Seattle news

• Last-Minute Plans: 34 Cheap & Easy Things To Do This Weekend

  05-02-2016 23:36 via thestranger.com
  
  Culture Club Cheese Bar will be serving up $5 plates of delicious, melted raclette on Sunday.CHRISBM / SHUTTERSTOCK
  It's almost the weekend—do you know what you're doing yet? If not, there are still lots of cheap and easy things to do that require very little advance planning. Here are 34 events under $10, from a Lunar New Year celebration at the Asian Art museum to the Crocodile's Super Bowl viewing party with free pizza to a Mardi Gras pub crawl. For even more options this weekend, check
  
  Read more

• Seattle musician channels Jimi Hendrix around the world

  05-02-2016 23:30
  
  Randy Hansen is recognized globally as the leading tribute act of the late Jimi Hendrix, and he lives right here in Seattle.
  
  Read more

• Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, sixth man on moon, dies at 85

  05-02-2016 23:28
  
  Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who became the sixth man to walk on the moon and later devoted his life to unexplained phenomena, has died in Florida. During his time on the lunar surface, he conducted a mental telepathy experiment. He was 85.
  
  Read more

• I, Anonymous: It Wasn't Me, It Was You

  05-02-2016 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  STEVEN WEISSMAN
  I was wicked shitty and crazy to you. It sucks, and I'm sorry and embarrassed. I think about it often, and I've come up with some reasons I couldn't admit the ongoing stuff with your ex was about you, not about me being unworthy. I just wanted you so hard that I was incapable of admitting we couldn't have a relationship fully ours, so I tried to maneuver in, which of course backfired. You should know I saw the cute photos you sent her daily. I saw the text when you complained to
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• On 911 Response Times, Seattle Police Have Been "Messing With the Numbers"

  05-02-2016 22:26 via thestranger.com
  
  Police have been "messing with the numbers" when it comes to 911 response times. City of Seattle
  For years, the SPD has been artificially lowering its purported response time to 911 calls—telling the public that police were meeting their goal of arriving on the scene in an average of seven minutes. In reality, according to the latest figures, it takes 9.2 minutes.
  At a city council committee hearing on January 27, police chief Kathleen O'Toole and Chief Operating Officer Brian Maxey reveal
  
  Read more

• This Week on a Very Special Blabbermouth: Eli Sanders Discusses His New Book, While the City Slept

  05-02-2016 22:20 via thestranger.com
  
  We don't like to talk about it too much, but ELI WROTE A BOOK!Substitute host (Stammerin') Sean Nelson interviews regular Blabbermouth host Eli Sanders about Sanders’s splendid new book, While the City Slept (Viking, $28), which tells the story of the tragic intersection of three lives, the failures of the public mental health system, and the inspirational evolution of forgiveness.
  Blabbermouth February 5, 2016Download Episode | Subscribe on iTunes | RSS Feed
  
  Read more

• What the Fight Over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Tells Us About the Trans-Pacific Partnership

  05-02-2016 22:07 via thestranger.com
  
  I must begin this review with a confession. I had no idea that many of the chickens sold in supermarkets in the United States have been bathed in chlorine. I know all about hormone-enhanced beef and genetically tricked veggies. But somehow I missed the memo on the chlorinated chickens, many of which I have eaten, and many more I'm condemned to bake and braise in the future.
  Europeans find the idea of American-style "chicken in chlorine sauce" disgusting, and they fear that the Transatlantic Tra
  
  Read more

• Tonight on TV: HBO's New Animated Show Animals

  05-02-2016 21:47 via thestranger.com
  For those who like their animation on the darker side, you might want to check out HBO's Animals (debuting tonight, Feb 5, at 11:30 pm). Created by Mike Luciano and Phil Matarese (and helped along by the Duplass brothers), Animals features the daily problems of animals in NYC—which turns out to be very similar problems to those experienced by people in NYC... or any urban environment. Example! In tonight's opening episode, two rats discuss their attempts to get lucky at a party, meanwhile
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• EPA: Traces of contaminant found in 3 Colorado water systems

  05-02-2016 21:46
  
  DENVER (AP) — Traces of widely used and potentially harmful chemicals have shown up in three drinking water systems in Colorado, prompting officials to shut down three wells and start looking for the source. Two compounds once used in nonstick cookware coatings, firefighting foam and other materials were detected in utilities serving about 69,000 people […]
  
  Read more

• Dirty Bernie: The Phone Sex Hotline Where You Can Spank Whatever Kind of Monkey You Have with the Only Candidate Who Doesn't Use a Super PAC

  05-02-2016 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  On this episode, everybody's favorite democratic-socialist confronts a Bernie Bro. Mike ForceThis week, Dirty Bernie takes a whack at a Bernie Bro who calls up from his mother's basement in Iowa City. The Bro is fresh from a night of hard caucusing, and the red state's uncertain results have left him with a case of blue balls. The Bern is reluctant to relieve the Bro, but with some people you just can't win.Then Sanders fields a call from a self-described "bulldog wearing a hockey mask," who hap
  
  Read more

• For the First Time in Years, the Seahawks Will Not Be Playing in the Super Bowl on Sunday

  05-02-2016 21:28 via thestranger.com
  
  The Super Bowl is on Sunday. As you know.EQRoy / Shutterstock.com
  For the first time in literally years (two, literally, two years) the Seahawks will not be playing in the Super Bowl. Instead we get the Carolina Panthers and the Denver Broncos in a matchup of (1) a team that plays like the Seahawks and (2) a team that the Seahawks thrashed in the Super Bowl two years ago. Oh man that was so great. Hold on a second while I relish those memories.
  Mmmmmmmm.
  Yeah.
  All right.
  Ohhhh yeah.
  Hahahaha.
  Ok
  
  Read more

• Planned Parenthood clinic in Pullman reopens six months after arson attack

  05-02-2016 21:14
  
  A Planned Parenthood clinic in Pullman, serving Washington State University and the University of Idaho, reopened Friday almost exactly six months after it was largely destroyed in an arson attack.
  
  Read more

• Soil rises around Bertha; no building foundations damaged

  05-02-2016 21:05
  
  The soil around tunnel-boring machine Bertha pushed upward after groundwater flows were restored, but the project remains stalled. Structural experts found no major damage to buildings, said an official with the Highway 99 tunnel project.
  
  Read more

• This Weekend in Seattle: 15 Movies We Think You'll Like

  05-02-2016 20:46 via thestranger.com
  
  Catch Humpday, about two bros going to town on each other for the HUMP! Film Festival, at Central Cinema this weekend.
  Our critics selected their favorite films this week, from wide releases to one-time showings, and we have the details on when and where to see all of them, from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, featuring the Bennett sisters as zombie-fighting heroes, to Hail, Caesar!, the newest movie from the Coen brothers. For even more movie times (like the Seattle premiere of Iraqi Odyssey a
  
  Read more

• Person of Interest: Mommy Long Legs

  05-02-2016 20:43 via thestranger.com
  
  KELLY O
  
  Read more

• Erin Pike Performs Only the Women’s Parts from the Most-Produced Plays in America, and It’s Brilliant

  05-02-2016 20:31 via thestranger.com
  
  The 11 most-produced plays in America are the source material for the dramatic collage That'swhatshesaid, written by Courtney Meaker. Erin Pike, above, performs every part herself. Tim Summers
  Erin Pike stands onstage and apologizes for over a minute. At various moments a disembodied male voice describes her as mousy, elegant, attractive, a mess, and Pike struggles to embody each of them in quick succession. She runs up and down the stairs wearing heels. She stands in the spotlight and takes off
  
  Read more

• Congress unites in scorn for Shkreli, but gridlock remains

  05-02-2016 20:25
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A smirking Martin Shkreli briefly united Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill this week, as lawmakers took turns blasting the price-hiking former CEO who has become the new poster child for corporate greed. But the gridlocked state of Congress virtually assures federal efforts to lower drug prices will remain in limbo for […]
  
  Read more

• Seattle expert: Amid Zika scare, brain damage is unusually severe

  05-02-2016 20:03
  
  A Seattle expert in microcephaly, the devastating birth defect that appears linked to Zika virus infections in Brazil, said he’s seeing a pattern of cases that are unusually severe, raising worrisome questions about the outbreak.
  
  Read more

• Climate Change Could Undo Trump in New Hampshire

  05-02-2016 20:01 via thestranger.com
  
  This photo was taken near Manchester, New Hampshire, this time last year. Trump doesn't have as much experience seeing the state from inside a car as the other candidates do. James Ramsay
  Donald Trump doesn't believe that climate change is real, but some unusual weather events in New Hampshire might just convince him if they play a role in him losing the primary next week.
  If you called any of your relatives back east over the last few weeks, they might've mentioned some unseasonably warm condit
  
  Read more

• Bertha still idle, workers to repair dirt-loading pier

  05-02-2016 19:39
  
  While Seattle's massive tunneling machine, Bertha, remains idle, workers are now preparing to repair damage to the pier where dirt from the tunnel is loaded onto barges.
  
  Read more

• Creative Justice, A New Public Art Program, Offers Alternatives to Jail for King County Youth

  05-02-2016 19:32 via thestranger.com
  
  This artwork by one of the youth in Creative Justice last year is called Descanso, Spanish for a cross or marker placed at the site of a violent death. All photos by Tim Aguero
  Claire Thornton was a prosecuting attorney with King County for several years when her bosses shuttled her back to where she'd began: the Juvenile Unit of the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office. Like many young prosecutors, she'd served in the juvenile unit for a short time and got out of there. It was known as a p
  
  Read more

• Police Reports Illustrated: A Man with a Badge Stops a Woman Leaving a Grocery Store and Accuses Her of Shoplifting

  05-02-2016 19:13 via thestranger.com
  
  Callan Berry[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
  Read more

• Ski report: More snow on the way, changing to springlike skiing conditions

  05-02-2016 19:09
  
  Hold onto your boards as another winter weather advisory calls for moderate to heavy snowfall in the Cascades. A cold front is forecasted to deliver 4 to 10 inches of snow late Friday through Saturday morning with the highest amounts at Mount Baker and Crystal Mountain. Slightly smaller amounts will pile up at Stevens and […]
  
  Read more

• Ski report: More snow on the way, changing to spring-like skiing conditions

  05-02-2016 19:09
  
  Hold onto your boards as another winter weather advisory was issued with moderate to heavy snowfall expected in the Cascades. A cold front is forecast to deliver 4 to 10 inches of snow late Friday through Saturday morning with the highest amounts at Mount Baker and Crystal Mountain. Slightly less amounts will pile up at […]
  
  Read more

• Death of Oregon ultramarathoner rocks community of runners

  05-02-2016 18:02
  
  The death of 46-year-old ultramarathon runner Todd Ragsdale while taking a solo training run in the Ashland Watershed’s trail system on a cold, rainy day has some local runners rethinking their running routines.
  
  Read more

• Poll: Clinton's Lead Over Sanders Is Gone

  05-02-2016 17:59 via thestranger.com
  
  It's just one poll. Could be an outlier. But still:
  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) lags behind former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by just two points, nearly wiping out Clinton's previous 31-point lead, according to a nationwide Quinnipiac poll released Friday. The poll showed support for Clinton at 44 percent, with Sanders close behind at 42 percent. This represents an enormous change since the previous national Quinnipiac poll in December, which showed Clinton beating Sanders 61 percent to 3
  
  Read more

• The Morning News: Homeless Encampment Shooters Didn't Qualify for Juvenile Parole, Snoqualamie Pass Crash Kills Two

  05-02-2016 17:53 via thestranger.com
  
  The Jungle. SPD
  Troubled Lives for Boys Involved in "Jungle" Shooting: Their father is in prison and their mother has been repeatedly arrested for drug dealing. None of them were in school, the AP reports. "They were wards of the state, but they had run from every placement DSHS [Department of Social and Health Services] had arranged for them," King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg said.The Shooters Did Not Qualify for Juvenile Parole: But Satterberg might not be telling the whole story. The two
  
  Read more

• The Pullman Planned Parenthood That Was Firebombed in September Officially Reopens Today

  05-02-2016 17:50 via thestranger.com
  
  The newly rebuilt Pullman Planned Parenthood that was heavily damaged in a September arson. courtesy of planned parenthood
  Around 3:30 a.m. on a Friday morning in September, arsonists attacked a Planned Parenthood clinic in Pullman. Police believe the attacker threw a flammable object through the window, but still haven't made any arrests.
  Today, after what Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho described as months of "drastic" renovations, the clinic will officially reopen."It
  
  Read more

• Fatal crash closes Snoqualmie Pass westbound

  05-02-2016 17:26
  
  Two people were killed in the wreck. Snoqualmie Pass is expected to be closed into the afternoon on Friday, Feb. 5, 2016.
  
  Read more

• Between the ears: Is teaching part of human nature or just plain WEIRD?

  05-02-2016 15:00
  
  Washington State University researchers find that traditional African hunter-gatherers teach children as young as 12 months old to use knives, machetes and digging sticks.
  
  Read more

• Seattle council may tackle ‘livable’ schedules for area workers

  05-02-2016 08:59
  
  The Seattle City Council may consider legislation requiring companies like Starbucks to provide employees with more consistent, livable schedules.
  
  Read more

• Seattle council members grill City Light nominee

  05-02-2016 04:18
  
  Seattle Mayor Ed Murray’s nominee to head City Light got a grilling from City Council members Thursday.
  
  Read more

• Cleared after stabbing, former UW student wants his life back

  05-02-2016 04:03
  
  Jarred Ha was arrested and kicked out of the University of Washington last year after a fight that began over a parking dispute between neighbors and ended with a 19-year-old stabbed. Ha, 22, was acquitted last month, with jurors ruling he acted in self-defense.
  
  Read more

• Cleared after stabbing, ex-UW student wants his life back

  05-02-2016 04:03
  
  Jarred Ha was arrested and kicked out of the University of Washington last year after a fight that began over a parking dispute between neighbors and ended with a 19-year-old stabbed. Ha, 22, was acquitted last month, with jurors ruling he acted in self-defense.
  
  Read more

• Senate committee approves ban on sex-selection abortions

  05-02-2016 03:53
  
  A state Senate committee has approved a bill that would make the procedure for sex-selective abortions unlawful. Abortion-rights advocates argue such procedures are not an issue in the United States.
  
  Read more

• Man shot on bus had reached $42K settlement with city

  05-02-2016 03:28
  
  The 22-year-old man shot on a King County Metro bus Wednesday had previously been paid $42,000 by the city of Seattle after he was kicked by a police officer.
  
  Read more

• Man shot on bus had been paid $42K after he was kicked by cop

  05-02-2016 03:28
  
  The 22-year-old man shot on a King County Metro bus Wednesday had previously been paid $42,000 by the city of Seattle after he was kicked by a police officer.
  
  Read more

• Vest in show: Bellevue police’s canine cop gets bulletproof gear

  05-02-2016 03:15
  
  A Bellevue police dog, Ozzy, gets a custom-fitted bulletproof vest courtesy of the Ben Roethlisberger Foundation.
  
  Read more

• Matching Kevlar vests for human and K-9 crime-busting duo

  05-02-2016 03:15
  
  A Bellevue police dog, Ozzy, gets a custom-fitted bulletproof vest courtesy of the Ben Roethlisberger Foundation.
  
  Read more

• Space heater, propane tank caused deadly coffee stand fire in Everett, officials say

  05-02-2016 02:58
  
  The blaze on Jan. 7 killed Courtney Campbell, a barista who was inside the business when it caught fire.
  
  Read more

• Liveslogging Tonight's Bernie/Hillary Debate, Yes Another One

  05-02-2016 02:57 via thestranger.com
  
  Hillary glides triumphantly to the stage. a katz / Shutterstock.com
  Are you serious, Bernie and Hillary are having a debate tonight? Like, one night after their CNN town hall?
  Yup, apparently that's how we're scheduling things these things. Well, join us yet more live mockery of the candidates. Tweet at me @mattbaume if you want to get my attention, or drop a note in the comments.
  6:05 - Opening statements. "The economy is rigged!" Bernie begins. I think we've heard this song before.
  6:06 - Hill
  
  Read more

• Coastal razor clam fans can add Copalis Beach to the dig list later this month

  05-02-2016 02:39
  
  Coastal razor clam lovers can tentatively add another beach to their digging agenda this month. Copalis Beach will be open Feb. 19-20 during evening low tides only, and final approval should be announced about a week prior to the opener. This opening comes on the heels of Long Beach on the southern coast now open […]
  
  Read more

• Patty Murray bill aims to boost safety in reusable medical devices

  05-02-2016 02:16
  
  U.S. Sen. Patty Murray has introduced a bill aimed at improving safety and oversight of medical devices such as the scopes tied to an outbreak of multidrug-resistant infections at Seattle’s Virginia Mason Medical Center.
  
  Read more

• Transgender Rights Activists TP'd State Senator Pam Roach

  05-02-2016 02:09 via thestranger.com
  
  TP'd! Denechia Powell
  In case you missed it: Life is hard for Republican State Senator Pam Roach. Last month, the lieutenant governor removed her from a task force after complaints that she had verbally abused victims of sexual trafficking. On Tuesday, transgender activists TP'd (toilet paper'd) her office in Olympia.
  Why toilet paper? "We wanted to follow the Republicans lead of focusing on bathrooms," said Debbie Carlsen, the director of LGBTQ Allyship. "It seems like that's a concern of their
  
  Read more

• First research links California quakes to oil operations

  05-02-2016 02:01
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A 2005 spate of quakes in California’s Central Valley almost certainly was triggered by oilfield injection underground, a study published Thursday said in the first such link in California between oil and gas operations and earthquakes. Researchers at the University of California at Santa Cruz, the University of Southern California and […]
  
  Read more

• Redmond, Juanita high schools cancel Friday classes due to threats

  05-02-2016 01:48
  
  Police are investigating to determine the credibility of the written messages. All other schools in the Lake Washington School District remain open for the day.
  
  Read more

• Top 11 Concerts in Seattle This Weekend

  05-02-2016 01:23 via thestranger.com
  
  Sean Nelson says, "Anya Marina makes the good kind of pop." See her live on Saturday. Shervin Lainez
  Welcome, once again, to our roundup of the best live music Seattle has to offer this weekend. We've got improvised music of all varieties, informal classical music, smart pop, a tribute to the iconic Allen Toussaint, and more! As always, here's the rest of our complete music calendar for the weekend.
  FRIDAY
  CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL: Seattle Improvised Music Festival
  Featuring three musicians from t
  
  Read more

• Sorry, CDC, but "Not Drinking" Is Definitely Not a Form of Birth Control

  05-02-2016 01:22 via thestranger.com
  
  You've probably seen this delightful infographic from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, right? You know, the one that says women shouldn't drink if they're not on birth control, because they might get accidentally pregnant? If you haven't, and you haven't yet met your quota today for the absurd, well, here you go:
  Centers for Disease Control and PreventionTHERE ARE SOME PROBLEMS HERE. Let's discuss.
  Much thinkpiece hay has rightfully been made of the comically stupid implication he
  
  Read more

• 10 reasons Seattle-bashing Republicans can go screw themselves

  05-02-2016 01:11
  
  At retreat in Ocean Shores over the last weekend in January, Republicans spent every second of the entire conference bemoaning the existence of and scoffing at liberal Seattle. We answer back.
  
  Read more

• The City Council Might Actually Do Something About Unpredictable Scheduling for Low-Wage Workers

  05-02-2016 01:02 via thestranger.com
  
  Calls for scheduling reform have gained momentum since a report from the New York Times highlighted the difficulties of Starbucks employees who have unpredictable schedules. SORBIS/SHUTTERSTOCK
  Local Starbucks employees have tried going directly to Howard Shultz with their complaints about how the company schedules its workers. He hasn't responded. So they're going to the Seattle City Council instead.
  Working Washington—a labor advocacy group funded in part by Service Employees Internation
  
  Read more

Follow @Seattle_news_ on Twitter!