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• Seattle Is One of the Most Dangerous Places in the World

  29-10-2015 23:56 via thestranger.com
  
  Are we doing all of this building to make the mega-earthquake spectacular? Charles Mudede
  It can't be a mere coincidence that the moment Seattle is growing like never before that reports of its impending doom are also on the rise. Yes, Seattle is threatened by a bigger fault than the one that threatens San Francisco. But there is also a supervolcano in Yellowstone National Park. In my lifetime, there has been a natural disaster that claimed nearly 250,000 lives. Bad shit really happens. Also, wh
  
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• Programmer Tim Clemans Resigns from Police Department After a Challenging Six Months

  29-10-2015 23:27 via thestranger.com
  
  "I think it would be a miracle if I last long there," Clemans predicted when he was hired in May. "I'm very much an outsider."Ansel Herz
  Tim Clemans, the award-winning programmer who bombarded the Seattle Police Department with public disclosure requests until it took the unusual step of hiring him, resigned today—the culmination of months of mounting tensions between him and the department. "I'm really just fed up at this point," he said.The tensions began in August, three months after he
  
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• Recommended Live Music This Weekend: Halloween Edition

  29-10-2015 23:23 via thestranger.com
  
  Kelly O
  It's almost time for what promises to be a shit-faced clusterfuck of Halloween-related insanity. Lucky for you, we're here to guide you to the strongest live music around town this weekend, with fathoms-deep techno from Voices from the Lake, raucous punk from Shannon and the Clams, a master gong player and other assorted weirdos, and a lot more.
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  Promised Land Sound
  "Seattle should flock to see Nashville’s Promised Land Sound, one of America’s sweetest purveyors of 21s
  
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• Sounders Celebrate Halloween Early with Exorcism of Demons

  29-10-2015 23:12 via thestranger.com
  
  Centerback/fullback/Swiss Army knife/handsome gentleman Brad Evans has a leg injury of unknown severity. Photo Works / Shutterstock.com
  The Seattle Sounders, after a mid-season slump caused by inane MLS policies and frustrating injuries, caught fire down the stretch of the MLS regular season, going their last eight matches without a loss en route to securing a home match in the knockout stage of the MLS Playoffs. This was good. Except that they drew the LA Galaxy. Which was bad.
  As the Galaxy ha
  
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• Savage Love: Best Served Cold

  29-10-2015 22:27 via thestranger.com
  
  JOE NEWTON
  I am a straight, married, 38-year-old woman. My husband and I have two children. I have been with my husband for 12 years, married for six. Three years after we were married, we found out that he was HIV positive. We had both had multiple tests throughout our relationship because of physicals and the process we went through to get pregnant. Both of us were negative then, but only I am now. Needless to say, he was infected as a result of him cheating. We worked through that and remain
  
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• Four former AG’s to Supreme Court: Reconsider your charter schools ruling

  29-10-2015 22:23
  
  A bipartisan group of four former state Attorneys General is asking the Washington State Supreme Court to reconsider its September ruling that threw out Washington’s charter schools initiative and denied state funding to nine charter schools just as they began the school year. The high court’s ruling “may be used to disrupt many facets of the state’s public education system that have grown up outside the charter school model,” argued the four ex-AGs, including forme
  
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• Mac DeMarco's "Salad Days" Kontroversy

  29-10-2015 22:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Mac DeMarco, working out the Kinks.
  Mac DeMarco is playing tonight at the Moore Theatre. Emily Nokes says it's going to be good and she's pretty much always right. (Also, openers The Courtneys sounded fantastic on KEXP last weekend.) DeMarco is fairly new to my radar screen, and his style is down my alley, but something about his song "Salad Days" wasn't sitting quite right. Then I realized it was its similarity to the Kinks' song "Picture Book." (Then I found out the internet was a few months a
  
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• The Goodship Academy of Higher Education Lecture Series Is Upscaling Weed Culture

  29-10-2015 21:19 via thestranger.com
  
  Artist Jed Dunkerly’s illustrations of the second Higher Education lecture, which was all about infinity.JED DUNKERLY
  Among the benefits of legalizing weed—less arrests, more tax revenue, less drug money in the hands of gangs, etc.—is a less tangible but equally welcome improvement: Weed is becoming kind of classy. Stonerdom is no longer exclusively associated with Bob Marley T-shirts, ridiculous bongs, and general scuzziness. Yes, there are still half-naked people covered with
  
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• One Reason Microsoft and Vulcan May Be Trying to Kill the Campaign Finance Reform Initiative on This Year's Ballot

  29-10-2015 20:51 via thestranger.com
  
  Microsoft would prefer you didn't limit their ability to donate to political candidates. InnaFelker/Shutterstock
  The exciting centerpiece of the campaign finance reform initiative on your ballot this fall—officially titled Initiative 122, but also known as Honest Elections—is a first-of-its-kind "democracy voucher" system, which would give you $100 in vouchers to donate to candidates. But the initiative also does a bunch of other stuff that big business isn't going to like. And, in t
  
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• Introducing Pickathon's Slab Sessions: Episode 1 with the Weather Station

  29-10-2015 20:38 via thestranger.com
  
  Travis ButtonThe Weather Station at the SlabIf your Pickathon itch is acting up, the Portland Mercury and The Stranger have just the sweet relief you need. Oregon's best music festival is confined to only a few days in highest summertime, but during those precious hours, there's enough musical bounty to tide us over during the cooler months. Because while all the music is happening on the festival's many stages, there's music happening off them as well. To that end, we're the proud hosts for Pic
  
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• Inquest ordered into fatal Seattle police shooting of knife-wielding man

  29-10-2015 20:31
  An inquest has been ordered into the fatal police shooting of Samuel T. Smith, who ran at a Seattle officer with a knife on July 17.
  
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• My Philosophy: New Releases by Local Artists 10isee Williams, Astro King Phoenix, and FFU

  29-10-2015 20:04 via thestranger.com
  
  10isee Williams
  You might remember me telling you about Seattle's 10isee Williams a few times over these last three years. I say "might" because his signature well-crafted, understated braggadocio and Big K.R.I.T.–ish rap morality are slept on out here like a buckwheat pillow and memory foam. Now he's back with his third album in as many years, Gorilla Warfare.
  "You guys oughta do a story about me sometime," Warfare's Full Metal Jacket–sampling intro declares, "'cause I'm so fuckin'
  
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• Police searching for bank robber in Edmonds

  29-10-2015 20:02
  
  Edmonds police are searching for the man who robbed a Banner Bank Thursday morning.
  
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• Blaming the ‘mainstream media': The Republicans-invented, lucrative attack line for 50 years

  29-10-2015 19:51
  
  The tweet from state Republican chairman Susan Hutchison arrived minutes after Thursday’s CNBC debate between Republican presidential candidates, and was  predictable boilerplate: “Big story tonight is the unfair and unbiased mainstream media — exposed repeatedly.” Of course, Hutchison was part of that mainstream media for years as a news anchor at KIRO-TV. Still, generations of Republicans have found that attacks on the “MM” are a way to fire up the
  
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• SL Letter of the Day: A Fun, Playful Moment

  29-10-2015 19:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Originally posted on November 27, 2013.
  I'm a bi woman in my mid-20s in a great monogamish relationship with my straight boyfriend. We occasionally invite other women into our sex life, which is really enjoyable for both of us. He isn't threatened by other women, only by other men, which isn't an issue since I'm not interested in any other men. So on the occasions when we find a lady we're both into who's also into us, anything goes, and it's awesome. We've hooked up with both friends and strang
  
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• Drag Queens Shine a Spotlight on their Secret Fears

  29-10-2015 19:40 via thestranger.com
  
  Oh sure, you know plenty of drag queens who are beautiful, or sassy, or goofy, or trendy. But in this week's issue, I have a profile of three local performers who are downright creepy. Cucchi Binaci, Arson Nicki, and Amoania use fear and unease to startle their audiences, and also as a way to explore their own anxieties.You can read all about them here, and take a listen below to hear them describe their work in their own voices — including stories about some of their creepiest performance
  
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• Firefighters respond to Lake Union boat fire

  29-10-2015 19:31
  Seattle Fire Department crews responded to a small boat fire on Lake Union.
  
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• Standard Washington driver’s license soon won’t get you aboard aircraft

  29-10-2015 19:11
  
  Feds deny Washington REAL ID deadline extension regarding proof of legal residency.
  
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• Black deputy sues Washington restaurant after being told to prepay

  29-10-2015 18:59
  An Oregon sheriff's deputy has filed a lawsuit against a restaurant chain, claiming he was told to prepay for his meal because he is black.
  
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• Richard Bishop Reflects on Sun City Girls' Reissued Classic Psych-Rock LP Torch of the Mystics

  29-10-2015 18:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Richard Bishop on Torch of the Mystics: "We knew we had a pretty powerful release waiting to be unleashed." Drag City Records
  It took 25 agonizing years to happen, but finally, Sun City Girls’ Torch of the Mystics is back in circulation. Abduction Records, the label run by SCG bassist/vocalist Alan Bishop, is reissuing the 1990 album this week. Members of the ever-growing cult following for the former Seattle underground-rock subversives can quit gnashing their teeth and paying outrageous
  
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• Currently Hanging: The Bloody Church of Martin Wong, Only on View for a Short Time

  29-10-2015 18:27 via thestranger.com
  
  At Tacoma Art Museum now: Martin Wong, Iglesia Pentecostal Mansion de Luz (1985), acrylic on canvas, 28 by 36 inches. Wong was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1946, and died in San Francisco in 1999. Courtesy of the Estate of Martin Wong and P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York
  Pentecostals believe there are many sinners in the world, and many of them are possessed by demons. Those demons have to be cast out before the sinners can be accepted into the clean church, into the light of day. Among many other sin
  
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• We're Giving Away Even More Tickets For Our Birthday!

  29-10-2015 18:24 via thestranger.com
  
  In case you haven't heard, it's Stranger Things To Do's birthday this week. We've been celebrating the fact that our calendar has been in existence for a whole year by giving away free tickets to some of Seattle's best events, and we're going to keep doing that for the rest of the week.Because you've all responded so well to our giveaways, we wanted to give you even more chances to win! So we've added two sets of tickets to our lineup: Hump! Film Festival and Iron Maiden. We also still have Mus
  
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• Library Board Votes Against New Logo and Name Change. Here's What Happened at the Board Meeting.

  29-10-2015 18:22 via thestranger.com
  
  The Seattle Public Library. Singular. Kelly O
  Last night, the Seattle Public Library's board of trustees—these five people—met to take a vote on whether to pursue a rebranding project that would cost $2 million to implement.Marcellus Turner, Seattle's city librarian, had been pushing for a rebrand because he thought a new logo, name, and brand statement would provide the foundation for change the library needs. But it wasn't clear—to me at least—how the expensive project
  
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• Viaduct to close for fall annual inspection this weekend

  29-10-2015 18:18
  
  Watch out for more than just ghosts this weekend: the Alaskan Way Viaduct will be closed for its semiannual inspection.
  
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• Brazen thieves snatching jewelry, cellphones in Seattle robberies

  29-10-2015 18:17
  
  Seattle police say thieves are snatching jewelry, wallets and cellphone from victims in a series of brazen robberies, including one caught on surveillance video.
  
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• Short Run Festival Spotlight: Mita Mahato's Cut-Up Comics

  29-10-2015 17:40 via thestranger.com
  
  Mita Mahato cuts up paper to make gorgeous comics such as her latest, “Sea.”Mita MahatoMita Mahato shapes dark, contemplative, and chuckle-funny comics using collaged strips of newspaper. Aside from looking really cool, the medium allows her to repurpose commercial color to meet artistic ends and to incorporate broken sentences from news stories into her own work, which often explores loss and disconnection.When she's not letting the images speak for themselves, her background in 19t
  
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• 2 ferry workers injured by laser fired into boat near Mukilteo

  29-10-2015 17:24
  
  A laser was allegedly fired at the ferry Tokitae as it approached the Mukilteo ferry terminal. State Patrol confiscated a laser from a man in his 20s and is investigating.
  
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• Auvi-Q epinephrine injectors used for allergic reactions recalled

  29-10-2015 17:05
  
  Hundreds of thousands of epinephrine injectors used to treat severe allergic reactions are being recalled because they may not deliver the correct amount of the life-saving drug, including all Auvi-Q injections currently on the U.S. market.
  
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• All Auvi-Q epinephrine injectors used for allergic reactions recalled

  29-10-2015 17:05
  
  Hundreds of thousands of epinephrine injectors used to treat severe allergic reactions are being recalled because they may not deliver the correct amount of the life-saving drug, including all Auvi-Q injections currently on the U.S. market.
  
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• Floods paralyze Iraqi capital as heavy rain continues

  29-10-2015 16:15
  
  BAGHDAD (AP) — After a night of intense rain storms, the joke being shared on social media Thursday assures Iraqis that they don’t need to go far to catch a migrant boat to Europe. “Grab a boat from Baghdad and it will take you straight to Greece,” the joke reads, as millions of Iraqis awoke […]
  
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• The Morning News: Seattle Library Rebrand Halted, "The Truth About Faye," and Happy Happy Bellevue

  29-10-2015 15:55 via thestranger.com
  
  No longer spending almost $2 million on rebranding. Kelly O
  The Seattle Library Board of Trustees Voted Unanimously Not to Pursue a Name Change: Rich Smith, who has been reporting on the library rebranding mess, was there yesterday when a 5-0 vote was taken to stop a $2 million effort to give the Seattle Public Library a brand new brand identity. Language in the approved measure included this: "The library will not move forward with a name change or logo at this time.” Look for more from R
  
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• Alaska exterminators work overtime to quash rampant bedbugs

  29-10-2015 14:53
  
  Exterminators say they have seen an upward trend of bedbugs in Alaska, particularly in rural areas.
  
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• Alaska Airlines: Issues that delayed flights resolved

  29-10-2015 14:46
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A computer glitch that delayed about 20 Alaska Airlines flights was resolved early Thursday, the airline said. Late Wednesday night several computer systems ran into technical problems, including programs for passenger check-in and for pre-flight departure paperwork, airline spokesman Cole Cosgrove said. As a result, about 20 flights were delayed, he […]
  
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• Victim of blast in vintage tank appeared in TV shows, ads

  29-10-2015 14:23
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Two men killed by an explosion inside a World War II-era tank at an Oregon firing range were participating in a video shoot in a military vehicle owned by one of the victims, a collector who had been filmed for shows on the Discovery Channel, the Smithsonian Channel and a video […]
  
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• Vote Yes on King County Charter Amendment No. 1 for Increased Oversight of the Sheriff's Department

  29-10-2015 14:05 via thestranger.com
  
  In need of more civilian oversight. King County
  King County is threatened by thuggish armed gangs seeking to enrich themselves and operate with impunity: friggin' police unions. Charter Amendment No. 1 gives you the chance to strike a blow against that impunity by voting for expanded civilian oversight of the King County Sheriff's department. The county's Office of Law Enforcement Oversight needs to be empowered to investigate misconduct, says King County Council member Larry Phillips, because "
  
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• Shell reports loss of $7.4 billion after Arctic exit

  29-10-2015 13:25
  
  LONDON (AP) — Royal Dutch Shell reported a third quarter loss of $7.4 billion Thursday as it re-organized and cancelled projects, including drilling in Alaska, to cope with the plunge in oil prices. The net loss compares with a profit of $4.5 billion in the same period last year. Shell reported $7.9 billion in charges, […]
  
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• High schools may soon start later in four area school districts

  29-10-2015 13:02
  
  The discussions about whether high schools -- and middle schools -- should start later is happening in at least four districts in the Puget Sound area.
  
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• High schools may soon start later in 4 area districts, including Seattle and Bellevue

  29-10-2015 13:02
  
  The discussions about whether high schools — and middle schools — should start later is happening in at least four districts in the Puget Sound area.
  
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• Bodies of man, woman found in car at Mountlake Terrace park

  29-10-2015 05:20
  
  Police say the deaths are suspicious, though the public does not appear threatened in any way. The bodies were found with in the parking lot of popular Terrace Creek Park. Detectives recovered a gun from the scene.
  
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• Why does firewood cost so much? Fracking’s part of it

  29-10-2015 05:14
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Northeasterners who are digging deeper into their pockets to pay for firewood this season can add a new scapegoat to the roster of usual market forces: fracking. Yep, a timber industry representative in New Hampshire said those hydraulic fracturing well sites in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale formation to suck natural gas out […]
  
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• Montana’s top coal producer expects to cut Asian exports

  29-10-2015 04:40
  
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana’s largest coal producer expects to reduce shipments to Asia next year through a West Coast port, as exports of the fuel from the United States continue to slide and coal producers face mounting pressure because of new pollution regulations and cheap natural gas. Cloud Peak Energy Inc. announced Wednesday that […]
  
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• Big waves hit Hawaiian Islands’ north shores, California

  29-10-2015 04:32
  
  The swells hitting Hawaii and California were probably connected to the same low-pressure weather system in the Pacific Ocean, said Derek Wroe, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
  
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• Bodies of 2 women found at Los Angeles nature park

  29-10-2015 04:31
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The bodies of two young women have been found in a Los Angeles nature park, and investigators are trying to determine how they died. Police say a woman walking a dog discovered the bodies Wednesday afternoon at Ernest E. Debs Regional Park in Montecito Heights. The bodies, which were clothed, were […]
  
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• Holder: No evidence cops lying down on the job post-Ferguson

  29-10-2015 04:30
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday he disagrees with comments from FBI Director James Comey that suggested a connection between changes in police behavior and the homicide spike experienced by major American cities. In a wide-ranging conversation with reporters, Holder said he believed Comey had made “gutsy” statements about the issues […]
  
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• Selfie catches last shades of fall

  29-10-2015 04:15
  
  Japanese Maples provide color at the Japanese Gardens at the Washington Park Arboretum in Seattle.
  
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• Mercer Island City Council candidates debate growth limits, light rail

  29-10-2015 04:13
  
  A heated fight over the limits of growth and the coming of light rail is roiling council races on Mercer Island.
  
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• Bremerton High coach who prayed after games placed on leave

  29-10-2015 04:09
  Coach refused district orders to stop praying after games. District says the prayers opened the district up to potential lawsuits.
  
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• Bremerton coach who prayed after games placed on leave

  29-10-2015 04:09
  
  Coach refused district orders to stop praying after games. District says the prayers opened the district up to potential lawsuits.
  
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• Why we must keep talking about race, policing

  29-10-2015 04:05
  
  A conversation about race and policing is part of moving toward solutions.
  
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• Seattle Public Library board rejects proposed name change

  29-10-2015 03:28
  
  The Seattle Public Library won’t be changing its name any time soon. At its Wednesday evening meeting at the library’s downtown location, the library board of trustees, after weathering a storm of criticism over a proposal to change the name of The Seattle Public Library to Seattle Public Libraries, voted unanimously not to proceed with […]
  
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