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• Drake Looks Like a Ferret and Other Music Industry Mean Tweets

  16-02-2016 23:50 via thestranger.com
  While Jimmy Kimmel's hilarious segment "Mean Tweets" may have originally targeted terrible people who callously insult celebs, it seems to be slowly turning into "Twitter's Sickest Burns." Check out the latest edition featuring some of the music industry's top performers (including Drake, New Edition, Mumford & Sons, Meghan Trainor, and more) and bring along some salve. Those burns need to be treated![ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Why Vancouver Played Marco Rubio's Imaginary American City

  16-02-2016 23:48 via thestranger.com
  
  Vancouver, British Columbia is a professional at playing American cities. Charles Mudede
  It is not at all surprising that Vancouver, Canada found itself playing an American city in Marco Rubio's campaign ad "Morning again in America." The city often plays American cities. It even plays Seattle more than Seattle plays itself.
  In fact, Vancouver has not only been our city in TV programs like Dark Angel, but played, and still plays, the whole of the USA in the X-Files. But the mother of all roles t
  
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• Inslee asks for changes on I-405 tolling, other tools to ease congestion

  16-02-2016 23:41
  
  Gov. Jay Inslee announced Tuesday that he is asking for changes to tolling on Interstate 405 as well as repairs to Interstate 5 expansion joints and $10 million in funding for more incident response vehicles.
  
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• Seattle Art Fair 2016 Announces Artistic Director and Early Lineup of Galleries

  16-02-2016 23:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Last summer, David Zwirner Gallery brought a terrific Alice Neel portrait. Hey, maybe another one will materialize with Zwirner's return this summer. This one is a self-portrait from 1980. Courtesy David Zwirner Gallery
  Of the triumvirate of big names that headlined last year's inaugural Seattle Art Fair, two will return to the Paul Allen/Vulcan production this coming summer August 4-7: David Zwirner Gallery and Pace Gallery.
  No Gagosian. We sure will miss that secret-squirrel viewing box with i
  
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• Job Openings at The Stranger and the Portland Mercury

  16-02-2016 23:00 via thestranger.com
  
  People ask all the time if there are any open positions at The Stranger, and there usually aren't, but there happen to be two right now: news editor and social media manager.Plus, we just heard that the Mercury down in Portland is hiring a news reporter. If you want to work at a newspaper like The Stranger but you don't have enough experience to be an editor, that news reporter job is worth applying for. You'd have to live in Portland, but that's not such a bad town, and in many ways it's better
  
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• Win a pair of tickets to see Joel McHale at The Paramount Theatre!

  16-02-2016 22:43 via thestranger.com
  
  Entries accepted until 12pm (PT) on Thursday, February 18th
  Two lucky winners will each receive a pair of tickets to see Joel McHale at The Paramount Theatre on Friday, February 19th.
  Enter HERE.
  
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• Pee-Wee's Big Holiday

  16-02-2016 22:39 via thestranger.com
  
  I am so fucking excited about this movie. Can. Not. Wait. Premieres March 18! Via Joe My God, who says...
  In case you are wondering, Netflix spent millions on digital retouching to give Pee-Wee his eternally youthful appearance. Paul Reubens, who is 63, has joked that he could have saved them the dough by getting a facelift.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• The Other Question Businesses on 23rd Avenue Are Asking: Where Are the Workers of Color?

  16-02-2016 22:26 via thestranger.com
  
  Earl Lancaster, the owner of Earl's Cuts and Styles, and other business owners on 23rd Avenue say they rarely see people of color working on the construction project. Kelly O
  In recent weeks, small business owners on 23rd Avenue in the Central District have been demanding a response from the city about a construction project they say threatens the very existence of their businesses. They wonder why the city won't pay them mitigation money, as it did for projects on the waterfront in 2014.
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• Queer Voters Prefer Hillary to Bernie—But Just Barely

  16-02-2016 22:04 via thestranger.com
  
  Hillary wins yet another blinking contest. Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com
  Well, this is weird. There are more LGBT voters who think that Bernie supports their rights than those who think Hillary is supportive. And yet more LGBTs say they're voting for Hillary than for Bernie.
  What's going on here? And also, who are those 2 percent of queer voters who say they support Donald Trump, and what terrible self-loathing/performance art could have driven them to say such a thing?
  The source of this data
  
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• 24 Stranger (Than Usual) Things To Do This Week

  16-02-2016 21:29 via thestranger.com
  
  Heckling is encouraged at Central Cinema's "Disaster and a Movie" screening of Sharknado on Thursday.
  Our critics have already recommended 56 awesome things to do this week, but there are many, many more events happening this week. See some of Seattle's more unusual and out-of-the-ordinary events below, from a cannabis trivia night to Sharknado in "hecklevision," and from a belly dance-off brunch to Mike Rowe. For all of your options this week and into the future, see our complete Things To Do c
  
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• Seen on Mars: American handgun problem exported to Red Planet?

  16-02-2016 21:07
  
  Geez. Americans and our handguns! Check out this latest "seen on Mars" series of photos take by NASA's Opportunity Rover and tell me it doesn't look like a handgun. It's been called the Mars Glock or the Alien Railgun.
  
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• Guest Editorial: Why I’m Running for Congress

  16-02-2016 20:54 via thestranger.com
  
  Brady Piñero Walkinshaw is a Democratic state representative from Washington's 43rd Legislative District. He's running for the 7th Congressional District. courtesy of brady walkinshaw
  In December, I challenged a long-term incumbent because I believe that we need a new generation of energetic, committed leaders in Congress to build a region that works for everyone, from long-time Washingtonians to recent immigrants. For me, these values are personal. While my father’s family has deep
  
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• You Should Watch Kendrick Lamar's Performance From Last Night's Grammy Awards

  16-02-2016 20:48 via thestranger.com
  
  I'm just gonna leave this here.
  Lamar won four Grammys last night for To Pimp a Butterfly, including best rap album, the category in which he lost out toMacklemore & Ryan Lewis in 2014. To Pimp a Butterfly was also nominated for Album of the Year; Taylor Swift's 1989 won.Here's a full list of last night's winners.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Eli Sanders Wrote a Powerful Op-Ed for the Washington Post Last Week

  16-02-2016 20:34 via thestranger.com
  
  In order to fix the U.S.'s mental-healthcare system, Eli thinks we need to spend way more than the $500 million Obama recently proposed. We also need to hear more stories like the one Eli tells in his new book, While the City Slept. Kelly OWe need to patch up the cracks in our mental-health system. That's a fact politicians on both sides of the aisle can agree on, as my colleague Eli Sanders suggests in this op-ed he wrote for the Washington Post on Friday. Even Donald "I-Have-A-Terrifying-Fasci
  
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• Bernie's More Popular than Ever, So Why Is He Still Losing So Badly?

  16-02-2016 20:27 via thestranger.com
  
  Bernie: Unfortunately for him, he's only popular with voters. a katz / Shutterstock.com
  The good news for Bernie is that his loss is looking slightly less inevitable than it did a week ago. Polling is abruptly tied in Nevada, he's narrowing the gap in Florida (Clinton 50%, Bernie 26%) and he's catching up in Ohio (53% to 39%). Sadly his chances in South Carolina are not so good: Nate Silver has his chance of winning at 2% right now. It's 4% in Michigan.
  But even if he manages to catch up, how mu
  
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• Mountlake Terrace police return to site where body was found

  16-02-2016 20:26
  
  Searchers have returned to the culvert in Mountlake Terrace where a body was found Sunday during a search for 54-year-old Cheryl DeBoer, who disappeared on Feb. 8.
  
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• Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium takes in stranded sea otter pup

  16-02-2016 20:19
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — A 10-week-old orphaned southern sea otter pup has found a new home at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium. Aquarium officials said Tuesday the female pup arrived in Chicago on Jan. 27 from Monterey Bay Aquarium in California. She now weighs 11 pounds and is being cared for at Shedd’s sea otter nursery. Shedd officials […]
  
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• Berliners Show Why White Gentrifiers in Seattle Have It So Good

  16-02-2016 19:47 via thestranger.com
  
  The continued gentrification of 23rd and Union, the central business area of the CD. Charles Mudede
  Ruth Glass, the great German British urban sociologist, named the urban process by which upper-class Londoners entered and eventually dominated a neighborhood that was initially working-class gentrification. This happened in 1964, when London was mostly white.
  The same process began in Seattle's Central District in earnest in the middle of the 1990s. But because race in America is often not unrela
  
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• Did You Leave Your Breakfast Biscuit on the #10 Bus This Morning

  16-02-2016 19:39 via thestranger.com
  
  Looks delicious but I already ate. If you still want it... it should be downtown by now.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Ferndale man killed in Montana crash

  16-02-2016 19:32
  
  A 25-year-old Whatcom County man was killed in a weekend rollover crash in central Montana.
  
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• Old Value Village Bldg to Reopen in March as Temporary Arts Space Shared by Velocity, One Reel—UPDATED

  16-02-2016 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  A dancer takes the "beautiful floor in a pillar-free space" for a test drive.Kelly O
  Capitol Hill Arts District will announce today that the former Value Village building at 1525 11th Ave. will reopen next month as V2, a temporary arts space to be managed by Velocity Dance Center and shared by Velocity, One Reel, and Richard Hugo House. UPDATE/CORRECTION: Reps from Richard Hugo House and Capitol Hill Arts District have clarified that Hugo House's participation in this project is still being nego
  
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• Old Value Village Bldg to Reopen in March as Temporary Arts Space Shared by Velocity, One Reel, Hugo House

  16-02-2016 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  A dancer takes the "beautiful floor in a pillar-free space" for a test drive.Kelly O
  Capitol Hill Arts District will announce today that the former Value Village building at 1525 11th Ave. will reopen next month as V2, a temporary arts space to be managed by Velocity Dance Center and shared by Velocity, One Reel, and Richard Hugo House. According to the Capitol Hill Arts District press release, the three-story, 30,000-square-foot space will be divided into performance areas, rental studios, clas
  
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• Odesza, Thundercat Head Up 20th Annual Capitol Hill Block Party

  16-02-2016 18:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Capitol Hill Block Party announced the partial lineup today for the 20th annual edition of the event, which will happen July 22-24. Among the highlights are LA bass maestro Thundercat, shaggy psych-rockers WAND, Seattle rap phenom Porter Ray, Canadian electronic-noir duo Crystal Castles, Danish electro-soul singer Mø, Velvety, underground British rock band Ultimate Painting, and pop shapeshifter/new Matador Records signee Car Seat Headrest. Hugely popular local electronic-pop group Odesz
  
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• The Morning News: Deputy Mayor Hyeok Kim Opens Up About Homelessness and, Ugh, Macklemore

  16-02-2016 17:54 via thestranger.com
  
  The city's in the middle of a homelessness crisis. But no one expected Deputy Mayor Hyeok Kim to share her own family's personal struggles with homelessness at a recent neighborhood meeting. City of Seattle
  Homelessness Is Personal for Deputy Mayor Hyeok Kim: Community meetings in Ballard and Magnolia are now notorious for tearing down public officials who refuse to kick homeless people out of certain neighborhoods. But it was only at a neighborhood meeting last month in West Seattle—where
  
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• Rachel Maddow Walks Us Through the Constitutional Crisis the Republicans Risk Creating

  16-02-2016 17:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Towleroad:
  Maddow explained that while reports saying we are in the midst of a constitutional crisis are premature, such an assessment would be accurate should Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell make good on his threats to block any nominee President Obama appoints to fill Scalia’s spot on the bench. Maddow also explained one big reason why leaving a spot on the Supreme Court vacant in an election year is a bad idea: what if the Supreme Court has to, as it did in 2000, decide who wins
  
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• Alaskans can figure out food-stamp eligibility via text

  16-02-2016 17:12
  
  The new, time-saving system could allow the state to reach more hungry families and possibly receive more federal funding.
  
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• Get ready for a rainy week. Really rainy. And windy, too

  16-02-2016 17:06
  
  Through Tuesday morning, Seattle had received 22.19 inches of rain since Dec. 1, nearing the record of 22.77 inches through the end of February. And more is on the way.
  
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• Fixing Western State: Officials see Eastern State as a model

  16-02-2016 15:58
  
  The state runs two mental hospitals. Eastern State near Spokane has had far fewer problems than Western State in Lakewood, which has officials looking to replicate its strengths.
  
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• Teens delay getting licenses — and their driving is worse

  16-02-2016 15:05
  
  In Washington, teens are waiting to get licensed until they’re 18 or older. But surprisingly, this makes them worse drivers than their younger peers.
  
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• Sen. Murray wants students to be able to refinance federal college loans

  16-02-2016 15:03
  
  U.S. Sen. Patty Murray is working on a rewrite of the federal government's Higher Education Act, and wants provisions that would allow students to refinance federal college loans.
  
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• Stryker buying Redmond-based Physio-Control for $1.28 billion

  16-02-2016 14:25
  
  KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — Medical technology company Stryker is buying Redmond-based Physio-Control International Inc. for $1.28 billion, which will help expand its product offerings and broaden its global reach. Privately held Physio-Control develops, makes and markets monitors/defibrillators, automated external defibrillators, CPR-assist devices and data management and support services. The company, with about  700 employees in […]
  
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• Indian Kashmir begins bird census at Himalayan wetlands

  16-02-2016 13:25
  
  HOKERSAR, India (AP) — A meticulous counting of waterbirds began Tuesday in the wetlands and marshes of India’s portion of the Himalayan region of Kashmir, which attracts species migrating from as far as northern Europe and Japan. More than 100 wildlife officials and volunteers were performing the region’s second formal census, after scientists for years […]
  
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• Satellite boosts Europe’s environmental, border surveillance

  16-02-2016 13:09
  
  BERLIN (AP) — A satellite due to be launched into orbit Tuesday will boost Europe’s ability to monitor environmental changes and provide early warning of possible migrant flows. The European Space Agency says Sentinel-3A is one of more than a dozen satellites that will make up the most sophisticated Earth observation system ever launched. Two […]
  
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• Opening statements set in long-awaited ‘Grim Sleeper’ trial

  16-02-2016 09:38
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — More than 30 years since the bodies of young women started turning up in alleyways and garbage bins in south Los Angeles, attorneys are set to give opening statements in the long-awaited “Grim Sleeper” trial on Tuesday. Lonnie Franklin Jr. has pleaded not guilty to killing nine women and a 15-year-old […]
  
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• Man on trial for allegedly abducting teen he later married

  16-02-2016 09:26
  
  FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) — Testimony is expected to begin Tuesday in the trial of a man charged with raping and abducting his girlfriend’s 15-year-old daughter, but he says the teen ran away with him willingly and eventually married him and bore his child. Prosecutors are expected to call the now-grown woman and her relatives to […]
  
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• Friends can’t save friend, 18, after he falls into Kitsap County creek

  16-02-2016 07:29
  
  Lucas Earl Weaver, 18, of Seabeck, died after slipping on rocks and falling into storm-swollen Big Beef Creek near Silverdale, Kitsap County officials said.
  
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• Palestinians renovate church at Jesus’ birthplace

  16-02-2016 06:42
  
  BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — After two years of painstaking work, experts have completed the initial phase of a delicate restoration project at the Church of the Nativity, giving a much-needed face-lift to one of Christianity’s holiest sites. The project, partially funded by the Palestinians and conducted by a team of Palestinian and international experts, […]
  
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• Doctors: Upsurge in paralysis condition accompanies Zika

  16-02-2016 06:09
  
  CUCUTA, Colombia (AP) — The doctor taps Zulay Balza’s knees with a hammer and she doesn’t feel a thing. She can’t squeeze his outstretched fingers or shut her eyelids. Her face is partially paralyzed. “The weakness started in my legs and climbed upward. The face was last. After three days, I couldn’t walk,” said Balza, […]
  
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• Utility wants car-charging stations in Eastern Wash.

  16-02-2016 05:38
  
  Power company Avista has requested approval from regulators for 265 charging stations to promote the benefits of electric vehicles.
  
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• Bill to help count homeless children stalls in Legislature

  16-02-2016 05:34
  
  Legislation to better count the number of homeless children not yet in school or homeless kids who can’t go to school has stalled in Olympia.
  
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• Mountlake Terrace police seek help in case of Hutch worker

  16-02-2016 05:07
  
  Mountlake Terrace police continue to seek the public’s help in the case of 54-year-old Cheryl DeBoer, who disappeared more than a week ago.
  
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• With 35,000 homeless youth in public schools, state lawmakers seek money to help

  16-02-2016 04:59
  
  Lawmakers in Olympia are pushing bills that seek to help homeless youth and their families find permanent housing, but the success of those proposals has been varied.
  
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• Solitary, hardworking mason bee a Northwest native, all right

  16-02-2016 04:51
  
  The little bug’s admirers say this quiet, mellow insect easily outdoes the honeybee when it comes to pollinating your garden.
  
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• Conservation, not new plants, can meet most NW power needs, council says

  16-02-2016 04:33
  
  The electricity needs can be met in the next 20 years mostly through conservation, with little need for new power plants, the Northwest Power and Conservation Council predicted.
  
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• Police seek help finding man missing from parents’ Sammamish home

  16-02-2016 04:32
  
  William “Reed” Probus, 27, went missing from his parents’ Sammamish home Saturday night, police said.
  
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