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• An Awesome Collection of Klaus Schulze's Early Cosmic Synth Works Has Been Reissued

  22-03-2018 23:39 via thestranger.com
  
  Let's get very far out with a new reissue of Klaus Schulze's early synth-powered space jams, La Vie Electronique Volume 1.0.by Dave SegalWeltraum ist der Ort. One Way Static
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  In the realm of European kosmische-synth music, few figures stand mightier than Klaus Schulze. A member of mind-expanding krautrock legends Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, and the Cosmic Jokers, Schulze has maintained a prodigious work rate on his own, too, releas
  
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• Maintenance Request: Our City Light Bill is Outrageous and Our Landlord Won’t Do Anything About It

  22-03-2018 23:38 via thestranger.com
  
  Is my landlord required to have an energy efficient home?by Heidi GrooverA reader writes: "We're trying everything we can to reduce our energy use - I walk around my house like I'm getting ready to go skiing - but nothing seems to make a sizable dent." LSOphoto/getty
  Welcome back to Maintenance Request, a regular column where you email me with your questions about renting in Seattle/King County and I try to get you answers. If you have a question, send it to me at [email protected]. Ask me a
  
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• Hurricane Harvey’s toxic impact far deeper than public told

  22-03-2018 23:31
  Hurricane Harvey floodwaters swamped the Houston area’s many chemical plants and refineries and its oil, gas and chemical pipelines. The extent of this environmental assault is beginning to surface, but questions about the consequences for human health remain unanswered.
  
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• Texas' White Terrorist and America's Addiction to Racism

  22-03-2018 23:11 via thestranger.com
  
  In a state of melancholy madness.by Charles Mudede vovashevchuk/gettyimages.com
  If the Austin bomber had been brown or Muslim, and if his first victims had not been people of color, the US media would have immediately described the criminal as a terrorist and made him their top story. This is so obvious that one sounds dumb just saying it. But many Americans did not hear about the bombings until two white men in an upscale Austin neighborhood were injured by a bomb on March 18.The police and man
  
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• Connelly: Democrats' chair draws a bead on Republicans' gun raffles

  22-03-2018 22:18
  With gun violence protests due Saturday across the state, the Democrats' state party chair is drawing a bead on raffling of handguns and rifles that have long been part of county Republicans' annual Lincoln Day dinners.
  
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• The Gates Foundation Refuses to Say What Bill Gates Thought of Hamilton

  22-03-2018 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher Frizzelle"Is that who I think it is?" I thought as I was walking out of the Paramount. CF
  On my way out of Hamilton on Valentine's Day, I saw someone leaving the theater ahead of me.
  The back of his head looked familiar.
  Eons ago, I worked at the Cheesecake Factory in Bellevue, and one time Bill Gates came in. He wasn't in my section, but I saw him. All I remember is the way he looked as he was hunched over a plate of popcorn shrimp.
  That was back before cell phones had cameras in
  
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• The French Vintner and Family Drama Back to Burgundy Shows the Virtues of Watching People Work

  22-03-2018 21:23 via thestranger.com
  
  by Andrew WrightThis is the noble beauty of hard labor. Watching it gives us pleasure. Back to Burgundy
  The French import Back to Burgundy is a big, rather shameless slice of Oscar bait that also sports some interesting ideas about depicting sense memories. Beginning with a lovely extended time-lapse shot of the seasons, the story follows an Australian-based winemaker (Pio Marmaï) who returns to the family vineyard in France after a decade of estrangement. Faced with a whopping inheritance
  
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• A tiny skeleton found in Chile might look like an alien, but her genes tell a different story

  22-03-2018 21:12
  "And everybody is born with mutations. This person just happened to roll snake eyes," said the geneticist who examined this strange skeleton of a girl who had a short and tragic life, if she had even survived birth.
  
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• Portland, Ore., officials approve plan to buy 2 streetcars

  22-03-2018 21:10
  PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland officials have approved a $10 million deal to buy two new streetcars with the option to buy additional vehicles later. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the city council approved the agreement Wednesday to purchase the streetcars from Pennsylvania-based Brookville Equipment Corp. The city is entering into an existing agreement between Seattle’s transit agency […]
  
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• Portland officials approve plan to buy more streetcars

  22-03-2018 21:10
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland officials have approved a $10 million deal to buy two new streetcars with the option to buy additional vehicles later. The city council approved the agreement Wednesday to purchase the streetcars from Pennsylvania-based Brookville Equipment Corp., The Oregonian/OregonLive reported . The city will be entering into an existing agreement between […]
  
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• An Immersive Production of Hamlet in a Mansion on First Hill

  22-03-2018 21:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich Smith Tyler Gross
  This story is presented as part of the spring 2018 edition of The Stranger's Art + Performance Quarterly.
  No theater company has ever produced a play at the Stimson-Green Mansion on First Hill before. The house has, however, hosted a Playboy photo shoot (March 1989 issue, Latoya Jackson on the cover), a multidisciplinary dance event (sponsored by 4Culture), a steampunk video game launch, and several weddings. A group of leather daddies also once proposed an event here b
  
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• Beloved UDistrict institution closing after 86 years

  22-03-2018 20:55
  The store has been run by three generations, but the changing economy of Seattle is forcing Hardwick's to close its doors.
  
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• Beloved U-District institution closing after 86 years

  22-03-2018 20:55
  The store has been run by three generations, but the changing economy of Seattle is forcing Hardwick's to close its doors.
  
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• Congressman Dave Reichert to Journalist: "I Ignore You"

  22-03-2018 20:51 via thestranger.com
  
  Oy.by Rich SmithDave Reichert, pictured here with something stuck in craw.MARK WILSON / GETTY
  Congressman Dave Reichert is known for ignoring his own constituents in Washington's 8th Congressional District, so it's no surprise he'd ignore Huffington Post reporter Matt Fuller when asked for comment on the 2,232-page omnibus spending bill the House just approved approximately 17 hours after it was introduced. But does Reichert have to be so mean about it?Fuller posted audio of his exchange with Re
  
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• On 4-year anniversary of Oso mudslide, family members of victims announce memorial

  22-03-2018 20:49
  On the four-year anniversary of the devastating Oso landslide, family and friends of the victims say they are starting to raise money for a permanent memorial.
  
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• On 4-year anniversary of Oso landslide, family members of victims announce memorial

  22-03-2018 20:49
  On the four-year anniversary of the devastating Oso landslide, family and friends of the victims say they are starting to raise money for a permanent memorial.
  
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• Toys R Us founder Charles Lazarus dies, a week after chain says it will close all stores

  22-03-2018 20:37
  The Toys R Us founder transformed the toy business from Christmas-focused to year-round. Charles Lazarus’ strategy created the world’s largest toy-store chain.
  
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• They Remain, a Movie That Gets High On Its Own Supply of Horror

  22-03-2018 20:24 via thestranger.com
  
  by Andrew Wright"This Doesn't look good..." They Remain
  Flip through a few recent Best of Horror collections at random, and you’re likely to hit a healthy smattering of Laird Barron. Barron, who sets many of his stories in the Northwest, is a ferocious talent, specializing in an upsetting, lysergic melding of two-fisted adventure scenarios and slithering Lovecraftian remnants. They Remain, the first filmed take on the author’s work, manages to replicate a gratifying amount of that di
  
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• Canadian who ran drug-smuggling ring by helicopter pleads guilty in Seattle

  22-03-2018 20:07
  The 46-year-old man admitted he headed a drug ring that flew marijuana and MDMA south into Washington state and cocaine north into Canada.
  
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• Canadian who ran airborne drug-smuggling ring pleads guilty

  22-03-2018 20:07
  The 46-year-old man admitted he headed a drug ring that flew marijuana and MDMA south into Washington state and cocaine north into Canada.
  
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• The Twilight of an ACT UP Activist in the Engaging After Louie

  22-03-2018 20:03 via thestranger.com
  
  by Kathy Fennessy After Louie
  In After Louie, the director Vincent Gagliostro draws from his past as an ACT UP activist for this occasionally didactic, if consistently engaging debut about one man's survivor's guilt over emerging unscathed from the AIDS crisis. Sam (Alan Cumming) is a middle-aged man who is all about the work. In this case, he's a visual artist toiling away on a film about a friend felled by AIDS, which entails replaying 20-year-old home videos, waxing nostalgic for the heady da
  
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• Stephen Sondheim Is 88 Years Old Today

  22-03-2018 19:46 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean NelsonAnother satisfied customer
  Happy birthday to the man who is both almost certainly the greatest living, and maybe even greatest ever, writer of lyrics for musical theater, and who is responsible for writing my least favorite song of all time.From Lin-Manuel Miranda's profile of Sondheim for the NY Times Style Magazine last year:"It’s hard to overemphasize Sondheim’s influence on American musical theater. As a young man, he was mentored by Oscar Hammerstein II of Rodgers
  
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• Olympic mountain goats due for a move to the North Cascades

  22-03-2018 19:37
  Mountain goats have long gotten the goat of Olympic National Park managers. They shaggy beasts are not native to the park, and devour fragile high-elevation plants and meadows.
  
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• Study: ‘Legacy’ nitrogen also feeds Gulf of Mexico dead zone

  22-03-2018 19:02
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Gulf of Mexico’s “dead zone” will be an unwanted summer visitor for decades, Canadian scientists say. They say the oxygen-starved patch would persist even if farmers could immediately end all fertilizer runoff. An area with too little oxygen to support marine life forms every summer off the Louisiana coast. It’s […]
  
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• Stop Pretending You Don't Like Paul Simon

  22-03-2018 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean NelsonPaul Simon brings Homeward Bound: The Farewell Tour to KeyArena on May 18. Tickets are absurdly expensive. Illustration by Sophie Franz
  This story is presented as part of the spring 2018 edition of The Stranger's Art + Performance Quarterly.
  During Paul Simon's career making records, the music in which he specializes has transmogrified wildly, from teen fad to global hormonal explosion to Serious Art Form to self-serious indulgence to failed revolution to nostalgia delivery device.
  
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• Man convicted of 2017 arson at Bellevue mosque to be questioned in Wednesday’s fire

  22-03-2018 18:56
  Police stress the man is not considered a suspect or person of interest, and detectives want to determine his whereabouts during Wednesday's fire.
  
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• Investigators seek tips, video taken of fire at Bellevue mosque

  22-03-2018 18:56
  Bellevue police and fire investigators are asking for help from the public about the cause of a suspicious fire that damaged a vacant mosque in Bellevue Wednesday afternoon. The fire was reported around 4:30 p.m. in the 14700 block of Main Street at the Islamic Center of Eastside. The building had previously been damaged in a […]
  
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• Zillow: Rents Are Growing at the Fastest Rate in Almost Two Years

  22-03-2018 18:52 via thestranger.com
  
  The $2,204 median rent in Seattle is 4.9 percent higher than this time last year.by Heidi GrooverWe're fucked!Thomas Northcut/getty
  Seattle rent increases may have slowed in the last two years, but are now on the rise again.
  That's according to a report released by Zillow Thursday, which says median rents across the country are increasing at the fastest rate since May 2016. Nationwide, median rent has risen 2.8 percent since last February to $1,445. Where are these increases the worst? Yep. West
  
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• Olympia theater’s co-founder resigns amid claims sexual-harassment allegations were ignored

  22-03-2018 18:42
  Scot Whitney, who along with his wife, Linda, started Harlequin Productions in 1991, also left his seat as a board member as an inquiry into the allegations by two actresses continues.
  
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• Senate Passes Bill That Will Hurt the Internet and Sex Workers

  22-03-2018 18:37 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie Herzog Getty Images
  On Wednesday, the Senate passed an "anti-sex trafficking" bill that has far wider consequences that protecting victims of sex trafficking—and not all of them good.The Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, or SESTA, as well as the House version of the bill (the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, or FOSTA), amends Section 230 to the Communications Decency Act (CDA 230), meaning that for the first time in the history of the internet, websit
  
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• Bill Hader’s HBO Comedy Barry Isn't What You're Expecting

  22-03-2018 18:29 via thestranger.com
  The Saturday Night Live vet’s new show.by Ned LannamannThere are many good things to say about Barry, Bill Hader’s new half-hour show for HBO, and perhaps the best of them is this: It’s not really like anything else on TV. Barry combines pitch-black comedy with an even darker drama about a hit man trying to make a clean break from his past.And while that premise—man unravels as he reckons with the violence he’s caused—is familiar, Hader and his team of writers
  
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• Washington state prisoner mistakenly released early sues over rearrest

  22-03-2018 18:26
  Orlando Wright was released in 2012, 76 days early, from his eight-year term for robbery. He was one of more than 3,000 inmates released prematurely due to the software glitch.
  
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• Washington state prisoner mistakenly released early sues over re-arrest

  22-03-2018 18:26
  Orlando Wright was released in 2012, 76 days early, from his eight-year term for robbery. He was one of more than 3,000 inmates released prematurely due to the software glitch.
  
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• Prohibition-era murals uncovered at Seattle hotel renovation

  22-03-2018 18:22
  There's a lot of history in the walls of the Louisa Hotel. But some of it is just seeing the light of day for the first time in years.
  
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• Two Pieces of Not Completely Terrible News from the Other Washington

  22-03-2018 18:11 via thestranger.com
  
  The spending bill will expand an affordable housing tax credit, ban bosses from keeping tipsby Heidi GrooverWashington Senators Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray DAVID RYDER / GETTY
  There's a lot going on in the last minute, 2,232-page omnibus spending bill Congress must approve by Friday in order to avoid another government shutdown: military spending, increased funding for the Internal Revenue Service, a barely-anything gun safety measure, money for border walls and ICE (with conditions). Democr
  
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• New federal budget would likely keep money flowing to Lynnwood light rail

  22-03-2018 17:40
  A light-rail corridor to Lynnwood gained momentum Wednesday night when Congress released a budget that maintains federal transit grants, after President Donald Trump proposed slashing the program. This likely means Sound Transit’s proposed 8.5-mile, Northgate-Lynnwood line can qualify for a $1.2 billion Federal Transit Administration (FTA) grant, to finish construction by mid-2024. An estimated 68,500 daily […]
  
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• Sounder south line service disrupted by fatality on the tracks

  22-03-2018 17:39
  Sounder train service between Lakewood and Seattle was disrupted Thursday morning following a fatal accident on the tracks.
  
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• Woman who helped stranded motorist killed in Port Orchard hit-run

  22-03-2018 17:35
  The victim was helping to fill the gas tank of a car when a dark-colored sedan drove by and hit her, the State Patrol said.
  
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• Oregon woman arrested for cooking Chihuahua in oven

  22-03-2018 16:45
  ASTORIA, Ore. — An Oregon woman has been charged with first-degree animal abuse after police say she killed a Chihuahua by cooking it in an oven. The Daily Astorian reports a person close to 28-year-old Warrenton woman reported the incident Tuesday, and police arrested her at Columbia Memorial Hospital. A police report says the woman […]
  
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• Slog AM: You Can Now Ban Yourself From Buying a Gun, Bellevue Mosque Catches Fire Again

  22-03-2018 16:05 via thestranger.com
  
  March For Our Lives rally this Saturday, tech will kill us all, it snowed a lot in the Northeastby Nathalie GrahamThis is now porn. IPGGUTENBERGUKLTD/GETTY
  You can ban yourself from buying a gun: Gov. Jay Inslee just signed a bill that allows people to voluntarily waive their Second Amendment right. People who fear they are a threat to themselves or a threat to others can proactively ban themselves from being able to purchase a gun. What do you think, will this new law make a difference?
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• Slog AM: Washingtonians Can Now Impose Stricter Gun Laws On Themselves, Gun Enthusiasts Move Videos From YouTube To PornHub

  22-03-2018 16:05 via thestranger.com
  
  March For Our Lives rally this Saturday, tech will kill us all, it snowed a lot in the Northeastby Nathalie GrahamThis is now porn. IPGGUTENBERGUKLTD/GETTY
  You can ban yourself from buying a gun: Gov. Jay Inslee just signed a bill that allows people to voluntarily waive their Second Amendment right. People who fear they are a threat to themselves or a threat to others can proactively ban themselves from being able to purchase a gun. What do you think, will this new law make a difference?
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• Good Samaritan aiding stranded motorist killed in hit-and-run

  22-03-2018 15:20
  A pedestrian was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver early Thursday in Kitsap County, the Washington State Patrol reports.
  
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• Deputies: Man found in roadway was struck by hit-and-run driver

  22-03-2018 15:16
  A man was found in the middle of the road with life-threatening injuries overnight, and police now say he was struck by a hit-and-run driver.
  
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