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• 5th District state Rep. Jay Rodne of Snoqualmie won’t seek re-election

  28-02-2018 23:42
  Jay Rodne, an attorney, has served on the Snoqualmie City Council and is a colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. He was first elected to the state House in 2004.
  
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• Hope Hicks Just Quit the White House

  28-02-2018 23:28
  
  by Katie HerzogBye girl byeChip Somodevilla/Getty Images
  And she's out! Hope Hicks—the 29-year-old former model and political novice whose ex-boyfriend was recently fired from the Trump administration after being outed as an alleged wife beater—is stepping down from her role as the White House's communications director. The news comes just a day after Hicks admitted under oath to telling "white lies" in order to protect the President.From the New York Times, who first reported the st
  
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• Charges: Construction foreman raped apprentice at job site

  28-02-2018 23:03
  Prosecutors charged a 33-year-old man with rape last week, contending that a construction worker raped a dry walling apprentice at a job site several times and threatened her to keep quiet.
  
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• Alaska lawmaker cites Holocaust deaths to oppose gun control

  28-02-2018 22:48
  ANCHORAGE — An Alaska Republican and most senior member of the U.S. House argued against gun control by wondering how many Jewish people “were put in the ovens” because they were not armed. U.S. Rep. Don Young, who has a history of off-the-cuff remarks that can draw criticism, made the comments at a meeting last […]
  
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• Chinook salmon are shrinking; Orcas may be among the culprits

  28-02-2018 22:44
  A recent study found that the largest and oldest Chinook salmon (also known as king salmon) have mostly disappeared along the West Coast.
  
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• Seattle's freeway revolt: How residents fought a concrete jungle

  28-02-2018 22:41
  Seattleites locked arms in the late 1960s and early 1970s to halt a freeway system far larger than what exists today. Now, it's easier than ever to trace that history.
  
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• Blabbermouth Podcast: Why Don't Young Americans Vote?

  28-02-2018 22:33
  by The StrangerSubscribe to the podcast FOR FREE by clicking right here!Dan Savage, Rich Smith, and Eli Sanders talk about a hard truth: young people don’t vote in midterm elections.What, exactly, is the problem here? In the post-Trump, post-Parkland era, is the youth vote going to meaningfully increase? Because it needs to. For the last US midterm elections, back in 2014, only 16 percent of Americans age 18 - 29 voted. For Americans age 60 and over, the figure was 55 percent. It was the 2
  
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• Zack Morris is Trash is Trash

  28-02-2018 22:30
  
  A new Amazon series examines Saved By the Bell through the lens of wokeness.by Katie Herzog
  There's something delicious about critiquing old art through a contemporary lens. It's so easy to see the flaws in things that were made decades or even centuries ago—to call out the misogyny of Andy Griffith, the cultural appropriation of Elvis Presley, the cisheterosexism of everything made before 2014. Occasionally, this form of criticism can be witty (see: "The Baby-Sitter's Club Super Woke Seri
  
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• The Stranger Presents the Ugly Pet Contest!

  28-02-2018 22:00
  
  by Chase Burns Joe Rocco
  Is your dog the gnarliest beast this side of Bellevue? Does your cat have a face that only a mother could love? If so, the incredibly attractive folks at The Stranger want to give your poor pupper (or kitty, hedgehog, snake, peacock, etc.) the chance to show off its unsightly assets in the inaugural Ugly Pet Contest, sponsored by Urban Animal Clinic and Purrfect Cat Boarding. Fame and eternal bragging rights are up for grabs, along with the chance for your ugly emotional
  
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• Connelly: Inslee must veto Legislature's public records bill

  28-02-2018 21:26
  The Washington State Legislature is going great guns this year, but has shot itself in the foot with public records legislation that seeks to exempt state lawmakers from our state's pioneering public disclosure law.
  
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• What Makes Amazon Spheres Different from the Space Needle?

  28-02-2018 21:24
  
  by Charles Mudede Charles Mudede
  Let this be the final word on the matter. Amazon's spheres are not actually futuristic in the same sense as the Space Needle. The latter, in fact, is looking at us, in the present (the Needle's tomorrow, people). But it's hard for us to recognize the orientation of its gaze because we see it as, not falling on us, but almost wholly in its own time, the Cold War. We did not end up colonizing the stars. And the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 brought all of the Spa
  
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• In Defense of Jazz Fusion (And Specifically, Herbie Hancock and Billy Cobham)

  28-02-2018 21:05
  
  by Dave SegalOne listen to Herbie Hancock’s LP Sextant should rid you of your foolish fusion hate. Douglas Kirkland
  Fusion has been denigrated ever since its late-'60s birth—usually by people who've heard little of it. The genre often provokes knee-jerk revulsion, accusations of wankery, or, worse, yawns. The early March appearances in Seattle by two fusion legends—keyboardist Herbie Hancock on March 1 and drummer Billy Cobham March 8 through 11—provide an opportunity to
  
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• Beverage industry, allies start campaign to stop Seattle’s soda tax from spreading

  28-02-2018 20:46
  “Yes! To Affordable Groceries” registered as a ballot committee this week. Seattle’s 1.75 cents-per-ounce soda tax took effect Jan. 1.
  
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• Seattle man accused of terrorism in New Jersey standing trial in 1 of 4 killings

  28-02-2018 20:40
  Ali Muhammad Brown is also facing trial in Seattle in connection with the killings of three men in 2014.
  
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• Nerdy Events This Weekend Aside From Comic Con

  28-02-2018 20:38
  No ECCC Ticket Required for These Feb 28-March 4 Eventsby Stranger Things To Do StaffAs of February 28, only Thursday tickets are still available for this weekend's Emerald City Comic Con. But don’t worry if you don’t have tickets: There are tons of after-parties that don’t require an ECCC badge, as well as other nerdy performances and events happening this weekend that we’re betting you’ll be interested in, too. We’ve rounded them up here, so, whether or not
  
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• 23 Nerdy Events in Seattle This Week Aside From Emerald City Comic Con 2018

  28-02-2018 20:38
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffAin't no party like a nerd party. Courtesy of Emerald City Comic Con
  As of February 28, only Thursday tickets are still available for this weekend's Emerald City Comic Con. But don’t worry if you don’t have tickets: There are tons of after-parties that don’t require an ECCC badge, as well as other nerdy performances and events happening this weekend that we’re betting you’ll be interested in, too. We’ve rounded them up here, so, w
  
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• Thousands of calls, emails flood Gov. Inslee’s office over Public Records Act bill

  28-02-2018 20:29
  The messages pouring into Gov. Jay Inslee’s office over the Legislature’s new public-records law, Senate Bill 6617, have set a record.
  
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• Multiple News Outlets Are Investigating Allegations Against Sherman Alexie

  28-02-2018 20:25
  
  Several outlets may be working on a story.by Rich SmithThe author won a National Book Award in 2007 and a Stranger Genius Award the following year. CHASE JARVIS
  The Santa Fe New Mexican reports that the Institute of American Indian Arts "distanced themselves" from Sherman Alexie after multiple sources said the prominent Seattle writer and filmmaker may soon face allegations of sexual misconduct.
  The author "served on several occasions since the early 1990s as both a visiting writer and a mentor
  
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• King County Democrats To Re-Do Investigation into Harassment Allegations Against Chair

  28-02-2018 20:14
  
  Embattled chair Bailey Stober will appoint two of his own investigators.by Heidi GrooverKing County Democrats Chair Bailey Stober faces allegations of harassment. PCOMG FACEBOOK LIVE
  In an hourslong meeting Tuesday night, members of the King County Democrats responded to harassment allegations against their chair by ordering more investigation into the allegations and pledging to find members of their party who "leaked" information about the allegations to the media.The embattled chair, Bailey S
  
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• Rep. Young: Armed Jews could have saved selves from 'the ovens'

  28-02-2018 19:57
  Alaska's crusty Republican Rep. Don Young argues against gun control, saying: "How many Jews were put into the ovens because they were unarmed?"
  
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• King County Prosecutors Dropped 1,500 Low-Level Misdemeanors. Good.

  28-02-2018 19:39
  
  Why are we locking people up for "quality of life" crimes anyway?by Sydney BrownstonePublic defenders regularly see clients cycle through municipal court on misdemeanor charges related to poverty. Bill Oxford / GETTY
  On Monday, the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office announced that it would be dismissing 1,500 misdemeanor cases from 2017 due to staffing and resource shortages. The story didn't come the usual sources (the public information officer or some deep-digging beat reporter). Inste
  
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• Astronomers glimpse cosmic dawn, when the stars switched on

  28-02-2018 19:36
  WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, astronomers have glimpsed the dawn of the universe 13.6 billion years ago when the earliest stars were just beginning to glow after the Big Bang. And if that’s not enough, they may have detected mysterious dark matter at work, too. The glimpse consisted of a faint radio signal […]
  
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• Europe’s 1st successful sciatic nerve transplant in Poland

  28-02-2018 18:22
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Doctors in Poland say they have successfully completed Europe’s first transplant of a sciatic nerve from a deceased donor. The recipient is officer from an anti-terrorism police unit. Jacek Martynkiewicz of the University Hospital in Wroclaw, southwest Poland, said Wednesday the transplant was done Feb. 8 and the 30-year-old patient’s condition […]
  
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• Why Did Dubiously Named Rock Band Black Pussy's Seattle Show Get Cancelled?

  28-02-2018 18:15
  
  Why did Tucson-based rock band Black Pussy's March 17 show at Funhouse get cancelled? It's complicated.by Dave SegalBlack Pussy: "We accept all responsibility for the repercussions that our name brings." Made in China Records
  Tucson-based stoner-rock/"boogie-pop" band Black Pussy—whose members, as you can see, are white men—were slated to play the Funhouse on Saturday, March 17, but that show is no longer happening. According to a February 26 post on the group's Facebook page, it was
  
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• ICE Is a Terrifying and Faceless Federal Agency. Here’s the Face of the Guy Who Runs the Seattle Office. Fuck Him.

  28-02-2018 17:45
  
  by Dan Savage SOURCE PHOTO BY JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAGES NEWS/GETTY IMAGES
  "ICE is out of control," goes the headline at Slate. "Donald Trump's ICE is tearing families apart," goes the headline at the New Yorker. "ICE wants to deport the caregiver of a 6-year-old paraplegic boy," goes the headline at Daily Kos. "ICE targets sanctuary cities, arrests 33 in Northwest," goes the headline at NPR.
  Reading these stories, we learn that ICE just arrested a 55-year-old chemistry professor in Lawrence, Kansa
  
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• Slog AM: Bump Stocks Banned, Net Neutrality Protected, Ben Carson's $31,000 Dining Set

  28-02-2018 17:20
  
  Barbra Streisand cloned her dogs, Pennsylvania couples are being blessed with their assault rifles, and avalanches are still scaryby Nathalie GrahamLivin large at HUD Mark Wilson / Getty
  Dick’s Sporting Goods bans sales of assault rifles: The sports retail store is taking more political action than American politicians. After it came to light that the school shooter in Parkland, Florida purchased an AR-15 at one of its stores, Dick’s decided to remove itself from the equation. Dick&r
  
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• Three space-station astronauts return to Earth

  28-02-2018 15:32
  The two Americans and one Russian landed in a Soyuz capsule shortly after sunrise Wednesday, local time, in Kazakhstan.
  
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• Why our blue state is more red when it comes to guns

  28-02-2018 15:00
  It’s about the group politics in Olympia. A lot of Seattleites may not realize this, but the Democrats have five members in the Washington Legislature who have lifetime ‘A’ ratings from the National Rifle Association.
  
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• West Point disaster sent raw sewage into Puget Sound. Surprisingly, the water quality was barely affected

  28-02-2018 15:00
  A scientific study finds the impact from last year’s West Point sewage-plant catastrophe was small and brief.
  
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• Readers respond: Slow down search for Seattle’s new superintendent, focus on racial equity

  28-02-2018 14:00
  In an online survey, Education Lab readers wanted to know exactly how Seattle’s next superintendent will support more students of color — and whether the finalists will commit to sticking around longer than a few years.
  
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• Europe is so cold now that Arctic appears to be warm escape

  28-02-2018 13:50
  LONDON — Much of Europe woke up to yet another day of a cold spell on Wednesday that may have turned the streets of London, Rome and other capitals into pretty photo scenes but also has cost lives across the continent. Neither London nor Rome usually experience temperatures dropping below freezing during winters. Europeans seeking […]
  
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• What We Can Learn from the Man Who Ate Cannabis and Had a Meltdown High Above the Pacific Ocean

  28-02-2018 13:00
  How not to have a marijuana meltdown on an airplane.by Lester BlackThe case is closed against Joseph D. Hudek IV, the 24-year-old man who had a meltdown on a Delta flight last July shortly after the plane took off from Seattle Tacoma International Airport. According to court records, he incited a brawl on the Beijing-bound flight that involved flight attendants getting punched, bottles of wine being broken over peoples' heads, and Hudek attempting to open an airplane door 30,000 feet above the P
  
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• The Interesting Thing about the Bad Guy in Black Panther

  28-02-2018 13:00
  The villains in genre films by black directors have something in common.by Charles MudedeAs more and more black directors enter the Hollywood system, we are seeing revisions to the industry's traditional portrayal of the villain.Under white directors, villains have tended to be evil in the metaphysical sense, and if a person became a villain because of a life-changing experience, that event was almost never complicated. Something very bad happened (the unforeseen murder of a father or grandmothe
  
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• In Defense of Jazz Fusion

  28-02-2018 13:00
  
  Musical legends Herbie Hancock and Billy Cobham are coming to Seattle, so let's talk about why your jazz-fusion hatred is misguided.by Dave SegalFusion has been denigrated ever since its late-'60s birth—usually by people who've heard little of it. The genre often provokes knee-jerk revulsion, accusations of wankery, or, worse, yawns. The early March appearances in Seattle by two fusion legends—keyboardist Herbie Hancock on March 1 and drummer Billy Cobham March 8 through 11—pro
  
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• "I Want to Live in a World That Loves Women, Not Simply a Society That Doesn't Rape"

  28-02-2018 13:00
  Artist C. Davida Ingram on coming up with new frameworks for making images of black women.by Emily PothastThere's a moment in one of the videos in C. Davida Ingram's A Book with No Pages—on view at the UW's Jacob Lawrence Gallery through March 13—where the entire world seems to shift polarity.The video opens with a dance performed by David Rue and Randy Ford to a soundtrack sung by Alisa Dickinson. Both dancers are wearing bright red dresses, which sway and flow against a tree-green
  
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• I, Anonymous: You're Making It Hard for Me to Not Run You Over

  28-02-2018 13:00
  I, Anonymous: You're Making It Hard for Me to Not Run You Overby AnonymousI love and respect that you are a pedestrian. But I want you to know that you are invisible to drivers. Is it a wet night? I can't see you. Think I must be able to see your light coat or light skin or anything nonreflective about you? You're wrong. Feel like you are awash in headlights and can't not be seen? Wrong again. Ride around with a friend one wet evening. People are shadows—and streetlights and headlights mak
  
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• Freshwater Is a Novel About Sex, Self-Harm, and Spirits

  28-02-2018 13:00
  A review of Akwaeke Emezi's vivid debut novel.by Rich SmithAkwaeke Emezi's Freshwater is a coming-of-age story about a Nigerian woman named Ada whose body is sort of a Grand Central Station for minor gods. She's an Ọgbanje, an Igbo spiritual being with access to "the other side," which means the other side has access to her as well.After a childhood full of pain (there's a bad car wreck), suffering (her family life is rough), and sublimity (there's gods afoot!), Ada's family sends her off
  
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• El Grito Taqueria Is Dishing Up Mexican Classics in South Lake Union

  28-02-2018 13:00
  Cactus, pulled chicken, and homemade chips on Fairview Avenue North.by Jen SwansonOn a hill above Amazon, South Lake Union's latest Mexican restaurant occasionally feels caught—like Seattle itself—in between two worlds.First opened 1926, the single-
  story structure in which it's housed has since been dwarfed by encroaching apartments and office towers. Other upstarts on Fairview Avenue North have plenty to offer in terms of square footage, but none hold a candle in terms of street cr
  
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• Crossword Solution: "Laugh It Up"

  28-02-2018 13:00
  The solutions to the crossword puzzle in the February 28, 2018 issue of The Strangerby Brendan Emmett Quigley
  
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• Conjugal Visit: Sayonara with a Side of Sex

  28-02-2018 13:00
  It's not breaking no-sex-with-roommate rules if she's moving out.by AnonymousI was attending UW and living close to campus in a big house with the owner and two other students. We had a rule forbidding sex with roommates. At dinner, an attractive female student announced she was moving out soon. We were mutually attracted, flirted a bit, but obeyed the no-sex rule. The night before she moved, I was in my room reading when she opened the door and entered unannounced. She was barefoot and wearing
  
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• Black Sparrow Review: Black Widow > Red Sparrow

  28-02-2018 13:00
  A spy flick that scratches all the wrong itches.by Elinor JonesRed Sparrow is about a beautiful woman who was trained to become a spy/killing machine for the Russian government. Due to the obvious similarities, it’s been compared to the Black Widow movie that audiences have yet been given—but don’t believe that for a second. Marvel movies are fun. Red Sparrow is not.Jennifer Lawrence stars as Dominika, a Russian ballerina with a thick accent and even thicker bangs. After suffer
  
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• A Bachelorette Party Really Loved the Can Can's Romeo & Juliet

  28-02-2018 13:00
  The magic of this burlesque Romeo & Juliet was watching the crowd lust after the performers.by Rich SmithIt doesn't really matter what I think of the Can Can's Romeo & Juliet. Judging by a nearby bachelorette party's obvious desire to grope the lats and deltoids of Can Can host Jonny Boy, I'd say that the show—which will be running (or, I guess, gyrating) at Pike Place Market through April 29—is the hottest bit of touristy burlesque happening in town right now.The dancers at
  
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• Iditarod sled-dog race plagued by cruelty allegations, infighting and doping scandal

  28-02-2018 12:36
  In 45 years of existence, the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race — the annual 1,000-mile competition in Alaska — has never experienced a stretch as rough as this. A documentary released in the United States last year, “Sled Dogs,” accused the race of cruelty toward its canine competitors. One of the Iditarod’s major sponsors severed […]
  
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• Cracking the mysteries of the elusive, majestic whale shark

  28-02-2018 09:09
  GALAPAGOS ISLANDS, Ecuador (AP) — Scientists have spent time diving with whale sharks in the Galapagos Islands to help solve some of the most enduring mysteries about the biggest shark in the sea. Despite typically being bigger than a double-decker bus, the elusive whale shark has only tiny, almost useless teeth. It’s also one of […]
  
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• Popular Alaska peak weighs new rules for climbers’ poop

  28-02-2018 08:36
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Climbers on North America’s tallest mountain may have to start packing out more of their poop after a researcher determined a glacier in which much of it has been dumped over the past decade probably is not decomposing the human waste. Michael Loso, a glacier geologist, calculates that 36,000 climbers between […]
  
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