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• Last-Minute Plans: 32 Cheap & Easy Things To Do This Weekend

  24-02-2016 23:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Macklemore and Ryan Lewis are playing a free concert on Friday to celebrate the release of their new album. KOBBY DAGAN / SHUTTERSTOCK
  It's almost the weekend—do you know what you're doing yet? If not, did you know you could see Macklemore in concert, get the red carpet treatment at Rhein Haus' Academy Awards party, see a Fringe Festival show, or attend a dance party with Seattle's only tribute boy band—all for under $10? Read on for even more cheap and easy options this weekend, or
  
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• Eileen Myles Has Written a Very Eileen Myles Defense of Hillary Clinton

  24-02-2016 23:06 via thestranger.com
  
  Eileen Myles. Press Line Photos/ShutterstockPoet, feminist, and longtime genre-challenging gadabout Eileen Myles just came out with the weirdest statement of support I've seen since the circus of the primaries began. It's an unruly scroll in favor of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Though it appears on Buzzfeed (lolwhut), Myles' endorsement is very much in line with her writing. It's a slew of loosely connected, impetuously punctuated (or not) thoughts and impressions, and it has her
  
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• Seattle Is Somewhere Between Vancouver BC and San Francisco

  24-02-2016 22:25 via thestranger.com
  
  Vancouver BC is the third-least affordable city in the world! It's even more expensive than London, San Francisco, and New York City.Charles Mudede
  All is not lost. There is still room for maneuver. Seattle has yet to become a Vancouver or a San Francisco. What do these cities represent?In the case of Vancouver, the most beautiful city in the Pacific Northwest, it is the divorce between the real economy and the global one. The result? The average income in Vancouver is around $45,000 CAD and the
  
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• Razor clam digging excellent on three coastal beaches, and more dates should be announced by Friday

  24-02-2016 22:14
  
  Coastal razor clam digging is just dandy when the weather cooperates, and an estimated 30,900 diggers showed up last Saturday at Long Beach, Copalis and Mocrocks. “We had absolutely off-the-charts digging, and the weather and surf cooperated providing near limits of clams (the first 15 clams regardless of size or condition is a daily limit) […]
  
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• Charges: Ballard man kept woman’s corpse for 2 days

  24-02-2016 22:09
  
  Two Ballard men accused of dumping a woman's corpse in a shopping cart after she succumbed to a drug overdose now face criminal charges.
  
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• So Now Ben Carson Is Going to Eat an Eagle or Something?

  24-02-2016 22:02 via thestranger.com
  
  Ben Carson: "Iunno. I guess. Um. What was the question?" louise wateridge / Shutterstock.com
  Quick update on everyone's favorite bumbling goofball doctor, Ben "Zzzzzzz" Carson. You might be wondering: Whatever happened to that guy? Where is he now? Did he ever find his keys or did someone have to give him a ride home?
  Well believe it or not, he's still running for president! (Of the United States.) He was in Nevada yesterday for a caucus, and he even got some reporters to listen to him talk. "I
  
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• Weed Stores Conduct DIY Recall of Products That May Have Illegal Pesticides in Them

  24-02-2016 21:19 via thestranger.com
  
  In the aftermath of what one pithy PR executive dubbed "Pestgate"—the recent revelations that illegal pesticides were found on plants at BMF Washington and New Leaf Enterprises, two of Washington's largest growers—the state's cannabis industry has been scrambling to deal with the fallout.
  There is currently no unified protocol for how to handle communicating information about pesticide violations to the public, or how to conduct a recall if necessary. "This is an emerging issue," sa
  
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• Gonzaga to join UW in Spokane medical-school partnership

  24-02-2016 21:14
  
  The University of Washington and Gonzaga University will begin training medical-school students together in Spokane beginning this fall.
  
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• Seattle’s approval of 12-story Pioneer Square building overturned

  24-02-2016 21:09
  
  Seattle’s deputy hearing examiner called the city’s approval of construction of the building at Alaskan Way South and South Jackson Street “arbitrary and capricious.” City officials didn’t say whether the city would appeal the decision to the state Supreme Court.
  
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• 2 men accused of leaving overdose victim in shopping cart in Ballard

  24-02-2016 20:45
  
  Two men are accused of dumping a woman’s body in a shopping cart near the Ballard Bridge after she overdosed in November.
  
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• 2 men accused of leaving OD victim in shopping cart in Ballard

  24-02-2016 20:45
  
  Two men are accused of dumping a woman’s body in a shopping cart near the Ballard Bridge after she overdosed in November.
  
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• Weirdness Outlawed in Chinese Architecture

  24-02-2016 20:43 via thestranger.com
  
  Ai Weiwei's structure built out of antique Chinese doors collapsed not long after it was erected in 2007. Both forms seemed apt for the artist, whose work has also documented shoddy government buildings that collapsed on schoolchildren in the Sichuan earthquake. What is Chinese architecture in 2016?
  I am smitten with China's official announcement that "weird" architecture shall hereby be forbidden. Governments so rarely get in the business of making aesthetic pronouncements these days. Gone are
  
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• Cheer coach accused of sending teens vulgar selfies on Snapchat

  24-02-2016 20:41
  
  A Kent-area cheerleading coach accused of sending "dick pics" to teens on his squad has been charged with sex crimes.
  
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• Jon Krakauer Will Be at Town Hall Tonight to Talk About Missoula, His Book About Campus Rape

  24-02-2016 20:33 via thestranger.com
  
  There were at least 80 alleged rapes in Missoula, Montana during the three years before the Department of Justice launched an investigation into how the town investigates sexual assault. Missoula is home to the University of Montana, seen here. Jon Bilous/Shutterstock
  There are many passages in Jon Krakauer's Missoula that, even nearly a year after reading it, I can't shake. [Heads up for trauma survivors: Some of those graphic passages are included below.] One of them comes two pages into the s
  
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• Back-in-action Bertha may be digging under viaduct by spring

  24-02-2016 20:24
  
  Seattle Tunnel Partners says that if all goes well, tunnel machine Bertha can travel beneath the Alaskan Way Viaduct by spring.
  
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• ‘Chasing Heroin’ examines heroin problem in Seattle, nationwide

  24-02-2016 20:11
  
  Seattle's growing heroin problem sees national attention in "Chasing Heroin," a PBS "Frontline" documentary.
  
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• Seattle's tallest tower plan scaled back to 100 stories or less

  24-02-2016 20:04
  
  Seattle's tallest tower plan just got a bit shorter, likely in response to the Federal Aviation Administration's letter indicating the initial plans were too tall.
  
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• John Kasich Running for President of Lady-Kitchens

  24-02-2016 20:03 via thestranger.com
  
  "You there, the tomato with the sexy gams." Andrew Cline / Shutterstock.com
  Hey broads! Stop listening Taylor Swift for a minute and put down all your babies. John Kasich needs you to do a little cute door-knocking for his campaign. Try to look presentable, though. Maybe go on a diet.
  So, yeah, John Kasich (governor of Ohio, and still running for president somehow) may have kind of a sexism problem. As you have probably heard by now, he was recently talking about his early campaigns in the '70s,
  
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• Report: Apple's Chinese Workers Are Paid Less Than Two Dollars Per Hour

  24-02-2016 19:43 via thestranger.com
  
  The Apple Store in Shanghai. August_0802 / Shutterstock.com
  New York Magazine:
  In depressing news that should shock absolutely no one, an investigative report into labor practices of Apple contractors in China found, among other things, that workers at factories run by Foxconn and Pegatron, both major suppliers of Apple, work over 60 hours a week—Apple’s stated cap—and make less than two dollars an hour.
  Precisely, workers at the factories make $1.82 an hour, according to thous
  
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• Seattle represents on Fortune's most admired companies list

  24-02-2016 19:32
  
  Seattle is well represented on Fortune's 2016 "World's Most Admired Companies" list.
  
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• Groups File Consumer Fraud Complaint Against Gay "Conversion" Therapy

  24-02-2016 19:23 via thestranger.com
  
  National organizations are joining Senator Patty Murray's call to treat conversion therapy groups like fraudulent businesses. Kelly O
  Two weeks after Washington senator Patty Murray joined a letter asking the Federal Trade Commission to ban "conversion" therapy—a debunked and dangerous practice that aims to turn gay people straight—a coalition of national groups have filed a federal consumer fraud complaint against conversion therapy with the same agency.The National Center for Lesbi
  
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• What a German Thinks about Mein Kampf's Best Seller Status

  24-02-2016 18:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Because of the ban on reprinting Mein Kampf in Germany, many Germans don't know that Hitler suffered from incredibly severe bouts of constipation. "Zometimes I vould have to deeg it out vith a stick!" he probably said once.Anton_Ivanov / Shutterstock.com
  As many of us know, Mein Kampf is Official Nazi Shithead Adolph Hitler's sadboy "autobiography," which served as a tool to found the German Worker Party (DAP), which later became the Nazi party. The state of Bavaria acquired the copyright for Me
  
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• Kink On the Homepage of the New York Times

  24-02-2016 18:38 via thestranger.com
  
  On the homepage of the New York Times today: a profile of Mollena Williams, a frequent "Savage Lovecast" guest expert, and her husband/dominant Georg Friedrich Haas:
  The Austrian-born Mr. Haas, 62, a music professor at Columbia University since 2013, has recently been increasingly open about the unusual nature of his marriage, which he says has dramatically improved his productivity and reshaped his artistic outlook. He will be the subject of a two-concert American Immersion series on Wednesday
  
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• 63-year-old woman tortured by 3 relatives, Oregon police say

  24-02-2016 18:06
  
  Two of those arrested were the woman’s caregivers. Police say they believe the abuse has been going on since May 2015.
  
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• Controversial immigration initiative may go to Spokane voters

  24-02-2016 17:45
  
  If approved, the Spokane measure would overturn a 2014 ban on city employees, including police officers, asking about an individual’s immigration status.
  
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• The Morning News: Trump Wins Nevada, Seattle NAACP President Calls Police Shooting "Cold-Blooded Murder"

  24-02-2016 17:36 via thestranger.com
  
  Somehow winning. JOSEPH SOHM/Shutterstock
  Is This a Nightmare? Donald Trump won last night's Nevada Republican caucus, taking about 46 percent of the vote. Marco Rubio took second and Ted Cruz took third. There's a lot of talk about how Trump—the guy who thinks most Mexican immigrants are rapists—won the Hispanic vote in Nevada. But the nerds at FiveThirtyEight point out that just 8 percent of Republican voters there were Hispanic (or about 1 percent of Nevada's Hispanic population)
  
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• Angel Padilla’s Case Puts a Spotlight on Conditions at the Tacoma Immigrant Detention Center and the Obama Administration’s Harsh Deportation Policy

  24-02-2016 17:14 via thestranger.com
  
  Angel Padilla says, “I’m not trying to paint myself as this saint or anything. But I’ve paid my dues.” ANSEL HERZ
  At about noon on February 19, Angel Padilla began to feel nauseated and dizzy inside Tacoma’s Northwest Detention Center—a 1,575-bed prison run by the GEO Group, a private prison corporation.
  Padilla is a slight, bespectacled 39-year-old man from El Salvador who suffers from chronic back pain and has a cancerous tumor in his left kidney. He banged
  
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• Issaquah woman has bite to eat, chomps down on $600 pearl

  24-02-2016 17:13
  
  A woman bit down on a rare pearl while dining on a clam dish at an Issaquah restaurant.
  
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• A taste of 16 education research efforts at the UW, each in five easily digestable minutes

  24-02-2016 15:05
  
  To highlight the work being done by professors at the University of Washington, the College of Education hosted EDU Talks, a kind of TED-Talks-meets-academia.
  
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• Weed Stores Conduct DIY Recall

  24-02-2016 08:31 via thestranger.com
  
  Weed Stores Conduct DIY Recall of Products That May Have Illegal Pesticides in Themby Tobias Coughlin-BogueIn the aftermath of what one pithy PR executive dubbed "Pestgate"—the recent revelations that illegal pesticides were found on plants at BMF Washington and New Leaf Enterprises, two of Washington's largest growers—the state's cannabis industry has been scrambling to deal with the fallout.There is currently no unified protocol for how to handle communicating information about pes
  
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• Fighting Cancer and Deportation at the Same Time

  24-02-2016 08:31 via thestranger.com
  
  The Story of Angel Padilla, Fighting Cancer and Deportation at the Same Timeby Ansel HerzAt about noon on February 19, Angel Padilla began to feel nauseated and dizzy inside Tacoma’s Northwest Detention Center—a 1,575-bed prison run by the GEO Group, a private prison corporation.Padilla is a slight, bespectacled 39-year-old man from El Salvador who suffers from chronic back pain and has a cancerous tumor in his left kidney. He banged on the door of his cell to get the attention of a
  
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• Prosecutors: After dodging juvie, Federal Way teen killed boy

  24-02-2016 07:06
  
  A Federal Way teen suspected of arranging a marijuana robbery that saw another boy killed has been charged with first-degree murder.
  
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• Drugs flooding into Puget Sound — and its salmon

  24-02-2016 04:47
  
  From Prozac to caffeine to cholesterol medicine, from ibuprofen to bug spray, researchers found an alphabet soup of drugs and other personal-care products in sewage-treatment wastewater and in the tissue of juvenile chinook in Puget Sound.
  
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• Cocaine, Prozac, other drugs found in Puget Sound salmon from tainted wastewater

  24-02-2016 04:47
  
  From Prozac to caffeine to cholesterol medicine, from ibuprofen to bug spray, researchers found an alphabet soup of drugs and other personal-care products in sewage-treatment wastewater and in the tissue of juvenile chinook in Puget Sound.
  
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• Some shelter beds go empty — even right next to Seattle’s Jungle encampment

  24-02-2016 04:29
  
  Near Seattle’s notorious Jungle tent encampment, there’s a 100-bed homeless rehab center. But it’s got empty beds — and hasn’t been full for months. How can this be?
  
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• ‘Worst serial killer in history,’ who fed women to pigs, reignites rage by publishing book

  24-02-2016 04:02
  
  Robert Pickton’s book, which was reportedly smuggled out of prison, has drawn intense outrage from victims’ families, law enforcement officials and lawmakers in Canada. It also resurfaces questions about why the killings were not stopped before dozens of women died.
  
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• Boy, 16, charged with murder in death of Federal Way teen

  24-02-2016 03:46
  
  King County prosecutors charged a 16-year-old Federal Way teen with first-degree murder on Tuesday in connection with the fatal shooting of Wesley D. Gennings on Feb. 13. Prosecutors expect to also charge a 14-year-old on Wednesday.
  
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• Boy, 16, charged as adult in slaying of Federal Way teen

  24-02-2016 03:46
  
  A 16-year-old Federal Way boy was charged as an adult with first-degree murder Tuesday in connection with the fatal shooting of Wesley D. Gennings on Feb. 13. Prosecutors expect to also charge a 14-year-old Wednesday.
  
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• Can a reality-TV show help cut America’s power bill?

  24-02-2016 03:34
  
  It’s not exactly ‘Wife Swap’ or the Kardashians, but an Energy Department project invites companies to exchange energy-efficiency experts to spot shortcomings at each other’s facilities — and a reality-TV show on the Web chronicles the results.
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: A Dog's Life

  24-02-2016 03:24 via thestranger.com
  
  I have a strange problem for you. I have this friend, a guy in his 30s I’ve known for maybe ten years. I always knew he was in to different things, we’d talk about kink a lot, but we have always and only ever been good friends.He would tell me a lot about his personal life but nothing prepared me for what happened last year.He called me up last winter to let me know that he had been "adopted" and that he wouldn't be able to talk to me for a while. I asked what this meant and he said
  
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• Why Is Scorsese and Jagger's Vinyl So Lousy? Consider the Sources

  24-02-2016 03:00 via thestranger.com
  
  How Can Scorsese and Jagger's Vinyl Be So Lousy? Consider the Sources.by Sean NelsonThe new HBO series Vinyl, cocreated and executive produced by Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger (along with Terence Winter of The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire, and Rich Cohen of Magic City), is set in the music industry of 1973, which functions as a kind of year zero for the main character, a tormented label head named Richie Finestra, for whom everything must change whether he's ready or not.Vinyl has an absurdly
  
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• We Saw You Arguing About Sushi Burritos, Talking About Shitting Fire, and Riding a Solowheel

  24-02-2016 03:00 via thestranger.com
  
  We Saw You Arguing About Sushi Burritos, Talking About Shitting Fire, and Riding a Solowheelby Stranger StaffSECOND AND PIKE SUSHI BURRITO DEBATEWe heard you two loudly debating the new Sushi-GaBurri food cart on the corner of Second and Pike in downtown Seattle. You said, "Sushi can never be a burrito, and a burrito can never be sushi." But then you walked away and didn't even try one. C'mon! Like your mom always said, "You have to try at least one bite before you can hate it." That said, none
  
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• The Return of Seattle's Greatest Chef

  24-02-2016 03:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Sit at Shiro Kashiba's Sushi Bar for a Lesson from the Masterby Angela GarbesEven if you've been eating sushi all your life, you'll never know as much as Shiro Kashiba.Kashiba, born in Kyoto in 1941, began apprenticing with Tokyo sushi masters when he was 19 years old. Eventually he immigrated to the United States and, in 1970, set up Seattle's first full-service sushi bar at Maneki, one of the city's oldest restaurants. Kashiba opened his first restaurant, Nikko, in the International District i
  
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• UW team develops technology that cuts Wi-Fi power demand

  24-02-2016 02:56
  
  The technology has the potential of alleviating one of the downsides to the Internet of Things — that devices are powered by batteries that die and need to be replaced.
  
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• Ramon Castro, Cuban leader’s older brother, dies at age 91

  24-02-2016 02:32
  
  HAVANA (AP) — Ramon Castro, a lifelong rancher and farmer who bore a strong physical resemblance to younger brother Fidel Castro, has died, Cuban state media announced Tuesday. He was 91. Widely known by his nickname “Mongo,” the white-bearded Ramon Castro preferred tending crops and livestock to the revolutionary political life embraced by his younger […]
  
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• Amtrak to welcome small pets on Amtrak Cascades trains

  24-02-2016 02:32
  
  OLYMPIA — State officials say small dogs and cats will be able to travel with their families on Amtrak Cascades trains starting in early March. Washington Department of Transportation Rail Director Ron Pate says previously only service animals were allowed the on the trains. Reservations, which cost $25 per pet, must be made in advance […]
  
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• Prosecutors: Seattle serial rapist used kindness to abuse 2 females

  24-02-2016 02:16
  
  A Seattle man accused of sexually assaulting a woman and a girl, both in desperate circumstances, has been charged with rape.
  
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• It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere: The Best of a Decade of Drunk of the Week, Part II

  24-02-2016 02:01 via thestranger.com
  
  In the last issue, we ran the final installment of The Stranger's long-running column Drunk of the Week. This week on Slog, every day at 5 pm, in honor of all the champs that appeared in these photos over the years, why don't we reminisce a little? Ooh, and VOTE! I sure do love a SLOG poll…
  Today's question: Which of these former DOTW's is rocking the BEST BEARD?
  THOR Kelly O
  Santa Claus Kelly O
  Stella
  
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• The most famous (and infamous) UW grads and one-time students

  24-02-2016 01:56
  
  The University of Washington is the state's largest university and has no small number of grads and former students who made it big, for one reason or another.
  
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