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• The 43 Best Things To Do In Seattle This Week

  21-03-2016 23:53 via thestranger.com
  
  Georgetown Bites, Sakura-Con, A New Sarah Rudinoff Show, The Democratic Caucuses, And More Picks For March 21-27by Stranger Things To Do StaffThis week, our arts critics have recommended the best events in every genre—from a new show from performer Sarah Rudinoff to Georgetown Bites, and from Sakura-Con to the Washington State Democratic Caucuses. See them all below, and find even more events on our complete Things To Do calendar.Want this in your inbox? Sign up for the Stranger Things To
  
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• Hear Post-Punk Peaks on Hollow Earth Radio's The Secret Meaning of Things

  21-03-2016 23:43 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave Segal
  Post-punk, minimal/cold wave, no wave, and other eccentric musical styles from the '80s have been enjoying a resurgence in Seattle's nightlife scene over the last few years. The monthly night Aesthetic Mess and False Prophet have been leading the charge in clubs for those genres, while bands like VATS, Nail Polish, Stickers, and Roladex have been keeping the legacy of post-punk and minimal wave vital, as well. Hollow Earth Radio's been doing its part on that front, too, with Strang
  
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• Seattle City Council Approves Controversial Nominee to Lead City Light

  21-03-2016 22:54 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverLarry Weis, the new head of Seattle City Light. Seattle Channel
  Seattle, meet your city government's new highest paid employee: An experienced but uninspiring bureaucrat who previously ran the city utility in Austin, Texas, and is already on environmentalists' bad side.
  After being nominated by Mayor Ed Murray, Larry Weis, a Seattle area native, was approved by the Seattle CityCouncil in a 7-2 vote today to be the next CEO of Seattle City Light.
  As I've explained here and here, e
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Mated and Checkmated

  21-03-2016 22:13 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageMy boyfriend and I have been seeing each other for a year. Six months into it he told me that he participated in a MMF relationship with a couple of his friends. He said that it went on for years but that it hadn't happened for a while and that he usually only hung out with them as a friend now from time to time. I'm monogamous so I asked him if he needed to participate in something like that in the future and if he felt okay about the way the situation currently was with his friend
  
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• A Clarification and Some More Context about Last Week's Pesticide Testing Results

  21-03-2016 22:03 via thestranger.com
  
  by Tobias Coughlin-BogueIn an ideal world, we'd have more ladybugs, fewer chemicals. Ladybug / Thinkstock
  Last week, The Stranger broke the news that more products on the shelves at recreational stores have tested positive for sketchy pesticides. Since then, I've heard from a lot of people in the industry and a lot of readers, and there are a few things it's important to clarify.The point of publishing those results was not to discredit anyone. The point was to highlight one of the issues that i
  
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• The Walking Dead Recap: Twice as Far

  21-03-2016 21:35 via thestranger.com
  
  by Campy DraperHey Walking Dead fans. Did you catch last night’s episode? I hope so! And I know you came here looking for Humpy’s hot takes on it, but Wm. Steven Humphrey is out on vacation this week so I’m going to step in to chitty chat with you instead. My name is Campy Draper. A little something about me: I hate The Walking Dead but I’ve watched every episode. This show wields its narrative like a cudgel, and that cudgel is shaped like a fist, and that fist is made of
  
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• Republicans Too Dysfunctional to Pass Terrible Budget

  21-03-2016 21:28 via thestranger.com
  
  by Matt BaumeDo you realize how much Easter vacation time you'd get if you worked here? U.S. Congress/Shutterstock
  Are you looking forward to your Easter break? You DO get two weeks off of work for Easter, don't you? Wait, you don't? Well that must mean you don't work for Congress, where our "hard-working" "leaders" are supposed to be passing a 2017 budget right now but will instead be setting their out-of-office auto-replies for two weeks.
  So, about that budget they're not passing: It's bad. To
  
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• The Artists of San Francisco Taking a Huge Stand: Streetopia

  21-03-2016 20:33 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jen GravesErick Lyle is reading from his book Tuesday at Left Bank Books. Courtesy of Booklyn
  Remember when people used to move to cities to escape small-town persecution, religion, to be free, to have sex, to make art?
  "Now people come here to be rich and powerful," Erick Lyle said.
  We were talking on the phone about his new book Streetopia. Tomorrow night, Lyle will read from it and talk about artists, housing and displacement, and direct action at Left Bank Books here in Seattle, where dis
  
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• Boring Report: This Is the Best New Hallway in Seattle

  21-03-2016 20:12 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher FrizzelleThe corridor between the main part of the Capitol Hill light rail station and the southwest entrance/exit.Christopher Frizzelle
  I guess I shouldn't call this one a Boring Report, because this hallway was not created by boring. This hallway was a cut-and-cover. But Cut-and-Cover Report just rings a little hollow.This corridor crosses under Broadway just south of Denny. "We closed half of Broadway at a time to dig that tunnel," Sound Transit spokesperson Bruce Gray confirms
  
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• Single Women Are a Political Force to Be Reckoned With

  21-03-2016 19:58 via thestranger.com
  
  by Megan Burbank
  "Young women today no longer have to wonder, as I did, what unmarried adult life for women might look like," writes political journalist Rebecca Traister in her latest book, All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation. In it, she charts the increasingly common trend among American women of delaying or opting out of marriage—not because they're all living inside a Cathy comic (ACK!!!), but because marriage is no longer the entry point into a
  
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• Where to Watch the Academy Awards

  21-03-2016 19:51 via thestranger.com
  
  Our Complete Calendar of Oscar Parties and Screeningsby Stranger Things To Do Staff
  
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• NASA captures an exploding star's brief scream or 'shock breakout' for first time

  21-03-2016 19:43
  
  Our sun will die. Yep. In another seven billion years or so, kaput. But, it will not die in the spectacular fashion scientists spotted when combing through data gleaned from the heavens by NASA's Kepler space telescope.
  
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• UW student severely injured in domestic-violence attack

  21-03-2016 19:16
  
  Seattle police say a 22-year-old woman suffered life-threatening injuries when she was attacked by a man Sunday in a University District apartment. Both are students at the University Washington.
  
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• Updates on traffic impacts as Vice President Joe Biden visits Seattle

  21-03-2016 19:06
  
  Drivers are being advised to delay any "non-essential" trips while Biden is in town.
  
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• SPD: UW student critically injured after LSD-fueled assault by boyfriend

  21-03-2016 19:00
  
  A 22-year-old UW student is critically injured after being assaulted by her boyfriend in the University District, Seattle police say.
  
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• SPD: UW student critically injured after assault by boyfriend

  21-03-2016 19:00
  
  A 22-year-old UW student is critically injured after being assaulted by her boyfriend in the University District, Seattle police say.
  
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• 12 Photos from the Bernie Sanders Rally at Key Arena

  21-03-2016 18:57 via thestranger.com
  by Alex GarlandThousands of Bernie Sanders supporters waited in the rain at Seattle Center to see the presidential candidate at Key Arena. Alex Garland
  The line to see Bernie Sanders wrapped around the Seattle Center Grounds, past the EMP, and to the Space Needle Alex Garland
  Before Bernie Sanders spoke to the crowd inside, he spent a few minutes giving a brief overview of his talking points to the waiting crowd outside.Alex Garland
  The official attendance numbers were 10,312 inside and 5,500 ou
  
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• Frank Rich: The "Republican Establishment" Has Been Stoking and Exploiting Racial Animus For Decades...

  21-03-2016 18:43 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage...and have only themselves to blame for Trump, are too compromised to repudiate Trump, and will soon be rallying around Trump. Great long read from Frank Rich at New York Magazine:
  The fiction that Trump’s exploitation of racial resentments is a shocking breach of Republican values has been fiercely asserted by Romney, Ryan, and the rest of the GOP Establishment for the obvious reason: A nearly all-white party, staring down the barrel of a looming minority-white America, can&
  
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• The Seattle Times Editorial Board Wants More Parking Around Light Rail Stations

  21-03-2016 18:37 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverThe Seattle Times is on again about the "anti-car zealotry in vogue at Seattle City Hall." Sound Transit
  While the rest of us celebrated the opening of two new light rail stations over the weekend, the Seattle Times Editorial Board took the chance to lay out its vision for the future of light rail in Puget Sound. That vision: more parking.
  The board writes that the light rail package expected on your ballot this fall—Sound Transit 3—"must include parking."
  Pragmatism
  
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• The Morning News: Bernie & Hillary Come To Town, A Female Firefighter's Work Is Overlooked, And Trump Fans Are Jerks

  21-03-2016 18:34 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufIt's tulip season! ASK
  After some technical difficulties, we're back up and runnin'.
  First Things First – Say Goodbye To The Sunshine: It was nice while it lasted.
  But Hey, It's Officially Spring, So At Least It'll Be Pretty! Sunday was the Vernal Equinox, which marks the first day of spring, and Washington is about to become absurdly gorgeous. Sights to behold: Big leaf maple trees in bloom, tulip festivals, and the wonders within our state parks (for which there are THR
  
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• The Morning News: Bernie & Hillary Come To Town, A Female Firefighter Gets Looked Over, And Trump Fans Are Jerks

  21-03-2016 18:34 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufIt's tulip season! ASK
  After some technical difficulties, we're back up and runnin'.
  First Things First – Say Goodbye To The Sunshine: It was nice while it lasted.
  But Hey, It's Officially Spring, So At Least It'll Be Pretty! Sunday was the Vernal Equinox, which marks the first day of Spring, and Washington is about to become absurdly pretty. Sights to behold: Big leaf maple trees in bloom, tulip festivals, and the wonders within our state parks (for which there are THREE
  
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• Mental-health emphasis good for both inmates, staff at Yakima County Jail

  21-03-2016 18:29
  
  When inmates can get the care they need to stabilize themselves while in custody, corrections officers and other staff can feel safer, officials say.
  
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• Hillary Clinton’s Seattle-area visit includes public event at Rainier Beach High

  21-03-2016 18:17
  
  Hillary Clinton will have a busy day Tuesday as she campaigns ahead of Saturday’s Washington state Democratic caucuses. Bill Clinton and Chelsea Clinton also are coming to the state.
  
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• Grounded vessel in Columbia River; no sign of oil in water

  21-03-2016 18:07
  
  The 623-foot bulk carrier ran aground in the Columbia River near Cathlamet, Washington
  
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• Space station delivery rich in science and technology

  21-03-2016 18:03
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A space station supply ship is set to blast off Tuesday night with a commercial-quality 3-D printer for astronaut as well as public use — for a price — and the makings for a large-scale fire. Don’t worry: The blaze is for scientific purposes only and won’t ignite until the […]
  
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• Ski report: Some areas staying open until April, and great conditions prevail for spring break

  21-03-2016 18:02
  
  It may be spring, but winter just won’t let go of its grip along the ski slopes. That is good news for skiers and snowboarders on spring break who should be able to find plenty of fresh snow covered hillsides in the days ahead. A low pressure system is expected to move across the state […]
  
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• Ship carrying grain runs aground in Columbia River; no sign of oil in water

  21-03-2016 17:47
  
  PORTLAND — A 623-foot bulk carrier ran aground in a narrow part of the Columbia River near Cathlamet, Wahkiakum County. The U.S. Coast Guard says the vessel loaded with grain was heading west with a river pilot still onboard when it ran into trouble early Monday. Two tug boats are on the scene to keep […]
  
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• Riders sound off about light-rail extensions after first Monday commute

  21-03-2016 17:19
  
  Commuters on social media seemed overwhelmingly pleased with Seattle's new light-rail extensions.
  
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• Jonathan Fahey named AP global health editor

  21-03-2016 17:04
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Jonathan Fahey, a veteran business reporter and editor, has been named global health editor for The Associated Press, overseeing a team of journalists to cover medicine, public health, the health care business and consumer health issues. The appointment was announced Monday by Marjorie Miller, AP’s vice president of global news and […]
  
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• Ex-postal worker gets prison for stealing mail-order medications

  21-03-2016 16:02
  
  The man’s attorney said he suffered from PTSD and was addicted to drugs.
  
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• Health insurance gains due to Obama’s law, not economy

  21-03-2016 15:46
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s growing evidence that most of the nation’s dramatic jump in health care coverage is due to President Barack Obama’s law, and not the gradual economic recovery. That’s going to raise election-year political risks for Republicans who keep campaigning to repeal “Obamacare” without a plausible substitute. Why? Consider GOP front-runner Donald Trump’s […]
  
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• FDA approves new injection to combat anthrax

  21-03-2016 15:39
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials have approved a new injectable drug to treat patients who have been exposed to the deadly toxin anthrax. The Food and Drug Administration said it approved Anthim on Friday to treat inhalation anthrax, which can cause serious injury and death. The condition occurs when anthrax bacterial spores are inhaled. […]
  
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• ‘It’s a broken market’: State sees steep drop in home-based child care

  21-03-2016 14:00
  
  Washington state has lost about 1,500 child-care providers since 2011 — mostly home-based businesses — and that’s making it tough for families who need child care on nights and weekends.
  
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• A longer school day? In Massachusetts, some schools see big payoff

  21-03-2016 14:00
  
  The true prize in education is a recipe that vaults low-income students into the upper echelons of achievement. A blue-collar town in Massachusetts says the key is something as basic as more time.
  
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• GOP candidates taking aim at Common Core academic standards

  21-03-2016 08:39
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Note to Republican presidential candidates: Congress passed, with broad bipartisan support, an education law that specifically says the federal government cannot push academic standards such as Common Core or give incentives to states that adopt them. On top of that, Common Core standards were established by state governors, not Washington. So is […]
  
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• 2 dead, 2 hurt in wrong-way crash on SR-512 near Lakewood

  21-03-2016 06:05
  
  Two people are dead in a wrong-way crash on SR-512 near Lakewood Sunday evening.
  
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• Bernie Sanders to big rally: Seattle is 'ready for a political revolution'

  21-03-2016 03:20
  
  Seattle is "ready for a political revolution," insurgent Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders told a  cheering throng at KeyArena Sunday night, in the largest political rally the Emerald City has seen since Barack Obama came through early in 2008.
  
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