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• Hugo House Is Looking for a Prose Writer-in-Residence

  14-04-2016 23:37 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich Smith It's that time of year when you have to sign up for a bunch of residencies, fellowships, workshops, classes, and general good-time fun writing times. At Hugo House, you can study under people like Jeff Bender, shown here being a fine teacher of fiction in real moody light. Ella Ordona
  Hugo House is taking applications for a couple pretty excellent creative development programs, and the deadlines are coming up soon. Specifically, they're looking for a new Prose Writer-in-Residence a
  
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• Spokane’s McMorris Rodgers contradicts her own voting record with equal-pay op-ed

  14-04-2016 23:15
  
  The fourth-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives has voted against legislation that addresses the issues listed in her Glamour op-ed, saying she instead prefers Republican-backed proposals to solve the pay gap.
  
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• Savage Love: Sweat

  14-04-2016 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage JOE NEWTON
  I'm a 49-year-old gay man. I've become friends with a 21-year-old straight guy. He's really hot. He's had to drop out of college and return home. I know he needs money, as he hasn't found a job yet and has resorted to selling off old music equipment. I would love to have some sweaty clothes of his, namely his underwear, but I'd settle for a sweaty tank top. Is it legal to buy someone's underwear? He's a sweet guy, and I don't want to freak him out by asking something so
  
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• UW dental school takes steps to erase $29 million deficit

  14-04-2016 23:05
  
  A new plan aims to put the University of Washington’s School of Dentistry on firm financial footing after it ran up a $29 million deficit over a decade.
  
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• Hillary's Devoting Significant Attention to Black Victims of Violence

  14-04-2016 22:31 via thestranger.com
  
  by Matt BaumeClinton & Sharpton. Evan El-Amin / Shutterstock.com
  I'm you're looking to have your breath taken away by some stories of the real people behind political posturing, well, feast your eyes on this New York Times article about Hillary Clinton's relationship with the mothers of black victims of violence.
  The whole profile reads like it was arranged by the Clinton campaign, and it almost definitely was — access journalism like this doesn't happen by accident, but by the elabora
  
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• Microsoft Sues the Government to Protect Your Data From Snooping

  14-04-2016 22:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ansel HerzGodspeed, Microsoft. pio3 / Shutterstock.com
  The Verge:Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department, claiming that it's "unconstitutional" to force the company to remain silent and not inform customers when their cloud data has been searched or inspected by authorities. "Microsoft brings this case because its customers have a right to know when the government obtains a warrant to read their emails, and because Microsoft has a right to tell them," the complaint, filed
  
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• Welcome to the World, Killroom Records. Here Are Five Other Under-the-Radar Seattle Labels You Should Know About

  14-04-2016 21:14 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave Segal
  In addition to Ben Jenkins and Troy Nelson's new Killroom Records, there are several other local labels that are putting out great music.
  Abduction
  suncitygirls.com/abduction
  Underground-music legend Alan Bishop splits his time between Seattle and Cairo, Egypt, these days, but the commitment to high-quality releases for his Abduction imprint hasn't wavered. Abduction made a huge splash with the 2015 reissue of Sun City Girls' long out-of-print, singular ethnodelic masterpiece Torch
  
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• Paul Allen Is Not Going to Like This Review of His First Traveling Art Exhibition

  14-04-2016 20:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jen GravesOne of Paul Allen's landscapes that's not part of his landscape art exhibition, Seeing Nature. Mat Hayward / Shutterstock.com
  "If Seeing Nature is a sign of the times for art collecting, the future looks bleak, indeed," writes Christiane Vauveros-Fauné on Artnet. He continues (emphasis mine):As it is, the exhibition resembles a Kardashian shopping spree. It's like Allen simply flipped through Janson's History of Art, exclaiming, "I'll have that, that, that and that!"
  Zoiks! V
  
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• For Their Production of The Tempest, New City Theater Turns the Theater Into a Beach

  14-04-2016 20:53 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithExcept there isn't any water. Really it's just a bunch of sand on the ground. It's a beach of the mind, people. Anyway, here's Peter Crook playing a mean mooncalf.Shawn Hardison
  If you sit in the front row at New City Theater you can screw your bottle of beer into fine, white sand as you watch Peter Crook expertly unearth the depths of Caliban, as if you were in some kind of Renaissance-era Corona commercial. As an audience member on Nina Moser's immersive set, you feel as if you're
  
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• FBI: Washington woman vanished

  14-04-2016 20:51
  
  Felina Blanch Metsker disappeared from her Yakima-area home three weeks ago. Now, the FBI is offering up to $10,000 for tips related to the missing 33-year-old Harrah woman's disappearance.
  
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• First-grader brings flare gun to Port Orchard school

  14-04-2016 20:35
  
  The student tried to discharge the marine flare gun on the playground at the Port Orchard elementary school.
  
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• Off-the-Charts Music Nerdery Happens Tonight at EMP with Record Store Showdown

  14-04-2016 20:34 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave SegalGreg Vandy, KEXP DJ, author, and host of tonight's music-trivia game Record Store Showdown.
  Your favorite people in the world, record-store clerks, will be testing their musical trivia knowledge tonight at EMP Museum's Record Store Showdown, a game-show-like event that's part of the EMP Pop Conference and Record Store Day. KEXP host of The Roadhouse program, Greg Vandy, will MC this contest of wits, with employees from Everyday Music, Sonic Boom, Spin Cycle, and Easy Street competin
  
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• Off-the-Charts Music Nerdery at Record Store Showdown at EMP Tonight

  14-04-2016 20:34 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave SegalGreg Vandy, KEXP DJ, author, and host of tonight's music-trivia game Record Store Showdown.
  Your favorite people in the world, record-store clerks, will be testing their musical trivia knowledge tonight at EMP Museum's Record Store Showdown, a game-show-like event that's part of the EMP Pop Conference and Record Store Day. KEXP host of The Roadhouse program, Greg Vandy, will MC this contest of wits, with employees from Everyday Music, Sonic Boom, Spin Cycle, and Easy Street competin
  
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• El Nino weakens, here comes La Nina, meteorologists say

  14-04-2016 20:14
  
  WASHINGTON — In the midst of an epic El Nino, federal meteorologists say its flip side, La Nina, is around the corner. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center on Thursday reported that the current strong El Nino is weakening but likely to stick around a couple more months. At the same time, […]
  
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• We Miss You Already, Anne Gould Hauberg

  14-04-2016 19:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jen GravesThomas T. Wilson painted this portrait of Anne Gould Hauberg in 1972. She was both elegant and feisty, not afraid to make noise. This piece is in the collection of Tacoma Art Museum, where Gould Hauberg was a trustee from 1994 to 2000. Courtesy of Tacoma Art Museum, Gift of Anne Gould Hauberg
  Anne Gould Hauberg, the arts patron who knew how to crack a joke and command a room, and who also had one of those exquisite Matisse drawings facing her when she sat on her couch at home, died
  
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• Brilliant Sisters From Ritzville, Wash. Present Experiment At The White House Science Fair

  14-04-2016 19:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia Knauf
  Two new additions to my list of inspirational ladies: Rebecca and Kimberly Yeung, ages 11 and 9, respectively.The sisters jumpstarted their scientific career when they designed and built the Loki Lego Launcher, a ballooncraft built out of plywood, bent archery arrow shafts, rope, and a weather balloon."The craft's name came from two pieces of cargo: a Lego figurine of R2D2 and a picture of their late cat, Loki. There was also a flight computer, a GPS tracker, a temperature and
  
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• Brilliant Seattle Sisters Present Experiment At The White House Science Fair

  14-04-2016 19:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia Knauf
  Two new additions to my list of inspirational ladies: Rebecca and Kimberly Yeung, ages 11 and 9, respectively.The sisters jumpstarted their scientific career when they designed and built the Loki Lego Launcher, a ballooncraft built out of plywood, bent archery arrow shafts, rope, and a weather balloon."The craft's name came from two pieces of cargo: a Lego figurine of R2D2 and a picture of their late cat, Loki. There was also a flight computer, a GPS tracker, a temperature and
  
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• The Invasion of Iraq Was a Roaring Success

  14-04-2016 19:12 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ansel HerzHillary Clinton voted for the war and didn't acknowledge she got it wrong until 2014. She stood by her vote when she ran for president in 2008. Melih Cevdet Teksen / Shutterstock.com
  The Intercept:
  More than 90 percent of young people in Iraq consider the United States to be an enemy of their country, according to a new poll.
  After years spent justifying the war as a “liberation” of the Iraqi people, the survey casts further doubt on the success of that endeavor.An Ameri
  
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• Anti-Trans Activists Battle Over Ballot Language—And Lose

  14-04-2016 19:08 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneYou don't get to call genital policing "enforcing a right to privacy," assholes. Alex Garland
  The architects of a statewide campaign to police transgender people's genitals in bathrooms did not like the way the Washington State Attorney General worded their proposal for the November ballot. But after anti-trans activists took the wording issue to court, a Thurston County Superior Court judge has ruled that much of the AG's original language will pretty much stay the way it is
  
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• WSU student hospitalized after drinking at frat party

  14-04-2016 18:51
  
  A Washington State University student was hospitalized with a life-threatening blood-alcohol level after a recent event at the Phi Delta Theta house.
  
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• Charges: Repeat offender killed Seattle clerk in random attack

  14-04-2016 18:34
  
  King County prosecutors say David A. Moore attacked William Hardee Cross on the evening of Jan. 10 while Cross was working at Union Street Market. Moore, 49, was one of three murder suspects arrested Wednesday in connection to Seattle killings.
  
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• Amazon Offers Empty Building to Temporarily House Homeless Families

  14-04-2016 17:56 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverNearly 3,000 people were sleeping on the streets of Seattle in January. Amazon is offering an unused building to house about 200 people for a year. Ansel Herz
  The company often blamed for the rising housing costs contributing to Seattle's homelessness crisis is offering a small bit of help. Amazon will allow the nonprofit Mary's Place to house 60 to 70 homeless families and some pets in an empty former hotel near Amazon's campus, the Seattle Times reports.The 34,500-square-foot b
  
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• Morning News: Suspect Charged With Murder of Ingrid Lyne, Japan Hit by Powerful Earthquake

  14-04-2016 17:49 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeAccording to Seattle Times, the "king of shrubs" is showing its brilliance early because the weather is so warm and lovely. hbpictures/shutterstock.com
  Area Rhododendrons Flowering Early Because of Mild Winter and Warm Spring: When you see these showy flowers around the city, do not think about climate change. It is scientifically impossible to connect this blooming confusion (May must have arrived!) with the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities that are liberating
  
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• 6 children waiting at Maple Valley bus stop injured when pickup crashes

  14-04-2016 17:40
  
  Four of the children waiting at a middle-school bus stop were struck by a pickup, and two were hit by a mailbox that the truck also hit.
  
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• 19-year-old driving with suspended license injures 6 boys at Maple Valley bus stop

  14-04-2016 17:40
  
  The teen is in custody after he lost control of his pickup and injured six middle-school boys in a crash in Maple Valley. The driver apparently had a medical emergency that caused the crash.
  
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• I-90 speed limit may go up to 75 mph in Eastern Washington

  14-04-2016 16:46
  
  The state is expected to decide next month whether to raise the speed limit on a 100-mile stretch of Interstate 90 between Grant and Spokane counties.
  
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• British astronaut all set to run London Marathon from space

  14-04-2016 16:02
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Britain’s first official spaceman, Timothy Peake, says he’s ready to run the London Marathon in 1½ weeks — from 250 miles up. But he’s not expecting to set a P-R, or personal record. In an interview Thursday with The Associated Press, the astronaut said he’s glad he’s had plenty of […]
  
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• Tukwila’s homeless students graduate at much higher rate than statewide average

  14-04-2016 15:02
  
  In Tukwila, 73 percent of students experiencing homeless graduated in 2015, compared with the overall district rate of 70 percent.
  
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• Microsoft is sharpening its tools for the classroom

  14-04-2016 15:00
  
  The company is announcing Microsoft Classroom, a hub built on top of the Web-based Office 365 and designed to help teachers manage documents, calendars and assignments. It’s scheduled to arrive this summer.
  
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• King County Metro bus driver logs many miles — and smiles

  14-04-2016 15:00
  
  It takes a special sort of person to be a King County Metro bus driver. Cherry Gilbert — patient, tolerant and friendly — is one of them.
  
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• FDA to allow folic acid in corn masa to stop birth defects

  14-04-2016 14:55
  
  The Food and Drug Administration took action on a long-delayed petition Thursday, agreeing to allow folic acid to be added to corn-masa flour to prevent birth defects, mostly in Hispanic babies. The vitamin has been added to other grains in the U.S. for years.
  
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• Exxon seeks to block subpoena over climate-change documents

  14-04-2016 14:44
  
  DALLAS (AP) — Exxon Mobil Corp. is squaring off against government investigators who believe the energy giant covered up knowledge of how fossil fuels contribute to climate change. Exxon went to state court this week in Texas to quash a subpoena issued last month by the attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands. The company […]
  
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• In the wake of Ingrid Lyne’s slaying, a look at dating safety

  14-04-2016 14:30
  
  The nurse from Renton found dismembered in a recycling bin met the suspect on an online dating website. But is online dating riskier than any other options?
  
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• Last surviving space shuttle external tank on way to L.A.

  14-04-2016 12:37
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — NASA’s only remaining space shuttle external fuel tank is headed to California where it will land as part of a permanent display with the retired space shuttle Endeavor. The tank, ET-94, was built for the space shuttle program but never used in flight. The 15-story, 32 ½ ton external tank left […]
  
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• UN climate panel to explore 1.5-degree warming goal

  14-04-2016 11:43
  
  STOCKHOLM (AP) — The U.N.’s scientific panel on climate change will write a special report on how to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) compared with pre-industrial times. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change agreed Thursday to explore the issue after a request by world governments in Paris last December. Many […]
  
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• LA museum enlists volunteers in search for bugs, plants

  14-04-2016 10:04
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Long before Southern California was paved over with freeways and covered with cars and millions of people, it was teeming with snakes, slugs, spiders, snails and uncounted other slimy, creepy, crawly creatures. And it still is, say scientists at the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum who are intent on building […]
  
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• Oyster hatchery sows pearls of wisdom on climate change

  14-04-2016 08:10
  
  WALPOLE, Maine (AP) — Say “infrastructure” and most people think roads and bridges, not tubes and valves. But to Bill Mook, the black box in the basement of his oyster hatchery is every bit as fundamental as the basic facilities and structures that serve as a community’s framework. Mook, who started Mook Sea Farm 36 […]
  
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• Seattle detectives arrest 3 in separate killings

  14-04-2016 07:31
  
  Two have been booked into King County Jail and one into the King County Youth Center for investigation of homicide.
  
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• Food truck for Fido: New Seattle business caters to canines

  14-04-2016 05:33
  
  The Seattle Barkery food truck serves dogs and their owners in Seattle-area dog parks, office-building parking lots, farmers markets and private events. I
  
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• Family tries to overcome past, and prison, after DOC release error

  14-04-2016 05:10
  
  The story of a man returned to prison after a DOC error argues for criminal-justice reform.
  
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• Last year’s heat wave doomed nearly all Okanogan sockeye salmon

  14-04-2016 04:40
  
  Amid last summer’s drought and heat wave, some 98 percent of Okanogan basin sockeye salmon died before they reached spawning grounds, a new report says.
  
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• Amazon to set up temporary homeless haven on downtown campus

  14-04-2016 04:38
  
  The tech giant will let Mary’s Place, a nonprofit dedicated to helping homeless women and their families, run a shelter housing more than 200 people for a year in a former Travelodge that it bought as part of its downtown Seattle expansion.
  
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• Was alert about Mukilteo mosque driven by anti-Muslim bias?

  14-04-2016 04:34
  
  A mysterious mailing to Mukilteo residents about a planned mosque has led some to assume it was motivated by Islamophobia. City officials say a major player in the aerospace industry may be behind the postcard.
  
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• Mysterious postcard alerts Mukilteo of plans for mosque

  14-04-2016 04:34
  
  A mysterious mailing to Mukilteo residents about a planned mosque has led some to assume it was motivated by Islamophobia. City officials say a major player in the aerospace industry may be behind the postcard.
  
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• Illegal pot grow discovered in Ballard burglary investigation

  14-04-2016 02:58
  
  Narcotics detectives confiscated 531 plants from an illegal pot growing operation in a space next to a children’s book store, Seattle police said.
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: The Constant Question

  14-04-2016 02:48 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageI am a little embarrassed to reach out but I am at a loss. My wife and I have been married for 15 years and are both older (50). I love her dearly but, once she went through menopause about one year ago, we have had virtually no sex (not Woody Allen's definition). She occasionally gives me oral sex but will not allow me to touch her at all. She has terrible hot flashes and vaginismus but cannot take oral estrogen.This is making me a little crazy.
  I started watching porn often, I mas
  
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• Sen. Patty Murray meets with Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland

  14-04-2016 02:19
  
  Sen. Patty Murray met with U.S. Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland and criticized Republicans for obstructing a vote on him. That drew charges of hypocrisy from her GOP challenger, Chris Vance.
  
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• Implanted chip helps paralyzed man regain control of hand

  14-04-2016 01:51
  
  The doctors’ study, published by the journal Nature, is the first account of limb reanimation, as it is known, in a human with profound paralysis.
  
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• Free Will Astrology: For the Week of April 13

  14-04-2016 01:26 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rob Brezsny feSTA/Shutterstock
  ARIES (March 21–April 19): "When I discover who I am, I'll be free," said novelist Ralph Ellison. Would you consider making that a paramount theme in the coming weeks? Will you keep it in the forefront of your mind, and be vigilant for juicy clues that might show up in the experiences headed your way? In suggesting that you do, I'm not guaranteeing that you will gather numerous extravagant insights about your true identity and thereby achieve a blissful er
  
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