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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Lifelong Straight Guy Wants To Recreate Magical Gay Sex He Once Had With Smooth Guy Whose Queeny Ways Appealed to Him

  16-01-2017 23:59 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  I'm about eight years older than you and am in good shape for a man my age. Better than most my age. I have been straight for most of my life. I'm still very attracted to women very much. About nine years ago I had a sexual affair with a sweet and very sexy gay man. It was short lived because I was scared of anyone finding out. He was, sensitive, very passionate, and powerful in bed. I would wrap my legs around him while he banged me. Not having had that experience before... it was
  
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• 22,000 lost power in North Seattle

  16-01-2017 23:59
  
  Seattle City Light reports that 22,079 customers in North Seattle lost power Monday afternoon.
  
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• 22,000 lose power in North Seattle

  16-01-2017 23:59
  
  Seattle City Light reports that 22,079 customers in North Seattle lost power Monday afternoon.
  
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• Peter Sherwin, Seattle monorail’s ‘cantankerous’ and kindhearted promoter, dies at 70

  16-01-2017 23:47
  
  “Don’t fear the voters,” Peter Sherwin would say. The activist was unrelenting in his calls for Seattle officials to listen to the grass-roots movement to expand the city’s monorail.
  
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• Peter Sherwin, ‘cantankerous’ and kindhearted Seattle monorail promoter, dies at 70

  16-01-2017 23:47
  
  “Don’t fear the voters,” Peter Sherwin would say. The activist was unrelenting in his calls for Seattle officials to listen to the grass-roots movement to expand the city’s monorail.
  
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• Washington Governor, Attorney General Propose Abolishing Death Penalty

  16-01-2017 23:39 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi Groover"While I’m governor, there will not be a state sanctioned execution of a Washington State citizen," says Governor Jay Inslee. Office of Governor Jay Inslee
  With hopes that new Republican support will help push the question to a vote this year, Washington Governor Jay Inslee and Attorney General Bob Ferguson are proposing legislation to abolish the death penalty in Washington State.
  "The evidence is absolutely clear that death penalty sentences are unequally applied, they ar
  
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• Governor, AG, bipartisan backers say end death penalty in Washington

  16-01-2017 22:47
  
  A bipartisan drive to end the death penalty in Washington gains backing from Gov. Jay Inslee, Attorney General Bob Ferguson, and even the Republican state senator from Walla Walla.
  
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• Seattle Opera's La Traviata Challenges "Decency" In An Indecent Society

  16-01-2017 22:31 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rebecca Brown As Violetta, soprano Corrine Winters ranges convincingly from sharp and fiery to meek and broken in her Seattle Opera debut. Jacob Lucas
  I’m not sure about some of the production of La Traviata I saw this weekend at the Seattle Opera.
  I know that Joshua Dennis, in his Seattle Opera debut, was excellent as Alfredo, the love-struck book nerd. His sweet, buttery tenor captures perfectly the earnestness that gradually opens the heart of Violetta, the 'It' girl courtesan (sex w
  
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• Seattle marchers remember MLK on eve of Trump presidency

  16-01-2017 22:26
  
  Thousands of marchers took to the streets for Seattle's 35th annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
  
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• Republicans join Inslee, Ferguson to announce proposal to abolish Washington’s death penalty

  16-01-2017 22:19
  
  Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and state Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced proposed legislation Monday to abolish the death penalty in Washington state, three years after Inslee imposed a moratorium on executions.
  
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• Republicans join Inslee, Ferguson in call to abolish Washington’s death penalty

  16-01-2017 22:19
  
  State Attorney General Bob Ferguson on Monday announced proposed legislation to abolish Washington’s death penalty. Showing up to support him was a bipartisan group of elected officials that included former GOP Attorney General Rob McKenna and Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee.
  
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• B Street Band Pulls Out of Inaugural Bash on Bruce Springsteen's Behalf

  16-01-2017 22:07 via thestranger.com
  
  The headline you're looking for, blogs of the world, is Pennsylvania Avenue Freeze Out.by Sean NelsonBruce Springsteen, not a huge fan of the President-Elect. Greg Carter
  The biggest joke of Trump's New Jersey inaugural gala line-up was that he couldn't get Springsteen; he could only get a Springsteen cover band. But now, thanks in a roundabout way to Bruce himself, he can't get a cover band, either. "We felt that we had to make it known that we didn't want to seem disrespectful, in any way, sha
  
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• Gene Cernan, last astronaut to walk on the moon, dies at 82

  16-01-2017 21:58
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Former astronaut Gene Cernan, who as the last person to walk on the moon returned to Earth with a message of “peace and hope for all mankind,” died on Monday, his family said. He was 82. Cernan was with his relatives when he died at a Houston hospital following ongoing heath issues, […]
  
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• The 43 Best Things To Do in Seattle This Week: Jan 16-22, 2017

  16-01-2017 21:53 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffDon't miss the free opening weekend of Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series at the Seattle Art Museum. It's the first time in two decades that all 60 of Jacob Lawrence's paintings of the Great Migration will be seen together on the West Coast. Courtesy of Seattle Art Museum
  Our music critics have already chosen the 21 best concerts in Seattle this week, and we've compiled all of the inauguration resistance events and Martin Luther King Jr. events happening—but
  
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• Inauguration 2017 Playlist: Songs of Rage, Protest and Reflection

  16-01-2017 21:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Leilani Polk
  By now, more than half the U.S. population is likely feeling a growing sense of fear, rage, disbelief, and pitying self-reflection as Inauguration Day 2017 looms ever closer to the reality of Trump as President. We here at The Stranger are experiencing a similar sense of WTF?; how exactly do we accept the transition, from an eloquent, smart, often clever and forward-thinking Head of State, to one who can only communicate in 140 characters or less at a time and no compunction abou
  
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• Our Arts Critics Recommend These 43 Events This Week

  16-01-2017 21:40 via thestranger.com
  
  Shot, Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series, A Live Blabbermouth Podcast Taping, And More Picks For Jan 16-22by Stranger Things To Do StaffSee below for excellent theater, literature, food, and other art events this week, including the (free!) opening week of Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series at SAM, Adept: A Sick & Disabled LGBTQ Show, and The Stranger's Blabbermouth Podcast Live. MONDAYMLK DAY
  Letter from Birmingham Jail: A Community ReadingRevisit a turning point in American civil right
  
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• These 30 Seattle jobs pay over $100k

  16-01-2017 21:24
  
  If you want to make more than $100,000 in Seattle, here are some jobs that will do the trick.
  
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• Arrest made in Seattle slaying

  16-01-2017 21:16
  
  Police arrested the suspect in SeaTac early Monday morning, hours after an apparent homicide victim was found dead in a Rainier Avenue South apartment. According to Seattle Police Department statements, investigators believe the killer knew the victim.
  
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• Reporting Live: Seattle's MLK Day Rally and March

  16-01-2017 21:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufMLK Day in Seattle 2016. Ansel Herz
  Seattle students and residents are marching through the city today in celebration of the 35th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The rally begins at Garfield High School at 11 AM. Then, participants will begin to march from the school toward to the Federal Building downtown. Reporter Ana Sofia Knauf is covering the rally live. Follow along:I'll be tweeting live from Seattle's #MLKDAY march, starting at 12:30 pm at Garfield HS. Details: https:
  
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• Rule easing public-lands transfer concerns hunters, others

  16-01-2017 20:52
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A change in U.S. House rules making it easier to transfer millions of acres of federal public lands to states is worrying hunters and outdoor enthusiasts across the West who fear losing access. Lawmakers earlier this month passed a rule eliminating a significant budget hurdle and written so broadly that it […]
  
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• 1 shot in Pioneer Square, in view of police

  16-01-2017 20:46
  
  The shooting occurred as Seattle officers approached the scene of a fight in a parking lot.
  
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• Seattle Congressman Adam Smith Will Not Attend the Inauguration, Either

  16-01-2017 20:41 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverBut Smith told The Stranger he doesn't consider it a boycott. office of rep. adam smith
  Like newly elected Democratic Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, Seattle Congressman Adam Smith won't be attending Donald Trump's inauguration on Friday.
  But unlike Jayapal, who cast her decision as a reaction to Trump's policy promises and rhetoric, Smith is presenting his decision is business as usual."Believe me, I have a lot of statements against Donald Trump, his policies, and the way he beha
  
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• Wait, Why Did Washington Senators Vote Against Importing Cheaper Drugs from Canada?

  16-01-2017 20:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithSenator Patty Murray has been doing so good against the forces of Trump! So why did she and Sen. Cantwell vote against cheaper drugs for Americans? COURTESY OF SEN. PATTY MURRAY
  Did you see that video of Bernie Sanders chastising Democratic Senators for setting up camp in the pockets of Big Pharma? I love it. He's at his most irascible when Democrats are at their most unreasonable, and it seems like he's got every reason to fume.Early Thursday morning, 13 Democrats voted against a p
  
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• Wait, Why Did Washington Senators Vote Against Buying Cheaper Drugs from Canada?

  16-01-2017 20:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithSenator Patty Murray has been doing so good against the forces of Trump! So why did she and Sen. Cantwell vote against cheaper drugs for Americans? COURTESY OF SEN. PATTY MURRAY
  Did you see that video of Bernie Sanders chastising Democratic Senators for setting up camp in the pockets of Big Pharma? I love it. He's at his most irascible when Democrats are at their most unreasonable, and it seems like he's got every reason to fume.Early Thursday morning, 13 Democrats voted against a p
  
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• Well, The Stranger is Going to the Inauguration. Thanks (We Think?) To Our Partner, Longreads!

  16-01-2017 20:20 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverPlease click on our stories so they don't lay us off.Our editors have informed us they're sending us to Washington D.C. to cover Donald Trump's inauguration.Maybe it's punishment for that post about Tindering at the Republican National Convention not going viral? Maybe it's because no one else could stomach watching the human Cheetoh take office.What we do know is that while there, we'll be blogging here on Slog, tweeting here and here, Snapchatting, Facebook Live-ing, hanging ou
  
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• Man’s body found in Seattle apartment; arrest made

  16-01-2017 20:18
  
  Seattle police gave no details of how the man was killed.
  
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• Man arrested after body found in Seattle apartment

  16-01-2017 20:18
  
  Seattle police gave no details of how the man was killed.
  
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• Angela Merkel Is Now the Leader of the Free World

  16-01-2017 19:59 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageOrange Julius Caesar gave an interview to the Times of London and Bild this weekend... and, yeah, so much for the alliances and institutions that have kept the peace in Europe for seventy years. OJC is gonna burn it all down as a gift for his BFF from the KGB:
  European leaders grappled with the jolting reality of President-elect Donald Trump’s skepticism of the European Union on Monday, saying they might have to stand without the United States at their side during the Trump pr
  
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• Soggy start to the week for skiers and riders, colder conditions return soon

  16-01-2017 19:54
  
  Say aloha to the sunshine as wild weather is forecast with snow initially falling late Monday, and then quickly shifts to gusty winds, heavy rain and a high avalanche danger, which won’t be a pretty sight on the hillsides for skiers and snowboarders. A winter storm watch has been issued for the northern Cascades with […]
  
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• Search resumes for father, toddler swept away by wave on Oregon Coast

  16-01-2017 19:07
  
  NORTH BEND, Ore. (AP) — The Coast Guard says it has resumed a search for a father and his young son after a wave swept them to sea from an Oregon beach. Coast Guard Petty Officer Amanda Norcross said a helicopter crew was continuing the search Monday. The 31-year-old Eugene-area man and his 3-year-old son […]
  
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• Search canceled for father, toddler swept into ocean by wave

  16-01-2017 19:07
  
  NORTH BEND, Ore. (AP) — The Coast Guard has suspended its search for a father and his young son who were swept into the sea by a wave along an Oregon beach. The agency, along with Oregon State Police and other responders, searched unsuccessfully Sunday and Monday for 31-year-old Jayson Dean Thomas, of Elmira, Oregon, […]
  
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• Homeland is Back in Brooklyn for Season 6 “Fair Game” Premiere

  16-01-2017 19:07 via thestranger.com
  
  by Tricia RomanoCIA agent Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) returns for the sixth season of Homeland. Showtime
  When Homeland—the show about a schizophrenic CIA agent, Carrie Mathison (Clare Danes), assigned to the counterterrorism department—first began, the central mystery was whether or not Brody, a ginger soldier who became a Muslim while in captivity, could be a bad terrorist double agent. Carrie spent the first half of the season (when she wasn’t fucking him) investigating hi
  
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• Writers Resist event celebrates civil rights, decries Trump

  16-01-2017 18:22
  
  The message of Writers Resist to President-elect Trump can be summed up in four words of Walt Whitman:  "Resist much, obey little."
  
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• UK to close Halley Research Station in Antarctica for winter

  16-01-2017 18:04
  
  LONDON (AP) — British scientists have decided to close the Halley VI Research Station in Antarctica for the winter amid concerns about safety. The British Antarctic survey said Monday that changes to the ice present “a complex glaciological picture” that causes concern about the shelf on which the station is located in the coming months. […]
  
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• The Morning News: Facebook Removes Post that Calls Ben Carson the GOP's Nigger, Murray Kills Bike Sharing

  16-01-2017 17:43 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede
  That Post: Was by me. It responded to statements made by Ben Carson, a former surgeon picked by Trump to run HUD because he is black and says things racist whites like to hear about blacks (such as black culture and not racism is the cause of black poverty), during his confirmation hearing on January 12. Facebook disapproved of my use of the word nigger to describe exactly how Carson is being played by the party of white America, and so removed my post because it did not meet "
  
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• With DeVos as secretary of education, what are possible impacts here?

  16-01-2017 15:00
  
  We take a look at what Betsy DeVos’ appointment as education secretary could mean for Washington state.
  
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• With Betsy DeVos as secretary of education, what are possible impacts here?

  16-01-2017 15:00
  
  We take a look at what Betsy DeVos’ appointment as education secretary could mean for Washington state.
  
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• Saint Mark’s issues a call to action for marginalized groups

  16-01-2017 15:00
  
  In a statement of commitment and action, the Seattle parish has declared it will protect marginalized groups from hate speech and attacks. We need this now.
  
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• An Enduring Classic

  16-01-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  In the Midst of Capitol Hill's Restaurant Madness, Machiavelli Enduresby Tobias Coughlin-BogueMachiavelli is a Seattle classic. As the Italian restaurant's tagline proclaims, it's been "a Capitol Hill tradition since 1988," which means it has been serving up veal piccata longer than many of you reading this have likely been alive. In a neighborhood that has new restaurants opening nearly every week, often at the expense of an old favorite, it's still going strong. Indeed, Machiavelli is often as
  
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• Seahawks Season Goes Careening Off The Road In Atlanta, Is Now Over

  16-01-2017 08:18 via thestranger.com
  
  by Spike FriedmanThomas Rawls, before the fall Corky Trewin, Seattle Seahawks
  There will be no Super Bowl parade in Seattle this year. The Seahawks’ season ended in ignominious fashion Saturday at the Georgia Dome, as the Falcons beat the good men from Seattle 36-20. The occasionally inspired but mostly ramshackle jalopy that was this Seahawks season is now turned over in a ditch. Its wheels spinning as the engine runs, fuel leaking everywhere, driver and passengers staggering away, wonder
  
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• San Francisco’s Be-In 50 years ago was a counter-culture milestone

  16-01-2017 06:47
  
  It lasted only an afternoon, but it has been etched in history as a great moment of music, acid experimentation, fellowship and peace.
  
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• Study predicts decline in Dungeness crab from ocean acidification

  16-01-2017 06:03
  
  Dungeness crab are one of the species expected to be hit by the rising ocean acidity from fossil-fuel combustion, according to a new study.
  
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• Adopting sanctuary-city status mostly ceremonial for Yakima

  16-01-2017 04:58
  
  The Yakima City Council recently took the first step in crafting a resolution to designate Yakima a “welcoming city,” which could mean law enforcement and city employees would not ask residents about their immigration status.
  
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• When stents don’t work for blocked arteries, targeted radiation may help

  16-01-2017 04:32
  
  After balloon angioplasty to clear dangerous blockages in a coronary artery didn’t work on a patient, doctors in Philadelphia tried a different tack: a targeted dose of radiation inside the artery to inhibit the regrowth of cells. So far, it seems to have worked.
  
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• Arrest warrant had been out for suspect in Bellevue mosque fire

  16-01-2017 03:24
  
  A homeless man with a history of mental illness and damaging property is suspected of setting fire to a Bellevue mosque over the weekend, police said Sunday.
  
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• Cancer claims Seattle ceramic artist Akio Takamori at 66

  16-01-2017 03:03
  
  Seattle ceramic artist and University of Washington instructor Akio Takamori died Wednesday at age 66.
  
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• Beloved Seattle ceramic artist Akio Takamori, ‘a very gentle soul,’ dies of cancer at 66

  16-01-2017 03:03
  
  Seattle ceramic artist and University of Washington instructor Akio Takamori died Wednesday at age 66.
  
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• Beloved Seattle ceramic artist Akio Takamori, ‘a very gentle soul,’ dies at 66

  16-01-2017 03:03
  
  Akio Takamori, who taught at UW for 21 years, had a career that spanned traditional industrial pottery, ceramic slab vessels and larger-than-life, sometimes cartoonish figures — including those on display in front of Whole Foods at South Lake Union.
  
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• Thousands gather to stand against defunding of ACA

  16-01-2017 02:04
  
  Thousands gather at Westlake to protest the defunding of the ACA. 
  
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• With outrage and resolve, Seattle rally backs saving, improving Obamacare

  16-01-2017 01:48
  
  Demanding to maintain and expand health care for all, hundreds rallied in Westlake Park on Sunday to defend Obamacare and to kick off a week of protests before Friday's inauguration.
  
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