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• 39 Stranger (Than Usual) Things To Do This Week

  22-03-2016 23:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffCelebrate National Tolkien Reading Day this weekend with Gamma Ray Games, where the 1978 version of The Fellowship of the Ring will be screened and Capitol Hill "resident wizard" Emmett Montgomery will read his favorite Lord of the Rings chapters.
  Our critics have already recommended 43 great things to do this week, but there are hundreds more events happening. To prevent some of the stranger, quirkier, and more extraordinary ones from slipping through the cracks, w
  
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• Medical investigators ID man fatally shot at a Renton apartment Sunday

  22-03-2016 23:54
  
  The 33-year-old man died after an armed intruder shot the lock off a door to an apartment in the 200 block of Southwest Fifth Place just before 6:30 a.m.
  
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• Photos of Hillary Clinton’s visit to Seattle area

  22-03-2016 23:33
  
  Hillary Clinton visited Washington State on Tuesday to gather support for the coming caucus.
  
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• Listen to Ecstatic Cosmic Union's New, Improved Soundtrack to Fantasy Film The Dark Crystal

  22-03-2016 23:32 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave Segal
  On Saturday for Northwest Film Forum's outstanding Puget Soundtrack series, Seattle's Ecstatic Cosmic Union (led by Rena Luelle and Aubrey Nehring) manifested a stunning, re-imagined soundtrack for Jim Henson and Frank Oz's 1982 fantasy-adventure film The Dark Crystal. Expanded to a quintet for this event with violinist Meagan Angus, Portland synthesist Star Child, and James Arellano, XCU methodically set sail for the deepest regions of the cosmos with their beautiful, drifting son
  
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• Man Has Climbed to the Top of a Tree in Downtown Seattle, Rescue Attempt Underway

  22-03-2016 22:41 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ansel HerzContinuing talks with #ManInTree in DT Seattle, WATCH LIVE: https://t.co/VIwea3tMvw pic.twitter.com/PDaiB81gR8
  — KOMO News (@komonews) March 22, 2016He's been up there for hours. KOMO's helicopter-cam shows a police officer on a ladder talking with the man, who is wearing a red beanie and was seen earlier throwing apples and other items from his perch. Reminder: Incident is still active and has Olive Way from 3rd-4th and Stewart St from 4th-5th Ave closed. Use alt routes.
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• New photo of dwarf planet Ceres' bright spots is stunning ... mystery remains!

  22-03-2016 22:33
  
  Funnest part of the Dawn spacecraft's exploration of the dwarf planet Ceres has been the amazing photos ... and the mysteries that continue fire imaginations.
  
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• Mayor asks young adults to push for city’s transportation future

  22-03-2016 22:20
  
  Seattle Mayor Ed Murray and a New York City transportation expert spoke to several hundred people at Town Hall on Monday night.
  
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• SL Letter of the Day: With "Best Friends" Like These...

  22-03-2016 21:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageOriginally posted on August 6, 2014.I am a 38-year-old married woman. My husband of 18 years is 22 years my senior. I credit my husband for giving me a good life and helping me pursue goals. But my husband is a type A professional, and that has played out in the bedroom. He has always been disinterested in my pleasure. When our kids were little, I did not want sex as often as he did ("only" twice a week). I suggested that he masturbate in the shower if he wanted a morning quickie. H
  
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• Study: Farms, hydropower at risk in West’s changing climate

  22-03-2016 21:21
  
  DENVER (AP) — Climate change could upset the complex interplay of rain, snow and temperature in the West, hurting food production, the environment and electrical generation at dams, the federal government warned Tuesday. Some areas could get more rain and less snow, reducing the snowmelt flowing into reservoirs in the summer when farmers need it […]
  
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• Transit Riders Union Concerned Two Class-Based Public Transportation Systems Taking Shape in Seattle

  22-03-2016 21:19 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeMetro is slow and for the poor? Charles Mudede
  The Transit Riders Union (TRU), a five-year-old organization that focuses on one of the most important democratic institutions in Seattle, public transportation, is deeply concerned that the expansion of Link and Metro's service restructuring on March 26 will establish "a second-class transit system" in Seattle. Why? Because light rail does not accept the reduced fare bus tickets that 138 social service agencies around the city prov
  
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• Space station cargo launching by light of nearly full moon

  22-03-2016 20:56
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Fresh supplies are due to ship out late Tuesday for the International Space Station, where the shelves finally are getting full after a string of failed supply runs. An unmanned Atlas V (five) rocket is scheduled to blast off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 11:05 p.m. by the light of […]
  
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• Every Presidential Candidate Is Sure the Brussels Attacks Prove Them Right

  22-03-2016 20:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Matt BaumeThanks for not calling for racial profiling, Democrats. Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com
  The worst part of the attacks in Brussels is the horrible killing and injuring of innocent people. No question — there is nothing more heart-wrenching than the suffering of those people and their families and friends.
  The second worst part is how politicians will twist the attacks to their advantage. You don't have to be a terrorist to benefit from terrorism.
  Donald Trump, of course, appeale
  
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• Explosion at Kent home linked to hash oil operation

  22-03-2016 20:23
  
  An explosion at a Kent home was apparently caused by efforts to make a potent marijuana extract.
  
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• The Democratic Caucuses are on Saturday: Events Before and After to Celebrate Your Civic Duty

  22-03-2016 20:19 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffWho's it going to be? Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock
  If you haven't heard, the Washington State Democratic Caucuses are this Saturday, March 26. Here's Sean Nelson on why you should go: "This year's caucuses afford Washington voters a chance to demand answers of one another, and more importantly, to listen to them. Most of all, though, it provides a crystal clear dividing line: If you don’t go, you are hereby forbidden to post another goddamn word about Hillary or
  
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• Conservative Intellectuals Turn on the White Working Class

  22-03-2016 20:11 via thestranger.com
  
  by Eli SandersWith the Republican party cracking into pieces, the National Review is now treating poor white Americans with the kind of open contempt that conservatives used to reserve for poor black Americans. Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com
  This has been going around for a while already, but I haven't seen it on Slog and I don't want anyone to miss the novel spectacle of conservative intellectuals turning on the white working class over that group's support for Donald Trump.
  In the National Rev
  
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• Sixty Eight

  22-03-2016 19:55 via thestranger.com
  
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• Sixty Six

  22-03-2016 19:49 via thestranger.com
  
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• Sixty Five

  22-03-2016 19:47 via thestranger.com
  
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• Local agencies ‘always vigilant,’ but no special measures in wake of Brussels attacks

  22-03-2016 19:42
  
  Tuesday’s explosions in Belgium have police, airport and transit officials paying attention, but they say they aren’t taking any extra security steps and that there’s nothing to indicate a terrorist threat in the Seattle area.
  
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• The Future of APRIL

  22-03-2016 19:39 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithAbout as a fancy as it can really get at an independent book festival. (L-R) Rachel Shields, Rebecca Zweig, Willie Fitzgerald, Tara Atkinson, Frances Chiem, and Sarah Baker put the festival together, along with other volunteers who are probably drinking/trying not to fall asleep somewhere out of frame. Sunita MartiniSunday marked the end of the fifth installment of APRIL Festival, a week-long series of events that seeks to foster community among, as the acronym goes, Authors, Publis
  
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• Man climbs Macy’s Christmas tree downtown, hurls apple at medics

  22-03-2016 19:38
  
  Seattle police and firefighters are responding to downtown Seattle for reports of a man who is refusing to climb down from a large tree.
  
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• Sheriff tells Oregon standoff backers to stay out of arrest

  22-03-2016 19:16
  
  HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The last named defendant in the armed occupation of an Oregon wildlife refuge was still at large Tuesday, drawing calls for supporters to flock to his Montana hometown and a local sheriff to urge outsiders to stay of it. Supporters of the 41-day standoff this winter over U.S. land restrictions used […]
  
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  22-03-2016 19:10 via thestranger.com
  
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• An Anti-LGBT Hate Group Is Calling Themselves "Pediatricians" To Attack Transgender Youth

  22-03-2016 19:06 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufNecessary all-caps: THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT SCIENTISTS. THEY ARE A HATE GROUP. American College of Pediatricians
  In today's Things That Make Me Sick news: The American College of Pediatricians – a national anti-LGBT, anti-choice, anti-sex organization – released a statement yesterday, saying that it is harmful to accept transgender children's identities.
  From ThinkProgress:
  “The American College of Pediatricians urges educators and legislators to reject all polic
  
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• Live updates from Hillary Clinton’s visit to Seattle

  22-03-2016 18:37
  
  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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• As Seattle Hosts Broadband Conference, Mayor Doubles Down on Refusal to Build Municipal Internet Network

  22-03-2016 18:34 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ansel HerzHomesellers are adding photos of their fiber-optic cables to their listings in Sandy, Oregon, where the city offers a popular gigabit broadband service. asharkyu/Shutterstock
  While we're all celebrating our city's latest step toward a passable public transit network—the opening of the new light rail extension to the University of Washington—it's worth considering how much happier we all might be if we could access important online destinations through a publicly-run giga
  
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• Rob Ford

  22-03-2016 17:59 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  Dead.
  Rob Ford, the Toronto city councillor who became the world’s most famous mayor during a wild, scandal-filled term, is dead at age 46. The married father of two young children died after 18 months of treatment for a rare and aggressive cancer first diagnosed in the midst of his 2014 bid to be re-elected mayor. Ford would have turned 47 on May 28. A brief statement from the Ford family announcing the death Tuesday described the former mayor as a “dedicated man of th
  
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• 1 dead in Clark County home explosion, fire

  22-03-2016 17:56
  
  One person is dead following an explosion and fire at a mobile home in Clark County
  
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• Seattle Mayor Ed Murray Endorses Hillary Clinton for President

  22-03-2016 17:53 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverMayor Ed Murray says Hillary Clinton "understands big-city issues." City of Seattle
  A few days after he grumpily told The Stranger he hadn't yet made up his mind, Mayor Ed Murray says he's backing Hillary Clinton for president.
  Murray tells the Seattle Times:
  Mayor Ed Murray said he hopes Clinton — who served two terms in the U.S. Senate representing New York state, including New York City — will be the Democratic nominee for president because she’s better equip
  
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• FDA adds boldest warning to most widely-used painkillers

  22-03-2016 17:38
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health regulators will add their strongest warning labels to the most widely used prescription painkillers, part of a multi-pronged government campaign to reverse an epidemic of abuse and death tied to drugs like Vicodin and Percocet. The Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday plans to add a boxed warning — the […]
  
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• New programs in Alaska schools will target abuse, violence

  22-03-2016 17:13
  
  Under a state law passed last year, age-appropriate training will begin as young as kindergarten.
  
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• The Morning News: A Bombing in Brussels, Bertha's $700,000 Workers' Comp Claims

  22-03-2016 16:52 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneMore than 30 people are dead after bombs exploded at the Brussels airport and a metro station in Belgium. Philip Lange / Shutterstock.com
  More Than 30 Are Dead in Belgium: After bombs went off at the Brussels airport and a metro station. Dozens more are injured. Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel told reporters he was asking citizens to "remain calm but also to show solidarity." The bombings occurred just four days after authorities captured the surviving suspect of the Pa
  
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• Alaska moose hunter wins round in court over hovercraft use

  22-03-2016 15:52
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a hunter who uses his hovercraft to track moose along Alaska’s Nation River. The court on Tuesday unanimously threw out a lower court ruling that upheld enforcement of National Park Service rules banning the use of hovercraft on the river when it runs through […]
  
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• New bill would encourage, support women and minorities in STEM fields

  22-03-2016 14:03
  
  A new bill sponsored by U.S. Sen. Patty Murray would provide $15 million a year to support women and minorities studying in the tech and science fields.
  
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• Seattle mayor backs Clinton because she ‘understands big-city issues’

  22-03-2016 13:00
  
  Two days after an estimated 17,000 people turned out in Seattle to cheer an appearance by Sen. Bernie Sanders, the mayor of the largest city in the Pacific Northwest will endorse Sanders’ rival, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
  
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• Disputed health law rule would broaden transgender rights

  22-03-2016 08:34
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Big companies are pushing back against proposed federal rules they say would require their medical plans to cover gender transition and other services under the nondiscrimination mandate of President Obama’s health-care law. Civil rights advocates representing transgender people say the regulation, now being finalized by the Health and Human Services Department, would […]
  
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• Authorities investigating explosion at SeaTac house

  22-03-2016 07:02
  
  Two people were hospitalized and four others were displaced after the blast, according to the Kent Regional Fire Authority.
  
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• 2 years since Oso slide, a quiet renewal amid the sorrow

  22-03-2016 05:08
  
  No formal commemoration is planned for the two-year anniversary of the deadly Oso landslide. It’s not that people don’t care, but things are moving on.
  
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• Tunnel-project injuries result in about $700,000 in claims

  22-03-2016 04:25
  
  The laborers, carpenters and engineers who remained on the job while the giant boring machine Bertha was being fixed suffered sprained ankles, backs and elbows, scratched eyes and burned arms and feet — and filed about $700,000 in workers’ compensation claims.
  
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• Culture clash with Mideast students stirs up Idaho town

  22-03-2016 04:25
  
  Idaho State became increasingly dependent on Saudi and Kuwaiti students to replace income lost from steep declines in local enrollment and state funding but had not bargained for the cultural clash in Pocatello.
  
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