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• North America’s shortest international flight cleared for takeoff in Washington state

  02-06-2017 23:53
  
  The Friday Harbor Airport on San Juan Island, Wash., received official clearance this week for flight. Pending FAA approval, a Canadian airline hopes to start booking passengers within the next month. One-way flights will start at $49.
  
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• Beatles for Sale: Sgt. Pepper's 50th Anniversary

  02-06-2017 23:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ned Lannamann
  It was 50 years ago today, give or take, that the Beatles inaugurated the Summer of Love. On June 1, 1967, a newly mustachioed Fab Four released Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band, and in a matter of hours, its songs were everywhere (for example, Jimi Hendrix famously covered the title track at his London show on June 4). As we embark, tetchy and stressed, upon what seems to be a Summer of Hate, it’s tempting to soothe our raw nerves with nostalgia from byg
  
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• Does Trump believe in climate change or not? Aides won’t say

  02-06-2017 23:32
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Does he or doesn’t he? Believe in climate change, that is. You’d think that would be an easy enough question the day after President Donald Trump announced he was pulling the U.S. out of the landmark global accord aimed at combatting global warming. But don’t bother asking at the White House. “I […]
  
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• The War Show An Elegy For Pre-War Syrian Bohemia

  02-06-2017 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Joule ZelmanThe twilight before the nightmare...
  The War Show is a documentary directed by Obaidah Zytoon and Andreas Dalsgaard, and edited from footageZytoon shot between 2011 to 2012. The film follows young DJ-turned-videojournalist, Zytoon, as the exuberant Arab Spring is annihilated by horrific regime violence. Zytoon shows astonishing bravery as she embeds with the rebels, but she is also aware of the fact that her work is being used as a funding tool by comrades-in-arms and Islamists wh
  
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• The Week in Weed: The Secret Service Chills Out on Weed, High Times Gets Sold, and Colorado’s Weed Tax Revenues Help Fight Opioid Addiction

  02-06-2017 22:58 via thestranger.com
  
  You might be able to smoke weed and still get a job in the Secret Service.by Amber CortesThe iconic magazine 'High Times' has sold to a group of investors that includes Bob Marley's son.Seth McConnell VIA GETTY IMAGES
  The stigma around marijuana is changing—longtime subversive weed magazine High Times was just sold for a whopping $70 million, a famous "drug trafficker” who spent almost a decade in prison for smuggling weed to Bali is finally released, and the Secret Service no longer
  
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• Wonder Woman Is a Thrilling Start, Now Bring on the Sequels

  02-06-2017 22:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Suzette SmithWONDER WOMAN Showing Batman and Superman what's up.
  Who identifies with Wonder Woman? Sculpted from clay by Amazonian queen Hippolyta, Diana—here played by the gorgeous and wonderful Gal Gadot—was raised on the women-only island Themyscira, the only child of a matriarchal civilization. She was taught to fight and ride horses, and she was told how the god Ares sowed discord in the hearts of men and led them to war. Conveniently, once Diana grows to outmatch her teacher
  
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• Pittsburgh to Trump: You don’t speak for us on climate

  02-06-2017 22:44
  
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — In announcing plans to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord, President Donald Trump declared that he was “elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris.” But the Steel City is hardly in Trump’s corner on this one. At City Hall and on the streets, Pittsburgh residents expressed support […]
  
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• Go See Ravel’s Astonishingly Weird and Wonderful Magical Opera, with a Libretto by Colette

  02-06-2017 22:42 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rebecca BrownRavel's Magical Opera, aka L'enfant et les sortilèges, was performed by Seattle Symphony last night, and it will be performed again tomorrow. Brandon Patoc
  How much of what happens when you’re a kid happens only inside your head?I remember one time—was I 8 or 9?—playing alone, as I usually did, in our back yard, with my little plastic Romans and horses and knights.I had lined them up in the dirt like they were fighting.I bent down to move one closer and s
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: He's Perfect, But a Premie

  02-06-2017 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  I've spent most of my sexual life in a wonderfully fulfilling and satisfying slut phase, and just as I grew tired of that lifestyle I landed in the arms of an incredible man. We fell in love very quickly and developed a pretty idyllic relationship... with one problem. He struggles with premature ejaculation. At first, in the throws of young love, it wasn't a problem, but now that we've been dating for nearly a year it's caused me to almost completely lose interest in sex with him.
  
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• State Licenses First Industrial Hemp Farmers Despite Pending Lawsuit Claiming Growers Got Preferential Treatment

  02-06-2017 21:59 via thestranger.com
  
  by Lester BlackGetty
  
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• Cliff Mass Wants to Preserve the American Way of Consuming and Wasting Energy

  02-06-2017 21:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede Charles Mudede
  Trust an object-oriented philosopher to take notice of the fact that the average US household has 300,000 things in it, where as households "in some parts of Africa... contain between 30-50 objects." The philosopher is Graham Harman. He is one of the leading figures in the speculative realism movement. This school, however, usually considers the metaphysical aspects of objects, and not so much their social relations in an economic system. So, a doll can be presen
  
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• Here’s your weekend roundup of region’s biggest traffic headaches

  02-06-2017 21:50
  
  Northbound I-5 approaching SeaTac will bring the region’s worst traffic delays this weekend, as lanes are closed for resurfacing.
  
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• Evergreen State College caller threatened to ‘murder as many people as I can’

  02-06-2017 21:46
  
  The caller on Thursday threatened to “execute as many people on the campus as I can get ahold of,” and referred to Olympia as a “communist scumbag town.” The caller’s identity remains unknown. The college announced it will reopen Saturday.
  
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• Caller to Evergreen State College threatens to ‘murder as many people as I can’

  02-06-2017 21:46
  
  The caller on Thursday threatened to “execute as many people on the campus as I can get ahold of,” and referred to Olympia as a “communist scumbag town.” The caller’s identity remains unknown.
  
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• Caller threatens to ‘murder as many people as I can’ at Evergreen State College

  02-06-2017 21:46
  
  The caller on Thursday threatened to “execute as many people on the campus as I can get ahold of,” and referred to Olympia as a “communist scumbag town.” The caller’s identity remains unknown.
  
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• Inbox Jukebox: A Weekly Shortlist of Good New Music. Radiohead, Omar Souleyman, Marc Barreca, and More

  02-06-2017 21:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave SegalI promise you'll (probably) like this previously unreleased Radiohead ballad. Alex Lake
  Radiohead, "I Promise" (XL). Included here out of a sense of professional obligation, this previously unreleased Radiohead song has been contemplating its navel out of public earshot since 1997. "I Promise" is one of three such unearthed tracks that will appear on the band’s album OKNOTOK album (out June 23 via XL Recordings). It's a melancholy, acoustic guitar- and strings-powered ballad w
  
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• Watching House of Cards in the Trump Era

  02-06-2017 21:21 via thestranger.com
  
  by Matt Corwine
  I’ve enjoyed the dark, borderline campy House of Cards since the beginning, but I have to be honest: this new season is just a little too over the top. Frank Underwood is improbably elected President of the United States, despite losing the popular vote to a more experienced and temperamental candidate, in an angry and divisive election with gloomy hints of foreign interference. On the eve of his first foreign trip, after a drawn-out and troubled transition, his administrat
  
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• Proposed Belltown skyscraper features giant glass sphere

  02-06-2017 21:07
  
  A proposed project in Belltown would be topped by a stunning dome, not unlike those under construction at Amazon's new campus, but certainly not inspired by them, according to the company.
  
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• The 30 Best Films To See This Weekend at SIFF: June 2-4, 2017

  02-06-2017 20:53 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffDon’t miss the Iranian film A Dragon Arrives! on Saturday afternoon, a cleverly done mockumentary and supernatural mystery dosed in light political intrigue that’s “just as noteworthy for its truly epic landscape shots as it is for the compelling manner in which the story unfolds."
  The Seattle International Film Festival will mark its second-to-last weekend in 2017. See our complete SIFF guide for showtimes, trailers, and ticket links for each of t
  
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• Connelly: Injured 'Free Speech Warrior' gets Trump portrait

  02-06-2017 20:53
  
  A "free speech warrior," who suffered a broken nose in a Berkeley brawl, receives a commemorative portrait of President Trump -- courtesy of a former Washington state senator who works in the administration.  John Beavers insists it's a reward for his work in last year's Trump campaign, not pro-Trump street activism. 
  
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• At 75, Chihuly discusses his long struggles with mental health

  02-06-2017 20:21
  
  Dale Chihuly, 75, has struggled with his mental health, by turns fragile and luminous like the art he makes. He and his wife discuss his bipolar disorder in detail for the first time publicly, saying they don’t want to omit from his legacy a large part of who he is.
  
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• Sig Hansen’s son-in-law charged with assault in Uber driver incident

  02-06-2017 20:19
  
  Clark A. Pederson, 30, of Vancouver, Wash., and Sig Hansen are accused of spitting on a Uber driver during a dispute over payment May 18 in Ballard.
  
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• What We Know About the Lockdown and Unrest at Evergreen State College

  02-06-2017 20:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia Knauf Evergreen State College
  Administrators at Evergreen State College closed the Olympia school campus and cancelled classes on Thursday after local law enforcement officials received a call with a "direct threat to campus safety." The campus will remain closed today, and administrators are still deciding whether the school will open on Monday, said Zach Powers, a spokesperson for Evergreen State College.The threats came during a period of unrest on campus that has blown up in the
  
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• Connelly: McMorris Rodgers praises Trump's Paris pullout

  02-06-2017 20:10
  
  Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., is the one Washington political leader to line up behind President Trump on his decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. The action by Trump leaves the U.S., Syria and Nicaragua as countries outside the agreement.
  
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• The Biggest June Concerts, Festivals, and Arts Events

  02-06-2017 20:04 via thestranger.com
  
  Events All Month To Plan Ahead Forby Stranger Things To Do StaffThis month in Seattle, there are plenty of ways to go out and enjoy the beginning of summer. Below, we've rounded up the 110 biggest events that you should know about, including iconic festivals like the Fremont Solstice Fair and Seafair, tons of Pride events, outdoor concert series (at the Woodland Park Zoo, Marymoor Park, and Chateau Ste. Michelle), the opening of the blockbuster Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors exhibit, the grand o
  
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• Seattle heating up as summer season approaches

  02-06-2017 20:04
  
  After a brief respite of cool days with a bit of rain, Seattle is set to get back to sunshine and warmth.
  
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• Your Complete Guide To June 2017 Events In Seattle

  02-06-2017 20:02 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffCelebrate summer at the Fremont Solstice Fair, an annual event known primarily for its elaborately painted (and sometimes just wild 'n' free) nude bicyclists—but also offering tons of food, crafts, activities, performances, great people-watching, and a beer garden. Kelly O
  This month in Seattle, there are plenty of ways to go out and enjoy the beginning of summer. Below, we've rounded up the 110 biggest events that you should know about, including iconic festi
  
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• Suspect in Everett woman’s killing released after police confirm alibi

  02-06-2017 20:02
  
  The victim’s body was discovered beneath a mattress in her home south of Everett early Tuesday. She suffered multiple stab wounds.
  
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• Poptone Is a Family Band

  02-06-2017 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Robert HamPoptone performs at Neptune Theatre tonight. PAUL RAE / CLOAKING.US
  Kids always get asked what they want to be when they grow up. That question can inspire all kinds of unrealistic fantasies, but Diva Dompe’s vision was clear. “I would always put down ‘rock star,’” she says, speaking over Skype from her home in Los Angeles. “Growing up, it seemed like a super normal job that you could have.”
  The rock star career path seemed commonplace simpl
  
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• Vehicle fire backs up northbound I-5 near Kent

  02-06-2017 19:24
  
  A minivan caught fire on northbound Interstate 5 Friday morning, triggering backups at least three miles south.
  
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• Illinois professor who pushed for trans fats ban dies at 102

  02-06-2017 19:23
  
  URBANA, Ill. — A University of Illinois professor who spent decades pushing for a federal ban on artery-clogging artificial trans fats has died at age 102. Family members say Fred A. Kummerow died Wednesday at his home in Urbana. Kummerow was a comparative biosciences professor whose trans fats research dated back to the 1950s. His […]
  
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• Jon Stewart fights back tears remembering late firefighter

  02-06-2017 19:14
  
  HICKSVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Jon Stewart fought back tears Friday as he described his friendship with a retired New York City firefighter who worked in the rescue effort following the Sept. 11 terror attacks and died after an eight-year battle with cancer. The comedian spoke at the funeral Mass in Hicksville for Raymond Pfeifer, who […]
  
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• Podcast: Rep. Pramila Jayapal on her first months in Congress, Trump and impeachment

  02-06-2017 19:06
  
  On The Overcast, political reporters Jim Brunner and Dan Beekman sit down with 7th Congressional District Rep. Pramila Jayapal to talk about what it's like to serve in Congress in the Trump era.
  
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• A second act for the Double Header, the Pioneer Square gay bar that launched a thousand stories

  02-06-2017 18:55
  
  The Double Header — a former hub of drag, rock ’n’ roll and queer performance culture in Seattle’s Pioneer Square — hopes to reopen in the next few months under the name Nightjar. Its new owners, who run Re-bar, say they want to preserve the old bar’s 1930s renegade legacy.
  
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• National Trails Day is Saturday, with free parks, group hikes and more

  02-06-2017 18:53
  
  American Hiking Society event aims to bring more non-motorized use to trails across the nation.
  
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• Connelly: Local waters at risk in Canadian pipeline battle

  02-06-2017 18:50
  
  Two Canadian provinces -- British Columbia and Alberta -- confront each other over construction of a huge oil pipeline.  We're in the middle.  The pipeline would send laden oil tankers through the Salish Sea and Strait of Juan de Fuca.
  
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• Portland, Multnomah County set goal of being powered by 100% renewable energy

  02-06-2017 18:31
  
  The Portland City Council and Multnomah County passed resolutions that all of the city’s and county’s electric energy will come from renewable sources by 2035 and all of its energy will be from renewable sources by 2050.
  
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