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• See Here: Live Video of the Gits Reunion (w/Rachel Flotard on Vocals) from This Weekend

  07-12-2015 23:58 via thestranger.com
  
  Rachel Flotard, a few years back, possibly wishing she could one day do what she actually did this weekend. Christopher Nelson
  According to organizer Ben London, two benefit shows this weekend at Chop Suey raised $17,000 to help defray the medical expenses of Seattle musician James Atkins (who was diagnosed in October with esophageal cancer).The bill included incarnations of several bands who helped define the sound and feel of Seattle's first boom period, including the group Atkins played in, H
  
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• Sarah Nash Gates, theater artist and leader, dies at 66

  07-12-2015 23:48
  
  Costumer, professor and — for two decades — head of the UW School of Drama, Sarah Nash Gates died on Dec. 4, 2015, at age 66.
  
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• Donald Trump Calls For a Total Ban on Muslims "Entering the United States"

  07-12-2015 23:21 via thestranger.com
  
  Citing a discredited poll that found lots of Muslims don't like America much, Donald Trump called today for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until country's representatives can figure out what's going on." The statement from the Trump campaign ended with Trump pledging to "make America great again." NYT:
  Experts on immigration law and policy expressed shock at the proposal Monday afternoon. “This is just so antithetical to the history of the United State
  
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• A Memo to My Fellow Homos

  07-12-2015 23:03 via thestranger.com
  
  A few short months from now—right after one of the assholes pictured above clinches the Republican nomination—some tiny gay Republican group is going to start encouraging gays and lesbians to vote GOP in 2016. They'll mewl about how the Republican nominee isn't that bad on gay issues, or about how the Democratic nominee wasn't always that great on gay issues, or about how with marriage equality a done deal gay voters are now free to "vote their pocketbooks" and back the man with a p
  
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• New Uber Survey Shows Most Drivers Are "Satisfied," but Doesn't Ask Them How Much They're Making

  07-12-2015 22:59 via thestranger.com
  
  Some app-based drivers and labor advocates support a Seattle City Council bill allowing drivers to unionize. Alex Garland
  That photo above is from a rally at Seattle City Hall last month where drivers for app-based ride-hailing services called on the city to approve a bill allowing them to organize and collectively bargain.At the event, drivers shared their experiences, including one Lyft driver who said she was deactivated after attending a Teamsters organizing meeting. She wasn't the first in
  
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• Bernie Sanders Wins Person of the Year of the Internet

  07-12-2015 22:41 via thestranger.com
  
  "Somebody get me a copy of Time Magazine so I can bellow furiously at it!" Crush Rush / Shutterstock.com
  We've been getting so bogged down lately in the dreadfulness of the GOP candidates that it's easy to forget there are some goodish guys running for president, too. So let's take a break from complaining about Donald Trump (doesn't believe there are any Muslim sports heroes, sorry Muhammad Ali) and Marco Rubio (openly lying about terrorism to protect the NRA), and dream blissfully about a worl
  
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• Yik Yak on campus: Safe space to vent, or forum for hate? (Or both?)

  07-12-2015 22:38
  
  After a student was threatened on the anonymous-commenting app Yik Yak at Western Washington University, the app — widely used on college campuses — has come under increasing scrutiny.
  
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• Yik Yak on campus: Safe space to vent, forum for hate — or both?

  07-12-2015 22:38
  
  After a student was threatened on the anonymous-commenting app Yik Yak at Western Washington University, the app — widely used on college campuses — has come under increasing scrutiny.
  
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• Schools get tested on their seismic safety — with kids’ help

  07-12-2015 22:28
  
  Washington is the only West Coast state that hasn’t surveyed all schools for earthquake safety, but a Thurston County project could lead the way.
  
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• 200 reported sick as Russell tower food vendors shut; norovirus outbreak expected to grow

  07-12-2015 22:21
  
  Health officials closed all food vendors at downtown Seattle’s Russell Investments Center while they investigate a norovirus outbreak that has already sickened about 200 people.
  
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• Lawyer Jeff Sprung will run for state auditor, says ‘long past time’ for indicted incumbent to go

  07-12-2015 22:00
  
  Seattle lawyer Jeff Sprung, who represents whistle blowers, believes the time has come to play taps on the political career of indicted Washington State Auditor Troy Kelley. Sprung, a Democrat, announced his 2016 candidacy for state auditor with a boost from popular former Auditor Brian Sonntag and yet another call for Kelley to hang it up. Kelley faces a sweeping federal indictment over his past personal business dealings, ranging from money laundering to evading the Internal Revenue Service.&n
  
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• State reveals types of misbehavior in school discipline cases

  07-12-2015 21:49
  
  New state data released Monday shows how many times students are suspended or expelled in Washington, for how long and for what misbehavior.
  
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• Fossil-fuel protest targets BNSF office in Seattle

  07-12-2015 21:46
  
  A singing, chanting crowd of demonstrators protested oil and coal trains and fossil-fuel pollution at BNSF railroad headquarters Monday.
  
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• Grammy Nominations Include One for Death Cab for Cutie, 11 for Kendrick Lamar

  07-12-2015 21:31 via thestranger.com
  
  Death Cab for Cutie's Kintsugi is up for the Best Rock Album Grammy. Josh Bis
  The nominations for the 58th annual Grammy awards have been announced, with rapper Kendrick Lamar earning spots in 11 categories. (Read Larry Mizell Jr.'s wise words about Lamar's instant classic To Pimp a Butterfly here.)The Grammys traditionally reward commercial might over artistic merit, although sometimes there's an intersection of the two. However, it's cool that Flying Lotus is up for Best Dance Recording with "
  
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• Tunnel update: Bertha to move again before year's end, lane closures coming to Aurora, more

  07-12-2015 21:12
  
  In a Monday morning update before Seattle City Council, officials from the state announced upcoming closures to south Route 99 north of downtown and described the work to come on the tunnel to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct.
  
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• Backlash over Common Core extends to U.S. Catholic schools

  07-12-2015 21:12
  
  The backlash against standardized testing is rippling through some Roman Catholic schools as they balance the college-driven Common Core learning standards with spiritual goals. The Diocese of Albany announced recently that it will reduce the frequency of the Common Core-aligned tests while sticking with the standards, which spell out skills students should master at each […]
  
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• No White Supremacists Showed Up on Capitol Hill Last Night, But Antifascists Did

  07-12-2015 21:11 via thestranger.com
  
  Antifascists marched north on Broadway in last night's rain. SB
  No white supremacists or burning crosses showed up on Capitol Hill last night, contrary to information posted on racist website Stormfront and widely circulated on social media last month. But, apparently believing the white power threat to be credible, hundreds of antifascists turned up and marched on streets surrounding Cal Anderson Park.We had tried over the last couple of weeks to figure out whether there was anything real to th
  
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• 21 Stranger (Than Usual) Things To Do This Week

  07-12-2015 20:57 via thestranger.com
  
  Star Wars Cabaret, An Old-Fashioned Hanukkah Shindig, The Doubleclicks, And Moreby Stranger Things To Do StaffOur arts critics have already recommended 57 awesome things to do this week, but if you're looking for something a little more offbeat and outside-the-box, we've got you covered, from Star Wars cabaret (#10) to an "old-fashioned Hanukkah shindig" (#16).TUESDAY
  1. Soup and Cinema
  The Nordic Heritage Museum will screen Princess/Princessa, a Finnish film that tells the true story of cabaret
  
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• Hillary Clinton edges Republicans in trial heats, has big lead among Hispanics

  07-12-2015 20:57
  
  Ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton enjoys leads in the comfortable-to-precarious range over the 2016 Republican field, with a new poll underlining importance of the nation’s growing Hispanic vote. Clinton has a 52-41 percent lead over Republican front runner Donald Trump, according to the MSNBC/Telemundo/Marist poll. She leads Trump 69-27 percent among Hispanics, not surprising in that Trump has proposed a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and has suggested that emigres from south
  
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• It's Official: Lisa Herbold Will Represent West Seattle on the City Council

  07-12-2015 20:42 via thestranger.com
  
  Lisa Herbold and her boss, retiring city council member Nick Licata, back in the day. Courtesy of Lisa Herbold
  After trailing on Election Night, Lisa Herbold has officially won her race for Seattle City Council District 1, representing West Seattle and South Park. The race, which was separated by just 39 votes after all the ballots were cast, went to a recount because it was so close.Herbold told Publicola last week that Braddock had called to congratulate her on her apparent victory.Braddock di
  
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• Suspect arrested in fatal Covington shooting

  07-12-2015 20:38
  
  An 18-year-old Renton man was arrested Saturday in connection with the shooting death of Dorian Haddix in Covington on Nov. 18.
  
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• ‘1-2-3 punch’ of storms to bring drenching rain, risk of floods, landslides

  07-12-2015 20:32
  
  A series of storms this week is expected to bring flooding to the Puget Sound area.
  
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• ‘1-2-3 punch’ of rainstorms to bring risk of floods, landslides

  07-12-2015 20:32
  
  A series of storms this week is expected to bring flooding to the Puget Sound area.
  
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• Hillary Clinton Writes About How She'd "Rein in Wall Street," Still Doesn't Support Glass-Steagall

  07-12-2015 20:26 via thestranger.com
  
  Hillary Clinton: Out today with another promise to "rein in Wall Street," still not a fan of Glass-Steagall. JStone / Shutterstock.com
  Today, Hillary Clinton published a New York Times op-ed headlined, "How I’d Rein In Wall Street." In it, she promises:
  As president, I would not only veto any legislation that would weaken financial reform, but I would also fight for tough new rules, stronger enforcement and more accountability that go well beyond Dodd-Frank.
  Elizabeth Warren likes some of
  
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• Seahawks Have Fun Beating Vikings, Create Fun for Others in Process

  07-12-2015 20:09 via thestranger.com
  
  Finally, something to be excited about. Kelly O
  The Seahawks are fun again, huh? In back-to-back weeks, Seattle beat good teams, first squeaking out a win over Pittsburgh, and now dominating the Minnesota Vikings in a 38-7 blowout. The win gives the Seahawks something in the range of an 80 to 85 percent chance of making the playoffs, and a crucial playoff tiebreaker over Minnesota for the all-important—or, well, quasi-important; totally unimportant on the cosmic scale, whatever—final
  
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• In-N-Out Burger inches north in Oregon

  07-12-2015 20:04
  
  In-N-Out Burger plans to open a location in Grants Pass, Ore. The first In-N-Out in Oregon opened in Medford in September.
  
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• Summit at Snoqualmie could open by end of week as ski resorts weather warm, drenching storms

  07-12-2015 20:02
  While lower elevation areas like the Summit at Snoqualmie were still closed, the ski area is hopeful to announce some “good news” later this week.
  
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• Police: Man severely beaten in Victor Steinbrueck Park

  07-12-2015 20:00
  
  Police are searching for the man who severely beat another man Sunday night in Seattle’s Victor Steinbrueck Park.
  
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• Girl, 14, killed in Columbia City was related to suspect

  07-12-2015 19:08
  
  The victim of Sunday’s fatal shooting in Columbia City was a 14-year-old relative of the suspect, who pleaded guilty earlier this year in a cyberstalking/domestic-violence case in Snohomish County.
  
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• Did You See the Editorial About Guns on the Cover of the New York Times on Saturday?

  07-12-2015 19:03 via thestranger.com
  
  I can't think of the last time the New York Times ran an editorial on A1. It took up the left two columns on the cover of Saturday's paper. Here's what it said:
  All decent people feel sorrow and righteous fury about the latest slaughter of innocents, in California...But motives do not matter to the dead in California, nor did they in Colorado, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia, Connecticut and far too many other places. The attention and anger of Americans should also be directed at the elected
  
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• Flooding forces Zoo Miami to close; no reopening date set

  07-12-2015 19:02
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Zoo Miami has closed because of flooding caused by days of heavy rain in South Florida. The zoo closed at 11 a.m. Saturday. With more rain in the forecast, communication director Ron Magill says a decision about reopening hasn’t been made. Magill tells the Miami Herald (http://hrld.us/1OdW2tq ) that many pathways and […]
  
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• Prisoner who escaped from Clallam County jail recaptured

  07-12-2015 18:51
  
  A prisoner who escaped from the Clallam County jail over the weekend is back behind bars.
  
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• Gonzaga law student crowned Miss Rodeo America

  07-12-2015 18:19
  
  Katherine Merck was named Miss Rodeo America after eight days of competition among 33 reigning state queens that included a horsemanship portion, a written test of rodeo knowledge and a fashion show.
  
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• Morning News: A Carjacker Died in a Shootout with Cops, and More Bad Weather's Coming, But How About Those Seahawks?

  07-12-2015 17:56 via thestranger.com
  
  The carjacker's crime spree started yesterday afternoon in Belltown. Christopher Frizzelle
  Gun-Wielding Carjacker Leads Police on Violent Crime Spree Yesterday, from Belltown to Montlake to Ravenna to Wedgewood, Before Dying in a Shootout: It began in Belltown, where he reportedly pulled a gun in a tattoo parlor, stole a Volkswagen at gunpoint, and then got on the road and drove north, where the suspect opened fire at officers in two different neighborhoods. They fired back—"up to 11 offic
  
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• ‘Smash and grab’ robbery sparks California mall lockdown

  07-12-2015 15:14
  
  RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Dozens of police locked down a shopping mall in Southern California after robbers smashed the counters of a jewelry store, setting off panic as people confused the sound of breaking glass with gunfire. Police in Riverside said the robbery inside the Galleria at Tyler mall triggered a large police response Sunday […]
  
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• Guest Editorial: To Get Rid of Citizens United, We Need Your Help on Initiative 735

  07-12-2015 15:09 via thestranger.com
  
  The author, a former Seattle City Council member, argues we need to get Initiative 735 on next year's ballot so we can begin unraveling Citizens United and decrease the influence of money in our politics. Sean Locke Photography/Shutterstock
  In the 2016 election, as we're electing a new president, we could also be voting on an important measure to take American democracy back from the moneyed interests that now control our politics and policy.
  Initiative 735 would give every voter in the State of
  
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• Australia threatens legal action against Japanese whaling

  07-12-2015 15:08
  
  TOKYO (AP) — Australia, one of most vocal opponents of Japanese whaling hunts in the Antarctic, threatened Monday to take legal action against the lethal expeditions, about a week after Tokyo began its latest hunt. Australia’s foreign and environmental ministers said in a statement that the country had joined 32 others to oppose the Japanese […]
  
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• IAEA chief: Interest in nuclear power up despite Fukushima

  07-12-2015 15:02
  
  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Despite the Fukushima nuclear disaster that devastated northeastern Japan in 2011, interest in nuclear power has increased significantly, mainly in Asia, the U.N. nuclear watchdog chief said Monday. International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano said the appetite for nuclear power has grown in Asia because of the need to fuel […]
  
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• US Justice Department to investigate Chicago police

  07-12-2015 14:48
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — The Justice Department will investigate the patterns and practices of the Chicago Police Department, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced Monday, nearly two weeks after the release of a video showing a white Chicago police officer shooting a black teenager 16 times and ahead of the expected release of similar footage in […]
  
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• AP source: Justice Department to investigate Chicago police

  07-12-2015 14:48
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is expected to launch a wide-ranging investigation this week into the patterns and practices of the Chicago Police Department after recent protests over a video showing a white Chicago police officer shooting a black teenager 16 times, according to a person familiar with the matter. The person was […]
  
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• Grammy nominations: Brandi Carlile makes cut; Kendrick Lamar tops list

  07-12-2015 14:36
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Northwest native Brandi Carlile has a crack at a first Grammy award, thanks to her acclaimed album “The Firewatcher’s Daughter,” which has been nominated for Best Americana Album. She’ll compete against Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell; Jason Isbell; The Mavericks and the Punch Brothers on Grammy night, Feb. 15, 2016. Carlile’s name was […]
  
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• New approach leads to math boom at Moses Lake college

  07-12-2015 14:03
  
  Big Bend Community College continues to show strong gains in the number of students enrolling in math and technology fields. The gains are especially striking among Hispanic students.
  
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• The 57 Best Things To Do This Week

  07-12-2015 07:38 via thestranger.com
  
  Homo for the Holidays, Seattle Human Rights Day, Capitol Hill Art Walk, And More Picks for Dec 7-13by Stranger Things To Do StaffThis week, The Stranger's arts critics have recommended the best events for you in every discipline: From Seattle Human Rights Day with Kimberlé Crenshaw and Black Lives Matter to Seattle Aquavit Week to Capitol Hill Art Walk. See them all below, and, if you still want more, check out our complete Things To Do calendar.
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• Sanders unveils plan to address climate change

  07-12-2015 06:25
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is rolling out a plan to slow down the impact of climate change, vowing to cut U.S. carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2030. The Democratic presidential candidate said in a proposal released Monday that he would seek to impose a tax on carbon dioxide pollution, long a […]
  
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• Obama’s call to quell gun violence strikes chord locally

  07-12-2015 05:35
  
  Some local politicians and Seattleites praised the president’s commitment to combat Islamic extremism, which he outlined in his address to the nation Sunday.
  
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• Charter schools in state may join small district near Spokane

  07-12-2015 05:20
  
  Such an arrangement would keep them open as public schools despite a state Supreme Court ruling declaring their funding source unconstitutional.
  
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• State seeks reversal of ruling on competency evaluations

  07-12-2015 04:46
  
  The state will challenge a ruling by a federal judge mandating that mentally ill defendants receive a competency examination within a week of a court order.
  
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• Relocated fishers steal show in Cascade forest homecoming

  07-12-2015 04:30
  
  Wiley weasel-like fishers were welcomed back to their homeland last week, when seven trapped in Canada were released into the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.
  
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• May the gingerbread be with you at ‘Star Wars’ village

  07-12-2015 04:29
  
  A “Star Wars”-themed gingerbread creation is just one of many on display at the 23rd Annual Gingerbread Village at Sheraton Seattle Hotel.
  
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• Free ORCA cards for low-income students next year

  07-12-2015 03:11
  
  Starting next year, low-income students in Seattle will be eligible for a free ORCA card.
  
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