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• Police Beat, and How Seattle Has Grown Since 2003

  27-03-2018 23:52 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeSeattle, 2003 Police Beat
  The French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard once said that "every fictional film is a documentary of its actors." This statement is true, but it doesn't go far enough. One must say that every fictional film is always a documentary. It's not just the actors who are moving in (or being sculpted by) time, but also objects, clouds, animals, and locations. For example, Police Beat, a fictional film I made with the director Robinson Devor (we also made Zoo),
  
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• AG Bob Ferguson to Sue Trump Admin Over Census Citizenship Question

  27-03-2018 23:51 via thestranger.com
  
  This is Ferg's 23rd lawsuit against the Trump administration. Count 'em.by Sydney BrownstoneHe's the F to the E, R, G, the A and the G. And he puts them Trump boys on rock, rock. He's Fergalicious. SB
  This will be the 23rd lawsuit filed by Bobby F. against the Trump administration. This time, Ferguson is joining with the state of California to sue the Department of Commerce for announcing it will reinstate a question asking about a person's citizenship on the 2020 Census. Demographers worry the
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Why Won't This Guy Take Off His Shirt?

  27-03-2018 23:46 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  I'm a late 20s straight female. I have a situation that I'm not exactly sure how to handle. I just started seeing this guy who's really great. I'm obviously really physically attracted to him or I wouldn't be seeing him or sleeping with him. He is really into working out—he goes twice a day and looks amazing. Apparently, this wasn't always the case. He showed me pictures from high school and early college and he was on the heavy side. I think mentally he still sees himself th
  
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• Seattle business to Council: Use your heads before enacting head tax

  27-03-2018 23:41
  A tough letter from Seattle business leaders decries the City Council's ineffective, politicized  response to homelessness, and the wisdom of throwing more money at the problem.
  
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• Seattle business to Council: Use heads before enacting head tax

  27-03-2018 23:41
  A tough letter from Seattle business leaders decries the City Council's ineffective, politicized  response to homelessness, and the wisdom of throwing more money at the problem.
  
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• Washington state Sen. Sharon Nelson won’t seek re-election

  27-03-2018 23:37
  In an email announcing her retirement, Democratic Sen. Sharon Nelson, of Maury Island, said she had accomplished her goals as Senate majority leader and was ready to spend more time with family.
  
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• Charge: Man brandished knife at a game of 2-on-2 hoops

  27-03-2018 23:35
  When 36-year-old Patrick Johnson approached a game of 2-on-2 basketball at Capitol Hill's Cal Anderson Park, he demanded the players hand over the ball and opened a folding knife.
  
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• Michael Bennett Postpones Town Hall Event Over Houston Charges

  27-03-2018 23:25 via thestranger.com
  
  by Steven HsiehMichael Bennett in 2015 CHRISTIAN PETERSEN / GETTY
  Former Seahawks player Michael Bennett postponed an April 9 Seattle appearance to focus on his pending court case in Houston, according to a spokesperson for Town Hall, the organization sponsoring the event. He was slated to talk about his new book, Things That Make White People Uncomfortable, which he co-wrote with Nation author Dave Zirin.Bennett, who just signed with the Philadelphia Eagles, turned himself in to Houston authori
  
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• 98 Stranger (Than Usual) Things To Do in Seattle This Week: March 27-April 1, 2018

  27-03-2018 23:07 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffCosplaying anime and manga lovers will once again conquer downtown Seattle in the name of Sakura-Con this weekend, featuring parties, panels, and special guests. VIC DELEON
  Our arts critics have already recommended 75 great things to do this week and our music critics have picked the 41 best music shows, but there are still hundreds more events happening. To prevent some of the quirkier and more extraordinary ones from slipping through the cracks, we've compiled the
  
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• Photos: Highway complete inside Seattle's Alaskan Way tunnel

  27-03-2018 22:50
  Workers finished building the highway inside Seattle's new tunnel recently. It's not open to cars just yet, but take a look inside.
  
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• Complex Power Dynamics and Toxic Romance Clash in Kiss Me, Kate

  27-03-2018 22:35 via thestranger.com
  
  Kiss Me, Kate revamps the most contentious relationship of all time.by Rich SmithA rare moment when these two aren't screaming at each other. Mark Kitaoka
  In 5th Ave Theatre’s basement rehearsal space, singer and actor Cayman Ilika (left) stands centerstage tangled up in a bullwhip. She’s playing Lilli in Kiss Me, Kate, which opens April 6.
  Ben Davis (right), who plays Lilli's ex-husband, Fred, is holding the handle of the whip and tugging it to bring Lilli closer. Fred’s a fai
  
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• Remains found on Tulalip Reservation were those of man missing since 2015

  27-03-2018 22:00
  Shawn Bond, 37,  was transient and suffered from untreated mental-health issues and drug addiction when he was reported missing in July 2015.
  
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• Trump Admin Tries to Justify Trans Military Ban, Seattle Federal Court Not Having It

  27-03-2018 21:50 via thestranger.com
  
  "I've read your brief," US District Judge Marsha Pechman at one point told the Justice Department attorney. "I can't find any factual underpinnings in what you've supplied to me in the brief."by Sydney BrownstoneUS District Judge Marsha Pechman railed against the Justice Department for wrongly filing their briefs, too.SB
  Justice Department attorney Ryan Parker did not have an easy case today attempting to argue in favor of President Trump's transgender military ban in US District Judge Marsha Pe
  
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• Trump Admin Tries to Justify Trans Military Ban, Seattle Court Not Having It

  27-03-2018 21:50 via thestranger.com
  
  "I've read your brief," US District Judge Marsha Pechman at one point told the Justice Department attorney. "I can't find any factual underpinnings in what you've supplied to me in the brief."by Sydney BrownstoneUS District Judge Marsha Pechman railed against the Justice Department for wrongly filing their briefs, too.SB
  Justice Department attorney Ryan Parker did not have an easy case today attempting to argue in favor of President Trump's transgender military ban in US District Judge Marsha Pe
  
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• Congressmen want to let 18- to 21-year-olds drive 18-wheelers across the country

  27-03-2018 21:42
  America's retiring baby boomers are creating a shortage of truck drivers. Two congressmen are proposing to fix that by lowering the legal age for interstate trucking from 21 to 18. The industry is cheering, but safety proponents are not.
  
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• Spun Out: 5 Essential Cuts Selected by Local DJ Kristina Childs

  27-03-2018 21:35 via thestranger.com
  
  Whether she's spinning in the club, on the radio, or at a warehouse, DJ Kristina/Nastina Childs knows how to keep the party 100% amped with many styles of fire.by Dave Segal"The most important thing is that the music being played is right for the moment… and be played well. Outside of that, anything goes."
  KRISTINA CHILDS (aka NASTINA CHILDS; Plasmodium Industries)
  Current top 5 tracks: "I’m feelin the bassy and broken vibes more than anything at the moment, so Nastina is getting a
  
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• Protesters block construction traffic to King Co. 'youth jail'

  27-03-2018 20:43
  For more than seven hours on Monday, protesters opposed to King County's new juvenile courthouse and jail chained themselves together outside the construction site and blocked the heavy equipment from coming and going.
  
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• Everett Man Arrested for Allegedly Sending Bomb to CIA and Other Government Sites

  27-03-2018 20:29 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie Herzog Getty Images
  Less than a week after the man suspected of mailing package bombs in Austin, Texas, blew himself up, the FBI announced Tuesday that an Everett man has been arrested on suspicion of sending package bombs to the CIA as well asmultiple military and government facilities in the Washington, D.C. area. Those bombs did not blow up.According to an FBI statement, an investigation determined that the packages were sent by one individual from the Seattle area. That individual,
  
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• Jesse Hughes of Eagles of Death Metal Continues to Fuck Up

  27-03-2018 20:14 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean NelsonJesse Hughes: So far right you can't even see his right hand. HARMONY GERBER/SHUTTERSTOCK
  It's worth remembering the moment when Jesse Hughes of Eagles of Death Metal—the band that was on stage when the shots rang out at Bataclan in Paris in 2015—deserved and received the world's sincere sympathy.It's also worth remembering the moment, three months later, when he instantly squandered all that good will.It will be supremely worth remembering that he took a predictably an
  
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• It's been 18 years since we blew up the Kingdome

  27-03-2018 20:10
  It's officially been 18 years since "Sodo" stood for "South of the Dome."
  
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• Crime spree puts University of Oregon on alert

  27-03-2018 19:33
  EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — It’s spring break at the University of Oregon, but not for its police department. The Register-Guard reports the university has increased patrols as officers look for the criminals responsible for four robberies and two holdup attempts on or near campus in recent weeks. Those crimes are among the dozen robberies that […]
  
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• Starbucks opens in a U.S. national park for first time — and not everyone’s thrilled

  27-03-2018 19:11
  The worldwide coffee giant proudly announced this month the opening of the coffee shop at Yosemite National Park in California and touted it as a model of green energy design. But the store has raised the ire of park purists.
  
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• Seattle judge shows scant patience for military transgender ban

  27-03-2018 18:50
  None of the other courts held hearings in cases challenging the transgender ban since the new policy came out Friday, though U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington, D.C., scheduled a case conference for Wednesday morning.
  
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• Chicago Cops Apprehend Armed Man In Train Station

  27-03-2018 18:47 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageIsaiah Malailua is alive and well and residing in Cook County Jail.
  This happened in Chicago on Friday:
  Police in Chicago arrested a man wearing body armor and carrying a loaded gun at the city's Union Station on Friday. The Cook County state attorney's office told Chicago ABC station WLS that Isaiah Malailua, a native of California, was charged with unlawful use of a weapon/body armor. Malailua, 21, was allegedly carrying a loaded 9 mm pistol, wearing a bulletproof vest and had a d
  
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• Tonight! Come Talk Gun Control With The Stranger's Sean Nelson and the Alliance for Gun Responsibility

  27-03-2018 18:36 via thestranger.com
  
  by The Stranger Nate Gowdy
  For once, thanks to the passion of students who survived the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, comprehensive gun control does not seem out of reach. Yet, during the most recent legislative session, Washington lawmakers failed to pass common sense measures, like increased background checks for semi-automatic rifles. What's stopping them? What's next? Should we just repeal the Second Amendment?
  Stranger editor-at-large Sean Nelson, who wrote a must-read feature on bu
  
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• Everett man charged with sending suspicious packages to FBI, Washington, D.C.-area military bases

  27-03-2018 18:31
  FBI agents and Snohomish County sheriff's deputies took Thanh Cong Phan into custody at his Everett home on Monday night.
  
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• Everett man accused of sending suspicious packages to CIA, Washington, D.C.-area military bases

  27-03-2018 18:31
  FBI agents and Snohomish County sheriff's deputies took Trahn Cong Phan into custody at his Everett home on Monday night.
  
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• The Hoodwitch Accuses Starbucks of Ripping Her Off

  27-03-2018 18:05 via thestranger.com
  
  It's not the first time the coffee giant has been accused of stealing from artists.by Katie HerzogBri Luna established The Hoodwitch in 2013. Now, she says Starbucks has ripped her off.Bri Luna/The HoodwitchLast Friday, Bri Luna woke up to a barrage of messages on her phone. Luna is the creator of The Hoodwitch, a Seattle-based online retail store and community that, since its founding in 2013, has been a prominent hub for contemporary witchcraft. In addition to selling tarot cards, tapestries,
  
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• Toothless People Drinking Straight from the Cow: An Interview with Dylan Moran

  27-03-2018 17:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean Nelson"People spend their lives trying to relax. Comics get up there to have this freak out. It’s a highly organized, musical freak out. That’s what you get: kind of a syncopated, rhythmic meltdown."
  Committed Anglophiles—Hibernophiles, really—will likely recognize Dylan Moran’s face from his sitcom Black Books (the first season of which is one for the ages), his roles in films like Shaun of the Dead (forever beloved by Stranger staffers who got high and wen
  
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• NASA delays next-generation space telescope until 2020

  27-03-2018 17:47
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has delayed the launch of its next-generation space telescope until 2020. Officials say they need more time to assemble and test the James Webb Space Telescope, which is considered a successor to the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. The observatory was supposed to fly this year. But last fall, NASA […]
  
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• Slog AM: 10 Caught In Jefferson County Child Sex Sting Operation, Bye-Bye Battery Street Tunnel

  27-03-2018 17:06 via thestranger.com
  
  Toys 'R' Us modernizes with crowdfunding, Russia strikes back, New Zealand tries its bestby Nathalie GrahamWhy don't you take a seat?serdjophoto
  To Catch a Predator in Jefferson County: Ten people were arrested in a child sex sting operation in Jefferson County. It was a four day Net Nanny operation that involved over a dozen law enforcement agencies. Undercover officers interacted with suspects online, posing as young boys or girls, and lured them to meet. More undercover cops were waiting to m
  
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• Slog AM: 10 Caught In Jefferson County Child Sex Sting Operation, Bye-Bye Battery Park Tunnel

  27-03-2018 17:06 via thestranger.com
  
  Toys 'R' Us modernizes with crowdfunding, Russia strikes back, New Zealand tries its bestby Nathalie GrahamWhy don't you take a seat?serdjophoto
  To Catch a Predator in Jefferson County: Ten people were arrested in a child sex sting operation in Jefferson County. It was a four day Net Nanny operation that involved over a dozen law enforcement agencies. Undercover officers interacted with suspects online, posing as young boys or girls, and lured them to meet. More undercover cops were waiting to m
  
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• Man charged with shipping explosives to military sites

  27-03-2018 16:54
  SEATTLE (AP) — A Seattle area man suspected of sending suspicious packages to multiple government agencies and military installations around the nation’s capital was charged Tuesday with shipping explosive materials. Thanh Cong Phan, 43, of Everett, was charged with one count of shipment of explosive materials in federal court in Seattle, where he made his […]
  
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• Man arrested in suspicious packages sent to military sites

  27-03-2018 16:54
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Authorities in Seattle have arrested a man suspected of sending suspicious packages to multiple military installations in the Washington, D.C. region, a U.S. law enforcement official said Tuesday. The packages were similarly designed and contained black powder along with rambling, nonsensical notes similar to those the man has been known to send […]
  
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• Trial begins for Spokane Valley man charged in shooting death of wife

  27-03-2018 16:40
  SPOKANE (AP) — The trial has begun for a former reserve deputy accused of recklessly mishandling a loaded firearm in the shooting death of his wife in Spokane Valley. The Spokesman-Review reports a Spokane County jury this week is deciding if 44-year-old Dwayne Thurman was criminally negligent in the January 2016 death of 42-year-old Brenda […]
  
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• Battery Street Tunnel to become landfill

  27-03-2018 15:23
  The Seattle City Council voted 7-1 on Monday to execute an agreement with the Washington Department of Transportation to decommission the tunnel, leaving it up to the contractor to decide what material should be used to fill-in the tunnel.
  
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• Silverdale man gets 340 years in prison for rape, torture of woman

  27-03-2018 15:06
  PORT ORCHARD (AP) — A Silverdale man has been sentenced to 340 years in prison for charges that included torturing and threatening to kill a woman working as a prostitute. The Kitsap Sun reports 30-year-old Jeremy Fenney was sentenced Monday after a jury convicted him last month of 44 separate charges. A jury convicted Fenney […]
  
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• Man gets 340 years in prison for rape, torture

  27-03-2018 15:06
  PORT ORCHARD, Wash. (AP) — A Washington man has been sentenced to 340 years in prison for charges that included torturing and threatening to kill a woman working as a prostitute. The Kitsap Sun reports 30-year-old Jeremy Fenney was sentenced Monday after a jury convicted him last month of 44 separate charges. A jury convicted […]
  
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• The Mystery of Mayor Durkan's Winning Pandora Playlist

  27-03-2018 15:02 via thestranger.com
  
  How, exactly, did "Jenny Durkan for Seattle" use Pandora's targeting capabilities to help Durkan win the primary?by Eli SandersWe know Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan is a fan of Tegan and Sara. Harder to uncover: exactly what types of music fans were targeted by $15,000 in pro-Durkan election ads on Pandora. Courtesy of the Durkan campaign
  Last summer, long before candidate Jenny Durkan admitted that the last live music show she'd seen was The Eagles, a well-funded political action committee had com
  
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• What goes into the move of a garden store like City People’s?

  27-03-2018 15:00
  The city of Seattle approved plans last week for a seven-story building in the space of City People’s Garden Store in Madison Valley. Now, finding a big-enough space in Seattle’s real-estate market is proving tough for the small-business owners.
  
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• ‘Truly alarming’: No babies for endangered right whales

  27-03-2018 05:32
  SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The winter calving season for critically endangered right whales has nearly ended with zero newborns spotted in the past four months — a reproductive drought that scientists who study the fragile species haven’t seen in three decades. Survey flights to look for mother-and-calf pairs off the Atlantic coasts of Georgia and […]
  
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• With closure of Russia consulate in Seattle, hopes for Pacific ‘partnership’ fade

  27-03-2018 05:29
  The 1992 opening of the Russian consulate in Seattle signified warmer trade relations — from flights to fish — between the Pacific Northwest and the Russian Far East.
  
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• First winner of Iditarod race dies at 75 after battle with cancer

  27-03-2018 05:25
  Dick Wilmarth pocketed $12,000 for being the first musher to win the rugged race across Alaska. It took him 20 days and 49 minutes, more than twice as long as Iditarod mushers today make the trek across the Alaska wilderness.
  
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• Viaduct rubble to fill Battery Street Tunnel, Seattle City Council decides

  27-03-2018 04:23
  City Council members were convinced preserving the Battery Street Tunnel, for future park or other use, would cost tens of millions of dollars.
  
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• Viaduct rubble can fill Battery Street Tunnel, Seattle City Council decides

  27-03-2018 04:23
  City Council members were convinced preserving the Battery Street Tunnel, for future park or other use, would cost tens of millions of dollars.
  
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• ‘We’ll see what happens’: For Russian immigrants, closure of Seattle consulate means frustration, uncertainty

  27-03-2018 04:06
  Even before the Trump administration ordered the Russian consulate in Seattle to close, getting a passport renewed was an ordeal that took months. Now, it becomes more complicated for thousands of Russians on the West Coast — and beyond.
  
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• More people need mental-health care, but psychiatrists are in short supply

  27-03-2018 03:40
  Psychiatry’s growing popularity as a career choice isn’t yet solving the nation’s shortage of psychiatrists. The shortage is most acute in rural areas and poor urban neighborhoods.
  
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• Yakima police shoot man allegedly armed with club

  27-03-2018 02:56
  Officer shoot, wound man reportedly armed with a club.
  
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• Seattle School Board announces 3 finalists for superintendent

  27-03-2018 02:41
  The Seattle School Board has announced three finalists for superintendent of the state’s largest school district. The finalists are Denise Juneau, Andre Spencer and Jeanice Kerr Swift. All three boast lengthy resumes and education accolades. Swift and Spencer have both previously won district superintendent of the year awards; Juneau was the first Native American woman […]
  
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• Linda Brown, girl at center of Brown v. Board of Education case, dies at 76

  27-03-2018 00:46
  Linda Brown, a third-grader who simply wanted to avoid a long walk and bus ride and join her white friends in class, went on to become the symbolic center of Brown v. Board of Education. Later she worked as a teacher with the Head Start early childhood program. She died March 25 at age 76.
  
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