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• Trump's Reversal on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Can Be Explained by a Current Art Show and a New Book

  12-04-2018 23:43 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeDewey Crumpler, "Untitled 1," (2017) Photo by Yosef Chaim Kalinko, Seattle University
  The Washington Post reports that Donald Trump now wants the US to rejoin the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a "multination trade agreement he pulled the United States out of shortly after taking office." It's often said that Trump's presidential run was successful in part because he appropriated an issue that's popular with the left and the working-classes: the decimation of US jobs by free trade.
  
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• Big Fish & Begonia Is Mostly Captivating

  12-04-2018 23:39 via thestranger.com
  Zang Chun and Liang Xuan try to make China’s Spirited Away.by Suzette SmithCodirectors Zang Chun and Liang Xuan labored for 12 years to bring their animated fantasy Big Fish & Begonia to fruition.Inspired by a dream one of the directors had—about a small fish that grew too big for any container—Big Fish & Begonia tells a tale similar to Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away: A heroic girl, Chun, lives in a world of mythical monsters whose presence and histories remain as myste
  
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• Zillow is getting into the home-flipping business

  12-04-2018 23:24
  Zillow’s expansion into directly buying and selling homes follows a similar move its cross-town rival, Redfin, made last year.
  
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• Hey, Seahawks! Bring In Colin Kaepernick!

  12-04-2018 23:11 via thestranger.com
  
  We need a good backup quarterback.by Spike FriedmanSERIOUSLY EZRA SHAW/GETTY
  Blackballed NFL quarterback and civil rights advocate Colin Kaepernick had a potential workout with the Seahawks scuttled after he reportedly refused to give the team a firm answer on whether he would continue his protests against police brutality. Amidst an off-season that has been no fun at all for Seahawks fans (losing Michael Bennett and Richard Sherman as Earl Thomas trade rumors swirl and the Rams get better is&he
  
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• Interior backs off tripling fees at national parks, plans $5 increase

  12-04-2018 23:08
  Public outcry has doused a plan by the Trump Administration to massively hike fees at the nation’s most popular national parks during peak visitor season. In Washington state, Mount Rainier and Olympic National Park were targeted for the increase.
  
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• Interior backs off tripling fees at national parks, but $12 billion maintenance backlog remains

  12-04-2018 23:08
  Public outcry doused a plan by the Trump administration to massively increase fees at the nation’s most popular national parks. In Washington state, Mount Rainier and Olympic National Park were targeted.
  
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• Washington State Penitentiary hunger strike ends

  12-04-2018 23:02
  The hunger strike began Easter Sunday and prison officials said about 1,315 inmates in six housing units in the penitentiary’s West Complex were refusing their meals.
  
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• Prisoners end hunger strike at Washington State Penitentiary

  12-04-2018 23:02
  The hunger strike began Easter Sunday and prison officials said about 1,315 inmates in six housing units in the penitentiary’s West Complex were refusing their meals.
  
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• There Is Now a Homeless Student for Nearly Every Washington Classroom

  12-04-2018 23:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi Groover DONGSEON_KIM / GETTY
  Among K-12 students in Washington State, one in 25 is currently experiencing homelessness. That works out to "nearly one in every classroom," the Washington State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) said in a statement today.In total, 40,934 Washington students were homeless during the 2016-2017 school year, according to data released by OSPI. That represents the latest in a steady increase over the last decade. OSPI reported last year
  
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• A Conversation with Northwest Film Forum's Departing Executive Director, Courtney Sheehan

  12-04-2018 22:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sophia Stephens
  In an April 10 press release, Northwest Film Forum Executive Director Courtney Sheehan and the Northwest Film Forum Board of Directors mutually announced Sheehan’s end of tenure with the organization.
  “It is a decision that comes with a combination of personal timing,” said Sheehan during an interview in one of the two theaters at NWFF. In a vibrant yellow necklace and lively cheetah-print pants, Sheehan gave off a cheerful confidence throughout our conversat
  
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• March for Science This Saturday in Seattle

  12-04-2018 22:10 via thestranger.com
  
  "It’s more important than ever to come out and march together, because science denial and censorship at the highest levels of government is still rampant and blatant."by Katie HerzogScene from the 2017 March for Science in D.C.Jeremy Yoder
  Among the many populations that the Trump administration has managed to alienate (women, people of color, Muslims, immigrants, health care providers, high school students who don't want to be murdered in class, non-hypocritical Christians, anyone with le
  
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• Before SeattlePI.com Layoffs, Bosses Asked For More Coverage of the Weather

  12-04-2018 21:54 via thestranger.com
  
  Just six staffers will remain at Seattlepi.com.by Sydney BrownstoneSeattlePI.com takes another devastating hit to its newsroom. Editorial RF/Getty
  Crosscut reported yesterday that SeattlePI.com will lose a third of its remaining staff.
  The company laid off two employees. Another one resigned. Those leaving include executive producer Sarah Rupp, senior editor and courts reporter Levi Pulkinnen, and senior producer Shannon Fears, who is also battling cancer. Today, The Stranger has learned that an
  
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• Senators Call for FCC to Investigate Sinclair Broadcasting

  12-04-2018 21:27 via thestranger.com
  by Katie HerzogWashington Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray are among the 12 U.S. senators that have called for the Federal Communications Commission to investigate media giant Sinclair Broadcasting for what they are calling "news distortion."“We have strong concerns that Sinclair has violated the public interest obligation inherent in holding broadcast licenses," the senators wrote in a letter to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, who is perhaps most famous for teaming up with the conservative Da
  
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• Lynnwood man sentenced for luring teens, women into prostitution while posing as filmmaker

  12-04-2018 21:17
  The defendant used social media to lure vulnerable teenagers and young women to Seattle with “false promises of fame and fortune” and a starring role in an HBO documentary on human trafficking he claimed to be filming.
  
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• 13 troopers hit in 4 months by DUI, distracted drivers

  12-04-2018 21:08
  Police work is hazardous by nature, but state troopers in King County are now facing a new and growing danger from impaired and distracted drivers.
  
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• Guest essay: When will we stop teaching kids to memorize math?

  12-04-2018 21:04
  “Many kids either don’t understand the meaning of the math or won’t until much later, when they have already been branded as poor in math,” writes software developer Ana Redmond.
  
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• The Stranger's Guide to Food and Drink 2018: Our Favorite Thai Restaurants in Seattle

  12-04-2018 21:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Julianne BellPad Thai at Little Uncle COURTESY OF LITTLE UNCLE
  This story is presented as part of The Stranger's Guide to Food and Drink 2018: the Well-Done & Rare Edition, which features our favorites of Seattle's most bountiful tastes, including Thai food, and where to find more elusive flavors.
  In a city where Thai food is more popular than pizza, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a purveyor of pad thai. But many places present anodyne, Americanized versions of Thai cuisine fo
  
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• The Top 10 Things to See at Capitol Hill Art Walk Tonight: April 12, 2018

  12-04-2018 20:48 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffMake sure you see Dewey Crumpler's apocalyptic paintings—he and curator Sampada Aranke will speak tonight.
  Every second Thursday, rain or shine (or both), the streets of Capitol Hill are filled with tipsy art lovers checking out galleries and special events. On our Capitol Hill Art Walk calendar, you'll find a bunch of great options for tonight, but, below, we've compiled our critics' picks—the things you shouldn't miss. Follow the links for more details
  
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• "Amazon is Evil"

  12-04-2018 20:23 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogA friend sent me this from Durham, North Carolina, my former home and one of the cities still apparently under consideration for HQ2. Ryan Shivar
  Glad to see at least a few locals, if not the Chamber of Commerce, have been paying attention.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Martin Scorsese Is Making an SCTV Documentary for Netflix

  12-04-2018 20:12 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean NelsonYoung at heart: Andrea Martin, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Scorsese, Dave Thomas, Martin Short, Joe Flaherty Cara Howe for Netflix
  Though his name tends to be at or near the top of everyone's list of greatest living narrative filmmakers, Martin Scorsese has for many years now been doing his best work on the documentary b-features he makes between his higher profile projects. He has directed memorable, and in some cases indelible, profiles of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Fr
  
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• An Interview with Shane Faber, Co-Producer of Digable Planets' Classic Hiphop LP, Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)

  12-04-2018 19:45 via thestranger.com
  
  An in-depth interview with producer Shane Faber, who helped Ishmael Butler to realize his influential sound on Digable Planets' classic debut LP, Reachin', which just received a 25th-anniversary reissue.by Dave SegalThe last quarter century has not dimmed this album's manifold pleasures. Light in the Attic/Modern Classics
  Earlier this year, Light in the Attic Records subsidiary Modern Classics Recordings reissued Digable Planets’ Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space) in comme
  
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• If you leave a bike on a Washington ferry, the Coast Guard fears you’ve gone overboard

  12-04-2018 19:24
  The Coast Guard sees an abandoned bike and treats it the same way it treats an abandoned car — guardsmen start a search-and-rescue response, fearing someone is in the water.
  
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• $17,000 search: Coast Guard called out when someone left a bike on the Seattle-to-Bainbridge ferry

  12-04-2018 19:24
  The Coast Guard sees an abandoned bike and treats it the same way it treats an abandoned car — guardsmen start a search-and-rescue response, fearing someone is in the water.
  
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• The Kickstarter Backers of Rogers Park Will Not Be Disappointed

  12-04-2018 19:20 via thestranger.com
  
  by Andrew Wright"Look, I just want some of your brown sugar." Rogers Park
  The smaller the scale of a portrait, the more the individual brush strokes tend to matter. The finely tuned relationship drama Rogers Park successfully captures a compelling slice of life where there are no clear-cut heroes or villains, just normal everyday folks with some recognizably unlovely facets to their personalities. Within its determinedly narrow scope, there are very few false moves to be found.
  Set in the titula
  
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• $1 million federal grant will help study of transgender kids

  12-04-2018 19:15
  University of Washington psychologist Kristina Olson, 36, was named winner of the National Science Foundation's Alan T. Waterman Award, the government's highest honor for scientists still in the early phases of their careers. She'll use the five-year, $1 million grant to expand a national study of transgender children.
  
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• Introducing Bear, a Police Dog That Can Sniff Out Porn

  12-04-2018 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneBefore moving to Seattle, Bear used his nose to find child pornography inside the home of Jared Fogle, the former Subway spokesperson.
  In 2014, Indiana firefighter Todd Jordan got a call from a distraught couple with a young dog. The couple's nearly 2-year-old black Lab, Connor, was jumping up on countertops and eating all their food. He wouldn't stop.
  "[The woman] said, 'I love the dog, but it's just too out of control for us,'" Jordan recalls. He was used to getting these t
  
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• New Wim Wenders Thriller Submergence Goes Through the Motions

  12-04-2018 18:43 via thestranger.com
  
  by Kathy Fennessy Submergence
  Wim Wenders has tackled any number of genres during his five-decade-long career, so a John le Carré-type thriller seems like a perfectly logical move.As his adaptation of the J.M. Ledgard novel begins, bio-mathematician Danielle (Alicia Vikander in anti-Lara Croft mode) is having trouble concentrating on her deep-sea expedition, because she hasn't heard from James (a bald-no-more James McAvoy), her British agent boyfriend, for over a month. Wenders shuffles t
  
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• Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers's Wants You To Believe She's Always Voted To Protect Sick People. She Hasn't.

  12-04-2018 17:58 via thestranger.com
  
  Meanwhile, Democratic challenger Lisa Brown has her on the run.by Rich SmithShe's acting like she didn't vote to kick 23 million people off healthcare.U.S. House of RepresentativesIn a recent interview with KREM's Rob Harris in Spokane, Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers said she's never voted for healthcare legislation that didn't include protections for people with pre-existing conditions. Here's the exchange, emphasis mine:Rob Harris: And so you would not vote for legislation that did not h
  
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• Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers Wants You To Believe She's Always Voted To Protect Sick People. She Hasn't.

  12-04-2018 17:58 via thestranger.com
  
  Meanwhile, Democratic challenger Lisa Brown has her on the run.by Rich SmithShe's acting like she didn't vote to kick 23 million people off healthcare.U.S. House of RepresentativesIn a recent interview with KREM's Rob Harris in Spokane, Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers said she's never voted for healthcare legislation that didn't include protections for people with pre-existing conditions. Here's the exchange, emphasis mine:Rob Harris: And so you would not vote for legislation that did not h
  
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• Slog AM: Microsoft Most Male-Dominated Company In Tech, Former Trump Tower Doorman Paid $30k For Silence

  12-04-2018 17:18 via thestranger.com
  
  Doctor's defamation suit against the Seattle Times, Syria strike imminent (or is it?), and Argentina cops get baked, blame miceby Nathalie GrahamWhere's the "No girls allowed" sign? STEPHEN BRASHEAR/ Getty Images
  Male-dominated Microsoft: Pool the workforces of the five biggest tech companies together and less than one third is female. Microsoft is the most male of the bunch. Widespread sexism and a culture that caters to men has led to an abysmal female employee retainment rate. “In 2016,
  
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• Marijuana floating ashore at Santa Barbara

  12-04-2018 17:14
  SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — A new kind of seaweed has been found along a Southern California beach. KEYT-TV reports marijuana has been washing ashore on Santa Barbara’s West Beach. The station says a viewer made them aware of social media video showing two men collecting pot buds among drift material in the surf line between […]
  
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• Renowned glassblowing artists will try to make 24-foot-high bong in Seattle

  12-04-2018 16:12
  The final piece, being constructed over the April 20 weekend, is expected to weigh 800 pounds. "It’s going to be so much fun," said artist Jason Harris.
  
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• Estonia offers free genetic testing in nationwide experiment

  12-04-2018 15:37
  HELSINKI (AP) — Estonia has started offering residents free genetic profiling in a nationwide experiment aimed at minimizing risks for typical diseases and encouraging a healthier lifestyle through personalized data reports. Lili Milani, a researcher with the Estonian Genome Center at the University of Tartu, said Thursday the scheme kicked off in March and will […]
  
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• ‘Dance has saved my life’: Pacific Northwest Ballet dancer opens up about living — and performing — with OCD

  12-04-2018 15:00
  Obsessions, compulsions, intrusive thoughts — and a promotion to soloist. Pacific Northwest Ballet dancer Steven Loch talks about his OCD, and how “the more you talk about mental illness, the less it’s stigmatized.”
  
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• California teacher resigns after unintentionally firing weapon in gun-safety class

  12-04-2018 11:34
  A California teacher who unintentionally discharged a handgun during a class on gun safety has resigned. Dennis Alexander, who teaches at Seaside High School in Monterey and moonlights as a reserve police officer in a neighboring town, submitted his resignation March 29 effective at the end of the school year, Marci McFadden, a spokeswoman for […]
  
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• Ohio House OKs push for medal honoring John and Annie Glenn

  12-04-2018 06:10
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A proposal aimed at getting late astronaut John Glenn and his wife, Annie, a congressional medal has cleared its first major legislative hurdle in their home state of Ohio. The state House unanimously approved a resolution on Wednesday urging Congress to recognize Glenn and his widow with a Congressional Gold Medal. […]
  
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• Kentucky school wins $150K for device that picks up needles

  12-04-2018 05:49
  ASHLAND, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky middle school has won a nationwide competition for creating a device that can safely pick up used needles and other drug paraphernalia. News outlets report Ashland Middle School won $150,000 Wednesday from Samsung. The hand-held device looks like a plastic box with flexible teeth that first responders and others […]
  
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• Ex-Swedish surgeon sues Seattle Times over stories that led to resignation, investigation

  12-04-2018 05:33
  Johnny Delashaw resigned from Swedish Health a year ago, less than three weeks after he was prominently featured in a Times investigation that exposed widespread concerns about his practices.
  
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• When it comes to longevity, night owls are in trouble, study warns

  12-04-2018 05:26
  The findings offer the first study linking mortality risk to sleeping late, according to the authors
  
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• State program gives foster kids a lift to teen milestone — driving

  12-04-2018 05:16
  Washington is funding a statewide program to help young people in foster care pay for car-related expenses, including licensing and insurance.
  
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• Poll finds tight race for Congress between Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Lisa Brown

  12-04-2018 03:37
  In a survey of registered voters in the district, incumbent McMorris Rodgers had a 6-percentage-point lead over Brown, with 44 percent supporting the Republican incumbent and 38 percent favoring the Democratic challenger.
  
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• Fish council OKs sharp cut in sport chinook harvest off Washington

  12-04-2018 01:42
  The chinook salmon sought by anglers are fewer than in years past because of climate conditions that have reduced their rate of survival.
  
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• Seattle Singer-Songwriter Robert Deeble Delivers Poignant Heartbreak and Uplifting Joy in New Album, Beloved

  12-04-2018 01:22 via thestranger.com
  
  Deeble lost and re-gained a daughter amid the making of his latest LP.by Robert HamRobert Deeble presents his new album Beloved at an album release party tomorrow night. Deyo Glines
  Singer-songwriter Robert Deeble had a lot of wind in his sails following the release of his 2011 album, Heart Like Feathers. The critical notices for that record of unhurried, hushed folk pop were positive and the shows he played in support of the record were going over well. On top of that, he and his wife were just
  
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• Friend: Mom sent 3 a.m. text days before SUV cliff crash of Hart family

  12-04-2018 01:22
  PORTLAND — One of the mothers who died when an SUV plunged off a Northern California cliff sent a text two days before the wreckage was discovered, saying she was so sick she might have to go to a hospital, according to 911 call records from Washington state. Cheryl Hart of Vancouver, Clark County, said […]
  
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• Friend: Mom sent 3 a.m. text days before SUV cliff crash

  12-04-2018 01:22
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — One of the mothers who died when an SUV plunged off a Northern California cliff sent a text two days before the wreckage was discovered, saying she was so sick she might have to go to a hospital, according to 911 call records from Washington state. Cheryl Hart of Vancouver, Washington, […]
  
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