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• Grocery Showdown: Trader Joe's vs. everyone

  11-11-2015 23:38
  
  Trader Joe's has a reputation of being cheap, but of fine quality. Is it really that cheap when we stack it against previous Grocery Showdown competitors? It's complicated. Let's take a look.
  
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• #ShoutYourAbortion Continues to Change the Conversation With a New Series of Videos

  11-11-2015 23:35 via thestranger.com
  
  Amelia Bonow photographed by Brady Hall
  Yesterday was a big day for #ShoutYourAbortion. First, The New Yorker magazine summed up, excellently, what's been happening since the hashtag went viral by publishing "Can #ShoutYourAbortion Turn Hashtag Activism Into a Movement?" Another must-read summation was published by Mashable, including several of the new videos that launched yesterday on a brand new YouTube channel. #SYA's Amelia Bonow told Mashable this about the new video series project:
  "What
  
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• My Philosophy: Since When Are Rap Shows So Punctual?

  11-11-2015 23:34 via thestranger.com
  
  A$AP Rocky headlines the WaMu Theater on Wed Nov 11.
  This week brings Seattle a bit of a millennial Fresh Fest—a package tour of A$AP Rocky, Tyler, the Creator, Danny Brown, and Vince Staples, all dudes who could headline midsize spots on their own in Seattle, all playing the WaMu Theater on Wednesday, November 11. Should be a good time—there’s a gang of hits (well, YouTube hits) between them, and they’ll likely be competing for who’s the most energetic onstage. Eve
  
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• Get a Sneak Preview of Tyler Swan (from Truckasauras)'s Footwork Project, Radio in Tunnels

  11-11-2015 23:17 via thestranger.com
  
  Radio in Tunnels: Swan dives into footwork with outstanding results. Kelly O
  Truckasauras keyboardist/drummer Tyler Swan has a new footwork-oriented project called Radio in Tunnels, and he's just completed a seven-track self-titled record, recorded in the Truck home studio, Sauco. (This new LP was preceded by the 2014 Beat + Melody EP, which Todd Hamm reviewed here.) Radio in Tunnels is a rare excursion by an outsider into a dance-music genre that originated in Chicago and has been dominated by
  
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• The Top 7 Live Music Shows To See This Weekend

  11-11-2015 22:45 via thestranger.com
  
  'Mo-Wave returns this weekend.
  From 'Mo-Wave to Mombutt, here's a list of our critics' picks for music this weekend. For even more shows, check out our complete Things To Do calendar.FRIDAY
  Wimps/Stickers/Mombutt/Boyfriends
  "Hyper-speed meathead bop" act Wimps headline.
  'Mo-Wave Day 1
  'Mo-Wave kicks off with a blistering night of rap, rock, and hot, hot beats, with Cakes Da Killa and the Seth Bogart Show headlining.Micachu and the Shapes
  Kathy Fennessy says: "It’s catchy stuff teeming with
  
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• Friday marks 164 years since the Denny Party landed at Alki Point and founded Seattle

  11-11-2015 22:35
  
  The 22-member party, led by Arthur Denny, landed at Alki Point Nov. 13, 1851.
  
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• Fact Checking Last Night's Fox Debate: Who Lied Best?

  11-11-2015 22:28 via thestranger.com
  
  Marco Rubio said welders make more money than philosophers. Not true. Albert H. Teich / Shutterstock.com
  Once again, the country has been subjected to the weird reality show that for some reason we call a "debate," in which a panel of elderly improv comedians holler fabricated claims. Last night's was particularly important — not to America, but to the participants, because it was hosted by Fox News, the channel where they will probably be hired when they're done pretending to campaign for
  
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• ‘Our wages are too high,’ says Trump

  11-11-2015 22:26
  
  The lineup of Republican White House hopefuls agreed on an answer to the first question asked in Tuesday night’s debate: The United States should NOT raise the $7.25 federal minimum wage. Billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump went so far to say that “our wages are too high.” Dr. Ben Carson:  “Every time we raise the minimum wage, the number of jobless people increases.”. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) Conservative Fox host Neil Cavuto, taking note of minimu
  
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• Winter Cooking Classes at The Pantry Are On Sale Now

  11-11-2015 21:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Dan Fromhart
  Attention, food lovers: the winter cooking class schedule for The Pantry, the community kitchen in Ballard whose cooking classes generally sell out immediately, is now live on our Things To Do calendar, complete with recommendations from Angela Garbes.The winter schedule includes more than 40 classes between January 3 and March 30, on topics ranging from "The Classic American Doughnut Shop" to a homemade tofu workshop to a Japanese ramen-making class. You can find dates, prices, ti
  
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• Saving Uncle Jimmy: A Veterans Day Remembrance

  11-11-2015 20:42
  
  The bookends of Sen. John McCain’s volunteer-driven 2000 presidential campaign — a World War II veteran and a high school senior — greeted and seated a cold, frazzled Seattle reporter arriving late for a McCain town meeting in Lebanon, N.H. As I watched the event — McCain was beginning to take off in the Granite State’s primary — my Greatest Generation host conjured up a much-appreciated cup of cocoa. I went to thank the guy when the event ended, and he i
  
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• Is Pike Place Market Planning to Compost the Gum Wall? How Much Gum Is It, Anyway?

  11-11-2015 20:32 via thestranger.com
  
  Turns out the gum wall is full of garbage. Business cards, wrappers, cigarette butts, and unidentifiable pieces of plastic.Justin Huguet
  I've decided to take a break from defending our city's great monument to political transgression from thebrilliant barbs of my colleague to ask a basic question about this wad of resistance: how do they plan to dispose of the gum?I called up Emily Crawford, director of communications at Pike Place Market. She said they plan to throw the gum in the landfill."The
  
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• Venus’ twin? Earth-size planet is hot, may have atmosphere

  11-11-2015 20:07
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — There’s a new rocky Earth-size planet on our galactic block, and it’s a sizzler. Astrophysicists on Wednesday revealed the newfound world, GJ 1132b, named after the small nearby star that it orbits. Even though the mercury can hit 450 degrees at this planet, it’s cool enough to have a thick Venus-like […]
  
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• A twist for Paris climate talks: Al Gore the optimist

  11-11-2015 20:06
  
  NASHVILLE, Tennessee — After decades of raising alarms about global warming, former Vice President Al Gore is now raising hopes. As a top-level international climate summit starts later this month in Paris, Gore — who helped negotiate the 1997 climate treaty that didn’t control the problem — is sure this time will be different. “I’m […]
  
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• Missing Granite Falls man target of police search

  11-11-2015 19:59
  
  Snohomish County sheriff’s detectives and search and rescue crews are searching for a missing Granite Falls man.
  
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• Driver killed, passenger hurt when car strikes tree in Bothell

  11-11-2015 19:45
  
  A man was killed and a woman after a fatal crash in Bothell just before 9 a.m.
  
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• Driver killed, passenger hurt when car strikes tree

  11-11-2015 19:45
  
  A man was killed and a woman after a fatal crash in Bothell just before 9 a.m.
  
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• If You Are a Veteran, IHOP Will Give You a Free Stack of These Today

  11-11-2015 18:58 via thestranger.com
  
  I haven't been to IHOP in ages, but I definitely grew up in an IHOP family, and a military family—my dad, my brother, my other brother, my uncle, my other uncle, my great aunt, my grandpa, and my other grandpa were all in the military. So I'm putting this out there for all the military families: free pancakes at IHOP today. I think you have to accept all that red, white, and blue stuff on top.Happy Veterans Day.Here's the history of Veterans Day if you're not aware. If you're a veteran: T
  
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• In Food News: Culture Club, JarrBar, and General Porpoise Doughnuts Are Now Open, and More

  11-11-2015 18:51 via thestranger.com
  
  The grilled cheese sandwich with Taleggio and sherried mushrooms at Culture Club Cheese Bar.Culture Club
  Now Open
  Culture Club Cheese Bar
  From Sheri LaVigne, owner of Capitol Hill’s beloved cheese shop the Calf and Kid, comes Culture Club Cheese Bar (also on Capitol Hill), whose menu features assorted cheese boards as well as cheese flights paired with wine or beer. There’s also an indulgent, five-cheese mac ’n’ cheese and a grilled cheese sandwich oozing with mushrooms a
  
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• Scenes from Veterans Day 2015

  11-11-2015 18:17
  
  Crowds of people were up at dawn to place flags at Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park in North Seattle.
  
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• BEER HUNT: A Hop-Filled Scavenger Hunt to Score 2015 Winter Beer Fest Tickets!

  11-11-2015 18:06 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger & Washington Brewers' Guild invite you on a BEER HUNT!
  Be one of the first 30 participants to correctly follow CLUE #1 below and you'll receive CLUE #2. Follow all five of the brew-inspired clues to the end and you could win a pair of tickets to 2015 Winter Beer Fest! One lucky Grand Prize winner will also receive a pair of tickets to the 2016 Cask Festival.
  For a chance to appear in The Stranger's next beer spread, Beer Buzz, post a picture on social media of you and your frien
  
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• The Morning News: City Council Debates Broadband, Capitol Hill Landlord Suggests Priced Out Tenants Move to Shoreline

  11-11-2015 17:54 via thestranger.com
  
  It's 2015, and some local small businesses are in an "Internet Dead Zone." The city's response, under Mayor Ed Murray? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯asharkyu/Shutterstock
  Council Members Debate Municipal Broadband Pilot Project: "The Seattle City Council is debating behind closed doors this week over whether to move forward with a pilot program that would bring municipal broadband to part of the city’s North Beacon Hill neighborhood," GeekWire reports. If you'd like to counteract Mayor Ed Murr
  
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• Morning News: City Council Debates Broadband Behind Closed-Doors, Capitol Hill Landlord Gives No Fucks About Tenants

  11-11-2015 17:54 via thestranger.com
  
  It's 2015, and some local small businesses are in an "Internet Dead Zone." The city's response, under Mayor Ed Murray? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯asharkyu/Shutterstock
  Council Members Debate Municipal Broadband Pilot Project: "The Seattle City Council is debating behind closed doors this week over whether to move forward with a pilot program that would bring municipal broadband to part of the city’s North Beacon Hill neighborhood," GeekWire reports. If you'd like to counteract Mayor Ed Murr
  
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• Rising rents pushing out Portland’s young families, creative class

  11-11-2015 17:51
  
  Evictions and skyrocketing rents are putting Portland apartments out of reach of those working part-time, low-wage or artistic jobs. Portland’s vacancy rate — about 3 percent — is one of the lowest in the country.
  
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• Former U.S. Rep. Valentine of North Carolina dies at 89

  11-11-2015 17:30
  
  ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Tim Valentine of North Carolina has died at age 89. Sherry Peace with Wheeler and Woodlief Funeral Home in Rocky Mount said Valentine, of Nashville, died Tuesday. The Democrat served in the House from 1983 to 1995, representing what was then the 2nd Congressional District. It included […]
  
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• Drug might help breast-cancer patients avoid heart damage

  11-11-2015 17:18
  
  Many cancer treatments can damage the heart, but new research suggests this risk might be lowered in women with breast tumors if they take a heart drug as a preventive measure.
  
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• Grand jury indicts 106 bikers in Waco shootout with police

  11-11-2015 15:26
  
  WACO, Texas (AP) — A grand jury has returned indictments for engaging in organized criminal activity against 106 of the 177 bikers arrested following the deadly shootout outside a Waco, Texas, restaurant in May, the McLennan County district attorney said. In a nine-hour session, the grand jury acted on all 106 cases that it had […]
  
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• Hurricane Kate forms far out to sea in the Atlantic

  11-11-2015 15:24
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Kate has formed in the Atlantic far out to sea north of Bermuda, becoming the fourth hurricane of the Atlantic season. The hurricane’s maximum sustained winds early Wednesday are near 75 mph (120 kph). Kate is centered about 395 miles (635 kilometers) northeast of Bermuda and is moving northeast near 45 […]
  
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• Joanna Newsom's Divers Is a Great Record, Whether You Want to Diagram Sentences or Wallow in Sweet Melodies

  11-11-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Joanna Newsom’s Divers Is a Great Record, Whether You Want to Diagram Sentences or Wallow in Sweet Melodiesby Rich SmithJOANNA NEWSOMDivers (Drag City)
  The big subject governing Joanna Newsom's new album, Divers, is nonlinear time, which is one of those ideas that'll get you eye-rolled right out of the cafe. But Newsom enlivens Einstein's theory by grounding it in human relationships, breathes life into it with wild arrangements, and explores its edges with martial and avian metaphors. In
  
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• East Side Sushi Reveals a Truth About the Restaurant Industry

  11-11-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  East Side Sushi Reveals a Truth About the Restaurant IndustryRELATED FILM: East Side SushiRELATED CONTENT: The Search for General Tso: The Story Behind the Ubiquitous Dish| Deli Man Shows the Ghosts of the Holocaust in the Twilight of the Jewish American Delicatessenby Angela GarbesThe first 15 minutes of East Side Sushi are utterly transfixing. Juana, a single mother, wakes at 4 a.m. and cooks breakfast for her father. In the dark, she slides her still-sleeping daughter, Lydia, into a school un
  
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• Chris Walla’s Tape Loops Is a Risky, Rewarding Excursion into Ambient Hinterlands from Former Death Cabber

  11-11-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Chris Walla’s Tape Loops Is a Risky, Rewarding Excursion into Ambient Hinterlands from Former Death Cabberby Dave SegalCHRIS WALLATape Loops (Trans Records)
  Think of Tape Loops as a palate cleanser for Chris Walla, after departing Death Cab for Cutie last year. Since 1997, he's been a key figure in Northwest indie rock as a songwriter, producer, and guitarist. Now Walla has made a five-track instrumental album out of tape loops called... Tape Loops. What it reveals is a musician who soared
  
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• Authorities investigating string of arsons in Auburn

  11-11-2015 07:41
  
  Police are searching for the sources behind 11 residential fires since the beginning of October.
  
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• Parents, teachers fail to overhaul board of First Place charter

  11-11-2015 07:11
  
  A handful of parents and educators are frustrated with the board of directors for First Place Scholars, a charter school in Seattle’s Central District.
  
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• E. coli mystery unsolved, but Chipotle to reopen Wednesday

  11-11-2015 05:21
  
  As 43 shuttered Chipotle restaurants in Washington and Oregon prepared to reopen on Wednesday after an E. coli outbreak that has sickened about 49 people, health officials said they’re still unable to pinpoint the outbreak’s source.
  
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• JBLM troops leaving service get help with their next mission: jobs

  11-11-2015 05:06
  
  On-duty training at Joint Base Lewis-McChord is part of a push to improve employment prospects for servicemen and women headed for civilian life. Microsoft as well as Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz’s foundation are among those helping.
  
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• Mason County deputies search for fetus in yard near Shelton

  11-11-2015 05:02
  Investigators serving a search warrant at the home to determine cause of fetus’ death reportedly buried there.
  
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• A wreath-maker’s life built around baby’s breath

  11-11-2015 04:54
  
  A common roadside crop in North Central Washington serves as the basis for one thriving local business.
  
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• Eyman tax measure could be blessing in disguise for state

  11-11-2015 04:53
  
  The chattering classes are saying Tim Eyman’s Initiative 1366 puts the state in a no-win crisis. But it might just be the opportunity to finally do something about our lousy tax system — or strangely, about climate change.
  
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• I-90 lane closures to cause traffic problems this weekend

  11-11-2015 04:14
  
  I-90 lane closures to cause traffic problems this weekend
  
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• Burglars steal $75,000 worth of equipment from family business

  11-11-2015 04:01
  
  Burglars steal $75,000 worth of equipment from family business
  
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• Sex, Lies, and the Catholic Church in Spotlight

  11-11-2015 03:59 via thestranger.com
  
  Sex, Lies, and the Catholic Church in Spotlightby Kathy FennessyIt's one thing for a reporter to break a story few people know about. It's another thing entirely for a reporter—or a team of reporters—to tear the lid off a story everyone knows something about but whose true dimensions are too horrifying to imagine. Actor-turned-filmmaker Tom McCarthy's Spotlight, which re-creates the Boston Globe's 2002 Pulitzer Prize—winning exposure of the Catholic Church's sex-abuse scandal,
  
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• Literary brawl at Fox News: Bill O’Reilly and George Will go at it over Ronald Reagan’s life and legacy

  11-11-2015 03:42
  
  Turning out a book on Ronald Reagan’s presidency without talking to Ed Meese, James Baker and George Shultz — all of whom are still with us — is the equivalent of writing a history of Europe without mentioning the Reformation. Yet, Bill O’Reilly and co-author Martin Dugard have done just that with “Killing Reagan.” Bill O’Reilly:  “You’re a hack. Bye.”. Conservative columnist George F. Will has called out BillO for what he describe
  
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• Giant verdict follows repeat injuries from Holland America ships’ doors

  11-11-2015 03:06
  
  A huge punitive verdict against Holland America Line stems from multiple incidents where passengers have been struck — and some injured — by sliding-glass doors.
  
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• Giant verdict against Holland America followed repeat injuries from ships’ sliding doors

  11-11-2015 03:06
  
  A huge punitive verdict against Holland America Line stems from multiple incidents where passengers have been struck — and some injured — by sliding-glass doors.
  
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• Hey, Apparently There's Another Republican Debate Tonight

  11-11-2015 03:03 via thestranger.com
  
  I won this week's challenge, which means I get immunity. Christopher Halloran / Shutterstock.com
  Gee whiz, who knew? Apparently the Republicans are going at it yet again tonight, this time on the "Fox Business Channel," which is a thing that now we know exists. I'll be live-mocking the proceedings — go ahead and say hi on Twitter if you want to get my attention.
  6:05pm: There's a a quiz show buzzer when their responses go over time! It sounds like a child playing a xylophone.
  6:07pm: Trump
  
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• Man charged in string of West Seattle fires last month

  11-11-2015 02:31
  
  A 22-year-old West Seattle man was charged with arson, reckless burning and malicious mischief in connection with three of eight fires he is suspected of setting over three weeks last month.
  
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• Man confronted over doughnut theft lashes out with box cutter, police say

  11-11-2015 02:20
  
  He allegedly cut a Pioneer Square convenience store worker in the chest, arms and back after the clerk spotted him walking away without paying, according to Seattle police.
  
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• Man confronted over doughnut theft lashes out with box-cutter knife, police say

  11-11-2015 02:20
  
  He allegedly cut a Pioneer Square convenience store worker in the chest, arms and back after the clerk spotted him walking away without paying, according to Seattle police.
  
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• Three I-5 southbound lanes to shut for expansion-joint work

  11-11-2015 02:04
  
  Overnight expansion-joint repairs will close three lanes of I-5, starting late Tuesday, in Sodo.
  
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• Teen jailed in Lakewood crash that killed 10-year-old friend Monday

  11-11-2015 02:02
  
  Authorities are holding the suspect for investigation of vehicular homicide, vehicular assault and felony hit-and-run, according to a Lakewood police spokesman.
  
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• When Scientists and Poets Study Together, the World Gets Cooler

  11-11-2015 02:01 via thestranger.com
  
  What Can Scientists Learn from Poets? And What Can Poets Learn from Scientists? A Trip to San Juan Island to Find Outby Rich SmithAt 9 a.m. on a Saturday morning, I boarded the research vessel Centennial, along with a crew of poetry students, science students, established poets, and established scientists. We were on a two-part mission. Part 1: Find and bring back a poacher fish (aka alligator fish), alive. Part 2: Write down stuff that catches our ear and eye.The poacher is distinctive for its
  
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