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• Charge: Woman killed boyfriend's toddler son

  09-06-2017 23:48
  
  A 33-year-old Federal Way woman has been charged with murder after her boyfriend's son suffered what doctors say was serious blunt trauma to his body.
  
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• Lawmakers should stop partisanship and solve McCleary

  09-06-2017 23:44
  
  The Washington state government will shut down on July 1 if the Legislature doesn’t do its job and pass a state budget before the fiscal year ends.
  
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• These RuPaul's Drag Race-Inspired Pride Cakes Are Pieces of Art

  09-06-2017 23:39 via thestranger.com
  
  You've never seen cakes like these before, we can guarantee it.by Chase BurnsOh she's serving us season 9 realness. Courtesy of Cubes Baking Co.
  Season 9 of RuPaul's Drag Race might be cooling off, but these incredible cakes are hot out the oven. (Go ahead: roll your eyes at that line.) The cakes come from Cubes Baking Co., a new Mexican-style bakery in Wallingford. Kevin Moulder, the head baker/decorator at Cubes, has been making these custom cakes every week since season 9 started airing. It's
  
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• Rabies has been found in 2 bats, Snohomish County says in warning

  09-06-2017 23:39
  
  Rabid bats are the latest in very rare health threats facing Puget Sound residents this year.
  
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• Air Travel Via SeaTac Is About to Get a Little Less Terrible Due to Some Local Food Favorites

  09-06-2017 23:13 via thestranger.com
  
  by Tobias Coughlin-BogueWatching flights take off at SeaTac's Glass Wall will become imminently more enjoyable once the food offerings improve. Getty
  Modern air travel is a generally a wretched experience, from the actual travel part right down to the time you spend in the airport waiting to endure your miserable, cramped flying experience. Even the most well-appointed airport is still a soulless wasteland of overpriced, undercooked nachos and AB InBev beers, perhaps with a bit of branding slapp
  
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• Charges: Man who fired at cops grew increasingly volatile

  09-06-2017 22:37
  
  A 37-year-old man accused of shooting at a Seattle police detective in Renton had been growing increasingly volatile toward his girlfriend and children before his confrontation with the cops, according to charges filed Wednesday.
  
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• Highest Paid City Employee Gives Himself Perfect Performance Review, Wants Raise

  09-06-2017 22:32 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverLarry Weis makes $340,000 a year and wants a bonus. Seattle Channel
  Last year, when the Seattle City Council approved Larry Weis as the new head of City Light, Council Members Mike O’Brien and Kshama Sawant voted against him. Their concerns: Weis’s environmental record and the salary he would earn—the highest in the city and nearly twice what the mayor makes.A year later, that second factor is coming into sharp focus again.Crosscut reports that as part of his an
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: The Scent of a Woman

  09-06-2017 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  Hey Dan. My girlfriend listens to you and sorry I hadn't heard of you until her. But I have a problem and I want to tell her but don't know how so I thought of you. Her butt smells often like butt sweat and shit and it's a major turn off like when she sits on the bed and stands up I smell ass and how can I go down there with that smell lingering in the back of my mind it's really grossing me out helpWelcome, BUTTS. A few things:
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• The First Pro-Polyamory Country Song

  09-06-2017 22:15 via thestranger.com
  by Dan Savage
  And it's good! That said, some poly folks will object to "Second Favorite Man" because the relationship described in the song is obviously hierarchical. He's her second favorite man. Some poly people regard hierarchical relationships as problematic because that's not how they've structured their polyamorous relationships and these polyamorous people—so sensitive to being told their Doing It Wrong by monogamists—have no qualms about telling other poly people they're Doin
  
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• How to Survive a Summer Music Festival

  09-06-2017 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Chase Burns JAMES YAMASAKI
  When I saw that Lizzo is playing the Capitol Hill Block Party, I squealed and twirled for an amount of time I'd prefer not to disclose. I never wanted to be a groupie, but after my sixth Lizzo concert, I had to come to terms with the fact that I was more than an average fan. Lizzo does this to a lot of people. The Minneapolis-based hiphop artist is known for her body-positive tracks and killer live shows. Even Prince was among her devotees. Maybe that explains why I
  
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• You Should Probably Spend Your Weekend at Pacific Northwest Ballet

  09-06-2017 21:37 via thestranger.com
  
  Pictures at an Exhibition is among the program highlights.by Rich SmithThe backs of ballerinas during Balanchine's La Source, which kicks off a trio of incredible ballets closing at PNB this weekend.Angela SterlingThe region's premier ballet haus has quite the weekend planned. Last but foremost, on Sunday, longtime principal dancer Carie Imler bows out with an encore performance of her Black Swan from Swan Lake. She's the best in the business in that role, so says my esteemed colleague Megan Bur
  
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• Connelly: For Jenny Durkan, 'democracy is a … messy business'

  09-06-2017 21:32
  
  Former U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan is making her first bid for public office as a candidate for Seattle Mayor.  She has politics in the blood, however, starting with a contentious Durkan family dinner table when she was growing up. She has tried high profile cases and was deeply involved in Seattle Police reform.  
  
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• With ivy ceremony, Seattle Pacific grads begin celebrations

  09-06-2017 21:28
  
  More than 90 years of tradition continued at Seattle Pacific University on Friday, June 9, 2017, as hundreds of graduating seniors and their families took part in the annual Ivy Cutting ceremony held on the campus in Seattle’s north Queen Anne neighborhood. Ivy Cutting marks the start of graduation activities at SPU. Graduate students receive […]
  
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• The Week in Weed: Hemp History Week, Hilarious Weed Slang, and a Cannabis Co-Working Space

  09-06-2017 21:24 via thestranger.com
  
  It's Hemp History Week, Washington State Issues their first hemp licenses in almost a century, and McDonald's regrets their weed joke.by Amber CortesIt's Hemp History Week—but will the DEA ever make hemp legit? RJ Sangosti via Getty Images
  This has been a rather chill week for weed, but a big one for hemp! It's is Hemp History Week, and hemp fans everywhere are celebrating, including Mitch McConnell. But meanwhile, the DEA won’t change their drug code to exclude industrial hemp from
  
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• Last-Minute Plans: 100 Cheap and Easy Things To Do This Weekend: June 9-11, 2017

  09-06-2017 21:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffSassyBlack, Sisters, Big Dipper, Double Duchess, and Prom Queen will headline the free Volunteer Park Pride Festival on Saturday. Seattle Pride
  If you're the last-minute type and still need ideas for fun stuff to do this weekend, we'll make your search a lot simpler. Below, we've rounded up all of your options for last-minute entertainment that won't cost more than $10, ranging from the Volunteer Park Pride Festival and Capitol Hill Pride Festival to Georgetown Carn
  
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• New Seattle bike shares ready to try different model

  09-06-2017 21:05
  
  In the wake of the failure of Seattle's Pronto! bike share, several companies are ready to try again, only with a slightly different model.
  
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• New Seattle bike share hopefuls ready to try different model

  09-06-2017 21:05
  
  In the wake of the failure of Seattle's Pronto! bike share, several companies are ready to try again, only with a slightly different model.
  
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• The Musical Fun Home Is a Must-See

  09-06-2017 21:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jessica FuSee Fun Home at the 5th Avenue Theatre in July.JOAN MARCUS
  You have to see it. If you have read Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir of the same name, you know the story is about a funeral home director's daughter and their family's secrets. If you haven't read it, you don't need to. The show is as outstanding as every theater critic—and its Tony Award wins—suggests it is. Even without having read the book, the musical will leave you with questions about the function of famil
  
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• Most Washington parks are free Saturday. Here’s where to go.

  09-06-2017 20:52
  
  Well, one of them pays off for Washingtonians on Saturday, aka National Get Outdoors Day. Fees have been waived for the day on National Forest Service lands and Washington state parks. That's about a $10 savings at state parks and $5 on Forest Service land.
  
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• The Suburban Pleasures of BMX Riding in Violet

  09-06-2017 20:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Kathy FennessyOtherworldly bikers flying through a mossy forest in Violet.Flemish filmmaker Bas Devos's ode to grief plays like a Larry Clark film as imagined by Chris Marker. Devos is fond of chiaroscuro close-ups, abstract compositions, and disorienting sound design. His debut opens with a security guard watching teenagers in a shopping mall by way of closed-circuit television. While he steps away, presumably to make another cup of tea, two teens beat a third one to death before splitting t
  
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• Go See Some Like It Hot In Theaters This Weekend

  09-06-2017 20:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do Staff
  Some Like It Hot is playing in select theaters (including Pacific Place in Seattle) this Sunday and next Wednesday. Don't miss your chance to see this 1959 classic on the big screen, a movie about which Charles Mudede writes:
  This is one of the greatest comedies in human history. Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon play two Chicago jazz musicians who witness a gang shooting and end up on the run from the mob. Disguised as women, they join an all-girl band and head down to
  
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• Inbox Jukebox: A Weekly Shortlist of Good New Music. PJ Harvey, Tricky, Mommy Long Legs, and More

  09-06-2017 20:36 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave SegalPJ Harvey magnanimously balladeers to benefit Lebanese children. Seamus Murphy
  PJ Harvey & Ramy Essam, "The Camp" (label). The cause may be more compelling than the music here, but the music's still pretty damn nice. English superstar Harvey and Egyptian vocalist/guitarist Ramy Essam have linked up to pen this paean to, as the press release states, "raise awareness and much needed support towards the health and educational well-being of displaced children in the Bekaa Valley of
  
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• Man who escaped from Eastern State Hospital found in Spokane

  09-06-2017 20:22
  
  Dustin P. Leeds, who suffers from an unspecified psychotic disorder and has a lengthy history of assault, was taken into custody Friday morning after he was spotted at Spokane’s train and bus station.
  
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• The Best Theater, Dance & Comedy in Seattle This Summer

  09-06-2017 20:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffDon't miss the NW New Works Festival 2017, featuring 16 contemporary performing arts companies from around the region, happening from June 9–18 at On the Boards. Erik Molano
  In Seattle Art and Performance, our quarterly print guide to everything happening in Seattle in the arts, you'll find a comprehensive guide to the theater, musical theater, dance, burlesque, cabaret, variety, drag, and comedy shows happening this summer. Below, you'll find our critics' pic
  
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• Centrist Dems Cannot Afford to Ignore the Defeat of Centrism and the Success of the Left in the UK Election

  09-06-2017 20:04 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeLabour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn at a campaign rally in Watford, UK. Matt Cardy/Getty
  The UK election was a huge disaster not only for the Conservative Party, which called for the snap election three months ago under the impression it would give them the mandate that comes with a landslide, but also centrists in the Labor party, who hated and constantly stabbed the back of the leader of their party, Jeremy Corbyn—an unforgiving and principled leftist. What does Corbyn say
  
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• This Reading from Sherman Alexie's New Memoir Is Only 55 Seconds Long

  09-06-2017 19:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher Frizzelle LEE TOWNDROW
  You know how most live readings are kind of hard to follow because if your mind wanders even for a second, it's difficult to find your way back? And you don't have the text in front of you? And if you get lost in one extraneous detail in the course of a typical 20- or 40-minute reading, you lose all sense of whatever it is you're supposed to notice, and you feel kind of like a jerk or an idiot or a fraud afterward when everyone's going, "Wow, wasn't that ama
  
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• Attention Gaylords: Bianca Del Rio, Sharon Needles, and Trixie Mattel Are Coming to Seattle

  09-06-2017 19:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher FrizzelleNot all at once, mind you. Bianca Del Rio is coming July 6 to roast Mama Tits.Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images
  There's going to be a roast of Mama Tits—or as the press release says, "a celebratory take down of Seattle’s favorite Skyscraper Hostess"—on July 6 at the Egyptian, featuring drag stars Bianca Del Rio and Jackie Beat, director Chi Chi Larue, San Francisco queens Heklina and Sister Roma, and Seattle queens Robbie Turner and Mark Finley. I don't kno
  
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• Blame game begins as health insurers shun two Washington counties

  09-06-2017 19:24
  
  Two rural counties in Washington have become embroiled in the national health-care debate after the last insurer to offer coverage in the individual markets there indicated it was pulling out. It’s not clear, in our supercharged political environment, if Republicans are to blame.
  
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• 9 sent to hospitals in I-5 crash; no major injuries

  09-06-2017 19:06
  
  Nine people were sent to local hospitals after a bus and semi truck crashed on Interstate 5 in Seattle Friday morning, but the Seattle Fire Department says no one suffered major injuries.
  
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• 9 injured after Metro bus collides with semi on I-5 in Seattle

  09-06-2017 19:01
  
    Nine people with minor injuries are being transported to hospitals after the Metro bus they were riding was rear-ended by a semi-truck on northbound Interstate 5 in Seattle, according to the Seattle Fire Department and the Washington State Patrol. The crash happened just before 9:20 a.m. Friday near Michigan Street, said Trooper Rick Johnson. No […]
  
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• 11 injured when semi rear-ends Metro bus on I-5 in Seattle

  09-06-2017 19:01
  
  Eleven people were injured Friday morning when the Metro bus they were riding was rear-ended by a semi-truck on northbound Interstate 5 in Seattle, according to the Seattle Fire Department and the Washington State Patrol. Kristin Tinsley, a spokeswoman for the Seattle Fire Department, said eight people with “very minor injuries” were taken by four ambulances and […]
  
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• The New Season of Orange Is the New Black Just Dropped on Netflix. Here's What You Can Expect.

  09-06-2017 18:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Chase Burns"Yo, if she shoots this guy, we're gonna get guard brains all over us." JoJo Whilden/Netflix
  I'm assuming you didn't spend your whole night binging the new season of Orange Is the New Black if you're reading this sentence. That's all right, enjoy your freedom to have jobs or obligations, unlike the ladies of Litchfield. But bingers, this is the riot season of OITNB, so clear your other weekend obligations and start hacking away at your fav "prison dramedy." (Oy vey, that genre.)Unl
  
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• Memoirist Claire Dederer Tells All About Telling All

  09-06-2017 18:35 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean NelsonClaire Dederer will appear for a reading at Third Place Books in July. Stanton Stephens
  Claire Dederer's first memoir was called Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses. It was well reviewed, and popular enough to land on the New York Times best-seller list in late 2010 and early 2011. It was also a more complex self-inquiry than its digestible, zeitgeisty package would have you believe. And yet, that very package made it the kind of book that you might carry cover-side-down if y
  
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• The Morning News: British Conservatives Lose Majority, Hope Springs Eternal

  09-06-2017 17:38 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneNot so fast, Trump-adjacent Brexit fans. Rawpixel/Getty
  Brexit Voters Lose Bigly: In an election upset that will have consequences for Europe, Russia, the US, and power alliances across the globe, British voters on Thursday ousted Conservatives as the majority party and gave Labour an extra 33 seats. Why should Americans care? Following a Brexit vote largely motivated by racism and xenophobia, UK Prime Minister Theresa May had emerged as the leader to sever ties with the Euro
  
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• Therapy dogs: With soft eyes and furry ears, these volunteers at Overlake and other area hospitals reassure patients, families

  09-06-2017 15:30
  
  Several hospitals in the region, including Overlake, Children’s and Swedish, use therapy dogs. The animals listen attentively as children read to them, lay a head on the shoulder of the infirm and ease the tension in a room full of anxious family.
  
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• How therapy dogs ease the tension for patients, families at Overlake and other Seattle-area hospitals

  09-06-2017 15:30
  
  Several hospitals in the region, including Overlake, Children’s and Swedish, use therapy dogs. The animals listen attentively as children read to them, lay a head on the shoulder of the infirm and ease the tension in a room full of anxious family.
  
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• A cure for distracted driving? Software locks your phone while behind the wheel

  09-06-2017 15:30
  
  Companies are developing software that disables your phone when you are driving, reducing the chances of being distracted by texts, video and social media while behind the wheel.
  
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• A cure for distracted driving? Software by Sammamish startup locks your phone while behind the wheel

  09-06-2017 15:30
  
  Companies are developing software that disables your phone when you are driving, reducing the chances of being distracted by texts, video and social media while behind the wheel.
  
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• Podcast: Investigative reporter Mike Baker on double-booked surgeries and patients in jeopardy

  09-06-2017 15:00
  
  An aggressive pursuit of more patients, more surgeries and more dollars has placed patients at Seattle’s Swedish Health in jeopardy. That was the upshot of one of the first stories The Seattle Times published earlier this year in an ongoing investigation called “Quantity of Care.” On Episode 40 of The Overcast, political reporters Daniel Beekman and Jim […]
  
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• Seattle announces 30 ideas to protect arts, culture spaces from high-rent displacement

  09-06-2017 14:00
  
  Working with developers and Seattle’s culture constituency, the city has released a report with 30 ideas — some already in play — to shelter artists and communities of color from rapid development and skyrocketing rents.
  
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• Not wild about dogs? How to cope in mutt-mad Seattle

  09-06-2017 14:00
  
  In a city with more dogs than children — and where admitting you’re not a dog person can get you dirty looks — can dog-wary individuals find peace?
  
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• Northwest Folklife Festival will be back in 2018

  09-06-2017 14:00
  
  The fest received enough donations at the door over Memorial Day weekend to keep it going for another year.
  
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• McCleary roundup: Everett teachers threaten strike, districts start sending pink slips

  09-06-2017 13:00
  
  There are just 21 days left until the state budget expires, prompting state education officials and school-district leaders to brace — yet again — for a potential tangle in local school budgets.
  
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• U.S. bucks world trend amid increases for clean-energy research

  09-06-2017 06:10
  
  As government ministers met in Beijing this week, U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry's message of less government spending on clean energy has opened the way for other nations, especially China, to seize the mantle of leadership in tackling climate change.
  
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• US bucks trend amid increases for clean energy research

  09-06-2017 06:10
  
  BEIJING (AP) — Energy ministers from around the world gathered in Beijing this week to report increased spending to help counter climate change. Yet one prominent voice, that of U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, delivered a starkly countervailing message as the Trump administration seeks to roll back spending on clean energy and promotes fossil fuels. […]
  
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• How would widespread upzones change Seattle neighborhoods? City releases first findings

  09-06-2017 04:31
  
  The upzones are part of Mayor Ed Murray’s Mandatory Housing Affordability program, which allows developers to build taller and larger buildings in certain areas and requires them to help create affordable housing.
  
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