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• AG Ferguson’s goal: Haul powerful Washington, D.C., lobby before a Washington state judge

  09-12-2015 23:31
  
  A powerful Washington, D.C., lobby, the Grocery Manufacturers Association, came up with a scheme in 2013 to conceal $12 million in contributions to beat back (barely) a Washington state initiative that would have required labeling of genetically modified food products and seeds. State Attorney General Bob Ferguson sued the GMA and forced the association to fess up to what major food manufacturers had channeled how much money through a front group to defeat the initiative. Ferguson is still
  
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• My Philosophy: Black Umbrella Expands to Include Malitia MaliMob

  09-12-2015 23:19 via thestranger.com
  
  Raz Simone is gathering talent under the Black Umbrella.
  I'm severely not looking forward to 2016. Can we just cancel the rest of this year before it gets any worse—and it surely will have by the time this sees print—and pause? Just, like, slide into some kind of null state indefinitely, effective immediately? What I'm saying is, can we somehow defer the actual passing of any more time? While this would mean missing Star Wars and Captain America: Civil War, we'd also miss the War on
  
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• Prosecutors: Notorious Seattle college flasher back at it

  09-12-2015 23:04
  
  A Seattle man convicted in four flashings last year is again accused of exposing himself to college students in the city.
  
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• NEA Grants for NWFF, SIFF, On the Boards, Short Run, 5th Ave, Earshot, and Many Other Local Arts Orgs

  09-12-2015 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  The NEA gives money presents to the state of Washington, just in time for Christmas. Thanks, NEA! Kelly O
  Yesterday, many Washington arts organizations raised a glass to their grant writers for convincing the NEA to give them some much-needed cash. It's important to note that this announcement is the autumnal list of grant recipients for this year. There shall be more good news in spring. Here's a list of some of the projects that we'll get to see right here in Seattle.Book StuffCopper Canyon Pr
  
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• Trump Makes Cruz Seem Palatable, but Don't Forget They're Still Both Awful Awful Men

  09-12-2015 22:01 via thestranger.com
  
  The latest polls shows him surpassing Trump. Andrew Cline / Shutterstock.com
  Ted Cruz's reputation around Washington ranges from "pestersome adult Dennis the Menace" to "world's fattest tapeworm," but the latest polls show him surpassing Trump — so we could be stuck listening to him until November (and then hopefully never again).
  Ted's college roommate, Craig Mazin, just one of many in the chorus of figures from his past, told the Daily Beast, "I would rather have anybody else be the pres
  
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• KEXP Broadcasts Appropriate First Song from New Home at Seattle Center

  09-12-2015 21:27 via thestranger.com
  
  Robyn Hitchcock's ode to Sea-Tac inaugurates KEXP's new home Alicia J. Rose
  This morning at 9:03am, KEXP began broadcasting from its new home at Seattle Center, the culmination of a long, fraught fund-raising process (which is still underway—they still need to come up with roughly $1.3million of the facility's $15m cost).As the strains of Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life"—the last song played from the station's old location at the corner of Dexter and Denny (which had also been the first on
  
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• Guest Editorial: Dear Non-Muslim Allies, Now Is the Time to Stand Up and Defend Your Fellow Citizens' Human Rights

  09-12-2015 21:02 via thestranger.com
  
  The author, a public interest lawyer from Pennsylvania, says now is the time for non-Muslim allies to loudly counter the Islamophobia that's being fanned by Donald Trump. Resul Muslu / Shutterstock.com
  Dear non-Muslim Allies,
  I am writing to you because it has gotten just that bad. I have found myself telling too many people about the advice given to me years ago by the late composer Herbert Brun, a German Jew who fled Germany at the age of 15: “Be sure that your passport is in order.&rdqu
  
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• Trump blowback: Take his name off Vancouver, Toronto hotels, bar him from United Kingdom

  09-12-2015 20:36
  
  Public officials in Vancouver, B.C., and Toronto want Donald Trump’s name removed from hotel skyscrapers, and 250,000 Brits have signed a petition to the House of Commons demanding that “The Donald” be barred from entering the United Kingdom. Blowback to Trump has hit with the force of fall winds in Vancouver, where a 63-story Trump International Hotel and Tower is nearing completion. “The sign has literally not yet gone on the building,” said Craig McCullough, a Va
  
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• Murray: $45 million for affordable housing next year

  09-12-2015 20:29
  
  Mayor Ed Murray announced Wednesday that Seattle is investing $45 million toward affordable housing through the city's Office of Housing, the largest such investment ever made in the city.
  
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• Capitol Hill's Bauhaus Has Closed. On the Brighter Side, Charlie's Is Reopening Tomorrow

  09-12-2015 19:04 via thestranger.com
  
  Bauhaus in sunnier, earlier days.Kyle Johnson
  As Ansel mentioned in the Morning News, Bauhaus Books and Coffee, which opened in 1993 on the corner of Melrose Avenue and Pine Street on Capitol Hill, has closed. Owner Joel Radin announced the closure in a note posted on the cafe's front door, as well as on its Facebook page. Since early 2014, Bauhaus had been operating two blocks away while its original home is being converted into a new, eight-story, mixed-use building. The plan was for Bauhaus t
  
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• Ex-Amazon Software Engineer Creates AI Music-Playing Program AutoHarp

  09-12-2015 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Paul Mariz, working with AutoHarp, a song-generating program to which musicians can jam along. Dave Segal
  After 13 years at Amazon, including a stint doing cloud computing, software engineer and musician Paul Mariz left in 2012 and shortly thereafter started working on a project called AutoHarp. It's a computer program that composes and plays music via MIDI; he thinks it will be the opposite of DARPA's machine learning bots—MUSICA—that are learning to play jazz in the service of the
  
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• 3 dead, 4 hurt in two-vehicle crash near Kennewick

  09-12-2015 18:46
  
  Three people were killed and four others were injured in a two-vehicle crash Tuesday night near Kennewick.
  
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• Senate clears major new education bill, sends it to Obama

  09-12-2015 18:19
  
  The way the nation's public schools are evaluated is headed for a major makeover, with a sweeping shift from federal to state control over school accountability and student testing.
  
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• The Morning News: Washington Charter Schools Are Finally Shutting Down, More Storms Hit the Pacific Northwest

  09-12-2015 17:58 via thestranger.com
  
  The Washington State Supreme Court says the state's charter schools law is unconstitutional. Washington State Supreme Court
  Washington's Nine Charter Schools Are Shutting Down:"The statewide Charter School Commission voted during a telephone meeting to make final preparations to lay off its staff and send its records to the state archives," the Associated Press reports. "Closing the agency is required under a Washington Supreme Court ruling that declared a 2012 law creating the charter schools w
  
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• Rescue brings 7 to safety from rising Puyallup River

  09-12-2015 17:48
  
  Seven transients camping near the river were successfully rescued from the swollen Puyallup River.
  
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• Prince's Cover of Radiohead's "Creep" from Coachella 2008 Is a Mess, but Prince's Messes Beat Most Masterpieces

  09-12-2015 17:25 via thestranger.com
  
  Prince can do anything Prince wants. Northfoto/Shutterstock
  Prince's cover of Radiohead's "Creep" at Coachella in 2008 became semi-notorious when cell-phone footage of the performances were removed from YouTube after complaints, either from Prince himself or from Radiohead's publishing company (but probably from Prince).Anyway, people have been talking about it for years, and yesterday, apparently with the permission of both Prince and Radiohead (a conference call I shall be dreaming of all thro
  
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• Chicago mayor apologizes for 2014 shooting, vows reforms

  09-12-2015 16:44
  
  Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel apologized for the 2014 shooting of a black teenager, promising "complete and total" reform to restore trust in the police.
  
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• Whales entangled at alarming rate along California coast

  09-12-2015 15:30
  
  More than 60 whales entangled in fishing gear have been seen along the California coast this year, a more than 400 percent spike over normal and a pattern that began in 2014.
  
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• How you can better understand trauma’s affect on students — and why it matters

  09-12-2015 15:30
  A film that explores how a Walla Walla school uses a "trauma-informed" approach to discipline will be shown this Saturday at Foster High in Tukwila.
  
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• How long you will live: U.S. life expectancy flat for third straight year

  09-12-2015 15:26
  
  A child born in the United States last year can expect to make it to 78 years and 9½ months — the same prediction made for the previous two years.
  
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• Estonian turtle-robot searches for shipwrecks and treasure

  09-12-2015 15:24
  
  TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The Baltic seabed, littered with war debris and shipwrecks, has fascinated historians and researchers through the ages. But the underwater search robots they use pose problems by further disturbing the silty waters with their propeller movements. Estonian engineers say they may have found a solution with their latest invention — a […]
  
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• Strong earthquake strikes off coast of eastern Indonesia

  09-12-2015 15:17
  
  JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A strong earthquake struck off the coast of eastern Indonesia on Wednesday, causing panic among residents but no destructive tsunami. The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude-6.9 quake hit 106 kilometers (66 miles) southeast of Amahai, a town on Seram, the biggest island in Maluku province. It said the quake was […]
  
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• Police: Man went to strip club after killing

  09-12-2015 15:13
  
  RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Police in Florida say a man went to a strip club to clear his head after killing another man in Riviera Beach. Police tell The Palm Beach Post (http://pbpo.st/1OPxThG) 41-year-old Rodney Chavers killed 42-year-old Tarrie Wilder on Nov. 13. Following the incident, police say Chavers, who was ordered held without […]
  
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• Severe smog hovers over Beijing on Day 2 of red alert

  09-12-2015 14:58
  
  BEIJING (AP) — Beijing residents stayed indoors, schools were closed and limits on cars, factories and construction sites kept pollution from spiking even higher Wednesday, the second of three days of restrictions triggered by the city’s first red alert for smog. Cars with even-numbered license plates were kept off roads, and schools and constructions sites […]
  
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• Christmas delivery: 1st shipment in months at space station

  09-12-2015 14:55
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The International Space Station accepted its first U.S. shipment in more than half a year early Wednesday, receiving Christmas presents and much-needed groceries for the resident astronauts. “There’s much rejoicing on the ground,” Mission Control radioed. NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren (CHELL LEND-grin) used the space station’s big robot arm to […]
  
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• Flood updates: High waters, road and school closures, power outages, forecast

  09-12-2015 14:34
  
  Live updates on high waters, road and school closures, power outages and weather on Dec. 9, 2015.
  
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• Macbeth Is Like Flipping Through a Gorgeous Set of CliffsNotes

  09-12-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Justin Kurzel's Macbeth Is Like Flipping Through a Gorgeous Set of CliffsNotesby Andrew WrightOut of all of Shakespeare's back catalog, Macbeth has perhaps been the best cinematically served, with such Hall of Famers as Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, and Roman Polanski applying their distinctive worldviews to the material. (Polanski's 1971 version, his first film following the death of Sharon Tate, is still an amazingly tangible, all-encompassing ode to mud and blood and smoke and shit.) From the
  
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• In the Heart of the Sea Is a Whale of a Tale!

  09-12-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  In the Heart of the Sea Is a Whale of a Tale!by Erik Henriksen"It was hardly to be doubted, that several vessels reported to have encountered, at such or such a time, or on such or such a meridian, a sperm whale of uncommon magnitude and malignity, which whale, after doing great mischief to his assailants, had completely escaped them; to some minds it was not an unfair presumption, I say, that the whale in question must have been no other than Moby Dick."Thus Herman Melville wrote in 1851, in a
  
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• Seattle Aquarium’s newest harbor seal meets his daddy

  09-12-2015 05:45
  The Seattle Aquarium introduced its newest resident, a harbor seal named Hogan, on Tuesday.
  
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• Teen shot in head in Tukwila Tuesday night

  09-12-2015 05:39
  
  Medics took the man to Harborview Medical Center in critical condition.
  
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• The Donald’s defenders mostly MIA

  09-12-2015 05:06
  
  The Donald Trump campaign is big and brash, but is there any there there? It doesn’t feel like a campaign in which anyone will go to the mat for him, let alone door to door.
  
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• Building a replica of native history

  09-12-2015 04:25
  
  You never know what you’ll find looking through a closet. Especially when it’s holding parts of a 16 million-item collection. Sven Haakanson Jr., curator of North American Anthropology at the Burke Museum, found a model of an Angyaaq, a traditional Native boat made by Alaska’s Sugpiat people, misidentified in its vast collection. He had an […]
  
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• “No Child Left Behind” law, with its rigid testing requirements, is about to be left behind

  09-12-2015 03:34
  
  The U.S. Senate is about to leave behind the unpopular “No Child Left Behind” (NCLB) law that was an early hallmark of the Bush II administration, but which has generated a public backlash over its preoccupation with testing and rigid requirements. On Wednesday, following a House vote last week, the Senate will likely vote for a new law dubbed the Every Student Succeeds Act, drafted chiefly by the bipartisan team of Sens. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Lamar Alexander, R-Tennessee. 
  
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• ‘No Child Left Behind’ law, with its rigid testing requirements, is about to be left behind

  09-12-2015 03:34
  
  The U.S. Senate is about to leave behind the unpopular “No Child Left Behind” (NCLB) law that was an early hallmark of the Bush II administration, but which has generated a public backlash over its preoccupation with testing and rigid requirements. On Wednesday, following a House vote last week, the Senate will likely vote for a new law dubbed the Every Student Succeeds Act, drafted chiefly by the bipartisan team of Sens. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.  The
  
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• Anti-Islamic rhetoric shakes Snoqualmie’s Muslim families

  09-12-2015 03:31
  
  Donald Trump’s plan to ban Muslims from entering the United States alarmed local Muslims in Snoqualmie who were already on the defensive after their state Rep. Jay Rodne said Islam was incompatible with Western civilization and called Muslims “barbarians.”
  
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• Microkitchens for millennials ‘in a very urban, Seattle way’

  09-12-2015 02:50
  
  In cities like Seattle, the aspirational kitchens of young cooks have small footprints and shrunken appliances.
  
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• Mercer Island rejects moratorium on dividing lots

  09-12-2015 02:50
  
  Council members questioned whether the measure was the right tool to address growing complaints that some new-home construction is out of scale and character with existing properties.
  
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• How we can protect kids

  09-12-2015 02:42
  
  In reporting on Washington's child pornography boom, several of the people who spoke with me offered tips on what we can do to protect children in our communities.
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Take a Trump

  09-12-2015 02:37 via thestranger.com
  
  Since Mr. Savage had the ability to make Santorum who he is today, would he promote the new meme that Trump = dump? As in, "I have to take a trump," or, "I just took a major trump—like a transatlantic-cable trump."
  Just asking.
  StephenI'm Dan Savage and I approve this meme.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Feds accuse Washington man of possessing illegal rifle

  09-12-2015 02:37
  
  FBI agents investigating domestic terrorism and threats against the government have arrested a Washington man for possessing an illegal rifle
  
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• Windy City Pie Adds a Terrific Twist to Chicago-Style Pizza

  09-12-2015 02:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Windy City Pie Adds a Terrific Twist to Chicago-Style Pizzaby Angela GarbesWhen I first met Dave Lichterman, owner of Windy City Pie, it was just a few days after "Back to the Future Day," aka October 21, 2015, the day Marty McFly time-travels to in the movie Back to the Future Part II. Lichterman told me he had dressed up as the character Doc Brown to deliver his Chicago-style deep-dish pizzas that day, which confused many of his customers. (He also tried, unsuccessfully, to find a DeLorean to
  
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• When a Mass Killer Is a White Christian, He's a Lone Lunatic, but When He's Muslim, He Represents All Muslims

  09-12-2015 02:30 via thestranger.com
  
  When a Mass Killer Is a White Christian, He's a Lone Lunatic, but When He's Muslim, He Represents All Muslimsby Bill SavageIn the past few weeks, Colorado Springs and San Bernardino have joined the contemporary American lexicon as shorthand terms for mass shootings. These locales will live in infamy alongside Columbine, Sandy Hook, and Virginia Tech.You can see the deep rifts that define American culture in the diametrically opposed ways various media outfits and grandstanding politicians repres
  
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• We Saw You Touch a Seagull with Your Toe, Scream Terrifyingly in a Parking Garage, and Chase a Thief Downtown

  09-12-2015 02:30 via thestranger.com
  
  We Saw You Touch a Seagull with Your Toe, Scream Terrifyingly in a Parking Garage, and Chase a Thief Downtownby Stranger StaffSEAGULL ON THE HILLOn a Thursday afternoon around 2 p.m., you were walking east on Denny Way, between 16th and 17th Avenues, on Capitol Hill. You appeared to be a woman in your 20s, in a peacoat, gazing down into your phone. Something in your peripheral vision caught your eye. A white, radiant lump. It was on the grass next to the sidewalk, next to an electrical pole. We
  
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• Want Organic Weed?

  09-12-2015 02:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Want Organic Weed? Third-Party-Certified Pot Is the Next Best Thingby Tobias Coughlin-BoguePlenty of people claim their weed is "all-natural," free of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, and watered by wizard tears straight from Gandalf's face. But no weed can be officially organically certified because the federal government still classifies it as a Schedule 1 drug.In the absence of USDA organic certification, however, third-party organizations have stepped in to fill the void. There are curr
  
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• Wait, On the Boards Has a Writer in Residence Now?

  09-12-2015 02:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Wait, On the Boards Has a Writer in Residence Now? Yes, Yes They DoRelated Location:by Rich SmithThere's been some new writing on the walls at On the Boards. The hand responsible for the gorgeous if oblique scrawling in and around the building is Claudia La Rocco, OtB's new/first writer in residence. Once you know a few things about La Rocco, it becomes clear why a venue known for producing performance art, dance, and experimental theater would give her the keys for a year.On the Boards does a l
  
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• The Vertigo of Mariah Carey's Breakup Songs

  09-12-2015 02:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Mariah Carey's Breakup Songs Chase the Dragon of Requited Love with the Obsessive Intensity of Hitchcock's Vertigoby Kyle FleckEven amid a staggering body of work, Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film Vertigo stands out for the sheer tragedy of its story. A private detective begins a tortured, obsessive affair with the woman he's been hired to tail. She commits suicide. For weeks afterward, he languishes in a gray fog of depression, until he meets someone who could be her doppelgänger. What follows
  
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• The Best Things To Do This Winter In Seattle

  09-12-2015 02:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Literature, Art, Performance, Film, Classical Music, Opera, And Jazz Picks from Seattle Art and Performanceby Jen GravesSeattle Art and Performance, our quarterly guide to everything happening in Seattle this winter in the arts, is out this week. In addition to the beautiful calendars in the print copy (tucked inside this week's copy of The Stranger), you can now also find lists of this winter's best events online, including:
  The best jazz concerts, from a Charlie Brown Christmas to the Jeremy P
  
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• The Best Theater, Dance, And Comedy in Seattle This Winter

  09-12-2015 02:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Things To Do: Performanceby Rich SmithFind a complete list of theater and dance in Seattle this winter on our Things To Do calendar.
  Jump to:Theater | Musical Theater | Dance | Cabaret & Variety | ComedyTheater
  12TH AVENUE ARTSHoliday of Errors (Through Dec 20): Holiday of Errors (Or, Much Ado About Stockings) is a [new] star in Seattle's holiday-theater constellation and an addition to the micro-genre of comedies about Shakespeare as a working playwright, stuffed with winking references to
  
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• The Best Readings & Talks in Seattle This Winter

  09-12-2015 02:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Things To Do: Readings & Talksby Rich SmithFind a complete list of readings and talks in Seattle this winter on our Things To Do calendar.
  Dec 9Patrisse Cullors, cofounder of #BlackLivesMatter: Budget Matters 2015 Summit
  Patrisse Cullors, cofounder of #BlackLivesMatter, will deliver the keynote speech at the Budget Matters 2015 Summit. Acknowledging the interconnected nature of our economic and social future, this summit will explore the potential trajectory of Washington State in the coming
  
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• The Best Movies To See This Winter

  09-12-2015 02:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Things To Do: Filmby Julia RabanFind all of our movie times listings on our Things To Do calendar.
  Through DEC 10Bikes vs. Cars
  We are destroying the world that made us, that evolved us, and we have no idea if we will have a home in the world that is now replacing it. The reason we are condemned to live in this different world is certain humans have the political power to maintain and increase the burning of fossil fuels. This is indeed the most important and sobering message in the rather melan
  
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