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• Emerald City Soul Club Hails 10 Years of Northern Soul Parties, Plus 12 Definitive Soul Cuts to Help You Get Ready

  12-11-2015 23:40 via thestranger.com
  
  Emerald City Soul Club
  Emerald City Soul Club—the northern soul dance party that happens monthly at Lo-Fi—will mark 10 years of making sophisticates shake their asses to rare 45s cut during the '60s and early '70s with a weekend-long celebration. Any event lasting a decade deserves respect, and ECSC has maintained its monomaniacal ethos with expert curation from its seven DJs while consistently packing out the venue. I asked resident selector and Stranger staffer Mike Nipper to refl
  
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• The Top 8 Live Music Shows To See This Weekend

  12-11-2015 23:38 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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• Savage Love: Broadway, Babies

  12-11-2015 23:13 via thestranger.com
  
  JOE NEWTON
  I'm a hetero guy in need of advice. Back in college, I met this girl. Suffice it to say she was into me but I had some shit to work through. So we ended up being a missed connection, romantically. Despite that, we still became fast friends. I'm less awkward now, in large part because our friendship changed my life. We each married other people, and everything worked out great. Except I still love her. I think about her often, want to share things about my life with her, find myself w
  
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• New Songs/Videos from Missy Elliott, Emitt Rhodes, Pony Time, and Deep Sea Diver. Three Gems. One Bummer.

  12-11-2015 23:07 via thestranger.com
  
  Missy Elliott has been missed.
  Four totally unalike artists—including two of Seattle’s finest—unveiled new songs and vids today. Three of them are very good.
  Missy Elliott’s “WTF (Where They From)” featuring Pharrell Williams
  Like all Missy Elliott’s greatest work, “WTF (Where They From)” sounds simultaneously meticulous and instantaneous. It’s like every beat and every rest was meticulously handcrafted by a staff of 24-hour-a-day rhyth
  
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• Little David Vitter Would Like to Be Governor of Louisiana, Pwease

  12-11-2015 23:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Louisiana's Somehow-Senator David Vitter would probably rather that you remember him as the guy who blocked immigration reform, promoted abstinence education, and tried to defund Planned Parenthood, and not as the guy who enjoyed the company of sex workers. And he definitely doesn't want you to remember the rumors (unconfirmed!) connecting him to diaper fetishism.Now, there's nothing wrong with a little sex work, age play, and wetting — some of you are probably wearing Goodnites right now
  
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• Police: Intoxicated Edmonds pharmacist might’ve filled prescriptions

  12-11-2015 22:58
  
  Edmonds Pharmacy customers are urged to double check their prescriptions after police arrested a pharmacist there who investigators say appeared to be intoxicated.
  
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• Models to Feel Bad For

  12-11-2015 22:53 via thestranger.com
  
  Feel bad for the male model in this shitty ad......who Macy's made to look like the worst kind of "best friend," i.e. the creepy, eggnog-spiking, date-raping kind. And feel bad the female model in this shitty ad...
  ...who Fifi would have us believe is less desirable—somehow—than a repurposed tennis ball can.
  Macy's has apologized, the assholes at Fifi—so far as I can tell—haven't apologized. Go yell at them.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this stor
  
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• KUOW Plans to Purchase KPLU and Make It an All Jazz Station. What Happens to Their Reporters?

  12-11-2015 22:49 via thestranger.com
  
  In Seattle, 94.9 FM KUOW is about to swallow 88.5 FM KPLU. What does that mean for KPLU's journalists? sashi/Shutterstock
  There were once two dueling newspapers in Seattle. But in 2009, the left-leaning Seattle Post-Intelligencer shut down, leaving us with the Seattle Times, which employs some excellent journalists but is owned and published by old, conservative farts.Still, we had two National Public Radio (NPR) affiliates in town—88.5 KPLU and 94.9 KUOW—each with their own team of
  
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• Saying "It's Pouring Now," Advocates Ask Mayor to Divert $2 Million Away from Rainy Day Fund to Fight Homelessness

  12-11-2015 22:41 via thestranger.com
  
  This year's one-night count found 3,772 people sleeping outside in King County. Ansel Herz
  Earlier this month, Mayor Ed Murray announced a civil state of emergency due to homelessness. It was an unusual move that's normally reserved for natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and riots.
  "People have been murdered," Murray said when he made the announcement. "People have been raped. People have fallen to their death on the freeway."
  In conjunction with the strong words, Murray found $5.3 million, t
  
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• Did Kshama Sawant Wear a Superhero Cape on Election Night?

  12-11-2015 22:17 via thestranger.com
  
  It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Kshama Sawant! Charles Mudede
  On election night, after it was announced that Kshama Sawant (a socialist) had taken a clear lead (52.56 percent to 47.12 percent) in her race against Pamela Banks (a standard-issue Democrat) and was certainly on her way to another seat on the city council, she took to the stage and made a speech. As she thanked her supporters, listed her goals, and endorsed Bernie Sanders, one could not help but notice that the long yellow scarf sh
  
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• University of Washington will buy KPLU-FM, pull the plug on its news operation

  12-11-2015 21:56
  
  Pacific Lutheran University announced Thursday that it will sell its broadcasting licenses to the University of Washington, in a plan that will turn the current KPLU at 88.5 FM into an all-music, all-jazz station while KUOW at 94.9 FM becomes the Seattle outlet for National Public Radio and Northwest news. “Pending FCC approval of the license transfer, 88.5 will assume a new call signal and name that reflects the jazz programming: The new call signal is still to be determined,” said
  
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• Attention, Capitol Hill Property Manager: It Took 45 Minutes to Get from Shoreline to Downtown on the Bus This Morning

  12-11-2015 21:42 via thestranger.com
  
  The mayor and Council Member Mike O'Brien often say that anyone who works in Seattle should able to live in Seattle. A manager for a Capitol Hill landlord disagrees. Can't deal with the housing costs? Just leave, she suggested, and ride a supposedly fast bus into downtown each day. City of Seattle
  A property manager for a local landlord tapped into a rich vein of anger this week when she suggested tenants who could no longer afford the rent on Capitol Hill—specifically in the Celeste, a bu
  
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• Betsy Drake, actress-wife of Cary Grant, dies aged 92

  12-11-2015 21:27
  LONDON (AP) — Betsy Drake, an actress who was also the third of Cary Grant’s five wives and a survivor of the sinking of the ocean liner Andrea Doria, has died. She was 92. Perry Howze, a cousin of Drake’s, confirmed Thursday that Drake died in London on Oct. 27. Drake made a well-received film […]
  
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• Supreme Court: Legality of Eyman anti-tax initiative unclear

  12-11-2015 21:20
  
  The state Supreme Court says the legality of Tim Eyman’s latest tax initiative, approved by voters last week, is unclear, and the case can be argued before a lower court judge.
  
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• Ben Carson has a painting of himself with Jesus

  12-11-2015 21:10
  
  As other candidates for president scramble for worldly endorsements — ex-Sen. Bob Dole just endorsed Jeb Bush — Ben Carson seems to be latching onto the biggest name of all: God. The Carson watch has brought news that the retired neurosurgeon’s Maryland mansion features a painting that shows Jesus with his arm around Carson, clad in his surgeon’s coat. The figure of Carson is considerably larger than Jesus. #BenCarson Commissioned a portrait of Himself & Jesus It
  
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• Police say recent Auburn fires are suspicious

  12-11-2015 21:07
  
  Arson is suspected in a recent string of fires in Auburn that have caused significant damage.
  
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• Your Guide to Capitol Hill Art Walk

  12-11-2015 21:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The monthly Capitol Hill Art Walk—your chance to check out dozens of new art openings all at one time and take in a happy hour or two—is happening tonight. And now, on our Things To Do calendar, you can see a complete list of all of these events and openings (plus recommendations) so you can make the most of your free evening out on the Hill.
  
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• Jonathan Lethem on Whether White Men Should Stop Writing

  12-11-2015 20:46 via thestranger.com
  
  Jonathan Lethem makes an appearance tomorrow night at Hugo House in conversation with David Shields.Jonn Herschend
  Point of order: Is it “Lee-them” or “Leh-them” Or “Lay-them?”
  “Lee-thum”—like “Lethal." Constant issue (not that it matters).
  How are you doing? Still teaching at Pomona?
  Yes, they've golden handcuffs here—tenure, I mean. Living the dream. I'm a suburban dad in paradise, reliant on discontent from remote factions in m
  
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• Seahawks Nutcrackers For Sale

  12-11-2015 20:20 via thestranger.com
  
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• Olympic National Park areas closing for storm watch

  12-11-2015 20:13
  
  Hurricane Ridge closed Thursday; other areas to include Hoh, Quinault, Elwha, Mora, Sol Duc
  
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• Virginia Mason affiliates with Yakima hospital

  12-11-2015 20:06
  
  The hospital merger, to take effect next year, is Virginia Mason’s largest, and strengthens the hospital’s foothold in Central Washington.
  
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• Here's Your Chance to Tell Regulators How You Feel About Medical Marijuana

  12-11-2015 19:54 via thestranger.com
  
  The WSLCB's next public hearing on changes to the medical marijuana market will be held on Monday inside City Hall. Matthew Benoit/Shutterstock
  If there’s one thing we love doing in Seattle, it’s complaining. Which could explain why nothing seems to get done around here without multiple public hearings and lengthy comment periods. If there was a public hearing on the subject, we would probably all go and complain about the overabundance of public hearings. As much fun as that would b
  
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• Olympic National Park closes attractions at storm approaches

  12-11-2015 19:48
  
  The legendary rain forests of Olympic National Park were suffering a severe drought when fall began, and rains were just damping down a long lasting fire in the Queets River Valley.  The park was banning fires in the backcountry and had closed low-flowing rivers to fishing. Forks, wettest city in the “lower 48″, had declared a water emergency: No refilling of hot tubs and swimming pools, severe restrictions on hosing down logging trucks. Point of Arches in Olympic National
  
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• Olympic National Park closes attractions as storm approaches

  12-11-2015 19:48
  
  The legendary rain forests of Olympic National Park were suffering a severe drought when fall began, and rains were just damping down a long lasting fire in the Queets River Valley.  The park was banning fires in the backcountry and had closed low-flowing rivers to fishing. Forks, wettest city in the “lower 48″, had declared a water emergency: No refilling of hot tubs and swimming pools, severe restrictions on hosing down logging trucks. Point of Arches in Olympic National
  
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• Indiegogo for Nasty Gal: The Many Lives of Funk Queen Betty Davis Film Enters Last Day

  12-11-2015 19:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Funk icon Betty Davis: Her flamboyant and enigmatic life deserves the cinematic treatment. Light in the Attic
  The Indiegogo campaign for the documentary film Nasty Gal: The Many Lives of Funk Queen Betty Davis is down to its last day, and it's only accrued about half of its $65,000 goal. You can contribute here, if you have a mind to. Betty Davis is a truly worthy figure for such a cinematic treatment. She conceived at least two classic funk albums in the '70s—Betty Davis and They Say I'm
  
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• Mormon Church Nostalgic for Days When Homophobia Just Hurt Homos

  12-11-2015 19:43 via thestranger.com
  
  Remember how the Mormon church announced last week that it would refuse to baptize kids with gay parents? It's not going over well:
  Advocates for LGBT Mormons say they’re seeing an unprecedented uproar in the past week about a new church policy banning the baptism of same-sex couples’ children and declaring married gay couples apostates. Some longtime advocates say they know dozens of Mormons quitting over the new policy. A public group resignation is planned for Saturday and reports
  
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• I'm Eating a General Porpoise Doughnut, in Case Anyone's Wondering Why I Have Sugar All Over My Face

  12-11-2015 19:30 via thestranger.com
  
  The case at General Porpoise as of a few minutes ago. Christopher Frizzelle
  Eli has been salivating over the photos of General Porpoise doughnuts, which are within our two-block radius, and yesterday afternoon he and Angela and I went by to get some and they were sold out, so this morning, getting some was my top priority.They were out of vanilla custard, and I was too scared to get peanut butter and grape jelly, and chocolate and marshmallow sounded heavy, like I would need to take a nap right
  
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• Suspect in slaying of Granite Falls man may be in California

  12-11-2015 19:27
  
  The Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a 49-year-old man they say killed a Granite Falls man and burned his body.
  
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• Woman gets up from bed just before car barrels into room

  12-11-2015 18:59
  
  Portland police arrested a motorist whose vehicle crashed through a woman’s bedroom wall Thursday. The woman was not injured.
  
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• South African farmers face losses as drought worsens

  12-11-2015 18:31
  GROOT MARICO, South Africa (AP) — “Is that a rain cloud, or am I imagining things?” asks Jana du Plessis, speaking Afrikaans. “I’d be thrilled if it is,” says her husband, Riaan du Plessis, with a joyless laugh. The flimsy white clouds drifting above this South African farm are not enough to bring relief, or […]
  
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• Black administrator named Missouri System’s interim head

  12-11-2015 18:30
  COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The University of Missouri’s governing board on Thursday appointed one of its first black law school graduates to be the university system’s interim president, and he vowed to address the frustrations behind student-led protests that helped force his predecessor from office. Michael Middleton, 68, cited his 30 years at the university, […]
  
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• Parking problems? Pay tickets in canned food instead of cash

  12-11-2015 17:58
  
  LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Parking tickets can be paid with donations of canned food instead of cash during a monthlong “Food for Fines” program in Lexington, Kentucky. The city’s parking authority will accept cans for citations from Nov. 16 to Dec. 18, The Lexington Herald-Leader reported (http://bit.ly/1HCs4T8). Those who donate 10 canned food items will […]
  
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• HUD seeks smoking ban in public housing

  12-11-2015 17:56
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Smoking could soon be banned in the nation’s public housing. The Department of Housing and Urban Development proposed a rule Thursday to require the more than 3,100 public housing agencies across the country to make their properties smoke-free. “We have a responsibility to protect public housing residents from the harmful effects of […]
  
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• The Morning News: Drone Hits Great Wheel, New Interest in KeyArena, and Old Seattle Times Building Smoldering

  12-11-2015 17:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle's Great Wheel: struck by a drone. Denise Lett / Shutterstock.com
  Drone Hits the Great Wheel: "A flying drone hit the giant Ferris wheel near downtown Seattle’s waterfront Wednesday, crashing into a nearby pier and prompting a police response, according to Seattle police," Jessica Lee reports. "Seattle Great Wheel security workers reported the strike to police around 4:45 p.m., police spokesman Mark Jamieson said. When officers arrived to the observation deck, they looked for possib
  
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• The Morning News: Drone Hits Great Wheel, New Interest In Key Arena, and Old Seattle Times Building Smoldering

  12-11-2015 17:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle's Great Wheel: struck by a drone. Denise Lett / Shutterstock.com
  Drone Hits the Great Wheel: "A flying drone hit the giant Ferris wheel near downtown Seattle’s waterfront Wednesday, crashing into a nearby pier and prompting a police response, according to Seattle police," Jessica Lee reports. "Seattle Great Wheel security workers reported the strike to police around 4:45 p.m., police spokesman Mark Jamieson said. When officers arrived to the observation deck, they looked for possib
  
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• Fire smolders at old Seattle Times building

  12-11-2015 16:22
  Firefighters were able to quickly put out a blaze at the old Seattle Times building in South Lake Union. No one was injured.
  
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• Kremlin-controlled TV airs ‘secret’ plans for nuclear weapon

  12-11-2015 16:07
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said plans for a new submarine-launched nuclear torpedo shown on Kremlin-controlled television were secret and should never have been aired. NTV and Channel One showed a large document — filmed over a military officer’s shoulder during a meeting with Putin — with drawings and details of a weapons […]
  
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• I-90 could be slow play for Seahawks fans bound for game

  12-11-2015 16:01
  
  Fans will be heading to the Seahawks game on Sunday before lane-blocking roadwork near the I-5/I-90 junction is done. Expect delays.
  
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• Driver flees scene of fatal crash in Bellevue

  12-11-2015 15:34
  
  Bellevue police are looking for the owner of a Lexus that crashed into a utility box in Newport Hills, killing a passenger in the car. The driver fled the scene, police say.
  
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• NYC promises crackdown on dangerous driving

  12-11-2015 15:26
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The NYPD is devoting more officers to traffic enforcement following a string of pedestrians killed by cars. New York City officials say hundreds of officers and traffic enforcement agents will be part of the crackdown on dangerous driving through Nov. 22. Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office said Wednesday that the police […]
  
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• Fear not: You’ll get your Thanksgiving turkey, pumpkin pie

  12-11-2015 15:21
  
  Thanksgiving groceries likely won't cost Americans much more than last year, and nobody should have to miss gobbling down their favorite holiday foods.
  
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• Obesity still rising among U.S. adults, women overtake men

  12-11-2015 15:12
  
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report that the obesity rate has climbed to nearly 38 percent of adults, up from 32 percent about a decade earlier.
  
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• Guest Editorial: We Must Do More to Change Racist Geographic Place Names in Our National Parks

  12-11-2015 15:09 via thestranger.com
  
  The writer, a Washington State Legislator from Seattle, was part of the struggle to change the name of "Coon Lake" and "Coon Creek" in this state's North Cascades National Park. The National Parks Service is expected to recommend just such a change today. Pictured above, a view of North Cascades National Park. Victoria Ditkovsky/Shutterstock
  Washington state’s North Cascades National Park is world-famous for its glaciers—over 300 of them—and its unparalleled, diverse array of p
  
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• Missouri protests embolden student leaders on other campuses

  12-11-2015 15:06
  BOSTON — In the ouster of the University of Missouri’s president, leaders of student groups on other campuses dealing with racial strife see an opening to press their own university administrators for better treatment of black students. At schools including Michigan and Yale, students say the protests that led to the resignation of Missouri President […]
  
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• Computer games can make kids smarter, author says in new book

  12-11-2015 15:00
  
  In a new book, an education writer argues that computer games can bring learning gains in the classroom.
  
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• China’s gray smog has a blue lining: Air improves this year

  12-11-2015 06:59
  
  BEIJING (AP) — Lawyer Wu Congsi has asthma and keeps air purifiers whirring away in his office, home and car to counter Beijing’s hazardous smog. He prefers to stay inside unless the sky is blue. But this year, he’s been able to regularly walk the 15 minutes or so to work. That’s because of some […]
  
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• Jack Yufe, half of famous twin duo raised apart, dies

  12-11-2015 06:06
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — If “The story of Jack and Oskar” was pitched as the script for a Hollywood movie, it’s a good bet no one would believe it. Separated sixth months after birth in 1933, Jack Yufe was raised as a Jew in his native Trinidad while his identical twin, Oskar Stohr, grew up […]
  
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• High winds Thursday, then heavy rain through Saturday

  12-11-2015 05:56
  
  The National Weather Service issued a flood watch and wind advisory Wednesday for portions of Western Washington.
  
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