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• The 50 Best Things To Do in Seattle This Week: Feb 26-March 4, 2018

  26-02-2018 23:34 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffThinking about getting out of Seattle this weekend? Consider the Penn Cove MusselFest, where you can celebrate all things “bold, briny, and blue." Shutterstock
  Our music critics have already chosen the 34 best music shows this week, but now it's our arts critics' turn to pick the best events in their areas of expertise. Here are their picks in every genre—from Emerald City Comic Con to the Girl Scout Cookies & Cocktails event, and from Anderson Coope
  
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• Jay Inslee Rips Into Trump at the White House

  26-02-2018 23:08 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageWatch Trump's body language as Gov of Washington Jay Inslee explains to him how stupid his arming teachers idea is and asks him to lay off Twitter. pic.twitter.com/fnA47yjyyk
  — Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) February 26, 2018Good job, Jay! And you gotta love how Trump immediately calls on the governor of Texas after Jay gets through pounding home the stupidity of Trump's plan to arm school teachers. It's like a toddler reaching for his security blanket during a thunderstorm—ex
  
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• 1,500 misdemeanor cases being dropped because King County doesn’t have enough prosecutors

  26-02-2018 22:36
  The decision not to file charges for things like shoplifting, fare evasion and trespassing is meant to allow prosecutors to focus on crimes that impact public safety — like driving under the influence, the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office said. Felonies are not affected.
  
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• Murray Energy Defamation Suit Against John Oliver Dismissed

  26-02-2018 22:20 via thestranger.com
  
  Oliver was sued by coal giant Murray Energy.by Katie HerzogJohn Oliver was sued by coal giant Murray Energy.A hearty congratulations to John Oliver, the late night cable host who eschews celebrity guests for 30-minute deep-dives into shit that actually matters in the world. Last week, a West Virginia judge dismissed a defamation suit brought against Oliver and HBO by Robert Murray and Murray Energy, a West Virgina coal giant that was the subject of a 2017 segment on Oliver's show,Last Week Tonig
  
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• Inslee takes on Trump: 'Less tweeting...more listening'

  26-02-2018 21:47
  Gov. Inslee takes on Trump at the White House, decrying the President's proposal to arm some teachers in schools.
  
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• Social App Vero Is Trying to Be the Anti-Facebook

  26-02-2018 21:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Can Vero save us?by Katie HerzogCould this kill Facebook?Vero
  Every once in a while, a new social media platform emerges, promising to bring about a revolution in online networking and usher in the the downfall of the axis of evil (Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram). Remember Ello? or Peach? Or this, the un-googlable social app that allowed users to share exactly one link a day? All promised to change social networking as we know it, and all failed to actually do it (although Ello has at least on
  
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• ICE Identified Immigrant Activist for Deportation After She Spoke with the Press, Records Show

  26-02-2018 21:41 via thestranger.com
  
  Records show that ICE took note of Maru Mora-Villalpando after an interview she gave to the press.by Steven HsiehMaru Mora-Villalpando, an immigrant rights activist, spoke with supporters in January. Heidi Groover
  In June 2017, Maru Mora-Villalpando sat down for an interview with Whatcom Watch, an independent newspaper in her home county north of Seattle.
  She talked about immigrating from Mexico, her path toward activism, and hunger strikes at the immigrant detention center in Tacoma, which she
  
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• Insanely popular vegan ice cream shop expands to Ballard

  26-02-2018 21:35
  Vegan ice cream shop Frankie and Jo's has been tantalizing our tongues on Capitol Hill for about a year now. This Friday, a second location will open in Ballard.
  
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• Longview lawyer killed in Mount Hood skiing accident

  26-02-2018 21:25
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A lawyer from Longview died in a skiing accident last week on Mount Hood. The Daily News of Longview reports that 58-year-old Patrick Kubin’s ski bindings inexplicably released Thursday and he flipped into a deep hole in the snow. Kubin’s friends and ski-patrol workers administered CPR, but the lifelong skier could […]
  
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• Come Talk About Consent with the King County Sexual Assault Resource Center

  26-02-2018 21:25 via thestranger.com
  
  by The Stranger
  Tomorrow—that's Tuesday!— at 6 p.m, The Stranger will be hosting a panel on consent at St. John's Bar and Eatery. It's our inaugural installment of a new series of talks called Night School. If you've attended one of our Resist/Recharge events, you have a general idea of what these events are all about. We've chatted with organizations doing some of the most important work in our community, including Somos Seattle, Langston, 21 Progress, Northwest Harvest, and more. E
  
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• Inslee confronts Trump on arming teachers, suggests ‘a little less tweeting … and a little more listening’

  26-02-2018 21:24
  The back-and-forth between Gov. Jay Inslee and President Donald Trump occurred at a White House meeting in which the president took questions from governors in town for a National Governors Association meeting.
  
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• The 34 Best Music Shows in Seattle This Week: Feb 26-March 4, 2018

  26-02-2018 21:17 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffCelebrate the anniversary of a Fremont hangout at Bar House Fest, featuring a live performance by legendary local hard rockers Helms Alee. James Rexroad
  Ignore the snowy forecast and look forward to the spring with this lively spread of local and touring artists performing around town this week. We've got everything from lounge lizard-style for a new generation (Alex Cameron), to one of country music's best voices (Lee Ann Womack), to the possible future of boy band
  
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• 2 missing snowshoers found dead after avalanche near Snoqualmie Summit

  26-02-2018 21:13
  The teens' parents called authorities Sunday night after they failed to return from a snowshoeing trip.
  
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• Spun Out: 5 Essential Cuts Selected by Local DJ Alex Ruder

  26-02-2018 21:04 via thestranger.com
  
  Alex Ruder, host of KEXP's Expansions and Midnight in a Perfect World and owner of Hush Hush Records, drops knowledge about his 5 favorite tracks of the moment.by Dave SegalAlex Ruder advises that DJs champion "new and underrepresented voices." Erin Johnston
  DJ ALEX RUDER (aka DJ D'Nelski; KEXP, Hush Hush Records)
  Current top 5 tracks:
  Advance, "Take Me to the Top" (X-Energy)
  "Discovered this 1982 tune by Italian disco/boogie duo Advance on the sweet compilation Disco Wonderland, presented/curat
  
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• Police: No injuries after gunshot fired in Tacoma high-school restroom

  26-02-2018 20:56
  No one was injured in the shooting Monday morning at Oakland High School.
  
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• SPD: Man shot, dog killed in home invasion robbery

  26-02-2018 20:52
  A man is shot and a dog killed after armed intruders reportedly broke into a Judkins Park home Sunday night.
  
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• Black Panther Marks the Death of Afrocentricism

  26-02-2018 20:44 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede
  A quick note about Blank Panther, which now has a domestic gross of $400 million, and a worldwide one of $700 Million. The film marks the final death of Afrocentricism and the full arrival Afrofuturism. The former replaced the black power movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and is famous for making bold claims about the role of blacks in a history of Western Civilization that located its sunrise on the Nile. This sun, or concept, then rose over Greece, then Italy, and reached its
  
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• Snow could return to Seattle Tuesday

  26-02-2018 20:32
  Seattle saw some sun on Monday, but it wasn't expected to last long.
  
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• Governor Jay Inslee Tells Trump We Need a "Little Less Tweeting" at the White House

  26-02-2018 20:18 via thestranger.com
  
  Gov. Inslee was responding to Trump's plan to arm teachers.by Katie HerzogGet him, Jay.On Monday, President Trump met with state governors at the White House. In a hour-long appearance, he rambled about immigration (bad), the economy (good), North Korea (bad), and, one of our nation's more shameful problems: guns, which have become America's battle du jour after a 19-year-old gunman killed 17 students and adults at a high school in Parkland, Florida, this month. As Trump was explaining to the go
  
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• McMorris Rodgers tells Breitbart: GOP must 'defy history'

  26-02-2018 20:06
  U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., a member of the House Republican leadership, gives a lengthy interview to the alt-right Breitbart News, until recently headed by former Trump "strategic adviser" Steve Bannon.
  
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• Dog killed, man injured in Judkins Park home-invasion robbery

  26-02-2018 17:16
  Police are looking for help finding the suspects who forced their way into a Judkins Park home on Sunday evening where they killed a dog, shot a man and made off with a “large amount of cash.” Witnesses called 911 to report that masked men had forced their way into a home in the 1100 […]
  
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• Slog AM: Avalanches Smother Washington, Hitler Mobile in Medina, Supreme Court Refuses Trump Bid on DACA

  26-02-2018 17:14 via thestranger.com
  
  Goodbye to the Winter Olympics and the Weinstein Co.by Nathalie Graham GETTY
  Arming teachers: With Narcan. A bill that would allow public schools to stock and administer the anti-overdose drug has passed the Washington House. The teacher’s union is skeptical and urging restraint. The vote passed 79-19 with Senate deliberations expected to start this week.Ineffective cease-fire in Syria: The U.N. demanded a cease-fire in Syria. Over 500 people have been killed in the past week from aerial b
  
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• 2 boys arrested for making threats at 2 Tacoma schools

  26-02-2018 16:14
  TACOMA (AP) — Tacoma Police say they have arrested two boys for threatening violence in separate incidents at two schools. Police spokeswoman Loretta Cool says police investigated Friday after social media threats were made toward people at Truman Middle School. In that case, police interviewed and later booked a 12-year-old boy in juvenile detention. They […]
  
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• Avalanche near Stampede Pass buries snowmobilers, killing Issaquah man

  26-02-2018 16:02
  EASTON, Wash. (AP) — An avalanche has killed a man who was snowmobiling with four friends in the Central Cascades. The Kittitas County Sheriff’s Office says Joseph Simenstad, 32, from Issaquah, died Sunday afternoon in an avalanche that also buried his wife and others. Five snowmobilers from Western Washington were eating lunch at the base […]
  
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• 1 dead, 3 injured after logging truck rolls over, hits car

  26-02-2018 15:46
  A woman is dead and three people are in the hospital Sunday night after a semi truck's trailer rolled over into oncoming traffic and hit a car on Black Diamond Road in Auburn, according to Mountain View Fire and Rescue.
  
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• Tacoma police arrest two for making school threats

  26-02-2018 15:32
  Tacoma police have arrested a 12-year-old and a 15-year-old in separate incidents in which they allegedly threatened people at their schools.
  
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• Weather service confirms 2 tornadoes struck Arkansas

  26-02-2018 15:22
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The National Weather Service says two tornadoes struck northeast Arkansas during the weekend, including one that killed a man before moving into southeast Missouri. The weather service says an EF-2 tornado with winds of up to 115 miles per hour began Saturday near Knobel, where a man was killed when […]
  
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• WSU shellfish researcher pays fine for ethics violation

  26-02-2018 15:00
  Scientist says it was just a clerical mistake, but opponents of the use of pesticides on oyster beds now question his credibility.
  
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• When and where are traffic-control officers effective on busy Seattle streets?

  26-02-2018 15:00
  If a car crosses through an intersection after a light-signal change, but no police officer is around to see it, does it create traffic mayhem? A theory, posted on a thread in a Seattle forum on Reddit, is that using more traffic-control officers at busy intersections would better move traffic through the city during peak travel […]
  
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• When and where are traffic control officers effective?

  26-02-2018 15:00
  If a car crosses through an intersection after a light-signal change, but no police officer is around to see it, does it create traffic mayhem? A theory, posted on a thread in a Seattle forum on Reddit, is that using more traffic-control officers at busy intersections would better move traffic through the city during peak travel […]
  
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• Puget Sound region’s Atlantic salmon fish farms could be headed for final harvest

  26-02-2018 15:00
  Begun with a quest to grow salmon sized to the slot in a TV dinner, industrial-scale salmon farming in the U.S. got its start in Washington — which now is pushing to ban it.
  
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• How ‘Hitler’s car’ ended up parked in Medina

  26-02-2018 15:00
  A Medina resident recently spotted a very unusual sight in her neighborhood: one of the Mercedes-Benz parade cars used by Adolf Hitler.
  
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• 87 endangered vultures poisoned by poachers in Mozambique

  26-02-2018 14:49
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Conservationists say at least 87 critically endangered vultures have died after consuming poison planted in the carcass of a poached elephant in Mozambique. The South Africa-based Endangered Wildlife Trust says at least 80 white-backed vultures and seven hooded vultures were killed and more dead birds might be found in the Mbashene communal […]
  
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• Bill would let Washington educators give Narcan for drug overdoses

  26-02-2018 14:00
  Should educators be able to give a lifesaving dose of Narcan to a student overdosing on opioids? Absolutely, say backers of a law tearing through the state legislature. But the teachers union says not so fast.
  
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• Bill would let educators give Narcan in OD cases

  26-02-2018 14:00
  Should educators be able to give a lifesaving dose of Narcan to a student overdosing on opioids? Absolutely, say backers of a law tearing through the state legislature. But the teachers union says not so fast.
  
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• Rome blanketed by snow as Arctic storm sets seasonal records

  26-02-2018 09:19
  ROME (AP) — The Arctic storm dubbed the “Beast from the East” saw temperatures across much of Europe fall Monday to their lowest level this winter and even brought a rare snowstorm to Rome, paralyzing the city and giving its residents the chance to ski, sled and build snowmen in its famous parks and piazzas. […]
  
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• Rome blanketed by snow as Arctic storm sets European records

  26-02-2018 09:19
  ROME (AP) — The Arctic storm dubbed the “Beast from the East” set record temperatures across much of Europe on Monday and brought a rare snowstorm to Rome, paralyzing the city and giving its residents an unusual chance to ski, sled and build snowmen in its famous parks and piazzas. Rome’s train, plane and bus […]
  
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• Edison’s annual Chicken Parade draws the real thing and the wannabes

  26-02-2018 03:38
  Edison, in Skagit County, boasts a population of 133 most of the year, but that swells by a thousand people or more at the Chicken Parade, along with traffic jams and standing-room crowds at the local restaurants and bakeries.
  
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• Microsoft to ask Supreme Court to protect data stored overseas

  26-02-2018 02:59
  The software giant has an eye on assuring its international customers that information stored in cloud servers around the world is protected from government intrusion.
  
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