sitting next to me at the Neil Young concert: I paid $100 for a ticket to hear Neil Young sing. I did NOT pay $100 to hear you sing along with him. Guess what? We ALL know the lyrics to his famous songs, but that does not mean that we should all sing along while he is in concert. I don't know why you thought it would be a treat for those around you to hear your rendition of Neil's songs while he sang them. Aside from it being unbelievably rude and inconsiderate, you
  
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• Seattle Marketing Firm Offers to Rebrand the Library for Free

  23-10-2015 20:19 via thestranger.com
  
  They say, "Give us a shot at the library’s rebranding effort... we’ll do it for free." Kelly O
  In an open letter to the Seattle Public Library published online this morning, a firm called Marketeering Group (never heard of them) offers to rebrand the library for free.Here’s what we’re offering: let the talented folks at Hornall Anderson keep your money (we assume the check’s already been cashed), but give us a shot at the library’s rebranding effort. Sure, we&
  
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• Feds deny wildfire aid to Okanogan County homeowners

  23-10-2015 20:14
  
  Had the state’s request been approved, the federal assistance could have helped with rental assistance, the repair of homes and the replacement of household items. In this summer’s Central Washington wildfires, 146 homes were destroyed and 476 damaged.
  
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• Police Reports Illustrated: Man Wants to Take a Drag, Gets Dragged Into Car

  23-10-2015 20:10 via thestranger.com
  
  Callan Berry[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Virus that killed Oklahoma City elephant likely not from Seattle transplants

  23-10-2015 20:04
  
  The Oklahoma City Zoo has confirmed that a herpes virus caused the death of a young female elephant. But the virus was not the same strain that killed a calf in Seattle several years ago.
  
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• Cause of Auburn warehouse fire undetermined; arson not suspected

  23-10-2015 19:59
  
  The cause of the fire that destroyed an Auburn warehouse on Tuesday night is undetermined, but authorities do not suspect arson.
  
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• The Strongest Hurricane Ever Is About to Slam Into Mexico

  23-10-2015 19:33 via thestranger.com
  
  NBC:
  Hurricane Patricia became the strongest storm ever measured on the planet early Friday, with experts warning it could trigger 40-foot waves along Mexico's coast and "life-threatening" flash flooding. More than 7 million residents were told to prepare for the "worst-case scenario" as Patricia was expected to race ashore on Mexico's Pacific coast between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. ET Friday. The tourist magnets of Puerto Vallarta and Manzanillo were directly in the Category 5 storm's projected path,
  
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• Time served for Seattle man who was witness at terror trials

  23-10-2015 19:28
  
  James Ujaama, a Seattle man who once tried to open an Oregon camp to train Muslims to fight the Taliban's enemies, was praised for helping prosecutors in their hunt for terrorists.
  
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• Garfunkel and Oates Have Never Had a Bad Rimming Experience (They're Also Taping Their Next TV Special Tonight at the Neptune)

  23-10-2015 19:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Garfunkel and Oates, aka Riki Lindholme and Kate Micucci, are back in Seattle. The songwriting comedy duo perform two shows tonight at the Neptune. Both performances are being filmed for their upcoming comedy special. Garfunkel and Oates' new album—Secretions—debuted at the top of the iTunes comedy charts last week. Garfunkel and Oates ran for one season on IFC, and Lindholme co-created and stars in Another Period on Comedy Central, which has been renewed for a second season on Come
  
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• Well, the French Remake of Lynn Shelton's Film Your Sister's Sister Is Very French, I'll Give It That

  23-10-2015 19:09 via thestranger.com
  
  The woman on the right exercises while smoking a cigarette. Courtesy of Le Pacte
  I love that there's a whole echo chamber in film-land of French people remaking quiet films set in Seattle by Lynn Shelton. The latest is this "adapte du film Your Sister's Sister realise par Lynn Shelton," as the credits say, entitled Half Sister, Full Love. The remakes are always set somewhere else and directed by someone else and there's a little Sheltonosity they're lacking, but they're not bad. They're smoothly
  
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• Man stabbed in chest in Stanwood by neighbor

  23-10-2015 19:08
  
  A Stanwood man was stabbed in the chest early Friday morning during a confrontation with another man.
  
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• Snoqualmie settles lawsuit filed by former cop

  23-10-2015 18:55
  The city of Snoqualmie pays $225,000 to settle a suit by a veteran sergeant who was placed on leave — and paid — for nine months.
  
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• Would you like a rock for your yard? A really, really big rock?

  23-10-2015 18:07
  If you're a resident of Edmonds, the city may have that perfect centerpiece to complete your landscaping — a 30,000-pound rock. And it'll even deliver and install it for free.
  
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• The Morning News: SPD's Chief Operating Officer Is Leaving; Microsoft and Vulcan Fund Opposition to Honest Elections

  23-10-2015 18:02 via thestranger.com
  
  Mike Wagers (on the right) led the effort to hire programmer and prolific records requester Tim Clemans (left) at SPD. Now Wagers is leaving. Mike Wagers
  The Seattle Police Department's Chief Operating Officer is Leaving After 15 Months on the Job: Mike Wagers was "Chief Kathleen O’Toole’s first major appointment after she was sworn in last year," the Seattle Times reports. "Wagers, the department’s civilian chief operating officer, said he is returning to Virginia to be with h
  
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• Seattle to Puerto Vallarta flights canceled due to hurricane

  23-10-2015 17:16
  
  All Friday flights from Seattle to Puerto Vallarta have been canceled as Hurricane Patricia bears down on Western Mexico.
  
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• All Seattle to Puerto Vallarta flights canceled due to hurricane

  23-10-2015 17:16
  
  Friday flights from Seattle to Puerto Vallarta have been canceled as Hurricane Patricia bears down on Western Mexico.
  
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• Texas officials look ahead to likely weekend flooding

  23-10-2015 17:07
  
  DALLAS (AP) — Emergency management officials in Texas contending with multiple storm systems are preparing for heavy rains to continue through the weekend and widespread flooding that may follow. Rain fell steadily Friday through much of the state and is forecast to continue through at least Saturday as a storm system slowly moves eastward. Many […]
  
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• Remnants of Pacific hurricane to increase heavy Texas rains

  23-10-2015 17:07
  
  DALLAS (AP) — Millions of Texas residents are bracing for storms linked to Hurricane Patricia while recovering from heavy rains that caused flooding and knocked out power to thousands of people. Experts say remnants of Patricia, a massive Category 5 storm, could reach southern Texas within a few days. The hurricane was heading toward southwest […]
  
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• ‘The Big Read’ a chance to examine immigrant challenges

  23-10-2015 17:05
  
  The King County Library system is participating in a program that encourages communities to read and discuss the same book. They’ve chosen “The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears,” a novel about the immigrant experience of an Ethiopian American.
  
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• Lincoln Chafee Ends His Bid For the Democratic Nominazzzzz

  23-10-2015 16:44 via thestranger.com
  
  I dare you to watch the whole thing. My favorite part:
  I've decided to end my campaign for president today. But I would like to take this opportunity one last time to advocate for a chance be given to peace. Since today is all about women’s leadership it reminds me of one of my favorite Greek plays; Lysistrata, a comedy from about 400 BCE by Aristophanes. In that play, a group of women, fed up with the war mongering of their husbands, agree to withhold their favors until peace returns. An
  
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• Breeder in Oregon who owned 140 animals fined for neglect

  23-10-2015 16:39
  
  The commercial breeder in Oregon had 118 dogs, 21 horses and a cat. She was convicted of 43 counts of felony animal neglect.
  
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• Mexico braces for strongest hurricane in Western hemisphere

  23-10-2015 16:15
  
  Hurricane Patricia is headed toward Puerto Vallarta and southwestern Mexico as a monster storm, with forecasters saying it could make a "potentially catastrophic landfall" Friday.
  
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• Marysville aching, healing a year after high-school shooting

  23-10-2015 16:00
  
  A year after five students died in a shooting at Marysville-Pilchuck High School, the school and community say the healing process has just begun.
  
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• Zombie vanishes from Pasco front yard

  23-10-2015 15:37
  A zombie skeleton that welcomes visitors to a Pasco home went missing this week. “The Police Department was less than helpful, to say the least,” the zombie owner said.
  
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• Blabbermouth: Our Week-in-Review Podcast Drinks With Governor Inslee, Then Explores Restaurant Racism and Paul Allen

  23-10-2015 15:07 via thestranger.com
  
  Episode 26 of our Stranger week-in-review podcast. (Now available on iTunes.)
  On this week’s show we corner Washington State Governor Jay Inslee at the Comet Tavern and ask him a few questions. (Like: Hey governor, why is it that Boeing can get an $8.7 billion tax break in a super-quick special session, but we can’t call a special session to get $3 billion for our unconstitutionallyunderfunded public schools?)Then we come back from the bar and talk to Stranger food writer Angela Garb
  
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• Mixing old seniors with young ones, and more of the week’s education news

  23-10-2015 14:05
  
  Who says the generations can't mix?If you like your teacher, you may do better.New York tries to improve schools by integrating them.
  
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• Marijuana breathalyzers could be coming soon

  23-10-2015 08:46
  
  Marijuana breathalyzers could be coming soon
  
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• Alaska Air offers classes to blind on navigating planes, airports

  23-10-2015 07:29
  
  An annual event at Sea-Tac airport gives the visually impaired and their guide dogs the opportunity to climb aboard a 737 Boeing aircraft for a mock flight demonstration.
  
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• Trick-or-treating and eating at Woodland Park Zoo

  23-10-2015 04:45
  Kick off the weekend with a trip to the zoo to see the animals eating seasonal treats. Plus, a list of other events in the Seattle area.
  
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• Senate candidate Vance charges “espionage”: Governor candidate Bryant poses with Democratic “trackers”

  23-10-2015 04:41
  
  Underdog Republican U.S. Senate candidate Chris Vance needs public recognition, but is furious at the attention he received Tuesday from Democratic “trackers” at a fundraiser in Centralia. “Two men stood on the sidewalk outside with video cameras recording the event,” Vance said in a Thursday statement.  He reported that the two men left a backpack inside, and made the accusation they “planted a microphone at a private event . . . This is an inexcusable violati
  
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• Senate candidate Vance charges ‘espionage'; governor candidate Bryant poses with Democratic ‘trackers’

  23-10-2015 04:41
  
  Underdog Republican U.S. Senate candidate Chris Vance needs public recognition but is furious at the attention he received Tuesday from Democratic “trackers” at a fundraiser in Centralia. “Two men stood on the sidewalk outside with video cameras recording the event,” Vance said in a Thursday statement.  He reported that the two men left a backpack inside, and made the accusation they “planted a microphone at a private event. … This is an inexcusable viol
  
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• 11 Seattle teachers to be reassigned next week

  23-10-2015 04:41
  
  Seattle Public Schools said teachers will be reassigned next week as a result of lower-than-projected enrollment.
  
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