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• It's National Compliment Day! Be Nice to a Stranger, or Someone You Love

  24-01-2017 23:49 via thestranger.com
  
  by Leilani PolkOh yes. Camilla Bandeira / GETTY
  My mom is one of those exceedingly nice people who compliments random strangers on the street. Often, it's because they have a cute dog and my mom loooves dogs. But she never limits herself to four-legged appreciation, and I've been with her on numerous occasions when she stops a woman walking by to offer kind words about her dress, her hair, her jewelry, her baby... When I was younger, this mortified the hell out of me. These days, it makes me fee
  
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• Moses Lake man arrested in fatal stabbing of son, 20

  24-01-2017 23:42
  
  Police say the father cut the son’s throat during a fight on Saturday night.
  
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• ATF: Ex-Border Patrol agent caught with gun silencers, meth

  24-01-2017 23:25
  
  A former U.S. Border Patrol agent who investigators claim was arrested in Lynnwood with a stash of high-end guns and methamphetamine now faces federal charges.
  
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• Badlands National Park goes rogue on Trump, tweets global warming data

  24-01-2017 23:04
  
  Badlands National Park defies Trump administration gag order, and publishes facts about climate change and its human causes.
  
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• Trump’s hiring of 2 state legislators leaves Senate GOP in a bind

  24-01-2017 22:58
  
  State Sen. Brian Dansel, R-Republic, resigned from the Senate to take a job in the Trump administration. Dansel is the second GOP state senator to take a federal position under the new president.
  
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• Republican Brian Dansel quits state Senate for Trump administration job

  24-01-2017 22:58
  
  Washington state Sen. Brian Dansel, R-Republic, resigned Tuesday from the Senate to take a job in the Trump administration.
  
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• GOP state senator resigns to take job in Trump administration

  24-01-2017 22:58
  
  Washington state Sen. Brian Dansel, R-Republic, resigned Tuesday from the Senate to take a job in the Trump administration. Dansel is the second GOP state senator to take a federal position under Trump.
  
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• Reports: UW shooter sent Facebook messages to Brietbart editor before firing

  24-01-2017 22:44
  
  The confessed shooter at a Friday night University of Washington demonstration outside an event featuring a provocative Breitbart.com editor sent Facebook messages to the right-wing entertainer before shooting a protester, the Seattle Times reports.
  
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• Who Killed Teatro ZinZanni?

  24-01-2017 22:37 via thestranger.com
  
  Who Killed Teatro ZinZanni? A Land Deal Is Threatening the Successful Circus Cabaret After 18 Successful Yearsby Rich SmithTeatro ZinZanni is a very successful operation. The quirky combo of modern cirque, cabaret, and five-course dinner service has been in Seattle for 18 years. According to their promotional literature, the organization has generated nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars in "economic activity" in that time, and draws an annual average of 60,000 patrons. And that's not incl
  
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• No Child Sleeps Outside campaign raises record $4.5 million

  24-01-2017 22:37
  
  The campaign, which was aimed at ending family homelessness in the region, reached the record amount in just over 30 days.
  
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• Tacoma Art Museum Director Stephanie Stebich Moving on to the Smithsonian American Art Museum

  24-01-2017 22:32 via thestranger.com
  
  by Amber CortesStephanie Stebich courtesy of Tacoma Art Museum
  After an almost 12-year tenure at the Tacoma Art Museum, executive director Stephanie Stebich is heading to Washington D.C. to a new role as the director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.In her time at the Tacoma Art Museum, Stebich successfully raised $20 million for a massive renovation project that added the Haub Family Collection of Western American Art wing (nearly doubling the museum’s gallery space), and incre
  
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• Gallup poll: Trump sets new low inaugural approval rating

  24-01-2017 21:59
  
  President Trump is off to a rocky start in the arena of public opinion, according to a new national Gallup Poll.
  
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• Snow-covered buildings collapsing in rare US West weather

  24-01-2017 21:57
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — For buildings in parts of the snow-covered U.S. West, it has become a winter where the weak do not survive. The accumulated weight of snow has crushed an old lumber mill in Oregon, the main grocery store in a small Idaho town, a sports complex in Alaska and a conference center […]
  
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• Bands I Pretended to Like for Boys. Part Six: Collective Soul

  24-01-2017 21:46 via thestranger.com
  
  Bands I Pretended to Like for Boys. Part Six: Collective Soulby Kathleen TarrantThis is a tough one.When I was a freshman in college, I had a huge, goofy crush on a seminarian. I know. I wanted to lead a man of god away from the chaste embrace of the mother church. I mean, whatever—at that point, all I had done was nervous and unsatisfying hand stuff, so mother church can stop being so paranoid.He was sweet and silly and very devout, he loved Five Iron Frenzy, and we were getting along jus
  
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• Ballard's Lucky Envelope Brewing Unveils Two Beers for Chinese New Year

  24-01-2017 21:41 via thestranger.com
  
  by Lester BlackBuddha's Hand Citron IPA is one of two beers unveiled this Saturday. Lester Black
  We don't often think of China when we look for the origins of beer, but an archeological analysis published by Stanford researchers last year shed light on ancient brewing history that points to the Chinese as some of the earliest people to brew beer—around 5,000 years ago.
  The findings inspired Barry Chan, brewmaster for Lucky Envelope Brewing, to start experimenting and figuring out how that
  
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• Women who lost possessions to homeless ‘sweeps’ sue Seattle

  24-01-2017 21:30
  
  Two people living outside in Seattle and two local organizations last week filed suit with the city over one of its practices in cleaning up homeless camps: collecting and, in many cases, throwing away people's personal property.
  
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• Curling novices learn — and laugh — as they go

  24-01-2017 21:18
  
  Here’s a new twist in company team-building: Taking curling lessons together.
  
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• Police: Teens wounded in Federal Way shooting were armed

  24-01-2017 21:03
  
  Federal Way police say both victims are expected to survive after being shot Saturday night.
  
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• Where To Watch The 2017 Oscar-Nominated Movies In Seattle

  24-01-2017 20:51 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffWill Hollywood's obsession with musicals make La La Land the big winner? Will stunning drama Moonlight get the praise it deserves?
  Whether you're going to an Oscars party next month or planning on half-watching with some popcorn at home, the best way to enjoy the Academy Awards is to have seen all (or most) of the movies beforehand. Luckily, many of the movies nominated for the February 26th awards show are still playing in theaters around Seattle—including La
  
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• Standing Rock Sioux Tribe prepares to push back against Trump’s Dakota Access Pipeline order

  24-01-2017 20:34
  
  In response to President Donald Trump’s executive order to advance construction of the stalled Dakota Access Pipeline, tribal opponents say they will fight a restart of the project in court.
  
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• Alleged Shooter Reached Out to Milo Yiannopoulos for an Autograph: "I'm Outside In Line to Your UW Event."

  24-01-2017 20:18 via thestranger.com
  
  Update on Friday night's shooting at the UW Milo Yiannopoulos demonstrationby Amber CortesMilo Yiannopoulos at the Young British Heritage Society Launch Event In London Image courtesy of Barcroft MediaTuesday, January 24, 10:04 a.m. The 34-year man who was shot at the Milo Yiannopoulos demonstration on Friday night at UW is a Seattle computer-security engineer named Josh Dukes, according to an article in the Seattle Times. In the article, Dukes’ lawyer stated that he was at the event to pr
  
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• Quincy Jones, Macklemore, Portia Sabin to Deliver Keynote Speeches at Upstream Music Fest + Summit

  24-01-2017 20:03 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave Segal
  Billionaire Paul Allen's Upstream Music Fest + Summit has tapped legendary soul-jazz composer/arranger/producer Quincy Jones, Grammy Award-winning/thrift-store-frequenting rapper Macklemore, and Kill Rock Stars president/cultural anthropologist Portia Sabin to deliver keynotes speeches at its inaugural event, which happens May 11-13 at several downtown Pioneer Square venues. According to Upstream's website, these talks, which will serve as the foundation for the event's conference
  
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• Trump administration puts gag order on Dept. of Agriculture researchers

  24-01-2017 20:01
  
  The Trump administration is now banning release of information, including scientific studies, by the main research arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
  
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• Food News: The Dunnes is Done

  24-01-2017 19:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Tobias Coughlin-Bogue Photo courtesy of Clever Dunnes
  My Liver is So Happy About This
  Clever Dunnes Irish House will be leaving the Olive Way space they've occupied for seventeen thousand years at the end of the month, they recently announced via Facebook. I haven't visited the creaky old place since I was young and dumb and non-diabetic enough to drink Jäger, but I'm sure I have a ton of happy non-memories there. However, for some, the Dunnes was a de facto living room and I'm sure they
  
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• Trump Pushes Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines Forward; What You Can Do to Resist

  24-01-2017 19:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Wm.™ Steven HumphreyAn activist locked to Dakota Access pipeline construction equipment in early September. Sydney Brownstone
  While it should not come as a shock to anyone, this is some bullshit: Donald Trump, who lost the popular vote by 2,864,974 votes, has signed orders to revive the Keystone XL pipeline and to push forward the Dakota Access pipeline which was brought to our attention this summer by the protesters at Standing Rock. From the NYT:
  Critics denounced Mr. Trump’s dec
  
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• America's Next Top Model Recap: Missing The Mark

  24-01-2017 19:23 via thestranger.com
  
  by Chase BurnsNot everyone can dip low. CBS Television Distribution. Collage by author.
  Okay, it's time to air some grievances. We had our chance. This week's episode, X Marks The Spot, was the night when cycle 23, the mildly anticipated remake of America’s Next Top Model, could’ve had its very own WE WERE ALL ROOTING FOR YOU meltdown. Ashley Graham stared down Marissa—our tough, sexually-fluid, ultimately disappointing ingenue—and, with matronly anger in her eyes, Graham
  
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• I, Anonymous: Angry White Man (Slight Return)

  24-01-2017 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Anonymous STEVEN WEISSMAN
  I tried to break up the fight you started with three teenagers on the bus. I didn't hear what happened before you leaped out of your seat and lunged at them. No matter what was or wasn't said, act like a fucking adult! You are 35, they are 15! If it takes a grown man to restrain you from punching a kid, then something is wrong with you.
  
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• Fire rips through Lake City Way pot shop

  24-01-2017 18:17
  
  The company’s product suffered water and smoke damage, an employee said.
  
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• Look up! Parade of planets to appear in sky Tuesday night

  24-01-2017 18:11
  
  On Jan. 24, 2017, there will a great procession of the five big planets that are visible to us with the naked eye.
  
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• Pedestrian struck, severely injured by car in downtown Seattle

  24-01-2017 17:45
  
  The collision occurred near the intersection of James Street and Eighth Avenue, authorities said.
  
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• Dying from cancer: Could your location determine your fate?

  24-01-2017 17:39
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Cancer death rates are steadily rising in certain parts of the U.S. in grim contrast with the declining death rate across the nation as a whole, an exhaustive new analysis has found. In parts of the country that are relatively poor, and have higher rates of obesity and smoking, cancer death rates […]
  
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• Man shot outside Yiannopoulos talk at UW improves to satisfactory condition

  24-01-2017 17:24
  
  Josh Dukes, 34, was moved out of intensive care, according to a spokeswoman with Harborview Medical Center
  
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• Man shot outside Milo Yiannopoulos talk at UW improves to satisfactory condition

  24-01-2017 17:24
  
  Josh Dukes, 34, was moved out of intensive care, according to a spokeswoman with Harborview Medical Center
  
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• The 2017 Oscars Nominations are Here, And Are Not So White

  24-01-2017 17:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeMoonlight has the second-most nominations in this year's Oscars.
  The 89th Academy Awards, which will be broadcast by ABC on February 26, is not as white as the 88th edition. That is for sure. Three of the five big films (Fences, Lion, and Moonlight) are not directed by white people, and the documentary on 20th century black literary giant James Baldwin, I’m Not Your Negro, is nominated for best documentary. Nevertheless, the film that dominates this year’s Oscars is
  
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• The Morning News: Federal Way Lawmaker Calls Women's Marches "unAmerican" and "unChristian"

  24-01-2017 16:53 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneWashington State Senator Mark Miloscia is up for re-election in 2018. WALEG
  Welcome to Your Fascist USA: Washington State Senator Mark Miloscia, a legislator who has consistently opposed LGBTQ civil rights and women's access to healthcare, took to his Facebook page over the weekend to "shame" the millions of people who exercised their First Amendment rights over the weekend. He called the women's (and womxn's) marches across the country "ugly, unAmerican, and unChristian prot
  
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• The Morning News: Federal Way Lawmaker Calls Protesting Trump "unAmerican" and "unChristian"

  24-01-2017 16:53 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneWashington State Senator Mark Miloscia is up for re-election in 2018. WALEG
  Welcome to Your Fascist USA: Washington State Senator Mark Miloscia, a legislator who has consistently opposed LGBTQ civil rights and women's access to healthcare, took to his Facebook page over the weekend to "shame" the millions of people who exercised their First Amendment rights over the weekend. He called the protests and women's/womxn's marches across the country "ugly, unAmerican, and unChristi
  
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• Trump to sign orders advancing Keystone, Dakota pipelines

  24-01-2017 16:28
  
  Both projects had been blocked by the Obama administration, partly over environmental concerns. The Dakota project had been the subject of huge protests by the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and its supporters.
  
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• Women’s Marchers: What do you plan to do next?

  24-01-2017 15:00
  
  Did you attend one of the women's marches around the world? We want to hear from you.
  
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• Punch stuff, sweat, get fit — ‘It’s fun’

  24-01-2017 15:00
  
  In Northwest Wanderings, photographer Alan Berner explores places and communities throughout the Pacific Northwest.
  
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• How many people really marched Saturday in Seattle? ‘Elementary-school math’ says 100K-120K

  24-01-2017 15:00
  
  How does an estimate of 100,000 to 122,000 participants sound for Saturday’s Womxn’s March in Seattle? It’s not 200,000, but still wildly beyond the organizers’ original expectation of 50,000 protesters. And those numbers are based on some real math.
  
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• How many people really marched Saturday in Seattle? ‘Elementary-school math’ puts figure at 100K-120K

  24-01-2017 15:00
  
  How does an estimate of 100,000 to 122,000 participants sound for Saturday’s Womxn’s March in Seattle? It’s not 200,000, but still wildly beyond the organizers’ original expectation of 50,000 protesters. And those numbers are based on some real math.
  
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• Protecting Legal Weed from Trump

  24-01-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Protecting Legal Weed from Trump—The Crucial Mission of the Congressional Cannabis Caucusby Lester BlackAn unhinged narcissist has been inaugurated, and his pick for the top law-enforcement officer in America—a man with both a racist record and views on pot that are so archaic they make Ronald Reagan look like Rick Steves—will most likely be confirmed this month. Could things for our state's nascent legal pot industry get any worse? Should we all start stockpiling cheap ounces
  
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• How to Get Support If You're the Victim of a Hate Crime

  24-01-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  How to Get Support If You're the Victim of a Hate Crimeby Ana Sofia KnaufAfter more than a year of campaigning on a platform based on hate, racism, misogyny, and xenophobia, on January 20, Donald Trump officially became the 45th president of the United States.Trump-inspired bigotry is already happening. In the 10 days after Trump was elected president, 867 hate crimes were reported across the United States. Not even a week after the election, 18-year-old Nasro Hassan, a Muslim student at the Uni
  
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• Claudia Rowe Examines Her Life Through the Eyes of a Serial Killer in The Spider and the Fly

  24-01-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Claudia Rowe Examines Her Life Through the Eyes of a Serial Killer in The Spider and the Flyby Rich SmithIn the late 1990s, Kendall Francois raped and killed eight sex workers in Poughkeepsie, New York. For two years, he piled their bodies in the attic of a house he shared with his mother and his two younger siblings. At the time of these murders, current Seattle Times education reporter, Claudia Rowe, was working in Poughkeepsie as a stringer for the New York Times. She wanted the story, but sh
  
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• Celebrating Chinese New Year with Beer

  24-01-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Lucky Envelope Brewing Brings Ancient Chinese Beer to Ballardby Lester BlackWe don't often think of China when we look for the origins of beer, but an archeological analysis published by Stanford researchers last year shed light on ancient brewing history that points to the Chinese as some of the earliest people to brew beer—around 5,000 years ago.The findings inspired Barry Chan, brewmaster for Lucky Envelope Brewing, to start experimenting and figuring out how that ancient beer would hav
  
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• ‘Get up. We’ve got to get out’: Storms kill 20 in the South

  24-01-2017 09:41
  
  ADEL, Ga. (AP) — Bonnie and Wayne Collier were jolted awake in their mobile home by a cellphone weather alert early Sunday. They jumped up, turned on the TV, saw a tornado warning and decided to run. “We heard the Code Red,” said Bonnie Collier, 65. “He told me, ‘Get up. We’ve got to get […]
  
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• Plan to run pipeline through Pinelands gets public hearing

  24-01-2017 06:37
  
  PEMBERTON, N.J. (AP) — As jobs-versus-environment clashes go, few issues have been as hard fought and generated as much passion in New Jersey as a proposal to run a natural gas pipeline through federally protected woods atop some of the nation’s purest drinking water. The plan was narrowly defeated in 2014. But since then, Republican […]
  
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• Jobs versus the environment square off in pipeline vote

  24-01-2017 06:37
  
  PEMBERTON, N.J. (AP) — A hotly contested plan to run a natural gas pipeline through New Jersey’s federally protected Pinelands preserve is getting a do-over. A public hearing on the proposal by South Jersey Gas to build the pipeline will be held Tuesday in Pemberton. The pipe would supply a power plant in Cape May […]
  
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