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• Savage Love: The Wilbur Theatre

  04-02-2016 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  JOE NEWTON
  A large crowd braved a snowstorm to come out to Savage Love Live at Boston's Wilbur Theatre last week. Questions were submitted on index cards, which allowed questioners to remain anonymous and forced them to be succinct. I got to as many of them as I could over two long, raucous, boozy hours. Here are some of the questions I didn't have time for in Boston...
  What do you think of poop play?
  I think of it rarely.
  How long should I keep my partner locked in male chastity?Until Rick San
  
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• Bill to Allow Pot Delivery Is Gaining Momentum in the State Legislature

  04-02-2016 23:09 via thestranger.com
  
  Expect to see a lot more bearded hippies on bikes soon. Bike messenger/Shutterstock
  A bill to allow cannabis delivery services in the City of Seattle, HB 2368, is headed to the House floor after this morning's Commerce and Gaming Committee meeting, which is great news. Even greater news?Rep. Christopher Hurst (D-Enumclaw, haver of a really great mustache) amended the bill to open up the delivery game to as many operators as the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board (WSLCB) sees fit to autho
  
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• 22 Ways to Celebrate Mardi Gras in Seattle

  04-02-2016 23:05 via thestranger.com
  
  The Crocodile's Brazilian Carnaval will feature Brazilian music and a dance workshop. STOCKPHOTOSART / SHUTTERSTOCK
  Mardi Gras is on Tuesday, and there are lots of opportunities to let the good times roll in the coming days—from a free, citywide pub crawl to the Crocodile's Brazilian Carnaval to boiled crawfish at Restaurant Roux. See all of your options below, or on our Mardi Gras calendar.
  FEB 5
  1. Brazilian Carnival featuring EntreMundos Quarteto and Tudo Beleza
  The Royal Room plays hos
  
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• Will the City Council Save Pronto, Seattle's Bike Share Service?

  04-02-2016 22:52 via thestranger.com
  
  The city has until March 30 to keep Seattle's bike share service afloat. ES
  The Seattle City Council has until the end of March to save Pronto Cycle Share from financial collapse. Tom Fucoloro at Seattle Bike Blog reports:
  Ridership in the first year was lower than projected, though many people involved are now questioning how realistic those projections were. A little over half of operating costs are paid by user fees, less than was planned. That’s a problem, sure, but likely not insurmou
  
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• So Long, Jerks! A Tribute to Huckabee, Santorum, and "Suspended" Campaigns

  04-02-2016 22:39 via thestranger.com
  
  The Future Not-Presidents of the United States of America Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com
  It's been fun, but like all good things, the Mike Huckabee campaign has finally drawn to an end.
  I mean, we can call it a "campaign" but let's be real, candidates like this know they don't have a shot at winning the presidency. But a year or two of "campaigning" is great publicity for books and speeches, and it's a fun audition for Fox News that they can get someone else to pay for. Mission accomplished?
  But
  
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• Dick Move—Talent Agent Seeks Women DJs Based on Physical Qualities

  04-02-2016 22:26 via thestranger.com
  
  Sexism is still rampant in electronic-music culture—well, in all realms of the music industry. An astonishing example of it came to light a few days ago when a public post by a DJ/agent named Justin James seeking women DJs was posted on the website Pile Rats. In this case, James—a globe-trotting DJ who also runs a talent agency and not to be confused with this Justin James—made it known that he is looking to book female jocks... provided they meet his very specific demands that
  
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• You Have Less Than 6 Hours to Get a Valentine to Your Sweetheart Published in Next Week's Issue!

  04-02-2016 22:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Got a husband? Wife? Sweetheart? Crush? All of the above? It's time to let them know you love them—in print. Any chump can send a text. It takes a true romantic to write it down where everyone can see.
  Here's how to get a valentine written by you into next week's Stranger: Submit your valentine (40 words max) at thestranger.com/valentines. Deadline is Friday, February 5, at 5 p.m. Act fast, Romeo: Only the first 2,000 entries will go in our February 10 print edition. (But don't fret, Juli
  
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• Next Week Is Our Valentine's Issue!

  04-02-2016 22:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Got a husband? Wife? Sweetheart? Crush? All of the above? It's time to let them know you love them—in print. Any chump can send a text. It takes a true romantic to write it down where everyone can see.
  Here's how to get a valentine written by you into next week's Stranger: Submit your valentine (40 words max) at thestranger.com/valentines. Deadline is Friday, February 5, at 5 p.m. Act fast, Romeo: Only the first 2,000 entries will go in our February 10 print edition. (But don't fret, Juli
  
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• A Sad Misogynist Canceled His Meetups, So We Don't Have to Hear About His Pro-Rape Bullshit Anymore

  04-02-2016 21:34 via thestranger.com
  
  A suggestion on what to do at Roosh V's Seattle meetups: a puppy play party! The Stranger
  Human vomit fountain Roosh V has canceled his planned "international meetup" day. Originally, the meetups were meant to attract men's rights activists who might want to get together and gab about stuff like legalized rape. Two of these events were supposedly planned in Seattle. (At the meetup points, attendees were then meant to ask one another, "Do you know where I can find a pet shop?" and then be directe
  
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• Street Scene: Seattle's Princess Angeline

  04-02-2016 21:15 via thestranger.com
  
  As seen earlier this week, near Westlake Avenue and John Street…"So dawn goes down today, nothing gold can stay." Photo Kelly OPrincess Angeline and a tiny heart, filled with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X.
  
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• Texas Defunds Planned Parenthood, Birth Rates Among Low-Income Women Rise

  04-02-2016 20:53 via thestranger.com
  
  LA Times:
  The state of Texas’ sustained campaign against Planned Parenthood and other family planning clinics affiliated with abortion providers appears to have led to an increase in births among low-income women who lost access to affordable and effective birth control, a new study says. The analysis, published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, documents a significant increase in births among women who had previously received birth control at clinics that no longer get sta
  
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• Two of the Teens Arrested in Last Week's Encampment Shooting Will Be Charged as Adults

  04-02-2016 20:38 via thestranger.com
  
  Three teenagers have been arrested in connection with a shooting in a longtime homeless encampment known as "The Jungle." Seattle Police took this photo in the encampment back in 2012.seattle police department
  King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg will charge two of the three teens arrested in last week's homeless encampment shooting as adults.The two brothers, 17-year-old James Taafulisia and 16-year-old Jerome Taafulisia, will be charged with first-degree murder as well as assault and guns cha
  
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• "What Does a Conductor Actually Do?" and Other Bonehead Questions I Asked Seattle Symphony Music Director Ludovic Morlot

  04-02-2016 19:08 via thestranger.com
  
  Ludovic Morlot: “It’s not enough to not like it.” SUSSIE AHLBURG
  Like many of the so-called high arts, symphonic music suffers from its intimidating reputation as both boring and good for you—a bunch of uptight blue-hairs nodding off in a golden room. The concert hall itself gets pegged as a bank-breaking fancyhaus people attend out of obligation to The Arts, if they even attend at all.
  But none of these associations hold up when you consider our hometown symphony. A tick
  
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• Santorum Can't Name a Single Rubio Accomplishment

  04-02-2016 18:24 via thestranger.com
  Mediaite:
  Fresh off of his withdrawal from the Republican race for the Presidency, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum offered his passionate endorsement for Marco Rubio yesterday. Rubio, the Florida Senator who finished third in Iowa on Monday, has been gaining momentum heading into next week’s New Hampshire primary, and the endorsement from Santorum was a boost for his campaign. However, on Thursday morning, Santorum was utterly unable to answer a direct question from Morning Joe&
  
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• Racially charged email in Orting an isolated incident, says report

  04-02-2016 18:19
  
  An investigation into a racially charged email sent by a former Orting council member has determined that the message was not indicative of a broader issue.
  
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• Everett man pleads guilty in sexually motivated slaying at halfway house

  04-02-2016 18:12
  
  The manager of an Everett halfway house pleaded guilty to killing a resident because of his “deep regret” for the incident, his attorney said.
  
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• In Boston area, the bald-eagle population is soaring

  04-02-2016 18:11
  
  There were 51 confirmed territorial breeding bald-eagle pairs in Massachusetts last year, the most since they were reintroduced to the state in 1982, a Division of Fisheries and Wildlife official says.
  
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• The Morning News: No Cheese in Mickey D's Cheese Sticks, 8 Years for Creepy Ex-Bush School Cross-Country Ski Coach

  04-02-2016 18:08 via thestranger.com
  
  Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California.turtix / Shutterstock.com
  Google to Test Self-Driving Car in Kirkland: Puget Sound Business Journal reports that the technology corporation Google picked Kirkland to test an autonomous Lexus SUV because it rains a lot there. But the big question remains: Why does the human race need self-driving cars? What ultimate good will they provide?
  Former Bush School Cross-Country Ski Coach Sentenced to 8 years in Prison for Secretly Filming Female Studen
  
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• Marysville mother guilty of sex crimes involving 6-year-old daughter

  04-02-2016 18:08
  
  Prosecutors say the Marysville woman and her husband solicited customers through Craigslist to sexually assault the girl.
  
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• Tacoma man dies after ski accident in Pennsylvania

  04-02-2016 18:04
  
  The Lehigh County coroner says Heo Hyunki, 35, of Tacoma, died three days after his accident at the Blue Mountain ski resort.
  
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• Feds investigate Spokane’s special-education program

  04-02-2016 17:54
  
  The investigation follows a federal civil-rights complaint alleging districtwide discrimination by the Spokane schools’ former director of special education.
  
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• Hold that climate change panic, NOAA has a solution

  04-02-2016 17:02
  
  The main hurdle for generating all of our country's electricity needs by solar and wind farms is that the sun doesn't always shine nor the wind blow. So, either the electricity generated by these renewable resources has to be stored or shipped in from another location where the sun is shining and wind blowing.
  
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• Students, librarians urge professors to use free, online textbooks

  04-02-2016 15:10
  
  Nearly a third of college students must dip into financial aid to pay for textbooks, but there's a growing online library of free textbooks that can help students save money, an advocacy group says.
  
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• Kentucky tops coverage gains as GOP looks to remake Medicaid

  04-02-2016 11:47
  
  FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — As Gov. Matt Bevin prepares to remake Kentucky’s Medicaid program, a new national survey shows what’s at stake: gains in insurance coverage matched only by one other state. Kentucky and Arkansas had the largest drops in the percentage of people without health insurance in the country, according to the Gallup-Healthways survey. […]
  
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• For state’s charter schools, it’s a matter of survival

  04-02-2016 06:51
  
  The campaign to keep charter schools open is organized and well-funded, with millions at its disposal. But the future of the charter-school system in Washington is uncertain.
  
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• How to be rich in Seattle

  04-02-2016 06:46
  
  Sure, Seattle is surging toward an economic sea change. Rents and the cost-of-living chug upward. A second dose of gentrification sweeps through the central city. Beginner supercars idle in the Mercer Mess.
  
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• Reaction mixed on bill aimed at prosecuting police shootings

  04-02-2016 06:44
  
  Sponsored by Rep. Luis Moscoso, D-Bothell, and a group of other Democrats, House Bill 2907removes a portion of existing law that says police can't be held criminally liable for using deadly force if they acted in good faith and without malice.
  
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• Bill would make it easier to prosecute police for shootings

  04-02-2016 06:44
  
  Sponsored by Rep. Luis Moscoso, D-Bothell, and a group of other Democrats, House Bill 2907removes a portion of existing law that says police can't be held criminally liable for using deadly force if they acted in good faith and without malice.
  
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• State may lift I-405 tolls at night, on weekends, holidays

  04-02-2016 06:30
  
  The state appears ready to open Interstate 405 toll lanes to general traffic during nights, holidays and weekends, in a partial response to angry motorists.
  
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• 4 holdouts at Oregon refuge have diverse backgrounds

  04-02-2016 06:12
  
  The four armed activists still occupying a national wildlife refuge in Oregon have shown no signs they are ready to leave more than a week after the main figures in the standoff were arrested. Ammon Bundy led the group that seized the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge on Jan. 2 to oppose federal land policies and […]
  
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• AP photographer reflects on ‘bucket baby’ in Brazil

  04-02-2016 06:03
  
  RECIFE, Brazil (AP) — The first time I met Solange Ferreira was in December. She was at a hospital, waiting to hear from a doctor whether her baby boy had what so many in her village were talking about — microcephaly, or an abnormally small head that is a sign of severe disabilities and a […]
  
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• Lawmaker proposes using GPS to keep wildfire fighters safe

  04-02-2016 05:44
  
  A Moses Lake legislator is sponsoring a bill that would allow Washington state to use GPS locaters to track wildland firefighters and vehicles in real time.
  
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• Security beefed up at national wildlife refuges in 3 states

  04-02-2016 05:03
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Additional security officers have been sent to national wildlife refuges in southern Oregon, northern California and Nevada amid the ongoing armed occupation of a sister refuge in southeastern Oregon that has caused tensions in the region and is showing no sign of ending soon. Four occupiers remain holed up at the […]
  
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• Feds bolster security at wildlife preserves in 3 states

  04-02-2016 05:03
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The government has beefed up security at national wildlife refuges in states south of Oregon as an armed standoff over federal land policy has created tensions in the region and shows no sign of ending soon. Additional security officers were sent to preserves in southern Oregon, Northern California and Nevada as […]
  
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• Safe2Tell bill aims to prevent school shootings using student tips

  04-02-2016 04:59
  
  A bill in the Washington Legislature would create a new way for students to anonymously send information about threats, potential mass shootings or other life-threatening situations at their schools.
  
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• Bill aims to prevent school shootings using student tips

  04-02-2016 04:59
  
  A bill in the Washington Legislature would create a new way for students to anonymously send information about threats, potential mass shootings or other life-threatening situations at their schools.
  
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• Pedestrian contrail at Museum of Flight

  04-02-2016 04:54
  
  Pedestrians cross the Museum of Flight's pedestrian bridge, built in 2008 and inspired by aircraft’s contrail.
  
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• State water-pollution proposals not tough enough for fish and human safety, critics say

  04-02-2016 04:42
  
  The state of Washington has a new round of proposed regulations on water pollution intended to ensure safety of human consumption of fish from local waters.
  
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• Newest effort from state not protective enough, critics say

  04-02-2016 04:42
  
  The state of Washington has a new round of proposed regulations on water pollution intended to ensure safety of human consumption of fish from local waters.
  
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• More low-income Seattle students to get free ORCA cards

  04-02-2016 04:30
  
  The Seattle School Board voted Wednesday to expand its ORCA card program to include low-income students who live 1-2 miles from their schools.
  
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• Power outages in North Seattle; thousands of customers were affected

  04-02-2016 04:04
  
  Almost 7,000 Seattle City Light customers were without power around Wednesday evening. But crews brought that number to about 300 about by 8 p.m.
  
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• Scenes captured by dawn’s early light

  04-02-2016 03:52
  
  Seattle Times photographers capture beautiful sunrise images around Puget Sound.
  
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• Giant Department of Social and Health Services gets interim director

  04-02-2016 03:47
  
  A 26-year employee of Washington's Department of Social and Health Services, Patricia Lashway, will become acting director of DSHS while the state conducts a national search for a permanent director.
  
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• Liveslogging Tonight's CNN Town Hall with Bernie and Hillary

  04-02-2016 03:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Oh, the fun we have. Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com
  What's this? Another "town hall" that is not a debate? Yup, CNN would like to cordially invite you to watch the candidates hang out in the same room, talking to anyone but each other, like a weird passive aggressive Thanksgiving.
  Martin O'Malley will not be present, because he has a prior bench-pressing engagement.
  A couple of sites say that it starts at 5pm PT, but CNN says it'll be an hour later. Watch this space for non-debate live-mockery s
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Introvert Dumps Extravert

  04-02-2016 02:59 via thestranger.com
  
  Gay male in my late twenties here. I recently ended things with a guy I had been dating for about two months. Our relationship started as a strictly sexual one. We're both involved in the kink scene in our city and have interests that align in a particularly great way. Very quickly it became clear that there was more of a connection than just a sexual one. The next two months were pretty great! We spent several nights a week together, me often spending the night at his place, I even had a toothb
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Intropervert Dumps Extropervert

  04-02-2016 02:59 via thestranger.com
  
  Gay male in my late twenties here. I recently ended things with a guy I had been dating for about two months. Our relationship started as a strictly sexual one. We're both involved in the kink scene in our city and have interests that align in a particularly great way. Very quickly it became clear that there was more of a connection than just a sexual one. The next two months were pretty great! We spent several nights a week together, me often spending the night at his place, I even had a toothb
  
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• Child-care programs at 7 Seattle schools told they may need to relocate

  04-02-2016 02:50
  
  Before- and after-school programs at six Seattle elementary schools and one K-8 school will be affected by the displacements,
  
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• From the archives: Liberty Bank, Seattle’s first black-owned bank, opens in the Central District in 1968

  04-02-2016 02:43
  
  A brief history of Washington state's first black-owned bank located in the Central District in Seattle.
  
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• Prosecutor to announce charges against 3 Jungle suspects on Thursday

  04-02-2016 01:54
  
  King County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Satterberg will hold a news conference Thursday to announce charges against three teenage brothers accused of killing two people and wounding three others in The Jungle homeless encampment on Jan. 26.
  
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• Free Will Astrology: For the Week of February 3

  04-02-2016 01:25 via thestranger.com
  
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  AQUARIUS (Jan 20–Feb 18): You may sometimes be drawn to people or places or ideas long before they can give you their gifts. Although you sense their potential value, you might have to ripen before you'll be ready to receive their full bounty. Here's how author Elias Canetti expressed it: "There are books that one has for 20 years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, yet one carefully refrains from reading even a complete sentence. Then after 20 years, t
  
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