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• My Philosophy: Aunt Viv Pissed Off, KUBE Priced Out, and What’s Up With All the Event Songs, Seattle Rap?

  28-01-2016 23:51 via thestranger.com
  
  Hollis Wong-Wear. ELEANOR STILLS
  Since we last spoke: The OG Aunt Viv (not the lite-skint remix, though I’m sure she’s a nice lady) used Jada Pinkett Smith’s plea for black divestment from the Oscars as a perfect opening to give Jaden and Willow’s pop some long-overdue work (and not the kind she’d been out of).
  The Academy vowed to start kicking its dustier membership to the curb so it doesn’t look like the dusty, default-racist organization it—and most
  
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• Let the Great Debate Commence: Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen are Both Playing Seattle in the Next Few Months

  28-01-2016 23:37 via thestranger.com
  
  The River... of DREAMS! Antonio Scorza & Featureflash/Shutterstock
  The day of reckoning is upon us. Billy Joel has announced a show May 20th at Safeco Field . Meanwhile, Bruce Springsteen is playing March 24th at Key Arena. Is this not a there can be only one scenario? I know that Beatles v. Stones dichotomies tend to be bullshit, but then again, BEATLES!It seems likely that both these labelmates who grew up less than 100 miles away from each other at roughly the same time, and who both enac
  
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• This Is the Beefiest Week in History

  28-01-2016 23:25 via thestranger.com
  It is the week of beefs to end all weeks of beefs—with not one, not two, but THREE insane beefs coming from the music world. I can't decide which of these is the craziest.
  • BEEF THE FIRST: Rapper B.o.B. said on Twitter that the earth is flat. Scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson took time to point out the inaccuracy of this assertion. Since B.o.B. has also denied the Holocaust, Tyson seems to have not only the intellectual upper hand but the ethical one as well. B.o.B. released a dis track
  
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• Savage Love: Sound Mind and Body

  28-01-2016 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  JOE NEWTON
  Down to business: Christmas came and went, and every present I bought for my extraordinary husband could be opened in front of our children. He deserves better, and I have a particular gift in mind for Valentine's Day. My husband has expressed an interest in sounding, something we've attempted only with my little finger. He seemed to enjoy it! But the last thing I want to do is damage his big beautiful dick. So is sounding a fun thing? Is sounding a safe thing?…
  
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• Eight Questions About the Anti-Trans Bathroom Bills in the State Legislature

  28-01-2016 23:07 via thestranger.com
  
  Danni Askini, far right, marching with Seattle's transgender pride parade last year.Ansel Herz
  On Wednesday, a state senate committee passed SB 6433, a bill that would repeal the Washington State Human Rights Commission's new rule that protects transgender people using sex-segregated bathrooms. Danni Askini, executive director of the Gender Justice League, attended the hearing. We spoke to Askini about what happens now, and what the public testimony she heard yesterday means for transgender peop
  
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• UW sees 18% rise in applications to be a Husky

  28-01-2016 23:05
  
  A record-breaking number of students have applied to the University of Washington for fall 2016. The biggest growth is coming from outside the state.
  
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• Walk through The Jungle reveals ‘deplorable living conditions’

  28-01-2016 22:51
  
  A walk-through of the homeless encampment know as The Jungle revealed some “some pretty tragic living conditions,” officials said.
  
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• Freaking Out About the Zika Virus Yet?

  28-01-2016 22:51 via thestranger.com
  It's spreading explosively in the Americas, there's no vaccine, there's no treatment, there's no cure, it's carried by mosquitoes, it may be sexually transmissible, four million people could be infected by Christmas, at least one case has already been confirmed in New York, it's linked to crippling brain damage in newborns, women who are or may become pregnant, aka "almost all women," are being advised to stay out of affected countries... and only Canada and Chile, for some reason, are going to
  
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• New to Town: Welcome to Seattle, Stoners!

  28-01-2016 22:08 via thestranger.com
  
  Swimming at the T-Dock. That guy is so high. KELLY O
  Now is a great time to be a pothead in the very, very green Emerald City. But it's not all dank nugz and edible delights. There are a few things you should know before you get stoned, turnt, lit, zooted, booted, or whatever it is that the kids are calling it these days.
  Things You Can Do
  The basic rule is this: If you're 21 or older, with ID to prove it, you can buy up to an ounce of weed (or 16 ounces of edibles, 72 ounces of marijuana-infuse
  
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• Wyoming adopts wildlife migration conservation guidelines

  28-01-2016 22:04
  
  CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming has adopted new guidelines to protect some of North America’s longest wildlife migration routes from oil and natural gas development. The guidelines call on state wildlife officials to continue to identify routes traveled by elk, antelope and mule deer. Biologists also will study ways to counter threats to those migrations. […]
  
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• Pivot Art + Culture Is Laying Off Its Staff and Closing Down, Sources Say

  28-01-2016 21:55 via thestranger.com
  
  Sources say that this lovingly remodeled new museum-quality space at the base of the Allen Brain Institute in South Lake Union is now being looked at as a high-end retail space or a restaurant. Courtesy Vulcan Inc
  As if the news coming out of Paul Allen's corner this morning weren't bad enough—officials say the enviro/art/science/music mega-philanthropist's megayacht has destroyed most of a Caribbean coral reef—there's more.
  Sources close to Pivot now say for sure that the contempora
  
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• Photos: NASA tracking fiery demon cloud gunning for Milky Way

  28-01-2016 21:34
  
  Damn, that was fun headline to write. But, if you think I'm just being silly or trying to push some clickbait on you, check out these photos:
  
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• You Need to Hear the First Two LPs by A Frames, Seattle's Best Rock Band of the '00s

  28-01-2016 21:32 via thestranger.com
  
  A Frames' end-times music remains some of Seattle's best post-9/11 rock.After a delay due to backed-up pressing plants (a chronic problem exacerbated by dubious major-label reissues), S.S. Records finally re-released on wax A Frames' first two classic albums in January. A Frames (2002) and 2 (2003) represent some of the greatest rock music that this city produced in the '00s—or in any decade, for that matter. Noisy yet melodic, mechanically rigid yet danceable, A Frames' music exudes a sca
  
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• Weekend blizzard ranks 4th worst among Northeast snowstorms

  28-01-2016 21:21
  
  HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Last weekend’s crippling blizzard was the fourth most powerful snowstorm to hit the Northeast in at least 66 years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday. The agency gave the storm a rating of 7.66 on the Northeast Snowfall Impact Scale, which ranks storms according to inches of snowfall, geographic […]
  
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• Former student sues Olympia schools over sexual hazing

  28-01-2016 21:07
  
  According to the complaint, a student was a victim of a hazing ritual in which older boys on the Capital High School basketball team had sexual contact with younger boys.
  
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• Beacon Hill's Inay's is Closing—Tomorrow Is Your Last Chance for Dinner and a Drag Show

  28-01-2016 21:07 via thestranger.com
  
  People came to Inay's for Filipino food—and stayed for the drag show.Malcolm Smith
  Inay's Asian Pacific Cuisine, a fixture in the Beacon Hill and Filipino communities, will close permanently tomorrow, Friday, January 29. Owner Ernie Rios named the restaurant after his beloved mother and, since 2007, has used her recipes to make classic Filipino dishes such as chicken adobo, beef caldereta, and diniguan. Inay's will serve its last meals, including filling silog breakfasts made with various
  
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• Seattle Mayor and City Council Oppose Repealing Transgender Bathroom Protections

  28-01-2016 21:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle's transgender pride march, June 2015. Ansel Herz
  The right-wing backlash against Washington's updated human rights code, which now explicitly protects the right of transgender people to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their gender identity, is in full swing. Yesterday, the State Senate's Commerce and Labor committee passed a bill repealing the new section of the code on a party-line vote, despite testimony from the transgender community that to do so would make them less s
  
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• Michael Moore Says Stop Sending Bottles of Water to Flint, Michigan

  28-01-2016 21:03 via thestranger.com
  
  Sheriff's Deputy Fred Ross has a lot of work evicting unemployed Flint people in Michael Moore's Roger & Me Warner Bros.
  One of the greatest American documentaries is certainly Michael Moore's Roger & Me. It hit the screens in 1989 and vividly presented the massive de-industrialization of Flint, Michigan—the center of an metropolitan area that once supplied General Motors with 80,000 workers. Three years after the film was released, that number dropped to 50,000.And the year the ci
  
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• New to Town: Books About Seattle That Everyone Should Read

  28-01-2016 20:54 via thestranger.com
  
  Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place
  By Coll Thrush
  (University of Washington Press, 2008)
  It's Coll Thrush's claim that Seattle visualizes Natives more than any other major American city—from the wildly displaced Alaskan totem pole in Pioneer Square to those many, many manhole covers under your feet as you walk throughout downtown, all bearing Native designs.
  But the city has visualized Natives as convenient fictions: romantic and disappearing, exotic and othered, comba
  
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• Have You Seen the Cover of the Stranger This Week?

  28-01-2016 20:37 via thestranger.com
  
  I'm in love.JAMES YAMASAKI
  This cover is the best cover I've seen since I started working at the Stranger last summer. My soul laughed when I saw the two bright-eyed Amazonians zipping up a hill on Solowheels, yoga mats clutched tightly to their sleeveless North Face fleeces, Starbucks cups held high like two Statues of Liberty. They might as well be singing tech-Seattle's anthem. You can't even tell that they're going to burn out in a year but decide to stay for three more when finally they can
  
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• Democratic legislators cry foul over McCleary funding plan

  28-01-2016 20:33
  
  State Democratic lawmakers complained as their GOP colleagues passed an amended K-12 funding plan out of a Senate committee.
  
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• I Can't Believe I Want the Democrats to Copy What Trump Is Doing

  28-01-2016 20:29 via thestranger.com
  
  Trump's whole head looks like when you save a JPEG with too much compression. Andrew Cline / Shutterstock.com
  Look, I like the 2016 election debates. They're fun and stupid and change virtually nothing about the race, but you couldn't ask for a more perfect opportunity to make fun of the jerks who want to run the country.
  That having been said, we sure do have enough of them. Hillary and Bernie are currently haggling over whether they should add one or three more to their schedule. And even thou
  
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• Seattle mayor says The Jungle should be shut down

  28-01-2016 20:00
  
  ”It should be closed down,” said Mayor Ed Murray about the homeless encampment in a meeting with The Seattle Times Editorial Board.
  
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• Whatcom County boy on bike killed after being struck by car

  28-01-2016 19:55
  
  A 14-year-old Sumas boy was killed when his bicycle was hit by a car, police said.
  
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• State rejects sinkhole report, wants more facts before Bertha can dig again

  28-01-2016 19:42
  
  State officials say they want more information about why a sinkhole formed on the Highway 99 tunnel project before allowing Bertha to resume digging.
  
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• Ski report: Friday snow could bring joy for weekend powderhounds

  28-01-2016 19:28
  
  The slushy mess from this week’s heavy rain will quickly become a faded memory as skiers and snowboarders are bracing themselves for another round of heavy snowfall, up to two feet or more on some hillsides. There will be a brief break late Thursday to early Friday, and then a winter storm watch has been […]
  
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• Anger, Tenderness, and the Tears in Our Stockings

  28-01-2016 19:26 via thestranger.com
  
  Anne Wilson's Tensile Drawings at James Harris Gallery this month. Courtesy of the artist and James Harris Gallery
  Those spidery "drawings" kept calling me back to them when I visited James Harris Gallery this past weekend. I'd never seen them before but they felt like old friends, naturally occurring.
  Here's a poem by Adrienne Rich to go with them this Thursday morning. (In case you wonder, I am not patient. I am not the "I" here.)A wild patience has taken me this far
  as if I had to bring to sh
  
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• You Sure You Wanna Go There, Brad?

  28-01-2016 19:09 via thestranger.com
  
  The bigoted Republican asshole pushing an anti-trans bathroom bill through our state legislature won himself some added media scrutiny—and he's being rewarded with headlines like the one above, which appeared in today's Seattle Times. Seems to me that someone might wanna have a word with the bigoted Republican asshole attempting to push a less consequential, less lethal anti-pride-flags-on-state-ferries bill through our state legislature:
  If state Rep. Brad Klippert has his way, no other
  
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• 100-year-old fitness buff a ‘legend’ at Mount Vernon gym

  28-01-2016 18:19
  
  Betty Erickson works out 45 minutes a day seven days a week, saying the exercise has helped her stay independent. “Everyone is in a bit of awe,” says the gym owner.
  
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• New to Town: All the Natural (and Man-Made) Disasters You Should Worry About

  28-01-2016 18:03 via thestranger.com
  
  STEPHAN HOHENTHANNER
  Long before Seattle had skyscrapers, it was carved by glaciers, seeded with wild salmon runs, and populated by indigenous peoples. Then, in a matter of centuries, white settlers and gold-seekers flooded the area, the postwar boom paved over it, and the tech industry triggered a construction boom.
  In many ways, the city is still reeling from its own boom-bust-boom history, which makes it profoundly vulnerable to its many unresolved social and environmental flaws. They surrou
  
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• The Morning News: Homeless Encampment Shooting Victims Are Identified, Paul Allen's Megayacht Is in Trouble

  28-01-2016 17:56 via thestranger.com
  
  On Wednesday, Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O'Toole gave an update on the shooting that killed two people at a homeless encampment this week.Seattle Channel
  The Victims of Tuesday's Homeless Encampment Shooting Have Been Identified: The two people killed were James Q Tran, 33, and Jennine L Brooks, 45. Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O'Toole said that investigators "feel very strongly" that the shooting at The Jungle—the homeless encampment where a total of five people were shot—dealt
  
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• Airport to Uber: Show Us the Data, or No Contract for You

  28-01-2016 17:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Uber says that it won't share data about the efficiency of its rides with the airport unless the port signs a contract with Uber drivers. PRATHAN CHORRUANGSAK/SHUTTERSTOCK
  Uber and Lyft drivers can't legally pick up fares from SeaTac airport.That much sucks for drivers, because they're able to give people rides to the airport. If they pick up a fare on the way back, that's one of the best-paying trips in the city. Otherwise, they have to head back to the city with an empty car.
  But while Uber an
  
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• DiCaprio greets pope in Italian, discusses environment

  28-01-2016 15:12
  
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Actor Leonardo DiCaprio brushed up his Italian to greet Pope Francis at the Vatican Thursday, discussed their shared concern over the environment and gave the pontiff a check for his charitable works. “Your Holiness, thank you for granting me this private audience with you,” DiCaprio said in Italian as he arrived […]
  
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• State leaders join three-year effort to make early learning more equitable

  28-01-2016 15:00
  
  Washington is part of a 20-state network tackling inequities in early childhood education based on race, ethnicity, language and culture.
  
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• The Latest: 31 US residents diagnosed with Zika in past year

  28-01-2016 14:30
  
  GENEVA (AP) — The Latest on the Zika virus that is spreading through Latin America (all times local): 6:30 p.m. Health officials say the number of U.S. residents diagnosed with Zika infections in the past year has grown to 31. All of them are believed to have caught the infection while traveling in the Caribbean […]
  
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• Health official doubts Zika virus poses major threat to U.S.

  28-01-2016 13:54
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A leading Obama administration health official says he doubts the United States is vulnerable to a widespread outbreak of a virus linked to a wave of birth defects in Brazil. Dr. Anthony Fauci says the Zika (ZEE’-kuh) virus — suspected of being connected to microcephaly — hopefully can be kept at bay […]
  
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• UN health chief: Zika virus is ‘spreading explosively’

  28-01-2016 13:33
  
  The chief of the World Health Organization says the group will hold an emergency meeting about the Zika virus,which has been linked to birth defects and neurological problems.
  
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• India cities get funds to tackle woes from sewage to traffic

  28-01-2016 12:30
  
  NEW DELHI (AP) — India took a step toward modernizing its cities on Thursday by awarding 20 with funds to solve problems from shoddy sewage treatment to snarled traffic. The government eventually plans to spend $15 billion to remake 100 cities over five years, Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu said. The first 20 to receive […]
  
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• 30 years since Challenger: Teacher-in-Space finalists gather

  28-01-2016 10:36
  
  NASA plans observances Thursday at Arlington National cemetery, Johnson Space Center in Houston and elsewhere for the 30th anniversary of the loss of seven astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenge.
  
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• 30 years since Challenger: New voice at astronauts’ memorial

  28-01-2016 10:36
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — As families of the lost Challenger astronauts gather with NASA to mark the space shuttle accident’s 30th anniversary, there’s a new voice to address the crowd. June Scobee Rodgers — widow of Challenger commander Dick Scobee and longtime spokeswoman for the group — is passing the torch to daughter Kathie […]
  
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• AP Newsbreak: Nevada seeks change in sage grouse mining rule

  28-01-2016 10:13
  
  RENO, Nev. (AP) — The governor of gold-rich Nevada is pressing the Obama administration to alter its sage grouse protection plan to free up thousands of mining claims by shrinking the restricted area in exchange for making other unprotected areas off limits, restoring burned out rangeland and reining in wild horse herds. Gov. Brian Sandoval […]
  
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• Uninsured sit on sidelines as health-care insurance sign-ups end

  28-01-2016 09:25
  
  Only 15 percent of uninsured Americans know this year's open enrollment deadline for federal health insurance, which is Sunday, a new poll finds. Most are sitting on the sidelines as sign-up season under the health law comes to a close.
  
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• 3 more arrested as Bundy urges refuge occupiers to leave

  28-01-2016 08:32
  
  BURNS, Ore. (AP) — Three members of an armed group occupying an Oregon wildlife refuge surrendered to authorities, officials said, hours after their jailed leader urged remaining militants to abandon the site and “go home.” The three arrests Wednesday at a checkpoint law officers have setup near the refuge, followed the arrests a day earlier […]
  
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• More violence feared as some militants refuse to leave Oregon refuge

  28-01-2016 06:34
  
  Two different accounts of the shooting of a militant leader near Burns, Ore., have been posted online. Some fear the accounts could stir more activists to travel to the town in protest. On Wednesday, authorities arrested three more people after establishing checkpoints in and around the refuge. Each man turned himself in.
  
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• State Senate panel narrowly votes to repeal new transgender bathroom rule

  28-01-2016 06:22
  
  Commerce and Labor Committee Chair Michael Baumgartner said anyone who would interpret repeal of Washington’s new rule as “some kind of judgment or castigation of the transgender community,” would be wrong.Others said reversing it would victimize transgender people.
  
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