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• Actress’ Live A/V Debut Felt More Like a Dress Rehearsal, But Please Keep Bringing Avant-Garde World Premieres to Seattle

  24-08-2017 23:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Thanks to the combined firepower of Decibel, KEXP, and Action Potential, Actress came here first.by Greg ScruggsActress at Kremwerk. GREG SCRUGGS
  A line down the block at 10:30 pm on a weeknight somewhere other than Molly Moon’s? Was Macklemore playing a secret show? Nope, just world-class live experimental electronic music at Kremwerk. No big deal.The occasion for last night’s crowd on Minor Ave. was the world premiere of a new audio-visual show by Darren Jordan Cunningham, a Britis
  
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• Suspect arrested in homicide at North Seattle motel

  24-08-2017 23:49
  The victim’s body was discovered at the Emerald Motel on Saturday morning.
  
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• At Long Last, Richard Linklater Is an American Master

  24-08-2017 23:38 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean NelsonThe power of ideas in Waking Life is enough to lift you off the ground.
  A new episode of the imperishable PBS documentary series American Masters will examine the life and career of Richard Linklater, the filmmaker behind such transformative movies as Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Waking Life, the Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight trilogy, and Boyhood, as well as not-quite-transformative-but-still-really-good movies like Bernie, Me and Orson Welles, School of Rock, the Bad News Bears r
  
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• Sound Transit’s Lynnwood extension running $500M over budget

  24-08-2017 23:35
  The half-billion-dollar increase brings the total to $2.9 billion, and comes as a surprise for taxpayers. Voters weighing the Sound Transit 3 building plan last fall didn’t know how the costs for Sound Transit 2 were rising.
  
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• Police make arrest in Aurora motel slaying

  24-08-2017 23:33
  Seattle police arrested a 29-year-old man in Ballard Thursday in connection with a dead body found in an Aurora Avenue motel room Saturday.
  
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• Culture News: Literature’s “Living Con Job,” More Funding for Cultural Spaces, and the U-Men Get a Sub Pop Reissue

  24-08-2017 23:20 via thestranger.com
  
  A literary grifter gets his comeuppance, Seattle's cultural spaces get more money, and the U-Men get a reissue.by Amber CortesJohn Smelcer is not who he says he is.SCREENGRAB FROM JOHNSMELCER.COM
  Rich Smith Went Down a Rabbit Hole of Fake Websites and Other Dubious Claims to Bring You This Incredible Story: About literary grifter John Smelcer, who claimed to be Native American even though he’s not, and has recently been nominated for a PEN Literary Award. It’s a very thoroughly resea
  
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• ‘Cheers’ actor, radio host Jay Thomas dies at 69

  24-08-2017 23:13
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jay Thomas, a radio talk show host and actor with recurring roles on the sitcoms “Murphy Brown” and “Cheers,” has died, his publicist said. Thomas was 69. He was “one of the funniest and kindest men I have had the honor to call both client and friend for 25 years plus,” […]
  
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• King County Metro plans single bus fare systemwide

  24-08-2017 22:54
  Metro Transit says 65 percent of riders would see no cost change with the new, simplified fare policy, or a 50-cent savings. Midday and late-night riders would pay 25 cents more. The change awaits a County Council vote.
  
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• Guess who deep-pocketed Republicans like for Seattle mayor?

  24-08-2017 22:51
  We combed through donor records to see who they represent. The gist? Not all leftists are supported by the left.
  
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• Trooper grabs, saves man attempting to jump off bridge

  24-08-2017 22:22
  A Washington State Patrol trooper saved a man's life by snatching him off the side of a bridge as he attempted to jump off it.
  
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• A Canadian Mining Company Just Got Approved to Drill Near Mount St. Helens

  24-08-2017 22:16 via thestranger.com
  
  Nothing to worry about here.by Chetanya RobinsonThe Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington AdorableFluttershy/Wikimedia Commons
  The U.S. Forest Service just allowed a Canadian mining company to start exploratory drilling in a national forest 12 miles from Mount St. Helens, The Columbian reports.The drilling will be relatively small-scale for now. The company, Ascot Resources Ltd. in Vancouver B.C., is authorized to drill 63 small holes, two to three inches in diameter, in the Gifford Pinc
  
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• Oregon wildlife officials authorize killing of 2 wolves

  24-08-2017 21:50
  UMATILLA, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has authorized the killing of two wolves from a pack in northeastern Oregon. The agency said Thursday in a statement that wolves have killed four calves from a local ranch. The rancher requested permission to eradicate the entire wolf pack, but the agency will […]
  
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• Connelly: Paul Ryan visits Boeing, says Republicans competent to govern

  24-08-2017 21:39
  House Speaker Paul Ryan tries to project that Republicans are competent to govern, even as he takes a direct hit in President Trump's latest tweet storm.
  
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• Washington’s national, state parks are free on Friday

  24-08-2017 21:00
  Friday marks the National Parks Service's 101st birthday, so if you don't have to go to work, it might be a nice day to throw the kids or dog in the car and head off to one of Washington's three national parks -- Mount Rainier, North Cascades or Olympic -- all of which will be free.
  
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• Seattle Food News: Jupiter Arrives, Vestal Departs, and Vashon Gets Meatier

  24-08-2017 21:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Tobias Coughlin-BogueLauren the Butcher's lovely soup, soon to be served indoors. Meat and Noodle Soup Club Facebook
  Jupiter Sets a Date
  The buzzy Belltown art bar will be open on September 14, Seattle Met reports. Our art writer Emily Pothast was lucky enough to get a preview, and she was thrilled by the space. It is, after all, chock full of murals by such local greats as Baso Fibonacci. She also had high praise for its grasp of neighborhood character.
  "I got the opposite of the feeling you
  
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• Satellite for Taiwan launched from California

  24-08-2017 20:57
  VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — An Earth-observation satellite for Taiwan’s National Space Organization was launched into orbit from California on Thursday. The Formosat-5 satellite lifted off from coastal Vandenberg Air Force Base at 11:51 a.m. atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which successfully landed its first stage on a drone ship floating in […]
  
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• "This Was Not at All My Request." Herbold and Moon Defend Efforts to Reduce Housing Speculation

  24-08-2017 20:26 via thestranger.com
  
  As mayor, Moon says she would order the city to collect the "number of housing units bought by corporations, cash buyers, shell companies and private equity firms"by Heidi GrooverJenny Durkan claims Cary Moon is trying to make a registry of foreign homebuyers. She's not. nate gowdy
  Nobody is looking to create a database of homebuyers' nationalities. That's the message from Seattle City Council member Lisa Herbold and mayoral candidate Cary Moon as both face criticism for proposals aimed at reini
  
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• Governor Jay Inslee Writes Open Letter to Paul Ryan on Medium

  24-08-2017 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Paul Ryan is, unfortunately, in town.by Sydney Brownstone"Something has to change," Inslee wrote. Jay Inslee/Flickr
  A spineless, multicellular organism known as US Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is in town to tour Boeing today, and everything is not fine. Washington Governor Jay Inslee took to his Medium page—yes, he has a Medium page—to tell him what's what.Inslee's open letter includes some, uh, generous platitudes about our state legislature (as in "our state is a place where lead
  
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• NASA Plans to Save the World From the Supervolcano Under Yellowstone National Park

  24-08-2017 19:53 via thestranger.com
  
  NASA has a plan.by Charles MudedeDuring the long and dark volcanic winter, global food production will collapse, and the human population will collapse with it. Fred Hayes/Getty Images
  If the supervolcano under Yellowstone National Park were to explode—and the recent swarm of earthquakes in the area indicates to some that an eruption is nigh—it would be the end of the world as we know it. The ash from the explosion would fall on and bury much of the US, Canada, and Mexico, and the pl
  
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• Large Ballard lock reopens after mechanical malfunction

  24-08-2017 19:15
  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Thursday that the large lock is closed to all marine traffic while mechanics work on an "unexpected hydraulics problem." The corps does not have an estimate of how long the work will take.
  
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• Large Ballard lock closed due to mechanical malfunction

  24-08-2017 19:15
  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Thursday that the large lock is closed to all marine traffic while mechanics work on an "unexpected hydraulics problem." The corps does not have an estimate of how long the work will take.
  
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• Pierce County corrections deputy accused of sex with jail inmate

  24-08-2017 19:06
  The sheriff’s deputy is being held in lieu of $1 million bail, and was fired Wednesday.
  
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• Hydraulics problem temporarily closes large lock at Ballard’s Chittenden Locks

  24-08-2017 18:47
  The large lock will not be available to vessels Thursday, and though the small lock is functioning, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers warned that mariners could expect delays.
  
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• Ballard’s Chittenden Locks closed Thursday after hydraulics problem

  24-08-2017 18:47
  The large lock will not be available to vessels Thursday, and though the small lock is functioning, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers warned that mariners could expect delays.
  
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• Bald eagle in Oregon euthanized after failing to recover from shooting

  24-08-2017 18:08
  Damage to the eagle, injured in a shooting in June, was too severe, and the bird would have been in chronic pain, unable to survive in the wild.
  
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• The Morning News: Paul Ryan Tours Boeing, For the Love of All That Is Holy—Please Go Fishing!

  24-08-2017 18:02 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufHello, peasants! SETH C FISHER / SHUTTERSTOCK.COM
  Paul Ryan Goes to Washington: The House Speaker is in Everett this morning taking a tour of the Boeing plant to "chat with workers about his plan to slash the amount of federal taxes paid by the plane-builder and other businesses in order to spur economic growth," the Everett Herald reports. Republican Congressman Dan Newhouse will join him. Although she is on Washington State Ways and Means Committee that would deal with tax le
  
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• Paul Ryan promotes GOP plan to cut corporate taxes at Boeing tour, town hall in Everett

  24-08-2017 16:09
  Speaker of the House Paul Ryan will be in Everett Thursday to tour Boeing and talk with employees.
  
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• Paul Ryan at Boeing in Everett talks taxes, influencing Trump as ‘day-by-day deal’

  24-08-2017 16:09
  Speaker of the House Paul Ryan was joined on the stage in Everett by Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg, who praised Ryan's tax efforts, predicting they'd be good for Boeing and other manufacturers.
  
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• Seattle Police release new plan to help solve Donnie Chin murder

  24-08-2017 15:15
  Donnie Chin, the director of the International District Emergency Center (IDEC), was gunned down in July 2015. Since then his family has been asking for answers
  
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• Spill of farmed Atlantic salmon near San Juan Islands much bigger than first estimates

  24-08-2017 15:00
  A fish farm was destroyed after the Atlantic salmon escape, with Cooke Aquaculture is calling it a “salvage operation.” Scientists debunked the statement from Cooke that “exceptionally high tides and currents coinciding with this week’s solar eclipse” caused the damage.
  
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• Seattle to pay up to $250,000 for legal help in defending new city income tax

  24-08-2017 15:00
  Seattle will pay outside attorneys up to $250,000 to help defend the city’s new income tax in court. The same law firm already had a $30,000 contract for work drawing up the tax measure.
  
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• Philanthropy and protest part of Michael Bennett’s identity

  24-08-2017 15:00
  The Seahawks’ defensive end has been sitting when the national anthem is played as a way to call attention to the absence of justice for all. That’s Bennett making a unique kind of connection and working for social change.
  
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• Moon grabs key Dem nod in Seattle mayor’s race amid Durkan’s union endorsements

  24-08-2017 15:00
  The King County Democrats — an umbrella group for 17 legislative-district groups — voted Tuesday night to back Cary Moon.
  
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• Philadelphia Eagles fan gets last laugh with obituary

  24-08-2017 13:43
  PORT REPUBLIC, N.J. — A New Jersey man has taken a parting shot at the Philadelphia Eagles in his obituary. Jeffrey Riegel died last Friday. Before his death, the 56-year-old Port Republic, New Jersey, man promised friends a funny message in his obituary. The longtime Eagles fan’s obituary asks for Riegel “to have 8 Philadelphia […]
  
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• Seattle to close Spokane Street corridor homeless camps

  24-08-2017 04:53
  Seattle officials have ordered the removal of homeless camps along the Spokane Street corridor in Sodo after a Tuesday fatal shooting.
  
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• Self-described ‘mountain man’ in 1984 killing in Montana is released

  24-08-2017 04:34
  MISSOULA, Mont. — Self-described “mountain man” Don Nichols was released on parole Wednesday after serving 32 years for kidnapping a world-class athlete out on a training run in 1984 and killing her would-be rescuer — an attack that drew widespread media coverage and became the subject of a made-for-TV movie. Nichols, who must report to […]
  
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• ‘Mountain man’ who served decades for kidnapping athlete, killing rescuer is freed on parole

  24-08-2017 04:34
  Don Nichols, now 86, was sentenced to 85 years in prison for kidnapping biathlete Kari Swenson in the mountains near Big Sky and killing Alan Goldstein, a friend helping to search for Swenson when she failed to return home from her run in 1984.
  
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• Motorcyclist killed in Kent by suspected drunken driver

  24-08-2017 04:31
  Kent police suspect a 61-year-old Auburn man was intoxicated when he attempted to change lanes and collided with a motorcyclist on Pacific Highway South. A 65-year-old Des Moines died after being thrown from his bike.
  
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• Woman stabbed to death outside a home in Kent; man in custody, police say

  24-08-2017 04:06
  A 51-year-old Kent woman was fatally stabbed during a domestic disturbance Wednesday afternoon. Police confronted a 54-year-old man armed with a knife as he walked down the street and took him into custody.
  
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• Legal ruling: ‘Facebook friends’ aren’t necessarily real friends

  24-08-2017 04:05
  An appeals court was asked whether a Miami judge needed to recuse herself because one of the attorneys involved in a case in her court is a Facebook “friend.”
  
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• Attorney: ‘We got the science wrong’ and young prisoners paid

  24-08-2017 03:15
  A state appeals court has ruled that a Seattle-area man who received a decades-long sentence for murdering another youth as a teen should be sentenced again. This time his attorneys will be allowed to argue that his age at the time of the shooting should be considered by the judge who doles out punishment.
  
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• Connelly: Trump likes Confederate memorials but not national monuments

  24-08-2017 03:04
  President Trump, who describes Confederate memorials as "beautiful," has no such love for national monuments designated by his three predecessors.  U.S. Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke has been reviewing 21 national monuments for possible reduction or elimination. A trio of Northwest monuments have been taken off the list and are safe.
  
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• Meet John Smelcer, Native American Literature’s “Living Con Job”

  24-08-2017 02:32 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich Smith
  Earlier this month, a young adult novel called Stealing Indians was nominated for a PEN Literary Award. The author of the book, John Smelcer, isn't well-known. But some writers and academics say he is a grifter with dubious ties to the Alaskan Native heritage he claims.
  "John Smelcer has been held in great suspicion and contempt in the Native world for twenty-five years," said novelist Sherman Alexie. "I saw through [Smelcer's] facade long ago" and haven't seen him "be part of any
  
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• Sex offender charged with naked burglaries in Lakewood

  24-08-2017 01:59
  Curtis Sell was charged Wednesday with three counts of burglary with sexual motivation in connection with the break-ins and failure to register as a sex offender.
  
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• Seattle area's best high schools 2018

  24-08-2017 01:47
  School ranking website Niche recently unveiled its 2018 assessment of the Seattle area's best public high schools.
  
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• Ingrid Goes West (and Stalks on Insta)

  24-08-2017 00:51 via thestranger.com
  She's just living her #bestlife.by Ciara DolanIf Wednesday Addams were a millennial, she’d be played by Aubrey Plaza. Just look at Parks and Recreation, where Plaza played the sullen intern April Ludgate, or Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, where she played Julie Powers, barista from hell. With starring roles as the villain of Legion and one of the depraved nuns of The Little Hours, 2017 might be the Golden Age of Plaza.
  Her reign as Hollywood’s queen of surliness continues with Ingrid G
  
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• Promo Meets FOMO—Taylor Swift, Björk, and Brand New's Weird New Album Rollouts

  24-08-2017 00:37 via thestranger.com
  
  I’m all for a good marketing scheme, don’t get me wrong, but what’s been happening in the past few weeks has just been odd.by Anna KaplanThe snake returns.Axelle/Bauer-Griffin / Getty
  Since when has music promotion gotten so weird? Don't get me wrong: I’m all for a good marketing scheme, but what’s been happening in the past few weeks has just been odd. Currently, the norm is fake album countdown websites and ransom notes, or sometimes there’s no promotion at
  
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• Abuse victim who killed Seattle teacher in 1994 now charged with killing girlfriend in Spokane

  24-08-2017 00:27
  Darrell Cloud fatally shot his former teacher at Whitman Middle School in 1994 after a decade of sexual abuse. He was released from prison in 2003.
  
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• SpaceX unveils sleek, white spacesuit for astronaut travel

  24-08-2017 00:16
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX has unveiled a sleek white spacesuit for astronauts on its crewed flights coming up next year. Chief executive Elon Musk made the big reveal via Instagram on Wednesday. He says it’s not him in the new suit, rather a SpaceX engineer. SpaceX is developing a crew version of its […]
  
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