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• Space Needle could get largest update since its construction

  13-11-2015 23:44
  
  Space Needle officials are asking for permission to undertake the largest renovation in the landmark's history.
  
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• Redmond father who injected son with drugs gets 20 years

  13-11-2015 23:12
  
  A father who tried to kill his 4-year-old son by injecting him with a potentially lethal dose of heroin and other drugs was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Friday.
  
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• Seattle may send some inmates north to Snohomish County Jail

  13-11-2015 23:00
  
  Seattle Mayor Ed Murray is asking the City Council for authorization to sign an agreement with Snohomish County for jail services.
  
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• Redmond pops up at end of Highway 520

  13-11-2015 23:00
  
  Parks and trails border the Redmond city center to the south, and Marymoor Park just beyond that hosts outdoor concerts with big-name performers in the summer.
  
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• Terrorists Attack in Paris

  13-11-2015 22:58 via thestranger.com
  
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  Shootings in central Paris on Friday night have left several people dead and wounded, French television reported, while an explosion near Paris at the country’s main sports stadium forced the hasty evacuation of President François Hollande. The explosion occurred during a France-Germany soccer match. The shooting broke out at a concert hall. Some reports said as many as 18 had been killed in the 10th and 11th Arrondissements of Paris. Others said hostages had been taken. It was
  
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• Caryn Mathes, President and General Manager of KUOW, Talks About Her Plans for KPLU

  13-11-2015 22:53 via thestranger.com
  
  "We are not going to screw this up," KUOW president and General Manager Caryn Mathes says of the station's purchase of KPLU. "We are going to do something that's just fabulous for the community." KUOW
  Seattle's KUOW revealed on Thursday that it plans to purchase rival NPR affiliate KPLU and turn it into an all-jazz station. Staffers at KPLU are in shock. Earlier today, I spoke to KUOW president and general manager Caryn Mathes about the deal.
  First off, what’s your message for people who r
  
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• Listeners React to the Sale of KPLU

  13-11-2015 22:52 via thestranger.com
  
  "I listen to KPLU because the reporting is much more relevant to me than KUOW, especially local politics," says a Burien-based listener. Eugenio Marongiu/Shutterstock
  In the last day alone, we've received 33 emails from people around Puget Sound, from Everett to Olympia, reacting to KUOW's planned acquisition of KPLU. Here's some of what they said:
  I rely on KPLU for news. Driving from Auburn to Enumclaw, it was the only one of the two NPR stations that stayed consistently tune-in-able throughou
  
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• Cruel Republicans Think Mitt Romney Deserves to Endure Another Presidential Race

  13-11-2015 22:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Mitt Romney 2016: "Please for the love of God just leave me alone." Andrew Cline / Shutterstock.com
  Okay, so it's come to this: the Republican candidates for president are so dreadful that party bigwigs are formulating a plan to make Mitt Romney run again. Yes, really.
  Mitt, also known as "the guy who lost four years ago," appears to be the party's last-ditch hope at chasing away the truly insane followers of Trump and Carson. Those crowds are fervent enough to force their candidate onto the tic
  
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• Last-Minute Plans: 22 Free (And Almost Free) Things To Do This Weekend

  13-11-2015 22:48 via thestranger.com
  
  Cherdonna will perform for free tonight at The Frye. Kelly O
  You no longer have any excuse to stay home and watch Netflix this weekend. From the Georgetown Art Attack (#10) to a concert from Stranger Genius winners The Intelligence (#21), there are lots of great things to do this weekend that won't cost you any money—plus a couple of extra $10-and-under things we couldn't resist adding (like #9: free beer, anyone?) For even more events, check out our complete Things To Do calendar.
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• Free-Bleedin' at Taco Bell: Kill Rock Stars Albums from Ian Karmel and Emily Heller Are Here!

  13-11-2015 22:38 via thestranger.com
  
  At last! Kill Rock Stars is releasing new comedy albums from (Portland Mercury columnist) Ian Karmel and Emily Heller today! Karmel's 9.2 on Pitchfork was recorded at Mississippi Studios in Portland. You can sample it here. It's full of classic Karmel: heroic Taco Bell quests bringing out one's inner asshole, smug parents being smug, and the hiring committee for affectionate nicknames. If you've somehow snoozed on Ian Karmel, that's weird because the Mercury publishes him every fucking week, bu
  
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• King County Continues to Embarrass the City of Seattle on Paid Parental Leave

  13-11-2015 22:27 via thestranger.com
  
  You can thank King County Council Member Rod Dembowski (seen here with city council member Jean Godden) for getting county employees 12 weeks of paid parental leave. King County
  Remember earlier this year when the City of Seattle gave its employees four weeks of paid parental leave and King County responded with, "Good job, mayor, but wouldn't 12 weeks be better?"
  In February, the King County Council asked the county executive for legislation that would actually give county employees 12 weeks of
  
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• Nordstrom surrenders sweater in ‘war on Hanukkah’

  13-11-2015 22:25
  
  Nordstrom is pulling a Hanukkah-themed sweater from its ugly holiday sweater lineup after it set off a flood of hostile tweets and Facebook page controversies. The taking-offense phase of the 2015 holiday season is off to an early start, with Fox News using Starbucks coffee cups to launch its annual “war on Christmas” broadsides, Target stirring up a tweet storm with its “Obsessive Christmas Disorder” Christmas sweater and Nordstrom marketing a joke that didn’t work
  
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• This Weekend: Don't Miss The 'Mo-Wave

  13-11-2015 22:05 via thestranger.com
  
  There’s an excellent quote by iconoclast-eccentric Genesis P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle/Psychic TV) on the homepage of the 2015 ’Mo-Wave website: “When there is no example, imagine it, when there is no word for it, invent one.” The word “’mo-wave” was invented three years ago—a mashup of words “homo” and “wave”—to give identity to a new Seattle-based queer music and arts festival. Now in it’s third year, ’M
  
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• Japanese Curator Says Being Denied a Visa Is Anti-Art

  13-11-2015 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  What is socially engaged art for in Japan? This installation, Liminal Air Space-Time by Shinji Ohmaki, was created in an abandoned building as part of Fram Kitagawa's Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale earlier this year. Courtesy of the artistFram Kitagawa, the Japanese curator who was denied a visa to travel to the United States this week, delivered a video address instead last night to kick off UW's conference on Socially Engaged Art in Japan.
  In the message, Kitagawa said he has been arrested four
  
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• Tom Douglas Considers Changes to Tipping and Minimum Wage Policies

  13-11-2015 21:48 via thestranger.com
  
  Tom Douglas employs more than 1,000 people at his 12 restaurants. Robin Layton
  Yesterday, a Slog tipper told us that Tom Douglas is holding a meeting with his 1,000-plus employees this afternoon to discuss how his company will handle paying staff the new minimum wage, which may include possible changes to its tipping policy.Pamela Hinckley, CEO/CVO of Tom Douglas Restaurants, confirmed the meeting via email. “We are having an employee meeting today. The purpose is to hear their concerns,&r
  
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• Can you tell how Mr. Wrap really feels about this taxing topic?

  13-11-2015 21:40
  Some people mistook last week’s musings about Initiative 1366 as a defense of the current tax system. Not quite.
  
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• 20th Century Fox pays for Barefoot Bandit’s crimes

  13-11-2015 21:38
  
  Crime may not pay, but stardom has paid off for Colton Harris-Moore, the high-flying Washington burglar better known as the "Barefoot Bandit."
  
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• Gov. Inslee has raised $2.9 million but pleads that challenger Bill Bryant is getting a ‘head start’

  13-11-2015 21:16
  
  Gov. Jay Inslee is Washington’s master at wolfing down campaign donations while warning that the wolf is at the door. The governor, who has raised $2.9 million for his 2016 campaign at events from coast to coast, is beseeching donors to pony up before a fundraising freeze, tied to the Legislature’s being in session, takes effects. Gov. Jay Inslee and wife Trudi:  The Governor is a tireless and shameless fundraiser. “During the three months of the freeze, I am allowed to ra
  
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• If You Missed My Interview with Sarah Vowell at the Neptune, You Can Listen to It Here on KUOW

  13-11-2015 21:14 via thestranger.com
  
  I can't stop thinking about those shoeless soldiers at Valley Forge in the snow. Bennett Miller
  I wrote about her book Lafayette in the Somewhat United States here, but if you don't like to read, you can always just listen to Sarah Vowell talking about it instead.Discussed: George Washington, Marie Antoinette, the Revolutionary War, the French, L. Ron Hubbard, gunpowder, Colonial Williamsburg, Herman Melville, the American tendency toward disunion, Congress, the silent-reading party, Quakers, jo
  
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• Why the Mayor Is Against Using Rainy Day Funds to Fight Homelessness

  13-11-2015 21:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Mayor Ed Murray is clashing with some advocates and city council members about where to find money to fight homelessness. City of Seattle
  Yesterday was not a good day for Mayor Ed Murray.
  After winning tons of press with his announcement last week that he was declaring a civil state of emergency on homelessness, the mayor found himself getting slammed by advocates and city council members for not doing enough. (To recap: The mayor is proposing to spend $5.3 million in emergency funding on homele
  
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• Ride’s Mark Gardener Talks About the Classic Shoegaze LP Nowhere on Its 25th Anniversary

  13-11-2015 20:55 via thestranger.com
  
  Ride - "We’re more men now, and not stoned boys."
  Twenty-five years ago, Ride’s album Nowhere surged out of Oxford, England and into the '90s with a mammoth, definitive “shoegaze” sound. Listening to the elongated stretches of driving, convex rock music, you could see the curve of the earth from a porthole if you were high enough. In the shoegaze-rock canon, Nowhere may be the Holy Grail. On November 6, Ride released a 25th anniversary CD+DVD+LP called Nowhere25, featurin
  
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• Police Reports Illustrated: Eighteen-Year-Old Takes Out the Garbage (Truck)

  13-11-2015 20:52 via thestranger.com
  
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• The Painful Fallout of the Mormon Church's Latest Attack on Gays and Lesbians

  13-11-2015 20:37 via thestranger.com
  
  Hello Dan. I heard your Lovecast this week and I heard you mention briefly the LDS church's bigoted new policy about children of same-sex couples.
  I am gay and was raised Mormon. I was outed at 22 by the bishop of my church and when I got home that evening my bags were on the front porch. I had just graduated college. The bishop had advised my parents that it would be best, because I had three younger siblings, to get me out of the house for their safety. I can't even begin to describe how sick
  
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• 14-year-old boy charged in wreck that killed 10-year-old

  13-11-2015 20:37
  
  A 14-year-old Lakewood boy has pleaded not guilty to charges of vehicular homicide, vehicular assault and hit-and-run in connection with a crash that killed a 10-year-old passenger.
  
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• Weed Lube Is Not Lube, but It Apparently Works Magic on Vaginas

  13-11-2015 20:12 via thestranger.com
  
  Sensual cannabis oil magnifies sensitivity and sensation.BOTANICASEATTLE
  People are freaking out over weed lube. Rightly so, I guess, because it's apparently magical. But while weed lube is lubricating, it isn't lube, per se. As in, its main use is not to facilitate intercourse.
  Lena Davidson, the marketing manager for botanicaSEATTLE—the company behind BOND Sensual Oil—told me that what most people would call weed lube is really more of a massage oil. Like other cannabis topicals an
  
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• 11 Movies You Should See This Weekend

  13-11-2015 19:44 via thestranger.com
  
  Akira Kurosawa's 1952 masterpiece Ikiru is playing for free on Sunday.
  Surprise: it's going to rain this weekend. Hide from the monocloud while you're inside a movie theater, watching one of these films recommended by our critics. Plus, find complete listings for movie times on our Things To Do calendar.
  1. East Side Sushi
  “Ostensibly, East Side Sushi is about a journey from being a skilled home cook to an assistant cook at a Japanese restaurant. The main character wants to become a sushi
  
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• Viaduct sinks a bit more in latest inspection

  13-11-2015 19:30
  
  The continued settlement isn’t severe enough to require that the Alaskan Way Viaduct be closed to traffic or have an emergency repair, the state says.
  
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• The Gum Wall Always Reminds Me of a Painful Thing I Did to My Mother Many Years Ago

  13-11-2015 19:19 via thestranger.com
  
  A ghostly, foul-smelling mist appeared during the removal of the gum wall this week.Charles Mudede
  For me, the gum wall has a racial dimension, a cultural dimension, and a deeply personal dimension—the subject of this post. Whenever I pass that horrible tourist attraction, most which is gone (though the smell of the removal project dominates the alley's air like a ghost), I recall an incident from my childhood that haunts me to this day.It happened like this: During the dry season of 1982,
  
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• Person of Interest: Aeon Fux, Musician

  13-11-2015 19:07 via thestranger.com
  
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• Calif. boats sit idle as algae threatens Dungeness crab season

  13-11-2015 18:42
  
  Officials in Oregon and Washington are testing crab samples and will decide soon whether to open their coastal season by Dec. 1 as planned.
  
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• The Morning News: Mizzou Solidarity Protest at UW, the Loss of KPLU, and Record-Low Voter Turnout

  13-11-2015 17:52 via thestranger.com
  
  About 300 people marched at UW yesterday in solidarity with protesters in Missouri.Alex Garland
  University of Washington Students Marched in Solidarity with Black Students at the University of Missouri: The protest began at Red Square and moved throughout campus. Then, Alex Garland reports, marchers "moved to Suzzallo Library and the Reading Room chanting 'Same story every time, being black is not a crime' and 'Black Lives Matter.' Activists then marched across a wet Red Square to Odegaard Under
  
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• Mercer Island, state’s priciest home market, doesn’t make U.S. top 20

  13-11-2015 16:00
  
  Despite its million-dollar average for a four-bedroom, two-bathroom home , Mercer Island is only No. 23. Centralia is the most afforable city for such a house.
  
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• Education Lab readers: What we’ve learned from you so far

  13-11-2015 16:00
  
  If you haven't filled out our survey yet, you still have a couple more days to give us feedback.
  
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• Rivers rise, drivers despair as rain pummels the Northwest

  13-11-2015 15:40
  
  A fall storm brings heavy congestion on local highways, flooding on the Olympic Peninsula and gusty winds in Seattle.
  
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• Police: Woman, 2 sons attack trooper in store bathroom

  13-11-2015 15:38
  
  MOUNT AIRY, Md. (AP) — Maryland State Police have charged a woman and her two sons with assaulting a trooper in a department store bathroom following a road rage encounter. Authorities say Trooper Johnathan Horner was investigating a road rage incident when 42-year-old Traci Conners attacked a bystander recording the encounter. Police say when Horner […]
  
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• AP Exclusive: Colorado disputes key part of EPA mine report

  13-11-2015 15:35
  
  DENVER (AP) — Colorado officials say they didn’t endorse an Environmental Protection Agency cleanup operation that caused a massive spill of toxic wastewater from an inactive mine, disputing a key claim by federal agencies that state experts signed off on the plan. State officials neither approved nor disapproved of the operation, according to a Sept. […]
  
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• Alaska troopers: Woman raped over 5 weeks at rural cabin

  13-11-2015 15:20
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A woman told police an abductor raped her up to six times a day while she was held captive over a five-week period in rural Alaska, with the last attack committed as she heard a military evacuation helicopter landing near the man’s remote cabin to take her to a hospital. The […]
  
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• Funeral set for Saturday for 11-year-old found in freezer

  13-11-2015 15:13
  
  BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — Funeral services for an 11-year-old girl whose body was found in a relative’s freezer have been scheduled. The Bradenton Herald (http://bit.ly/1NLDhSp) reports that Janiya Thomas’ funeral will be Saturday. An obituary lists Oct. 18 as the day Janiya died. It’s the same day her body was found in a padlocked freezer […]
  
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• Day 3 of testimony for man in Facebook photo killing of wife

  13-11-2015 15:13
  
  MIAMI (AP) — A third day of testimony is set for a Florida man who claims he shot his wife in self-defense before posting a photo of her body on Facebook. The testimony Friday in the trial of 33-year-old Derek Medina is likely to focus on forensic evidence and police crime scene experts. Medina faces […]
  
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• via thestranger.com
  
  Episode 29 of our Stranger week-in-review podcast. (Now available on iTunes.)
  This week’s show begins with a brief check-in with Lisa Herbold, one of two candidates in a very tight Seattle City Council race that’s still undecided ten days after the election. Herbold has been trailing close behind opponent Shannon Braddock (who couldn’t come on the show) and on Thursday morning, when we recorded this episode, Herbold was only six votes behind Braddock. Today she's 18 votes behin
  

• House fire critically injures woman in Seattle’s Squire Park

  13-11-2015 07:00
  
  Medics took the woman to the hospital around 9:14 p.m., according to the Seattle Fire Department.
  
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• Why the Mayor didn't respond to an offer to renovate Key Arena for NBA Basketball

  13-11-2015 04:50
  
  Why the Mayor didn't respond to an offer to renovate Key Arena for NBA Basketball
  
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• Man accused of fatally shooting woman in Auburn home

  13-11-2015 04:46
  
  Police arrested a 30-year-old man Wednesday in connection with the death of a young woman found dead on the side of a road in Kent Tuesday, according to court documents.
  
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• Seattle Police begin crackdown on blocking intersections

  13-11-2015 04:39
  
  Seattle Police begin crackdown on blocking intersections
  
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• Police investigate whether kids took turns driving in Lakewood crash

  13-11-2015 04:26
  
  Police investigate whether kids took turns driving in Lakewood crash
  
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• NW rail terminals could aid oil-sand producers, study says

  13-11-2015 04:23
  
  Proposed rail terminals in Vancouver, B.C., and other Northwest ports could be a boon to Canadian oil-sand producers seeking to get their product to U.S. and international markets, a new report by the Sightline Institute says.
  
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• Righting an historic wrong: Coon Lake is officially changed to Howard Lake

  13-11-2015 04:02
  
  Sen. Patty Murray: “This name change is a small but important step toward correcting an historical wrong in our state.” The U.S. Board of Geographic Names quietly and unanimously voted Thursday to change the name of a small, marshy tarn in the North Cascades from Coon Lake to Howard Lake. The racist nomenclature gave way to the honoring of Wilson Howard, an African-American miner who staked two claims near the lake in 1892. “This name change is a small but important step toward
  
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• Edmonds pharmacist arrested on suspicion of dispensing drugs while under the influence

  13-11-2015 02:57
  
  A customer of the pharmacy called police Wednesday evening with concerns for the man’s welfare, police say.
  
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• Savage Love Letters of the Day: The Plight of the Straight Male Musical Theater Fan

  13-11-2015 02:39 via thestranger.com
  
  I wanted to pass along a thought in response to your remarks to NGAA in your most recent column.
  In your reply, you wrote, "You're going to need a gay dude to act on the advice I'm about to give you... the kind of gay dude who obsesses about Broadway musicals." I was surprised to see you endorsing a stereotype about both the LGBTQ community and those who obsess over musicals. I myself am a heterosexual man who has been obsessed with musicals my whole life (You'll be happy to know Mame is in my c
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: The Plight of the Straight Male Musical Theater Fan

  13-11-2015 02:39 via thestranger.com
  
  I wanted to pass along a thought in response to your remarks to NGAA in your most recent column.
  In your reply, you wrote, "You're going to need a gay dude to act on the advice I'm about to give you... the kind of gay dude who obsesses about Broadway musicals." I was surprised to see you endorsing a stereotype about both the LGBTQ community and those who obsess over musicals. I myself am a heterosexual man who has been obsessed with musicals my whole life (You'll be happy to know Mame is in my c
  
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