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• Stranger Genius Award Nominee Wave Books Publishes Gorgeous Books by Category-Defying Writers

  16-09-2016 23:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Stranger Genius Award Nominee Wave Books Publishes Gorgeous Books by Category-Defying Writersby Rich Smith Kelly O
  WANTS:
  To publish books people are still reading in 50 years.
  PUBLISHES:
  Category-defying writers and poets like Don Mee Choi, Joe Wenderoth, Eileen Myles, Maggie Nelson, and Mary Ruefle.
  DESIGNS:
  Their gorgeous books from the inside out.
  Editor in chief Joshua Beckman (left) and editor at large Matthew Zapruder helm one of the best-respected independent presses in the country out o
  
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• Tribes march in Seattle to back Standing Rock Sioux in pipeline fight

  16-09-2016 23:34
  
  Northwest tribal leaders just returned from the North Dakota protest encampment say they’re giving their support just as tribes from around the U.S. supported their battles for fishing rights in the 1960s.
  
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• Tribes march in Seattle to back Standing Rock Sioux in North Dakota pipeline fight

  16-09-2016 23:34
  
  Northwest tribal leaders say they’re giving their support just as tribes from around the U.S. helped in their battles for fishing rights here in the 1960s. Hours after the march, a court temporarily blocked work on the pipeline.
  
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• Democrats’ state Senate effort focuses on a few key GOP incumbents

  16-09-2016 23:27
  
  Democrats are targeting GOP incumbent state Sen. Barbara Bailey of Oak Harbor in the November election. It’s part of an effort to take control of the Washington Senate — the strongest lever of power for Republicans in the state.
  
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• I, Anonymous: One Perfect Rose

  16-09-2016 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Anonymous STEVEN WEISSMAN
  You, a blurry guy-shaped person (I didn't have my glasses on), handed me a yellow rose as I walked my dog at 5:30 on a Thursday morning. You couldn't have known that I had just awoken from a heartbreaking dream in which my grandmother died in my arms. I had just visited her the previous weekend as she and my grandfather struggled to adjust to health problems and an imminent move to assisted living. I had been carrying the dual heavy weights of love and pain in my hea
  
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• Snohomish County dismissed from lawsuit by Oso slide victims

  16-09-2016 23:05
  
  The case is still active against the state and the Grandy Lake Forest Association.
  
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• Everything As Fuck: Part One of a Four Part Series about Carlos Santana’s Supernatural

  16-09-2016 23:04 via thestranger.com
  
  Part One of a Four Part Series about Carlos Santana’s Supernaturalby Ian Karmel RYAN ALEXANDER-TANNER
  Once upon a time it was 1999. And in 1999 this country sat upon a precipice, with no guarantee of either safety or beauty in the future—with no guarantee, even, of that future. In retrospect it was a simpler time, which seems insane, because 1999 seemed like the most far-out, Phillip K. Dick-ass time to be alive in human history. We were all convinced a phenomenon was on its way, wit
  
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• ST3 Is Great But It Will Not Correct the Effects of Seattle's Housing Crisis

  16-09-2016 22:52 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeA sleeper on Link. Charles MudedeLet's consider two things in recent posts by Heidi Groover. The first post concerns Seattle’s median household income, which, according Gene Balk of Seattle Times, "broke the $80,000 mark." More amazing yet, all homes below that mark are now in the minority. And the median household income for Hispanics is $49,000 and $37,000 for blacks. This means Seattle is becoming less colorful.The next post by Groover, "Long Live the War on Cars," has
  
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• ST3 Is Great But It Will Not Correct the Bad Effects of Seattle's Housing Crisis

  16-09-2016 22:52 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeA sleeper on Link. Charles MudedeLet's consider two things in recent posts by Heidi Groover. The first post concerns Seattle’s median household income, which, according Gene Balk of Seattle Times, "broke the $80,000 mark." More amazing yet, all homes below that mark are now in the minority. And the median household income for Hispanics is $49,000 and $37,000 for blacks. This means Seattle is becoming less colorful.
  The next post by Groover, "Long Live the War on Cars," has
  
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• Blair Witch Is an Exhausting Nightmare, and You Should Watch It

  16-09-2016 22:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Julia Raban
  Did you hear that there’s a new remake of The Blair Witch Project? No? Good—you weren’t supposed to. At the July premiere, the audience entered a theater plastered with posters for a movie called The Woods and emerged after the screening to see the intentionally misleading promotional materials replaced with ones bearing the real title: Blair Witch, directed by Adam Wingard (You’re Next and The Guest).
  The success of 1999’s The Blair Witch Project&mda
  
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• Politics podcast: Discussing homelessness, secure scheduling, McCleary in debut episodes of The Overcast

  16-09-2016 22:29
  
  Reporters Jim Brunner and Daniel Beekman talk to experts about the homelessness crisis, Seattle's proposed secure scheduling law and the latest in the fight for adequate education funding in Washington.
  
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• WHIMW'HIM This Weekend at the Erickson Theatre Off Broadway

  16-09-2016 22:23 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageWHIMW'HIM Photo Credit: Bamberg Fine Art
  I'm gonna make a recommendation about an arts event this weekend—something I saw last weekend, something you might want to consider seeing this weekend, something that may disrupt your usual patterns of cultural consumption.
  Actually, that's not fair. I'm projecting. What I meant to say is that I'm gonna recommend something outside my usual patterns of cultural consumption: an evening of dance.
  WHiMW'HiM is a local dance company led by
  
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• Stranger Genius Award Nominee That'swhatshesaid Launched a National Conversation

  16-09-2016 22:17 via thestranger.com
  
  Stranger Genius Award Nominee That'swhatshesaid Launched a National Conversation about Copyright Law and Gender Equityby Rich Smith Kelly O
  HAS:
  Three heads and a body made of other bodies (of work).
  IS:
  A collaboration between performer Erin Pike (right), playwright Courtney Meaker (center), and director HATLO (left).
  LAUNCHED:
  A national conversation about copyright law and gender equity.
  Erin Pike was on the normal actor track. She had her monologues ready. She was gunning for roles. When she
  
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• Did You Meet You Your Partner or Spouse on I Saw U?

  16-09-2016 22:09 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia Knauf The Stranger
  I Saw U is The Stranger's version of missed connections—and it's been around for a helluva long time.
  Have you ever posted an I Saw U listing and met the person of your dreams? E-mail me at [email protected] and tell me your story.
  
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• Science News:GMOs Also Bring Good Things to Life, Neil Degrasse Tyson Is Coming to the 206

  16-09-2016 22:05 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ethan LinckWhen Neil deGrasse Tyson visits Seattle, you can ask him about GMOs, sex, and the tie he is wearing in this pic. HELGA ESTEB/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM
  TFW When You Can’t Tell Whether a GMO is a GMO: Public debate over the ethics of genetically modified orgnisms (GMOs) tends to focus on biotechnology’s more dramatic applications: think rice with Vitamin A and artificial herbicide resistance, or GloFish, a patented line of flourescent zebrafish for pet stores. In these examples, s
  
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• 4th patient infected with Legionella bacteria in growing outbreak at UW Medical Center

  16-09-2016 21:54
  
  University of Washington Medical Center officials are screening those at high risk for the deadly outbreak.
  
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• 4th patient at UW Medical Center is infected with bacteria that cause Legionnaires’ disease

  16-09-2016 21:54
  
  University of Washington Medical Center officials are screening those at high risk for the deadly outbreak.
  
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• The Hollars Is Another Dysfunctional Family Dramedy

  16-09-2016 21:27 via thestranger.com
  
  by Kathy Fennessy
  From his career choices to date, it's hard to tell if John Krasinski ("Jim" on The Office) is trying to be the new Zach Braff or the new Chris Pratt. More likely than not, he's looking to emulate Oscar-winning actor turned filmmaker George Clooney (The Facts of Life, ER) who directed him in Leatherheads…
  
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• Bellevue man allegedly decapitated a duck at a Kirkland park

  16-09-2016 21:24
  
  A 36-year-old Bellevue man has been charged with first-degree animal cruelty for allegedly swinging a duck by its neck and decapitating the bird.
  
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• Stranger Genius Award Nominee Mel Eslyn Is the Busiest Independent Film Producer in Town

  16-09-2016 21:18 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean Nelson Kelly O
  PRODUCES:
  Independent feature films.
  HAS:
  20 to 25 projects in the works at the moment.
  NEEDS:
  To find an apartment."I feel way more inspired by Seattle [than Los Angeles]," says Mel Eslyn, the independent film producer whose current slate includes five movies in release between now and the end of the year: Uncle Kent 2, The Intervention, Dreamland, Blue Jay, and Rainbow Time. "I feel way more at peace and at home here."
  She also has two other projects in production, three
  
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• The Libertarians are coming: Gary Johnson holds Saturday rally in Seattle

  16-09-2016 21:16
  
  The Libertarian Party ticket of Gary Johnson and Bill Weld comes to Seattle, taking media questions and holding a rally that ordinary citizens can attend.
  
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• See this Show: An Epic, Free Art Exhibition at the Library Goes Inside the Life of Tiny from Streetwise

  16-09-2016 19:52 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jen GravesThis is Erin Blackwell, nicknamed Tiny, pregnant with her first child in 1985. She was 15 and had already been one of the main subjects in the film Streetwise, about kids on the streets of Seattle. Photography by Mary Ellen Mark / Falkland Road
  Yesterday morning I got my first glimpse at a stunning, major art exhibition tucked away safely inside the Seattle Public Library. It's called Streetwise Revisited, and it's 61 photographs from the life of the extraordinary woman Erin Blackwe
  
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• ‘Block the bunker’ backers vow to keep fighting stalled North Seattle police station

  16-09-2016 19:36
  
  Mayor Ed Murray on Thursday put the plans to build a $149 million North Precinct police station on hold.
  
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• ‘Block the bunker’ activists vow to keep fighting stalled North Seattle police station

  16-09-2016 19:36
  
  Mayor Ed Murray on Thursday put the plans to build a $149 million North Precinct police station on hold, but opponents say “the campaign is not over.”
  
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• Fuck CNN For Giving Donald Trump Hours of Airtime For His Birther Statement

  16-09-2016 19:23 via thestranger.com
  
  Fuck CNN For Giving Donald Trump Hours of Airtime For His Birther Statementby Tricia Romano Nate Gowdy
  Fuck you, CNN. Every morning, I turn on the cable network to get alternately outraged or bored by the latest campaign machinations, and this morning, I waited with anticipation to see what would happen when Donald Trump addressed the birther controversy.I watched, for one-and-a-half hours, as the talking heads talked about what he might say, and went over his various forms of lying and flip-flo
  
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• State senator: Officials should ‘get out of ivory tower in Seattle’ over plan for heroin sites

  16-09-2016 19:12
  
  State Sen. Mark Miloscia hinted at blocking efforts to open public drug-consumption sites in King County.
  
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• Seattle dad faces his girl's killer: 'I really miss my daughter'

  16-09-2016 19:10
  
  Si Phu would later plead guilty to first-degree murder for his part in the December 2015 slaying in Columbia City
  
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• In Order of Disappearance Is a Superb Thriller About a Swedish Snowplow Driver

  16-09-2016 19:10 via thestranger.com
  
  by Andrew Wright
  The 2014 Scandinavian thriller In Order of Disappearance certainly hits the Coen piñata hard, with a bloodily comedic take on snowbound crime that should set Joel and Ethan’s collective ears ablaze. Fortunately, however, some inspired stylistic touches and a terrific-even-by-his-standards lead performance from Stellan Skarsgård also let it successfully stake its own claim.
  Set during an especially bleak Norwegian winter, the story follows a Swedish snowplow dr
  
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• Stranger Genius Award Nominee Barbara Earl Thomas Makes Art Steeped in Beauty and Catastrophe

  16-09-2016 18:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jen Graves Kelly O
  DEPICTS:
  Catastrophe and beauty.
  MAKES:
  Egg tempera paintings, linocut prints, cut papers, poem-stories, very funny conversation.
  WAVES:
  At all men driving backhoes in parks department trucks, because that was her father's job."You just have to be brave," Barbara Earl Thomas told herself one day two years ago. "Get the knife and cut."
  She didn't draw first. Not even a sketch. She picked up the X-Acto and started slicing at the white paper on her desk. If she made a mistake,
  
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• Man who shot niece, 14, over shoes sentenced to 28 years in prison

  16-09-2016 18:38
  
  Si Phu, 25, pleaded guilty last month to first-degree murder for killing Christy Nguyen.
  
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• ‘Every vote counts’ against Trump, says Latino farm owner near Yakima

  16-09-2016 18:24
  
  So strong is his distaste that he likens the candidate to Hitler.
  
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• The Critique of ACT Theatre's Bad Apples Is Contained In Its Title

  16-09-2016 18:20 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithThese performers can't be blamed, though.Jeff Carpenter
  There might be a good show hiding somewhere inside Jim Leonard's lite-rock musical about the torture-filled sex dungeon clusterfuck that was Abu Ghraib, but, if there is, director John Langs didn't find it.
  I saw Bad Apples on the 15th anniversary of 9/11. During an earnest and welcome pre-show talk, Langs stepped onstage and connected the nation's "never forget" refrain to Theater's role in the world. The brief speech was foll
  
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• Police Reports Illustrated: Man With Knife Wants To Buy Cigarettes

  16-09-2016 18:06 via thestranger.com
  
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• Money for bone-marrow donors? Company says yes; feds say no

  16-09-2016 17:43
  
  ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Doug Grant says his new company, Hemeos, can save lives. But a proposed change in federal regulations could make his business a criminal enterprise. The goal of Grant’s D.C.-based startup company is to find matches for people who need bone-marrow transplants, particularly in the African-American community, where matches are harder to […]
  
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• The Morning News: Teachers Cancel Black Lives Matter Event After Threat, Garfield Football Team to Kneel During the National Anthem

  16-09-2016 17:41 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ansel HerzLast year at South Shore K-8, black men turned out by the hundreds to "dispel negative stereotypes" and encourage students. This year's event has been cancelled. City of Seattle
  Teachers at John Muir Elementary Planned a Black Empowerment Event for Today: But it's been cancelled in the wake of threatening phone calls made to the school. "The elementary school had planned a celebration called Black Men Uniting to Change the Narrative, where more than 100 black men would gather outsid
  
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• Hacker takes over Bremerton Housing Authority site, demands $4,000 ransom

  16-09-2016 17:12
  
  Officials said the authority’s website was replaced with a picture from “South Park” and client data was compromised.
  
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• North Korea rushes to get supplies, shelter to flood victims

  16-09-2016 15:22
  
  ONSONG, North Korea (AP) — North Korean soldiers and relief teams rushed to clear roads and railway tracks, build shelters and provide food and sanitation Friday to tens of thousands of residents in a remote part of the country near the Chinese border that was devastated by heavy downpours and flash floods when a typhoon […]
  
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• Washington State Finally Releases a Carbon Cap Rule

  16-09-2016 15:08 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney Brownstone"Our approach is the first of its kind in the country," Department of Ecology director Maia Bellon told reporters on Thursday. ECY
  After years of trying and failing to get the state legislature to take carbon emissions seriously, the Washington State Department of Ecology has released the final version of its much-debated carbon cap rule.
  The rule, which was retracted as a draft back in February, tweaked, and then re-released in June, now just covers emissions from 24 busines
  
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• Yakima Latinos ‘frustrated, scared’ by Trump’s campaign

  16-09-2016 15:00
  
  Donald Trump’s brash campaign for president has rubbed many Latinos in the Yakima Valley the wrong way. The question is: Will they vote?
  
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• ‘Frustrated, scared’ by Trump’s campaign, Yakima Latinos motivated to vote

  16-09-2016 15:00
  
  Donald Trump’s brash campaign for president has rubbed many Latinos in the Yakima Valley the wrong way. The question is: Will they vote?
  
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• Fear and anger over Trump motivate Yakima Latinos to get out the vote

  16-09-2016 15:00
  
  Donald Trump’s brash campaign for president has rubbed many Latinos in the Yakima Valley the wrong way. But they haven't voted in large numbers in the past.
  
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• Columbia City picks up the pace

  16-09-2016 15:00
  
  Sketched Sept. 13, 2016 I’m taking in the view from the outdoor tables of a new Pagliacci Pizza that opened in Columbia City last month. As people walk by, I try to add some to my sketch. A woman seemed a bit lost as she held out her smartphone while crossing the street. A guy […]
  
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• Historic police boat that chased whiskey smugglers is demolished

  16-09-2016 14:45
  
  Patrol No. 1, the 98-year-old wooden vessel that had become Marc Landry’s life passion, was demolished Thursday by the Port of Port Townsend after a lengthy legal tangle. Various owners had spent $300,000 on the vessel.
  
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• NASA astronaut wears spacesuit painted by kids with cancer

  16-09-2016 12:52
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Some childhood cancer patients will chat Friday with an astronaut aboard the International Space Station wearing a hand-painted spacesuit they helped decorate. NASA says astronaut Kate Rubins will wear the suit, dubbed “Courage,” during a 20-minute chat Friday afternoon with patients from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. […]
  
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• AP Exclusive: Deep-sea volcano a hotspot for mysterious life

  16-09-2016 08:26
  
  GEOLOGIST SEAMOUNTS, Hawaii (AP) — The turquoise waters became darker and darker, and squiggly glow-in-dark marine creatures began to glide past in the inky depths like ghosts. The three-man submarine went down, down, down into the abyss and drew within sight of something no human had ever laid eyes on: Cook seamount, a 13,000-foot extinct […]
  
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• Harvard-taught wannabe congressman says he’ll die in prison

  16-09-2016 08:12
  
  A Harvard man turned unrepentant child molester, David Giles served a decade in state prison for raping an 8-year-old girl. Now he expects to be sentenced to a 15-year hitch and worries the term he agreed to during a plea deal will be a death sentence.
  
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• Vashon-Maury Island closed for recreational shellfish harvesting

  16-09-2016 07:33
  
  Because of unsafe levels of paralytic shellfish poison (PSP), public-health officials have expanded a closure from Quartermaster Harbor beaches to the whole island.
  
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• 8 people dead after typhoon that hit China, Taiwan

  16-09-2016 07:17
  
  BEIJING (AP) — At least eight people have been reported dead after a powerful typhoon lashed much of southeastern China and Taiwan. China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs on Friday updated the number of deaths to seven as a result of Typhoon Meranti, which struck Fujian province early Thursday. Nine people in China are still missing. […]
  
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• Strange brews: Making beer with Boston river water

  16-09-2016 06:38
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Who wants to drink that dirty water? Some of New England’s leading breweries will compete Oct. 1 to see who can turn the questionable water of Boston’s Charles River into the tastiest suds. Six area breweries have signed on for the first ever “Brew the Charles” challenge, a highlight of HUBweek, a […]
  
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• Lower Green River reopens Friday for coho fishing after run exceeds expectations

  16-09-2016 06:09
  
  Miscalculating coho returns to some Puget Sound areas has become a common occurrence – which is a good thing – and this time a section of the Lower Green River will reopen Friday (Sept. 16). The Green/Duwamish River from the 1st Avenue South Bridge up to I-405 will be open from Friday (Sept. 16) through […]
  
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