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• Port Orchard tobacco-product wholesaler sentenced for fraud

  30-10-2015 23:54
  
  A Port Orchard man was sentenced to four years in prison on wire fraud and tax evasion charges.
  
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• Our Brand Is Crisis Keeps Political Semi-Satire Safe

  30-10-2015 23:29 via thestranger.com
  
  Director David Gordon Green has led one of the damndest careers in modern filmmaking, drifting between the gorgeous Terrence Malick–ness of George Washington to the barn-broad goofiness of Pineapple Express with seemingly negative perspiration. The new political semi-satire Our Brand Is Crisis is far from Green's worst movie—this is a world where the negative of Your Highness still remains un-burned, after all—but it definitely feels like his most impersonal. While the talente
  
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• Ben Carson Makes Ta-Nehisi Coates Sad

  30-10-2015 23:28 via thestranger.com
  
  During his conversation with Vivian Phillips for Seattle Arts and Lectures, Coates said that it was "deeply painful" for him to watch Ben Carson.Last night, Ta-Nehisi Coates packed McCaw Hall. The room holds 2,900 people, and organizers said they didn't think a writer—a journalist—had ever drawn that large of a crowd.If you'd already read Coates's recent work, none of the conversation with Vivian Phillips seemed new. Phillips set the table for Coates to summarize his arguments in The
  
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• Q&A on using your driver’s license at airport security

  30-10-2015 23:11
  Homeland Security says the days are numbered for using your standard Washington driver’s license to board a plane. But how numbered are they?
  
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• Ken the Ghost Hunter Takes a Trip to Jimi Hendrix's Grave

  30-10-2015 23:11 via thestranger.com
  
  "Jimi, are you there? It's me, Ken. I'm a paranormal investigator." KELLY O
  Standing under the 30-foot-high marble dome that encases Jimi Hendrix’s grave, Ken Arnold scanned AM/FM radio frequencies with his SB11 Spirit Box. Nothing but static from the device could be heard. No signs of Jimi. Not even a hint of his song “Voodoo Child (Slight Return).” There was Nag Champa incense, though, wafting out amongst flowers, letters, guitar picks, and one cigarette lighter with a nude w
  
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• A Trip to Jimi Hendrix's Grave with Ken the Ghost Hunter

  30-10-2015 23:11 via thestranger.com
  
  "Jimi, are you there? It's me, Ken. I'm a paranormal investigator." KELLY O
  Standing under the 30-foot-high marble dome that encases Jimi Hendrix’s grave, Ken Arnold scanned AM/FM radio frequencies with his SB11 Spirit Box. Nothing but static from the device could be heard. No signs of Jimi. Not even a hint of his song “Voodoo Child (Slight Return).” There was Nag Champa incense, though, wafting out amongst flowers, letters, guitar picks, and one cigarette lighter with a nude w
  
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• Guest Editorial: Meet the Eyman Supporter Who Is Almost Single-Handedly Trying to Stop Our Transportation Future

  30-10-2015 23:09 via thestranger.com
  
  Aaron Ostrom, who directs the state's largest progressive organization, wants you to ignore Faye Garneau's efforts to kill the "Move Seattle" levy. The levy would lead to a lot of transportation improvements in this city—improvements like the redesign and repaving of 23rd Avenue, shown above—and will show up on your ballot as City of Seattle Proposition No. 1. SEATTLE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
  As a Slog reader, you may have seen the online ads on the Stranger web site opposing Pro
  
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• Walking Dead News: Series Renewal, and Will Rick Get His Hand Chopped Off?

  30-10-2015 23:04 via thestranger.com
  
  There was such a kerfluffle about the presumed death of a certain character on last week's episode of The Walking Dead, I neglected to even mention another possible loss from that same show: RICK'S HAND! The scene in question featured a fairly common battle between three zombies and Rick on an abandoned highway, but during the fight, Rick got a nasty cut on his hand—which we presume was from his own blade, but there were a lot of zombie juices flying around, sooooooooo... maybe a possible
  
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• Marking your ballot this weekend? Here’s a quick election guide

  30-10-2015 23:03
  
  Seattle voters have enjoyed two contradictory habits of late: They say yes to City Hall every time it wants to raise property taxes and no to Seattle mayors when they seek reelection. The 2015 election gives the Emerald City electorate lots of thumb exercise. Pamela Banks, Seattle Urban League CEO, challenger and underdog to socialist Council member Kshama Sawant. It can give thumbs up or down to Let’s Move Seattle (Proposition 1), the gargantuan $930 million, nine-year transportation pack
  
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• From Satanists to fans who haven’t got a prayer, what a week

  30-10-2015 22:32
  And about the Pac-12’s ungodly game times — oh, the devil is in the details.
  
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• The Perfect Pop Painting for Your Party, Jeb!

  30-10-2015 22:27 via thestranger.com
  
  This 7-footer really POPS! Fun for all GOP parties! Courtesy Tacoma Art Museum and Collection Liz and Eric Lefkofsky
  Last night U.S. News & World Report got its hands on an internal campaign document from Jeb Bush headquarters, and it had a juicy art bit, reported by Slate this morning: Bush's "fourth-quarter fundraising rollout, scheduled for Dec. 5 at the trendy Art Basel in Miami," is an event called "Pop Art, Politics & Jeb."
  For an exciting event like that, you need an exciting flag
  
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• Woman who killed husband, son-in-law in DUI crash sentenced to 6 years

  30-10-2015 22:13
  
  A Sammamish woman who killed her husband and son-in-law after crashing her Jeep through her lakefront home was sentenced Friday to six years in prison.
  
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• It's on TV This Weekend: Ash vs. Evil Dead

  30-10-2015 22:07 via thestranger.com
  
  Courtesy Starz
  For those of you who know better than to go out on Halloween—there are monsters out there! And children!—at least you have a humdinger of a show to check out: the debut of Ash vs. Evil Dead on Starz, Sat Oct 31, 9 pm. The beloved Bruce Campbell returns to his most famous role as Ash Williams, the buffoonish hunter of all things "horror." But is this series worthy of a reboot? Let's go to the early reviews, and find out!
  From CinemaBlend:
  Ash vs Evil Dead is the rare fi
  
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• Sheriff: Hacker put suggestive comic on Burien PD Twitter account

  30-10-2015 21:47
  
  Sheriff John Urquhart says his office is investigating how a sexually suggestive comic strip appeared on the Burien Police Department’s Twitter feed, apparently a prank by a hacker.
  
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• Sheriff: Hacker posted sexually suggestive comic on Burien PD Twitter account

  30-10-2015 21:47
  
  A sexually-suggestive comic strip appeared on the Burien Police Department’s Twitter feed Thursday night — but no one’s laughing.
  
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• SL Letter of the Day: Mismatched

  30-10-2015 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Originally posted on November 13, 2013.I'm a heterosexual guy in my early 20s. I've been dating my girlfriend for about six months, and we've been having some fights recently. The problem: I have a high sex drive in comparison to hers. I want to be intimate on a weekly basis (at least!), and she's told me that she's more of a once-every-three-weeks-or-so person. I'm trying not to put pressure on her. I don't want her to feel uncomfortable—she's a virgin (no penetration), and the thought of
  
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• I, Anonymous: Cheap Date

  30-10-2015 21:18 via thestranger.com
  
  STEVEN WEISSMAN
  I work as a server at a well-known seafood restaurant, and this might cost me my job, but it will be worth it if you read this. Tonight I had the pleasure of waiting on your table for more than two hours, during which you racked up a $300 tab. Bottles of wine, appetizers, salads, entrées, desserts. Several items were comped for you, and you left fat and happy—business as usual… Except for the fact that you didn’t leave a tip…
  
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• Man fatally shot near SeaTac airport identified

  30-10-2015 21:08
  
  A manhunt continues for the gunman who shot and killed a man Thursday afternoon near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
  
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• Deputies continue search for gunman in SeaTac homicide

  30-10-2015 21:08
  
  A manhunt continues for the gunman who shot and killed a man Thursday afternoon near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
  
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• Last-Minute Plans: 23 Free and Easy Things To Do This Halloween Weekend

  30-10-2015 21:03 via thestranger.com
  
  With this list, it will be easier to make your Halloween plans than it was for this guy to make this costume. Kelly O
  It's finally here—Halloween weekend! If you blew all your time and money on making a creative costume and not on making actual plans, we've got you covered. Here are 23 free things you can do to celebrate this weekend (plus a few other cool things we threw in for you), ranging from an organ concert to a Halloween hangover party to the Short Run Comix & Arts Festival, wi
  
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• Republican Debate Fact-Check: Who Lied Best?

  30-10-2015 20:56 via thestranger.com
  
  Ben Carson: Pill shill. Rich Koele / Shutterstock.com
  Hopefully by now you've recovered from the trauma of Wednesday's dreary CNBC debate, wherein the 64,529 Repubicans still running for president did their best to avoid making any specific statements. (Huckabee came out in favor of curing diabetes, so congratulations on that bold stance.)
  Despite their best efforts, a few of the candidates actually made some claims, and naturally some of them were not exactly what you would call "true."
  Some of
  
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• What’s up with testing, and more of the state’s education news

  30-10-2015 20:50
  
  Attacking inequity in gifted ed.Bad news for online charters. A new, in-depth Advanced Placement program.And send us your biggest questions about public education.
  
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• Vif Offers a Rare Kind of Nourishment

  30-10-2015 20:20 via thestranger.com
  
  Lauren Feldman and Shawn Mead: Their natural wines and simple dishes have attracted a devout following.KELLY O
  You could call Vif a cafe, a coffee shop, or a wine shop. It's all of these things, but it's also something more. Open for a little more than two years in Fremont, Vif offers a rare kind of nourishment in Seattle. And while it might be a stretch to call Vif a restaurant, its food is certainly restaurant quality.
  "Our business model does not fit the restaurant model," says co-owner Shawn
  
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• Texas storm prompts evacuations in area hit by spring floods

  30-10-2015 20:16
  
  BUDA, Texas (AP) — A fast-moving storm packing heavy rain and destructive winds overwhelmed rivers and prompted evacuations Friday in the same area of Central Texas that saw devastating spring floods. The Blanco River in Wimberley, southwest of Austin, swelled to about 26 feet, well above its 13-foot flood stage. Residents were evacuated from the […]
  
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• Heavy Texas storms force water rescues, halt flights

  30-10-2015 20:16
  
  BUDA, Texas (AP) — Punishing storms and suspected tornadoes Friday socked an already sodden swath of Texas that was still drying out from the remnants of Hurricane Patricia, forcing evacuations and shutting down a busy 10-mile stretch of interstate. More than 16 inches of rain soaked one neighborhood and Austin Bergstrom International Airport suspended all […]
  
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• At least 2 dead after Texas pummeled again by heavy storms

  30-10-2015 20:16
  
  BUDA, Texas (AP) — Punishing storms and suspected tornadoes Friday socked an already sodden swath of Texas that was still drying out from the remnants of Hurricane Patricia, forcing evacuations and shutting down a gridlocked 10-mile stretch of interstate. At least two people died and another was missing, authorities said. More than 16 inches of […]
  
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• Dear Capitol Hill Value Village: I Am So Pissed At You Right Now

  30-10-2015 20:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Okay, maybe not "pissed," but very, very sad. Why do you have to close and leave me stranded, my nearest and dearest? I simply can't afford the new boutiques of "Neu Cap Hill." Oh, woe is me >>>Kelly O
  In better Halloween-related news, find something fun to do this weekend, in our overflowing Halloween Calendar
  
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• Make Your Life Easier with This Short Run Shopping List

  30-10-2015 19:53 via thestranger.com
  
  Feel the comix. BUY the comix. Alex Stonehill
  As I mentioned earlier this week, navigating the tables at the Short Run Festival can be a little challenging. There's lots of colorful comics shouting for your attention. One of the ways you can make life easier for yourself is by walking into the Fisher Pavillon with a shopping list.Below is a list of tables/exhibitors/artists/publishers I plan to pay special attention to on my first go-round. When I do a second loop, I'll follow my bliss and pick
  
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• Police Reports Illustrated: On the Hunt for Some Asshole Pirates

  30-10-2015 19:38 via thestranger.com
  
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• Council Will Vote On City-Run Beacon Hill Gigabit Broadband Network

  30-10-2015 19:37 via thestranger.com
  
  Do it for the kids. Seattle.gov
  No, no, no, no... NO!That's the position of Mayor Ed Murray on creating not only a citywide fiber municipal broadband network to compete with Comcast and CenturyLink, but also, now, building a $5 million municipal gigabit broadband pilot broadband project on Beacon Hill—essentially, a high-speed city-run network.
  The city council is going to vote next month on whether to build one anyway. Council Member Kshama Sawant, with the support of Nick Licata and Bruc
  
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• A Seattle reporter hears from Republican candidates: Bash the media, give us money

  30-10-2015 19:34
  
  Bashing the Fourth Estate has become a path to big bucks for two Republican candidates in the wake of Wednesday’s acrimonious GOP presidential debate on CNBC. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, was subject of a flattering Friday profile in The New York Times, just as the hard-line contender was sending forth an email blast titled: “Fire the Media.” Addressed to a Seattle journalist, it read: Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas:  “Joel, join me in declaring war on the liberal media agen
  
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• New Report Confirms That the Restaurant Industry Is Plagued by Racial and Gender Disparity

  30-10-2015 18:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Saru Jayaraman, co-founder of ROC United, says it's going to take more than just policy changes to fix the inequality in the restaurant industry. Ben Henry
  At a press conference yesterday at the Comet Tavern, the Restaurant Opportunity Center United (ROC), a national advocacy organization for restaurant workers, released what it calls “the most comprehensive study ever conducted of the restaurant industry in Seattle.” Most of us toiling away at stoves and server stations already know
  
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• After Sea-Tac Shooting, Police Use a Thermographic Camera in the Arrest of a Man in the Woods

  30-10-2015 18:41 via thestranger.com
  
  According to a press release by Sergeant Cindi West of the King County Sheriff's Office, around 4:13 p.m. yesterday, a black man was shot not far from the busy runways of Seattle–Tacoma International Airport. Witnesses saw another black man running from the area of the shooting. The front of the black t-shirt worn by this man reportedly had a gold star on it. The medics arrived and pronounced the victim dead.A helicopter, Guardian One, at a King County base responded to the incident. It r
  
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• Nightlife Guy Dave Meinert Endorses Kshama Sawant and Tim Burgess for Reelection

  30-10-2015 18:28 via thestranger.com
  
  Restaurant and bar owner Dave Meinert, who has sparred with Seattle socialists before, is endorsing Kshama Sawant. Courtesy of Clay Showalter
  You guys! This is not a drill!Dave Meinert—owner of multiple businesses, writer of op-eds fighting with Jess Spear/endorser of Ed Murray, person who thinks Kshama Sawant "hasn't changed anything" since getting elected to city council—is endorsing Kshama Sawant for reelection.He is also endorsing Council President Tim Burgess for a citywide coun
  
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• Fire in engine doomed Orbital rocket on space station flight

  30-10-2015 18:27
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A fire and explosion in a rocket engine are being blamed for a botched commercial space station shipment last October. NASA released an investigation report this week, a full year after the Virginia launch accident. NASA’s independent review team said the initial fire was caused by friction from rubbing parts […]
  
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• Person of Interest: Mykol, Witch and Traditional Earth Medicine Practitioner

  30-10-2015 18:07 via thestranger.com
  
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• Saturn’s geyser-spouting moon glows in close-up pictures

  30-10-2015 18:01
  
  NASA released new close-ups of Saturn's geyser-spouting moon Enceladus.
  
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• Anti-Sawant ad draws criticism over stock images

  30-10-2015 17:56
  
  Seattle City Council candidate Pamela Banks smacked her opponent with a mailer this week saying Councilmember Kshama Sawant ignores her constituents. But the people pictured in the ad aren’t Sawant’s constituents. They’re stock photo models.
  
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• Boy, 13, fatally shot on JBLM identified

  30-10-2015 17:49
  
  The 13-year-old boy who was fatally shot by a friend at Joint Base Lewis-McChord has been identified asAlexander Demello.
  
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• The Morning News: Feds Say Washington ID Isn't Enough to Board an Airplane, Food Workers Aren't Getting Sick Time

  30-10-2015 16:28 via thestranger.com
  
  Don't expect to get up there without a passport or an enhanced Washington ID. Digital Media Pro/Shutterstock
  Soon, Your Washington Driver's License May Not Get You On an Airplane: Instead, you'll need an enhanced driver's license or ID or a passport. "The federal government has denied Washington state an extension from complying with tougher federal requirements that require proof of legal U.S. residency in order for state driver’s licenses and IDs to be valid for federal purposes, includi
  
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• National Guard airlifts dino fossils out of wilderness

  30-10-2015 16:26
  
  A National Guard Blackhawk helicopter plucked a baby Pentaceratops' skull — encased in plaster — from the wilderness and airlifted it to a waiting cargo truck
  
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• Alaskan Way Viaduct to close for weekend inspection

  30-10-2015 16:10
  The Alaskan Way Viaduct will be closed this weekend for its twice-yearly inspection. Both directions of Highway 99 will be closed between South Spokane Street and the north end of the Battery Street Tunnel from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.  Saturday and Sunday. Drivers are advised to plan ahead and be prepared for congestion on […]
  
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• Baby born on I-5’s Mercer off-ramp

  30-10-2015 15:46
  
  Will they call him “Mercer,”  one tweeter asked, after a baby boy was born in a vehicle shortly before 7 a.m. on the Mercer Street exit from Interstate 5 in Seattle this morning. Seattle Fire Lt. Sue Stangl said the fire department was alerted that a woman was in labor in a vehicle traveling southbound […]
  
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• Blabbermouth: Our Week-in-Review Podcast Looks Into Attacks on Voting Rights, a Very Bad Library Idea, and Persimmons!

  30-10-2015 14:03 via thestranger.com
  
  Episode 27 of our Stranger week-in-review podcast. (Now available on iTunes.)
  On this week’s podcast, Stranger writer Rich Smith gives the scoop on a frightening $2 million rebranding effort at the Seattle Public Library that just got halted in its tracks (due in large part to Rich’s reporting).Then Nation writer Ari Berman talks about his new book, Give Us the Ballot, which traces the history of the struggle for equal voting rights in this country—a struggle that continues to
  
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• Valeant cutting ties with Philidor

  30-10-2015 13:47
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Valeant Pharmaceuticals, a company that has come under intense scrutiny for its drug prices, has cut ties with Philidor following accusations that it was a “phantom pharmacy” used solely to artificially boost sales. Valeant said Friday that the mail-order pharmacy has informed the company that it will shut down as soon […]
  
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• Four companies band together to help employees get GEDs for free

  30-10-2015 13:03
  
  Several major national companies are giving employees free access to prep classes and tests to earn their high-school equivalency degrees.
  
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• ‘Jesus’ chants, jeers greet Satanists during Bremerton football game

  30-10-2015 07:03
  The Satanic Temple of Seattle was invited to protest coach Joe Kennedy’s controversial ritual of praying on the 50-yard line after games. Kennedy, who was placed on leave, prayed in the stands after Thursday's game.
  
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• ‘Jesus’ chants greet Satanists at Bremerton football game

  30-10-2015 07:03
  
  The Satanic Temple of Seattle was invited to protest coach Joe Kennedy’s controversial ritual of praying on the 50-yard line after games. Kennedy, who was placed on leave, prayed in the stands after Thursday's game.
  
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• Solving Seattle’s gridlock puzzle: 4 experts weigh in

  30-10-2015 06:52
  The Seattle Times LiveWire forum included four leading transportation thinkers and offered hopeful glimpses of the future, though no silver bullet to solve gridlock.
  
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