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• In Praise of Kosmische-Music Legend Hans-Joachim Roedelius

  27-09-2017 23:44 via thestranger.com
  
  A survey of German kosmische-musik legend Hans-Joachim Roedelius's best work, in advance of his Sept. 28 Seattle show.by Dave SegalRoedelius's 50-year career encompasses infernal proto-industrial music, pastoral synth pop, pastel ambient, and many points in-between.
  As a member of Kluster/Cluster/Qluster and Harmonia, and in collaborations with Brian Eno, Lloyd Cole, and many others, Hans-Joachim Roedelius has been involved with more important, innovative releases than most living musicians. Tom
  
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• Puyallup School District paraeducators secure higher pay in new agreement

  27-09-2017 23:35
  There are roughly 350 paraeducators across the Puyallup School District. The new two-year agreement will make it easier to hire more
  
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• DOH seeking comments for Gender X option on birth certificates

  27-09-2017 23:19
  The Washington State Department of Health has filed a proposal that would allow people to change the gender on their birth certificate to "X," rather than male or female, and Wednesday is one of the final days to share your thoughts on it.
  
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• As FBI investigates Seattle cops’ off-duty work, city steps in

  27-09-2017 23:17
  Moonlighting Seattle cops will have to schedule themselves through the city, Mayor Tim Burgess announced Wednesday during a press conference coming a week after news broke that the FBI is again investigating off-duty work by city police.
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: The Ambiguous Bi Boyfriend

  27-09-2017 23:02 via thestranger.com
  by Dan Savage
  I'm in a long distance relationship with a bisexual man with poly tendencies. I have no problem with him being with men because they can provide things I, as a cis woman, can't without the help of toys. (Anything I do to him, I want to feel as well. Sounds kind of selfish, I know, but we figured it out.) But I worry he will hook up with another girl down the road. I've expressed my jealousy problems when it comes to other women but he won't give me a concrete answer on whether or n
  
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• Mayor Burgess Signs Executive Order to Stop Private Management of Cops' Off-Duty Work

  27-09-2017 22:57 via thestranger.com
  
  The FBI is already investigating the current private system in Seattle.by Heidi GrooverWhat are they doing when they're not on duty? spd
  As the FBI investigates off duty work by Seattle Police officers, interim mayor Tim Burgess today signed an executive order to end private companies' management of that off duty work.
  "These practices were not stopped in the past," Burgess said after signing the order. "Ignoring them stops today."
  The executive order directs the Seattle Police Department to cre
  
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• Wait -- Seattle had a Nixon-era universal basic income?

  27-09-2017 22:40
  Seattle was the site of one of four large-scale "Income Maintenance Experiments" enacted during the Nixon administration, a "landmark in the history of social policy," according to one economist.
  
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• Seattle families used to get govt check, then the divorces came

  27-09-2017 22:40
  Seattle was the site of one of four large-scale "Income Maintenance Experiments" enacted during the Nixon administration, a "landmark in the history of social policy," according to one economist.
  
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• There Really Is a White Magazine and You Can Buy It in Seattle

  27-09-2017 22:33 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede Larry
  Spotted in the window display of Bulldog News: a magazine called white. Now that you have caught our attention, let's look a little closer. It has a white couple on it. They appear to be in love. He has her in his arms. She is really laughing hard; he is laughing too, but not as hard. She can expect to laugh a lot with him for the rest of her life. This must be paradise. He is handsome. She is pretty. Her teeth are as white as pearls. White-capped mountains are in the dis
  
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• Mayor orders Seattle police to take control of officers’ off-duty work amid FBI investigation

  27-09-2017 22:02
  The executive order issued Wednesday by Seattle Mayor Tim Burgess comes a week after it was disclosed that the FBI is investigating allegations of intimidation and price-fixing in off-duty work at construction sites and parking garages.
  
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• Mayor orders Seattle police to take control of officers’ lucrative off-duty work amid FBI investigation

  27-09-2017 22:02
  The executive order issued Wednesday by Seattle Mayor Tim Burgess comes a week after it was disclosed that the FBI is investigating allegations of intimidation and price-fixing in off-duty work at construction sites and parking garages.
  
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• Popocatepetl volcano spews rock, dumps ash near Mexico City

  27-09-2017 21:53
  MEXICO CITY — The Popocatepetl volcano outside Mexico City has spewed glowing rock and dumped ash over nearby towns. Mexico’s national disaster-prevention agency says the volcano also known to locals as “Don Goyo” erupted for several hours Wednesday morning. Its monitoring cameras detected incandescent rocks landing more than a half-mile (1,000 meters) down the slope. […]
  
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• Sting arrestee calls Seattle ‘john’ busts sexist, wants break

  27-09-2017 21:45
  The Seattle City Attorney's Office won a minor victory Wednesday in its effort to uphold a new policy of cracking down on people caught paying for sex.
  
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• POLL: Is Jared Kushner a Woman or an Idiot?

  27-09-2017 21:30 via thestranger.com
  by Katie Herzog
  CNN reported Wednesday that presidential son-in-law and part-time RayBan model Jared Kushner is registered to vote as a woman in New York state.Surely, Kushner—one of the President's closest advisers, tasked with brokering peace in the Middle East, solving the opioid epidemic, heading diplomatic efforts in Mexico and China, reforming the veteran health care system, reforming the criminal justice system, and reworking the federal government so it works like a business—
  
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• Teen charged with shooting 4 classmates faces more charges

  27-09-2017 21:27
  A judge on Wednesday set a date to determine if Caleb Sharpe will be tried as an adult in the Oct. 13 shooting at Freeman High School.
  
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• Teen charged with shooting 4 at school appears in court

  27-09-2017 21:27
  A judge on Wednesday set a date to determine if Caleb Sharpe will be tried as an adult in the Oct. 13 shooting at Freeman High School.
  
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• Teen accused of shooting 4 classmates faces more charges

  27-09-2017 21:27
  A judge on Wednesday set a date to determine if Caleb Sharpe will be tried as an adult in the Oct. 13 shooting at Freeman High School.
  
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• One-night mini con for fans of classic ‘The Prisoner’ coming to Seattle

  27-09-2017 21:20
  Do the phrases “I am not a number, I am a free man!” or “Be seeing you” mean something to you? Do they bring back memories of the cult-classic TV series “The Prisoner” (which has been listed among television’s greatest shows, and is considered the grandparent of riddle-based programs such as “Lost” and “The X-Files”)? If so, you may […]
  
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• Seattle Times: Seattle Has Twice the Home Price Growth of Any Other U.S. City Because of Too Many Good Jobs and Not Enough Houses

  27-09-2017 21:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede Charles Mudede
  The Seattle Times business writer Mike Rosenberg entirely attributes our city's "real-estate surge" (we cannot call it a bubble because in standard economics, there are no such things as bubbles—revisit the pre-2009 economic literature for more about this astounding lacuna) to "a historic shortage of homes for sale, and strong job and population growth ratcheting up demand." The business reporter refers to the recent cooling of the rental market as evidence
  
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• REVIEW: Young Thug and Carnage's Outlandish Young Martha EP

  27-09-2017 21:08 via thestranger.com
  
  Atlanta rapper Young Thug and producer Carnage add yet more outlandishness to the chaotic Thugger universe.by Jessica FuA blip in the chaotic Thugger universe, to which you should nonetheless pay close attention.
  Young Thug and Carnage
  Young Martha
  (YSL/Heavyweight/300 Entertainment)
  Last Friday, Young Thug released Young Martha, a four-track EP, produced by DJ Carnage, which extends the Atlanta rapper’s already prolific output of this past year. Just three months ago, he released his incr
  
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• Seattle Music Vets Gathered to Revisit Hype! 20 Years Later and It Was Kind of Intense

  27-09-2017 20:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean NelsonL-R: Carla Torgerson, Steve Fisk, Mark Arm, Charles Peterson, Jack Endino, Doug Pray, Marco Collins, Kurt Bloch, and Lulu Gargiulo impaneled at the post-screening Q&A.
  Monday night at the Egyptian, NW Film Forum’s Local Sightings festival and SIFF partnered up to do a 21st-ish anniversary screening of Hype!, Doug Pray’s eternally underrated documentary of the rise and slouch of the Seattle music scene of the late-‘80s and early ‘90s.As I have said many t
  
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• Savage Love: At the Palace

  27-09-2017 20:44 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  I had a blast hosting Savage Lovecast Live at San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts. Audience members submitted questions before the show, and I consumed a large pot edible right after the curtain went up and then raced to give as much decent sex advice as I could before it took effect. Here are some of the questions I didn't get to before my judgment became too impaired to operate a sex-and-relationship-advice podcast.
  
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• 2nd lawsuit says Tacoma detention center must pay minimum wage

  27-09-2017 20:43
  Former detainee Chao Chen filed the class-action federal lawsuit Tuesday against The GEO Group, the for-profit company that operates the Northwest Detention Center.
  
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• Man arrested in assault of homeless man in Everett

  27-09-2017 20:39
  The 41-year-old suspect has been booked into Snohomish County Jail for investigation of first-degree assault.
  
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• Hey, Kids in Super Dark Times, Maybe Don’t Play with That Sword

  27-09-2017 20:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ciara Dolan
  Super Dark Times begins in a classroom, where an eight-point buck lies bleeding out on the linoleum floor after jumping through a school window. It’s a gruesome accident—a tragic miscalculation of the boundary between civilization and the wild.
  It’s hard to say whether this film is about an evil samurai sword, or teenage boys losing their innocence and reckoning with their own (potentially dangerous) masculinity, or the secrets we keep and the scars we try to hid
  
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• ‘It’s OK if you don’t want to talk to me’: King County deputies will use simpler Miranda warning for young people

  27-09-2017 20:28
  The King County sheriff’s office says it’s trying to make it easier for kids to understand their rights when they get arrested. Sheriff John Urquhart says deputies will provide juveniles a simpler version of the Miranda warning. For example, instead of saying, “You have the right to remain silent” and “Anything you say can and […]
  
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• Connelly: Trump, Clinton still milking donors 11 months later

  27-09-2017 20:24
  The 2016 election is 11 months behind us, but Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are still asking for money.
  
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• Experience an Interview with Gillian G. Gaar, Author of a Fire New Jimi Hendrix Bio

  27-09-2017 20:03 via thestranger.com
  
  An in-depth interview with famed Seattle music critic Gillian G. Gaar about her new book, Hendrix: The Illustrated Story.by Andrew Hamlin"He really brought the electric guitar into its own, as something that could be as expressive as the human voice.” Voyageur Press
  Seattle native James Marshall Hendrix, known as Jimi Hendrix, would’ve turned 75 this November 27. He toiled as a guitar sideman, made his way to London, broke as leader of the Experience, bounced back to the U.S., and ex
  
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• How to Do Drag in Seattle When You're Under 21

  27-09-2017 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Chase Burns
  We get it. You've been watching RuPaul's Drag Race since you were 10. You have opinions on Robbie Turner's new face. You've seen that video of Tyra Sanchez puking on James Majesty. Okay! But if you're under 21, baby, you can't get into R Place or Unicorn or Kremwerk. And while there are plenty of drag click holes on the internet vying for your precious engagement time, drag is an art/sport/tire fire best appreciated IRL.
  Obviously, there are the traditional methods for getting int
  
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• Imperiled Idaho sockeye salmon run falters with poor return

  27-09-2017 19:35
  BOISE, Idaho — The number of imperiled Snake River sockeye salmon that made it back to central Idaho this year is the second-worst in the last decade, but enough hatchery-raised fish exist to keep a state and federal recovery program going. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game says that through Monday 159 of the […]
  
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• Prison inmate sentenced for threatening to kill King County judge

  27-09-2017 19:34
  The Idaho inmate pleaded guilty to mailing threatening communications to the state judge in King County.
  
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• Man refused to euthanize paralyzed dog, allowed animal to suffer, Olympia-area officials say

  27-09-2017 19:11
  A veterinarian says the dog’s “foot and ankle had been degloved and the bone was exposed.” Some of the dog’s toes also had worn off from dragging herself across the ground.
  
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• How to Be in a Band

  27-09-2017 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean Nelson
  There Is No One Way to Do It
  Even if there were, I'd be the last person to know what it is. I say that as someone who's been a musician in Seattle for more than 20 years, and made somewhere between some and all of my living from being one for most of that time.
  In 1976, the musician Tony Moon drew a comic for the UK fanzine Sideburns showing how to play A, E, and G on a guitar. "This is a chord," he wrote, pointing to the A chord. "This is another," he wrote, pointing to the E cho
  
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• The Seattle Times Is Getting a New Editorial Writer

  27-09-2017 18:52 via thestranger.com
  
  Hello.by Sydney BrownstoneMelissa Santos from the Tacoma News Tribune is taking a job at the Times.Seattle Municipal Archives
  Most Stranger staff, myself included, have taken tours of duty shitting on the Seattle Times opinion section. It's not hard to find material there. Last year, the Seattle Times editorial board opposed the expansion of light rail because it would take too long. In June, Charles called out Nicole Brodeur's writing for whites in Columbia City. In July, Rich Smith took on the
  
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• The Stranger's 2017 Back to School Issue

  27-09-2017 18:04 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher Frizzelle
  Welcome to Seattle, new college students!
  It probably feels good to have escaped wherever you came from. Congratulations on landing in the fastest-growing city in the country, full of rock clubs, delicious food, pot smoke, pot edibles, youthful energy, assholes who don't know how to use the escalators in the light-rail stations, NFL stars, artists, straight people, gay people, trans people, nonbinary people, people who are offended at you for even asking, awnings that ar
  
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• The Morning News: Appeals Court Sides with Youth Jail Opponents, the New Stranger Is Here

  27-09-2017 17:55 via thestranger.com
  
  And why is the city attorney taking a "tough on crime" approach to sex buying?by Heidi GrooverCould an appeals court ruling help kill the proposed new youth jail? jessica fu
  Appeals Court Ruling Could Blow Hole in Budget for Youth Jail: In a ruling yesterday, the state Court of Appeals didn't buy the argument that voters were misled when voting on the new King County youth jail and courthouse, but did agree that the county miscalculated the property taxes it's been collecting for the project. A
  
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• Homecoming back on at Whitefish High School after threats

  27-09-2017 17:30
  WHITEFISH, Mont. — Homecoming activities are back on at Whitefish High School after they were previously cancelled due to cyber threats that targeted schools in Flathead County. The cyber threats caused more two dozen public and private schools in the northwestern Montana county to close for three days earlier this month. The Flathead Beacon reports […]
  
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• Spokane officials creating pitch for new Amazon headquarters

  27-09-2017 17:20
  SPOKANE — Spokane is planning to join the list of cities competing to become Amazon’s second headquarters. The city’s business recruiters plan to emphasize Spokane’s proximity to Amazon’s Seattle headquarters, lower cost of doing business, quality of life and strong educational system. The Spokesman-Review reports that Amazon announced in September that it planned to build […]
  
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• Watch: Sheriff’s helicopter spots Everett stabbing suspect hiding on roof

  27-09-2017 16:19
  In the video, the helicopter pilots alert police on the ground that the suspect is trying to hide on a roof. The suspect is persuaded to come down and was taken into custody.
  
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• Suspect sought after shooting in Seattle’s South Park neighborhood

  27-09-2017 15:11
  Police said gang detectives were on the scene in South Park; the victim was taken to Harborview.
  
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• Will NFL players’ protests make a lasting difference? Seattle activists welcome the boost

  27-09-2017 15:00
  “You can’t stand on the sidelines,” said local NAACP activist KL Shannon after the Seahawks and other NFL teams said they couldn’t stand for racial injustice in protests during national anthem Sunday and Monday.
  
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• The search for secret ingredients: UW gets grant to invent new materials that could power the next big technology

  27-09-2017 15:00
  The University of Washington has received a six-year, $15.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation to expand the work it does creating novel materials with unique properties that could be a boon to future technologies.
  
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