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• City, gun-rights plaintiffs skirmish over tax on gun, ammo sales

  18-12-2015 23:53
  
  Gun-rights groups are suing Seattle in King County Superior Court over the city’s new tax on gun and ammunition sales.
  
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• You’re a mean one, Alaska Airlines

  18-12-2015 23:35
  
  Three words that best describe continued minimum-wage fight: Stink, stank, stunk!
  
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• Last-Minute Plans: 28 Cheap & Easy Things To Do This Weekend

  18-12-2015 23:35 via thestranger.com
  
  Catch Bill Murray in a free screening of Scrooged on Sunday.
  Your options for cheap entertainment this weekend are many—from a free screening of Scrooged to Chop Suey's ArtAche market to Phil Kline's free Unsilent Night. See all 28 $10-and-under events here, and find even more things to do this weekend on our Things To Do calendar.
  ALL WEEKEND
  1. Holiday Renegade Craft Fair
  Over 175 makers will be at this fair, a traveling series of events that's making a stop in Seattle this weekend. Ther
  
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• Holiday jeer: You’re a mean one, Alaska Airlines

  18-12-2015 23:35
  
  Three words that best describe continued minimum-wage fight: Stink, stank, stunk!
  
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• I, Anonymous: Fuck You, Fuck You, and Thank You

  18-12-2015 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  STEVEN WEISSMAN
  To all you jerks cutting in line for I-5 on the West Seattle Bridge. What, you're more important than everybody else? You know goddamn well you need to be in the left fucking lane. So you stop in the right lane with your left turn signal on and wait for someone to let you in as traffic stacks up behind you?…
  
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• Shirtless bank robber armed with dynamite surrenders in Bend

  18-12-2015 22:57
  
  Two high schools went into lockdown when a man possibly armed with dynamite held up a nearby bank in Oregon.
  
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• Police Reports Illustrated: The Case of the Very Quiet Thief and His Burgundy Bandana

  18-12-2015 22:31 via thestranger.com
  
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• Report: Mexico’s monarch butterfly reserve lost 24 acres

  18-12-2015 22:26
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Studies found that illegal loggers clear-cut at least 24 acres (10 hectares) in the monarch butterflies’ wintering grounds in central Mexico this year, a Mexican environmentalist said Friday. Writer and activist Homero Aridjis said the illegal logging went on unchecked between April and August and occurred in one of the most […]
  
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• Mmm, the Edible Gingerbread Star Wars at the Seattle Sheraton Hotel

  18-12-2015 22:08 via thestranger.com
  
  Okay, I haven't seen the movie yet, like Charles or this fella. I did, however, just see the gingerbread cookie version of Star Wars… Mmm, and it looked DEEELICIOUS!ALSO: the Seattle Sheraton Hotel is right across from Regal Cinemas Meridian 16, and they tell us that movie goers can bring their Star Wars ticket stub into the Sheraton Fountain Wine Bar to receive a FREE house wine or beer, Friday, December 18 through Sunday, December 27 (and kiddos can exchange their ticket stub for hot ch
  
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• My Philosophy: 2015: Wrap It Up, B

  18-12-2015 22:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Best of the year: (clockwise from top left) Thundercat, Mackned, DoNormaal, and Young Thug.DONORMAAL BY UNA BLUE
  "Black art thrives in times of revolution," said Twitter user @infiniteideal earlier this month. (Note to corporations: Always give proper credit to black people for shit they put on the internet.) Hiphop, a black art, pulsed with urgency and intent through the tumult of 2015—it wasn't always revolutionary, but the best of it was all very fucking free.
  Okay, the best show (possi
  
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• NASA: Spacewalk needed to move stalled rail car

  18-12-2015 21:38
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Two Americans aboard the International Space Station are gearing up for a spacewalk early next week to free a stalled rail car. Flight controllers in Houston were moving the rail car on the outside of the orbiting lab when it got stuck Wednesday. It stalled just 4 inches from its […]
  
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• NASA: Spacewalk likely needed to move stalled cart

  18-12-2015 21:38
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Two Americans aboard the International Space Station are gearing up for a possible spacewalk early next week to free a stalled cart. Flight controllers in Houston were moving the cart on the outside of the orbiting lab when it got stuck Wednesday. It stalled just 4 inches from its lock-down […]
  
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• 21 Movies (Besides Star Wars) To Check Out This Weekend

  18-12-2015 21:17 via thestranger.com
  
  Whether you're racing to see the new Star Wars or want to revisit the heartwarming 1946 classic It's a Wonderful Life, there are choices for you at the movies this weekend.
  Cozy up inside a movie theater this weekend and check out one of these 22 noteworthy films picked by our critics (yes, 22—more details about Star Wars are also on the list). For even more movies, check out our movie times listings.
  LIMITED RUNS
  1. Elf
  Elf pulls off the "family movie" flawlessly. Will Ferrell bumbles aro
  
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• Whatever You Do, Don't See In the Heart of the Sea with a Vegan

  18-12-2015 20:55 via thestranger.com
  
  This is from the part of the movie before people start eating each other. Warner Bros. Pictures
  First of all, just don't see In the Heart of the Sea. It's long, it's dull, it's disgusting, and a lot of CGI whales get hurt.And if you do go see it, just don't bring a vegan friend. I forgot that, duh, there would be scene after scene of adorable sperm whales with huge, all-seeing eyes being harpooned and slaughtered. Every time it happened, I apologized to the friend I'd brought along, a vegan who
  
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• The Highs and Lows of Being Stevie Wonder’s Personal Touring Chef

  18-12-2015 20:46 via thestranger.com
  
  Makini Howell ANGEL CEBALLOS
  Last December, Stevie Wonder came to Seattle's KeyArena to perform his legendary double album Songs in the Key of Life. I stopped going to church a long time ago, but the show felt something like that: thousands of people singing Wonder's revelatory songs about love, unity, and justice, in unison. It was life affirming.
  For local chef Makini Howell, who operates four vegan businesses under the umbrella name of Plum Restaurants, Wonder's appearance in Seattle was actu
  
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• After a Summer of Drought, Local Farmers Are Now Dealing with Floods

  18-12-2015 20:40 via thestranger.com
  
  Above: Sol to Seed Farm before December 9. Below: Sol to Seed Farm after more than 15 inches of rain fell in two days.Matt Tregoning
  2015 hasn't been an easy year for local farmers. In January the new year greeted farmers in western King County's Snoqualmie River Valley with a major flood. This summer—both the hottest and driest on record in Washington state—they faced severe drought.Rains finally came, and were welcome. But when rains dump close to nine inches of water in less than
  
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• 2 males beat teen for stealing gun, put him in freezer with rotten food

  18-12-2015 20:16
  
  A 54-year-old man and a teenage boy have been accused of holding another teenager against his will and beating him for stealing a gun from a Whatcom County home.
  
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• A Bernie Sanders Staffer May Have Just Fucked the Whole Campaign

  18-12-2015 19:19 via thestranger.com
  
  The Democratic National Committee is effectively hog-tying the Sanders campaign six weeks before the Iowa caucuses, crippling his campaign's field organizing. Andrew Cline / Shutterstock.com
  A Bernie Sanders staffer was just fired for improperly poking around in a Clinton campaign voter file, which means that person's now job hunting several weeks before the rest of their colleagues. (Haha, j/k Bernie supporters, the campaign's not going away, they're totally in it to win it til November for sur
  
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• Artist-Teacher Brent McDonald Leaves Behind a Community Shaped by His Work

  18-12-2015 19:18 via thestranger.com
  
  Brent McDonald and his partner, Danielle Logan, in 2011. McDonald was shot early Sunday morning in Belltown. His killer has not yet been caught. Photo courtesy of Danielle Logan
  When Claudia Stelle flips on the lights, the woodworking room at Coyote Central reveals a dozen half-finished projects. There’s a soapbox derby car waiting for a steering mechanism, a small cabinet with a headboard that reads “El jefe,” and a whiteboard with various name-tags stuck to it: Hannah, Lorela
  
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• Charter school advocates raise PAC money

  18-12-2015 19:16
  
  Despite the state Supreme Court ruling that charters are unconstitutional, supporters are fighting to keep them alive here.
  
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• British Medical Journal Study, No Joke, Says Moustaches Outnumber Women at the Top of US Medical Academia

  18-12-2015 19:11 via thestranger.com
  
  Men with moustaches are considered more mature, more responsible, more dominant, more strong, and more self-confident (in a patriarchal society). SFIO CRACHO/shutterstock.com
  Four researchers looked at the upper lips of the leadership of the top 50 US medical schools funded by the National Institutes of Health, and found more moustaches than women, according to a study published yesterday by the British Medical Journal.
  "Our hypothesis was that fewer women lead academic medical departments in th
  
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• Person of Interest: Jesus Christ, Son of God

  18-12-2015 19:07 via thestranger.com
  
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• The Latest: Heavy snow falls on Washington mountains

  18-12-2015 17:54
  
  NEWPORT, Ore. (AP) — The latest on the storms in the Pacific Northwest (all times local): 9:45 a.m. There is heavy snow on mountain passes in the Washington Cascades as a storm sweeps through the Pacific Northwest. As of 5 a.m. Friday, 18 inches of snow had fallen on Snoqualmie Pass, 16 inches on Stevens […]
  
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• The Latest: Heavy rainfall shatters record in Portland

  18-12-2015 17:54
  
  NEWPORT, Ore. (AP) — The latest on the storms in the Pacific Northwest (all times local): 10:15 a.m. With it raining every day this month, Portland meteorologists sound like a broken record when giving their forecasts. And sometimes, the rain has been strong enough to break records. Most Read StoriesWhy Christine Michael’s re-signing tells us […]
  
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• The Morning News: Governor Says Teachers Need a Raise, Mayor Opposes the Return of Ride the Ducks, and More

  18-12-2015 17:53 via thestranger.com
  
  Washington isn't retaining enough of its teachers. Kelly O
  Governor Inslee Says Teachers Should Get a $5,000 Raise: Why? To raise retention rates and address a statewide shortage of teachers. How? By closing four tax exemptions, raising $100 million. "The governor announced the proposal Thursday during the unveiling of his supplemental budget proposal," the AP reports, "which seeks to put more money toward covering wildfire costs and into the state's mental health system."Layoffs Are Coming to t
  
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• The Morning News: Governor Says Teachers Need a Raise, Mayor Opposes Return of Ride the Ducks, Layoffs Coming to Seattle Times

  18-12-2015 17:53 via thestranger.com
  
  Washington isn't retaining enough of its teachers. Kelly O
  Governor Inslee Says Teachers Should Get a $5,000 Raise: Why? To raise retention rates and address a statewide shortage of teachers. How? By closing four tax exemptions, raising $100 million. "The governor announced the proposal Thursday during the unveiling of his supplemental budget proposal," the AP reports, "which seeks to put more money toward covering wildfire costs and into the state's mental health system."Layoffs Are Coming to t
  
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• The Seattle Times Says a Newsroom Staff Reduction Is Necessary "If We Want The Seattle Times to Continue"

  18-12-2015 17:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The Seattle Times building back in the day. Today, the paper's newsroom staff—like many others newsroom staffs around the country—is in the midst of a downsizing. Seattle Municipal Archives
  At the beginning of the week, Seattle Times editor Kathy Best sent out a memo to her paper's newsroom reminding staffers that it's been "a tough budget year," thanking them for their "creativity" in dialing back on day-to-day expenses, and announcing that "even after pulling all the change from al
  
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• Woman dies in landslide on Oregon coast

  18-12-2015 16:54
  
  Fresh storms barreled through the sodden Pacific Northwest, triggering a landslide that killed a woman and destroyed her home near the Oregon coast.
  
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• Sinkhole swallows car after landslide near Oregon coast

  18-12-2015 16:54
  
  At least four homes were damaged and eight other homes evacuated after a landslide north of Newport.
  
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• Spokane scraps proposal to arm guards in schools

  18-12-2015 16:47
  
  Spokane officials dismissed the proposal in part because resource officers would undergo only 24 hours of training before being allowed to carry a firearm in schools.
  
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• FDA proposes ban on indoor tanning for minors

  18-12-2015 16:08
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials are proposing a ban on the use of tanning beds for anyone under the age of 18, part of an ongoing government effort to reduce skin cancers linked to the devices. The Food and Drug Administration proposal would also require tanning bed users to sign consent forms acknowledging the […]
  
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• This Week on Blabbermouth: Mayor Murray’s Unfinished Business, Year-End Lists, Black Hanford, and Star Wars!

  18-12-2015 15:32 via thestranger.com
  
  Episode 33 of our Stranger week-in-review podcast asks Seattle Mayor Ed Murray about what he did in 2015, what he's gonna do in 2016, and who he plans to party with on New Years Eve. (Wanna subscribe to the show on iTunes? Right here!) Kelly OBlabbermouth December 18, 2015Download Episode | Subscribe in iTunes | RSS FeedThis is our last Blabbermouth of 2015—see you in the New Year!—and it’s a great one, full of year-end reflections, current issues, and even one Proustian moment
  
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• Bruce Harrell, Who's Basically Council President Already, Has Handed out New Committee Assignments

  18-12-2015 15:03 via thestranger.com
  
  Passing of the torch. City of Seattle
  For every one decision city council members openly debate in public, about a hundred others get made behind closed doors. Today in that category: Bruce Harrell is going to be the next president of the Seattle City Council.This has been an open secret for some time, but it became extra clear today when Harrell's office released council committee assignments for the next two years.(I know. Some tremendously boring shit, right? Too bad! You clicked the post, ne
  
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• Redmond math whiz to compete in contest that’s ‘kind of like a football game’

  18-12-2015 15:01
  Abishek Hariharan and nine other stellar students will compete in a game show-style contest before a big audience of mathematicians in Seattle, including some of the world's best. This is his first national competition.
  
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• Firefighters battle blaze in vacant building in Ravenna

  18-12-2015 14:59
  
  A building caught fire Friday morning in the Ravenna neighborhood, and flames could be seen shooting from the top of the building.
  
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• Snoqualmie Pass reopens; traction devices required

  18-12-2015 14:49
  
  Snoqualmie Pass has reopened to traffic, but tire chains or four-wheel drive are required.
  
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• Effort to curb painkiller prescribing faces stiff opposition

  18-12-2015 13:33
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A bold federal effort to curb prescribing of painkillers may be faltering amid stiff resistance from drugmakers, industry-funded groups and, now, even other public health officials. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was on track to finalize new prescribing guidelines for opioid painkillers in January. The guidelines — though not binding […]
  
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• Senate approves bill to overhaul chemical regulation

  18-12-2015 09:25
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill to set safety standards for tens of thousands of chemicals that now are unregulated is one step closer to becoming law. The bill — the first update of regulations governing harmful chemicals in nearly 40 years — would offer new protections for people such as pregnant women, children and workers […]
  
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• Beijing issues 2nd smog red alert of the month

  18-12-2015 06:20
  
  BEIJING (AP) — China’s capital Beijing issued its second smog red alert of the month on Friday, triggering vehicle restrictions and forcing schools to close. A wave of smog is due to settle over the city of 22.5 million from Saturday to Tuesday. Levels of PM2.5, the smallest and deadliest airborne particles, are set to […]
  
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• Australia leader disappointed with Japan’s return to whaling

  18-12-2015 06:18
  
  TOKYO (AP) — Australia’s leader said Friday that his country is “very disappointed” with Japan’s decision to resume whaling in Antarctic waters earlier this month. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, on his first visit to Japan since taking the helm in September, wants to strengthen Australia-Japan ties but also faces pressure at home to confront Japan […]
  
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• City opposes recommendation to allow return of Ride the Ducks

  18-12-2015 05:36
  Seattle Mayor Ed Murray’s office is opposing a state agency’s recommendation that Ride the Ducks be allowed to return to operations while addressing hundreds of safety violations found during a probe of the company after September’s deadly crash on the Aurora Bridge.
  
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• Aaron Reardon faces new campaign-violation charges

  18-12-2015 04:30
  
  Aaron Reardon, the Snohomish County Executive who resigned in 2013 amid a slew of scandals and investigations, is facing new charges that he violated campaign laws.
  
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• Former Seattle Children’s hospital worker faces child-porn charges

  18-12-2015 03:41
  A former Cornish College of the Arts employee who is accused of traveling to Asia to have sex with juveniles is facing federal prosecution for possession of child pornography.
  
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• Former Cornish College worker faces child-porn charges

  18-12-2015 03:41
  
  A former Cornish College of the Arts employee who is accused of traveling to Asia to have sex with juveniles is facing federal prosecution for possession of child pornography.
  
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• Glacier Peak High: Student claims responsibility for threats

  18-12-2015 03:07
  A Glacier Peak High School student has “accepted responsibility” for four threats left in recent days on restroom walls, the school’s principal, Jim Dean, said Thursday in an emailed message.
  
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• Glacier High: Student claims responsibility for threats

  18-12-2015 03:07
  
  A Glacier Peak High School student has “accepted responsibility” for four threats left in recent days on restroom walls, the school’s principal, Jim Dean, said Thursday in an emailed message.
  
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