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• Do This Tonight: Shop the Punk Rock Flea Market

  20-12-2016 23:22 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jennifer Campbell
  The building that once housed the old Capitol Hill Value Village is about to be gutted in the name of progress. (Capitol Hill Seattle Blog has the whole story.) Though the space got a brief reprieve from redevelopment as the community arts space V2, tonight begins the last gasp before the end, the Punk Rock Flea Market.This three-day alternative market is an example of DIY culture keeping its toehold in a landscape of faceless condos and increasingly expensive retail options
  
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• Do This Tonight: Shop at the Punk Rock Flea Market

  20-12-2016 23:22 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jennifer Campbell
  The building that once housed the old Capitol Hill Value Village is about to be gutted in the name of progress. (Capitol Hill Seattle Blog has the whole story.) Though the space got a brief reprieve from redevelopment as the community arts space V2, tonight begins the last gasp before the end, the Punk Rock Flea Market.This three-day alternative market is an example of DIY culture keeping its toehold in a landscape of faceless condos and increasingly expensive retail options
  
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• After neo-Nazi posting, police in Montana town step up patrols

  20-12-2016 23:10
  
  The Daily Stormer article was filled with anti-Semitic slurs, and yellow stars reminiscent of the ones Jews were forced to wear by the Nazis were superimposed on photographs of the six: a lawyer, a real estate agent, a boy identified as their child, two rabbis and an activist.
  
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• Person of Interest: Jill Mangaliman, Climate Justice Fighter and Executive Director of Got Green

  20-12-2016 23:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia Knauf STANTON STEPHENS
  Jill Mangaliman, executive director for climate justice nonprofit Got Green, sees the effects of climate change almost everywhere they look. They find it in the devastation of Typhoon Pablo on indigenous Filipino communities and even in their family's half-empty catch buckets from crabbing and clam-digging trips along the Washington peninsula. Alongside their team at Got Green, Mangaliman works to promote jobs in clean energy and bring communities of color to
  
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• Burien to be a sanctuary city, council declares in 3-2 vote

  20-12-2016 22:48
  
  The Burien City Council voted narrowly Monday night to pass a so-called sanctuary-city ordinance, declaring that city personnel will not ask for documentation of a person’s immigration status. Seattle and King County have similar statutes.
  
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• Burien declared sanctuary city by narrow council vote

  20-12-2016 22:48
  
  The Burien City Council voted narrowly Monday night to pass a so-called sanctuary city ordinance, declaring that city personnel will not ask for documentation of a person’s immigration status. Seattle and King County have similar statutes.
  
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• John Reed won’t face the death penalty in slayings of Oso neighbors

  20-12-2016 22:45
  
  John Reed is suspected of killing two former neighbors in the Oso area near Arlington in April and then burying their bodies over a longstanding property feud.
  
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• John Reed won’t face death penalty in slayings of his Oso neighbors

  20-12-2016 22:45
  
  John Reed is suspected of killing two former neighbors in the Oso area near Arlington in April over a longstanding property feud.
  
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• John Reed won’t face death penalty if convicted of killing Oso neighbors

  20-12-2016 22:45
  
  John Reed is suspected of killing two former neighbors in the Oso area near Arlington in April over a longstanding property feud.
  
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• High-speed Lake City crash leads to murder charge

  20-12-2016 22:27
  
  A 26-year-old Lynnwood man is charged with murder after his car turned over during a Lake City police chase, leading to the death of a passenger.
  
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• Navy resumes flights of Super Hornets, Growlers after Whidbey Island mishap

  20-12-2016 21:36
  
  The Navy has resumed flights of its Super Hornet and Growler jets after an accident in Washington state prompted officials to temporarily suspend operations of both aircraft.
  
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• Lawsuit: Orcas put in peril by Canadian pipeline and tankers

  20-12-2016 21:07
  
  Canadian conservation groups sue to block giant pipeline, say resulting oil tanker traffic will put in peril Orca whales of the Salish Sea.
  
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• Lawsuit: Orca whales put in peril by Canadian pipeline and tankers

  20-12-2016 21:07
  
  Canadian conservation groups sue to block giant pipeline, say resulting oil tanker traffic will put in peril Orca whales of the Salish Sea.
  
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• Police questioning chain of events before Lynnwood officer shot man to death

  20-12-2016 20:54
  
  The 44-year-old domestic-violence suspect was fatally shot late Saturday after police responded to reports that he had threatened a woman and police.
  
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• Escape from Latke Prison: This Hanukkah Staple Is Crispy, Delicious, and So. Much. Work.

  20-12-2016 20:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rachel Belle LISAFX/ISTOCK BY GETTY IMAGES
  There's nothing not to like about a latke. Any self-respecting french fry or potato chip will tell you that potatoes + fat = fjmvklwiurhefhohguis (that's the sound of someone gobbling up an entire plate of french fries). What's a latke? A latke is a potato pancake eaten during the celebration of Hanukkah, which begins on December 24 this year. More precisely, it's grated potato and onion bound with egg and matzo meal and simply seasoned with salt and
  
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• Seattle Arts Leaders to Ed Murray: Work With DIY Spaces to Make Them Safer

  20-12-2016 20:22 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave Segal Via oaklandghostship.com
  In response to the deadly fire in Oakland's Ghost Ship venue earlier this month, Seattle Arts Commission—in conjunction with the Seattle Music Commission, Capitol Hill Arts District, and the Historic Central Area Arts & Culture District—have written a letter to Mayor Ed Murray advocating for the fire department to work with DIY venues to ensure they're up to code rather than shutting them down for safety inadequacies. This policy would count
  
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• Donate Books to Prisoners at Open Books

  20-12-2016 19:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithChurch.Through December 30th, Open Books is offering you a trade. You drop off a donation of books for prisoners, and they will let you select a free book from their back stacks. Pretty good deal, huh? You get to free up some shelf space at the house, score a new thin volume from Wallingford's poetry temple, all while indirectly but meaningfully helping to reduce the recidivism rate!Open Books is working in collaboration with Books to Prisoners, a Seattle-based nonprofit that's been
  
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• UW Grad's "Confrontational" Painting of Black Musician Is Defaced on Campus

  20-12-2016 19:35 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufMiha Sarani, a graduate from University of Washington's art school, says his thesis painting of musician Sananda Maitreya, formerly known as Terence Trent D’Arby, was slashed just after Thanksgiving. Courtesy of Miha Sarani
  A massive portrait of Sananda Maitreya has overlooked students in a hallway inside Mary Gates Hall on the University of Washington’s Seattle campus since the summer. Maitreya, a 1980s pop star formerly known as Terence Trent D’Arby, is depi
  
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• Fuck The Nutcracker: Why You Should Go See Every Ballet But This One

  20-12-2016 19:24 via thestranger.com
  
  Fuck The Nutcracker: Why You Should Go See Every Ballet But This Oneby Sydney BrownstoneI hate The Nutcracker. I hate, hate, hate it. From the age of 4 to 14, I was forced to participate in its production every year. My mother, a former ballerina of the School of American Ballet, put me in ballet classes as soon as I could walk, and I stayed in ballet classes until I realized I had breasts.For those of you unfamiliar with The Nutcracker (although I'm unsure how you could be, given that the Tchai
  
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• They Ain't Gonna Play Trump City

  20-12-2016 18:56 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageDonald Trump is having a hard time finding bigly name performers to play at his inauguration...
  Just when you thought it was time to break your Andrea Bocelli CDs in two, the opera singer is reportedly not performing at Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony, despite earlier reports.Whether Bocelli was ever officially slated to perform is unclear. According to Page Six, the singer bowed to backlash from fans and is backing out of the gig.... In November, Elton John also had to d
  
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• Prime Air pilots: Shipping could get delayed if airlines don't staff up

  20-12-2016 18:53
  
  Pilots for Amazon shipping contractors ABX Air and Atlas Air are trying to up the pressure on the airlines, hoping to get a new contract and more staff.
  
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• 1 hospitalized, another may also have fallen into Spokane River

  20-12-2016 18:46
  
  A man who said he had fallen in the river was suffering from hypothermia and appeared confused. He told responders that another man had also fallen into the river.
  
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• Obama expected to bar drilling in swaths of Atlantic, Arctic

  20-12-2016 18:35
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama is expected to order wide swaths of the Atlantic and Arctic oceans placed permanently off-limits for oil drilling, people briefed on the administration’s plan said, in an 11th-hour push for environmental protection before he leaves office. Obama was planning to announce the move on Tuesday, said the individuals, who […]
  
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• Obama bans future oil leases in much of Arctic, Atlantic

  20-12-2016 18:35
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama on Tuesday designated the bulk of U.S.-owned waters in the Arctic Ocean and certain areas in the Atlantic Ocean as indefinitely off limits to future oil and gas leasing. The move helps put some finishing touches on Obama’s environmental legacy while also testing President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to unleash […]
  
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• Feds award $58M to fight homelessness in Washington state

  20-12-2016 18:02
  
  Washington homeless-prevention programs will receive more than $58 million in new grants, federal authorities said. Nearly $2 billion was awarded nationwide to fight the crisis.
  
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• The Morning News: Mukilteo Shooter Pleads Guilty to Three Counts of Murder, State Attorney General Still Pushing for Assault Weapon Ban

  20-12-2016 17:38 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufThe Mukilteo community mourned three teens senselessly killed in July. HG
  Mukilteo Shooter Pleads Guilty to Killing Three: On July 30, 19-year-old Allen Ivanov opened fire at a house party after seeing his ex-girlfriend, Anna Bui, with another man. He shot four people, killing Bui, Jake Long, and Jordan Ebner and wounding Will Kramer with a rifle he'd purchased a week prior. During a Snohomish County Superior Court hearing on Monday, Ivanov pleaded guilty to the three murders,
  
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• How the video of a bobcat catching a huge salmon went viral: ‘People like their cat videos’

  20-12-2016 17:33
  
  “The first person who saw it said that it would go viral,” said ranger Lee Snook, who caught the wild moment on camera.
  
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• Testing stem cells in tiniest hearts to fight birth defect

  20-12-2016 17:14
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — The 4-month-old on the operating table has a shocking birth defect, nearly half his heart too small or even missing. To save him, surgeons will have to totally reroute how his blood flows, a drastic treatment that doesn’t always work. So this time they are going a step further. In a bold […]
  
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• America's Next Top Model Recap: Am I Too Extra?

  20-12-2016 16:14 via thestranger.com
  
  by Chase Burns It girl Zendaya is a celeb guest this week. Law Roach, the humble one, says she's famous because of him. CBS Television Distribution
  We're back at it, y'all! Your morally-questionable-yet-usually-fierce modeling show is here to soothe your 2016 nerves. Tyra (although only in the show's billings - which is a relief, TBH) brings us an hour where we don't have to contemplate geopolitical realities or how the orange Sith Overlord offish became our prezzie-elect yesterday. Instead, ANT
  
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• 17-year-old is Washington’s fastest bagger

  20-12-2016 16:00
  
  In October, four months after she packed her first official grocery bag, Talia Randle had won the Washington State Best Baggers title, filling three bags in 47 seconds.
  
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• Coalition: State needs to fund education ‘Cradle Through College’

  20-12-2016 15:01
  
  The Cradle Through College Coalition wants policymakers to think of the education system as not just kindergarten through 12th grade, but also early learning and college.
  
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• Homeless and pregnant: ‘It doesn’t matter how she got here’ for help

  20-12-2016 15:00
  
  In the last 10 months, 48 newborns were brought from the hospital to the Mary’s Place shelter in North Seattle.
  
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• Tupac Shakur, Pearl Jam, Yes to be inducted into Rock Hall

  20-12-2016 14:06
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The late rapper Tupac Shakur and Seattle-based rockers Pearl Jam lead a class of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees that also include folkie Joan Baez and 1970s favorites Journey, Yes and Electric Light Orchestra. The rock hall also said Tuesday it would give a special award to Nile Rodgers, […]
  
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• The 196 Moments in Music, Art, Books, Theater, Film, and TV That Helped Us Survive 2016

  20-12-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The 196 Moments in Music, Art, Books, Theater, Film and TV That Helped Us Survive 2016by Stranger StaffIt will come as no surprise to anyone that 2016 was the kind of nightmare where you wake up just as the killer's knife is about to pierce your rib cage, only to find that you just slipped off the edge of the sheer cliff and are falling into the lake of hot lava. Taking in the year's most memorable music, film, TV, art, theater, and books was necessarily to view those works through the lens of m
  
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• How to Relax Your Republican Friends at Parties

  20-12-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  How to Relax Your Republican Friends at Partiesby Sean NelsonLike you, I'm tired of hating everything.Ever since the tragic events of 11/9, many members of the Coastal Elite have struggled to give voice to the rage and contempt we feel toward those Americans who got duped into voting for Donald Trump. We've all made snide comments about their relative intelligence, their psychotic priorities, their general desire to watch us all burn in the hell they yearn to create on earth since it doesn't exi
  
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• Smog chokes Chinese cities, grounding flights, closing roads

  20-12-2016 09:04
  BEIJING (AP) — Thick, gray smog fell over Beijing on Tuesday, choking China’s capital in a haze that spurred authorities to cancel flights and close some highways in emergency measures to cut down on air pollution. Beijing and much of industrial northern China are in the midst of a “red alert,” the highest level in […]
  
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• Smog chokes China cities, grounding flights, closing roads

  20-12-2016 09:04
  
  BEIJING (AP) — Thick, gray smog fell over Beijing on Tuesday, choking China’s capital in a haze that spurred authorities to cancel flights and close some highways in emergency measures to cut down on air pollution. Beijing and much of industrial northern China are in the midst of a “red alert,” the highest level in […]
  
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• Video shows unidentified subject vandalize Redmond mosque

  20-12-2016 06:06
  
  Redmond police are hoping the public can help them catch a vandal who destroyed the Muslim Association of Puget Sound's sign in the second attack on the Mosque since Election Day.
  
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• Jury: Seattle owes cyclist $1.6 million in Sodo crash with semitruck

  20-12-2016 05:19
  
  Attorneys for a Seattle bike commuter argued the main cause of the accident was blocked views where city bridge columns support the Spokane Street Viaduct.
  
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• Father Ryan: An essential priest in a secular Seattle

  20-12-2016 03:00
  
  The Rev. Michael Ryan, pastor of St. James Cathedral, is an essential priest in a very secular city.  On Sunday, congregations celebrated their pastor on the 50th anniversary of his ordination.
  
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• Scope maker’s executives take the Fifth on deadly outbreak that included Seattle’s Virginia Mason

  20-12-2016 02:42
  
  At least 35 patients in American hospitals have died since 2013, including at least 18 at Seattle’s Virginia Mason Medical Center.
  
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• Medical-scope maker’s executives take the Fifth

  20-12-2016 02:42
  
  At least 35 patients in American hospitals have died since 2013, including at least 18 at Seattle’s Virginia Mason Medical Center.
  
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• Fuck The Nutcracker: Why You Should Boycott the Most Popular Ballet of the Holiday Season

  20-12-2016 02:35 via thestranger.com
  
  Fuck The Nutcracker: Why You Should Boycott the Most Popular Ballet of the Holiday Seasonby Sydney BrownstoneI hate The Nutcracker. I hate, hate, hate it. From the age of 4 to 14, I was forced to participate in its production every year. My mother, a former ballerina of the School of American Ballet, put me in ballet classes as soon as I could walk, and I stayed in ballet classes until I realized I had breasts.For those of you unfamiliar with The Nutcracker (although I'm unsure how you could be,
  
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• Louis Harris, pollster at forefront of American trends, dies at 95

  20-12-2016 02:32
  
  His decades of work went beyond gathering data into new realms of interpretation. An early, notable client was John Kennedy.
  
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• 2 children killed, adult critically injured in crash near Wenatchee

  20-12-2016 02:19
  
  Two boys, ages 12 and 14, were killed, and a woman in the same vehicle was one of three people injured, the Washington State Patrol said.
  
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• Person of Interest: Jill Mangaliman

  20-12-2016 02:09 via thestranger.com
  
  Person of Interest: With Got Green, Jill Mangaliman Is Connecting Climate Justice with Community Buildingby Ana Sofia KnaufJill Mangaliman, executive director for climate justice nonprofit Got Green, sees the effects of climate change almost everywhere they look. They find it in the devastation of Typhoon Pablo on indigenous Filipino communities and even in their family's half-empty catch buckets from crabbing and clam-digging trips along the Washington peninsula. Alongside their team at Got Gre
  
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• Fuck The Nutcracker: Why You Should Boycott the Most Popular Ballet of the Holiday SeasonFuck The Nutcracker

  20-12-2016 02:09 via thestranger.com
  
  Fuck The Nutcracker: Why You Should Boycott the Most Popular Ballet of the Holiday Seasonby Sydney BrownstoneI hate The Nutcracker. I hate, hate, hate it. From the age of 4 to 14, I was forced to participate in its production every year. My mother, a former ballerina of the School of American Ballet, put me in ballet classes as soon as I could walk, and I stayed in ballet classes until I realized I had breasts.For those of you unfamiliar with The Nutcracker (although I'm unsure how you could be,
  
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• All The Events Our Arts Critics Recommend This Week

  20-12-2016 01:20 via thestranger.com
  
  The Nutcracker, The Punk Rock Flea Market, Christmas Eve Dinners, And Moreby Stranger Things To Do StaffThis week, our arts critics have picked the 34 best events in every genre—from holiday performances like Homo for the Holidays and George Balanchine's The Nutcracker to the Punk Rock Flea Market to plenty of Christmas Eve dinners. MONDAY
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  The Beautiful StruggleThis panel aims to inspire Seattle's queer, of-color community with stories about resistance to bigotry and t
  
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• The 34 Best Things To Do in Seattle This Week: Dec 19-25

  20-12-2016 01:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Our critics' picks for events happening December 19-25, 2016.by Stranger Things To Do StaffOur music critics have already chosen the 19 best concerts happening in Seattle this week, but now it's our arts critics' turn to pick the best events in their areas of expertise. Here are their picks for every genre—from holiday performances like Homo for the Holidays and George Balanchine's The Nutcracker to the Punk Rock Flea Market to plenty of Christmas Eve dinners. See them all below, and find
  
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• Man guilty of firing stray bullet that killed woman at barbecue near Bellingham

  20-12-2016 01:11
  
  Jurors found Nickolas Zylstra guilty of second-degree manslaughter, but acquitted him of first-degree manslaughter.
  
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