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• Blabbermouth Podcast: Trump at the UN, Zombie Obamacare Is Back, and More!

  20-09-2017 23:42
  
  by The StrangerHuge Elton John fan.DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGESSubscribe to the podcast FOR FREE by clicking right here!
  Dan Savage, Rich Smith, and Eli Sanders talk about Trump’s loopy and worrisome appearance at the United Nations (where he seemed to quote Elton John) and then they dive into the return of the Zombie Obamacare Repeal effort and what everyone needs to do about it.After that, the joke police rule on whether Stephen Colbert went too far by letting Sean Spicer appear with him on
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Always the Rando, Never the Boyfriend

  20-09-2017 23:06 via thestranger.com
  
  How does he escape the hookup vortex?by Dan Savage
  I am a 27-year-old gay male living in Seattle. I have been in the hookup scene basically since I was 18 years old. At that time I was hooking up with multiple partners never using a condom. In the year 2016 I decided to keep track of the number of different sexual partners I had, that number at the end of 2016 was 172 different sexual partners only using a condom once or twice. I contacted Gonorrhea and Chlamydia during that time. I used various
  
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• Win 2 Tickets to the Dream Syndicate's Sept. 30 Show at the Tractor, and Their New LP

  20-09-2017 22:38
  
  Win two tickets to the Dream Syndicate's Sept. 30 show at the Tractor AND a vinyl copy of their great new album.by Dave SegalThe Dream Syndicate avoid midlife crisis on their great new comeback album. Chris Sikich
  One of the better rock comebacks of the last decade has been that of the Dream Syndicate, catalysts in the short-lived but fertile Paisley Underground uprising in Southern California during the '80s. Extrapolating on the Velvet Underground's combustible combination of gorgeous melodies
  
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• The Tiger Hunter: Does Not Contain Tiger Hunting, but It Does Contain Other Stuff

  20-09-2017 22:17
  Other stuff includes: the American dream, microwaves, etc.by Elinor JonesThe Tiger Hunter is the fictional story of an Indian immigrant, Sami, who’s played by Community’s Danny Pudi and who does not, in fact, hunt tigers. But his dad did! We don’t really see any tiger hunting in this movie, which is fine with me. I like tigers, and that probably would have been sad. Anyway, Sami grows up in a small Indian town where his father—the actual tiger hunter—is a hero. Sami
  
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• Shoreline Cat Murderer on the Loose

  20-09-2017 22:01
  
  A cat was stolen from Whisker City Cat Rescue Monday.by Katie HerzogThis is not the murdered cat. Scott Olson/Getty Images
  According to one of the darker press releases to ever cross my in-box, a cat was stolen from the Whisker City Cat Rescue in Shoreline Monday. The press release, which comes from Cindi West of the King County Sheriff’s Office of Media Relations, reads:
  Yesterday around 12pm a volunteer with the Whisker City Cat Rescue, in the 1600 block of N183rd St, called police when
  
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• Spoiler for Brad’s Status: He's Sad

  20-09-2017 21:56
  A movie about rich people that you might actually like!by Megan BurbankI have a low tolerance for tales of privileged white guy ennui, so I’m pleased to tell you that Brad’s Status, starring Ben Stiller as a dad with an existential crisis, is (twist!) one I actually liked!The latest from Mike White (director of Year of the Dog, and writer of Freaks and Geeks, Chuck & Buck, and Beatriz at Dinner), Brad’s Status perfectly captures the way anxious people avoid addressing big u
  
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• Cat killed after it was taken from Shoreline shelter

  20-09-2017 21:56
  Police responded to the cat shelter and found a blanket with writing on it that said, “The homeless need a home … just not my backyard, not Richmond Beach.”
  
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• Scientists say recent quake swarm at Rainier is not unusual

  20-09-2017 21:53
  More than 20 small quakes have struck under the volcano in the past week, a rate that’s higher than usual but not unprecedented.
  
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• Soft soil makes Mexico City shake like it was built on jelly

  20-09-2017 21:49
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The soft soil that lines the ancient lake bed that Mexico City is built on amplified the shaking from Tuesday’s earthquake and increased its destructive force, seismologists say as they try to better understand the quake that has killed more than 200 people. Scientists are looking at other quirks of the magnitude […]
  
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• How long and how far: The story of your Seattle-area commute

  20-09-2017 21:49
  Numbers from transit data company Moovit tell the story of what Seattle-area transit riders' commutes look like every day.
  
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• Sheriff: Cat stolen, killed outside Shoreline cat rescue

  20-09-2017 21:47
  A cat was taken from a Shoreline cat rescue and found dead in a nearby Dumpster Tuesday, the King County Sheriff's Office reports.
  
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• Tickets On Sale NOW for The 13th Annual HUMP! Film Festival!

  20-09-2017 21:37
  
  by Dan Savage
  If you're wondering why there hasn't been a "Savage Love Letter of the Day" this week—or if you've seen me stumbling around Capitol Hill in a daze—it's because the HUMP! Jury met all day on Monday and Tuesday, watched and re-watched every one of this year's HUMP! submissions, and then locked ourselves in a conference room without food or water until we could finalize the list of films that will be featured at the 13th Annual HUMP! Film Festival.
  It wasn't an easy task&m
  
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• Seattle Mystery Bookshop Will Close At the End of September

  20-09-2017 21:19
  
  by Rich SmithNo more mysteries in Pioneer Square.One of the few mystery bookshops around the world, and one of the dwindling number of bookstores in Pioneer Square, Seattle Mystery Bookshop will close up at the end of the day on September 30th. William D. Farley originally opened the store in 1990. When he retired in 1999, he handed off the business to the current shopkeep JB Dickey.In January of 2016, a successful GoFundMe bought the store a year of life, but ultimately they were unable to find
  
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• WA Attorney General Sues Private Prison Company Over $1 Per Day Wages at Immigrant Jail

  20-09-2017 21:14 via thestranger.com
  
  The minimum wage in Washington State is $11.by Heidi GrooverProtesters in solidarity with an inmate hunger strike at the Tacoma Northwest Detention Center. NWDC RESISTANCE
  After months of protests and hunger strikes at the Northwest Detention Center, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced today his office is suing the detention center for its practice of paying inmates $1 a day or less for work inside the jail.
  Ferguson said an investigation by his office confirmed what inmates
  
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• The New Stranger Debuts September 27

  20-09-2017 21:03 via thestranger.com
  
  Half as often, twice as good.by The Stranger
  We're almost ready to show you what we've been working on. Debuting next Wednesday, September 27, the new biweekly Stranger will be more durable, beautiful, and longer-lasting. Jason Grube and Corianton Hale at Headquarters design studio have helped us update our look, and the new format allows more room for our award-winning work by Seattle's best writers.Publisher/Overlord Tim Keck said it best:
  We know this is a big deal, and this is why we’r
  
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• Is this Seattle bus stop the worst in America?

  20-09-2017 21:03
  Is a South Seattle bus stop, where would-be passengers have to stand on a narrow strip of grass between the road and railroad tracks, the worst bus stop in America? One very informal survey says it just might be.
  
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• Connelly: AG sues immigrant detention center over $1-a-day wages

  20-09-2017 21:01
  Attorney General Bob Ferguson mounts another high-profile case.  Washington is suing The GEO Group, private operator of the Northwest Detention Center, for violating state minimum wage laws.  The company has been paying immigrant detainees $1 day for work at the center.
  
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• Mayor Tim Burgess moves to fill his new City Hall team

  20-09-2017 20:51
  Eli Sanders, The Stranger’s associate editor, said he took the temporary job with the mayor’s communication team on the condition that he can later write about the experience for the newspaper.
  
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• Everett Area is Running Out of Needle Cleanup Kits

  20-09-2017 20:49 via thestranger.com
  
  The county ran out of 50 kits in two days.by Chetanya Robinson Washington State House Republicans/Flickr
  Snohomish County, which includes Everett, is running out of needle cleanup kits, a sign of a heroin epidemic, officials say.As KOMO News reports, the Snohomish County Health District started giving out the kits — which consist of sharps containers, protective eye gear and gloves — but ran out of 50 kits within two days. They’re working on putting together 1,000 more.In relat
  
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• Grow your own? State considers allowing people to grow pot at home

  20-09-2017 20:42
  If you feel like Washington is hanging out to dry on the home grow market and hope the Liquor and Cannabis Board will be changing your rules, you're in luck.
  
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• A Fire Broke Out At the Former Site of the Downtown Dog Lounge

  20-09-2017 20:42 via thestranger.com
  
  Fire investigators will be investigating the cause and posting updates on Twitter throughout the day.by Amber CortesThe scene at 420 E Denny Way this morning.COURTESY SEATTLE FIRE DEPARTMENTA fire that broke out at the former Downtown Dog Lounge on Denny Way this morning has now been contained, says Kristin Tinsley, the Public Information Officer for the Seattle Fire Department.Fire at E. Olive Way. / E. Denny Way is extinguished. Fire investigators responding. pic.twitter.com/hnyWM11D1i
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• We Can Have Single-Payer In Washington State by 2020, If We Want It

  20-09-2017 20:26 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich Smith
  There are a handful of single-payer bills sitting in Olympia right now, just waiting to get some action. If you're tired of paying more money for worse health care coverage, if you count half a million Washington residents living without health insurance even with the Affordable Care Act in place as a moral failure, and if the thought of demonstrably inefficient health insurance companies profiting off the plight of the sick makes you sick, then what you need to do is call Rep. Eil
  
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• Huge sea turtles slowly coming back from brink of extinction

  20-09-2017 20:22
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Sea turtles are lumbering back from the brink of extinction, a new study says. Scientists found more populations of the large turtles improving than declining when they looked at nearly 60 regions across the globe. That’s a big change from a decade or two ago, experts said. Long-living sea turtles have been […]
  
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• Stronger Is Another Boston Marathon Bombing Movie

  20-09-2017 19:59 via thestranger.com
  On the upside, this one doesn’t star Mark Wahlberg! by Elinor JonesIt’s hard these days—when terrible things come at us so quickly, one after the other, without a break or a breath—to feel ready to memorialize anything. The Boston Marathon bombing happened only four years ago, and despite the fact that we’ve had several lifetimes of sadness between then and now, it feels like it just occurred. Are we ready for a movie about it?What’s that? This is the SECOND m
  
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• Magnitude-6.1 earthquake strikes off coast of Japan

  20-09-2017 19:59
  KAMAISHI, Japan (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude-6.1 earthquake has hit off the coast of Japan. The agency’s website says the temblor hit early Thursday about 283 kilometers (176 miles) southeast of the city of Kamaishi and more than 322 kilometers (200 miles) east of Fukushima. A massive 2011 earthquake and tsunami […]
  
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• Kingsman: The Golden Circle Is Anything but Boring

  20-09-2017 19:54 via thestranger.com
  Bloated, overlong, and stupid? Sure. But it’s pretty fun, too!by Ned LannamannThe first Kingsman movie shouldn’t have worked half as well as it did. Essentially James Bond cosplay, Kingsman: The Secret Service was based on a comic by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons, and directed by Matthew Vaughn, whose track record includes Layer Cake, Kick-Ass, and X-Men: First Class. It succeeded thanks to its complicated but deep affection for old Bond movies and its charmingly immature compulsion t
  
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• Trump's Latest Judicial Nominee Said Trans Kids Are Part of Satan's Plan

  20-09-2017 19:49 via thestranger.com
  
  Sounds like he'll fit right in in Trump's America.by Katie HerzogJeff Mateer: Bigot, judge.Vimeo
  CNN reported Wednesday that Jeff Mateer, President Trump's nominee for a federal judgeship in Texas, said in a 2015 speech that trans kids are a part of Satan's plan and legal same-sex marriage will open the door to other "disgusting" relationships."In Colorado, a public school has been sued because a first grader, and I forget the sex, she's a girl who thinks she's a boy or a boy who thinks she's a
  
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• Jake La Motta, ‘Raging Bull’ in and out of the ring, dies at 95

  20-09-2017 19:44
  Jake LaMotta, boxing’s “Raging Bull,” who brawled his way to the middleweight boxing championship in a life of unbridled fury within the ring and outside it, and whose life became the subject of an acclaimed film, died Tuesday in Miami. He was 95.
  
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• Google reportedly close to buying HTC assets to bolster hardware

  20-09-2017 19:33
  Taiwan’s HTC, which has its U.S. headquarters in Bellevue, once ranked among the world’s top smartphone makers. It partnered with Bellevue gaming giant Valve to build Vive, one of the major high-end virtual-reality headsets.
  
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• Nancy Reagan Visited Mexico After the Earthquake of 1985, and She Brought a Check

  20-09-2017 19:17
  
  by Charles Mudede Getty Images
  Those who lived through the 1980s were under the impression that the Reagans were the bottom of American ugliness and stupidity in politics. How could the US go lower than that presidency, which had a B-movie actor playing a president? But the US did hit a new bottom with George W. Bush, who had nothing to recommend him but the pure luck of being born into a family with money and influence. Dim Bush was massively incompetent and managed to bankrupt the US with two
  
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• "I've Been Embarrassed to Say I Work for the City," Says City Employee on Murray Allegations

  20-09-2017 19:14
  
  "I wish the city council had made a stronger stand against sexual violence."by Sydney Brownstone"My point is: please don't assume that a handful of emails supporting Murray actually represent the opinions of 11,000 plus city employees." Seattle.gov
  Yesterday, we published excerpts from e-mails sent to the Mayor's Office regarding the child sex abuse allegations against Ed Murray. All e-mails from City employees that were turned over to The Stranger via public records request were supportive of M
  
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• Nevada quake lab tests new bridge design after Mexico quake

  20-09-2017 19:10
  RENO, Nev. (AP) — Scientists at a Nevada earthquake lab on Wednesday tested new bridge designs with connectors they say are innovative and created to better withstand violent temblors and speed reconstruction efforts after major quake damage. University of Nevada, Reno engineers performed the experiments on a giant “shake table” to simulate violent motions of […]
  
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• Nevada experiment mimics earthquakes to test bridge designs

  20-09-2017 19:10
  RENO, Nev. (AP) — A day after a deadly earthquake struck Mexico City, University of Nevada scientists will mimic quakes to test new bridge designs developed to help the structures better withstand violent temblors. The engineers on Wednesday will rattle a 100-ton, 70-foot (21-meter) bridge model to see how it holds up on a giant […]
  
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• Woman arrested in deadly West Seattle shooting

  20-09-2017 19:09
  Seattle police are investigating the Tuesday night slaying of a man in West Seattle.
  
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• Investigation on after man shot dead in West Seattle

  20-09-2017 19:09
  Seattle police are investigating the Tuesday night slaying of a man in West Seattle.
  
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• Woman injured in Capitol Hill fire

  20-09-2017 18:53
  Seattle firefighters fought to extinguish a Capitol Hill fire that left a 35-year-old woman injured Wednesday morning.
  
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• WA Attorney General to Sue Tacoma Immigrant Jail

  20-09-2017 18:50
  
  The Northwest Detention Center is the largest immigration jail on the west coast.by Ana Sofia KnaufEarlier this month, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson sued the Trump administration for its decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which protects undocumented youth. ASK
  Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson plans to sue Tacoma's Northwest Detention Center, the largest immigrant jail on the West Coast, according to a media release from his office.
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel vs. Graham-Cassidy, Lying Liars, and the "Death to America" Crowd (That Would Be Today's GOP. And Yesterday's GOP. And Tomorrow's GOP.)

  20-09-2017 18:06
  by Dan SavageIf you too are disappointed in Sen @BillCassidy #GrahamCassidy let them know it - call (202) 224-3121 pic.twitter.com/eswlh6BaoV— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) September 20, 2017
  First: this is breathtaking and sure feels like some sort of cultural tipping point. A comedian opening his show stumping for universal health care, shaming the US for failing to do what so many other countries have figured out how to do (provide health care for all of its citizens), and refusing to let
  
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• Woman injured in blaze on Seattle’s Capitol Hill

  20-09-2017 17:54
  A woman was injured in the Capitol Hill fire and was taken to Harborview Medical Center in stable condition.
  
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• At least 1 injured in blaze on Seattle’s Capitol Hill

  20-09-2017 17:54
  A woman was injured in the Capitol Hill fire and was taken to Harborview Medical Center in stable condition.
  
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• The Morning News: FBI Investigating Off-Duty Work by Seattle Police, Hurricane Maria Slams Puerto Rico

  20-09-2017 17:42
  
  by Heidi GrooverThe allegations are about what officers are doing on their off hours. Stephen Brashear / getty
  The FBI Is Investigating Off-Duty Work by Seattle Police Officers: The investigation centers on whether companies that provide off-duty officers for construction sites and garage security, including one company with ties to the Seattle Police Officers' Guild, have engaged in intimidation and price fixing, the Seattle Times reports. The allegations come from Blucadia, a startup that prov
  
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• Young woman shot to death near Mukilteo; suspect at large

  20-09-2017 16:06
  A young woman was found dead early Wednesday morning near Mukilteo in what authorities believe was a homicide.
  
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• Woman shot to death in Everett, authorities say

  20-09-2017 15:06
  A woman was found with several gunshot wounds in an Everett home.
  
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• State of the arts: How Seattle’s growing pains are impacting the arts scene

  20-09-2017 15:00
  The high cost of living, changing demographics, even traffic are shaping the future of the city’s arts communities.
  
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• STATE OF THE ARTS

  20-09-2017 15:00
  Population boom, soaring rents, traffic. Seattle’s growth has affected everyone in the city — and that includes artists. For this year’s Fall Arts report, we surveyed art makers and leaders — opera singers, comedians, directors, b-boys, musicians, choreographers, graffiti artists and more — about how they’re dealing with Seattle’s shifting ground. What makes them anxious? […]
  
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• Several fall TV shows set (but not filmed) in Seattle

  20-09-2017 15:00
  Vancouver, B.C., gets a lot more action because of its similar appearance and lower production costs. However, the “Grey’s Anatomy” cast reportedly loved being here this summer, and its fire station-based spinoff may film part of its pilot locally. Stay tuned.
  
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• Seattle visual artists paint an ambivalent picture of the future — but are determined to survive

  20-09-2017 15:00
  Community decries city’s unaffordability, lack of interest from newcomers.
  
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• Seattle live-music clubs feel the burn from red-hot real-estate market

  20-09-2017 15:00
  While business is generally steady, local music venues face threats from development and rent increases.
  
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