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• Savage Love: Crosswords

  25-02-2016 23:35 via thestranger.com
  
  JOE NEWTON
  Gay, thirtysomething male in DC. My boyfriend of three years has been acting strange—not taking his antidepression meds, says he's feeling weird. He has withdrawn from me, sleeps 15 hours a day, and has been canceling on commitments to socialize with friends. That I am fine with—he's blue and I get it. Here's why I'm writing: He was doing an online crossword, and when he got up, I was going to write a message in it—to be funny and sweet. What I saw messed me up. The
  
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• Colorful baby lobster photo wins award for Maine biologist

  25-02-2016 22:59
  
  ORONO, Maine (AP) — A University of Maine graduate student’s picture of a colorful tiny larval lobster has won a National Science Foundation award. Jesica Waller is in her second year of a master’s program in marine biology. She’s studying the effect of climate change scenarios on larval lobsters. Lobster represents the most valuable fishery […]
  
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• Who flew drone over Bangor submarine base? Navy wants to know

  25-02-2016 22:53
  
  A recent drone sighting over Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, home to nuclear submarines, comes as the Defense Department is scrambling to beef up defenses against the rapidly evolving technology.
  
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• Inslee report: poor advice, ignored emails failed to stop early release of prisoners

  25-02-2016 22:05
  
  Flawed advice, ignored emails, and a lack of communication allowed the state to continue mistakenly releasing prisoners early for years after the problem was discovered in 2012, according to a report from Gov. Jay Inslee released Thursday.
  
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• Despite drought, Californians fall short in water cutbacks

  25-02-2016 21:51
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Californians are starting to fall behind the state’s mandatory 25-percent water conservation target even though the state remains in drought, state officials said Thursday. As of January, water users in California’s cities and towns have managed to use 24.8 percent less water since mandatory conservation began last year, the State Water […]
  
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• Just before Oscars, plant named for hero of “The Martian”

  25-02-2016 21:47
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Matt Damon may not win the Oscar for best actor on Sunday, but the character he played in “The Martian” has gotten its own recognition. In a paper published Thursday in the journal PhytoKeys, scientists named a flowering Australian plant for Mark Watney, the fictional botanist Damon portrayed. The plant is […]
  
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• Doctor pleads guilty to slaying partner and toddler son

  25-02-2016 20:59
  
  A Seattle physician pleaded guilty Thursday to killing his partner and their 2½-year-old son in August 2011 in their First Hill penthouse apartment.
  
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• ‘Black Lives Matter’ protesters demand firing of police chief after fatal shooting

  25-02-2016 20:23
  
  A group protesting the fatal shooting of Che Taylor by Seattle police are demanding the officers involved be charged and Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole be fired.
  
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• Sit at Shiro Kashiba's Sushi Bar for a Lesson from the Master

  25-02-2016 20:21 via thestranger.com
  
  Shiro Kashiba: A lifetime of knowledge and a great big piece of tuna. KELLY O
  Even 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
  
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• These 23 Washington counties better hope Olympia doesn't break Seattle

  25-02-2016 20:11
  
  This week seems like as good a time as any to remind the conservative players gathered in Olympia that their districts depend greatly on an economically healthy Seattle and King County. One could say many of their districts are essentially welfare recipients!
  
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• Study: California leak was top methane release in US history

  25-02-2016 20:08
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A natural gas leak that sickened Los Angeles residents and forced thousands from their homes was the largest known release of climate-changing methane in U.S. history, scientists reported Thursday. The blowout from a well at a Southern California Gas Co. storage facility lasted 16 weeks and spewed 107,000 tons of methane, […]
  
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• Seattle doctor admits to killing son, partner

  25-02-2016 19:57
  
  A Seattle doctor accused of brutally stabbing his 2 1/2-year-oldson and longtime partner appeared in court Thursday.
  
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• Ski report: Snow pack in good shape, likely well into spring

  25-02-2016 19:49
  
  For skiers and snowboarders this winter will go down as one of the more memorable ones, and there’s still plenty of time to head up to the slopes as the snow pack remains relatively stable. “It has been a very good season, and visits were up significantly and well above their normal average compared to […]
  
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• Next EMP Pop Conference Set for April 14-17, Focuses on "The Voice in Music"

  25-02-2016 19:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Music-crit power couple Eric Weisbard and Ann Powers (seated) at last year's EMP Pop Con.
  Organizer Eric Weisbard has announced the theme of this year's EMP Pop Conference, which happens April 14-17 at EMP Museum—"From a Whisper to a Scream: The Voice in Music."The EMP Pop Conference returns with its biggest roster of presentations yet, looking at the ways music lets us hear voices: singers, to be sure, whether virtuosos or idiosyncratic originals, but also other types of vocalizing. How d
  
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• Paul Allen Is Now Considering Building a Museum of Pop Art in D.C.

  25-02-2016 19:04 via thestranger.com
  
  Paul Allen is looking to build another one of these in the other Washington. COURTESY EMP
  The Washington Business Journal reports that Paul Allen's latest museum gambit is his plan to open a Museum of Pop Culture, for which he's seeking 100,000 square feet in Washington, D.C.
  Allen's already got Experience Music Project at Seattle Center, which describes itself on its website as "a leading-edge nonprofit museum, dedicated to the ideas and risk-taking that fuel contemporary popular culture."Allen
  
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• Charter-school fix doesn’t get out of legislative committee

  25-02-2016 18:48
  
  The House Education Committee decided to not consider a bill that would establish a new funding source for Washington charter schools.
  
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• Eating Salmon Skin and Salmon Eggs at Bar Melusine

  25-02-2016 18:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Fried salmon skin with salmon roe at Bar Melusine: chicharrones of the sea.AG
  This week, I reviewed Sushi Kashiba, chef Shiro Kashiba's new restaurant in Pike Place Market. Over the course of his over fifty-year career, Kashiba pioneered and popularized sushi made from local seafood such as geoduck, albacore tuna, and salmon. In the late 1960s and 70s, Kashiba was also among the first Seattle chefs to use commonly discarded salmon parts such as skin and roe in his dishes.
  Kashiba convinced fish
  
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• Man found shot to death in car in South Seattle

  25-02-2016 18:40
  
  Police are investigating the shooting death of a man who was found slumped over in a car in Seattle’s New Holly neighborhood.
  
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• Communication breakdown delayed fixing prisoner-release error, official says

  25-02-2016 18:07
  
  A state Department of Corrections staffer told lawmakers the agency had communication problems in how it dealt with IT issues, shortcomings that likely contributed to failing to halt the mistaken early release of prisoners.
  
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• Environmentalists sue for more rules to protect sage grouse

  25-02-2016 18:03
  
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Environmental groups sued Thursday to force the Obama administration to impose more restrictions on oil and gas drilling, grazing and other activities blamed for the decline of greater sage grouse across the American West. A sweeping sage grouse conservation effort that the government announced last September is riddled with loopholes and […]
  
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• Mouse sperm made in lab; technique may help with infertility

  25-02-2016 18:01
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have produced rudimentary mouse sperm from stem cells in the laboratory, a step that may lead to a treatment for infertile men. If the technique pans out in people, doctors might someday be able to turn skin cells from a man into sperm that can pass along his DNA to […]
  
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• Lorde Shows Gaga How To Do a Bowie Medley Properly

  25-02-2016 17:55 via thestranger.com
  
  Oh no, Lorde, you're not alone!
  Lady Gaga's appalling tribute to David Bowie at the Grammys (whenever they were) got taken to pop star school at the Brit Awards Tuesday night by Lorde, with the help of Bowie's final road band.The band moved through an expertly arranged two-minute medley of the instrumental bits of hits—"Space Oddity," "Rebel Rebel" (the little guitar hiccup just made it feel all the more live, "Let's Dance," "Ashes to Ashes," "Ziggy Stardust," "Fame," "Under Pressure," and
  
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• Lorde Shows Gaga How To Do a Bowie Medley

  25-02-2016 17:55 via thestranger.com
  
  Oh no, Lorde, you're not alone!
  Lady Gaga's appalling tribute to David Bowie at the Grammys (whenever they were) got taken to pop star school at the Brit Awards Tuesday night by Lorde, with the help of Bowie's final road band.The band moved through an expertly arranged two-minute medley of the instrumental bits of hits—"Space Oddity," "Rebel Rebel" (the little guitar hiccup just made it feel all the more live, "Let's Dance," "Ashes to Ashes," "Ziggy Stardust," "Fame," "Under Pressure," and
  
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• US space-endurance champ says he could do another year

  25-02-2016 17:40
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — After nearly a year in orbit, America’s space-endurance champ, Scott Kelly, is just a few days away from returning to Earth — and he can’t wait. Kelly held his final news conference from the International Space Station on Thursday. He told reporters that space is a hardship environment and you […]
  
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• Morning News: Seattle Begins Enforcing Dog Laws Next Week, Seattle Has Better Air Than Portland, Seattle's Biospheres

  25-02-2016 17:25 via thestranger.com
  
  Not the best air, but not the worst.James Whelan/shutterstock.com
  Seattle's Air Is Not As Polluted As Portland's: Recent data gathered about Portland's air showed it had spots with very high levels of heavy-metal pollution. The cause of this pollution was determined to be two glass factories, which used heavy metals (cadmium, arsenic) to "add color in making 'art' glass." Seattle's air is not so great, but according to measurements made at a station on Beacon Hill, the best neighborhood in the c
  
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• Seattle’s 5 tallest skyscrapers — so far

  25-02-2016 17:03
  
  Seattle's tallest five buildings may be eclipsed by a 94-story edifice planned by a Miami developer, Crescent Heights.
  
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• Richland man pleads guilty to raping four children

  25-02-2016 16:51
  
  The Richland man could be locked up for the rest of his life after pleading guilty to raping three girls and a boy.
  
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• Despite challenges, innovative parent program expands to second Seattle school

  25-02-2016 15:00
  
  Community & Parents for Public Schools is starting its second parent volunteer mentorship program, but has faced challenges in finding ongoing funding.
  
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• A Monroe native’s road to ‘Spotlight’ — and the Oscars

  25-02-2016 15:00
  
  Meet Blye Pagon Faust, graduate of Monroe High School and one of the producers of “Spotlight,” which has been nominated for six Oscars.
  
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• Washington’s new apple joining a changing industry

  25-02-2016 09:32
  
  Trademarked and focus group-tested, Cosmic Crisp was developed by the WSU lab over the last 20 years. For at least one decade, it will be available for planting only to Washington farmers.
  
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• Washington school shooter’s dad reports to California prison

  25-02-2016 09:28
  
  EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A father convicted of gun crimes after his 15-year-old son used his gun to kill four high school classmates and himself has begun serving his sentence at a California prison. The Daily Herald reports (http://goo.gl/T3EzmU ) that 42-year-old Raymond Fryberg was booked into a Southern California prison Feb. 17 after being […]
  
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• Senate confirms new FDA commissioner

  25-02-2016 07:21
  
  Dr. Robert Califf spent three decades as a drug-trial researcher at Duke University, where he founded Duke’s Clinical Research Institute.
  
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• Investigators release new details in Port Orchard explosion

  25-02-2016 05:46
  
  The Kitsap County Coroner's Office said investigators are still working to determine the manner and cause of death of the couple who died in the home.
  
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• Black health requires dose of medical humanity

  25-02-2016 04:36
  
  A black doctor explores the effects of race and class on medical care.
  
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• About The Seattle Times’ arena coverage

  25-02-2016 04:09
  
  Kathy Best, Seattle Times editor, says Geoff Baker's Feb. 13 story about the city's handling of recommendations to renovate KeyArena for the NHL and NBA did not contain factual errors.
  
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• With predators gone, study brought fear back to wildlife on Gulf Islands in B.C.

  25-02-2016 04:07
  
  A predator’s influence extends far beyond the animals it eats; it has the power to change the behavior of any creature it can make wary, according to ecologist Justin Suraci.
  
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• Carbon-tax initiative flawed, needs legislative fix, say backers

  25-02-2016 04:03
  
  Supporters of an initiative to create a carbon tax in Washington are asking legislators to consider fixing flaws in the measure. But the Legislature appears unlikely to oblige, leaving I-732 facing political headwinds.
  
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