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• Where To Go During Tonight's First Thursday Art Walk: December 7, 2017

  07-12-2017 23:57 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffColin See-Paynton's Unkindness of Ravens is on display at Davidson Galleries' International Wood Engraving Invitational.
  Tonight is First Thursday in Pioneer Square—your monthly opportunity to stroll, sip on booze, and attend as many art openings as possible in a historic neighborhood known for its abundance of galleries. Find all of this month's openings and events on our First Thursday calendar, including our critics' picks, like the TK Lofts 13th Annual Ope
  
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• Washington's Biggest Fraudster Escapes from California Prison

  07-12-2017 23:37 via thestranger.com
  
  Frederick Darren Berg defrauded investors of over $100 million.by Katie HerzogFrederick Darren Berg is in the wind.U.S. Marshals Service
  The Seattle Times reports that Frederick Darren Berg, a Seattle man who ran the state's biggest ever Ponzi scheme and defrauded investors of over $100 million, has escaped from prison.From the Times' Mike Carter:A deputy supervisor in the marshals office in Fresno, Calif., confirmed that Berg, 55, of Mercer Island,is a fugitive after walking away from a work ca
  
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• Man arrested after SeaTac toddler's death

  07-12-2017 23:31
  Detectives arrested a 24-year-old man Wednesday night for investigation of killing a 2-year-old boy in SeaTac.
  
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• Culture News: 4Culture’s ED Retires, Seattle Rep’s AD Leaves for Pittsburgh, and Digable Planets’ Debut Gets a Re-Release

  07-12-2017 23:20 via thestranger.com
  
  Plus, a vinyl addict that can't stop buying records, and the new LaSalle fiction-writing grant winner.by Amber CortesDigable Planets: Reachin' for a re-release. CHRIS DRUMM VIA Creative CommonsLight in the Attic to Reissue Digable Planets’ 1993 Debut Album in February: The Modern Classics subsidiary of Seattle/LA reissue label Light in the Attic will re-release the Digable Planets first record, Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space) as a 25th-anniversary edition on February 23
  
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• The Next Labor Policy Coming to City Hall: Domestic Workers' Rights

  07-12-2017 22:52 via thestranger.com
  
  Domestic workers aren't guaranteed sick time.by Heidi GrooverTeresa Mosqueda is one of three council members who will take part in an event supporting domestic workers' rights tonight. nate gowdy
  It's difficult to know exactly how many domestic workers—housekeepers, nannies, home aides—are employed across the country. Many work on handshake agreements without contracts. Some are paid under the table.What is clear is that domestic workers are not afforded the same protections as other
  
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• Vancouver Study Shows Why Seattle's HALA Is Doomed To Fail

  07-12-2017 22:07 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeGoing up now, Bjarke Ingels' Vancouver House: "Think of Vancouver House as a giant curtain, at the moment of being pulled back to reveal the world to Vancouver and Vancouver to the world." Charles Mudede
  Kerry Gold, a Vancouver BC-based real estate reporter, has a story in The Globe And Mail, "An Avalanche of Money," that's deeply relevant to the housing crisis in Seattle. But before I get into it, I want to point out that Heidi Groover is now the Stranger's housing reporter, an
  
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• Seattle crook behind $120M Ponzi scheme missing from prison

  07-12-2017 21:46
  Frederick Darren Berg, the biggest fraud in Washington state history, disappeared Wednesday from a California federal prison, where he was serving an 18-year prison term imposed in 2012. Berg stole about $120 million from investors through a Ponzi scheme that enabled him to live a life of luxury.
  
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• Take a look at Claudia the cat’s cozy book nook: Ophelia’s in Fremont

  07-12-2017 21:44
  Sketched Nov. 28, 2017 Meet Claudia, the resident cat at Ophelia’s secondhand bookstore in Fremont. As soon as I entered the store, the friendly feline followed me upstairs to the cozy nook where I settled to sketch. She ran around for a while, smelled my iPad and eventually struck a perfect pose for my drawing. […]
  
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• Charge: Des Moines child custody fight ends in man's murder

  07-12-2017 21:37
  Prosecutors charged a 25-year-old Kent man with murder this week after a man was killed in Des Moines last month during a child custody argument.
  
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• US fails to enforce smog rules, 14 states allege in lawsuit

  07-12-2017 21:35
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Fourteen states and the District of Columbia announced Thursday that they are suing the Trump administration over what they say is a failure to enforce smog standards. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has not designated any areas of the country as having unhealthy air, missing an Oct. 1 deadline, according to […]
  
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• 14 states sue to allege US failure to enforce smog rules

  07-12-2017 21:35
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Fourteen states and the District of Columbia announced Thursday that they are suing the Trump administration over what they say is a failure to enforce smog standards. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has not designated any areas of the country as having unhealthy air, missing an Oct. 1 deadline, according to […]
  
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• Judge orders Whole Foods to reopen shuttered Bellevue Square 365 store

  07-12-2017 21:10
  A King County judge has issued a preliminary injunction ordering Whole Foods Market to reopen its 365-branded store in Bellevue Square. The Amazon-owned organic grocer closed the store in October, early in the 20-year lease that Whole Foods signed.
  
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• Frederick Darren Berg, mastermind of Washington state’s biggest Ponzi scheme, escapes from California prison

  07-12-2017 21:02
  Berg was sentenced to 18 years in prison in 2012 after pleading guilty to defrauding hundreds of investors of more than $100 million.
  
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• Where to Make Holiday Crafts This Month

  07-12-2017 20:53 via thestranger.com
  19 Places to Make Gingerbread Houses, Wreaths, and Moreby Stranger Things To Do StaffThere are tons of places to find holiday gifts and festive food and drinks this season, but it can be even more fun to make those things yourself. This month, there's an abundance of opportunities to fill your days with crafting and cooking. We've compiled them all below from a latke and rugelach class to a Glass Snowman Workshop, and from a holiday cocktail class to the Gingerbread Stomp.DECEMBER 7Winter Yarn W
  
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• Forget Cat Cafes. It's All About Raccoon Cafes Now.

  07-12-2017 20:52 via thestranger.com
  
  At Blind Alley, you can pet raccoons while sipping your tea.by Katie HerzogA resident of Seoul's Blind Alley.Instagram/Mongsilu
  If you live in Seattle and need something furry to touch while you sip your coffee, you can visit one of our recently installed cat cafes. Being allergic to cats myself (in mind, not body), I've yet to/will never enter one of these places. But Rich did and says it was "as depressing as a strip club." If, however, you visit Seoul, you can still play with furry animals ov
  
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• 19 Events Where You Can Make Gingerbread Houses, Wreaths, and Other Holiday Crafts in Seattle in December 2017

  07-12-2017 20:52 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffYou can make your own wreath while drinking craft beers with Sound Excursions on December 12—or check out other wreath-making events in Ballard, Capitol Hill, or Woodinville. Sound Excursions
  There are tons of places to find holiday gifts and festive food and drinks this season, but it can be even more fun to make those things yourself. This month, there's an abundance of opportunities to fill your days with crafting and cooking. We've compiled them all below
  
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• Connelly: Trump administration junks oil train safety rule

  07-12-2017 20:39
  The Trump administration puts the brakes on oil train safety, junking a rule to require electronically controlled brakes on trains carrying hazardous cargoes.
  
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• Los Angeles Electro-Pop Duo Chasms Recover After Tragedy, Play Timbre Room Tonight

  07-12-2017 20:35 via thestranger.com
  
  by Robert Ham Jess Garten
  Shannon Sky Madden and Jess Labrador of Chasms have gone through a lot of upheaval over the past year. The electro-pop duo relocated from the fertile Bay Area music scene to Los Angeles, and according to them, their sound shifted with the move, replacing sheets of guitar and synth with a more spacious dub-inspired approach.
  The painful truth is that all of that change was the result of a tragedy: the fire at the Oakland warehouse known as the Ghost Ship that took the li
  
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• The Most Visited Locations in Seattle... According to Lyft

  07-12-2017 20:12 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogPraise Jesus, the Lyfties are out. Ron Wurzer/Getty Images
  As part of their annual "Lyftie Awards," cab/big data company Lyft has released their list of the most visited locations in Seattle for 2017. Drum roll please...Restaurant: Art Marble 21
  Now, The Stranger has never heard of this place, much less walked through their shiny South Lake Union doors, but based on the website, it looks to be a sort of adult playhouse, bar, and eatery, with elements of both casual (pool tables, S
  
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• Five Redundant Phrases That Make Us All a Little Poorer

  07-12-2017 19:45 via thestranger.com
  
  These redundant phrases need to be deleted from your lexicon.by Dave SegalWhat's wrong with this picture? A couple of things, actually.
  Despite the best efforts of William Safire, Edwin Newman, and John Simon (surely you've read all of their language-centric books), certain irksome phrases have somehow entered common parlance, like black mold in your shower caulking. They may initially seem innocuous, but if you start paying close attention, their redundancy begins to reek. Once you become consc
  
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• Patty Murray leads women’s push for lasting change in handling sexual harassment on Capitol Hill

  07-12-2017 19:42
  Patty Murray, D-Wash., won a U.S. Senate seat after incumbent Brock Adams’ sexual harassment scandal 25 years ago. Now Murray and other lawmakers are working to see that the Capitol Hill culture actually changes more now than it did then.
  
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• EPA chief denies sidelining science pros to appease industry

  07-12-2017 19:32
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt said Thursday that his proposed regulatory rollbacks and other policies are grounded in science, dismissing criticisms that he is sidelining experts in a push to appease favored industries. Pruitt defended his approach during his first appearance before a House oversight subcommittee responsible for environmental issues. The […]
  
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• EPA chief defends spending on travel and soundproof booth

  07-12-2017 19:32
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt on Thursday defended his frequent taxpayer-funded travel and his purchase of a custom soundproof communications booth for his office, saying both were justified. Pruitt made his first appearance before a House oversight subcommittee responsible for environmental issues since his confirmation to lead EPA in February. While […]
  
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• I Don't Care About Democrats Setting a Good Example

  07-12-2017 19:11 via thestranger.com
  
  Putting a stop to sexual harassment and sexual assault is the only thing that matters right now.by Sydney Brownstone
  I don't care about shaming "Republicans into being better people." I don't care about "unilateral disarmament" when it comes to sexual harassment and sexual assault. I don't care about "asymmetrical warfare." I don't care about high morality, or norm preservation, or any other term people are using to explain the rationale to get rid of Democrats who sexually humiliate their colle
  
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• Deadly downtown shooting by Seattle police within SPD policy, review finds

  07-12-2017 18:47
  The April 20 confrontation left four officers injured and a suspected 19-year-old robber dead..
  
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• Here's Everyone Who Applied to Help Seattle Develop a Progressive Tax to Fund Homelessness Services

  07-12-2017 18:40 via thestranger.com
  
  40 applications.by Steven HsiehFormer city council member Kirsten Harris-Talley was one of 40 people who applied for the Progressive Revenue Task Force on Housing and Homelessness City of Seattle
  The Seattle City Council last month voted 5-4 against a head tax that would've levied large employers $100 per full-time employee to pay for homelessness services. The top 10 percent of businesses would have been affected. Some council members who voted "no," including Lorena González and Debora
  
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• Woman killed, teen injured in South Everett shooting; suspects at large

  07-12-2017 18:15
  A woman is dead and a teenager is injured after a shooting early Thursday morning at a South Everett mobile home park.
  
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• Seattle Celebrates Human Rights Day with Nikkita Oliver and Friends

  07-12-2017 18:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogNikkita Oliver Nate GowdyHappy Human Rights Day. To mark the occasion, Town Hall and the City of Seattle Human Rights Commission are bringing together Ethel Branch, Attorney General of the Navajo Nation; Nikkita Oliver, an activist, attorney, artist, and former mayoral candidate; and Jorge Baron, Executive Director of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project for a panel discussion along with the 2017 Human Rights awardees.The theme is "Together We Rise," and after a 6 pm reception,
  
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• Sexual Harassment Apologists Always Use the Same Deflection

  07-12-2017 17:57 via thestranger.com
  
  "Witch hunt."by Rich SmithThis fucking guy.Washington State HouseAs you likely already read in the Morning News, the Seattle Times refreshed and fully reported detailed sexual harassment allegations that have been hanging over Washington State House Rep. Matt Manweller's head since 2012. (The incidents of alleged harassment themselves go back to 2006. The Times also reports, as Goldy had so dutifully reported five years ago, the fact that Manweller met his first wife when he was a 28-year-old hi
  
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• Former Cop Who Fatally Shot Walter Scott to Be Sentenced 19 to 24 Years in Prison

  07-12-2017 17:41 via thestranger.com
  
  The sentence will be announced later today.by Sydney BrownstonePeople praying at the site where Walter Scott was shot and killed in North Charleston, South Carolina. Joe Raedle/Getty
  From ABC News:Former South Carolina police officer Michael Slager faces 19 to 24 years in prison for the deadly shooting of unarmed black man Walter Scott, according to sentencing guidelines announced by a judge this morning.
  U.S. District Judge David Norton will announce the amount of time Slager will serve within
  
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• Al Franken To Speak From the Floor of the Senate at 8:45 AM Seattle Time

  07-12-2017 17:15 via thestranger.com
  by Dan Savage
  You could pass the time until Franken's speech starts by reading this morning's hottest/viraliest news story — it's about a morgue employee accidentally cremated by coworkers in Texas(and totally not true) — or you could better spend your time by reading this piece by Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight. He argues that Democrats are right to push Franken out and should've acted sooner:...democratic and liberal commentators [complain] about “unilateral disarma
  
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• The Morning News: Seattle's Has Nation's Third Highest Homeless Population, State Rep. Matt Manweller Accused of Sexual Misconduct

  07-12-2017 16:40 via thestranger.com
  
  Also: Warren Moon, GEO Group, Big Techby Steven HsiehState Rep. Matt Manweller Washington State Legislature
  CW: Descriptions of sexual assault.
  State Rep. Matt Menweller: The former professor has faced two sexual misconduct investigations stemming from the time he taught political science at Central Washington University, the Seattle Times reports.
  One student claimed Manweller propositioned her and another woman at a bar for a threesome. The student said she felt pressure to accept an invitatio
  
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• The Morning News: Seattle Has Nation's Third Highest Homeless Population, State Rep. Matt Manweller Accused of Sexual Misconduct

  07-12-2017 16:40 via thestranger.com
  
  Also: Warren Moon, GEO Group, Big Techby Steven HsiehState Rep. Matt Manweller Washington State Legislature
  CW: Descriptions of sexual assault.
  State Rep. Matt Menweller: The former professor has faced two sexual misconduct investigations stemming from the time he taught political science at Central Washington University, the Seattle Times reports.
  One student claimed Manweller propositioned her and another woman at a bar for a threesome. The student said she felt pressure to accept an invitatio
  
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• Man dies after early morning fall into Duwamish River in Seattle

  07-12-2017 15:51
  A man who fell into the Duwamish River in Seattle early Thursday morning was pulled out of the water before rescue crews arrived but perished nevertheless, according to the Seattle Fire Department.
  
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• 1 woman dead, 1 teen hurt in shooting at mobile-home park near Everett

  07-12-2017 15:32
  A shooting early Thursday at a mobile-home park near Everett left a 54-year-old woman dead and a 17-year-old teen injured, according to the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff’s spokeswoman Shari Ireton said police received two calls related to the 4:43 a.m. Thursday shooting at the Village Green Mobile Home Park on Gibson Road: one reporting […]
  
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• Unlike Big Tech, Local TV Does Comply With Seattle's Law on Political Ad Transparency

  07-12-2017 15:27 via thestranger.com
  
  So when will big tech comply?by Eli SandersAvailable for public inspection at the Seattle offices of KING 5 television, as required by law. At various Seattle tech giant offices last week, I found no political ad records. ES
  When I went to the Seattle offices of Facebook, Google, and Twitter last week to look through their records of political ads purchased in this city's recent election, there were no such records available—even though Seattle law says those records must be available "for
  
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• The push to find more gifted kids: What Washington can learn from Miami’s wins

  07-12-2017 15:00
  Miami unapologetically uses two standards to identify gifted students — one for low-income kids and English-learners, another for everyone else. As a result, its advanced-learning classrooms roughly mirror the district’s overall makeup. Washington educators are taking note.
  
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• King County homeless population third-largest in U.S.

  07-12-2017 15:00
  A new federal report on homelessness shows King County behind only Los Angeles and New York City in the number of people living without permanent shelter.
  
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• Beverly Tatum wrote the book about race talk. She’s at it again with an urgency for our times.

  07-12-2017 15:00
  The clinical psychologist wrote the best-seller in the 1990s and is now updating the text. On a recent visit to Seattle, she said she believes we need to have conversations about race in order to create better communities for everyone.
  
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• Alaska Airlines drops $60 monthly transit-pass subsidy for employees

  07-12-2017 15:00
  Alaska Airlines said it would continue to encourage employees to take advantage of a federal law that allows them to use pretax dollars to pay for transit access.
  
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• Are Democrats In Washington To Set a Good Example?

  07-12-2017 14:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage Sen. Mazie Hirono wants Sen. Al Franken to "Set An Example"
  Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono (HI) reiterated her call for fellow Democrat Sen. Al Franken (MN) to resign from the U.S. Senate last night on the Rachel Maddow Show last night.
  Three things...
  1. When Sen. Hirono said, "When the third, fourth, fifth, sixth woman steps forward, you come to what I would describe as a tipping point and the need to take a position," I couldn't help but recall the long list of Seattle pols who wa
  
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• Experts scramble to monitor long-dormant Iceland volcano

  07-12-2017 12:18
  ORAEFI, Iceland (AP) — At the summit of one of Iceland’s most dangerous volcanoes, a 72-foot (22-meter) depression in the snow is the only visible sign of an alarming development. The Oraefajokull (err-IVER’-yer-kuhl) volcano, dormant since its last eruption in 1727-1728, has seen a recent increase in seismic activity and geothermal water leakage that has […]
  
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• Woman claims surgeon talked on cellphone during operation

  07-12-2017 12:11
  WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — A suburban New York City woman has sued a doctor, claiming he used his cellphone to take a language test while operating on her. The Journal News reports 70-year-old Mary Edwards, of Port Chester, filed a lawsuit Monday in state Supreme Court against Dr. Eric Fishman and his employer, Westmed Medical […]
  
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• Nobel Laureates say change is coming for women in sciences

  07-12-2017 11:46
  STOCKHOLM (AP) — A group of 2017 Nobel Laureates have addressed the lack of female representation in sciences ahead of the prize-awarding ceremony in Stockholm. The seven winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics, Chemistry and Economic Sciences — all white men — said change is happening. Jacques Dubochet, who won the chemistry prize, […]
  
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