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• Taylar Elizza Beth Puts the Fresh into Her New EP, Fresh Cut Flowers

  19-05-2017 23:55 via thestranger.com
  
  On her new EP Fresh Cut Flowers, the young South Seattle rapper Taylar Elizza Beth (aka Taylar White) is confident, alluring and daring.by Jake UittiOn Fresh Cut Flowers, Taylar Elizza Beth is confident, alluring and daring. April Sol
  In the rap game, often the loudest voice with the most brawn behind it gets the attention. In Seattle, though, there’s a new wave of emcees preparing to flood the market. At the forefront is White Center’s Taylar Elizza Beth (aka Taylar White), a loquac
  
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• McCleary impasse: Our children deserve a solution, not an embarrassing civics lesson

  19-05-2017 23:50
  
  The Legislature needs to stop its dithering over school funding and reform and put Washington’s students first, writes Kate Riley, editorial page editor.
  
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• Lawmakers won’t reach a budget deal in 30 — or even 300 — more days

  19-05-2017 23:48
  
  The Supreme Court should get more directly involved in the state’s necessary effort to reform the school-funding system.
  
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• Police: 'Deadliest Catch' star Hansen spat on driver, kicked car

  19-05-2017 23:23
  
  Police say "Deadliest Catch" star Sig Hansen spat on an Uber driver and dented his car after the driver refused to accept cash to drive Hansen and his family home following Norwegian Constitution Day celebrations.
  
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• Everything, Everything Glorifies Digital Interaction

  19-05-2017 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Julia Raban
  What if The Boy in the Plastic Bubble had access to the internet? Teen romance Everything, Everything provides answers to that and a slew of other far less interesting questions through a racially diverse, tech-savvy update to the 1976 made-for-TV classic (this time, based on a bestselling YA novel by Nicola Yoon).[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• The Week in Weed: Sessions Reinstates Mandatory Minimums, Portland May Get Weed Lounges, and American Workers are Failing Drug Tests

  19-05-2017 23:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Weed news for the week of May 12-19.by Amber CortesAmerica's workforce: brought to you by meth, coke, and weed. BSIP via Getty
  As both cannabis and criminal justice advocates reel from a Sessions memo urging federal prosecutors to impose mandatory minimum sentences on low-level drug offenders, New Jersey pushes forward with cannabis reform. And damn, Americans really like to do drugs—all sorts of them—and have been failing their drug tests. Read on!Sessions Brings Back Horrific Manda
  
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• Tesseract Is A Multidimensional Dance Spectacle / Torture Chamber With a Great Payoff

  19-05-2017 22:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithThis is only one of Tesseract's dimensions. I dubbed it, "World Where Silly String is Bondage Rope." Mick BelloOne of the most platitudinous platitudes offered in defense of performance art is that the genre provides the special pleasure of immediacy. During a performance, there's a living, breathing, highly skilled artist doing something provocative right in front of you. You're sharing the same air with this person. You're "present" with this person. You're watching each rise and
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Grindr Etiquette!

  19-05-2017 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  Middle aged homo trying to figure out Grindr. Is it impolite to go on Grindr if you're not looking for an immediate hook up? My preferred form of sexual relationship is the friend-with-benefits situation. I go on Grindr looking to make friends who could, at least potentially, be sex partners, but I usually like to do the friend thing before the sex. I've had guys call me an asshole because I exchanged messages with them for like 20 minutes and then didn't come right over and fuck t
  
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• Oil company watches over pregnant polar bear under bridge

  19-05-2017 22:25
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A pregnant polar bear seeking to dig her maternity den chose an unlikely spot: a snow drift along a bridge leading to an artificial production island off the north coast of Alaska. As a threatened species, polar bears are entitled to peaceful pregnancies and the operating oil company, Hilcorp Alaska LLC, […]
  
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• Michael Kiwanuka Sings His Heart Out

  19-05-2017 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Santi Elijah HolleyMichael Kiwanuka performs at the Showbox this Mon, May 22. Phil Sharp
  A few years ago, Michael Kiwanuka was in crisis mode. His debut album, Home Again, had sold more than 70,000 copies, won the BBC’s Sound of 2012, and was nominated for the UK’s prestigious Mercury Prize. The press was comparing him to Bill Withers and Otis Redding. He was invited to tour with Adele. Kanye West flew him out to studios in Hawaii and Paris for the Yeezus sessions. Despite all of
  
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• Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story Is Nice in a Good Way

  19-05-2017 21:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Andrew Wright
  The term “nice” has taken on a weirdly pejorative tone when it comes to the movies, especially when talking about documentaries. But, you know, it can be a good thing, too. Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story is an exceedingly nice viewing experience, about an unassuming married pair whose behind-the-scenes contributions powered some of the greatest films to ever come out of the studio system.
  
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• This POC Cannabis Group Is Helping Seattleites Get Their Pot Convictions Expunged Tomorrow

  19-05-2017 21:32 via thestranger.com
  
  by Emilly Prado Getty / Jonah_M
  Before Jesce Horton founded the Minority Cannabis Business Association (MCBA) for professionals of color interested in entering the business of weed, Horton spent years of his own navigating marijuana from a generational, entrepreneurial, and, eventually, criminal perspective. Though his father warned against smoking pot—a fear that stemmed from his own felony cannabis conviction—Horton discovered that the plant helped him concentrate better in school
  
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• 3 charged with assault after brutal beating of Metro rider captured on cameras

  19-05-2017 21:22
  
  The male suspects, including a 17-year-old, have each been charged in connection with the attack in Ballard that resulted in the victim being hospitalized for more than a month.
  
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• Oil company watches over pregnant polar bear under Alaskan bridge

  19-05-2017 21:18
  
  ANCHORAGE — A pregnant polar bear seeking to dig her maternity den chose an unlikely spot: a snow drift along a bridge leading to an artificial production island off the north coast of Alaska. As a threatened species, polar bears are entitled to peaceful pregnancies and the operating oil company, Hilcorp Alaska LLC, took vigorous […]
  
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• Inbox Jukebox: A Weekly Shortlist of Good New Music. Danger Mouse, Jesus and Mary Chain, Heliocentrics, and More

  19-05-2017 21:17 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave SegalDanger Mouse is at his most Rawkus on "Chase Me." 30th Century Records
  Danger Mouse, "Chase Me" (30th Century). Danger Mouse is in tough-AF hiphop banger shocka! mode. Wielding the clout you'd expect from a popular major-label producer, the artist also known as Brian Burton enlists Run the Jewels and Big Boi to donate alpha-male flows to a rugged funk scenario that's more Company Flow than Gnarls Barkley... or even Broken fucking Bells. Seriously, Danger Mouse has melded that late-'
  
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• Family of man killed in collision with Kitsap County firetruck awarded $9.5M

  19-05-2017 21:01
  
  Jurors unanimously found that the Kingston man had not been negligent when he crashed his motor scooter into a North Kitsap Fire & Rescue fire truck in 2014.
  
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• Remembering Chris Cornell When He Was on the Brink of Soundgarden Dropping 1991's Badmotorfinger

  19-05-2017 21:00 via thestranger.com
  
  A memory of a few shows that happened in September of 1991, as told by a longtime Seattle musician and resident.by John RoderickChris Cornell in January. KEVIN WINTER/GETTY
  On September 5 and 6, 1991, Soundgarden played two Seattle shows about a month before the official release of their third LP, Badmotorfinger. The venues were the Offramp (now El Corazon/Funhouse), and the RKCNDY, which was then a fancy new club around the corner (now the location of a Marriott Springhill Suites).
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• Remembering Chris Cornell as He Was on the Brink of Soundgarden Dropping 1991's Badmotorfinger

  19-05-2017 21:00 via thestranger.com
  
  A memory of a few shows that happened in September of 1991, as told by a longtime Seattle musician and resident.by John RoderickChris Cornell in January. KEVIN WINTER/GETTY
  On September 5 and 6, 1991, Soundgarden played two Seattle shows about a month before the official release of their third LP, Badmotorfinger. The venues were the Offramp (now El Corazon/Funhouse), and the RKCNDY, which was then a fancy new club around the corner (now the location of a Marriott Springhill Suites).
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• Connelly: The prime of Attorney General Ferguson -- our next governor?

  19-05-2017 20:33
  
  Attorney General Bob Ferguson has beaten President Trump in court.  He is mounting and joining other legal challenges against the 45th president.  Now, Ferguson is trying to get inside Donald Trump's head. 
  
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• Connelly: The prime of Attorney General Bob Ferguson -- Our next Governor?

  19-05-2017 20:33
  
  Attorney General Bob Ferguson has beaten President Trump in court.  He is mounting and joining other legal challenges against the 45th president.  Now, Ferguson is trying to get inside Donald Trump's head. 
  
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• AD: The Top Five Pride Parades in the World

  19-05-2017 20:13 via thestranger.com
  
  Delta Airlines Presents the World’s Best Places to Celebrate Prideby Katie AllisonThis is a pretty great time of year. The sun is getting out of jail, we Pacific Northwesterners are crawling out of our soggy caves, and, of course, the rainbow-colored freight train of Pride is barreling toward us. Pride is about excellent parties and rainbows and glitter and dancing, yes, but it’s also about the queer community coming together in the revolutionary act of existing in public. In a time
  
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• The Best Movies to See at SIFF This Weekend

  19-05-2017 20:03 via thestranger.com
  
  Documentaries, Feature Debuts, Classic Films, And Critics' Picks For May 19-21by Stranger Things To Do StaffThis is the first full weekend of the Seattle International Film Festival. You can find our complete SIFF guide online, which has showtimes, trailers, and ticket links for each of the 400 films playing at the festival, as well as critics' picks and reviews. You can also find a short list of can't-miss films during the full festival on the home screen of this app, but if you're just looking
  
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• Revisiting The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

  19-05-2017 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Megan Burbank LYNCH / FROST PRODUCTIONS
  With David Lynch’s Twin Peaks returning to TV this week, two Peaks freaks decided to revisit Jennifer Lynch’s surprisingly excellent 1990 tie-in book, The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer, an underappreciated account of abuse and survival that’s aged better than most of the show’s second season. Over whiskey and beer in a wood-paneled bar, under the glow of a crimson lamp (of course), we discussed the enduring allure of Laura Palmer
  
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• The 27 Best Movies To See At SIFF This Weekend: May 19-21, 2017

  19-05-2017 19:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffHirokazu Kore-eda, one of the greatest directors in the world according to Charles Mudede, is scheduled to attend both screenings of his new work, After the Storm, on Friday and Saturday.
  This is the first full weekend of the Seattle International Film Festival. You can find our complete SIFF guide here, which has showtimes, trailers, and ticket links for each of the 400 films playing at the festival, as well as critics' picks and reviews. You can also find a short
  
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• Swarm of quakes sign of Mount St. Helens 'recharging'

  19-05-2017 19:38
  
  Thirty-seven years after the most destructive eruption in U.S. history, Mount St. Helens continues to rumble.
  
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• A Painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat Sold for $110.5 million

  19-05-2017 19:20 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede David Bowie playing Warhol, and Jeffrey Wright playing Jean-Michel Basquiat in Basquiat. In this iconic scene, Warhol buys Basquiat's ignorant art.
  When you are already very rich, there are three sure ways to become even richer, and none of them involve the innovation and creativity that's associated with the hero of capitalism, the entrepreneur. One is the property/housing market (which is why any consideration of a housing crisis that focuses on the use value or demand value
  
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• Person of Interest: Eric Eye

  19-05-2017 19:01 via thestranger.com
  
  by Leilani Polk STEVE KORN
  What got you into restorative tattooing [for breast-cancer survivors and transgender people]? How much of what you do now consists of these types of tattoos?
  I had been approached in the past to re-create nipples for a couple of post-mastectomy women, but they had no experience whatsoever with the tattoo world. So my not having photos of previous nipples I had done was, I'm sure, less than reassuring. I never worked with them and had sort of forgotten about it. Years l
  
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• Survey: New Hampshire lost an average 65 percent of beehives

  19-05-2017 18:56
  
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A first-time survey by the New Hampshire Beekeepers Association shows the state lost an average of 65 percent of its beehives this winter. The survey covered Oct. 1, 2016, through March 31; data collected from 261 sites in 130 towns shows the number of hives dropped from 1,004 to 350, the […]
  
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• Police Reports Illustrated: Man Refuses Shotgun, Gets Hammered

  19-05-2017 18:25 via thestranger.com
  
  by Callan BerryCallan Berry[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Guest Editorial: It's Time for Real Police Reform in Seattle

  19-05-2017 18:25 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sheley SecrestSeattle-King County NAACP vice president and city council candidate Sheley Secrest says the Community Policing Commission should have more power on police accountability. Courtesy of Sheley Secrest
  I remember the way his nose flared. Eyes red from anger and tears. He looked deep into his camera phone as he recorded a Facebook Live video demanding answers for the death of his brother. An inquest hearing by an all white jury determined that Che Taylor, a black unarmed male, died b
  
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• Boyfriend proposes to Miss Washington after he catches her pitch at Mariners game

  19-05-2017 18:14
  
  Carlson-Helo tossed the first pitch of the Mariners-White Sox game Thursday night.
  
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• The Morning News: Robert Mueller's Appointment Is Causing Some Concern, Chris Cornell's Family Is Disputing Reports of Suicide

  19-05-2017 17:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Leilani PolkFormer FBI director Robert S. Mueller III is on the Russia case. Andrew Burton/Getty
  Lawmakers Are Already Getting Nervous About Mueller: Wednesday saw the appointment of former FBI director Robert S. Mueller III to a special counsel investigating alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election and possible collusion between Trump's associates and the Russians. 'Course now the buzz from certain members of congress is concern that his rise could complicate or push aside currently act
  
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• Here comes the sun: Seattle finally set for warm weekend

  19-05-2017 17:12
  
  The National Weather Service has predicted highs near 70 degrees Fahrenheit for Seattle -- and even one day in the 80s -- over the next week after a start to the year that's seen record-breaking precipitation.
  
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• Seattle Mom Prom celebrates women and raises money for charity

  19-05-2017 16:43
  
  Seattle is one of 90 cities hosting a Mom Prom. The event is Saturday, May 20, and benefits Perinatal Support Washington.
  
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• Artists ask Polish leaders to stop primeval forest logging

  19-05-2017 16:43
  
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Writers and artists have appealed to Poland’s top leaders to stop the logging in Europe’s last primeval forest. The letter by some 230 people to Polish President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Beata Szydlo revives the controversy surrounding the government’s decision to intensify logging in the Bialowieza Forest in eastern Poland. […]
  
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• Big spike in apartments with A/C as Seattle gets warmer, landlords launch ‘arms race’

  19-05-2017 15:54
  
  Seattle is still the least air-conditioned place in the country for renters, but new apartments built in the last several years are four times more likely to have central air than older ones.
  
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• Ohio boy, 5, helped save parents who were overdosing

  19-05-2017 15:13
  
  MIDDLETOWN, Ohio — Police in Ohio say the 5-year-old son of a couple who overdosed on heroin saved his parents by walking two blocks in the dark to alert another relative because he thought they were dead. Emergency responders used a drug-overdose antidote to revive the unresponsive pair Thursday morning after finding them on the […]
  
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• Podcast: Attorney General Bob Ferguson on confronting Trump, chess and his political future

  19-05-2017 15:00
  
  Over the past few months, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson has thrust himself the national spotlight for his role in blocking President Trump’s travel ban for residents of several Muslim-majority nations. That’s not the only clash he’s had with Trump. Ferguson, a Democrat, has also sued over the administration’s effort to restart federal coal-mining […]
  
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• No Trump tidal wave: The college-educated powered Washington’s rise in white voters

  19-05-2017 15:00
  
  A wave in white, blue-collar voters never materialized in Washington in the 2016 presidential election. But the bump in college-educated whites could have helped Hillary Clinton receive a higher percentage of King County votes than Obama in 2012.
  
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• Liz Davis walked off 200 pounds, healed her spirit — and inspired a movement

  19-05-2017 15:00
  
  As Liz Davis’ body changed, her consciousness did, too, and she realized she wanted to help other people understand that simple and inexpensive changes could lay the groundwork for permanent health improvements.
  
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• In the Trump era, 6 Americans bare their refugee roots, from Nazi Germany to Afghanistan to today

  19-05-2017 15:00
  
  The national debate over refugees has people in the Seattle area and around the U.S. thinking about how they came to this country — from places like Nazi Germany, Vietnam, Afghanistan. Their experiences vary, but they have this in common: They want to be heard.
  
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• College-educated whites, not blue-collar Trump backers, powered Washington state’s voter surge

  19-05-2017 15:00
  
  A wave in white, blue-collar voters never materialized in Washington in the 2016 presidential election. But the bump in college-educated whites could have helped Hillary Clinton receive a higher percentage of King County votes than Obama in 2012.
  
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• ‘Drogon’ the ant on annual Top 10 list of new species

  19-05-2017 13:39
  
  SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Drogon the ant joins a pink bush cricket and a freshwater stingray on this year’s Top 10 list of new species. An international panel of experts compiles the list for the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse. Also included are a tiny spider, a […]
  
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• McCleary roundup: No budget deal yet, but could fix arrive soon?

  19-05-2017 13:00
  
  Key House and Senate negotiators are far from a deal on how to fund the state budget, but speculation is swirling around whether lawmakers can find a McCleary compromise before the Legislature’s special session ends.
  
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• McCleary roundup: No budget deal yet, but could a McCleary fix arrive in the next four days?

  19-05-2017 13:00
  
  Key negotiators for the House and Senate are far from a deal on how to pay for the 2017-19 state budget. But speculation in Olympia has swirled around whether they could reach a deal on a final McCleary fix before the Legislature’s first special session ends.
  
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• China, Japan extract combustible ice from seafloor

  19-05-2017 08:15
  
  BEIJING (AP) — Commercial development of the globe’s huge reserves of a frozen fossil fuel known as “combustible ice” has moved closer to reality after Japan and China successfully extracted the material from the seafloor off their coastlines. But experts said Friday that large-scale production remains many years away — and if not done properly […]
  
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