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• Convention Center project to include $90M in community benefits

  16-10-2017 23:50
  City and county leaders announced a wide array of community benefits coming out of the long-awaited expansion of the Washington State Convention Center.
  
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• Dante's will not survive after inferno

  16-10-2017 23:49
  In a story as old as Amazonia, a beloved University District bar will be replaced by high-efficiency apartments and live-work units.
  
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• Raise Your Hand If You Made These Weird Anti-Jenny Durkan Posters

  16-10-2017 23:48 via thestranger.com
  
  Why is the artist sort of implicating Cary Moon in this madness by associating her name with an event she wasn't involved in?by Rich SmithReward: I will talk with you for a full hour about universal basic income if you just tell me who made these signs.AC
  Late last month, one of my colleagues here at the Stranger saw these two posters wheat-pasted to the carapace of the construction project next to our office. And yet still, they haunt me.To save you the trouble of zooming in and squinting, the
  
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• Jim Bakker (Who Is Still on TV, BTW): Stop Mocking Me or God Will Punish You

  16-10-2017 23:28 via thestranger.com
  
  Some of Bakker's meretricious poison is good for a chuckle.by Sean NelsonJim Bakker in 2017.
  F. Scott Fitzgerald was a fine writer, but he was all wrong about one thing, at least: As it turns out, there is no shortage of second acts in American life if you're a complete bastard.
  A mere 29 short years ago, Jim Bakker was a disgraced televangelist/entrepreneur, accused of drugging and raping his secretary Jessica Hahn, and serving a 45-year prison sentence for 24 counts of fraud that netted him $1
  
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• Seattle School Board opens search for new superintendent

  16-10-2017 23:21
  The Seattle School Board wants to hire a new superintendent when Superintendent Larry Nyland's contract ends in June 2018.
  
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• Report: Mother, son fired upon by cops accused of stealing car

  16-10-2017 23:13
  The pair fired upon by Seattle cops during an Oct. 8 confrontation in Eastlake were a mother and son who are now jailed for vehicle theft.
  
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• dvsn's Romantic New LP Morning After Expands R&B Boundaries

  16-10-2017 22:59 via thestranger.com
  
  Canadian R&B duo dvsn's pulsating new album Morning After grapples with the emotional consequences of intimacy.by Jessica Fu OVO Sound
  dvsn
  Morning After
  (OVO Sound/Warner Bros.)
  The last time a man crooned that he was bad news and that his lover ought to flee, Kanye West was detangling his break-up with Amber Rose and dvsn had not yet been founded. Seven years later, the Canadian R&B duo, comprised of singer Daniel Daley and producer Nineteen85, re-assert this portent in the first track
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Start Leveling (With Her Boyfriend) or Keep Lying (To Him, With Other Men)?

  16-10-2017 22:58 via thestranger.com
  by Dan Savage
  Longtime listener, first-time writer. I'm a 31-year-old queer female writing to you from
  New Zealand because I want to stop being an asshole. When it comes to sex, I’m addicted to the thrill of the chase but I struggle to maintain a lasting relationship beyond that. I’ve been with my current partner for three years but it’s been an up and down kind of a ride due to various reasons and I've also slept with 14 other people in that time without his knowledge. I&rsquo
  
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• What cosmic crash confirmed: Einstein was as good as gold

  16-10-2017 22:35
  WASHINGTON (AP) — When two extremely dense neutron stars crashed together in a distant galaxy, astronomers struck scientific gold, confirming previously unproven theories, including some from Albert Einstein. Scientists announced Monday that after picking up two faint signals in mid-August, they were able to find the location of the long-ago crash and see the end […]
  
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• The 28 Best Concerts in Seattle This Week: October 16-22, 2017

  16-10-2017 22:34 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger’s music critics’ picks for this week.by Stranger Things To Do StaffThis week, start preparing for Halloween crowds by attending some excellent local live music shows. Our critics have picked everything from a reunion of Pacific Northwest rock legends (The Afghan Whigs), to one of the most earnest space-rock circus freaks you'll ever meet (Nik Turner's Hawkwind), to a weaving of shadowy, hypnagogic pop ripe for this season (Zola Jesus). Follow the links below for ticket l
  
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• Arcade Fire’s Will Butler Joined Nikkita Oliver on Stage to Push for Stronger Police Accountability Laws

  16-10-2017 22:18 via thestranger.com
  
  I-940 needs 340,000 signatures by December.by Steven HsiehLeft to right: Teresa Mosqueda, Nikkita Oliver, Sophia Nicholson-Keener, Will Butler SH
  Arcade Fire played a loud and wide-ranging show at KeyArena last night. I danced my ass off. After the concert, I watched drunk guys stumbling out singing the part of “Wake Up” that stadiums play at sports games. Also after the show, I followed some concertgoers to Barboza for an after-party billed as a “Disco Town Hall.”
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• York College Closes Paul Rucker's Rewind Exhibition to the Public

  16-10-2017 22:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Rucker's hand-sewn KKK robes considered "very provocative and potentially disturbing to some."by Amber CortesBirth of A Nation Project at Out of Sight in 2016. MALCOLM SMITH
  The centerpiece of artist Paul Rucker’s powerful Rewind exhibition is a collection of Klu Klux Klan robes, some in traditional African fabrics, some in camouflage patterns, sewn by Rucker and members of his family. Also included in the exhibition are racist ephemera from the turn of the century: lynching postcards, Kla
  
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• Local Electeds Beg Amazon for Forgiveness

  16-10-2017 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle, you're embarrassing yourself.by Heidi GrooverFuckboy. David Ryder/GettyLooks like Seattle's elected leaders are not taking The Stranger's advice.Five members of the Seattle City Council have signed on to a letter saying they want to "hit the refresh button" with Amazon. First reported by the Seattle Times, the letter begging Amazon to stay and grow here in Seattle is also signed by county council members, state lawmakers, and port commissioners."You have heard mixed messages from our co
  
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• Study Concludes Straight Women Should Also Worry about Bromances

  16-10-2017 21:32 via thestranger.com
  
  TL;DR This is some overgeneralized bullshit.by Chase BurnsThey give each other everything they need—except blowjobs. Cecilie Arcurs / Getty Images
  I'm loath to give this more coverage (because it's already received a lot of fucking coverage), but a new study has concluded straight ladies don't have enough to worry about. Following up an extremely bad week for women, academics at the Universities of Winchester and Bedfordshire decided the new big threat to straight relationships is the&mdas
  
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• Seattle Food News: The Healeo Space Finally Has a New Tenant, Surf's Up for Stoneburner, Beacon Hill Gets a Rad Wine Bar, and More!

  16-10-2017 21:06 via thestranger.com
  
  by Tobias Coughlin-BogueOne of Intrigue's beloved truffle bars. Intrigue Chocolate Co. FB
  Intrigue Chocolate Co. to Take Over Healeo Space
  The popular Pioneer Square chocolatier will be bringing their truffle-y goodness to the space vacated by Healeo on the corner of 15th and Madison, CHS reports. In addition to selling the truffles, truffle bars, and chocolatey ingredients (nibs!) they've won a following for, the new space will be a full coffee shop as well.
  "Full coffee service is a relatively
  
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• Spun Out: 5 Essential Cuts Selected by Local DJ CCL

  16-10-2017 20:36 via thestranger.com
  
  TUF FEST and Corridor organizer and globe-trotting DJ CCL picks 5 tracks that make dancers worldwide wiggle.by Dave Segal"I like tracks that play with space, have wicked, groovy bass lines, and mixing that adds and subtracts to create tension and release."
  CCL (aka CECILIA CORSANO-LEOPIZZI; TUF)
  Current Top 5 tracks:
  Titonton, "Skin on Skin" (Residual Recordings)
  "There are so many good Titonton tracks it is kind of ridiculous. This is one currently on rotation a lot for me. Titonton tracks are
  
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• Hustler Mag's Larry Flynt Offers $10 Million for Info Leading to Trump's Impeachment

  16-10-2017 19:56 via thestranger.com
  
  What a time to be alive.by Katie Herzog
  Looks like Dan Savage isn't the only pornographer ready to ITMFA.Larry Flynt, famed publisher of Hustler magazine, published a full-page ad in the Washington Post Sunday in which he offered $10 million for information leading to the impeachment of Donald Trump, future ex president of the United States.
  Sooo, let's just get this straight: The man who once put out a magazine with a busty blonde motorboating the White House on the cover may be the one to save
  
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• Seattle leaders look to push ‘refresh’ button with Amazon

  16-10-2017 19:53
  A month after Amazon’s surprise announcement it will open a second headquarters outside Seattle, some local politicians want to rebuild the city’s relationship with its largest employer. A letter signed by a majority of Seattle City Council members as well as some state legislators, port commissioners and education officials, says to the extent the company’s headquarters […]
  
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• Could Seattle Take the Next Step Toward a Municipal Bank?

  16-10-2017 19:46 via thestranger.com
  
  It will be legally complicated.by Heidi GrooverIt's budget season. City of Seattle
  If you thought Bob Hasegawa's embarrassing defeat in the mayoral primary was the last you were going to hear about a municipal bank, think again. Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant wants to allocate $200,000 in next year's budget to study the feasibility of a public bank in Seattle.The study would "focus on the legal issues and implementation details," including the "actual feasibility of a public bank, the
  
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• Reps. Adam Smith and Pramila Jayapal Are Back in Seattle to Talk About Ending Private Immigration Prisons

  16-10-2017 19:33 via thestranger.com
  by Sydney BrownstoneDaniel Ramirez Medina, a 23-year-old father and DACA recipient, was detained in a private immigration prison for a month and a half after a sweep targeting his father.HG
  The House of Representatives isn't in session this week, so Reps. Adam Smith and Pramila Jayapal are back in Seattle today to talk about a major piece of legislation introduced at the top of the month.The "Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act" would phase out the use of private prisons for immigrant detainees.
  
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• The Morning News: Durkan Did Nothing About WaMu Bankers Because That's "the Way the Law Was Constructed," Giant Cloud About to Dump Rain on Us

  16-10-2017 18:12 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeAbove other building and above the law. Charles Mudede
  Durkan Did Manage to Prosecute: A "small Pierce County bank." Well done! That said, the pro-Durkan Seattle Times provides what it thinks to be an excellent explanation for why Durkan failed to prosecute any of the executives at WaMu. The explanation comes from a UW law professor, Mary Fan, who "sympathizes" with Durkan. Fan followed the case closely, knows its ins and outs, and confidently states that it's hard "to reach exe
  
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• Fire near Everett burns about 500 tires

  16-10-2017 16:41
  EVERETT  — Fire crews responded to a two-alarm fire burning multiple buildings near Everett, Washington. KOMO-TV reports the fire broke out at about 3:15 a.m. Monday south of Everett along Highway 99, just north of the Mukilteo Speedway. Early reports said the fire was at a tire store there, but as crews arrived, they realized […]
  
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• Wet winter weather headed to Western Washington this week

  16-10-2017 16:05
  Two storms will bring the "most widespread and significant rains of the season" to Western Washington this week, according to the National Weather Service.
  
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• Scientists witness huge cosmic crash, find origins of gold

  16-10-2017 16:00
  WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a faint signal, but it told of one of the most violent acts in the universe, and it would soon reveal secrets of the cosmos, including how gold was created. Astronomers around the world reacted to the signal quickly, focusing telescopes located on every continent and even in orbit to […]
  
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• Brayden Olson Is Jumping Into the Race to Replace Congressman Dave Reichert

  16-10-2017 16:00 via thestranger.com
  
  There are now eight Democrats running for Congress in the 8th.by Rich Smith🎶 I won't fuck us over 🎶 Brayden Olson's FacebookEarlier this month a member of the machinists union confirmed that Brayden Olson had been talking with local leaders about jumping into the already prettayy, prettayy, prettayy, prettayyyyyy crowded race to prevent Republican nightmare Dino Rossi from becoming a Congressman.Now Brayden For Our Future dot com is up and the Federal Election Commission has been
  
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• ‘The Big Dark’: Weather Service shares satellite image of future rain clouds stretching from China to Puget Sound

  16-10-2017 15:51
  After a relatively benign first half of the month — with only about a half-inch of precipitation in two weeks — we're likely to get that much dumped on us on Tuesday alone, the National Weather Service says.
  
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• ‘The Big Dark’: Satellite image shows future rain clouds stretching from China to Puget Sound

  16-10-2017 15:51
  After a relatively benign first half of the month — with only about a half-inch of precipitation in two weeks — we're likely to get that much dumped on us on Tuesday alone, the National Weather Service says.
  
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• Why Seattleites love to hate the umbrella

  16-10-2017 15:00
  The city’s only brick-and-mortar umbrella shop is closing this week. One of the owner’s reasons: “Every day somebody would come in and tell me it was stupid to have an umbrella store in Seattle.”
  
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• Where in Seattle would you like an all-way walk intersection? Let us know

  16-10-2017 15:00
  This week, we are taking suggestions from readers on which intersections they would like converted to allow pedestrians to cross simultaneously in all directions.
  
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• Seattle mayoral candidates both say the future holds fewer cars. Here’s how they would ease the crunch

  16-10-2017 15:00
  On transportation, the two candidates vying to be Seattle’s next mayor agree on a lot: Traffic isn’t getting better soon. We need more transit and bike paths. Free ORCA cards for kids. But they do disagree on a few things.
  
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• Fish traps were banned, but some now say ‘it’s the future’ for Columbia River salmon

  16-10-2017 15:00
  Back in the 19th century, fish traps brought in big hauls of Columbia River salmon. Retooled for the 21st century, could they be part of a more sustainable future for commercial harvests?
  
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• Fish traps for Columbia River salmon get another look

  16-10-2017 15:00
  Back in the 19th century, fish traps brought in big hauls of Columbia River salmon. Retooled for the 21st century, could they be part of a more sustainable future for commercial harvests?
  
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• Panel advises Seattle schools on better supporting black males

  16-10-2017 14:00
  After 16 months studying how Seattle schools can better support male African-American students, an advisory committee made recommendations to the district’s superintendent. But district officials warn a budget crunch may prevent some recommendations from becoming a reality.
  
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• Russian supply ship docks at International Space Station

  16-10-2017 13:57
  MOSCOW (AP) — An unmanned Russian cargo ship has docked successfully at the International Space Station, delivering supplies to its six-member crew. The Progress MS-07 ship, carrying 2.5 metric tons (2.75 tons) of water, food and scientific equipment, moored at the space outpost in automatic mode Monday two days after its launch from the Russian-leased […]
  
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• Group: Orangutan orphans a sign of habitat destruction

  16-10-2017 12:40
  JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The discovery last week of two orphaned baby orangutans on Borneo is further evidence that deforestation and illegal hunting are threatening survival of the great apes, an Indonesian conservation group said Monday. Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation spokesman Nico Hermanu said the two orangutans were rescued in separate locations by a joint […]
  
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• Pope at UN demands response to hunger, climate, migration

  16-10-2017 10:44
  ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is demanding world governments collectively work to end rising world hunger by working to end the conflicts and climate-change related disasters that force people to leave their homes in search of their daily bread. Francis drew a standing ovation Monday at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, where he marked […]
  
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• At U.N., pope demands response to hunger, climate, migration

  16-10-2017 10:44
  ROME — Pope Francis demanded Monday that world governments collectively commit to end rising world hunger by resolving the conflicts and climate change-related disasters that force people to leave their homes in search of their daily bread. Francis drew a standing ovation Monday at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, where he marked the U.N.’s […]
  
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• Project saved homes from fires, but can it be duplicated?

  16-10-2017 09:56
  SISTERS, Ore. (AP) — Lightning started a forest fire one August afternoon near this Oregon tourist town, and it was spreading fast. Residents in outlying areas evacuated as flames marched toward their homes. Just a few months earlier, the U.S. Forest Service and a group of locals representing environmental, logging and recreational interests arranged to […]
  
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• Oregon forest-thinning project saved homes, but highlights obstacles

  16-10-2017 09:56
  Thanks to the U.S. Forest Service and local groups, thinning of overgrown forest created a buffer zone around Sisters, Ore., that saved homes by slowing a wildfire and allowing firefighters to corral it. But replicating the work across the sprawling reaches of the West poses several challenges.
  
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• In Texas, Trump voters confront climate change in wake of hurricane

  16-10-2017 06:01
  Jefferson County, Texas, economically dependent on oil refineries, voted for Donald Trump. Then Hurricane Harvey raised some polarizing questions: What role do humans play in global warming and the worsening of storms? And what should leaders do now?
  
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• Throw children to me, lone Port Orchard fire survivor urged son

  16-10-2017 04:48
  The investigation continues into a Port Orchard house fire that claimed two young children, their father and his mother. The man’s father called for his son to throw the children from the second-floor window, but they perished.
  
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• ‘Time for moral courage’: Seattle crowd protests Trump’s immigration policies

  16-10-2017 03:16
  The Westlake Park event included leaders of immigrant-rights groups, labor unions and religious communities. Attorney General Bob Ferguson said, “I’m a lawyer, I can file lawsuits. But the people have to rise up as well.”
  
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• Hundreds protest Trump’s immigration policies in Seattle

  16-10-2017 03:16
  Hundreds gathered Sunday at Westlake Park to protest the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Attorney General Bob Ferguson called for continued protests in addition to legal challenges.
  
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• Hundreds protest Trump’s immigration policies

  16-10-2017 03:16
  Hundreds gathered Sunday at Westlake Park to protest the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Attorney General Bob Ferguson called for continued protests in addition to legal challenges.
  
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• Two men shot in Rainier Valley drive-by, both in satisfactory condition

  16-10-2017 03:10
  Two men were shot Sunday in the Rainier Valley; a hospital nursing supervisor say both are in stable condition. Police are asking the public's help to locate suspects.
  
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• Self-driving car accidents: Robot drivers are ‘odd, and that’s why they get hit’

  16-10-2017 02:00
  While the public is most afraid of marauding vehicles without a driver behind the wheel, the reality is that the self-driving vehicles are overly cautious.
  
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• Nomad Technologies gives college students gigs as human billboards

  16-10-2017 02:00
  Bellevue startup Nomad Technologies, started by a recent WSU grad, hires students, commuters and eventgoers as “nomads” to carry iPads on their backpacks displaying advertising.
  
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• Yakima County remains among worst in state for sexual health

  16-10-2017 01:44
  Yakima County continues to struggle with disproportionately high incidents of sexually transmitted diseases, according to state health officials.
  
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• Man’s body, truck recovered from canal near Wapato home

  16-10-2017 01:26
  Divers recover body of 87-year-old man who drove into canal near his home
  
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