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• Things To Do: Festivals

  02-03-2016 23:33 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithFind a complete list of festivals in Seattle this spring on our Things To Do calendar.March 3–5Seattle Fringe FestivalSeattle Fringe Festival showcases local talent that doesn't often get play on larger stages. This a good thing for several reasons: (1) You get to see fun shows you may have missed throughout the year. (2) There's a bunch of weird stuff you're more likely to embrace in a festival-type setting than in an evening at the thea-tah-type setting. And (3) you can chec
  
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• The Best Festivals in Seattle This Spring

  02-03-2016 23:33 via thestranger.com
  
  Picks from Seattle Art and Performanceby Rich SmithFind a complete list of festivals in Seattle this spring on our Things To Do calendar.March 3–5Seattle Fringe FestivalSeattle Fringe Festival showcases local talent that doesn't often get play on larger stages. This a good thing for several reasons: (1) You get to see fun shows you may have missed throughout the year. (2) There's a bunch of weird stuff you're more likely to embrace in a festival-type setting than in an evening at the thea-
  
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• The Best Classical Concerts in Seattle This Spring

  02-03-2016 23:22 via thestranger.com
  
  Picks from Seattle Art and Performanceby Jen GravesTHROUGH March 12Mary StuartYou don't see this opera much, but it tells the fantastically juicy story of the real-life 16th-century battle to the death between Mary Queen of Scots, the Catholic, and Queen Elizabeth I, the Virgin icon. It's not too dramatic to say that this battle was crucial in shaping the course of modern Western history. What's more, the opera was written by an Italian composer, Donizetti, a man steeped in the Roman Catholic wo
  
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• As Advocates Push for Safe Injection Sites, Seattle and King County Form Heroin Task Force

  02-03-2016 23:18 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi Groover"Addiction to heroin and prescription pain killers is devastating families in every one of our communities—sparing no age, race, gender, neighborhood or income level," says King County Executive Dow Constantine.King County
  As Seattle and the region grapple with increasing homelessness, basically everyone agrees the national heroin epidemic is contributing to the crisis.
  In 2014, King County saw 156 heroin-related deaths, the highest in 20 years, according to the county. Mea
  
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• Guest Editorial: Every Tuesday Is Super Tuesday!

  02-03-2016 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Tuesday T. Uesday, Founder, Tuesdays Are People, Too(sday) Society
  My friends,
  I hope you all enjoyed Super Tuesday, so named for the abundance of presidential primaries and caucuses held every four years on that day. But without trying to take anything away from anyone—least of all the visitors of those contests—I'm here to suggest that in point of fact, every Tuesday can be super!
  A lot of people ask me why I care so much about Tuesdays, and I always start by explaining that it
  
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• Ben Carson Drops Out

  02-03-2016 22:44 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageNYT:
  Ben Carson, the only Republican to have once threatened the lead of Donald J. Trump in national polls, said on Wednesday he saw no path forward and would skip a debate on Thursday in his hometown of Detroit, signaling an end to his candidacy after paltry performances in the nominating contests. Stopping short of suspending his campaign, Mr. Carson said he would provide more details in a speech on Friday, but after his dismal showing in the Super Tuesday states, his campaign is
  
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• These Jonathan Adler Vases Are For Sale At The Smoothie Shop Next to the Gym I'm Going To In LA

  02-03-2016 22:36 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  There's something appealing about 'em...
  ...and now I see it. My Christmas shopping is done.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Hive Mind, DoNormaal, Newaxeyes Head Up 9th Edition of Experimental-Music Fest Debacle

  02-03-2016 21:27 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave SegalNewaxeyes will likely kick "Assange" at Debacle Fest. Kelly O
  The partial lineup for the ninth annual Debacle Fest, one of the premier showcases of experimental music in the Pacific Northwest, will feature Hive Mind, DoNormaal, Brett Naucke, Benoît Pioulard, Newaxeyes, and several other adventurous musicians, it was announced this morning. Hosted by Debacle Records and organized by Hallie Sloan and Sam Melancon, Debacle Fest will take place at Columbia City Theater May 13-14.
  
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• Hive Mind, DoNormaal, Newaxeyes Head Up 9th Annual Experimental-Music Fest Debacle

  02-03-2016 21:27 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave SegalNewaxeyes will likely kick "Assange" at Debacle Fest. Kelly O
  The partial lineup for the ninth annual Debacle Fest, one of the premier showcases of experimental music in the Pacific Northwest, will feature Hive Mind, DoNormaal, Brett Naucke, Benoît Pioulard, Newaxeyes, and several other adventurous musicians, it was announced this morning. Hosted by Debacle Records and organized by Hallie Sloan and Sam Melancon, Debacle Fest will take place at Columbia City Theater May 13-14.
  
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• With new University of Texas pick-up location, Amazon bleeds burnt orange

  02-03-2016 21:20
  
  Amazon said it would open a staffed pick-up store at the University of Texas at Austin, one of the nation’s largest campuses and a key stronghold in Amazon’s bid to get shoppers while they’re young.
  
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• Teen reports attack by stranger near her Renton-area home

  02-03-2016 21:14
  
  The 16-year-old girl said she was attacked near her home in the East Renton Highlands.
  
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• Astronomers, billboard companies clash over signs that shine

  02-03-2016 21:07
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona has long been a haven for astronomers who take advantage of its mountain peaks and vast stretches of dark, desert sky to gaze at stars and planets. The state is also home to a thriving billboard industry whose signs light up a vast network of freeways. The two industries have long […]
  
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• Zootopia's Allegory Strikes at Donald Trump

  02-03-2016 21:04 via thestranger.com
  
  Zootopia's Allegory Strikes at Donald Trumpby Wm. Steven HumphreyDisney has long been the butt of derisive jokes, and for good reason. Their normative storylines—featuring a plethora of milquetoast princesses—have been consistently tone-deaf to society's increasingly progressive views on race and gender. However, a sea change within the company seems to be underway: Disney's been taking baby steps into the 21st century with films like Brave and Frozen, and with their latest, Zootopia
  
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• Teen stabbed by stranger at her Renton-area home

  02-03-2016 21:01
  
  A 16-year-old girl was reportedly stabbed at her home on Lake Kathleen near Renton Tuesday.
  
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• The Best Art Shows in Seattle This Spring

  02-03-2016 20:49 via thestranger.com
  
  Picks from Seattle Art and Performanceby Jen GravesFind a complete list of art shows in Seattle this spring on our Things To Do calendar.MuseumsAsian Art MuseumParadox of Place: Contemporary Korean Art (Through Mar 13): To try to represent contemporary art in Korea with a single exhibition that includes only six artists would be absurd, so that is not the goal of this show—the first major exhibition of Korean contemporary art in Seattle in a decade. Rather, the focus is on the concept of p
  
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• Fire Claims Life of 96-Year-Old Man on Beacon Hill

  02-03-2016 20:47 via thestranger.com
  
  by Alex GarlandA Seattle firefighter charges a line from a hydrant on Beacon Hill last night. Alex Garland
  Around midnight, the sound of sirens could be heard along the eastern edge of Beacon Hill—a common sound in the neighborhood, but last night was different. The lights of multiple fire engines could be seen bouncing off the walls of newly built condos and the smoke in the air was thick.A driving rain, barely noticed by firefighters with Seattle Fire Department, mixed with the water fro
  
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• To Have Fair Elections, the State Senate Needs to Finally Pass the Washington Voting Rights Act

  02-03-2016 19:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ansel HerzSupporters of the Washington State Voting Rights Act rallied in Olympia yesterday. OneAmerica
  The Kirkland Reporter:
  After four unsuccessful attempts by lawmakers in past sessions, sponsors of a state Voting Rights Act remain optimistic about action this year.
  An amended version of House Bill 1745 to enact a state Voting Rights Act passed out of the Senate's Committee on Government Operations & Security Feb. 2, and is awaiting a possible floor vote in the Senate. The bill cleare
  
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• Charge: Seattle homeless services worker raped 66-year-old client

  02-03-2016 19:28
  
  A Seattle homeless services worker accused of sexually assaulting a tenant has been charged with rape.
  
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• The Supreme Court Is Hearing One of the Most Important Abortion Cases Since Roe v. Wade

  02-03-2016 19:06 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverRight now, the U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a monumental abortion case known as Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt.
  At stake: Texas laws that make it so hard to access abortion that, for example, one woman in that state now calls herself an "abortion travel agent" because she helps women in rural parts of Texas travel long distances to the few remaining abortion clinics.The regulations in question—so-called "TRAP laws"—are supported by people who
  
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• Some Republicans Are Trying to Blame Obama for Trump's Rise

  02-03-2016 18:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageAnd neocon Robert Kagan is calling bullshit:
  Let’s be clear: Trump is no fluke. Nor is he hijacking the Republican Party or the conservative movement, if there is such a thing. He is, rather, the party’s creation, its Frankenstein’s monster, brought to life by the party, fed by the party and now made strong enough to destroy its maker. Was it not the party’s wild obstructionism — the repeated threats to shut down the government over policy and legislati
  
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• Art, AIDS, America After #StopErasingBlackPeople, Now in Atlanta

  02-03-2016 18:43 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jen GravesCurators decided not to commission this piece from Kia Labeija. She made it anyway. Courtesy of the artist
  The picture above is a large, bright, bold print of a young woman and the doctor she has been seeing since she was four years old, the doctor she shared with her mother until her mother died of HIV/AIDS, the doctor she never expected she'd be able to be old enough to visit in a grown-up's red prom dress.
  That self-portrait, only on view on Labeija's web site at the moment, is t
  
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• State worker accused of stealing $17,000 from celebration fund

  02-03-2016 18:27
  
  The Department of Ecology employee has pleaded not guilty to first-degree theft.
  
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• Idaho police says 4 teens set fire to principal’s home to protest suspension

  02-03-2016 18:11
  
  Investigators think the four boys set the fire in retaliation for being suspended. Social-media posts helped lead investigators to the suspects.
  
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• Open Books Is Looking for New Management

  02-03-2016 18:03 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithJohn Marshall is retiring and looking to sell this beautiful temple of poetry. Someone please buy it.Open Books"Retirement!" read the subject line of an e-mail from John W. Marshall, who, along with Christine Deavel, owns and operates Open Books, one of the few poetry-only bookstores in the country. (There's Berl's in Brooklyn, Innisfree in Denver, one in Boston, and maybe that's it?)Anyway, here's what the rest of the e-mail said:Dear Friends of Open Books,
  It is with mixed feeling
  
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• No change to school start times in Issaquah

  02-03-2016 17:59
  
  The Issaquah School District has been discussing ways to allow middle- and high-school students to start later, but its superintendent said that the community could not come to a consensus about whether that was a good idea.
  
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• Thousands without power after Puget Sound area storm

  02-03-2016 17:54
  
  Officials say thousands of customers around Western Washington remain without power after blustery, rainy weather.
  
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• Man’s body pulled from burning Beacon Hill home

  02-03-2016 17:54
  
  A 96-year-old man’s body was found in a house fire in Seattle’s Beacon Hill neighborhood. Investigators ruled the blaze an accident and said an electrical malfunction was to blame.
  
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• The Morning News: Local Republicans' Have a Super Tuesday Hangover, Mars Hill's Mark Driscoll Faces a Lawsuit

  02-03-2016 17:51 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneFormer Seattle port commissioner Bill Bryant, a Republican running against Governor Jay Inslee this November, has said that Donald Trump may not be fit to be president. But Bryant has not yet said whether he'll vote for Trump anyway if he becomes the Republican nominee. Washington State Department of Transportation
  The Morning After Super Tuesday: Looks like Trump has won Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Tennessee, Vermont, and Virginia. Clinton has won V
  
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• Yearlong spacemen embrace fresh, frigid air back on Earth

  02-03-2016 15:31
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Ah, there’s nothing like a blast of fresh, frigid air to welcome you back to the planet after nearly a year cooped up in space. That’s the word from astronaut Scott Kelly, NASA’s space-endurance champ. Kelly returned to bitterly cold Kazakhstan on Wednesday, along with his roommate for the past […]
  
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• Turtles are key as Kenya balances ecology and development

  02-03-2016 14:42
  
  WATAMU, Kenya (AP) — A turtle drags itself along a white sandy beach, splashes through the gentle warm Indian Ocean and then vanishes with a plop, becoming one of 13,750 turtle success stories on a stretch of Kenyan coastline facing pressure from developers. Kenya is striving to strike a balance between developing its 330 miles […]
  
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• Crews in Alabama to survey damage from likely tornado

  02-03-2016 13:52
  
  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Authorities in Alabama say a team of forecasters will be surveying damage from what they say is almost certainly a tornado that injured four people in a Birmingham suburb. National Weather Service meteorologist Mark Rose said Wednesday morning that forecasters were on their way to Bessemer to try and determine the […]
  
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• Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: Tina Fey, Girl Reporter

  02-03-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: Tina Fey, Girl Reporterby Megan BurbankConsidering my longstanding affection for Tina Fey and the fact that I am a lady journalist who once dreamed of being a foreign correspondent, it would be deeply silly to pretend to be the stony-browed face of impartial judgment when it comes to Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, starring Fey (she also produced!) as a war correspondent in Afghanistan. I am clearly its focus group; pleased to meet you.Henceforth referred to by its initials, WTF is
  
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• What's in Your Dressing Room, Robbie Turner?

  02-03-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  What's in Your Dressing Room, Robbie Turner? An Interview with the Vintage Virtuoso of R Placeby Matt BaumeWhen Logo announced that Robbie Turner would be competing in this spring's season of RuPaul's Drag Race, beginning March 7, Seattle's drag community responded with a resounding "What took so damn long?" She's a fixture at R Place, hosting an evening called Robbie Turner's Playground every Wednesday at midnight. On Fridays and Saturdays at R Place, she cohosts Lashes with Chablis. Blessed wi
  
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• Wagner's Operas Saved My Uncle's Life and Reordered the Tectonics of His Psyche

  02-03-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Wagner's Operas Saved My Uncle's Life and Reordered the Tectonics of His Psycheby Trisha ReadyMy uncle was was a sickly kid, so when he started coughing at 17, the adults in his life thought it was the usual allergies. Then he began hemorrhaging blood. It was 1939. People were dying from tuberculosis. A diagnosis inspired fear and stigma. He was quarantined for three years at La Vina Sanatorium near Pasadena, in Southern California. La Vina was a sanitized bubble, a space protected from the time
  
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• The Best Readings and Talks in Seattle This Spring

  02-03-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Picks from Seattle Art and Performanceby Rich SmithFind a complete list of readings and talks in Seattle this spring on our Things To Do calendar.March 4Colleen McElroy
  Colleen McElroy (poet, novelist, editor and longtime UW professor) will read from her newest work, Blood Memory.
  Elliott Bay Book Company
  March 6Shirin Ebadi: Fighting for Human Rights in Iran
  Activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi will speak about her personal experience with injustice and her current take on the hum
  
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• REVIEW: Car Seat Headrest's New Single "Vincent" Is a Brilliant, Seven-Minute Gauntlet Throwdown

  02-03-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  REVIEW: Car Seat Headrest's New Single "Vincent" Is a Brilliant, Seven-Minute Gauntlet Throwdownby Sean Nelson BRB TFW NBD IMHO LOLCAR SEAT HEADREST"Vincent" single(Matador Records)With a long intro that both overtly evokes and cheekily tweaks Television's "Marquee Moon," the first single from Car Seat Headrest's forthcoming LP, Teens of Denial (due this spring), has all the earmarks of a declaration of purpose. The glorious gauntlet throwdown continues through seven minutes of relentless invent
  
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• Ghosts of Seattle Past Creates Art Out of Seattle's Favorite Pastime: Talking About What Used to Be Here

  02-03-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Ghosts of Seattle Past Creates Art Out of Seattle's Favorite Pastime: Talking About What Used to Be Hereby Rich SmithSeattle is the great-great-great-great-great-grandson of Chief Seattle's grandfather. He remembers poppies growing by the boat ramp on Alki Point. They're still there. Seattle is from Ohio, but she moved here three years ago and mourns the loss of that coffee shop in the Melrose building. Seattle used to be there, right there—but then Seattle kicked Seattle out, and now Seat
  
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• Don Mee Choi's New Book, Hardly War, Is Challenging but Powerful Political Poetry

  02-03-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Don Mee Choi's Challenging but Powerful Political Poetryby Rich SmithI got a little nervous when I saw Don Mee Choi standing next to a small band onstage at Hugo House last September. I knew Choi primarily as a Korean-born, Hong Kong–raised, Seattle poet/translator who often uses puns and funny/grotesque imagery to deconstruct English and the colonial ideologies fossilized therein. I didn't know she had a band.Typically, whenever I see a live band and a poet sharing the same stage, I make
  
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• Claudia Rankine's Citizen Will Take You Two Hours to Read, but It Will Stay with You for the Rest of Your Life

  02-03-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Claudia Rankine's Citizen Will Take You Two Hours to Read, but It Will Stay with You for the Rest of Your Lifeby Rich SmithClaudia Rankine's book Citizen: An American Lyric resists traditional categories. Some of it looks like prose, some of it looks like poetry, and some of it doesn't involve words at all. It's a collage about death, media, and race, much like Rankine's 2004 book, Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric, but Citizen has punctured the consciousness of the country in a way few
  
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• Share your fitness data for an Apple Watch — or cash

  02-03-2016 09:02
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — You know you need to exercise more, but there’s always next week, or the week after? To entice you to stop procrastinating, your company or insurer might soon reward you for wearing a fitness device to track your steps, heart rate and more. For instance, in one program expected to be […]
  
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• Let your boss track your fitness, get an Apple Watch

  02-03-2016 09:02
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — You know you need to exercise more, but there’s always next week, or the week after. To entice you to stop procrastinating, your company or insurer might soon reward you for wearing a fitness device to track your steps, heart rate and more. For instance, in one program announced Wednesday, some […]
  
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• What Will It Take for Washington State to Put a Price on Carbon?

  02-03-2016 06:48 via thestranger.com
  
  What Will It Take for Washington State to Put a Price on Carbon?by Sydney BrownstoneMore than 30 years after scientists started warning policy makers about climate change, some politicians are considering doing something about it, maybe. But in Washington State, where scientists are already witnessing local symptoms of the global shift, it looks like yet another legislative session could pass without elected officials creating a sane set of climate policies. One thing, however, is certain: At le
  
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• We Saw You Shopping for a Bra, Running Down the Street in a Hair-Salon Smock, and Showing Off Your Big Telescope

  02-03-2016 06:48 via thestranger.com
  
  We Saw You Shopping for a Bra, Running Down the Street in a Hair-Salon Smock, and Showing Off Your Big Telescopeby Stranger StaffBUYING A BRA DOWNTOWNWe saw you, a super cute teenage brunette in a plaid jacket, giggling and rolling your eyes at the "back fat"–eliminating bras with your lady pal in the lingerie department of the downtown Macy's. You're laughing now, but TRUST US—in a few years, you'll be LOVING these bras almost as much as you'll be loving your Spanx.RUNNING DOWN THE
  
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• The Weed Delivery Bill in Olympia Is Effectively Dead

  02-03-2016 06:48 via thestranger.com
  
  Don't Hold Your Breath on the Weed-Delivery Bill in Olympia, and Other Marijuana Newsby Tobias Coughlin-BogueDon't Expect to See Legal Pot Delivered to Your Doorstep Anytime SoonThe bill from Representative Chris Hurst (D-Enumclaw) that would have set up a pilot program allowing for delivery service by state-licensed cannabis retailers failed to meet the house's February 26 voting cutoff on policy bills.According to Hurst, it wasn't popular with certain parts of Seattle's pot industry, which did
  
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• The Story of Queen Anne Beerhall

  02-03-2016 06:48 via thestranger.com
  
  The Story of Queen Anne Beerhallby Angela Garbes"Styles, trends, and buildings change—especially now in Seattle," says Jana Katrusin, co-owner of the Queen Anne Beerhall, in her Slovakian accent. Lubo Katrusin, a tall, sturdy, bearded man, slides in closer to his wife to complete the thought: "We wanted to build something that will last."The Katrusins know that they are lucky. At a time in Seattle when older buildings are being sold to the highest bidder, torn down, and replaced by mixed-u
  
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• Pioneer Square Residents Just Blocked an Apartment Building They Say Is "Out of Scale" with Their Neighborhood

  02-03-2016 06:48 via thestranger.com
  
  Pioneer Square Residents Just Blocked an Apartment Building They Say Is "Out of Scale"by Heidi GrooverBy any standard, the Old Seattle Parking Garage is unexceptional. The squat greenish-gray building at 316 Alaskan Way has little to offer visually and even less historical significance."Although the building has served as a garage since 1919," reads a Seattle Department of Neighborhoods summary of its history, "in general it does not appear to be associated with specific historic events or signi
  
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• In the Fight for an Affordable Seattle, Which Side Is the Frye Art Museum On?

  02-03-2016 06:48 via thestranger.com
  
  In the Fight for an Affordable Seattle, Which Side Is the Frye Art Museum On?by Jen GravesIn January, the Frye Art Museum came out with the news that it's working on a partnership to sell its parking lot to build two 33-story towers full of apartments that will be as expensive as the skyrocketing market will bear.People are noticing, they're objecting, and they're asking questions, because people trust the Frye. Its admission is free to all, and so is its parking (for now). Its exhibitions have
  
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• Free Will Astrology

  02-03-2016 06:48 via thestranger.com
  
  Free Will Astrology For the Week of March 2by Rob BrezsnyARIES (March 21–April 19): Actress Blythe Baird writes about the problem that arises when her dog sees her eating a peanut butter and chocolate chip bagel. Her beloved pet begs for a piece and becomes miserable when it's not forthcoming. Baird is merely demonstrating her love, of course, because she knows that eating chocolate can make canines ill. I suspect that life is bestowing a comparable blessing on you. You may feel mad and sa
  
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