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• The 23 Best Movies Playing in Seattle This Weekend: Jan 12-15, 2017

  12-01-2017 23:48 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do Staff"If you are 21 and do not want to be what Mr. Potato Head calls Hamm the piggy bank in Toy Story (“uncultured swine”), then you must, must, must watch The Maltese Falcon," says Charles Mudede.
  This weekend, you can start preparing early for the 2017 Academy Awards by watching these likely nominees—but there are also plenty of other screenings, including must-see Hollywood noir The Maltese Falcon, the poetry-filled drama/comedy Paterson, John Carpen
  
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• Police Release Suspect Sketch in Purse Snatching Murder

  12-01-2017 23:33 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverPolice released this sketch today and are asking anyone with information to call (206) 233-5000. spd
  About a month after 45-year-old My-Linh Nguyen was killed during a robbery near Hillman City, Seattle Police have released the above sketch of a suspect in the case.
  Police say Nguyen was walking home from a bus stop on December 15 when a man tried to steal her purse and then shot her and fled. Police say they believe the suspect was driving an early 2000s Acura MDX and have relea
  
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• BuzzFeed Is Bad For Journalism?

  12-01-2017 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeBuzzfeed's homepage. Buzzfeed
  Last week, the editor of Wall Street Journal informed the public that his paper would not use the word "lie" to describe false statements made by president-elect Trump. This approach, he argued, represents good journalism because it's more objective. Calling a person who lies a liar is a judgement, not a fact. This is sheer nonsense, of course, and yet it caused no real outcry from the established press. What is causing an outcry, however, is BuzzFe
  
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• Savage Love: Clubbing

  12-01-2017 23:10 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage Joe Newton
  My partner and I have been playing with male chastity devices. We've been considering going to a strip club while his cock is caged up and getting him lap dances. Is there some etiquette for this with the dancers? Do we let the dancer know before she is on his lap? Or do we not mention it? Is it rude to get a dancer involved at all? I've not yet found an etiquette guide for this situation.
  Letting Our Cage Kink Show
  
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• Traffic snarls coming this weekend to I-90 and I-5 in Seattle

  12-01-2017 22:51
  
  Another weekend construction closure will force traffic on eastbound I-90 to squeeze into the express lanes at Rainier Avenue in Seattle, adding congestion to nearby I-5 in Sodo.
  
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• Supreme Court derails rail-fed oil export terminal on Washington coast

  12-01-2017 22:34
  
  The fossil fuel industry takes it on the chin again.  The Washington State Supreme Court rules that a proposed oil-by-rail terminal falls under a state law that can prohibit projects destructive to the environment.
  
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• WTF Does Rudy Giuliani Know About Cybersecurity? Trump Thinks Much.

  12-01-2017 22:25 via thestranger.com
  
  by Leilani PolkRudy Giuliani knows cybersecurity? Really? RANDY MIRAMONTEZ / SHUTTERSTOCK.COM
  If you thought President-elect Trump knew next to nothing about the Internet, hacking, or how cybersecurity works in general, then likely you'll feel he's about to be even less informed when former New York City Mayor (and Trump's current belligerent barking bosom buddy) Rudy Giuliani assumes his new role as the link between the Trump administration and Silicon Valley.According to a CNET report today, G
  
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• Owner of Magnolia Gym Says RVs Are Hurting His Business

  12-01-2017 21:45 via thestranger.com
  by Charles MudedeThe gym is called 3D Total Health. It is in Magnolia and owned by Joe Palumbo. Here is the problem. Vehicles initially made for recreational trips around America, a civilization of roads, have been appropriated by people who live in the city but can't afford its apartments and homes. They are a part of the mobile city. Some members of this moving community park near 3D Total Health. The owner of the gym does not want them there because their very sight, he believes, disturbs his
  
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• Lawmakers in Olympia seek new campaign-disclosure and ethics rules

  12-01-2017 21:35
  
  A handful of Washington lawmakers are pushing to strengthen the state’s campaign-finance and lobbying laws. Can the proposals push through the entrenched interests in Olympia?
  
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• Sketch released of possible suspect in deadly attempted purse snatching

  12-01-2017 21:32
  
  The victim was fatally shot Dec. 15 during an attempted purse snatching when she was a few feet from her Rainier Valley home.
  
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• AEG official: KeyArena remodel a go with or without a team

  12-01-2017 21:29
  
  A day after the city opened up its request for proposals to renovate KeyArena, it sounds like at least one likely bidder has high hopes for the arena, with or without a team.
  
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• Activists Hold Anti-Incarceration Rally Outside Youth Jail After Filing Appeal to Block Reconstruction Permits

  12-01-2017 21:20 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia Knauf ASK
  Anti-incarceration activists gathered outside of the King County Youth Detention Center on Wednesday afternoon as part of an appeal to stop the City of Seattle's Department of Construction and Inspections (SDCI) from issuing a master use permit allowing the construction of a new youth prison. The new facility, which was approved by voters in 2012, will be called the Children and Family Justice Center.
  Organizers, including representatives from Ending the Prison Industrial
  
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• State court rules against plans for big Grays Harbor oil terminal

  12-01-2017 21:09
  
  The Washington Supreme Court threw a major wrench Thursday in plans for a big oil terminal on the coast, saying the proposal must be reviewed under a 1989 state law designed to protect marine life after the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska.
  
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• Court throws wrench in plans for big Washington oil terminal

  12-01-2017 21:09
  
  The Washington Supreme Court threw a major wrench Thursday in plans for a big oil terminal on the coast, saying the proposal must be reviewed under a 1989 state law designed to protect marine life following the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska.
  
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• Love ’em or not? Here’s how to have your say about grizzly bears in North Cascades

  12-01-2017 21:07
  
  National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife slate open houses, webinars in February.
  
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• Region’s school districts ask legislators to fix $228M ‘levy cliff’

  12-01-2017 21:02
  
  Leaders from the Puget Sound region’s 35 school districts called for lawmakers to come up with a solution to the “levy cliff,” which could cause a $228 million shortfall starting next year.
  
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• Puget Sound educators ask legislators to fix $228M ‘levy cliff’

  12-01-2017 21:02
  
  Leaders from the Puget Sound region’s 35 school districts called for lawmakers to come up with a bipartisan solution to the “levy cliff,” which could cause a $228 million shortfall starting next year.
  
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• Testing wearable sensors as ‘check engine’ light for health

  12-01-2017 20:52
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A next step for smart watches and fitness trackers? Wearable gadgets gave a Stanford University professor an early warning that he was getting sick before he ever felt any symptoms of Lyme disease. Geneticist Michael Snyder never had Lyme’s characteristic bulls-eye rash. But a smart watch and other sensors charted changes in […]
  
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• Zillow donates $5 million to new UW CSE building

  12-01-2017 20:48
  
  Zillow Group pledged to donate $5 million towards a new UW computer science & engineering (CSE) building on the university's Seattle campus.
  
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• Polar Bear in Portland Zoo Wakes Up and Finds The World Is Back to Normal

  12-01-2017 20:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede"Look at the color of my fur! Snow is what I'm all about." At Polar Science Weekend at the Pacific Science Center, you'll get to touch polar bear fur, don a "survival suit," and participate in activities involving liquid nitrogen. SIVANADAR / SHUTTERSTOCK
  The bear is Nora. She woke up yesterday and found the open area of her prison packed with the stuff she was made to live with and love, snow. It made her very happy indeed. But the humans who imprison her know that this is all
  
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• PNW Indie Booksellers Determine Sherman Alexie, Lindy West, Annie Proulx, to Be Good Writers

  12-01-2017 20:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithAlexie is one of two Stranger Geniuses to win a 2016 Pacific Northwest Bookseller Award. CORY GUSTASON
  If you're interested in what the writers of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Alaska are thinking about these days, then you'd do well to pay attention to the the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association awards. The org is run by some fine, book-loving, independent-bookstore-running people, and their judgement on the matter of who wrote very good books in 2016 is sound.So, what did P
  
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• Mukilteo House Party Shooter Allen Ivanov Sentenced to Life in Prison

  12-01-2017 20:31 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi Groover"We never thought something like this could happen," friends of the three victims said after the shooting last summer. HG
  UPDATE: Allen Ivanov has been sentenced to life in prison for killing three people at a house party in Mukilteo last summer. At one point during the sentencing hearing this morning, Ivanov said, “How could I have done this? I could not say,” the Seattle Times reports.
  ORIGINAL POST:
  Allen Ivanov is expected to be sentenced to life in prison today f
  
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• Mukilteo shooter sentenced to life in prison

  12-01-2017 20:21
  
  Allen Ivanov, the confessed killer of three former classmates at a 2016 party in Mukilteo, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Thursday morning.
  
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• Washington measure seeks expansion of wine growler law

  12-01-2017 19:58
  
  Two years ago, the Washington state Legislature began allowing wine lovers to fill growlers at their favorite wineries. Now, a new measure would allow refills at grocery stores, wine boutiques and other places licensed to sell wine in the state.
  
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• Seattle feared a WWII air raid, but it was a giant, out-of-control Army balloon

  12-01-2017 19:56
  
  Sometimes, the balloons would break lose from their tethers and wreak havoc on the city.
  
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• Check out these giant Army balloons that were meant to thwart Seattle air raids in WWII

  12-01-2017 19:56
  
  Sometimes, the balloons would break lose from their tethers and wreak havoc on the city.
  
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• Check out these giant Army balloons that were meant to thwart air raids in Seattle during WWII

  12-01-2017 19:56
  
  Sometimes, the balloons would break lose from their tethers and wreak havoc on the city.
  
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• Major Sports-Arena Corporation Considering Constructing a World-Class Facility At KeyArena Site

  12-01-2017 19:47 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede CHARLES MUDEDE
  This is what AEG President Bob Newman told the Seattle Times’ editorial board: his company is interested in doing "a major KeyArena remodel." And they would do the thing with or without an NBA or NHL team attached to the project. The entrepreneur Chris Hansen, on the other hand, is planning to build a sports arena in the Sodo area, but he will not will not start construction unless an NBA team is secured. But here is an important difference between both pro
  
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• Lessened role of Seattle homeless camp-cleanup monitors is questioned by human-rights group

  12-01-2017 19:45
  
  The Seattle Office of Civil Rights will maintain a “high-level,” though diminished, role in monitoring the cleanups of unauthorized homeless encampments.
  
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• Lessened role of homeless camp-cleanup monitors is questioned by human-rights group

  12-01-2017 19:45
  
  The Seattle Office of Civil Rights will maintain a “high-level,” though diminished, role in monitoring the cleanups of unauthorized homeless encampments.
  
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• In Case You Were Wondering How Cold It Is This Morning...

  12-01-2017 19:13 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufChrist, it's cold.ASK
  Since the morning starting at a brisk 25ºF, the reflecting pool in Cal Anderson Park is now frozen. So frozen, in fact, that Yossi Henderson, 22, can make figure-eights and slap around hockey pucks on its surface.
  Check him out in the video, below.In case you were wondering how cold it is, the pond at Cal Anderson is skateable... pic.twitter.com/yk1CD1gM9Z
  — Ana Sofia Knauf (@asknauf) January 12, 2017"It hasn't been like this for at least 3 year
  
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• Chuck Wendig on "Why We Need the Affordable Care Act"

  12-01-2017 19:06 via thestranger.com
  by Erik Henriksen iStock / CatLaneAuthor Chuck Wendig writes books that're exciting and creepy and funny and smart, and within the past few years, his blog has become mandatory reading for me. If you're remotely interested in writing, publishing, or bees, I can't recommend it highly enough.
  But if I was going to point you toward one Wendig post, it'd be today's, about why the Affordable Care Act matters. Wendig's post is both personal and wide-ranging, looking at both the impacts the ACA has on
  
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• Celebrate redheads on Kiss a Ginger Day

  12-01-2017 19:03
  
  Jan. 12 is a day to show redheads some love -- but get permission first.
  
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• Great ski conditions could get washed away with a possibility of rain by early next week

  12-01-2017 19:01
  
  The winter weather in the Cascades has been very kind to skiers and snowboarders, as ski areas are relishing some of the deepest snow coverage seen in recent years. A series of weather disturbances moved across the state earlier this week and brought more snow, which has now switched back to mostly sunny skies and […]
  
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• UPDATE: Busted Capitol Hill Street Drummer Joe Buckets Now Plays in a Band Called Daniel the Dreamer

  12-01-2017 18:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave SegalJoe Buckets: now smacking tubs in the studio instead of in the streets. Ansel Herz
  Remember in the much simpler, saner times of March 2015 when the Seattle Police Department confiscated the makeshift kit of semi-ubiquitous street drummer Joe Buckets (real surname: Ayotte)? Buckets would often set up in The Stranger's infamous two-block radius near Poquito's and Everyday Music and, yes, he had a bad habit of violating noise ordinances.
  Well, two days ago Mr. Buckets e-mailed to infor
  
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• The Morning News: GOP: Ben Carson Is My Kind of Nigger, Trump Wants Microsoft to Stop Giving Visas to South Asians

  12-01-2017 18:16 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeMicrosoft is on top and Nordstrom on the bottom in new and huge Vancouver B.C. building. Charles MudedeDonald Trump and His Pick for Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, Are Going to End a Program That Permits Microsoft to Hire Highly Skilled Workers: Because many of these workers come from South Asia, and because Trump and Sessions are racists, it's hard to believe their plan to dismantle the H-1B visa program has anything to do with protecting American jobs. What this is about is
  
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• Why Portland and not Seattle gets pummeled with snow

  12-01-2017 18:14
  
  The Rose City was hit with nearly a foot of snow; Seattle’s forecast is for temperatures in the mid-40s and rain showers.
  
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• Local student a semi-finalist in STEM contest inspired by ‘Hidden Figures’

  12-01-2017 18:07
  
  17-year-old Seattle student Geneva Feist is a semi-finalist in a contest honoring women in STEM fields, inspired by the movie “Hidden Figures.”
  
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• Bothell student wins grand prize in STEM contest inspired by ‘Hidden Figures’

  12-01-2017 18:07
  
  Bothell student Yuna Shin, 17, won a $50,000 scholarship for her work studying and teaching science and math in a contest honoring women in STEM fields, inspired by the movie “Hidden Figures.”
  
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• Grizzly bears in the North Cascades? Feds release plan to restore population

  12-01-2017 18:01
  
  Few grizzlies have been seen in Washington in recent decades, but federal officials want to restore the bear population.
  
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• Chargers announce they’re moving to Los Angeles

  12-01-2017 17:28
  
  The San Diego Chargers are moving to Los Angeles, where they will join the recently relocated Rams in giving the nation’s second-largest media market two NFL teams for the first time in decades.
  
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• Watch: Oregon Zoo animals — even an elephant — frolic in Portland snow

  12-01-2017 17:13
  
  The snowstorm that hammered Portland was welcomed by the animals at the Oregon Zoo.
  
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