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• Sloane Crosley’s Kinetic Intelligence

  18-04-2018 23:59 via thestranger.com
  The Look Alive Out There author on egg-freezing, porny uncles, and Queen Joan Didion.by Donovan FarleyWhen I speak with Sloane Crosley over the phone on the release date of her excellent new collection of essays, Look Alive Out There, it’s abundantly clear we’re going to get along. That’s partly because we’re both the type of writers who don’t utter the words “Joan Didion” without prefacing them with “Queen,” but also because Crosley speaks i
  
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• The Horse in Motion’s immersive, intimate ‘Hamlet’ uses Stimson-Green Mansion to great effect

  18-04-2018 23:14
  In this visceral production, audience members are split into two groups that chase two casts around Stimson-Green Mansion, sometimes watching one scene while hearing echoes of the same being played out by different actors in another part of the century-old building.
  
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• Edith Macefield's house that wouldn't back down getting a new life

  18-04-2018 22:44
  There's little left of the "Old Ballard" that once inspired more than one "Uff da!" joke from "Almost Live." But on Friday, one more piece of that history will be demolished: The Edith Macefield House.
  
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• I Feel Pretty Is as Offensive and Infuriating as We Thought It’d Be

  18-04-2018 22:42 via thestranger.com
  I gave Amy Schumer’s new movie a chance. I wish I hadn’t.by Elinor JonesAt first, I didn’t want to review I Feel Pretty. I’d seen the trailers, where an average-sized woman expresses confidence in her average body for laughs, and I decided the movie was going to be infuriating. Other people would adequately tear it apart, I figured, without me throwing my 500 words into the void. Being a woman is already exhausting, and I wanted to sit this one out. Just this once. I am t
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: My Husband Doesn't Know How to Clean His Own Asshole

  18-04-2018 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  "Hiding the shit doesn't mean the shit's not there, you know?"by Dan Savage
  I'm a straight, cis, married woman with young kids. My spouse is generally pretty great and I would describe our home life as joyful and fulfilling. The issue I'm writing about is perhaps a small one, but it's an ongoing annoyance and I'm wondering if you have any helpful ideas.
  My husband doesn't know how to clean his own asshole.He's able-bodied and in great health, and he has good hygiene habits in general, so it's a
  
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• Connelly: Bullitt Center shines light of Seattle sun on Earth Day

  18-04-2018 22:01
  The "greenest commercial building in the world" sits at 15th & Madison on Seattle's Capitol Hill.  The Bullitt Center has, in five years, surpassed its creators' greenest expectations.Slowly, very slowly, it is becoming a model for "living buildings" that do not leave a carbon footprint. The Bullitt Center is a demonstration of intelligence in a country whose energy policy blunders at the behest of Big Oil and Big Coal.
  
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• Should Music Shows Start Earlier?

  18-04-2018 22:00 via thestranger.com
  Do you think music shows should start earlier? Vote in this poll.by Dave SegalVeteran Seattle musician and former Experience Music Project official Ben London—who plays guitar in Stag and Selene Vigil's band—brought to my attention a 2017 segment on CBC radio featuring Toronto musician/journalist Mar Sellars that touched on a subject that affects everybody who enjoys live music: start times for shows.In the segment, she describes a scene in which she offered free tickets to friends t
  
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• Meet the Radical Libertarian Who Figured out How to Monetize Marijuana on Instagram

  18-04-2018 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie Herzog JENNY JIMÉNEZ
  This story is presented as part of the Spring 2018 Green Guide.
  Bess Byers was walking around Capitol Hill last summer when she saw the perfect Instagram opportunity. It was the weekend of Capitol Hill Block Party, and in between listening to bands and taking photos, she saw a parked Seattle Police Department cruiser with no cops in sight. She jumped onto the hood of the car, lit up a joint, and started puffing.
  "There had been a bunch of reports around that t
  
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• Blabbermouth Podcast: Comey, Comey, Comey

  18-04-2018 21:06 via thestranger.com
  
  by The StrangerEpisode 145 has a lot of feelings about James Comey and his new book tour. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images
  Subscribe to the podcast FOR FREE by clicking right here!Eli Sanders, Rich Smith, and Katie Herzog try to process all their feelings about James Comey and his book tour. Because, you know, it's complicated. Yes, it's nice to see Comey speaking truth to Trump power. But, also, Comey kinda cost Hillary Clinton the election. And no, it's not yet time to get over that one.
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• Canada to Seattle Environmentalists: We Stand Behind the Kinder Morgan Pipeline

  18-04-2018 20:34 via thestranger.com
  
  The Kinder Morgan pipeline fight could soon come to Seattle.by Sydney BrownstoneThe Canadian government may soon have to deal with Seattle protesters against the Kinder Morgan pipeline project. PhenomArtLover/Getty
  Last Friday, Canadian diplomats met with a coalition of Seattle environmentalists to discuss their concerns about a tar sands pipeline expansion that has roiled politics north of the border, and will increase tanker traffic in the shared Salish Sea.The Trans Mountain pipeline project,
  
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• British Director Andrew Haigh on the Real-World Problems of Lean on Pete

  18-04-2018 20:30 via thestranger.com
  A boy, his horse, and the challenge of adapting Willy Vlautin’s sad, wonderful novel.by Ned Lannamann"A lot of the road movies I like are about people who think they’re looking for freedom, but actually the freedom is very overwhelming for them,” says British director Andrew Haigh. “That’s the problem with freedom sometimes: You end up incredibly scared and alone.”Haigh’s fantastic and harrowing new film, Lean on Pete, explores the sadness and danger of
  
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• Brain science institute at Brown receives $100M gift

  18-04-2018 20:01
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Brown University’s brain science institute has been given $100 million to advance the understanding of the brain and what causes Lou Gehrig’s Disease, Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. The Ivy League university in Providence, Rhode Island, announced the donation from alumnus Robert Carney and his wife, Nancy, on Wednesday. Institute Director […]
  
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• This Fake Obama PSA Should Terrify You

  18-04-2018 20:00 via thestranger.com
  by Katie HerzogLast week I wrote about a new kind of tech that will win Donald Trump a second term in office change the nature of fake news. This tech, which is, in part, being developed right here in Seattle, allows the user to manipulate both video and audio in a way that makes the final product seem legit. So, for instance, you could take a video of, say, Barack Obama, and edit it to make it really look like he's referring to Donald Trump as "a total and complete dipshit," as Buzzfeed did in
  
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• A Little Good News: Anti-LGBT Laws Fail All Across the Country

  18-04-2018 19:49 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageThis won't please Mike Pence or Tony Perkins or Jerry Falwell, Jr., or the rest of the anti-LGBT haters: the AP reported yesterday that state legislative efforts aimed at "curtailing LGBT rights" have been "completely stymied in state capitols around the country this year." More than 120 anti-LGBT bills were introduced in state legislatures across the country last year;as of now, only two anti-LGBT bills are (barely) alive. The other 118 are dead, dead, dead. So while the Trump admi
  
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• Study envisions major San Francisco Bay Area earthquake

  18-04-2018 19:41
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Scientists, emergency managers and others have released a study describing plausible impacts from a hypothetical magnitude 7 earthquake on the Hayward fault, which has long been considered a major threat to the San Francisco Bay region. The scenario — called “HayWired” — was released Wednesday, the 112th anniversary of the 1906 […]
  
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• Report sees big San Francisco Bay Area earthquake impacts

  18-04-2018 19:41
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A hypothetical magnitude 7 earthquake on the San Francisco Bay region’s notorious Hayward fault could kill hundreds, injure thousands and cause $82 billion in property damage and business losses, according to a scenario created by a coalition of experts to help residents and policymakers prepare for and reduce disaster impacts. The […]
  
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• Supreme Court justices skeptical of Washington state over salmon habitat

  18-04-2018 19:23
  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seems unlikely to allow Washington state to get out from under a court order to restore salmon habitat by removing barriers that block fish migration. The justices heard arguments Wednesday in a long-running dispute that pits the state against Indian tribes and the federal government. At issue is whether Washington […]
  
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• Take 2 for launch of NASA planet-hunting spacecraft

  18-04-2018 19:17
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s newest planet-hunting spacecraft is back on the pad for another shot at launch. A SpaceX Falcon rocket is set to blast off with the Tess satellite Wednesday evening from Cape Canaveral, Florida. SpaceX halted Monday’s countdown for extra rocket checks. Once in orbit, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or […]
  
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• NASA’s Tess spacecraft embarks on quest to find new planets

  18-04-2018 19:17
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Tess spacecraft embarked Wednesday on a quest to find new worlds around neighboring stars that could support life. Tess rode a SpaceX Falcon rocket through the evening sky, aiming for an orbit stretching all the way to the moon. The satellite — the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or Tess […]
  
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• The Stranger's Guide to Food and Drink 2018: Our Favorite Coffee Shops in Seattle

  18-04-2018 19:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by The StrangerA latte at Cortona CafeAndi Dean
  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 coffee, and where to find more elusive flavors.
  If there's one thing that Seattle does well, it's coffee. Starbucks started here, and as of 2017, there were 27,339 locations all over the world. While we're not here to promote Starbucks, its very ubiquity is proof
  
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• I-5 sign encourages commuters with 'U SUCK' slogan

  18-04-2018 19:05
  Mid-day yesterday drivers on Southbound Interstate 5 were treated to a very special message from the traffic sign near State Route 518: "U SUCK."
  
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• Report: Leaked Restaurant Industry Poll Shows Support for Raising the Minimum Wage

  18-04-2018 18:41 via thestranger.com
  
  "They want the increase in spite of the costs"by Heidi GrooverEven a poll funded by the restaurant industry shows supporting for a higher minimum wage. DAVID MCNEW/GETTY
  A poll funded by the restaurant industry found people overwhelmingly support raising the minimum wage to at least $10 an hour and many aren't buying the industry's talking points, The Intercept reports.
  The National Restaurant Association, which has painted a doomsday scenario about potential wage increases and dumped money into
  
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• Washington state poet-publisher-activist Sam Hamill dies at age 74

  18-04-2018 18:26
  Sam Hamill, who co-founded Port Townsend’s poetry powerhouse Copper Canyon Press, wrote and translated poetry and was an anti-war activist, has died in Anacortes. He was 74.
  
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• Idaho man pleads guilty in the death of 62-year-old woman

  18-04-2018 17:52
  IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — An eastern Idaho man has pleaded guilty to beating a 62-year-old woman to death with a baseball bat. The Post Register reports 21-year-old Jameion Hernandez pleaded guilty to first-degree murder on Tuesday in the death of Lisa Stukey as part of a plea agreement that would take the death penalty […]
  
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• Slog AM: City Light Also Gave Personal Information To ICE, Starbucks Founder 'Embarrassed, Ashamed'

  18-04-2018 17:14 via thestranger.com
  
  Alex Jones is getting sued, a penis mural's days are numbered, what we're eatingby Nathalie GrahamI'll have a triple, venti, soy, no racial bias latte Mark Makela / Stringer
  City Light also snitched to ICE: Immigration and Customs Enforcement subpoenaed the utilities company at least four times in 2017. Each time, City Light handed the detailed information over — we’re talking social security numbers, names, and phone numbers — without any sort of legal review, Crosscut reports
  
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• Slog AM: City Light Also Gave Personal Information To ICE, Durkan Proposes $636 Million Education Levy

  18-04-2018 17:14 via thestranger.com
  
  Alex Jones is getting sued, a penis mural's days are numbered, what we're eatingby Nathalie GrahamI'll have a triple, venti, soy, no racial bias latte Mark Makela / Stringer
  City Light also snitched to ICE: Immigration and Customs Enforcement subpoenaed the utilities company at least four times in 2017. Each time, City Light handed the detailed information over — we’re talking social security numbers, names, and phone numbers — without any sort of legal review, Crosscut reports
  
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• Baby-sitter sentenced to 8 ½ years in Lakewood boy’s death

  18-04-2018 16:30
  The toddler died in the hospital 10 days after he hit his head on a dresser last year.
  
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• Watch: Puget Sound scientists rescued this whale. Now they need your help finding it.

  18-04-2018 16:06
  Three days. One yacht owner. Many marine biologists. This is how scientists untangled a gray whale from fishing gear last weekend — and then lost it "in an unusual turn of events."
  
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• T-Mobile expands jobs, services for veterans

  18-04-2018 15:00
  Military families will receive nearly 50 percent off their phone bills as part of a new discount.
  
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• Seattle would spend $636 million over 7 years under education-levy plan

  18-04-2018 15:00
  Durkan says her proposal — targeted for the November ballot — would cost the owner of a home of median assessed value $249 per year. It would replace two expiring levies, approved by voters in 2011 and 2014, that together cost the typical homeowner roughly $170 a year.
  
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• Report: Washington high-school requirements not enough for college admissions

  18-04-2018 15:00
  Washington’s high-school graduation requirements don’t line up with admission requirements for public universities, a new report says, but that will soon change in many districts.
  
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• Kids still living in shantytowns is the real shame of Seattle

  18-04-2018 15:00
  The number of school-aged kids living on Seattle streets is surging, despite its supposedly being the easiest part of the homelessness problem to solve.
  
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• Ex-Island County jail guards who falsified records sentenced in inmate death

  18-04-2018 14:27
  The two men pleaded guilty to falsifying the jail logs to make it appear they checked on the 25-year-old inmate more often than they did before he died from dehydration and malnutrition.
  
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• WSDOT apologizes for ‘inappropriate message’ on traffic sign

  18-04-2018 12:53
  A motorist says he was driving on Interstate 5 south of Seattle when he saw the message "U Suck" on an overhead sign.
  
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• Going deep to study exercise’s molecular nitty-gritty

  18-04-2018 10:45
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — About 120 scientists from around the U.S. are in Louisiana as part of a six-year, $170 million National Institutes of Health program to study the molecular nitty-gritty of exercise. Decades of research have shown that exercise is good for people, but scientists don’t know what’s going on at the body’s […]
  
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• Parenting of the future: Many embryos, each with DNA profile

  18-04-2018 07:07
  NEW YORK (AP) — So you want to have a baby. Would you like a dark-haired girl with a high risk of someday getting colon cancer, but a good chance of above-average music ability? Or would you prefer a girl with a good prospect for high SAT scores and a good shot at being athletic, […]
  
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• Ethicist foresees choosing your baby from dozens of embryos

  18-04-2018 07:07
  NEW YORK (AP) — So you want to have a baby. Would you like a dark-haired girl with a high risk of someday getting colon cancer, but a good chance of above-average music ability? Or would you prefer a girl with a good prospect for high SAT scores and a good shot at being athletic, […]
  
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• Feds try again to cancel DACA protection for young man arrested in Des Moines apartment

  18-04-2018 05:02
  Daniel Ramirez Medina was picked up in a Des Moines apartment last year and placed in deportation proceedings despite his participation in DACA. He was one of the first people in the program arrested after President Donald Trump took office, despite having committed no crime.
  
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• NOAA ship crashes in Seattle’s Lake Washington Ship Canal

  18-04-2018 04:33
  Passing through the Montlake Cut, the research boat collided into the seafloor and concrete, according to a NOAA spokesman. The estimated cost of damage remains unknown.
  
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• A NOAA ship crashed in Seattle’s Lake Washington Ship Canal Monday. Here’s what we know.

  18-04-2018 04:33
  Passing through the Montlake Cut, the research boat collided into the seafloor and concrete Monday morning, according to a NOAA spokesman. The estimated cost of damage remains unknown.
  
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• Lung disease Barbara Bush had now afflicts more women than men in U.S.

  18-04-2018 03:23
  Because COPD is often associated with men, women are frequently diagnosed after the disease is already advanced.
  
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• Supreme Court showdown: Washington’s attorney general vs. tribes over salmon habitat

  18-04-2018 03:04
  State Attorney General Bob Ferguson goes up against the tribes in the Supreme Court Wednesday, seeking to overturn multiple court rulings calling on the state to fix culverts that block salmon habitat. Tribes insist that their treaty right to fish also means the state must not destroy the habitat that healthy fish runs need.
  
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• Connelly: Barbara Bush, "The Silver Fox", an appreciation

  18-04-2018 02:17
  Barbara Bush was nicknamed "The Enforcer" by her family, but she was an enforcer with wit, manners and -- when the situation demanded -- a regal manner.
  
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• Barbara Bush, matriarch of American political dynasty, dies at 92

  18-04-2018 01:58
  Barbara Bush, who was the wife of one president and the mother of another and whose embrace of her image as America's warmhearted grandmother belied her influence and mettle, died April 17. She was 92.
  
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• Actor Briefly Speaks Truth at Social Media Awards Show, Gets Dragged Offstage

  18-04-2018 01:53 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean NelsonAnd the winner for Best Video Removed from the Internet in Less Than 24 hours is: Adam Pally at the 2018 Shorty Awards
  Two things you might not have been aware of:1) The Shorty Awards, which honor "the best of social media," including accolades for a small handful of "arts and entertainment" figures (actor, celebrity, music, dance, comedy, and TV), activists, pro-am internet entertainers (breakout YouTuber, Instagrammer, Twitch streamer, Snapchatter, et al), and about 983 awards fo
  
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