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• The 31 Best Movies Playing in Seattle This Weekend

  29-09-2016 23:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffYou haven't seen a movie musical until you've seen Singin' in the Rain.
  It might drizzle this weekend, which is a good excuse to retreat into a movie theater and watch one of our critics' picks. Watch one-night-only screenings presented as part of the Local Sightings Film Festival, the poorly made and beloved The Room, or a new release like Deepwater Horizon. As always, check out our complete movie times calendar for even more options.
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• Sorority wins -- kind of -- after its ‘sacred’ secrets revealed

  29-09-2016 23:50
  
  A sorority that sued a former member, claiming she leaked "sacred" secrets on a Seattle-based web-comic site, has prevailed in court. What good it will do, though, remains to be seen.
  
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• Watch: A fly-through of Sea-Tac's planned international arrivals terminal

  29-09-2016 23:22
  
  Take a "fly-through" the Port of Seattle's new international arrivals terminal at Sea-Tac Airport (opening 2019).
  
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• Native Activist and Speaker Gyasi Ross Launches New Podcast to Share Indigenous Perspectives

  29-09-2016 23:14 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufGyasi Ross May Kalhor
  Native American issues are finally taking hold in the media zeitgeist thanks to the scores of indigenous protesters holding their ground against the Dakota Access Pipeline construction project on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota.
  Gyasi Ross, a Native activist and youth mentor who stood alongside his community in Standing Rock, knows how critical it is for issues facing indigenous peoples to finally be heard by the largely white-run media
  
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• Congress acts to fight Zika virus after eight months, Murray condemns delay

  29-09-2016 22:22
  
  Congress finally acts to fight the Zika virus.  Murray in major role crafting compromise.
  
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• Pacific coast tsunami-risk maps: Building codes tweaked so we'll survive

  29-09-2016 22:12
  
  Until now, the best plan for the survival of the roughly 3.5 million Americans at risk of a tsunami has been to run like hell for high ground, or just hope against hope that the building you're in can take the wave.
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: A Tweet Storm of Excellent Advice

  29-09-2016 21:46 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  There are four or five hundred thousand emails in my inbox from straight guys asking why assholes get all the girls, why they keep getting friend-zoned, and why the girls who really should like them (because they're nice!) always seem to pick some other guy (who was either an asshole all along or was suddenly perceived to be an asshole once the girl picked him). I would dig through my inbox for a good & representative example of one of those emails and post it here—to uph
  
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• Suspect tried to buy handgun at store just before mall shooting, owner says

  29-09-2016 21:05
  
  “As soon as he came in the door, I decided we weren’t going to be selling him a gun,” the store’s owner says of Arcan Cetin, charged with killing five people at a Skagit County mall. ”It just didn’t feel right.”
  
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• Flooding closes roads and schools along mid-Atlantic coast

  29-09-2016 20:20
  
  NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Some schools are closed and many roads are impassable after heavy overnight rains deluged parts of Maryland, Virginia and Delaware. National Weather Service Meteorologist Lyle Alexander said Thursday that 5 to 8 inches of rain have fallen. Most of it was concentrated around Salisbury, Maryland. Alexander said the tides are higher […]
  
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• Trump to Iowa crowd: "Raise your hand if you're not a Christian conservative"

  29-09-2016 20:10
  
  Donald Trump asks all those who are "not a Christian conservative" to identify themselves.
  
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• Suspicious package prompts evacuation at Edmonds Community College

  29-09-2016 20:06
  
  The Washington State Patrol’s bomb squad has been called in to examine the suspicious device.
  
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• Suspicious device prompts evacuation at Edmonds Community College

  29-09-2016 20:06
  
  The Washington State Patrol’s bomb squad was called in to examine the suspicious device. The investigation prompted nearby evacuations. It’s unclear what exactly the package was.
  
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• Maybe Gary Johnson Just Needs Some Easier Questions?

  29-09-2016 20:03 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jennifer CampbellGary Johnson: "I’m having an Aleppo moment" https://t.co/8n2COekKDB
  — Hardball (@hardball) September 29, 2016
  It seems like Gary Johnson is having a stressful time right now. Running for president is tough. And honestly, with at least one of his fellow candidates unable to form a complete sentence, is it really fair to expect Johnson to be semi-fluent in topics like foreign cities and world leaders?
  So lay off old Gary, okay, media? Throw him a softball once in a
  
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• U.S.-based forecasters say Matthew has strengthened into a hurricane in the Caribbean

  29-09-2016 19:41
  
  MIAMI (AP) — U.S.-based forecasters say Matthew has strengthened into a hurricane in the Caribbean.
  
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• Activist Sonny Nguyen Is Not Buying that Millenials are Apathetic About Politics

  29-09-2016 19:25 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi Groover Malcolm Smith
  In this week’s issue of The Stranger, Chinatown-International District organizer Sonny Nguyen talked about comic books and karaoke for our Person of Interest questionnaire. But we wanted tell you a bit more about Nguyen’s activist work, which includes feeding their community with the API Food Fight Club and engaging fellow millennials on the Washington Bus.
  You’re engagement coordinator at the Washington Bus. I’ve heard that millennials are
  
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• ‘Plan ahead, be ready’: Friday’s UW-Stanford rush-hour kickoff to be traffic challenge

  29-09-2016 19:21
  
  Husky Stadium will be packed Friday afternoon, and so will the rush-hour roadways.
  
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• APNewsBreak: California to ban some pesticides near schools

  29-09-2016 19:06
  
  FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — California is moving to ban farmers from spraying pesticides into the air near schools and day care centers under a newly proposed rule that will be among the nation’s toughest, regulators told The Associated Press on Thursday. Crop dusters flying over fields, air-blasters spraying orchards and fumigants that risk blowing onto […]
  
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• There's a Chameleon Living at Gordito's in Greenwood

  29-09-2016 19:02 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jen GravesThis new mural on the Gordito's building in Greenwood pictures a Jackson's chameleon, common in Hawaii, where the artist, Oasis, lives in Hilo. The mural was made in collaboration with Graves33 of Seattle. Courtesy of the artist
  Nobody meant for it to be symbolic—they just liked the cool animal and its bright colors—but the 65-foot-long, 15-foot high Jackson's chameleon now painted on the side of Gorditos taqueria is a spectacular symbol that beauty can come out of even
  
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• Can Performance Art Fight Climate Change? Activist Ensemble Coltura Hopes It Can at Least Persuade You to Buy an Electric Car

  29-09-2016 18:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithNO GASOLINE DAY: Look for them at the intersection of art and commerce. ALISON RAMER AND MATTHEW METZ
  On October 2, a civic-minded performance group called Coltura is holding a funeral for gasoline. Actors outfitted in white leotards will play "gasoline ghosts," ethereal beings addicted to Texas tea. During performances, the ghosts haunt gas stations, waft smog into their nostrils, carry around gas nozzles with severed hoses, and otherwise clown around with carbon. They remind us th
  
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• Scientists: World likely won’t avoid dangerous warming mark

  29-09-2016 18:10
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A team of top scientists is telling world leaders to stop congratulating themselves on the Paris agreement to fight climate change because if more isn’t done, global temperatures will likely hit dangerous warming levels in about 35 years. Six scientists who were leaders in past international climate conferences joined with the Universal […]
  
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• Civilian Watchdog Opening Investigation of Seattle Police Over Social Media Monitoring

  29-09-2016 18:08 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ansel HerzPolice illegally purchased Geofeedia social media monitoring software two years ago, we reported yesterday. Twin Design / Shutterstock.com
  Office of Professional Accountability Director Pierce Murphy—the SPD's semi-independent civilian watchdog—announced this morning:
  On September 28, 2016 a news story published by The Stranger contained information indicating the Seattle Police Department (SPD) had purchased a software product called Geofeedia in direct violation of a p
  
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• Watch: Amanda Knox talks about new Netflix documentary on Good Morning America

  29-09-2016 17:59
  
  Seattle's Amanda Knox appeared on Good Morning America to talk Netflix documentary "Amanda Knox."
  
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• The Morning News: Young Everett Mother Dumps Baby in Trash Compactor, Big Tech Wants ST3 to Happen

  29-09-2016 17:43 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeStock market loves Amazon, and Amazon loves ST3. But Seattle is still undecided about Amazon's balls. Charles MudedeBig Tech (Amazon, Microsoft, Vulcan) Giving Big Bucks to ST3 Campaign: This is not surprising. No scrying is needed to see that the popular cities of the future will have advanced systems of public transportation. And the more popular a city is, the more talent it will draw. All of this makes perfect sense. What does not make sense is the stock market's valuation o
  
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• The Morning News: Young Everett Mother Allegedly Dumps Baby in Trash Compactor, Big Tech Wants ST3 to Happen

  29-09-2016 17:43 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeStock market loves Amazon, and Amazon loves ST3. But Seattle is still undecided about Amazon's balls. Charles MudedeBig Tech (Amazon, Microsoft, Vulcan) Giving Big Bucks to ST3 Campaign: This is not surprising. No scrying is needed to see that the popular cities of the future will have advanced systems of public transportation. And the more popular a city is, the more talent it will draw. All of this makes perfect sense. What does not make sense is the stock market's valuation o
  
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• ICYMI: Randy Rainbow Moderates Debate #1

  29-09-2016 17:23 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
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• Study: Police using body cameras see huge drop in complaints

  29-09-2016 17:08
  
  LONDON (AP) — A Cambridge University study of British and U.S. police shows a 93 percent decrease in the number of complaints made against officers when they are using body cameras — pivotal findings that suggest the simple devices could reduce conflicts between police and the public. The idea behind the study is simple: people […]
  
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• Hazen High classes to resume after threat on Instagram

  29-09-2016 16:00
  
  Police are working with the Renton School District to investigate the threat against the high school.
  
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• Classes canceled at Renton’s Hazen High School after threat on Instagram

  29-09-2016 16:00
  
  Police are working with the Renton School District to investigate the threat against the high school.
  
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• Classes canceled at Renton’s Hazen High School after social-media threat

  29-09-2016 16:00
  
  Police are working with the Renton School District to investigate the threat against the high school.
  
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• Scientists bid farewell to Rosetta space probe before crash

  29-09-2016 15:44
  
  BERLIN (AP) — Scientists began saying their final farewells to the Rosetta space probe Thursday, hours before its planned crash-landing on a comet, but said that data collected during the mission would provide discoveries for many years to come. The spacecraft, launched in 2004, took a decade to reach comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, where it released a […]
  
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• Scientists bid farewell to comet probe, eye more discoveries

  29-09-2016 15:44
  
  BERLIN (AP) — Scientists are saying their final farewells to the Rosetta space probe ahead of its planned crash-landing on a comet. The probe was launched in 2004 and took a decade to reach comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, where it released a lander in November 2014. Both Rosetta and its lander Philae have gathered a wealth of […]
  
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• Train crashes into New Jersey station; 1 dead, 100-plus hurt

  29-09-2016 15:13
  
  A commuter train from New York barreled into a New Jersey rail station without stopping and crashed. Witnesses reported seeing many people bleeding after the New Jersey Transit train crashed at the Hoboken station.
  
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• Train crashes at New Jersey station; 1 dead, 74 hospitalized

  29-09-2016 15:13
  
  A commuter train from New York barreled into a New Jersey rail station without stopping and crashed. Witnesses reported seeing many people bleeding after the New Jersey Transit train crashed at the Hoboken station.
  
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• 1 dead, over 100 hurt in train crash at New Jersey station

  29-09-2016 15:13
  
  A commuter train from New York barreled into a New Jersey rail station without stopping and crashed. Witnesses reported seeing many people bleeding after the New Jersey Transit train crashed at the Hoboken station.
  
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• Postcard from Burlington

  29-09-2016 15:00
  
  Sketched Sept. 26, 2016 It is unfortunate to learn about some places for the first time only when bad things happen. That was the case for me with Burlington. Before last Friday’s mass shooting, I would have had a hard time placing this small Skagit County town on a map. After making a sketch at […]
  
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• Thailand suspends seahorse trade amid conservation concerns

  29-09-2016 13:14
  
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Thailand, the world’s biggest exporter of seahorses, is suspending trade in the animal because of concern about threats to its wild population. The decision was announced at a meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES. Dr. Amanda Vincent, a seahorse expert at […]
  
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• The Lovers and the Despot Tells a Bizarre-but-True Story of Love, Kidnapping, and Kim Jong-il's Movie Obsession

  29-09-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The Lovers and the Despot Tells a Bizarre-but-True Story of Love, Kidnapping, and Kim Jong-il's Movie Obsessionby Kathleen RichardsThe documentary The Lovers and the Despot recounts one of the strangest chapters in the ongoing war between North and South Korea: the 1978 kidnapping of beloved South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee and her ex-husband filmmaker, Shin Sang-ok, by North Korean agents. The reason? To fulfill the movie-obsessed North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il's ambitions of creating Asia'
  
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• Masterminds Offers Disappointing Jokes and a Very Memorable Floppy Pageboy Haircut

  29-09-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Disappointing Jokes in Mastermindsby Julia RabanThe title characters in Masterminds do not have an elaborate scheme that they spent hours upon hours perfecting. They barely have a plan. David (Zach Galifianakis) and Kelly (Kristen Wiig) are drivers for an armored car company, who—inspired by another theft—realize there's basically nothing standing between them and millions of dollars. It's a slapstick take on the real 1997 Loomis Fargo robbery and was apparently made with the help of
  
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• A Man Called Ove Is a Swedish Gran Torino

  29-09-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  A Man Called Ove Is a Swedish Gran Torinoby Kathy FennessyFrom the start of Hannes Holm's fanciful character study A Man Called Ove, Sweden's official submission for the foreign-language Oscar, it's clear where things are going: The curmudgeon of the title is going to get a wake-up call. If the tone is more overtly sentimental, A Man Called Ove plays like a Swedish variation on Gran Torino—except the cars are Volvos and Saabs. Ove (Wallander star Rolf Lassgård, unrecognizable in a ba
  
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• 32 people missing in China landslides following typhoon

  29-09-2016 08:29
  
  BEIJING (AP) — At least 32 people were reported missing Thursday after rain-saturated hillsides collapsed onto villages in southeastern China following a typhoon. A rescue operation was underway in Sucun village in China’s Zhejiang province, south of the financial hub of Shanghai, after it was hit by a landslide on Wednesday evening, leaving 26 missing, […]
  
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• ‘All My Children’ creator Agnes Nixon dies at 93

  29-09-2016 07:23
  
  Agnes Nixon had just completed her memoir, “My Life to Live.”
  
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• This Week on the Blabbermouth Podcast: Jumping in the Open Trap Door

  29-09-2016 06:38 via thestranger.com
  
  by Eli SandersDan Savage and Rich Smith are back this week, and FIRST we all talk about the presidential debate moments we loved the most—as well as the moments that made us love how right we were last week in our pre-debate predictions.SECOND, we talk about where this made-for-TV debate miniseries is likely to go next. Will Trump ditch out on the final two “rigged” forums? Will Hillary have to answer for Bill’s affairs? If so, what should she say? And did Monday's debate
  
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• Before Cascade Mall shootings, witness saw suspect near theater

  29-09-2016 06:17
  
  Scores of detectives are still investigating the suspected gunman who is accused of killing five people during a shooting rampage at Cascade Mall on Friday. Meanwhile, a Mount Vernon woman recalled a random encounter 20 minutes before gunfire erupted.
  
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• DEA moves to ban the herb kratom, frustrating both scientists and users

  29-09-2016 06:14
  
  The DEA says it will put kratom, a leaf indigenous to Southeast Asia, on its list of most severely prohibited drugs. But scientists and users — who say kratom has helped them kick opioid addictions — think that’s a mistake.
  
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• DEA moves to ban kratom, frustrating both scientists and users

  29-09-2016 06:14
  
  The DEA says it will put kratom, a leaf indigenous to Southeast Asia, on its list of most severely prohibited drugs. But scientists and users — who say kratom has helped them kick opioid addictions — think that’s a mistake.
  
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• New federal nursing-home standards preserve patients’ right to sue

  29-09-2016 05:43
  
  An agency within the Health and Human Services Department has issued a rule that bars any nursing home or assisted-living facility that receives federal funding from requiring that its residents resolve any disputes in arbitration instead of in court.
  
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• Feds give nursing-home patients right to sue over safety, care

  29-09-2016 05:43
  
  An agency within the Health and Human Services Department has issued a rule that bars any nursing home or assisted-living facility that receives federal funding from requiring that its residents resolve any disputes in arbitration instead of in court.
  
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• Monroe prison guard charged with smuggling contraband into facility

  29-09-2016 05:17
  
  The FBI conducted a six-month investigation into his conduct, finding that he was allegedly accepting bribes of up to $1,000 to bring in prohibited goods such as tobacco, officials said.
  
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• Displaced by apartment fire, Delridge neighbors have ‘no choice’ but to carry on

  29-09-2016 04:50
  
  For an Ethiopian mom making $13.80 an hour as a senior living housekeeper, losing her Delridge apartment in a fire means losing all her possessions. There are nearly 50 more people in the same situation.
  
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• Race for Washington lieutenant governor a study in contrasts

  29-09-2016 04:25
  
  The race for lieutenant governor in Washington state pits a progressive Democratic legislator and law professor against a conservative Republican pastor and talk-show host with no experience in elected office.
  
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