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• Seattle man sues ‘X-Men’ director Bryan Singer, alleges sexual assault in 2003

  08-12-2017 23:41
  The Seattle man says he was 17 when he was assaulted on a yacht on Lake Washington. Singer denies the allegations and “will vehemently defend this lawsuit to the very end,” according to a statement from his attorney.
  
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• Seven New Seattle Restaurants & Bars to Try and Other Food News You Can Use: Dec 8-14 Edition

  08-12-2017 23:25 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffSandwiches from new Capitol Hill deli By the Pound. By the Pound
  Revel moving to South Lake Union? Mercury retrograde-themed ice cream? National Lager Day? It's all here in our weekly food news post, where we compile new places to check out, special menu items to try, and other food news you need to know. Check out last week’s food news post for more new restaurants, our list of things to drink in Seattle this month, or our complete food & drink calendar.
  
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• Seven New Restaurants & Bars to Try and Other Food News You Can Use: Dec 8-14 Edition

  08-12-2017 23:25 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffSandwiches from new Capitol Hill deli By the Pound. By the Pound
  Revel moving to South Lake Union? Mercury retrograde-themed ice cream? Free grilled cheese? It's all here in our weekly food news post, where we compile new places to check out, special menu items to try, and other food news you need to know. Check out last week’s food news post for more new restaurants, our list of things to drink in Seattle this month, or our complete food & drink calendar.
  
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• Mayor Durkan Hits Back at Trump After Threat to Yank Funding Over Sanctuary Policies

  08-12-2017 23:16 via thestranger.com
  
  She also announced (more) funding for immigrant rights organizations.by Nathalie Graham(Left) City Attorney Pete Holmes, who sued Trump, shakes hands with Mayor Durkan, who ran a campaign for mayor that was really against Trump. NG
  Mayor Jenny Durkan today reiterated the City of Seattle’s commitment to fight against the Trump administration’s attack on so-called “sanctuary cities,” or jurisdictions that limit cooperation with immigration authorities.During a press confere
  
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• ‘We’re here to say they’re wrong’: Seattle, King County blast Trump administration for threatening sanctuary jurisdictions

  08-12-2017 23:07
  Elected officials from Seattle and King County responded Friday to a U.S. Department of Justice letter threatening to rescind a federal grant if local laws ran afoul of a federal immigration law.
  
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• Seattle, King County blast DOJ and Trump administration for threatening sanctuary jurisdictions

  08-12-2017 23:07
  Elected officials from Seattle and King County responded Friday to a U.S. Department of Justice letter threatening to rescind a federal grant if local laws ran afoul of a federal immigration law.
  
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• Kate Wallich's Dream Dances Could Also Be Called Stoic People Stretching

  08-12-2017 22:57 via thestranger.com
  
  Dream Dances is a dream: kinda weird, occasionally emotional, and ultimately forgettable.by Rich SmithTo be fair that is a tremendous boat pose.Stefano Altamura
  Dream Dances, which runs at On the Boards through the weekend, comes as advertised. It's a dreamy dance, people! Says it right there in the title.As such, the show is about as interesting as someone telling you about a dream they had last night. The only difference: instead of describing it with words, they act out the whole thing with
  
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• Connelly: Americans give Trump thumbs down by 2-to-1 margin

  08-12-2017 22:53
  Just 32 percent of Americans approve of the job President Trump is doing, according to a new national Pew Research Center poll.  The 45th President is gradually losing support among groups that have strongly backed him.
  
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• Rainier Valley shooting victim dies outside hospital

  08-12-2017 22:37
  Seattle police apprehended two suspects following a chase.
  
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• Man shot in Rainier Valley dies outside hospital ER

  08-12-2017 22:37
  Seattle police apprehended two suspects following a chase.
  
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• 1 hospitalized following shooting in Rainier Valley

  08-12-2017 22:37
  One person  has been taken to Harborview Medical Center with life-threatening wounds, police said.
  
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• 1 killed, 2 arrested in Columbia City shooting

  08-12-2017 22:35
  One man was killed and two people arrested Friday afternoon in a Columbia City shooting that closed down traffic on Rainier Avenue South.
  
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• 1 critically injured in Columbia City shooting

  08-12-2017 22:35
  Southbound lanes at Rainier Avenue South and South Genesee Street were closed Friday afternoon while police investigated a shooting that critically injured one person.
  
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• Upstream Is Already Gearing Up for a New Festival in June

  08-12-2017 22:32 via thestranger.com
  
  With new partnerships, returning guest curators, and early bird tickets.by Amber CortesMaszer played J&M at last year's Upstream festival. This year the fest will be from June 1-3. JORDAN NICHOLSONLooks like it’s time to start thinking about Upstream again (because hey, it’s only 175 days away!). Paul Allen’s ginormous, regionally-focused music festival in downtown Seattle will be June 1-3 this year, and early bird ticket sales start today. No word yet on the lineup, but fo
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: One Dead Lesbian in a Bed

  08-12-2017 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  "Lesbian Bed Death isn't a thing for me, but it is for my wife."by Dan Savage
  Lesbian Bed Death isn't a thing for me, but it is for my wife.
  I'm happily married to my wife. We've been together for almost eight years and have a ten-month-old baby together. We get along great and have an easy ying/yang partnership. Sex has been an issue — it's been our only issue — from the get go though (four months into our relationship), and it's actually better now than it ever has been, even
  
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• Former Amazon analyst gets six-month sentence for insider trading

  08-12-2017 21:50
  A former Amazon financial analyst had pleaded guilty to tipping off a friend to the company's quarterly earnings ahead of their release. The friend made $116,000 on a stock deal based on the information.
  
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• Sometimes a Stupid Joke is Just a Stupid Joke

  08-12-2017 21:13 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageI've read this story twice... and I don't see it. So as much as I hate coming to the defense of a conservative politician (albeit a Canadian one), I find myself siding with the chief human resources officer in Canada's House of Commons: this wasn't a case of sexual harassment. It was inappropriate, it was crude, it was stupid. But it wasn't sexual harassment. It certainly doesn't seem like something that should bring a person to tears six months later.Backing up: Tory MP James Bezan
  
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• Washington Roads Are Dying and There's No Money to Save Them

  08-12-2017 21:10 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeTwilight of Washington roads... Charles Mudede
  Mike Lindblom, the Seattle Times transportation reporter, has bad news for our state. Its transportation network "is creaking under the pressures of age and economic growth." Drivers are using the roads more, there are more and more delays on urban roads, and "highway pavement is wearing out faster than the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) can maintain it." The thing that many Americans forget or seem to have ne
  
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• First black astronaut honored on 50th anniversary of death

  08-12-2017 21:01
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — America’s first black astronaut, Air Force Maj. Robert Lawrence Jr., finally got full honors Friday on the 50th anniversary of his death. Several hundred people gathered at Kennedy Space Center to commemorate Lawrence, who almost certainly would have gone on to fly in space had he not died in a […]
  
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• Escaped Seattle Fraudster Had a History of Lying to Feds

  08-12-2017 20:43 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogFraudster Frederick Darren Berg escaped from a California prison Wednesday.U.S. Marshals ServiceThe story of Frederick Darren Berg just got juicer. The Puget Sound Business Journal reports that Berg, who walked away from a prison work detail at the U.S. Penitentiary at Atwater, Calif., on Wednesday afternoon, has tried to get away before: Prior his conviction in 2012 for running the largest Ponzi scheme in state history—Berg fleeced over 800 investors, many of them elderly,
  
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• Beloved Seattle deli to close after 47 years

  08-12-2017 20:11
  Another Seattle favorite is set to close by year's end, this time a sandwich shop in Pioneer Square.
  
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• Department of Energy to Fill in Second Radioactive Tunnel at Hanford

  08-12-2017 19:57 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogReally, stay out.Jeff T. Green/Getty Images
  KUOW reports that the Department of Energy will fill in a second tunnel packed with radioactive equipment at Hanford, a largely decommissioned nuclear production complex in Eastern Washington along the Columbia River.
  The move comes after a first tunnel, also filled with radioactive materials, collapsed last spring. (For more background on the site, check out Sydney's in-depth report from May.) After that collapse was discovered, the Dep
  
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• Homelessness Is On the Rise. We're Underestimating the Problem.

  08-12-2017 19:44 via thestranger.com
  
  Not everyone is being counted.by Heidi GrooverAbout 11,600 people are experiencing homelessness in King County, according to the latest point-in-time count. City of Seattle
  New stats released by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) this week showed that the national count of people experiencing homelessness increased for the first time in seven years. Those same numbers showed that King County has the third largest homeless population in the country.
  But an analysis from a
  
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• The Unlikely Story of Vince Guaraldi's A Charlie Brown Christmas—and Where to See It Performed Live

  08-12-2017 19:20 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeJose Gonzales, whose jazz trio performs the music every year as a fundraiser for Strawberry Theatre Workshop, plays A Charlie Brown Christmas on Sunday. John Ulman
  I think it's one of the most beautiful pieces of jazz ever composed. Listening to it is like watching snow through a window. The room is warm, something is roasting in the oven, and outside the flakes are falling faintly through the universe and upon the trees, the hedges, the rain gutters, the telephone poles, and th
  
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• Amazon gets help from Washington AG Bob Ferguson to fight fraud on marketplace

  08-12-2017 18:59
  Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a complaint alleging two men used unfair or deceptive practices to lure Washington residents to seminars that offer “secrets” to gaining an advantage on Amazon. The online retailer took separate legal action against the men.
  
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• Another Posthumous Jimi Hendrix Album, Both Sides of the Sky, Is Coming Out Next March

  08-12-2017 18:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Featuring 10 previously unreleased tracks, Jimi Hendrix's umpteenth posthumous LP, Both Sides of the Sky, comes out March 2018.by Dave Segal'scuse me while I kiss Both Sides of the Sky. Mike Berkofsky
  There are few certainties in life, but one on which you can count is the ceaseless stream of Jimi Hendrix archival releases. The next one appears March 9, 2018: Both Sides of the Sky will complete the trilogy of LPs that includes 2010's Valleys of Neptune and 2013's People, Hell and Angels. Issued
  
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• Seattle City Hall awash in red? Here are the terms of Mayor Jenny Durkan’s ‘big bet’ with Toronto over MLS Cup match

  08-12-2017 18:14
  It's on: Here are the terms agreed to between Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and Toronto Mayor Jonh Tory for Saturday's MLS Cup.
  
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• Order now: Amazon, DHL pilots predict holiday shipping delays

  08-12-2017 18:11
  A new survey by pilots at contractors for Amazon's Prime Air and DHL shows pilots have little confidence in the carriers' ability to avoid delays and maintain a workforce.
  
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• Suspect arrested, 3 others sought in fatal shooting at Everett mobile-home park

  08-12-2017 17:59
  Police have arrested a 16-year-old boy and are looking for three other young people in connection with a shooting near Everett early Thursday that left a woman dead and a teen injured. Detectives arrested the 16-year-old on investigation of first-degree murder, burglary and assault later Thursday after detaining him for questioning, according to a spokeswoman […]
  
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• 16-year-old arrested, others sought after Everett-area shooting leaves woman dead, teen wounded

  08-12-2017 17:59
  Police have arrested a 16-year-old boy and are looking for three other young people in connection with a shooting near Everett early Thursday that left a woman dead and a teen injured. Detectives arrested the 16-year-old on investigation of first-degree murder, burglary and assault later Thursday after detaining him for questioning, according to a spokeswoman […]
  
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• The Morning News: Manweller Says He Won't Resign, X-Men Director Accused of Sexually Assaulting Teen in Washington

  08-12-2017 17:58 via thestranger.com
  
  CW: Rape, sexual assault, harassment, the whole thing.by Sydney BrownstoneRep. Matt Manweller (R-Ellensburg) told reporters he just has a "quirky personality." WALEG
  CW: Rape, sexual assault, harassment, the whole thing.Manweller Won't Resign: "Maybe I have a quirky personality, but I’ve never engaged in sexual misconduct ever,” Manweller told reporters. Yesterday, the Seattle Times published details from a Central Washington University investigation on "credible" testimony that
  
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• Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan to issue ‘strong response’ to immigration warnings from Trump’s Justice Department

  08-12-2017 17:54
  Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan will "issue a strong response" Friday to the Trump administration last month threatening to withhold criminal-justice funding based on how the city deals with immigration.
  
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• Bryan Singer, ‘X-Men’ director, accused of sexually assaulting teen on yacht in Seattle

  08-12-2017 17:01
  A 17-year-old boy was sexually assaulted on a yacht in Seattle in 2003, says the lawsuit filed in Seattle on Thursday. The Hollywood producer denies the allegations.
  
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• Bryan Singer, ‘X-Men’ director, accused of sexually assaulting teen in Seattle

  08-12-2017 17:01
  A 17-year-old boy was sexually assaulted on a yacht in Seattle in 2003, says the lawsuit filed in Seattle on Thursday. The Hollywood producer denies the allegations.
  
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• Bryan Singer, ‘X-Men’ director, accused of sexual assaulting teen on yacht in Seattle

  08-12-2017 17:01
  A 17-year-old boy was sexually assaulted on a yacht in Seattle in 2003, says the lawsuit filed in Seattle on Thursday. The Hollywood producer denies the allegations.
  
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• 1 killed, 1 critical after car slams into semi trailer in Kent

  08-12-2017 16:57
  A man was killed and a woman was critically injured overnight when their car ran a red light and slammed into a semi trailer in Kent, police said.
  
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• Wounded Mount Vernon police Officer Mike McClaughry retires after 32 years

  08-12-2017 16:24
  Officer Mike McClaughry was shot in the back of the head while responding to a 911 call on December 2016, leaving him nearly blind and also caused short-term memory problems.
  
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• ‘I wouldn’t complain’: Cold, dry and sunny weather to stick around over weekend, into next week

  08-12-2017 16:12
  In what's usually one of the Pacific Northwest's wettest months, the sun shines on.
  
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• What to expect when Upstream Music Festival takes over Pioneer Square for year two

  08-12-2017 15:00
  The Upstream Music Festival will return to Pioneer Square on June 1-3, 2018. Early-bird tickets go on sale Friday, Dec. 8.
  
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• Podcast: what Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole’s departure means for reform efforts

  08-12-2017 15:00
  To support the locally-owned, independent journalism that makes this podcast possible, please subscribe to The Seattle Times: www.seattletimes.com/support There is no more important job decision for a big-city mayor than picking a police chief. By that standard, newly sworn-in Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan has her work cut out for her. Most Read StoriesFrederick Darren Berg, […]
  
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• From congestion to carbon to fatalities, roads are getting worse, WSDOT data show

  08-12-2017 15:00
  Among other things, the soaring economy has increased highway miles traveled by 6.4 percent in two years, a new quarterly report released Thursday says.
  
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• UW will build teacher corps for dual-language classrooms with help from $2.4 million grant

  08-12-2017 14:00
  The new federal grant will cover half the cost of tuition for teacher candidates to get a master’s degree in elementary education and a bilingual teaching endorsement.
  
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• Russia: Spike in radioactivity unrelated to nuclear plant

  08-12-2017 11:48
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities denied Friday that a radioactivity spike in the air over Europe resulted from a nuclear fuel plant leak in the Urals, saying their probe has found no release of radioactivity there. Andrei Ivanov of Russia’s Rosatom state nuclear corporation said that an inspection of the Mayak plant has proven that […]
  
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• Russia claims radioactivity spike not due to nuclear plant

  08-12-2017 11:48
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities denied Friday that a radioactivity spike in the air over Europe this fall resulted from a nuclear fuel processing plant leak in the Ural mountains, saying their probe has found no release of radioactivity there. Vladimir Boltunov of Russia’s Rosatom state nuclear corporation said an inspection of the Mayak nuclear […]
  
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• Director Bryan Singer denies sex assault on teen in 2003

  08-12-2017 11:48
  SEATTLE (AP) — A new lawsuit accuses “Superman Returns” director Bryan Singer of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old boy at a party on a yacht more than a decade ago. The lawsuit filed in King County Superior Court in Seattle claims that Singer demanded sex from Cesar Sanchez-Guzman while giving him a tour of the vessel […]
  
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• Director Bryan Singer accused of assaulting teen; lawsuit filed in Seattle

  08-12-2017 11:48
  SEATTLE — Director Bryan Singer has been accused in a lawsuit of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old boy at a party more than a decade ago. The lawsuit filed in Seattle claims Singer demanded sex from Cesar Sanchez-Guzman during a 2003 yacht party. After the then-teenager refused, the lawsuit says, Singer pushed him on the bed […]
  
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