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• Woman who extorted online dates gets 1 month in jail

  14-07-2017 23:58
  
  A 26-year-old Olympia woman was sentenced to one month of work release and two months of electronic home monitoring after pleading guilty to extorting online dates for more than $300,000.
  
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• A Little Interview about The Little Hours with Aubrey Plaza and Jeff Baena

  14-07-2017 23:51 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean NelsonKate Micucci, Alison Brie, and Aubrey Plaza nunning it up in The Little Hours.
  Last month, writer/director Jeff Baena and actor/producer Aubrey Plaza brought their film, The Little Hours, based loosely on a section of Boccaccio's irreverent 14th century social satire Decameron, to SIFF. A few hours before their screening, on a very hot Saturday afternoon, we sat down for a few minutes (13, to be exact) to talk about the film.(The Little Hours—which also stars Alison Brie, Kat
  
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• Forum to focus on deputy’s fatal shooting of Burien man found to be carrying pen, not knife

  14-07-2017 23:37
  
  Tommy Le, 20, was fatally shot in June after King County deputies responded to reports of a man armed with a knife threatening residents of a Burien neighborhood. After the shooting, deputies found Le had been carrying a pen.
  
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• Forum to focus on deadly shooting of Tommy Le in Burien by King County deputy

  14-07-2017 23:37
  
  Tommy Le, 20, was fatally shot June 13 after King County deputies responded to reports of a man armed with a knife threatening residents of a Burien neighborhood. After the shooting, deputies found Le had been carrying a pen.
  
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• Forum to focus on deadly shooting of Burien man by King County deputy

  14-07-2017 23:37
  
  Tommy Le, 20, was fatally shot June 13 after King County deputies responded to reports of a man armed with a knife threatening residents of a Burien neighborhood. After the shooting, deputies found Le had been carrying a pen.
  
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• Here’s your guide to weekend roadway closures

  14-07-2017 23:23
  
  Forecasters are calling for sun and temperatures in the 70s. Planning an excursion? Look here for help avoiding traffic choke points.
  
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• Inbox Jukebox: A Weekly Shortlist of Good New Music. Nine Inch Nails, Zola Jesus, Stag, and More

  14-07-2017 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave SegalNIN's pretty hate machine is still running smoothly. John Crawford
  Nine Inch Nails, “LESS THAN” (Universal). One feels that Nine Inch Nails should have declined precipitously by now. But no. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have maintained fairly high quality control, even in the 21st century, their embracing cerebral IDM and ambient music reflecting a maturation without blandness. Plus, Reznor’s soundtrack work has been solid. As for this new single from the Add Viol
  
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• Women, We Need You to Run For Office!

  14-07-2017 22:56 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufA group of 48 progressive women gathered to learn how to run for office during an EMILY's List training on July 8. Some women were already running for office, while others were considering making a move into politics. Courtesy of EMILY's List
  By the May 19 candidate filing deadline for the August primary election, 31 women put in their names to run for public office in King County. By contrast, 55 men filed in the races. Of the women who submitted their candidacy, less than hal
  
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• I Regret to Inform My Love Handles that the "Plant-Based Ice Cream Shop" Two Blocks Away Is Really Good

  14-07-2017 22:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher FrizzelleNo wait, my love handles are going to be thrilled about this.
  Never in a million years would I think that a vegan ice cream store would have something for me. But the other day I stopped by Frankie & Jo's, because it's two blocks from the office and because I'd heard they sell "ice cream churned from plants," and I had to know what that meant. I kept picturing Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors going into a blender. I kept picturing green ice cream.It's not green.
  
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• Last-Minute Plans: 114 Free, Cheap & Easy Things To Do In Seattle This Weekend: July 14-16, 2017

  14-07-2017 22:42 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle events for July 14-16 that won't cost more than $10.by Stranger Things To Do StaffJust because you haven't planned your weekend far in advance doesn't mean you can't still go out and have a good time. Below, find all of your options for last-minute entertainment that won't cost more than $10, including the Seattle Street Food Festival, Dragon Fest, West Seattle Summer Fest, and Seattle Outdoor Theater Festival—all of which are free to attend. For even more options, check out our co
  
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• Army Team Leader, VA Psychologist Write Letters to ICE to Free Detained Iraq Veteran in Tacoma

  14-07-2017 22:14 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneThe Northwest Detention Center, a privately-run immigration detention facility in Tacoma, where veteran Chong Kim is being held.ASK
  Chong Kim, an Army vet who served in Iraq, came to the United States from South Korea at the age of five. Today, he sits in Tacoma's Northwest Detention Center awaiting deportation proceedings.
  You can read more about Kim's story—his service, his subsequent struggles with addiction, homelessness, and a conviction for attempted arson—i
  
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• Hiker found dead at Mount Rainier National Park

  14-07-2017 22:04
  
  It’s not clear if the 75-year-old man fell or was struck by rocks from above. He was found dead Thursday near the park’s Eagle Peak Trail.
  
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• How David Lynch Explores the Mythology of Transcendental Meditation in Twin Peaks: The Return

  14-07-2017 21:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Daniel CecilDavid Lynch: Diving deep one Twin Peaks episode at a time. Tristan Fewings / Getty
  In his book Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity, visual artist, coffee maker and quinoa lover David Lynch reveals the secret to his creativity is the ability to “dive deep.”''Ideas are like fish,” he writes. “If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper.&rd
  
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• Video: Bertha comes apart inside the tunnel

  14-07-2017 21:39
  
  Bertha continues to come apart at the seams, so to speak. Crews are halfway through taking her apart.
  
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• Taste This, Seattle: No Anchor's Smoked and Pickled Mussels

  14-07-2017 21:20 via thestranger.com
  
  by Tobias Coughlin-BogueThe stars of the show, along with some juniper oil, beer vinegar oysters and crispy chickpeas for good measure. TCB
  When I was first diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, at 24, it was a shock. I'd been going to various doctors and specialists to treat many of the disease's associated symptoms, but no one had ever quite put the pieces together. One day, after hearing the word "prediabetes" on some crappy morning TV show, I Googled it, clicked through to the actual "diabetes" pa
  
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• ‘Life is ridiculous’: Why two dozen Lamborghinis rolled through downtown Seattle

  14-07-2017 21:13
  
  The high-class cars, their drivers and passengers kicked off a 700-mile tour of the Pacific Northwest — and sparked a little envy along the way. “We love it,” said one owner, a divorce attorney.
  
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• Connelly: The Stranger goes biweekly with ample corporate self-praise

  14-07-2017 21:02
  
  Sounding like a Fortune 500 company unveiling a new product -- and with a notable absence of cuss words -- The Stranger announces its move to biweekly publication.
  
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• Mike McGinn Finally Gets an Endorsement in His 2017 Mayoral Bid: The Sierra Club

  14-07-2017 20:57 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverMike McGinn wants to be mayor again. Kelly O
  The local chapter of the Sierra Club is endorsing former mayor Mike McGinn in his campaign to get his old job back. Before being mayor, McGinn was state chair of the Sierra Club.In a statement today, the Sierra Club Seattle Group cited McGinn's "proven track record of using the mayor’s office to advance a bold and visionary agenda rooted in the Sierra Club’s values."
  "That includes writing a new Transit Master Plan and begi
  
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• Here's a Peek at the Festivities from Last Night's Pike People Street Event

  14-07-2017 20:38 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufSome Capitol Hill residents and business-owners said the 2015 Pike People street event was much too rowdy. CITY OF SEATTLE
  This summer's iteration of the Seattle Department of Transportation's Pike People Street program kicked off last night during Capitol Hill Art Walk. Sections of 11th Avenue, 10th Avenue, and Pike Street were closed off to cars for a "street activation," which included live painting, craft booths, and several wackily-painted pianos available for public jam s
  
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• Huge cannibal crickets are massing on our eastern border

  14-07-2017 20:25
  
  First, we found out about the existence of horrible, slime-producing eels in neighboring Oregon yesterday after a truckload of the disgusting critters was dumped onto the highway. Now we discover there are huge, cannibalistic crickets massing on our eastern border.
  
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• Does Being a Nice Personable Scientist Make Sense in Trump's America?

  14-07-2017 20:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sarah Myhre
  There has been huge debate in online science circles around the publication of "The Uninhabitable Earth" by New York Magazine. The article itself is misleading and has been thoroughly fact-checked through the online forum Climate Feedback. Put succinctly by Peter Neff, a postdoc at the University of Rochester, the article “takes significant literary license to leverage information grounded in truth and paint an apocalyptic picture of extreme future scenarios possibly driven
  
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• Rep. Pramila Jayapal Introduces "Resolution of Inquiry" Demanding White House Turn Over Information on Comey Firing

  14-07-2017 19:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneWhat's she up to? We'll soon find out. Courtesy of Jayapal Campaign
  Did you know what a "resolution of inquiry" was before today? (I didn't.) Anyway: It's a special kind of tool Congressional representatives in the minority party can use to get information from the White House, and it's also a tool that potentially allows Democrats to bypass GOP-controlled committees in order to do so.Freshman Washington representative Pramila Jayapal, along with Representative David Cicillin
  
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• Clark County man injured in suspected hash-oil explosion

  14-07-2017 19:48
  
  Butane and propane vapors exploded when the 40-year-old victim lit a cigarette in his apartment, a fire marshal said.
  
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• Woman arrested after suspected Georgetown arson

  14-07-2017 19:38
  
  Police arrested a 28-year-old woman early Friday after a fire was set at the Harbor Freight Tools store in Georgetown.
  
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• Seattle Glass Artists Rally Around Joe BenVenuto with Fundraising Efforts for His Cancer Treatment

  14-07-2017 19:38 via thestranger.com
  
  by Emily PothastDonate to the GoFundMe for BenVenuto (center) right here. Or go to the pop-up silent auction at Traver Gallery on July 28, featuring works by artists including Preston Singletary (left) and Sean Albert (right). Preston Singletary Studio
  There is a saying among glass artists: If you want to learn glassblowing, the first thing you’ll have to learn is teamwork.From the hot shop to the coldworking studio, the process of creating intricate glass sculpture tends to draw on the co
  
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• Would You Give Up Drinking in Exchange for Trump's Impeachment?

  14-07-2017 19:36 via thestranger.com
  
  by Tess Riski Nate Gowdy
  According to a drug and alcohol rehabilitation survey released yesterday, 73 percent of democrats said they’d give up drinking for life if President Trump would be impeached tomorrow.
  In comparison, just 17 percent of Republicans would quit drinking. On the other hand, 30 percent of Republicans said they’d get sober if “the media stopped writing negative things about President Trump."
  Detox.net surveyed over 1,000 active drinkers across the United State
  
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• Bay Area House On a Collapsing Hillside On Sale For $850,000

  14-07-2017 19:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeCBS SF
  We have not seen anything yet in Seattle. That blind and busted Greenwood house demanding $450,000? Mere chump change when compared to a San Francisco Bay Area house that's red tagged (meaning, you can't even live in it) because it's on a hill that's not yet done moving around. The house was nearly wiped out by a mudslide. Its future is uncertain. It's listed at $850,000.And you can tell by the mood of the home's four bedrooms and three bathrooms, that it's really pissed
  
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• Jay-Z Tickets Are On Sale Now!

  14-07-2017 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffJay-Z will go on national tour for his latest album, 4:44.
  Jay-Z is coming to KeyArena on Wednesday, December 13, and tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. today. The concert will probably be the rap spectacle of the year, so don't miss your chance to buy tickets!
  
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• Top scientists sue Salk Institute for gender discrimination

  14-07-2017 18:48
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — Two top scientists are suing their employer, the Salk Institute, alleging that they and other women have suffered long-term gender discrimination at the renowned California research center. Vicki Lundblad and Katherine Jones allege in their lawsuit filed this week that the institute has long been an “old boys club,” the San […]
  
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• UW Scientists Made a Near-Perfect Lip-Synching Obama, Because the Future Is Here and It’s Creepy AF

  14-07-2017 18:30 via thestranger.com
  
  But can it be used for fake news?by Amber Cortes
  What will they think of next? A team of researchers at the University of Washington have Frankenstein-ed a way to convert audio clips from a person’s speech into “realistic mouth shapes” and then digitally graft them into the head of that same person in a video. The technology is being used to solve that perennially annoying problem of dropped Skype video frames, but can it also be used to create Fake News 2.0?
  Probably not, at l
  
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• Once-abused toy poodle now star in Seattle play

  14-07-2017 18:22
  
  Little poodle Blanca was abused and neglected before her rescue. Now she's lighting up the stage at Seattle Center's Cornish Playhouse.
  
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• Once-abused miniature poodle now star in Seattle play

  14-07-2017 18:22
  
  Little poodle Blanca was abused and neglected before her rescue. Now she's lighting up the stage at Seattle Center's Cornish Playhouse.
  
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• Director makes theater play easily accessible to Pioneer Square shelters

  14-07-2017 18:10
  
  eSe Teatro wanted its production of ‘Mud’ to be within walking distance of Pioneer Square’s shelters and support services so it would be accessible to all Seattle residents, and raise awareness about the health and social issues facing the homeless community.
  
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• Woman arrested in Georgetown arson, Seattle police say

  14-07-2017 18:02
  
  A 28-year-old woman was arrested Friday morning after witnesses told police she set fire to a trash can next to a building in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood.
  
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• Oregon mother arrested after using car to tow kids in plastic wagon

  14-07-2017 17:49
  
  At least four motorists reported seeing the car pulling the wagon as the mom drove around a roundabout in Springfield, police said.
  
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• Mars mission astronauts rehearse water landings off Texas

  14-07-2017 17:38
  
  GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — NASA astronauts training for a possible mission to Mars have been practicing water maneuvers in a mock-up Orion space capsule in the Gulf of Mexico. Several astronauts trained Thursday in the open water, about 4 miles (6.5 kilometers) from Galveston, Texas. An Orion spacecraft is being prepared at Johnson Space Center […]
  
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• The Morning News: Some Republicans Still Skeptical of Their Own Party's Healthcare Bill, The Stranger is Going Biweekly

  14-07-2017 17:32 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverMitch McConnell wants a vote on the healthcare bill next week. Keep calling your members of Congress. Alex Wong / Staff
  Some Republicans Still Aren't Buying the New GOP Healthcare Bill: The New York Times talks to Republican members of Congress about the reasons—including cuts to Medicaid—they're still not satisfied with the plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. "With 52 Republicans in the Senate, and two firm 'no' votes already, a single new defection w
  
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• Wisconsin men sentenced for stealing diapers from charity

  14-07-2017 17:25
  
  OSHKOSH, Wis. — Two men accused of stealing 100,000 diapers from a charity in Wisconsin have been sentenced to jail time. WLUK-TV reports that Jason Havel was sentenced Thursday to nine months in jail. His co-defendant, John Forbes, was given the same sentence in June. The two men also must pay a total of about […]
  
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• Want to compete on ‘Wheel of Fortune’? Better bring the energy

  14-07-2017 17:05
  
  Hundreds gather at the Emerald Queen Casino to tryout for the TV game show. One guy rapped about parsley to better his odds of making it.
  
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• Oregon's 'snot snakes' nightmare is over

  14-07-2017 16:45
  
  A section of U.S. 101 reopened late Thursday afternoon hours after a truck carrying a batch of slime eels overturned near milepost 131 west of Salem.
  
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• Former MTV VJ Kennedy: "Seattle, Where Freedom Died with Every Good Singer from the 1990s"

  14-07-2017 15:21 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede Fox Business News
  I do not watch Fox News, and so I had no idea that Kennedy, the once-freaky MTV VJ from the 1990s, had become the Fox News commentator whose wardrobe attempts the style of standard GOP MILF, but fails because she's filled to the brim with the kind of bile that caused Dickens' character Krook to spontaneously explode in Bleak House.Helped to make geek chic a thing, ca. 1992-96. pic.twitter.com/HbNRTS3TgX
  — Kathy 📼 Fennessy (@kcfennessy) July 13, 2
  
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• Through town-hall movement, Seattle activists work to hold Congress accountable to voters

  14-07-2017 15:00
  
  Seattle activists say they were inspired by the election of President Trump to volunteer to help hold lawmakers accountable to their constituents through town-hall meetings.
  
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• Through town-hall movement, Seattle activists work to hold Congress accountable

  14-07-2017 15:00
  
  Seattle activists say they were inspired by the election of President Trump to volunteer to help hold lawmakers accountable to their constituents through town-hall meetings.
  
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• Seattle mayoral hopeful Bob Hasegawa: ‘Give neighborhoods much more control’

  14-07-2017 15:00
  
  Bob Hasegawa, a state senator and former union activist, argues that city decisions have been “rigged” by elite power brokers, and says he’d give more power to neighborhoods if elected Seattle mayor.
  
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• Podcast: What does Seattle’s Mexican consul think about Trump, trade and immigration?

  14-07-2017 15:00
  
  The election of Donald Trump as president sent shudders through many people of Mexican heritage living in the U.S. — whether here legally or not. In response, the Mexican Consul in Seattle, Roberto Dondisch, has been telling Mexicans here to “be calm, but be prepared.” What does that mean? And what does the Mexican Consul […]
  
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