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• Oregon’s Marylhurst University closing after 125 years

  17-05-2018 23:56
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Marylhurst University is closing after 125 years. Chip Terhune, Marylhurst board chair-elect, said Thursday it was a sad and difficult decision, but there is no viable financial path for staying open. He says the university located south of Portland will cease operations by the end of 2018. Like many small, private […]
  
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• Even the Livestock Give Devastating Performances in French Film, The Guardians

  17-05-2018 23:35 via thestranger.com
  
  by Andrew WrightThe Guardians
  Historical films often use their timeframes as an excuse to pile on the gauze, burying the drama and relatable characters beneath mounds of hazy romanticism. The sedately riveting The Guardians, however, refuses to gussy up its surroundings in the slightest, depicting WWI-era Life on the Farm with a near-to-total lack of nostalgia. (Note: Old-timey tractors were both extremely cool, and absolutely terrifying.) Although the pacing may be … well, let’s sa
  
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• What's the history of the rubber chicken? Archie McPhee's is glad you asked

  17-05-2018 23:33
  What's all the squawk around town about a rubber chicken museum? Archie's is glad you asked...
  
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• "He's Running a Piss Party, Not a Fucking Singles Event"

  17-05-2018 22:16 via thestranger.com
  
  Reader advice on piss parties, rushing relationships, and how hitting is never OK.by Dan Savage
  Recent Savage Love Letters of the Day: A brand new girlfriend demands a long-term commitment, a woman wonders if she should scold the younger woman her husband had an affair with, can a guy piss where he wants to if it's his piss party, and a letter-writer's gender-curious son saw the trans porn he jacked off to and now his wife thinks CPS is going to take away their kids. And, as always, last week's
  
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• Our Film Critics' Picks for This Weekend's SIFF Movies

  17-05-2018 22:09 via thestranger.com
  The 22 Best SIFF Films for May 18-20by Stranger Things To Do StaffThe first weekend of the Seattle International Film Festival is upon us, and it's chock-full of great films. Below, we've rounded up 22 movies for the weekend that our critics think are worth watching, like Paul Schrader's First Reformed and Sebastián Lelio Disobedience. Plus, check out Thursday's Opening Night Gala (with a screening of The Bookshop) and Saturday's Nordic Night Gala (with a screening of Cake General). Follo
  
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• The Twilight of an Empire that Can't Turn Off The Trump Show

  17-05-2018 21:51 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede
  The Trump Show, which successfully eclipsed the revolt of teachers in red states, has pretty much eclipsed the Senate's move to repeal the FCC's repeal of net neutrality. This vote is a big deal, and not because of its chances of success, which are not huge, but, as Eli Sanders explained, it provides Dems with a hot and easy election issue for the mid-term elections. But this considerable victory for democracy and potential upset for Trump did not make the main pages of all the
  
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• Watch This Serene Drone Video of the Columbia River Overflowing in Wenatchee

  17-05-2018 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Leilani Polk
  The Columbia River is flowing at over 300,000 cubic feet per second, and flooding from high water volume due to a faster-than-expected snow melt is currently covering Walla Walla Point Park’s sandbar, pedestrian bridge, and sections of lawn and trails. The Wenatchee World drone video included below offers an aerial view of the Wenatchee shoreline and what's happening there, the serene, ambient music that accompanies it belying the danger those rising waters pose the higher
  
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• Archaeologists find street of balconies in Italy’s Pompeii

  17-05-2018 21:06
  ROME (AP) — Archaeologists excavating an unexplored part of Italy’s volcanic ash-covered city of Pompeii have discovered a street of houses with intact balconies that were buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD. Some of the balconies even had amphorae — the conical-shaped terra cotta vases that were used to hold wine and oil […]
  
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• Singer-Songwriter Laura Veirs Lands in Seattle Behind 10th Album, The Lookout

  17-05-2018 21:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ben SalmonLaura Veirs performs with The Hackles at Fremont Abbey Arts Center on Friday evening. The show is sold out.JASON QUIGLEY
  Laura Veirs has plenty on her plate. The Portland-based singer-songwriter has two decades of wondrous albums to her name. She tours regularly. She’s a mother to two young children, and she’s married to busy record producer Tucker Martine, who works with big names like My Morning Jacket and Beth Orton.
  Two years ago, Veirs collaborated with k.d. lang an
  
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• Seattle homeless camp, whose former resident was charged in Ballard rape, does not check for warrants

  17-05-2018 20:53
  A Seattle-sanctioned homeless camp does not do warrant checks "of any sort," so staff members were not aware of a resident's criminal history.
  
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• Ballard rape case intensifies homeless debate

  17-05-2018 20:53
  A Seattle-sanctioned homeless camp does not do warrant checks "of any sort," so staff members were not aware of a resident's criminal history.
  
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• Seattle-area traffic is going to be awful this weekend

  17-05-2018 20:32
  With Interstate 5 through downtown partially closed for work, another closure on U.S. 2, and a bevy of events over the weekend, Seattle-area traffic is likely to be challenging this weekend, to put it mildly.
  
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• FDA names drugmakers accused of blocking cheaper generics

  17-05-2018 20:28
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — U.S. drug regulators are publicizing information on brand-name drugmakers that use what government officials call “gaming tactics” to block cheaper copycat versions. The Food and Drug Administration’s new webpage names the makers of more than 50 brand-name drugs, many carrying five- or six-figure annual price tags, who are under scrutiny. The […]
  
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• The 22 Best Movies To See At SIFF This Weekend: May 18-20, 2018

  17-05-2018 20:24 via thestranger.com
  The films our critics recommend for the opening weekend of the Seattle International Film Festival.by Stranger Things To Do StaffThe first weekend of the Seattle International Film Festival is upon us, and it's chock-full of great films. We've already compiled a list of all of the picks for the full festival that you absolutely shouldn't miss, but, below, we've rounded up 22 movies for the weekend that our critics think are worth watching, like Paul Schrader's First Reformed and Sebastián
  
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• What Else Can We Learn from that Report About Homelessness Spending?

  17-05-2018 20:17 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverKing County needs affordable housing—a lot of it. blackestockphoto/getty
  In the heat of the debate over a new tax on large businesses to fund housing and homelessness services, the Seattle Times covered a new report that showed just how great the financial need for the crisis is. The answer: $400 million a year, or about double what Seattle and King County currently spend.
  While a consulting firm wrote the report, it was affiliated with the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of C
  
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• What Else Can We Learn from that Chamber of Commerce Report About Homelessness Spending?

  17-05-2018 20:17 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverKing County needs affordable housing—a lot of it. blackestockphoto/getty
  In the heat of the debate over a new tax on large businesses to fund housing and homelessness services, the Seattle Times covered a new report that showed just how great the financial need for the crisis is. The answer: $400 million a year, or about double what Seattle and King County currently spend.
  While a consulting firm wrote the report, it was affiliated with the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of C
  
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• Before Disney, There Was E.H. Shepard

  17-05-2018 20:10 via thestranger.com
  
  A new book explores illustrator E.H. Shepard’s work on A.A. Milne‘s Winnie-the-Pooh.by Ned Lannamann{{image:3, align:right, width:250}}
  Good biographies don’t traffic in hyperbole, and that’s certainly the case with James Campbell’s concise, easygoing The Art of Winnie-the-Pooh: How E.H. Shepard Illustrated an Icon. So I’ll throw out some hyperbole of my own: No illustrator of children’s books captured our imaginations with the effectiveness and indelibi
  
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• Breaking In Has a Badass Mom

  17-05-2018 20:02 via thestranger.com
  by Vince ManciniIn Taken and its clones, bad guys realize they’ve messed with the wrong family when it turns out Liam Neeson has a particular set of skills. Skills gleaned from a lifetime of... I don’t remember, being a secret agent assassin or something.In this gender-swapped version—pioneered first by Halle Berry in Kidnap and now genericized further by Gabrielle Union in Breaking In—the bad guys realize they’ve messed with the wrong family when it turns out the m
  
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• NIH halts controversial study of moderate drinking

  17-05-2018 19:50
  The National Institutes of Health has ordered a halt to a $100 million, 10-year study of moderate drinking that's being funded in large part by the alcoholic-beverage industry. The announcement reflects the seriousness of allegations that surfaced in news reports in recent months.
  
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• Rosé-Drinking Events This Summer

  17-05-2018 19:46 via thestranger.com
  11 Pink Wine Parties and Happy Hours for Summer 2018by Stranger Things To Do StaffThink pink! Warm weather is finally here and it's officially rosé season. Here are 11 events where you can get your fill of "summer water," so you can rosé for days.SATURDAY MAY 19Rosé, Flowers and Live Music Party
  Drink pink wine and pick up some posies to match from the Valley & Rose pop-up flower truck. There will also be live music.
  Elsom Cellars
  FRIDAY MAY 25Rosé Spring Happy Ho
  
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• Think Yanny and Laurel Was Weird? Check This Out.

  17-05-2018 19:32 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie Herzog
  Watch the following video while thinking either the term "green needle" or "brainstorm."Now do it again. And again. And again, this time while picking your jaw off the floor.The video, which was first posted on Reddit, is an example of "priming," according to an old psych professor I happen to have on speed dial. Priming is a psychological concept in which one stimulus influences a response to a subsequent stimulus. Here's an example, from the book Thinking Fast and Slow by Nobel
  
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• ICE Can and Will Use Cannabis Against You

  17-05-2018 19:31 via thestranger.com
  Unfortunately, noncitizens should probably stay away from cannabis altogether.by Josh JardinePara ver una versión en español de este artículo, haga clic aquí.
  Being an immigrant in America right now is hard enough. But being an undocumented immigrant is filled with a whole different level of uncertainty and difficulty. Simply coming from a different country and living in the United States creates challenges those of us born here never have to consider.But as a nation
  
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• Clocks may go a little cuckoo with power grid change

  17-05-2018 19:12
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Running late for work or just miss that bus? You could have a good excuse: Your electric clock might be running a bit cuckoo. Because of a change in federal energy regulations, some scientists say your trusty, older plug-in clock may be losing or gaining a few ticks over time. Electric clocks […]
  
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• Seattle's LGBTQ Homeless Youth Have a Message for You

  17-05-2018 18:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Stop by SAM on Saturday at 2 p.m. to hear it.by Rich SmithStay Elevated premieres under John Grade's living sculpture of an old growth cedar in the lobby of the Seattle Art Museum on Saturday. James HoltTwenty-eight percent of the 1,498 young people experiencing homelessness in King County identify as LGBTQ, according to last year'spoint-in-time survey. A majority of those queer youth, about 60 percent, report a history of domestic abuse or partner abuse, and a lot of them get kicked out of home
  
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• Guest Editorial: Seattle Businesses, Please Help Us Fix Our Land Use Problems

  17-05-2018 18:36 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle doesn't have to turn into San Francisco.by Andres Salomon Courtesy of the author
  To Amazon and other Seattle-area employers: instead of fighting things like head taxes, work with us to help fix Seattle’s broken land-use policies. On Monday, the Seattle City Council successfully passed an employee head tax. Not only does the tax fall far short of the desired goal of building thousands of units of low-income housing, the tax also fails to address the real reason that we’re in t
  
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• Rhino in San Diego pregnant, could help save subspecies

  17-05-2018 18:33
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — A southern white rhino has become pregnant through artificial insemination at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park — giving hope for efforts to save a subspecies of one of the world’s most recognizable animals, researchers announced Thursday. Scientists will be watching closely to see if the rhino named Victoria can carry […]
  
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• State honors Lummi Nation for its emergency response to escaped Atlantic salmon

  17-05-2018 18:27
  The Lummi Nation tribe captured more than 40,000 of the escaped fish, 90 percent of all that were recovered.
  
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• Seattle's oldest church will now be home to honey bee hives

  17-05-2018 18:06
  Seattle's oldest church is getting some new occupants.
  
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• This Public Defender Running For King County Prosecutor Says the Office Has a Culture Problem

  17-05-2018 17:36 via thestranger.com
  
  Dan Satterberg has been in office since 2007.by Steven HsiehDaron Morris says the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office has a culture problem and believes he's the one to fix it. John E
  Since he won election in 2007, nobody has challenged King County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Satterberg for his office.Until now.
  Daron Morris, a public defender, says he can do a better job than Satterberg leading the prosecutor’s office, which has a budget of $141 million and a staff of 479, including 24
  
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• Meet Daron Morris, the Public Defender Running For King County Prosecutor

  17-05-2018 17:36 via thestranger.com
  
  Dan Satterberg has been in office since 2007.by Steven HsiehDaron Morris says the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office has a culture problem and believes he's the one to fix it. John E
  Since he won election in 2007, nobody has mounted a challenge against King County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Satterberg.Until now.
  Daron Morris, a public defender, says he can do a better job than Satterbeg leading the prosecutor’s office, which has a budget of $141 million and a staff of 479, including 2
  
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• Slog AM: Cure For Cancer Closer Than Ever, Construction Costs On The Rise, Near-Death By Hatchet

  17-05-2018 17:17 via thestranger.com
  
  Elementary school crack rock, Japanese train late by 25 seconds, bitcoin slurps up energyby Nathalie GrahamTake THAT cancer gorodenkoff / Getty Images
  Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is close to the cure for cancer: The Hutch has always been at the forefront of cancer research. Scientists there discovered bone marrow transplants as cancer treatment back in the day. New treatments being developed are showing incredible results. One treatment that's working well is the use of re-engineered
  
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• Uber Express POOL launches in Seattle and 3 other cities to make carpooling more efficient

  17-05-2018 17:08
  If you're an urbanite, you've probably experienced the sub-optimal uberPOOL. You decide to save some cash by splitting a ride with strangers but the trip ends up taking twice as long because of detours, one-way streets, traffic, and other complications. Uber knows this is a common frustration. Uber Express POOL is the company's answer.
  
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• ‘Hand to God’ at Seattle Public Theater: a gut-wrenching (and lewd) tragicomedy — with puppets

  17-05-2018 16:00
  “Hand to God," currently one of the most-produced plays in the U.S., is a gloriously smart prism of paradoxes.
  
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• Man injured in hatchet attack in downtown Seattle

  17-05-2018 15:39
  Two men in a car at Third Avenue and Pine Street began arguing with a crowd, police said, and one of the men, armed with a hatchet and baseball bat, attacked the victim.
  
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• Salmon migration lessons like fantasy football for fish, with 2,000 classrooms playing

  17-05-2018 15:00
  To raise awareness about high mortality rates for steelhead and salmon in Puget Sound waters, “Survive the Sound” invites students to track juvenile steelhead as they travel to the ocean from their freshwater homes.
  
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• How to buy a home in the Seattle area: a survival guide

  17-05-2018 15:00
  Here are tips gathered from dozens of buyers, sellers, brokers and lenders about what’s working and what’s changing for buying a house in today’s market. Feverish competition means preparing well, searching effectively and bidding smartly.
  
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• Amazon’s number: Inside the battle over Seattle’s head tax

  17-05-2018 15:00
  As Mayor Jenny Durkan and the City Council negotiated the terms of a tax on large businesses to address homelessness, finding the right number to appease Amazon loomed large.
  
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• Police investigating after officer’s rifle fires in Kitsap County casino

  17-05-2018 14:17
  The State Patrol Crime Lab inspected the rifle that fired in the Clearwater Casino and could find no evidence of something wrong with it.
  
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• Ebola reaches an urban area in Congo: What now?

  17-05-2018 14:06
  Here's a look at the outbreak of Ebola in Congo, and more about the disease.
  
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• State Supreme Court weighs validity of charter school law

  17-05-2018 14:01
  Those challenging the law object to using public money to operate alternative, nonprofit charter schools over which voters have no control. Charter-school advocates and state attorneys argue that opponents are trying to undo the will of the voters.
  
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• Teen who started $40M Columbia Gorge fire to return to court

  17-05-2018 13:01
  PORTLAND, Ore. — A Vancouver teenager charged in juvenile court with starting an explosive wildfire in Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge by tossing a lit firecracker into the woods is set to return to court Thursday. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports a hearing will be held to determine the details of his restitution. The teen pleaded guilty in […]
  
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• Teen who ignited big Columbia Gorge fire may have to repay $37 million

  17-05-2018 13:01
  HOOD RIVER, Ore. (AP) — A teenager who started a huge wildfire in the scenic Columbia River Gorge in Oregon could owe more in restitution that he will earn in a lifetime. Eleven requests for restitution totaling almost $37 million have been submitted to a court. That covers the costs of firefighting, repair and restoration […]
  
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• Florida teacher accused of drowning raccoons in class placed on leave

  17-05-2018 12:18
  A Florida teacher was placed on administrative leave after school officials were told that he had students help him drown wild raccoons during class. A 14-second video published by CBS affiliate WKMG showed a group of students filling a tub of water using a hose and later keeping a trapped raccoon submerged. A mother told […]
  
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• Savage Love: Denver's Oriental Theater

  17-05-2018 11:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage Joe NewtonSavage Love Live at Denver's Oriental Theater last week was epic. I fielded sex questions in front of a sold-out crowd, singer-songwriter Rachel Lark performed amazing news songs, comedian Elise Kerns absolutely killed it, and Tye—a token straight guy plucked at random from the audience—joined us onstage and gave some pretty great sex advice! We couldn't get to all the audience questions during the show, so I'm going to race through as many unanswered question
  
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• Alaska fishermen: Sea otter comeback is eating into profits

  17-05-2018 06:34
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Northern sea otters, once hunted to the brink of extinction along Alaska’s Panhandle, have made a spectacular comeback by gobbling some of the state’s finest seafood — and fishermen are not happy about the competition. Sea otters dive for red sea urchins, geoduck clams, sea cucumbers — delicacies in Asia markets […]
  
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• Alaska dive fishermen plead for relief from sea otters

  17-05-2018 06:34
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Northern sea otters, once hunted to the brink of extinction along Alaska’s Panhandle, have made a spectacular comeback by gobbling some of the state’s finest seafood — and fishermen are not happy about the competition. Sea otters dive for red sea urchins, geoduck clams, sea cucumbers — delicacies in Asia markets […]
  
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• U.S. births hit a 30-year low, despite good economy

  17-05-2018 06:00
  The country has been living through one of the longest declines in fertility in decades, and demographers are trying to figure out what is driving it.
  
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• Former Gonzaga priest, teacher gets 6 months for child porn

  17-05-2018 04:52
  The charges resulted from a 2013 raid of a Gonzaga University music professor’s office and home.
  
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• Bees take ‘flight,’ set up hives of activity in downtown Seattle

  17-05-2018 03:30
  Thousands of honey bees were lifted from ground level at 811 Fifth Ave. in Seattle to the roof of The Sanctuary downtown. The bees are part of an apiary that is home to 200,000 Carniolan bees, whose honey will be used in recipes at The Sanctuary.
  
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