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• SPD: Mentally ill man sets apartment on fire

  01-03-2017 23:57
  
  A 45-year-old man with a history of schizophrenia was arrested Sunday after his Beacon Hill apartment was set on fire.
  
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• Our Critics' Theater, Dance & Comedy Picks For This Spring

  01-03-2017 23:56 via thestranger.com
  
  The Best Events From March 1-June 6by Stranger Things To Do StaffTHEATER
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  Scary Mary and the Nightmares Nine
  Scary Mary and the Nightmares Nine sounds a bit like Dante's Inferno—but with a fairy-tale spin and plenty of puppets. Mary must endure nine horrible nightmares to save her soul. Written by Amy Escobar and directed by Eddie DeHais.
  Three Americans: Voices of HopeDirector Anita Montgomery brings you performances by three monologuists in an effort to inspire hope an
  
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• Baja: 5 days with gray whales, 5 days without Donald Trump

  01-03-2017 23:41
  
  Communing with gray whales at isolated, wild Laguna San Ignacio in Baja provided the ideal five-day break from the 24/7 world of Trump news.
  
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• Watch Shabazz Palaces and Tacocat Get High and Jam at the Tokeland Hotel

  01-03-2017 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave SegalShabazz Palaces Patrick O'Brien-Smith
  Tacocat Michael Lavine
  Adventurous hiphop ensemble Shabazz Palaces and pop-punk sparkplugs Tacocat have little in common except a hometown, record labels (Sub Pop and its Hardly Art subsidiary, respectively), and a love of herb. Nevertheless, last October, The Goodship—a local cannabis edibles company—linked up the two acts and transported them to a small fishing village on Southwest Washington's coast where they posted up in the Tok
  
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• The Best Things To Do In Seattle: Spring 2017

  01-03-2017 23:29 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffDon't miss Whim W'Him's Approaching Ecstasy. Bamberg Fine Art
  Seattle Art and Performance, our quarterly guide to everything happening in Seattle this spring in the arts, is out on the streets now. In addition to the extensive calendars in the print copy, you can now also find lists of our critics' picks for this spring online, including:
  The the best theater, dance, and comedy, from Here Lies Love to Cherdonna's Doll's House to Ali Wong
  The best readings and talks,
  
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• $10K reward offered for tips in unsolved Burien slaying

  01-03-2017 23:27
  
  The King County Sheriff's Office says the family of Timothy Hovey will pay $10,000 to anyone with information leading to the arrest and conviction of their son's killer.
  
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• Here's why your car tabs cost more now

  01-03-2017 23:00
  
  The go-to gripe for car owners used to be gas prices, but if you're in King, Pierce or Snohomish counties car-tabs just became more of an expense.
  
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• Report: Accused Ballard voyeur just 'missed his girlfriend'

  01-03-2017 22:55
  
  A 19-year-old man arrested for investigation of voyeurism Monday allegedly told police het recorded women in the locker room at the Ballard pool because he "missed his girlfriend."
  
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• Legos ready to blast off with ‘Women of NASA’ set

  01-03-2017 22:52
  
  The women behind the NASA space program have made the big screen, and now they are being honored as little Lego figurines . Lego said Wednesday it had chosen the “Women of NASA” project as the winner of its fan design contest. The announcement comes on the heels of the Oscar-nominated film “Hidden Figures,” which […]
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Italian Teen's Girlfriend Comes Out & Dumps Him. Now What?

  01-03-2017 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  I'm writing from Italy. I'm 19, and my girlfriend is 20. I live in Italy, she lives in Sweden. I like girls, she likes girls too.We've been together for two years in a distance relationship that was awesome. We never had trust issues and we loved each other really much. We were thinking about a poly relationship also. After a while she tells me that she's attracted to girls, so we both search for someone interested in having sex with her. She finds a girl on a dating app, they meet
  
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• Floating crane breaks loose at Highway 520 bridge project

  01-03-2017 22:30
  
  For the second time, a floating crane broke loose from its tethers Wednesday and drifted from the Highway 520 bridge project toward waterfront homes on Lake Washington.
  
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• Bertha veers a few inches off course

  01-03-2017 22:27
  
  Tunnel machine Bertha has stopped for measurements and maintenance until early next week, when operators might need to correct the path
  
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• Bertha takes a break as it nears finish line in tunnel project

  01-03-2017 22:27
  
  Tunnel machine Bertha has stopped for a few days of maintenance, nearly 90 percent of the way to a spring breakout at South Lake Union.
  
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• The Spring 2017 Seattle Art and Performance Guide Is Out Now

  01-03-2017 22:21 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher Frizzelle
  It’s spring. And the world hasn’t ended. Depending on how you look at things, it’s even mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful out there. Here's a quick breakdown of what you can find in The Stranger's Spring 2017 edition of the Seattle Art and Performance Guide, which hit streets today.Jim Woodring’s art is pure joy. Take a good hard look above at the lines and blobs on the cover of this magazine. If his greatness is still not clear to you, click here
  
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• The Best Readings and Talks in Seattle: Spring 2017

  01-03-2017 22:17 via thestranger.com
  
  Picks From Seattle Art And Performance For March 1-June 6by Julia RabanFind a complete list of readings and talks in Seattle this spring on our Things To Do calendar.Get all this and more on the free Stranger Things To Do mobile app—available now on the App Store and Google Play.MARCH1Ben FountainBen Fountain is one of those writers that makes you feel okay for not having published your groundbreaking novel before 40 years of age. He published his first book at 48—a heavily researche
  
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• The Best Jazz Concerts In Seattle: Spring 2017

  01-03-2017 22:17 via thestranger.com
  
  Picks From Seattle Art And Performance For March 1-June 6by Kim SellingFind a complete list of jazz concerts in Seattle this spring on our Things To Do calendar.Get all this and more on the free Stranger Things To Do mobile app—available now on the App Store and Google Play.MARCH1
  David LanzSeattle native and Grammy-nominated pianist David Lanz will return to Seattle to play solo work from his latest album, Norwegian Rain. His wife and co-composer Kristin Amarie may join him for a song or
  
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• The Best Classical Music & Opera In Seattle: Spring 2017

  01-03-2017 22:17 via thestranger.com
  
  Picks From Seattle Art And Performance For March 1-June 6by Kim SellingFind a complete list of classical music and opera in Seattle this spring on our Things To Do calendar.Get all this and more on the free Stranger Things To Do mobile app—available now on the App Store and Google Play.
  NOW THROUGH MARCH 11
  Katya KabanovaIn this opera of romantic tragedy full of original music inspired by Slavic folk songs, celebrated Czech composer Leoš Janáček weaves a story of isolati
  
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• The Best Theater, Dance & Comedy In Seattle: Spring 2017

  01-03-2017 22:16 via thestranger.com
  
  Picks From Seattle Art And Performance For March 1-June 6by Julia RabanFind a complete list of theater, dance, and comedy events in Seattle this spring on our Things To Do calendar.Get all this and more on the free Stranger Things To Do mobile app—available now on the App Store and Google Play.
  Jump to: Theater | Musical Theater | Dance | Cabaret, Burlesque, Drag & Variety | Comedy | Special EventsTHEATER
  NOW THROUGH MARCH 4
  Scary Mary and the Nightmares Nine
  Scary Mary and the Nightma
  
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• The Best Art Shows In Seattle: Spring 2017

  01-03-2017 22:16 via thestranger.com
  
  Picks From Seattle Art And Performance For March 1-June 6by Julia RabanFind a complete list of art shows and events in Seattle this spring on our Things To Do calendar.
  Jump to: Museums | Galleries | Special Events Get all this and more on the free Stranger Things To Do mobile app—available now on the App Store and Google Play.
  MuseumsNOW THROUGH MARCH 5
  Victoria Haven: Blue SunThis dramatically large wall drawing was inspired by artist Victoria Haven's video project about the transformati
  
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• State's oldest ferry headed for warmer waters

  01-03-2017 22:13
  
  Washington State Ferries has sold the oldest ferry in its stable, the 63-year-old Evergreen State, and now it's headed for the Caribbean.
  
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• City of Seattle Launches Hotline to Report Harassment

  01-03-2017 22:08 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufDoing nothing is not an option. ISTOCK BY GETTY/HONG LI
  What can you do when you see discriminatory harassment on the street?
  Call the City of Seattle's new Office for Civil Rights (SOCR) hotline at 206-233-7100 to report it. The hotline, part of the Bias Hurts campaign, is to be used for reporting discrimination and harassment in public, at work, and while applying for housing.
  An important reminder from the civil rights office: "It is illegal in Seattle to harass someone base
  
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• Man badly burned in unauthorized homeless camp in Seattle

  01-03-2017 21:36
  
  His trailer caught fire Wednesday morning. He was taken to Harborview Medical Center with severe burns, a fire spokeswoman said.
  
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• Person of Interest: Sex Workers' Rights Activist Savannah Sly

  01-03-2017 21:31 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney Brownstone Steve Korn
  When I first met Savannah Sly in a Stranger conference room back in 2015, she was working to fight bills in the Washington State Legislature that aimed to increase punishments for buyers of sex. Sly, then volunteering with the Sex Workers Outreach Project-Seattle (SWOP-Seattle) and wearing cat ears, cited a slew of facts on the harms of such policies from multiple sex-work studies that she appeared to have nearly memorized.
  Now that Sly is president of the SWOP-US
  
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• Ferguson delivers the laundry bill: Grocery Manufacturers told to pay $1.1 million

  01-03-2017 21:28
  
  A whopping money laundering bill:  The Grocery Manufacturers Association is ordered to pay $1.1 million in legal fees to the State.
  
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• Edmonds home hit by gunfire while 6 people inside

  01-03-2017 21:07
  
  A neighbor’s security camera recorded audio and video of the drive-by shooting, police said. No one was injured.
  
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• First step to help preserved organs survive the deep freeze

  01-03-2017 21:03
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Deep-freezing donated organs might one day help improve the transplant supply but scientists must first figure out how to thaw the delicate tissue without it cracking. Now researchers are taking a first step toward that goal, using nanotechnology to create super heaters for preserved tissue. University of Minnesota researchers call their approach […]
  
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• Logan Isn't Just a Great Superhero Movie, It's a Great Movie

  01-03-2017 21:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Erik HenriksenBurned out and worn down.
  Superhero movies are graded on a curve—even in the midst of the best ones, we look past the genre's failings. We're willing to sit through another dull origin story to see likable actors doing goofy shit (see Doctor Strange). We know that by the third act, anything funny and unique will be obliterated in a maelstrom of CGI (see Guardians of the Galaxy). And we make peace with the fact that character, story, and momentum will be sacrificed upon the
  
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• February was Seattle's second rainiest -- ever

  01-03-2017 20:58
  
  It rained -- and snowed -- a lot last month, almost more than it has since they started collecting data in Seattle.
  
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• Viageddon? Viaduct set for weekend closure

  01-03-2017 20:08
  
  Ready yourself for another bit of traffic mayhem as the viaduct closes for inspection this weekend.
  
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• Tiny tubes in Canadian rock may be oldest known fossils

  01-03-2017 19:47
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Tiny tubes and filaments in some Canadian rock appear to be the oldest known fossils, giving new support to some ideas about how life began, a new study says. The features are mineralized remains of what appear to be bacteria that lived some 3.77 billion to 4.28 billion years ago, the […]
  
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• Reward offered for info on killer of JBLM soldier in Burien

  01-03-2017 19:39
  
  Army Sgt. Timothy Hovey was killed Sept. 4 after he walked away from a house party in Burien, about a month before he was scheduled to be deployed to Iraq.
  
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• Old mold from penicillin discoverer auctioned for $14,617

  01-03-2017 19:39
  
  LONDON (AP) — How much is an old, dried out piece of mold worth? Apparently more than $14,600 if it was created by the doctor who discovered penicillin. The nearly 90-year-old swatch of mold has a rather extraordinary history: It came from the laboratory of Dr. Alexander Fleming whose revolutionary discovery brought the world its […]
  
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• Old mold cultured by discoverer of penicillin sells for $14,617

  01-03-2017 19:39
  
  How much is an old, dried-out piece of mold worth? Apparently more than $14,600 if it was created by the doctor who discovered penicillin. The nearly 90-year-old swatch of mold came from the laboratory of Dr. Alexander Fleming, whose revolutionary discovery brought the world its first antibiotic, credited with saving millions of lives.
  
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• State Senate passes bill to address ‘Hirst’ water rights decision

  01-03-2017 19:35
  
  The state Senate has approved a bill that takes aim at a recent state Supreme Court decision involving water rights and the use of domestic wells.
  
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• Classified US satellite launched from California

  01-03-2017 19:12
  
  VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — A rocket carrying a classified U.S. satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office has been launched from California. The Atlas 5 rocket lifted off at 9:49 a.m. Wednesday and roared away into a clear sky over Vandenberg Air Force Base. All systems were going well when the launch webcast […]
  
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• Monologues Take Center Stage in Three Americans and Well

  01-03-2017 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithSarah Rudinoff playing a playwright who’s playing herself in Well ALAN ALABASTRO
  Everyone's a monologuist these days.
  It's true that anyone with a Facebook account and a Twitter handle can facilitate dialogue between people, but that tends not to be how it works. More often, we issue personal-professional diary entries, faux fighting words, unserious invitations for discussion. (Even the requests for responses—prefaced by "Hivemind:" or "Serious question:"—tend to
  
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• Hotline set up to report hate crimes, harassment in Seattle

  01-03-2017 18:56
  
  The hotline is for Seattle residents and business owners who are the targets of discriminatory harassment, including threats, slurs, intimidation and cyberbullying.
  
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• Small plane crash shuts down Bellingham airport for 24 hours

  01-03-2017 18:40
  
  The crash will be investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board. The plane is registered to an address in Manitoba.
  
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• Juno spooks NASA, sends back wild images from Jupiter

  01-03-2017 18:29
  
  Risk averse NASA has decided to keep its spacecraft Juno on the looonnnggg orbit of Jupiter. Earlier in February, the agency said it didn't want to risk firing the spacecraft's engines and bring it in for a closer zip around the mega-planet. Meanwhile, the craft's Junocam has been sending back some pretty cool images that have attracted the interest of creative citizens.
  
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• Washington makes top 10 in US News and World Report's 'best states'

  01-03-2017 18:15
  
  We've always known life in Washington is pretty good – now US News and World Report has made it official.
  
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• ‘The white horror’: 107 years ago today, Stevens Pass saw deadliest avalanche in U.S. history

  01-03-2017 17:59
  
  Ninety-six people were killed when an avalanche tore down a mountainside near Stevens Pass and buried two snowbound trains.
  
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• The Morning News: Trump's Speech and a Local Effort to "Trump-Proof" Seattle with an Income Tax

  01-03-2017 17:49 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi Groover"Presidential" in that he said the usual racist stuff while reading from a teleprompter. getty images
  Donald Trump Gave His First Address Before a Joint Session of Congress: "There’s a banality to this class of political speeches that they’ve learned in places like North Korea to ignore as a means of survival—so you don’t go crazy, hearing the same shit repeated over a loudspeaker," writes Massoud Hayoun. "It’s an art we’re still learning in th
  
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• Chicago’s lack of snow in 2017 sets 146-year record

  01-03-2017 17:30
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago hasn’t logged any snow on the ground in January or February for the first time in the 146 years that the National Weather Service has been keeping track. Traces have fallen, but not enough to record. The weather service takes measurements at 6 a.m. at O’Hare International Airport, which means small […]
  
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• Washington is best West Coast state in new national ranking — and 5th overall

  01-03-2017 17:24
  
  "The Best State Report" by U.S. News and World Report ranks Washington state as the fifth-best in the nation for how well states are serving their citizens. The ranking compared health care, education, infrastructure, crime and more.
  
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• Are Those New Surcharges on Your Receipts Politically Motivated?

  01-03-2017 17:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia Knauf The Stranger
  In January, Eric Beinhocker, an author and economist, was in town to meet local venture capitalist Nick Hanauer and was staying at the W Hotel downtown when he noticed a strange surcharge on his room-service bill. As the Daily Beast's Michael Tomasky reported, the hotel chain had tacked on a 6.5 percent fee, ostensibly to offset the costs of Seattle's minimum-wage increase.
  Beinhocker and Hanauer took to Twitter to air their displeasure: "Shameful—@WHotels '
  
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• Federal 2017 quake forecast highlights Oklahoma, California

  01-03-2017 17:02
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal scientists forecast that Oklahoma will continue to have the nation’s biggest man-made earthquake problem this year but it probably won’t be as shaky as recent years. In its annual national earthquake outlook , the U.S. Geological Survey reported Wednesday that a large portion of Oklahoma and parts of central California have […]
  
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• Meet the 2017 Education Lab Student Voices columnists

  01-03-2017 15:01
  
  Over the next six months, we'll be publishing stories about education by 11 talented young students from around the state.
  
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• The squeeze is on: Tax bills soar at Seattle’s old apartment buildings

  01-03-2017 15:00
  
  Property-tax bills are soaring on Seattle’s old-school apartment buildings, where tenants can least afford to pay higher rents. This is how gentrification happens.
  
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• Seattle promised a manual for traffic meltdowns after fish-truck crash, but it doesn’t exist

  01-03-2017 15:00
  
  Nineteen months after Seattle promised a written policy manual for dealing with major traffic incidents, the city has not yet completed that manual.
  
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• Person of Interest: Savannah Sly

  01-03-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Person of Interest: Savannah Slyby Sydney BrownstoneWhen I first met Savannah Sly in a Stranger conference room back in 2015, she was working to fight bills in the Washington State Legislature that aimed to increase punishments for buyers of sex. Sly, then volunteering with the Sex Workers Outreach Project-Seattle (SWOP-Seattle) and wearing cat ears, cited a slew of facts on the harms of such policies from multiple sex-work studies that she appeared to have nearly memorized.A year later, the New
  
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