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• 2 more sue Chipotle over E. coli outbreak

  06-11-2015 23:57
  A Washington woman from Mount Vernon and a Lake Oswego, Ore., man say they were stricken after dining at Chipotle restaurants in the two states.
  
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• Last-Minute Plans: 17 Free and Easy Things To Do This Weekend

  06-11-2015 23:48 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffBelltown's beloved Shorty's is having a pinball tournament on Sunday. Kelly O
  What do a performance by Stranger Genius John Osebold, a screening of short Turkish films, and a pinball tournament have in common? They're all things you can do for free this weekend! Read on for the full list of free entertainment Seattle has in store for you this weekend, or check out our complete Things To Do calendar for even more events.
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• Persistent Everett bank robber wears fake facial hair, dubbed ‘Beardo’

  06-11-2015 23:46
  
  A prolific Everett bank robber nicknamed "Beardo" because of his penchant for sporting obviously fake beards during his crimes is being sought by police.
  
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• UW president, other leaders part of Husky basketball trip to China

  06-11-2015 23:18
  An academic partnership with Tsinghua University, innovative technology and connections with Chinese business leaders are on the agenda for UW President Ana Mari Cauce, who will be traveling with former ambassador to China Gary Locke and former Gov. Chris Gregoire.
  
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• Christian Pastor Calls for Execution of Gays at Event Attended by Ted Cruz

  06-11-2015 23:12 via thestranger.com
  
  Ted Cruz, who has a shot at the GOP nomination, attended Pastor Kevin Swanson's "religious liberty convention" today. Cruz sat for an interview with Swanson—as did Mike Huckabee and Bobbie Jindal, two wet squarts who not only don't have a shot at the GOP nomination, both men know they don't have a shot at the GOP nomination. (Huckabee and Jindal are in it for the post-run gigs, book deals, and speaking fees.) Via Joe My God comes this video of Swanson's remarks today:Pastor Swanson called
  
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• Tim Eyman, casting usual spell, wins the day for super minority

  06-11-2015 23:09
  As dust clears on election day, ironies abound.
  
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• I, Anonymous: Weed Carpetbaggers

  06-11-2015 23:03 via thestranger.com
  
  STEVEN WEISSMAN
  I get it. You're so fucking rich and high on yourself that you want to come in and be the kings and queens of weed. You could give a rat's ass about the unconscionable consequences of you buying out the state system. Nope, you rich fucks just waltzed in and bought out our money-grubbing state legislature, which couldn't kill medical cannabis fast enough, so you all could tighten your grip on the cannabis industry and eliminate the free market…
  
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• Rob Johnson elected to Seattle City Council District 4 seat

  06-11-2015 23:00
  
  With his opponent conceding Friday, Rob Johnson officially becomes the first elected member to the Seattle City Council’s District 4 seat.
  
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• 250 cellphones, 57 computers seized from grocery store; owner charged with buying stolen goods from juveniles

  06-11-2015 22:44
  
  The owner of a small Rainier Valley grocery allegedly pays juveniles for electronic devices and other goods stolen in street robberies, car prowls and residential burglaries. Prosecutors filed felony charges against him after a yearlong investigation.
  
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• REVIEW: Benoit Pioulard's Noyaux EP Is Unsurpassably Beatific

  06-11-2015 22:33 via thestranger.com
  
  Benoît Pioulard: Blissin' up. Benoît Pioulard's Bandcamp
  It’s perhaps strange to say that an artist whose music is so calm, cool, and reflective as Benoît Pioulard is on fire this year, but it’s not inaccurate. So far in 2015, Pioulard (aka Seattle transplant Thomas Meluch) has released the instant classic of gilded-dewdrop elegiac-bliss tunes, Sonnet (Kranky Records), a self-released CD and cassette titled Stanza and Stanza II, an icily beautiful drone-song collab
  
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• SO GOOD: Go Watch the Family Fall Apart in Festen

  06-11-2015 22:29 via thestranger.com
  
  At one point I stopped taking notes because I was so wrapped up in watching the destruction and resurrection of this family. I forgot I had a job to do.John Ulman
  Festen now playing at 12th Avenue Arts, makes me want to talk about structural choices and details the way my friend's uncles used to talk about classic cars. But because that kind of talk can lead to the shotgunning of Busch Lights and the air guitaring of every song on Lynyrd Skynyrd's Second Helping, I'll just use my own language to
  
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• Lafayette Was a Lusty French Teenager, and Other Things I Should've Known but Didn't Until I Read Sarah Vowell's New Book

  06-11-2015 22:08 via thestranger.com
  
  Sarah Vowell
  The first thing I did when I picked up Sarah Vowell's latest book, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, was laugh at that word "somewhat." (In the book, she also calls it the "ironically named United States.") The second thing I did was go: "Ah, yes, Lafayette. Lafayette... Wait, who's Lafayette again?" I knew I should know. The name was definitely familiar. After all, there's a subway stop in New York City named Lafayette. There's a park across the street from the White House n
  
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• People Love the Gum Wall Because It's "Quirky," Which Is What Disgusts Me

  06-11-2015 21:46 via thestranger.com
  
  Children love quirky things because they are naturally stupid.f11photo / Shutterstock.com
  We need to be clear about this. The gum wall is allowed to persist because it is the essence of that horrible, regressive, politically negative thing we call "quirky." And the reason why quirkiness is so often promoted in our class/racially-stressed society is because it does not draw attention to, precisely, these kinds of real social stresses.
  You will find that middle- and upper-class white Americans ten
  
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• Pushed by Anti-Prison Activists, City Council Considers Spending $600,000 on Alternatives to Youth Detention

  06-11-2015 21:39 via thestranger.com
  
  Anti-juvenile jail activists gathered in March at Seattle University to develop a "people's plan" alternative to King County's plan to build a new detention center. That plan is finding its way into the city budget. Alex Garland
  The Seattle City Council will vote next week on a measure to spend more than half a million dollars on the development of alternatives to jailing children, following through on the September passage of a resolution to abolish youth detention in the city.The measure is li
  
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• About This Anti-Choice Billboard's Hair Raising "Facts"

  06-11-2015 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Kelly O
  There's a new billboard at 15th Avenue and Denny Street, in the parking lot of my nearest and dearest 7-Eleven Convenience Store. While I'm happy it isn't the usual horror movie style blood-and-gore fetusphoto, I'm very unhappy this marketing tries to appeal to some sense of logic, using the word "fact."
  I mean, c'mon, if you wanna talk "facts," how about you start with good ole Bill Nye the Science Guy? He suggests "at some point we all HAVE TO respect the facts." Or, hey, here's anoth
  
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• Another Washington Chipotle customer sues claiming E. coli poisoning

  06-11-2015 21:17
  
  A Mount Vernon woman who claims she was sickened after eating tainted food at Chipotle has sued the fast food chain.
  
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• Dispensary Files an Injunction to Stop Seattle's Medical Marijuana Ordinance, and More

  06-11-2015 21:12 via thestranger.com
  
  Watch host Patsy Benson and Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles get stoned on casserole. DANIEL SUCHMAN
  Columbia City Holistic Health recently filed an injunction in King County Superior Court in hopes of stopping the city from enforcing its medical marijuana licensing law.
  Attorney Douglas Hiatt, who's representing the dispensary, said he asked city officials to stop enforcing the ordinance until the courts rule on their lawsuit, which was filed at the end of September in the wake of the city shutting d
  
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• Burien man pleads guilty to killing ex-wife at park-and-ride

  06-11-2015 21:01
  
  A Burien man who pleaded guilty to killing his former wife will face up to 20 years in prison at his sentencing.
  
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• It Doesn't Matter That Ben Carson Lied About Going to West Point

  06-11-2015 20:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Ben Carson: Can't believe he's getting away with this shit. Christopher Halloran / Shutterstock.com
  I bet you thought "Ben Carson says God helped Joseph build pyramids for the Egyptians" was the craziest Carson-related news you'd hear this week. Nope! Turns out he totally made up a whole story about getting a scholarship to West Point.
  Clue number 1 is the fact that West Point doesn't offer scholarships. Well, that's kind of a tipoff.
  And then there's another story that might not be what elitist
  
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• Canadian gets 6 years for flying to Seattle to have sex with teen

  06-11-2015 20:47
  
  A Canadian man has been sentenced to six years in federal prison for flying to Washington state to have sex with a teenage girl.
  
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• Why I Won't Write a Review of Suffragette

  06-11-2015 20:41 via thestranger.com
  
  Suffragette: No people of color allowed.
  I really didn’t want to write this review. I still don’t. Not because Meryl Streep is a lie (she appears for like 15 seconds). Not because the main character never existed in this supposedly historical film (the director calls it a “composite character”). Not because Suffragette is a bad film—it’s not. It’s fine. It’s Oscar bait. Whatever.
  I didn’t want to write this review because I’m tired of w
  
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• HUMP! 2015 Opens Big

  06-11-2015 20:29 via thestranger.com
  
  HUMP! 2015 opened to sold out crowds last night at SIFF Cinema Uptown. This morning we got an email from a very satisfied customer...
  My girlfriend and I were first-timers to HUMP! last night. We didn't know exactly what to expect. What a great show!! Moving, hilarious, sexy—everything you could want a locally-sourced porn festival. I thought Blown was an amazing, important movie and I wish more people could see it outside the context of the festival. It was hard to choose the funniest bu
  
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• What You Learn When You Fly to Puerto Vallarta on the Same Plane as Russell Wilson

  06-11-2015 20:11 via thestranger.com
  
  He was on my plane to Puerto Vallarta. So was she. Helga Esteb / Shutterstock.com
  When the woman ahead of us to board an Alaska Airlines flight to Puerto Vallarta says to her friend, “Did you see who’s on our plane?” I am forced to eavesdrop.My boyfriend Zane is talking to me, but I can't help myself.“He’s in first class,” the woman says. “Everyone’s going to see him.”
  “Those people were talking about someone famous being on our plane,&
  
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• Man who fatally struck Sedro-Woolley market owner pleads guilty

  06-11-2015 19:40
  
  A Mount Vernon man has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the crash that resulted in the death of the co-owner of a Sedro-Woolley market.
  
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• Police Reports Illustrated: Man Teaches Robber Value of Friendship

  06-11-2015 19:29 via thestranger.com
  
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• Damn Fine Police Work: Over Half the Student Body of One Colorado High School Facing Felony Charges

  06-11-2015 19:14 via thestranger.com
  
  They were sexting—and it sounds like the students at Canon City High School were doing their best to keep the photos locked down, hidden, private. But the police cracked the case and ruined hundreds of young lives:
  Police say hundreds of sexually explicit photos of Canon City High School students have been discovered, many of which have their faces showing. The scandal involves more than half of the student population. At least 500 nude photos that were taken or sent by students have been
  
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• Police arrest suspect, 22, in West Seattle arsons

  06-11-2015 18:59
  A 22-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a recent string of arsons in West Seattle.
  
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• Person of Interest: Alice Wheeler, Photographer and Documenter of the Mighty Pacific Northwest

  06-11-2015 18:56 via thestranger.com
  
  Alice Wheeler, photographed near Lake View Cemetery on Capitol Hill. KELLY O
  
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• Leaking peroxide in semi-truck sickens workers in Kent

  06-11-2015 18:15
  A leaking container in a semi-truck sent two people to local hospitals after they and three others were exposed to fumes.
  
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• Earthquake rattles southcentral Alaska

  06-11-2015 18:10
  
  A light earthquake Friday morning shook southcentral Alaska and was widely felt in the region.
  
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• Hot weather is affecting Belgian beer, too

  06-11-2015 18:06
  
  BRUSSELS — One of the most renowned Belgian beer brewers said Friday it is a victim of climate change because increasingly high temperatures have shortened the brewing season by about a month compared with the 1950s. The Cantillon gueuze brewery needs to cool its hot brew in open tanks so that the natural yeasts in […]
  
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• The Morning News: City Council Races Are Close, Tim Eyman Speaks, and Obama Rejects the Keystone Pipeline

  06-11-2015 17:38 via thestranger.com
  
  Shannon Braddock and her mom on election night. Braddock is currently leading by fewer than 700 votes in West Seattle's District 1. Kathleen Richards
  Looking at the Latest Results, a Couple City Council Races Are Very, Very Close: In District 1 (West Seattle) and District 2 (southeast), Shannon Braddock and Bruce Harrell are leading by fewer than 1,000 votes. See all of the latest results right here. The next count is expected today at 4:30 p.m.
  Speaking of the Election: This week on Blabbermout
  
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• Mormon Church to Kids With Gay Parents: No Magic Underpants For You!

  06-11-2015 17:17 via thestranger.com
  
  KUTV:
  In a major policy announcement, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says children living in a same-sex household may not be blessed as babies or baptized. The decision, which was released Thursday, takes effect immediately, LDS church spokesman Eric Hawkins told 2News. "A natural or adopted child of a parent living in a same-gender relationship, whether the couple is married or cohabiting, may not receive a name and a blessing," the policy reads. Natural or adopted children li
  
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• New Mexico museum unveils first-of-its-kind dinosaur fossil

  06-11-2015 17:03
  
  Paleontologists in New Mexico unveiled the first baby Pentaceratops skull ever discovered as hundreds of people lined up to get a look.
  
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• Federal Way crash ties up I-5 traffic

  06-11-2015 16:07
  
  A four-car wreck tied up traffic on northbound Interstate 5 in Federal Way early Friday.
  
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• How much cheating services cost, and more of the week’s education news

  06-11-2015 15:07
  
  In three states, no girls took Advanced Placement computer science exams this year. A housing measure to help San Francisco teachers passes, while another to boost school funding in Mississippi fails. And Colorado's second-largest school district throws out all its school board members.
  
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• Spacewalkers encounter leaking ammonia, NASA says no danger

  06-11-2015 15:05
  
  It was the second spacewalk in 1 1/2 weeks for NASA's Scott Kelly, who's more than halfway through a U.S. record-setting yearlong flight, and fellow American astronaut Kjell Lindgren.
  
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• Study: Teen obesity surgery benefits last at least 3 years

  06-11-2015 15:02
  
  The largest, longest study of teen obesity surgery shows huge weight loss and health gains can last at least three years, and many say it's worth the risks.
  
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• Blabbermouth: Our Week-in-Review Podcast Talks Election Results With Kshama Sawant and Three Political Consultants

  06-11-2015 15:02 via thestranger.com
  
  Episode 28 of our Stranger week-in-review podcast. (Now available on iTunes.)
  We had a big local election this week, plus statewide votes on some important issues. So we brought in four people to tell us what the results say about our political future.First up: Seattle City Council Member Kshama Sawant, who appears to have won her race in Seattle’s 3rd District against challenger Pamela Banks. Sawant tells us why it’s a kind of “revolution” to have a socialist elected to
  
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• Kenneth Bae, detained 2 years in North Korea, releasing book

  06-11-2015 07:20
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — Kenneth Bae, a U.S. citizen who was detained in North Korea for two years before his release last November, plans to tell his story in a book. W Publishing Group, an imprint of the Christian publishing firm Thomas Nelson, says “Not Forgotten: The True Story of My Imprisonment in North Korea” will […]
  
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• JBLM soldier surrenders in shooting of man in Tillicum

  06-11-2015 06:43
  
  Lakewood police say he is cooperating in the investigation, though the motive for the crime is unknown.
  
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• Police: Woman says she ‘helped’ runaway girl by pimping her

  06-11-2015 06:15
  
  A Seattle woman accused of pimping a teen runaway after spending her own childhood being sexually exploited for money now faces child prostitution charges
  
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• Swallowed pill balloons to deliver weight loss without gastric surgery

  06-11-2015 05:41
  
  By taking up room in the stomach, the balloon creates a sensation of fullness and helps a patient eat less and develop habits of portion control.
  
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• Weekend film fest promises an immersion in Turkish culture

  06-11-2015 05:12
  Seattle Turkish Film Festival, now in its third year, runs through the weekend at Pacific Place in Seattle.
  
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• Latest Election Results Show Two City Council Races Separated by Fewer Than 1,000 Votes

  06-11-2015 04:46 via thestranger.com
  
  Shannon Braddock—currently leading in West Seattle's District 1—and her mom on election night. Kathleen Richards
  Another day, another ballot count from Tuesday's election. Like yesterday, incumbents and (relatively) moderate, business-backed candidates remain in the lead, but a couple of races are very, very close.
  In West Seattle, Shannon Braddock is leading Lisa Herbold by just 638 votes. At least 4,682 ballots* are left to be counted in that district, according to the county's lat
  
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• UW named partner in Regional Big Data Hub on West Coast

  06-11-2015 04:32
  
  Already a national leader in the field of big data, the University of Washington is joining two other western universities to co-host a regional data hub, backed by federal funding.
  
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• Cryotherapy: Minus 300-degree treatment has little oversight treatments

  06-11-2015 04:11
  
  The Food and Drug Administration does not recognize any medical benefits from cryotherapy chambers, nor does it regulate the devices.
  
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• Cryotherapy: Minus 300-degree treatment has little oversight

  06-11-2015 04:11
  The Food and Drug Administration does not recognize any medical benefits from cryotherapy chambers, nor does it regulate the devices.
  
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• Trial postponed for brothers shot by Olympia officer

  06-11-2015 03:32
  
  Trial originally set for December now scheduled for April.
  
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• Washington state joins legal fight to defend Obama climate plan

  06-11-2015 03:28
  
  They are opposing lawsuits filed last month against the Environmental Protection Agency by 25 mostly Republican states and allied industry groups.
  
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