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• 2 men arrested for alleged hate crime after black man attacked in Spokane

  11-10-2017 23:59
  One of the suspects had body markings “supportive of white supremacy,” Spokane police said.
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Best Friends Has Game, Boyfriend, Endless Parade of Sexy Hookups

  11-10-2017 23:52
  by Dan Savage
  I’m a 23-year-old non-binary queer, I’ve never really been in a relationship and this is a source of some emotional baggage on my end. This feeling has been exacerbated by recent events: I got briefly romantically entangled a few months ago with a close friend. It only lasted a week, and I got dumped right before my birthday. I’m not writing for advice about that—I severed all ties with the friend in question and got right back on the dating/hookup wagon&mda
  
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• Elliott Sharp Reimagines the Work of Thelonious Monk

  11-10-2017 23:49
  His current tour celebrates what would’ve been Thelonious Monk’s 100th birthday.by Robert HamThelonious Monk’s shadow still looms large in the music world some 35 years after his death. It wasn’t until guitarist Elliott Sharp studied at Bard College in the early ’70s that he really got to know the pianist/composer’s work, exploring it at the behest of his teacher, trombonist Roswell Rudd. And once he did, he was hooked.“I’ve always kept an ear towa
  
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• Joe Hagan on the Rise of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone

  11-10-2017 23:34
  
  Sticky Fingers is a crawl through rock & roll journalism and American history.by Jenni MooreDuring my college days at the University of Oregon, one of my favorite journalism professors, Tom Wheeler, told my class about the time he interviewed Keith Richards for Rolling Stone. I always thought it would be rad to contribute to such an iconic publication, and to meet and interview popular artists. Now, as a working music writer, I was immediately drawn to Joe Hagan’s Sticky Fingers: The L
  
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• The Guitar Tech for The War On Drugs Is Awesome

  11-10-2017 23:30
  
  Last night at the Moore, the War on Drugs did that one long song they do, and it was indie arena rock to the max.by Rich SmithThis is not the guitar tech, but his handiwork allowed this moment to happen. *Update:* The tech's name is Dominic East. Praise him. RS
  Last night at the Moore Theatre, lead singer Adam Granduciel was having a guitar problem during the lead-up to a lead. I couldn't tell you which song he was trying to play because everybody knows The War On Drugs has just one long song th
  
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• Confused Kids, Asshole Dads, and The Meyerowitz Stories

  11-10-2017 23:17
  Family! It's the worst! Or... the best? No, it's the worst.by Erik HenriksenEverybody thinks their family is unique, and everybody thinks their family is fucked up.Sure, everyone’s family might technically be unique, but zoom out far enough, and nobody’s special: All your sweet grandmothers and tow-headed children blur into everybody else’s sweet grandmothers and tow-headed children. And sure, zoom in close enough, and just about every family is fucked up—as fucked up, th
  
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• Ed Murray Was at a City Press Conference Today

  11-10-2017 23:06
  We'll be busy putting our heads in a blender.by Heidi GrooverFormer #Seattle mayor Ed Murray says he watched signing of City legislation as a private citizen. Hear from him tonight on @KIRO7Seattle. pic.twitter.com/UxF9eZ0was
  — Patrick Quinn (@PatrickQuinnTV) October 11, 2017In his last major interview, former mayor Ed Murray said he would "end up somewhere on the West Coast, out of town" after resigning from office.Apparently, he's changed his mind.
  Murray made an appearance at a press co
  
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• You Have Never Seen Pride and Prejudice the Way Seattle Rep Is Doing It

  11-10-2017 22:32
  
  The show manages to be both utterly silly and unexpectedly profound.by Christopher FrizzelleThis Pride and Prejudice blew me away. It involves slapstick, pop music, and men in drag—and it works! Alan Alabastro
  The curtain is already up when you walk in. There's a dance floor center stage, where most of the action will take place, and surrounding the dance floor are all the props, costumes, lamps, instruments, buckets of water, fans, and sound-effects machines that will be needed for the sh
  
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• Report: Seattle tops nation in wage growth

  11-10-2017 22:14
  Seattle had the highest wage growth in the country in the last year, a figure that tied with San Francisco and St. Louis.
  
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• Blabbermouth Podcast: White Men Misbehaving, the NFL Pushes Back, and More!

  11-10-2017 21:59 via thestranger.com
  
  by The StrangerHarvey Weinstein: Former producer, forever asshole. DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGESSubscribe to the podcast FOR FREE by clicking right here!
  Republican Senator Bob Corker says our president lives in an “adult daycare.” But really, what boomer doesn’t these days? Dan Savage, Rich Smith, and Eli Sanders talk about who’s to blame for all these aging white men behaving so, so badly.
  After that, they focus on one particularly bad boomer: Harvey Weinstein. What, exactl
  
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• Appeals Court: People Who Live in Tents Have the Same Privacy Protections As Those in Houses

  11-10-2017 21:39 via thestranger.com
  
  A recent case asked: Is a tarp a home?by Heidi Groover The Stranger
  The Washington Court of Appeals ruled on Wednesday that people living on the streets are entitled to the same constitutional privacy protections as those living in houses.
  Earlier this year, we covered the case of William Pippin. In November 2015, Pippin was living under a tarp on a roadside in Vancouver, Washington, when police arrived. The cops were there to notify people living in the encampment that they would soon have to m
  
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• Two Freshly Minted Literary Geniuses Will Visit Seattle Soon

  11-10-2017 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich Smith(L-R) Look for Viet Thanh Nguyen and Jesmyn Ward at a Benaroya Hall near you.John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
  This morning the MacArthur Fellowship announced their new class of geniuses, each of whom receive $625,000 "as an investment in their potential." Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen and novelist Jesmyn Ward count themselves among the winners. The prescient literary programers at Seattle Arts and Lectures just so happened to have invited Nguyen and
  
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• Scraping By with Protomartyr

  11-10-2017 21:20 via thestranger.com
  
  Protomartyr’s Joe Casey talks realism and the band’s new album, Relatives in Descent.by Mark LoreJoe Casey has a reputation for being a little surly and fatalistic. This tends to be the focus of articles about his band, Protomartyr—there’s even a Tumblr dedicated to “Descriptions of Joe Casey.” (One entry: “He’s like an inverse Bono.”) To be fair, Protomartyr hails from the gritty rock ’n’ roll capital of Detroit, and Casey’
  
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• Coming to King County: Vote on heroin injection sites

  11-10-2017 21:15
  The proposed legislation would implement all eight of the recommendations proposed by the county's Heroin and Opioid Addiction Task Force in September 2016, including the establishment of two Community Health Engagement Locations (CHELs), or safe injection sites, where users are allowed to consume heroin and other drugs without fear of arrest and under medical supervision.
  
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• A Seattle Family of Four Needs $75,000 to Pay For Basic Needs

  11-10-2017 20:49 via thestranger.com
  
  The costs of living are skyrocketing across the state, and wages aren't keeping up.by Chetanya Robinson OpenStreetMap contributors
  A new UW report shows that the cost of living, especially for families with children, has risen dramatically across the state. In Seattle, a family of four needs $75,000 per year to cover basic living needs, which is a 62 percent increase from 2006, UW News reports.The Self Sufficiency Standard for Washington state, which has been calculated since 2001 and released e
  
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• Trump: "Disgusting" Press Gets To Write "Whatever It Wants"

  11-10-2017 20:43 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageTrump denies that he said he wanted 10x more nukes, calls @NBCNews report "#FakeNews".🙄As IF we'd believe Trump‼️https://t.co/VIKnYEdl22
  — Dr. Dena Grayson (@DrDenaGrayson) October 11, 2017
  This morning Trump tweeted that NBC's license to broadcast should be revoked because he doesn't like their reporting on FuckingMoronGazi. And now Donald Trump is attacking the existence of a free press. Trump wishes he could do what his pal Putin does (murder journalist
  
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• Bellevue surpasses Seattle in median rent

  11-10-2017 20:28
  It's a tough market out there for, well, just about everybody. And the latest Zumper report shows that just because you leave the city doesn't mean it gets much easier.
  
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• US astronaut’s memoir provides blunt take on year in space

  11-10-2017 20:23
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — In his new autobiography, retired astronaut Scott Kelly gives an unflinchingly blunt take on his U.S. record-breaking year in space and the challenging life events that got him there. This isn’t your usual astronaut’s memoir. Kelly recounts dumpster diving on the International Space Station for discarded meals after a supply […]
  
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• What Amazon Really Means When It Tells Seattle That Not Everyone Wants to Live Here

  11-10-2017 20:20 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeTwilight of the goodtimes... Charles Mudede
  This must hurt. Seattle just heard something from an Amazon executive, Jeff Wilke, that ithas always secretly feared: Some people do not want to live here. The city is not all that it thinks it is. It's fine for some, but not for others. This is why Amazon is opening a second HQ, claimed the executive at the Geekwire Summit on October 11. Seattle, which is often named "the most livable city in the US" in magazines found the pockets of
  
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• State: Data of nearly 3 million Washingtonians breached last year

  11-10-2017 20:11
  A new report from the Washington Attorney General found that 3 million Washington residents had their personal data breached in the last year.
  
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• SPD releases video of cops shooting at car in Eastlake

  11-10-2017 20:08
  Seattle police released video Tuesday night depicting the Sunday night incident in which cops fired at a Subaru in an Eastlake alley.
  
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• ITMFA Donates Another $100,000 to ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and IRAP

  11-10-2017 20:08 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  I'm thrilled to announce that ITMFA is sending a second round of checks to the American Civil Liberties Union, Planned Parenthood, and the International Refugee Assistance Project. This morning we sent off checks Planned Parenthood ($33,333.33), the ACLU ($33,333.33) and the International Refugee Assistance Project ($33,333.34)—money we raised selling ITMFA ("Impeach The Mother Fucker Already") buttons, t-shirts, tanks, hats, stickers, coffee cups, and lapel pins at www.ITMFA
  
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• Amazon Exec Says HQ2 Won't Be In Seattle Or Anywhere In The Northwest

  11-10-2017 19:48 via thestranger.com
  
  Sorry, Tacoma and King County.by Chetanya RobinsonWanted: Less rain. DAVID RYDER/GETTY
  Seattle and every other city in the Northwest can give up on wooing Amazon to build its second headquarters here. It's not happening, Amazon Worldwide Consumer CEO Jeff Wilke said at a GeekWire Summit yesterday.“Not everybody wants to live in the Northwest,” he said. “It’s been terrific for me and my family, but I think we may find another location allows us to recruit a different colle
  
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• Sick Tape Shows Electronic-Music Scene's Health—and Benefits Key Seattle Event Coordinator

  11-10-2017 19:41 via thestranger.com
  
  Northwest-centric electronic-music cassette But You Don't Look Sick benefits one of the most dedicated supporters/organizers of Seattle's underground scene.by Dave SegalEx-Debacle Fest operative Samantha Fonteyne-Crescioni and husband Frankie: supporting the local underground electronic music scene while fighting a litany of health issues.
  For the last five years or so, Samantha Fonteyne-Crescioni has been an enthusiastic supporter and key figure in some of Seattle's most interesting experimenta
  
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• Protest Planned for Betsy DeVos's Arrival in Bellevue on Friday

  11-10-2017 19:33
  
  Will you be there?by Sydney BrownstoneDeVos will be speaking at the Washington Policy Center's annual fundraiser. MARK WILSON / GETTY
  A protest launched by a statewide nonprofit devoted to racial and social equity in Washington's public schools will greet US Secretary of State Betsy DeVos on Friday in Bellevue, where she is speaking at the right-wing thinktank Washington Policy Center's annual dinner.The Equity in Education Coalition started organizing for the event on Facebook nearly two months
  
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• Teen critically hurt in Shoreline bicycle crash

  11-10-2017 19:24
  A 14-year-old Shorewood High School student was critically hurt Wednesday morning after being hit by a semi truck while riding a bicycle in Shoreline, reports say.
  
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• NASA using asteroid’s close flyby to test warning network

  11-10-2017 19:09
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is using an asteroid’s close flyby to test Earth’s warning network for incoming space rocks. The small asteroid will pass within about 27,200 miles (43,800 kilometers) of Antarctica early Thursday. Program scientist Michael Kelley says that’s “pretty close” as these things go. But he stresses there’s no chance it […]
  
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• Poll: Who Wants to Give Amazon Delivery Drivers Access to Your House?

  11-10-2017 19:08
  
  by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey
  According to this report from CNBC, Amazon is trying to figure out a way to quickly deliver your packages, without them getting stolen. So they (reportedly) came up with this plan!Amazon is developing a smart doorbell device that would give delivery drivers one-time access to a person's home to drop off items, said two people familiar with the matter. The sources asked not to be named because the discussions are confidential.
  The new initiatives are part of Amazon's
  
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• County Council Members Propose Pro-Safe Consumption Sites Ballot Measure

  11-10-2017 18:36
  
  Voters would see it next to an anti-SCS measure.by Heidi GrooverInSite, a safe injection facility in Vancouver, British Columbia.insite presentation to seattle city council
  King County voters could see two measures about safe consumption sites on their ballots in February.
  Several Democratic members of the King County Council are proposing a second ballot measure related to safe consumption sites in an effort to offset Initiative 27. That initiative would ban safe consumption sites across King C
  
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• Thurston County deputy fatally shoots man in casino parking lot

  11-10-2017 18:17
  A family member reported that the 55-year-old Lakewood man was acting erratically and armed with a pistol, the sheriff's office said.
  
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• Guest Editorial: Defend Education & Expel Trumpism from Our Schools

  11-10-2017 18:14
  
  Kshama Sawant will be protesting Betsy DeVos on Friday.by Kshama Sawant Kelly O
  October is National Bullying Prevention Month, observed in school districts throughout our country as a time to raise awareness of and unite against bullying. It’s no stretch to say that if Donald J. Trump were a student in Seattle Public Schools, he would be in gross violation of the District’s policies with his continual stream of personal insults, truculent threats, and his rampant xenophobia, sexism,
  
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• Semi strikes bicyclist in Shoreline

  11-10-2017 18:04
  The bicyclist suffered critical injuries, according to the Shoreline Fire Department.
  
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• Semi strikes 14-year-old Shorewood High student riding bicycle in Shoreline

  11-10-2017 18:04
  The bicyclist suffered critical injuries, according to the Shoreline Fire Department.
  
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• 250 years after Washington drained it, feds soak a swamp

  11-10-2017 17:59
  SUFFOLK, Va. (AP) — The U.S. government is trying to undo the damage from two centuries of logging at the Great Dismal Swamp. George Washington had slaves drain wetlands to harvest cedar and cypress trees from the swamp before the American Revolution. That logging continued well into the 20th Century. Now a years-long project is […]
  
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• The Morning News: Police Release Video of Eastlake Shooting, Chris Hansen Says Sodo Arena Is Not Dead

  11-10-2017 17:31
  
  Also: Who threw a sick dog out of a minivan in West Seattle?by Heidi GrooverTwo officers fire several shots at the vehicle Sunday in Eastlake.SPD
  Police Release Video, Open Criminal Investigation in Eastlake Police Shooting: Seattle Police released audio and video from the Sunday encounter in which police fired multiple rounds at a black Subaru in Eastlake. Watch all four videos here. The SPD has also opened a criminal investigation into the shooting, according to the Seattle Times.
  Manka Dhingr
  
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• A look at the 2017 MacArthur Foundation ‘genius grant’ winners

  11-10-2017 17:24
  Painter, historian, playwright, scientist: A look at the 24 people who were chosen for MacArthur Foundation honors on Wednesday.
  
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• Could Starbucks’ new Maple Pecan Latte be the new pumpkin spice?

  11-10-2017 16:17
  "People like the maple pecan, but they love the pumpkin spice," said one Seattle barista, who declined to share his name. For many, the availability of pumpkin spice — offered at Starbucks only during the fall — is the hallmark of autumn.
  
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• “They let him lay there.” Family wants answers from Boeing on death of Seattle employee.

  11-10-2017 15:00
  Roger Sanders’ family is getting little information from Boeing about why it took an hour and 24 minutes for Sanders to reach a hospital from the plant after he suffered a head injury.
  
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• Put away your phone, yell and don’t get too close: Here is a guide for safe bike riding

  11-10-2017 15:00
  After a nasty crash in which a bicyclist yelled “Hot pizza!” before hitting a woman on the Spokane River Centennial Trail, cyclists and pedestrians are going over proper etiquette on shared paths.
  
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• King County Council to weigh measure on safe-injection sites

  11-10-2017 15:00
  The Metropolitan King County Council is considering adding a February ballot measure endorsing safe injection sites, a response to an initiative on the same ballot that would ban the controversial approach.
  
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• Family lambastes Boeing after death of worker

  11-10-2017 15:00
  Roger Sanders’ family is getting little information from Boeing about why it took an hour and 24 minutes for Sanders to reach a hospital from the plant after he suffered a head injury.
  
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• Central Washington University to offer free classes for high-school students in Sammamish

  11-10-2017 14:00
  Central Washington University has started offering a new path for high- school students to earn college credit tuition-free at a location run jointly with the city of Sammamish.
  
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• Warm Service and Stellar Comfort Food at Union Saloon in Wallingford

  11-10-2017 13:00
  Union Saloon is the kind of bar you wish was in your neighborhood.by Angela GarbesLate on a Sunday afternoon, I sat at the handsome horseshoe-shaped bar that anchors Union Saloon, Wallingford's newest neighborhood bar. With its heavy wooden door, antique objects, oversize booths, shiplap walls, and exposed wood-beam ceiling, the space evokes nostalgia for the taverns of the Wild West, the creaky hulls of grand ships.I sipped an old-fashioned (cocktails here are of the classic, straight-shooting,
  
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• The Stranger's Endorsements for the November 7, 2017, General Election

  11-10-2017 13:00
  
  Everybody you should vote for.by Stranger Election Control BoardThe Year of the Four Mayors.Okay, okay—it doesn't have the same ring to as "The Year of the Four Emperors," which you'll know something about if (1) you went to a school that centered on the study of dead white men (like they do at Evergreen, that bastion of white supremacy) and (2) you did the reading in addition to smoking the pot. But for those us who did (have that kind of education) and did (the reading, the pot), things
  
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• The Indigenous Family That Found Refuge in an Old Seattle Gay Bar

  11-10-2017 13:00
  Artist Storme Webber weaves a history of queer outsiders in underground Seattle.by Emily PothastYears ago, there was an underground dance hall in Pioneer Square that catered to lesbian mothers, gay servicemen, drag queens, and achnucek—or "Two-Spirits," Native Americans whose identities exist outside the gender binary. At the time, homosexuality was considered a mental illness and a crime punishable by imprisonment."The Casino was the name but it was about as far from Monte Carlo as you cd
  
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• The Best Upscale Happy Hours

  11-10-2017 13:00
  
  The Best High-End Happy Hours in Seattle Right Nowby Corina ZappiaI don't know exactly when upscale restaurants started offering happy hours, but I'm ready to kiss the first restaurateur who got that sweet wheel in motion. "Let the discounted food and drink commence," I imagine him saying with a generous twirl of his Monopoly game mustache. No disrespect to foie-gras-laced desserts or hazelnut dust, but high-end happy hours are the greatest thing about fine dining in Seattle. They give the rest
  
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