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• Concerts to Get Spoopy at This Weekend

  26-10-2017 23:43 via thestranger.com
  Decades Cover Night, Tacocat, FreakNight 2017, And More Music Critics’ Picks For This Weekby Stranger Things To Do StaffHalloween is on a Tuesday this year, which means we really get to enjoy a full weekend of wild parties, haunted houses, cultural events, and autumnal moments before the actual holiday even starts. If you'd like to combine your typical evening plans with the more thematic elements of the season, head over to these local music shows for a taste of both. We've got everything
  
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• 28 Concerts To Get Spoopy At This Halloween Weekend 2017 in Seattle

  26-10-2017 23:43 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffThe members of Tacocat already dress like every day is Halloween, so you should join them on this most glittery of holidays (along with Tres Leches, Spesh, and DJ El Mizell). Erik Voake, courtesy of Coachella
  Halloween is on a Tuesday this year, which means we really get to enjoy a full weekend of wild parties, haunted houses, cultural events, and autumnal moments before the actual holiday even starts. If you'd like to combine your typical evening plans with the mor
  
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• Culture News: SAM Gets Big Money to Conserve Asian Art, Some Awesome Art and Performance Spaces Will Close, and Some Will Open

  26-10-2017 23:32 via thestranger.com
  
  Plus: Short Run! A Ghidra reunion! And more!by Amber CortesThe Asian Art Museum will become home to the new Asian Paintings Conservation Center starting in 2019. KELLY O
  The Seattle Art Museum Just Got a Hefty Grant to Conserve Asian Art: $3.5 million, to be exact, from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and it’s a challenge grant, which means the museum has to raise about $2.5 million in matching funds over the next four years. The money will endow a new Asian Paintings Conservation Center,
  
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• Los Angeles Zoo produces record number of baby snakes

  26-10-2017 23:31
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Zoo says it has had its most successful breeding season for rare and endangered snake species. The zoo’s Living Amphibians, Invertebrates and Reptiles program produced a record 61 snake babies this summer and fall, including various types of vipers and rattlesnakes. The program staff tries to create an […]
  
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• Seattle ranked nation’s No. 2 coolest city — just behind this West Coast rival

  26-10-2017 22:35
  What a bummer, Seattle, we’re No. 2. San Francisco is officially cooler than Seattle, according to Forbes and Sperling’s Best Places, which found that the former was “crushing” the competition when it came to restaurants, world-class museums, sports teams, good hiking and reliable mass transit. Seattle, however, trumped all other contenders when it came to, yes, […]
  
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• Savage Love: Necking

  26-10-2017 22:33 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  In a frank exchange early in our courtship, I told my girlfriend that I have no kinks. As a faithful reader of Savage Love, I'm obviously not opposed to kinks—but I've never had any inclinations in that direction and am probably a typical hetero vanilla. As a result, I'm damn near clueless in that area. Last night, my girlfriend placed my hands around her neck and asked me to choke her. My instant reaction was to say no, not out of any objection in principle but because I tho
  
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• 38 Movies Worth Watching in Seattle This Halloween Weekend: Oct 26-29, 2017

  26-10-2017 22:28 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffAudrey 2 strikes again in Little Shop of Horrors: The Director's Cut on Sunday.
  We're talking to YOU, slobbering hordes of horror junkies: Seattle cinemas are, unsurprisingly, rising to Halloween enthusiasts' demand for scary movies, as are many small venues screening classics for free. Find them here! As usual, our critics have also picked out the best new releases, restorations, and special screenings in theaters, including Ai Weiwei's Human Flow, Yorgos Lanthimos
  
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• 37 Movies Worth Watching in Seattle This Weekend: Oct 26-29, 2017

  26-10-2017 22:18 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's film critics' picks.by Stranger Things To Do StaffWe're talking to YOU, slobbering hordes of horror junkies: Seattle cinemas are, unsurprisingly, rising to Halloween enthusiasts' demand for scary movies, as are many small venues screening classics for free. Find them here! As usual, our critics have also picked out the best new releases, restorations, and special screenings in theaters, including Ai Weiwei's Human Flow, Yorgos Lanthimos's The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and the HUMP
  
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• Sub Pop Is Releasing the Entire U-Men Catalog

  26-10-2017 22:04 via thestranger.com
  John Bigley’s vocals howl with natural wild-man charisma.by Dave SegalThroughout the 1980s, right before Seattle’s grunge faux-nomenon blew up, the U-Men ruled the city’s subterranean rock scene with noisy, jutting songs and a stage presence that left interesting bruises and made crowds fear for their safety and sanity.One of their biggest fans was and is Mudhoney frontman Mark Arm, who took time out of his busy schedule to write a tribute that accompanies Sub Pop’s press
  
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• The South Seattle Emerald's Membership Drive Ends Today. Go Help Them Out.

  26-10-2017 21:59 via thestranger.com
  
  Donate before the day is over.by Sean NelsonDig deep if you're digging.
  Today is the final day of the South Seattle Emerald's membership drive. As you undoubtedly know, the SSE is a local online publication with the stated mission "to amplify the authentic narratives of South Seattle." In its three-and-a-half year existence, the Emerald has added a vital, passionate, and dedicated voice (voices, really) to Seattle's ever diminishing media landscape.The obvious thing to say is that the more publi
  
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• Fucking Moron: Tell Kids "It's Really, Really Easy" Not To Take Drugs

  26-10-2017 21:37 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageTrump on advertising anti-drug messages: "if we can teach young people... not to start, it's really, really easy not to take [drugs]." pic.twitter.com/TKu3zjfZGT
  — BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) October 26, 2017
  This morning a fucking moron declared the US's opioid epidemic a "public health emergency." But the fucking moron went back on a campaign promise to declare the opioid epidemic a "national emergency." It's a distinction with a huge, amazing, tremendous difference:
  The m
  
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• Why Are Stranger Geniuses Industrial Revelation Covering Bjork's Homogenic?

  26-10-2017 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle jazz Geniuses Industrial Revelation reveal why they're covering Björk's 1997 masterpiece, Homogenic, live.by Dave Segal
  It's doubtful anyone saw this coming: Stranger Genius Award winners Industrial Revelation will be covering Icelandic singer/songwriter/producer Björk's Homogenic in its entirety at Neptune Theatre on December 20. Released in 1997, Homogenic is a richly orchestrated electronic song suite that stuffs 10 pounds of fraught emotions into a five-pound bag.Homogenic
  
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• 13th Annual HUMP! Film Fest Opens Tonight!

  26-10-2017 21:05 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  13th Annual HUMP! Trailer from HUMP! Film Festival on Vimeo.The 13th Annual HUMP! Film Fest opens tonight at On the Boards! Both of tonight's screenings are sold out—and most this weekend's screenings are already sold out and tickets are going fast for the remaining shows! GET YOUR TICKETS NOW! You can watch the trailer, above, or read an enigmatic little something of all the films in this year's festival here. Or you can show up to a screening without knowing anything about
  
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• Don't Forget: State Health Benefit Exchange Opens Next Week

  26-10-2017 20:49 via thestranger.com
  
  Trump cut the open enrollment period by six weeks.by Katie Herzog DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES
  For those who are unemployed, under-employed, self-employed, or otherwise don't receive health insurance from an employer, one of the few means of procuring health insurance is through the State Health Benefit Exchange, made possible by Barack Obama and the Affordable Care Act. Currently, about 180,000 Washingtonians get their insurance though the exchange. But if Donald Trump and his Obama-hating cronies
  
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• Haunted Houses, Ghost Tours, And Other Scary Halloween Events

  26-10-2017 20:46 via thestranger.com
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffBelow, find all of your options for ghost tours, haunted houses, and other scary events throughout Seattle and beyond—some of which promise to be scarier than others—ranging from the Georgetown Morgue Haunted House to ghost tours at the Spooked in Seattle Museum Fright Fest.SEATTLETHURSDAY-SUNDAY & TUESDAY
  Into the Basement: An Immersive Horror ExperienceIf you like big and scary puzzles, consider exploring actual subterranean ruins in Seattle's unde
  
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• Teresa Mosqueda Proposes Gender Pay Gap Policies, Including Ban on Asking About Salary History

  26-10-2017 20:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Should employers be able to ask what your last boss paid you?by Heidi GrooverSeattle City Council candidate Teresa Mosqueda at a protest of Betsy DeVos this month. nate gowdy
  The push to stop employers from asking about salary history is gaining momentum among candidates running for citywide office in Seattle.
  City council candidate Teresa Mosqueda unveiled more details of her gender pay equity platform this week, including supporting a prohibition on employers asking about salary history during
  
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• Thank You for Your Service Deglamorizes Modern Warfare

  26-10-2017 20:13 via thestranger.com
  A war movie that takes place off the battlefield and out of uniform.by Ben ColemanI get why actors like to play soldiers in movies. It's hard not to look good in a uniform. You get to stare into the middle distance and clench your jaw the way badasses do. You get to swing around prop guns and yell things like "Get down!" and "Cover me!" Maybe it's not exactly realistic, but realism is rarely an equal partner in the relationship between movies and the military.So it's to the filmmakers' credit th
  
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• Seattle Halloween 2017: 29 Haunted Houses, Ghost Tours, And Other Scary Events

  26-10-2017 20:13 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do Staff Shutterstock
  This year in Seattle, you have no excuse for not having Halloween plans—check out our Halloween calendar for more than 250 events. But if those numbers overwhelm you, we're here to break it down even further—including with this list of ghost tours, haunted houses, and other events throughout Seattle and beyond, some of which promise to be scarier than others. Find all of your options below, ranging from the Georgetown Morgue Haunted House t
  
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• ‘Mesmerizing’: Watch formation of ‘The Big Dark,’ a 5,000-mile river of storms over the Pacific

  26-10-2017 20:07
  The flow of moisture extended about 5,000 miles from Japan to Washington, according to NASA's Earth Observatory site.
  
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• Individual insurance rates in WA jump more than 36 percent

  26-10-2017 20:07
  The rate announcement comes a day after a U.S. judge in California rejected a request from 18 states — including Washington — and the District of Columbia to force the Trump administration to resume paying "Obamacare" subsidies right away.
  
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• Washington State Approved Health Care Plans Have Higher Insurance Premiums Thanks to Trump

  26-10-2017 19:47 via thestranger.com
  Blame Trumpby Chetanya Robinson Daniel Grill/Getty
  Eleven health insurers have been approved to sell 74 health-care plans in Washington State—and they come with an average premium increase of 36.4 percent, according to the state Office of the Insurance Commissioner (OIC), the agency responsible for overseeing the local health insurance industry and educating people about insurance.The increase is due to President Trump's order to demolish federal health-care subsidies for low-income people
  
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• Misplaced monarchs: Clusters of butterflies stuck up north

  26-10-2017 19:39
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Monarch butterflies, those delicate symbols of spring and summer, should mostly be in Texas by now, winging their way to Mexico for the winter. But Darlene Burgess keeps seeing colorful clusters of them — and she lives in Canada. “As nice as this is to see, I really wish I wouldn’t see […]
  
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• Here's Why We Shouldn't Be Cheering the Boy Scouts for Accepting Girls

  26-10-2017 19:30 via thestranger.com
  by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey bauhaus1000 / Getty
  In reaction to the Boy Scouts' rapidly declining membership (and their abysmal record on LGBTQ rights), they recently decided for the first time to allow girls into their ranks. According to Chief Scout Executive Michael Surbaugh, here's their reasoning for the change:“The values of Scouting — trustworthy, loyal, helpful, kind, brave and reverent, for example — are important for both young men and women,” he said in a state
  
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• Suburbicon’s Uneasy Balancing Act

  26-10-2017 19:23 via thestranger.com
  Huh. Maybe wacky crime and civil rights AREN’T the best combo.by Ned LannamannSuburbicon wants to be a lot of things. It wants to be a darkly comic domestic crime caper à la Fargo—not too surprising, as it comes from an unused Coen brothers script that director George Clooney and collaborator Grant Heslov have stripped for parts. It also wants to be a slightly histrionic Hitchcockian thriller with Oresteian overtones, as well as a skewering of 1950s white-bread suburban Americ
  
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• Drug company founder indicted in US-wide opioid conspiracy

  26-10-2017 19:08
  Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor and the others are accused of offering bribes to doctors to write large numbers of prescriptions for fentanyl-based pain medication that is meant only for cancer patients with severe pain. Most of the people who received the prescriptions did not have cancer.
  
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• Drug company founder charged with pushing powerful opioid

  26-10-2017 19:08
  Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor and the others are accused of offering bribes to doctors to write large numbers of prescriptions for fentanyl-based pain medication that is meant only for cancer patients with severe pain. Most of the people who received the prescriptions did not have cancer.
  
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• Fuck Washington State University For Choosing Football Over Academics

  26-10-2017 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Guess how much their head football coach makes?by Rich SmithGuys that's not... how that works.William Mancebo / gettyOn Monday, Washington State University president Kirk Schulz announced massive budget cuts in a letter to students and faculty. He instructed every department to "reduce its spending by 2.5 percent," and promised to "eliminate and restructure some positions" in Performing Arts, Student Affairs, academic colleges, Athletics, and Finance and Administration, all in effort to eventual
  
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• Guest Editorial: Two Labor Leaders Make the Case For Jenny Durkan

  26-10-2017 18:43 via thestranger.com
  
  From Nicole Grant and David Rolf.by Nicole Grant Nate Gowdy
  Seattle has become a beacon to the nation, pioneering cutting edge policies to address income inequality and improve the lives of workers. We led by implementing a $15 minimum wage and paid sick leave, creating a fully funded Office of Labor Standards, and requiring that new development in the city must contribute to creating more affordable housing. We passed landmark legislation criminalizing wage theft, mandating secure sch
  
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• Ben Carson: Gold Star Widow "Just Looking For Something To Complain About"

  26-10-2017 18:12 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  Ben Carson says Sgt. La David T. Johnson's widow was just "looking for something to complain about" and seized on the president's condolence call. TPM:
  Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson on Wednesday said some people “were just looking for something to complain about” in President Donald Trump’s remarks to the widow of a U.S. soldier killed in Niger earlier in October. Asked about Sgt. La David T. Johnson’s family, who criticized Trump&rsq
  
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• 'The Oatmeal' gets a heavy dose of irony from Facebook

  26-10-2017 17:54
  Mathew Inman, Seattle resident and creator of the popular webcomic "The Oatmeal," used his latest comic to call out Facebook's reach function. Unfortunately the algorithmic powers that be at Facebook didn't quite grasp the humor.
  
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• The Morning News: Two Women Say George H.W. Bush Groped Them, Illegal Debt Complaint Hits Moon Campaign, Bottlenecked Shelters Keep People on the Streets

  26-10-2017 17:21 via thestranger.com
  
  Also: Weekly, Candy Corn, Fats Dominoby Steven Hsieh Al Bello / GETTY
  Weinstein Fallout Reaches Former President: Two women have now publicly claimed that George H.W. Bush groped them as they posed for a photo. According to the latest allegation, published by Deadspin, Bush joked that his favorite magician is “David Cop-a-Feel” and before grabbing a woman from behind. Reports of abuse by the Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein popularized the #MeToo movement and opened the floodgates fo
  
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• Connelly: Big Tobacco, Big Oil, Koch, U.S. Chamber dollars in state Senate race

  26-10-2017 17:07
  When a nasty, soft-on-crime TV political spot appears on your screen this fall, chances are Phillips 66, R.J. Reynolds or Koch Industries helped pay for it.
  
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• Suspects who shot at trooper in Yakima County still at large, police say

  26-10-2017 15:57
  Detectives with the Washington State Patrol are seeking the help of anyone who has information about two people who shot at a trooper on Monday. The trooper, who was not injured, had tried to stop a speeding car in Yakima County, according to the State Patrol. After a six-minute chase, which exceeded 100 mph, the […]
  
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• 2 men critically injured in University District shooting overnight

  26-10-2017 15:57
  Two men in their early 20s were shot in a popular part of the University District overnight.
  
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• 2 shot in Seattle’s University District, police say

  26-10-2017 15:03
  Two people were shot early Thursday in the University District and were taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, Seattle police said.
  
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• Well-oiled machine or rudderless ship? Seattle City Attorney candidates see office differently

  26-10-2017 15:00
  Well-oiled machine or broken-down junker? Incumbent Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes and challenger Scott Lindsay don’t see eye to eye on much of anything when it comes to running the city’s law firm.
  
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• Trump stirs up GOP opposition … Now ask what you can do

  26-10-2017 15:00
  It’s a good sign that members of the president’s own party are taking him to task for toxic leadership. Just don’t forget your own responsibility as a citizen in future elections. That’s where real change comes.
  
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• The bottleneck in Seattle’s homeless shelters that leaves thousands on the streets

  26-10-2017 15:00
  The Seattle Times is launching Project Homeless, a community-funded initiative to explore the causes of homelessness, explain what the region is doing about the crisis and spotlight potential solutions. Today, we examine one of the obstacles to moving people into stable housing.
  
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• Say goodbye to musicians mural on lower Queen Anne

  26-10-2017 15:00
  The large mural painted on the back of the building old Silver Platters building in lower Queen Anne will be coming down.
  
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• Here’s one way for vehicle owners to avoid paying Sound Transit’s car-tab tax

  26-10-2017 15:00
  Passenger trucks that weigh more than 6,000 pounds are exempt from the entire 1.1 percent yearly car tab tax that helps fund Sound Transit light rail, Sounder commuter trains, and ST Express bus service.
  
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• Florida newcomers surge: the latest on another year of record-breaking growth in Seattle area

  26-10-2017 15:00
  For the third consecutive year, more people from out of state have moved to King County than ever before. What are the top states — and one country — that are sending people here?
  
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• Experience, outside legal costs at heart of race for Seattle city attorney

  26-10-2017 15:00
  Well-oiled machine or broken-down junker? Incumbent Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes and challenger Scott Lindsay don’t see eye to eye on much of anything when it comes to running the city’s law firm.
  
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• Amid $36 million deficit, UW dental-school dean resigns

  26-10-2017 15:00
  The University of Washington’s dental-school dean has resigned, and the university is looking for ways to reduce a $36 million dental-school deficit.
  
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• District newcomers face long odds against front-runners in two Seattle School Board races

  26-10-2017 14:00
  In Southeast Seattle’s District 7, Betty Patu is running for a third term on the board against challenger Chelsea Byers. In the District 4 race to represent Belltown, Queen Anne, Magnolia and Ballard, parent leader Eden Mack is running against Herbert Camet Jr.
  
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• A reader asks who’s teaching in Washington schools: here’s what we found

  26-10-2017 14:00
  There are about 64,000 public school teachers in Washington. Most of them are white women, and above the age of 40.
  
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