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• Zinke: Nat'l park fees rising because some get in free

  14-03-2018 23:40
  A $70-per-car entrance fee to 17 popular national parks is needed because seniors, the disabled, veterans and fourth-graders are getting in for free or at a discount, U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has told a Senate committee.
  
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• The Best Ever Short Review of a Very Long Film, A Brighter Summer Day

  14-03-2018 23:39 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede A Brighter Summer Day
  The Stranger film critic Andrew Wright wrote what I consider to be the best short review of a long film. The film in question is A Brighter Summer Day. It's by the late Edward Yang. It screens this weekend at Northwest Film Forum. Here is the mind-blowing review:
  A teenage boy tries to cement his identity on the dangerous streets of 1960’s Taipei, in a sprawling crime saga/insightful family drama that runs for nearly 4 hours. You may find yourself wi
  
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• No charges for Tacoma man who shot, killed his mother

  14-03-2018 22:50
  A 28-year-old Tacoma man who fatally shot his mother Sunday after mistaking her for an intruder will not face any criminal charges, Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist announced Wednesday.
  
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• Self-Made Billionaire Elizabeth Holmes Charged with Fraud by SEC

  14-03-2018 22:42 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogElizabeth Holmes was once valued at $4.5 billion. Kimberly White/Getty
  Former business wunderkind Elizabeth Holmes was once called the "the next Steve Jobs." Today, she was charged with conducting a massive fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission.Holmes became famous for the company she founded, Theranos, which promised to revolutionize the blood testing process by using a portable blood testing machine to analyze tiny amounts of blood using simple finger pricks. The much-
  
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• My Cosmic Weekend with Stephen Hawking

  14-03-2018 22:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede
  This weekend, I had planned to read a new book, Rethinking Economics, about how "other ways of thinking about the economy" can be presented to university students who are forced to subsist on a diet of neo-classical economics (a misnomer if there ever was one—mainstream economics has far less in common with the classical school, or the triumvirate Smith, Ricardo, Malthus, than even Marxism). But after reading a few chapters of this book, I stopped and found that I was in
  
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• Guy Fieri Is in Seattle

  14-03-2018 22:26 via thestranger.com
  by Katie HerzogQuick trip to Seattle to check out some new #DDD spots I think your gonna dig
  — Guy Fieri (@GuyFieri) March 14, 2018If you spot the blonde-tipped hedgehog chowing his way through our fair city for his show, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, send tips and pics to [email protected].[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Gangster whose gang moved on: ‘Having a gun I felt protected’

  14-03-2018 22:21
  As a boy in Seattle's South Park neighborhood , Paul Esparza helped  Sureno Villains "slowed down and ultimately stopped operating as a gang" in the years after Esparza was released from juvenile detention.
  
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• China tells Vatican of crackdown on underground transplants

  14-03-2018 22:17
  ROME (AP) — Chinese health authorities have told a Vatican trafficking conference that Beijing’s efforts to crack down on illegal “underground” organ transplants have resulted in 220 arrests and 100 victims being rescued over the past 10 years. Dr. Haibo Wang, deputy chief of China’s organ donation and transplant foundation, provided the data as part […]
  
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• China tells Vatican it’s fighting illegal organ transplants

  14-03-2018 22:17
  ROME (AP) — Chinese health authorities told a Vatican trafficking conference that Beijing’s efforts to crack down on illegal “underground” organ transplants have resulted in 220 arrests and 100 victims being rescued over the past 10 years. Dr. Haibo Wang, deputy chief of China’s organ donation and transplant foundation, provided the data as part of […]
  
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• The Best Things to Do in Seattle This Spring 2018

  14-03-2018 22:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffClockwise from top left: Stravinksy's Persephone (April 26 & 28 at Benaroya Hall), Susanna Bluhm: Mississippi & Arizona (March 9–April 14 at G. Gibson Gallery), Sasquatch! Music Festival (May 25–27 at Gorge Amphitheatre), and Jinkx Monsoon & Major Scales in 'The Ginger Snapped' (April 7 at the Triple Door).
  Seattle Art and Performance, our quarterly guide to everything artsy happening in Seattle this spring (between March 19 and June 10), is
  
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• Our Critics' Classical & Opera Picks for Spring

  14-03-2018 21:40 via thestranger.com
  The Best Events For March 19–June 10by Stranger Things To Do StaffMarch 22–25Sibelius Symphony No. 2The three pieces Seattle Symphony Music Director Ludovic Morlot selected for this evening brilliantly showcase the many facets of the ocean. The program starts with Sibelius's serene tone poem, The Oceanides. The room will then sparkle and effervesce when the orchestra dives into Britten's Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes before completely freezing over when arctic blasts from Sib
  
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• Our Critics' Film Picks for Spring

  14-03-2018 21:38 via thestranger.com
  The Best Events For March 19–June 10by Stranger Things To Do StaffMARCH 21VertigoA detective is hired by a friend to shadow the friend's suicidal wife—but things go devastatingly wrong when he falls in love with the mysterious woman.Pacific Place & Varsity Theatre
  MARCH 22–MAY 17Alfred Hitchcock's BritainHitchcock is known for his lavishly Freudian Technicolor thrillers from the '50s and '60s. But the films he made in his native Britain are just as worthy of note—taut
  
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• Our Critics' Festival Picks for Spring

  14-03-2018 21:37 via thestranger.com
  Picks from Seattle Art and Performance for March 19–June 10, 2018by Stranger Things To Do StaffMarch 20–April 25*Momentum FestivalThis multi-genre festival will boast talks, readings, music, art, and film screenings. Highlights include films from the Port Townsend Film Festival, chamber works by composer Jherek Bischoff, a poetry slam with notable wordsmiths like Karen Finneyfrock and Nikkita Oliver, and a talk on hiphop with Dr. Daudi Abe.Bainbridge Island Museum of Art
  March 22&nda
  
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• Our Critics' Jazz Picks for Spring

  14-03-2018 21:30 via thestranger.com
  The Best Events For March 19–June 10by Stranger Things To Do StaffMarch 19 & April 21Pink MartiniI will always love Pink Martini for its exceptionally beautiful cover of the "Song of the Black Lizard," the lead track for the campy late-'60s Japanese film Black Lizard. If you have not heard of the band, which was founded in Portland, Oregon, by the pianist Thomas Lauderdale in the mid-'90s, I recommend you enter its world by this door—this sensuous tune. Pink Martini's world is tr
  
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• Our Critics' Art Picks for Spring

  14-03-2018 21:26 via thestranger.com
  The Best Events For March 19–June 10by Stranger Things To Do StaffMuseumsBellevue Arts MuseumHumaira Abid: Searching for Home (Through March 25): Born in Pakistan and based in Seattle, Humaira Abid works in wood carving and miniature painting. Abid's first solo museum exhibition in the United States, Searching for Home, is a site-specific installation revolving around the stories of immigrants and refugees in the Pacific Northwest. Political yet poignant, this work renders the humanity of
  
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• Our Critics' Readings Picks For Spring

  14-03-2018 21:22 via thestranger.com
  The Best Events For March 19–June 10by Stranger Things To Do StaffMarch 20Mark Sarvas with Charles Johnson: Memento ParkIn Mark Sarvas's novel, a man learns of a painting that may have been stolen from his Jewish relatives in WWII-era Hungary. He will be accompanied at this talk by eminent local author and professor emeritus Charles Johnson.
  Elliott Bay Book Company, 7 pm, freeA Reading with Honor MooreDiscover the multigenre work of Honor Moore, who writes poetry, fiction, and memoir (inc
  
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• Blabbermouth Podcast: Students in the Streets, Lamb Ahead in Pennsylvania, and Flint Town

  14-03-2018 21:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by The StrangerEpisode 140 hears from a National Student Walkout organizer, talks about the meaning of Conor Lamb's victory, reacts to Flint Town, and disses "emotional support animals." Nathalie GrahamSubscribe to the podcast FOR FREE by clicking right here!Conor Lamb, a super-moderate Democrat, appears to have won a previously safe Republican House seat in Pennsylvania by just a few hundred votes. Dan Savage, Rich Smith, and Eli Sanders wade into this big political news and talk about whether
  
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• Our Critics' Performance Picks For Winter

  14-03-2018 21:12 via thestranger.com
  The Best Events For March 19–June 10by Stranger Things To Do StaffTheater12th Avenue ArtsThe Nether (April 27–May 14): What if there were a virtual world where men could live out their most fucked up, rapacious fantasies? Would such a world pacify violent behavior? Or would it only serve as a refinery for that violence? Those are some of the questions playwright Jennifer Haley asks in The Nether. Haley's known for incorporating into her writing the tricks of Hollywood genre flicks, a
  
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• Our Critics' Performance Picks For Spring

  14-03-2018 21:12 via thestranger.com
  The Best Events For March 19–June 10by Stranger Things To Do StaffTheater12th Avenue ArtsThe Nether (April 27–May 14): What if there were a virtual world where men could live out their most fucked up, rapacious fantasies? Would such a world pacify violent behavior? Or would it only serve as a refinery for that violence? Those are some of the questions playwright Jennifer Haley asks in The Nether. Haley's known for incorporating into her writing the tricks of Hollywood genre flicks, a
  
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• Off-duty Snohomish County deputy shocked with own Taser after confronting burglar

  14-03-2018 21:10
  The Snohomish County sheriff's sergeant attempted to arrest the man Saturday after he spent the night at the hangar he uses at the Arlington Municipal Airport.
  
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• Tim Eyman found in contempt over failure to hand over financial documents

  14-03-2018 20:58
  A Thurston County judge issued the contempt order and imposed a fine of $250 a day until Tim Eyman turns over documents sought by Attorney General Bob Ferguson.
  
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• Anti-Abortion Centers Posing as Clinics Don't Want You to Abort Your IUD

  14-03-2018 20:58 via thestranger.com
  
  by Megan BurbankCongratulations, ma'am. It's a beautiful baby Paragard.FLOCU / GETTY
  Yesterday, in eyeroll emojis: ThinkProgress reported on a 19-year-old woman who visited anti-abortion centers that pose as clinics and lure women in with the promise of free pregnancy testing, then try to coerce them into staying pregnant with misinformation about abortion. This isn't a new practice—I helped investigate similar centers in Washington State—but this detail about IUDs is. Emphasis mine,
  
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• PR executive Jay Rockey dies; promoted Seattle World’s Fair, mentored many followers

  14-03-2018 20:47
  Jay Rockey, message-crafter for the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair, leaves a legacy of professionalism and mentorship that influenced generations of PR practitioners.
  
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• The Man Blocking Trump's America from His Life Emailed Me

  14-03-2018 20:40 via thestranger.com
  
  The Man Who Knew Too Little somehow found my writing about him.by Charles Mudede AdrianHancu/gettyimages.com
  The subject of the much-discussed New York Times article, "The Man Who Knew Too Little," Erik Hagerman, emailed me the night before last. He wanted to talk to me about his situation because he felt that, though I disagreed with his blockade of Trump's America, I did so "without shouting." He wanted me to hear his side of the story about the story about him. He, a former Nike executive who
  
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• 'Protect kids, not guns': Seattle students' walk out

  14-03-2018 20:03
  Young people are leading the movement to limit gun violence in America.  They left classes by the thousands in Seattle and other cities on Wednesday, gathering on playing fields from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, to Ingraham High School in Seattle."We are of a generation done with being complacent," in the words of Ingraham student Lukas Illa.
  
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• Seattle's Only Prog-Rock Fest, Seaprog, Set for June, Features Cheer-Accident, Faun Fables, and More

  14-03-2018 19:56 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave SegalBay Area freak-folk daemons Faun Fables.
  The fifth annual Seaprog, the city's only festival dedicated to progressive rock, will take place June 1-3 at Columbia City Theater and the Royal Room. The bad news is, it's going up against Upstream Music Fest & Summit and Todd Rundgren's Utopia reunion. The good news is, Seaprog's lineup is strong and varied, and tickets are reasonably priced—as usual.This year's bill includes Chicago avant-rock shapeshifters Cheer-Accident, Bay A
  
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• Lack of evidence put Hawking’s Nobel hopes in black hole

  14-03-2018 19:21
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Stephen Hawking won accolades from his peers for having one of the most brilliant minds in science, but he never got a Nobel Prize because no one has yet proven his ideas. The Nobel committee looks for proof, not big ideas. Hawking was a deep thinker — a theorist — and his […]
  
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• Co-pilot sues Alaska Airlines over alleged drugging, rape by flight captain during layover

  14-03-2018 18:51
  The lawsuit claims Alaska Airlines is liable for its captain’s alleged drugging and raping of the co-pilot during a June layover in Minneapolis, and for its subsequent failure to hold him accountable.
  
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• Missed Opportunity: We Should Be Building a Lot More Housing On Top of the Capitol Hill Light Rail Station

  14-03-2018 18:38 via thestranger.com
  
  by David ColeUrgency and ambition—the missing links. DAVID COLE
  Two years ago this month I was visiting Seattle for a week of job interviews and apartment tours. My visit happened to coincide with the grand opening of the Capitol Hill and UW Link stations, and I was fortunate to snag a pass for the inaugural train ride from UW to Capitol Hill. It took 30 minutes by bus to reach the UW station from downtown that morning, and six minutes by train for the return trip.
  The only disappointment
  
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• Here’s a look at some of the scenes from Seattle-area student walkouts protesting gun violence

  14-03-2018 18:31
  Our reporters and photographers captured the moment as students across the Seattle area walked out of school to protest gun violence on the one-month anniversary of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla.
  
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• Woman raped by Fish & Wildlife boss: ‘I used to be so happy’

  14-03-2018 18:13
  When Thurston County Superior Court Judge James Dixon sentenced former Department of Fish and Wildlife official Greg Schirato to the maximum sentence for breaking into a co-worker's home and raping her in her sleep, the victim burst into sobs, a smile breaking through.
  
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• Holmes surrenders Theranos, pays $500K after “massive fraud”

  14-03-2018 18:10
  NEW YORK (AP) — Elizabeth Holmes, a Stanford University dropout once billed as the “next Steve Jobs” has forfeited control of Theranos, the blood testing startup she founded, and will pay $500,000 to settle charges that she oversaw a “massive fraud.” Under an agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Holmes is barred from serving […]
  
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• Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin Theater Review: A Little Schmaltz, a Little Kitsch, and Several of the Best Songs Ever Written

  14-03-2018 18:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin might be hagiography, but it feels good.by Sean NelsonHershey Felder as Irving Berlin runs through Sun March 18 at Seattle Repertory Theatre. Eighty Eight Entertainment
  Though it may be too family friendly to please audiences in search of more visceral perf thrills, Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin, a solo exploration of the life and catalog of the great, and possibly greatest, American songwriter is a delightful evening in the theater. For the most part.The good e
  
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• Live Blog: Seattle Students to Walk Out of Class to Call for Stricter Gun Laws

  14-03-2018 17:43 via thestranger.com
  
  Follow here for updates.by Heidi GrooverFrom a rally at the Florida State Capitol building after a gunman killed 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida, on February 14. Don Juan Moore/getty
  This morning at 10 am local time, students across Seattle and the nation are walking out of class for 17 minutes—one minute to mark each person murdered in a school shooting in Parkland, Florida, one month ago today.
  The walkouts will honor the victims and call for lawmakers to strengthen gun s
  
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• Investigations begin into Ohio fertility clinic malfunction

  14-03-2018 17:34
  CLEVELAND (AP) — A fertility clinic where thousands of frozen embryos and eggs may have been destroyed in a storage tank failure is being investigated by two accreditation organizations and Ohio’s health department. It’s not clear yet what caused the malfunction on March 4 at the clinic run by University Hospitals in suburban Cleveland. It’s […]
  
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• Surgeons test glowing dyes to find hidden cancer cells

  14-03-2018 17:07
  Dyes are being tested to make cancer cells light up so surgeons can cut them out and give patients a better shot at survival. This may soon transform how hundreds of thousands of operations are done each year.
  
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• There's No Free Speech Crisis on Campus, So Please Shut Up About It

  14-03-2018 17:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Guys, it's a free speech joke.by Rich SmithThere are a number of crises facing our college campuses. The unpopularity of free speech protections isn't one of them. David McNew / GETTY
  For the last year or so, columnists have been using anecdotes to support extremely broad claims about the state of free speech on campus. The argument typically goes something like this: Today's radical college "leftists" employ the very fascistic tactics they decry. They shout down speakers they don't agree with a
  
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• The Kids Are in Charge: Meet Two Seattle Students Leading Today's Walkout

  14-03-2018 16:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneEmilia Allard and Rhiannon Rasaretnam speaking at an Indivisible rally on Tuesday. Sydney Brownstone
  Rhiannon Rasaretnam, 17, power-walked up 2nd Ave with her Sierra Club backpack, clutching prepared remarks for a speech she would give to the political group Indivisible. It was 11:30 AM, when most other high school students were in school, but she only had to attend one period for the day. Lucky. This was crunch time.
  When Rasaretnam reached the federal building, she looked a
  
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• Photos: Students walk out across the nation to protest gun violence

  14-03-2018 16:35
  Thousands of students, emboldened by a growing protest movement over gun violence, walked out of their schools Wednesday in a nationwide demonstration, one month after a gunman killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The 17-minute protests unfolding at hundreds of schools intended to pressure Congress to approve gun control […]
  
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• United mistakenly flies Kansas-bound dog to Japan

  14-03-2018 16:32
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. — United Airlines says it’s investigating after mistakenly flying a Kansas family’s dog to Japan. KCTV reports that Kara Swindle and her two children flew from Oregon to Kansas City, Missouri, Tuesday on a United flight. They went to a cargo facility to pick up 10-year-old Irgo, a German shepherd, but were […]
  
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• New nickname for Pluto-explorer’s next target: Ultima Thule

  14-03-2018 16:12
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — There’s a new nickname for the icy world next up for the spacecraft that explored Pluto: Ultima Thule (THOO-lee). NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is headed toward a New Year’s Day encounter with this mysterious object or two, 1 billion miles beyond Pluto on the fringes of our solar system. Its […]
  
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• Slog AM: Stephen Hawking Dies At 76, Durkan Announces Budget Cuts, Will Someone Save The Orcas

  14-03-2018 16:11 via thestranger.com
  
  ALSO: Britain cracks down on Russia, students walk out, kidnapping scams in King Countyby Nathalie Graham["Starman" by David Bowie plays mournfully in the distance] Frederick M. Brown / Stringer
  Stephen Hawking dies at 76: The renowned theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and science icon died Wednesday, which is Albert Einstein’s birthday and Pi Day. Coincidentally, he was born on Isaac Newton’s birthday (Jan. 4th). Hawking was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) at 21
  
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