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• Q&A: Eric Idle Loves Being on Tour with John Cleese, and Hates the Daily Mail, Rock'n'Roll, and Selfies

  26-10-2016 23:51 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean NelsonEric Idle appears with John Cleese Wed-Thurs Oct 26-27 at the Moore Theatre
  Of all the members of Monty Python's Flying Circus, Eric Idle has surely had the most fruitful third act. This would be true even if he'd done nothing more than serving as playwright and co-creator of the monumentally popular Broadway show Spamalot. But the spirit of that award-winning revivification of the entire Python enterprise, Idle has been more visible than his counterparts in recent years, owing in
  
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• New Online Archive WOMANPRODUCER Spotlights Female Studio Wizards

  26-10-2016 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave Segal
  Khaela Maricich and Melissa Dyne of former Olympia electro-pop group the Blow (they're now based in Brooklyn, NY) have launched an online archive called WOMANPRODUCER. The focus is on female producers who've largely been overlooked or under-acknowledged by mainstream media and the general public. Its mission resembles that of a Seattle-based archive that went live in 2015 called Many Many Women, an index of female and non-binary composers, improvisers, and sonic artists that curren
  
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• Matt Hickey Arraignment Postponed—He Has to Be Formally Extradited from Nevada First

  26-10-2016 23:26 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneMatt Hickey is still in Clark County, Nevada, and probably will be for several weeks. superjoseph/Shutterstock
  I previously reported that Matt Hickey, the former Seattle tech journalist accused by multiple women of rape and fraud, was due in King County Superior Court for an arraignment tomorrow at 8:30 a.m. But that date has now been postponed by the interstate extradition process.Hickey is currently being held at the Clark County Detention Center in Nevada, the state where
  
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• Tribe sees Dakota Access Pipeline as just latest in long history of violations

  26-10-2016 23:25
  
  The Standing Rock Sioux tribe has lost ancestral lands in one broken treaty after another, and even in outright theft.
  
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• Seattle on track for wettest October, ever

  26-10-2016 23:12
  
  Seattle has seen just three days this month without rain, and four days with record rainfall. And more is on the way.
  
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• Cholesterol test for 1-year-olds? Study says it could help

  26-10-2016 23:03
  
  What if a blood test could reveal that your child is at high risk for early heart disease years in the future, giving you a chance to prevent it now? A big study in England did that — screening thousands of babies for inherited risk — and found it was twice as common as has […]
  
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• Trump describes Gingrich's blowup at Megyn Kelly as 'amazing'

  26-10-2016 23:02
  
  Newt Gingrich goes off the deep end in set-to with Megyn Kelly of Fox News.  He gets praise from Trump:  "We don't play games, Newt, right?"
  
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• Firefighters battle blaze at Fort Lawton in Discovery Park; one injured

  26-10-2016 22:28
  
  Firefighters are working to put out a fire at Fort Lawton in Discovery Park, officials said.
  
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• Showing Tonight Only: Oasis Are Still Self-Mythologizing in the Documentary Supersonic

  26-10-2016 22:20 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean NelsonThe documentary explains why Noel and Liam—who are still not on speaking terms—wouldn’t want to mention the Blur rivalry.
  It's only fitting that a documentary about the mid-1990s rise of the British band Oasis should contain every cliché from the rock 'n' roll handbook. There is the low birth, the abusive-then-absent father, the doting mother, the humble beginnings, the destiny narrative, the power struggles, and, above all, the colossal arrogance of the tw
  
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• Juror dismissed in Oregon standoff trial over bias concern

  26-10-2016 22:18
  
  Defendant Ammon Bundy’s defense attorney filed a court motion asking the judge to dismiss the juror over allegations of bias, or to declare a mistrial. The lawyer said the court had not investigated concerns about the juror’s impartiality.
  
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• Juror accused of bias dismissed from Ammon Bundy case

  26-10-2016 22:18
  
  After one juror accused another of bias, the federal judge in the Malheur refuge-takeover case said these were “extraordinary circumstances,” and the allegation of bias could not be ignored.
  
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• Westneat Weighs In On the "ATTACKIEST ATTACK AD EVER!"

  26-10-2016 21:56 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  Brady Walkinshaw's alleged attack ad is so freaking soft—weak tea, thin gruel, watery cum—that it barely qualifies as a jab. But the pants shitting from Team Jayapal has been epic and dishonest. Danny Westneat assesses the poutrage in today's Seattle Times:Voting attendance and rankings are shallow means to assess a lawmaker (there are many ways to have clout without passing bills). But they’re also fair game, and a regular trope in campaigns. When I saw this ad,
  
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• Vermont, New Hampshire bald eagles produce record young

  26-10-2016 21:54
  
  MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Bald eagles have produced a record amount of young in both Vermont and New Hampshire this year, marking the continued revival of a bird that once was on the brink of extinction. Bald eagles successfully raised 34 young birds in Vermont, up from the previous record of 26 in 2013, the […]
  
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• Día de los Muertos 2016: 11 Places To Celebrate In Seattle

  26-10-2016 21:47 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffThis is an awesome candy skull sculpture from Seattle artist Baso, which you can see (and maybe even own!) if you go to Casco Antiguo's Día de los Muertos celebration. Baso
  While Halloween is prime time for ghosts, ghouls, zombies, and all the creepiness associated with death, the Mexican holiday Día de Muertos (celebrated worldwide) is a festival to honor and remember loved ones who've died. Altars or ofrendas are built with heaps of flowers, candles,
  
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• Historic Fort Lawton home burns at Seattle's Discovery Park

  26-10-2016 21:45
  
  A historic mansion in Seattle's Discovery Park was significantly damaged in a fire that also saw a worker there suffer minor burns.
  
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• Oregon surfer punched shark in gills to survive

  26-10-2016 21:39
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Joseph Tanner was resting his arms on his surf board, his lower body dangling in the water, when something grabbed his right leg and yanked him under the waves. In an instant, Tanner knew he was being attacked by a shark in the chilly waters off the northern Oregon coast and […]
  
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• Vacation from the Law: One Detective's High Times on the Taxpayers' Dime

  26-10-2016 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ansel HerzThey found “recreational type photos during and after work hours, at the pool and the beach” on her work phone. Atwood had claimed she was working overtime.JAMES YAMASAKI
  Tiffany Atwood had a pretty sweet assignment at the King County Sheriff's Office. As a "background detective," her job was to visit police departments around the country and evaluate prospective officers the sheriff was considering hiring. She was supposed to go on ride-alongs with those officers, revie
  
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• Curtis Steiner, a Store That's More Like a Museum, Has Been Ransacked and Robbed

  26-10-2016 21:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jen GravesThis is Curtis Steiner on Tuesday evening, hours after he discovered this front door had been jimmied and his store robbed. The Stranger
  It felt like a professional hit, Curtis Steiner said."They cut the electricity, they cut the lights, they cut the phone lines," he said on Tuesday night.
  Just hours before, Steiner had stopped by his Ballard store to pick up something on his day off and found that it had been ransacked and robbed.
  Curtis Steiner is not just a store. To many people,
  
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• Curtis Steiner, a Store That's More Like a Museum, Has Been Ransacked and Burgled

  26-10-2016 21:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jen GravesThis is Curtis Steiner on Tuesday evening, hours after he discovered this front door had been jimmied and his store burgled. The Stranger
  It felt like a professional hit, Curtis Steiner said."They cut the electricity, they cut the lights, they cut the phone lines," he said on Tuesday night.
  Just hours before, Steiner had stopped by his Ballard store to pick up something on his day off and found that it had been ransacked and burgled.
  Curtis Steiner is not just a store. To many peopl
  
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• The Stranger Endorses a "MAINTAINED" Vote on Advisory Vote Number 14

  26-10-2016 21:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Election Control Board shutterstock
  Advisory votes don't matter. We say this to you every year, and it's true every year. Annoyed by having to cast advisory votes before you can cast the vote you're itching to cast? Blame shitstain Tim Eyman, who decided the people of this state should weigh in (in a money-wasting, nonbinding way) every time our democratically elected state representatives do something that might affect revenues for our broke-ass state—a state starved for reven
  
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• Listen To Kurt B. Reighley and Mark Mitchell's Exit Interview on KUOW

  26-10-2016 20:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean Nelson"Hush little baby, don't you cry/When we get to Tucson you'll see why/ We left the snowstorms and the thunder and rain/For the desert sun, we're gonna be born again" -Chrissie Hynde
  The thing of artists and good people moving away from Seattle has always been one of the chief components of this city's GDP. Kurt B. Reighley and Mark Mitchell—one of the finest artist/good people combos I've ever had the good fortune to know a little for a long time—are two of the latest s
  
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• Top lawyers tell rich conservatives: Take Willie Horton-style TV spot off the air

  26-10-2016 20:39
  
  Washington State Supreme Court Justice Charlie Wiggins has a target on his back, and is targeted with a Willie Horton-style negative TV spot.
  
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• Man charged in Seattle carjacking spree may be connected to Redmond crimes

  26-10-2016 20:26
  
  A 27-year-old man charged with two Seattle carjackings may have also committed a series of armed robberies in Redmond, prosecutors say.
  
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• The Lighter Side of Infanticide: Seattle Shakespeare Company Finds Humor and Horror in Feminist Reading of Medea

  26-10-2016 20:22 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithMedea: An ecofeminist reading of Euripides.JOHN ULMAN
  You might find that headline a little glib, but if you look around at the fire-colored elms and oaks around us, you'll see that the earth kills its darlings every year. Autumn is Mother Nature's way of reminding us that she brought us into this world, as my mother never fails to remind me, and she can take us out. (Though it's famously a Bill Cosby line, I prefer to think my mom got it from Medea, who says of her doomed offspring
  
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• Bill Gates, others donate nearly $1M to defeat Supreme Court Justice Wiggins

  26-10-2016 20:09
  
  Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and a handful of other donors have poured $900,000 into a late-campaign ad barrage to defeat state Supreme Court Justice Charlie Wiggins.
  
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• Bill Gates, others donate $900,000 to defeat Supreme Court Justice Wiggins

  26-10-2016 20:09
  
  Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and a handful of other donors have given $900,000 for a late-campaign ad barrage to defeat state Supreme Court Justice Charlie Wiggins.
  
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• Bill Gates, others donate $1M to defeat Supreme Court Justice Wiggins

  26-10-2016 20:09
  
  Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and a handful of other donors have poured $1 million into a late-campaign ad barrage to defeat state Supreme Court Justice Charlie Wiggins.
  
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• Health-insurance premiums rise in Washington, but not as much as elsewhere

  26-10-2016 19:55
  
  Premiums for individual health-insurance plans in Washington will rise an average 13.6 percent next year, though rates within the state health exchange will jump about 8 percent for midlevel plans, far lower than national hikes of percent.
  
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• Health-insurance premiums rise here in state, but not as high as elsewhere

  26-10-2016 19:55
  
  Premiums for individual health-insurance plans in Washington will rise an average of 13.6% next year, though rates within the state health exchange will jump about 8% for midlevel plans, far lower than national hikes of 25%.
  
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• Photos: Oct. 26 Dakota Access Pipeline protests

  26-10-2016 19:50
  
  Photos from The Seattle Times coverage of the Dakota Pipeline protests.
  
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• "Men Against Fire" Is the Best Episode in Black Mirror's Third Season

  26-10-2016 19:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeBrother to brother in the future of combat in Men Against Fire. Netflix
  Black Mirror is a British TV show that can be described as The Twilight Zone for our moment, the social network moment. The brain behind the series is Charlie Brooker, and the total number of episodes is twelve. The first six were aired in the UK on Channel 4 between 2011 and 2013. The most recent six were released by Netflix on October 21. As a whole, the series has three misses, two of which are found in t
  
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• Investigation underway after fire at Ballard-area strip club

  26-10-2016 19:38
  
  Fire investigators were doing their work Wednesday morning following a smoky blaze at a strip club in Seattle's Crown Hill neighborhood.
  
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• Jurors visit site of deadly shooting at Seattle Pacific University

  26-10-2016 19:24
  
  Jurors hearing the case of alleged gunman Aaron Ybarra viewed the site where one student was killed and three others injured.
  
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• Newt Gingrich to Megyn Kelly: "You Are Fascinated With Sex"

  26-10-2016 19:22 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithWhen Newt Gingrich dons his shit-eating grin you know the world just got worse for someone you love.Christopher Halloran / Shutterstock.com
  Human side dish and former speaker of the house Newt Gingrich got into a tiff with FOX News' Megyn Kelly yesterday. It's worth watching to 1) study the way Kelly maintains composure while the pale orangutan pops off and 2) continue to track the degradation of the English language in the mouths of of American politicians.
  Gingrich starts off regu
  
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• Never Bring a Violin to a Baseball Bat Fight

  26-10-2016 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  Ladies and gentleman and non-binarians: The Shirtless Violinist. (TSV keeps writing and asking me to share his videos. So here's his latest. Be kind, Slog.)[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Want to live longer? Get 'highly educated' study shows

  26-10-2016 18:57
  
  Researchers have found that 'highly educated' people live much longer than everyone else, across the globe. Not a surprising finding, if you think education is primarily an indicator of income, social class and or living in a place with a great health care system.
  
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• Chris Hansen’s pledge to fund Sodo arena rekindles memories of Sonics

  26-10-2016 18:14
  
  Chris Hansen's announcement that he would privately fund a Sodo arena has Sonics fans excited for the possibility of the NBA returning to Seattle.
  
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• Firefighters battle Crown Hill blaze

  26-10-2016 18:03
  
  The fire erupted in a building in the 8500 block of 15th Avenue in Ballard, officials said.
  
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• Firefighters battle blaze at Crown Hill strip club

  26-10-2016 18:03
  
  The fire broke out in a building in the 8500 block of 15th Avenue in Seattle.
  
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• The Morning News: New NBA Arena Plans, Lying Cops, and a Very Slow Walk to Protest Comcast

  26-10-2016 17:56 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverCan Chris Hansen build a new arena in Sodo without public bonding? ANDERM//Shutterstock
  A Plan to Build a New Arena without Public Money:Chris Hansen announced a new plan to build an NBA/NHL arena in Sodo without city bonding. That's a dramatic shift from previous plans. He's also promising to help fund an overpass over Lander Street. In return, Hansen's investment group is asking for city tax breaks and a street vacation (in which the group would pay the city for a section of Oc
  
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• Man sets sail in bathtub from Edmonds to Alaska 62 years ago today

  26-10-2016 17:41
  
  The "Bathtub Sailor," who lost more than 30 pounds for the voyage so he could fit into the tub, didn't make it past Port Angeles.
  
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• Vote Approved on ST3! All the Arguments Against Sound Transit's Light Rail Expansion Are Bullshit

  26-10-2016 17:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverDon't listen to the transitphobes. Vote "Approved."Stanton Stephens
  Traffic in Seattle is a nightmare. You know this. You sit in it. You may even be sitting in it right now, reading this as your bus crawls toward Ballard or West Seattle. You sit in traffic because you have no choice.
  Building more light rail is the answer.
  Sound Transit 3, listed on your ballot as Sound Transit Proposition No. 1, will expand light rail to Ballard and West Seattle, plus Everett, Issaquah, Federal
  
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• Seattle’s Old Spaghetti Factory to close in December

  26-10-2016 16:57
  
  The original Seattle site of the Old Spaghetti Factory will serve its last meal on Dec. 23.
  
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• Guest Editorial: It’s Time to Move Forward on Pot Tourism in Washington State

  26-10-2016 15:54 via thestranger.com
  
  by Logan BowersThe writers, who are members of the Cannabis Organization of Retail Establishments, say legalizing marijuana tourism and cannabis cafes like the one above could be an enormous economic opportunity for Washington state. Steven Bostock / Shutterstock.com
  Since the voters approved I-502 in 2012, Washington State has made tremendous progress in establishing a safe, legal and appropriately regulated recreational marijuana industry. In July, the state’s legacy medical marijuana bu
  
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• QUEER SCIENCE! Contagious Mouse Pain and the Not-So-Secret Secret Behind Gendered STEM Fields

  26-10-2016 15:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneThis animal friend may make you question the nature of the self.CREATIVENATURE R.ZWERVER / SHUTTERSTOCK.COM
  As of this week, I'm taking over Science News. Henceforth, Science News will be known as QUEER SCIENCE!, a column about scientific discoveries and controversies that are busting binaries in our understanding of humans, animals, plants, and minerals. That makes sense for a column, right? We'll see if Science News editor Charles Mudede thinks it works.Pain Can Be Contagio
  
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• The Stranger Endorses Jay Inslee for Governor

  26-10-2016 15:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Election Control Board
  Jay Inslee isn't exactly a rock-throwing, kayak-paddling, oligarchy-smashing progressive radical. But he is a solid Democrat who does his best to make change. And his Republican opponent, Bill Bryant, is a fucking moron.
  Bryant, who previously held a position as Seattle port commissioner, only decided to say he wouldn't be voting for Donald Trump a year into the brazenly racist, sexist, and Islamophobic candidate's campaign—long after Trump had reenergize
  
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• Sea otter Rialto thriving and ‘brimming with joy and life’ at Vancouver Aquarium

  26-10-2016 15:00
  
  Rialto the rescued baby sea otter has a big pool all his own, and tips the scales at nearly 20 pounds.
  
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• Making one last stop at the Office Depot in downtown Seattle

  26-10-2016 15:00
  
  Sketched Oct. 25, 2016 I have a strange soft spot for office supplies, especially when it comes to pencils, pens, clips, folders and other organizational stuff. So when I stumbled upon the closing sale at the Office Depot on Fourth Avenue Tuesday afternoon, I couldn’t resist. Prices were highly discounted, as much as 70 percent […]
  
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• Live updates from the Dakota Access Pipeline protests: ‘It will be a battle here’

  26-10-2016 15:00
  
  A Seattle Times reporter and a Times photographer are joining hundreds of protesters who are fighting against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Follow our live coverage.
  
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• Live updates from Dakota Access Pipeline protests: ‘It will be a battle here’

  26-10-2016 15:00
  
  Hundreds of protesters have joined the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in their effort to block construction of the pipeline they say threatens water supplies and sacred sites. Follow our live coverage.
  
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