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• See the World from a Child's Perspective in Nervous Translation

  23-05-2018 23:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Andrew Wright
  An 8-year-old girl in Manila keeps herself occupied at home while her busy family becomes increasingly fragmented in Nervous Translation. This empathic tone poem enters the headspace of its central character within the first few frames and never zooms back out, successfully replicating how a tricky math problem or the fixing of a well-worn cassette tape can briefly encompass the entire universe. Not for all metabolisms, certainly—the narrative could maybe use just a bit mo
  
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• We Tried Denny’s Solo: A Star Wars Story Menu

  23-05-2018 23:42 via thestranger.com
  
  If hash browns and eggs are being eaten in the Star Wars universe, then the Empire might not be all bad.by Erik HenriksenFor a movie that no one really wants and that probably shouldn’t have been made, Solo: A Star Wars Story is way more fun than it should be! For a meal that no one really wants and that probably shouldn’t have been made, go to Denny’s!In a remarkable display of corporate synergy never before attempted (except for when they did it for The Hobbit), Denny’s
  
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• Free Will Astrology: May 23-29

  23-05-2018 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rob Brezsny
  ARIES (March 21–April 19): The Aries poet Anna Kamienska described the process of writing as akin to "the backbreaking work of hacking a footpath, as in a coal mine, in total darkness, beneath the earth." Whether or not you're a writer, I'm guessing that your life might have felt like that recently. Your progress has been slow and the mood has been dense and the light has been dim. That's the tough news. The good news is that I suspect you will soon be blessed with flashes o
  
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• How Can I Give My Straight Boyfriend the Gay Blowjob He Secretly Yearns For?

  23-05-2018 23:26 via thestranger.com
  
  Savage Love Letter of the Dayby Dan Savage
  I don't know what to do. I recently discovered that my boyfriend of eight years has joined an online dating (hookup) site. He is wanting to meet a man to have oral sex with. He is straight. How do I deal with this?
  Boyfriend Looking Outside WomenHow do you feel about it?
  I'm asking for your gut reaction, your first take—no, wait. Maybe I'm asking for your second take. Set aside the possible betrayal, the sneaking around, the hookup app. Just for a
  
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• Beast Is a Vortex of Desire and Denial

  23-05-2018 23:18
  A glimpse into the wildness within.by Ciara DolanLike vines slowly overtaking an old house, Beast—the feature debut of writer/director Michael Pearce—mines horror from the feeling of wildness encroaching on civilization.
  It’s set on the island of Jersey, a land of lush pastures surrounded by an aquamarine sea, and where authorities are searching for the culprit behind the brutal murders of several young girls. (True-crime buffs might recall that in the 1960s, the British isle w
  
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• Erik Blood: Los Angeles Has Sun, but Seattle's Music Scene Is Cooler

  23-05-2018 23:00
  
  by Charles MudedeErik Blood hard at work with the ladies of Tacocat. We’re not worthy!COURTESY OF ERIK BLOOD
  More than a year ago, producer and musician Erik Blood decided to leave Seattle for Los Angeles. The move caught some by surprise because Blood had very deep roots in Seattle's music community. He worked with the Moondoggies, THEESatisfaction, Shabazz Palaces, and Tacocat. And he released two brilliant solo albums, Touch Screens and Lost in Slow Motion. Why did he leave all of these
  
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• A Guide to Getting the Most Out of Solo

  23-05-2018 22:56
  Load up your queue with Silverado, Atlanta, Fleabag, and more!by Bobby RobertsWatching Star Wars movies isn’t that hard, and yet? Entertainment media loves saying you need to digest a Wookieepedia’s worth of info before you even think about buying tickets.In the case of Solo: A Star Wars Story, here’s all you need: Han Solo is an asshole with a heart of gold, his best friend is a giant dog, and they fly a ship that looks like a hamburger and fuck up in hilarious ways.But if you
  
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• Solo: A Star Wars Story Shouldn’t Work, but It Does

  23-05-2018 22:43
  Now when does Lando get his own movie?by Bobby RobertsThe phrase used to go something like, “Never talk about politics or religion at the dinner table.” In 2018, talking about that shit is child’s play compared to the danger of discussing Star Wars. All the clichés of classic partisan hackery haven’t just infiltrated pop-culture discussion—they now dominate it.Ever since Disney gave George Lucas a $4 billion check in exchange for all things Star Wars, the squ
  
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• New Campaign Issue Emerges in WA-08: Who’s Better for the World, Doctors or Lawyers?

  23-05-2018 22:35 via thestranger.com
  
  Who's more moral, a doctor or a former prosecutor?by Rich SmithThey're fighting again.Courtesy of the Rittereiser and Schrier Campaigns
  On Monday evening the Washington Fair Trade Coalition invited the top three Democrats running for Congress in Washington's 8th District to a little room at Bellevue College to discuss their opinions on trade.For the first hour or so, Kim Schrier, Shannon Hader, and Jason Rittereiser spent a lot of time agreeing that the United States should include better enviro
  
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• A Forum on Trade Turns into a Healthcare Spat in the Race for Washington's 8th District

  23-05-2018 22:35
  
  Who's more moral, a doctor or a former prosecutor?by Rich SmithThey're fighting again.Courtesy of the Rittereiser and Schrier Campaigns
  On Monday evening the Washington Fair Trade Coalition invited the top three Democrats running for Congress in Washington's 8th District to a little room at Bellevue College to discuss their opinions on trade.For the first hour or so, Kim Schrier, Shannon Hader, and Jason Rittereiser spent a lot of time agreeing that the United States should include better enviro
  
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• One Year After Evergreen, Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying Look Back

  23-05-2018 22:06
  
  by Katie HerzogBret Weinstein and Heather Heying
  This year, for what may be first time in four decades, officials at the Evergreen State College canceled the Day of Absence.
  Traditionally on the Day of Absence, students, faculty, and staff of color leave campus and convene elsewhere to attend workshops on issues of race and privilege while white students stay on campus and do the same. Later, they reconvene and have discussions. While this is not the sort of tradition you’d see at most col
  
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• BLM trying stop flow of contaminants from old Oregon mine, a Superfund site

  23-05-2018 21:45
  ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — This summer, the Roseburg Bureau of Land Management is working to stop the flow of heavy metal contaminants from the Formosa Mine southwest of Riddle into nearby creeks. BLM Project Manager Susan Lee said copper, zinc, mercury and gold had been mined from the site off and on from the early […]
  
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• The N-Word Bomb in HBO's Fahrenheit 451 Explains Why the Silence About Race in The Expanse Is Dangerous

  23-05-2018 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede HBO
  The writers of science fiction TV show The Expanse, which is enjoying a spectacular third season, though it was not renewed for a 4th season at Syfy—but might be "revived by Amazon"—could learn an important lesson about race from a brief scene in HBO's Fahrenheit 451, which is based on the 1953 novel by Ray Bradbury, and was written and directed by Iranian-American Ramin Bahrani. But before explaining this lesson, I must first point out that Fahrenheit 451 const
  
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• Amazon, Starbucks pledge $25,000 each to campaign for referendum on Seattle head tax

  23-05-2018 21:24
  Vulcan, Kroger, Albertsons and Howard Wright have made similar pledges, says a report listing 40 pledges totaling more than $325,000. Other well-known Seattle companies donating include Dick’s Drive-In and Uwajimaya.
  
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• Indie Folk Project Dear Nora Return with Skulls Example

  23-05-2018 21:07 via thestranger.com
  
  The beloved indie folk project hasn’t lost its gentle power.by Ciara DolanLast year, Portland singer-songwriter Katy Davidson revived their beloved indie folk project Dear Nora to reissue their 2004 record Mountain Rock. Riding the high from that triumphant return, this week Davidson will release Skulls Example, their first new album in a decade.Unsurprisingly, every song on the record is great. Most of the 14 tracks rely on the classic Dear Nora building blocks of jangly, reverbed guitar
  
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• Lawsuit Claims Rent-Bidding Moratorium Violates Landlords’ Free Speech Rights

  23-05-2018 21:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Rentberry is suing Seattle.by Heidi GrooverWho will think of the landlords? rentberry
  The libertarians who love to sue Seattle are back. This time they're filing a lawsuit over the city's temporary ban on websites where tenants are asked to bid on housing rates.
  Back in March, the Seattle City Council passed a one-year moratorium on rent-bidding websites. Sites like Rentberry and Biddwell allow landlords to post rental units and then ask tenants to bid on how much they would pay in rent. Althoug
  
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• Connelly: The 'Trump bump' in gas prices, senators want president to act

  23-05-2018 20:55
  Gas prices have been soaring since President Trump signaled that the United States is pulling out of the nuclear deal.With the summer driving season on us, senators are asking Trump what he's going to do about it.
  
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• A Belated Tribute to Reggie Lucas, Madonna Producer and Guitarist on Some of Miles Davis's Greatest LPs

  23-05-2018 20:54 via thestranger.com
  
  An appreciation of the late Reggie Lucas, who played guitar on Miles Davis's greatest fusion albums, and then went on to produce Madonna's 1983 debut LP, among many other things.by Dave SegalThe late Reggie Lucas (center) spanned the world's of innovative fusion and accessible R&B with aplomb. Warner Bros.
  On May 19, the great guitarist and commercially successful producer Reggie Lucas passed away due to complications from heart disease at age 65. (I was on vacation when this sad event happe
  
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• Sailing into the Sunset with Wooden Shjips

  23-05-2018 20:43 via thestranger.com
  
  The psych band returns with the summery V.by Ben SalmonWhen Erik “Ripley” Johnson pitched his Wooden Shjips bandmates on recording their first album in five years, he did so gently.“What I proposed to them was the minimum commitment possible,” Johnson explains. “‘We’ll rehearse two or three weekends and go into the studio for five days. That’s all you have to commit to.’”The other three Shjips—drummer Omar Ahsanuddin, bassist Dust
  
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• Muralist at work on old building in Ravenna/U District (remember Piecora’s?)

  23-05-2018 20:22
  Sketched May 22, 2018 If you are around Ravenna/University District today or tomorrow, you can see how a huge mural of the Montlake Bridge is being painted on the side of an old brick building near Northeast 55th Street and 26th Avenue Northeast. The artist at work is Edmonds muralist Andy Eccleshall, the creator of […]
  
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• The Loser: Dino Rossi Is Back and It’s Time to Review His Long Record of Being a Total Fucking Dipshit

  23-05-2018 20:20
  
  by Rich Smith
  Dino Rossi is famous for one thing: losing statewide elections.
  Let's count 'em. After a remarkably conservative but otherwise unremarkable tenure in the state legislature, Rossi ran for governor against Christine Gregoire in 2004. After a recount, he lost by a little more than a hundred votes. Feeling cheated out of a win, Rossi challenged Gregoire to another round in 2008. He lost again, but this time much more decisively. In 2010, when Republicans were drowning Democrats all ove
  
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• Dino Rossi Is Back and It’s Time to Review His Long Record of Being a Total Fucking Dipshit

  23-05-2018 20:20 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich Smith
  Dino Rossi is famous for one thing: losing statewide elections.
  Let's count 'em. After a remarkably conservative but otherwise unremarkable tenure in the state legislature, Rossi ran for governor against Christine Gregoire in 2004. After a recount, he lost by a little more than a hundred votes. Feeling cheated out of a win, Rossi challenged Gregoire to another round in 2008. He lost again, but this time much more decisively. In 2010, when Republicans were drowning Democrats all ove
  
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• Pasco man ordered to forfeit drone he crashed into Space Needle

  23-05-2018 20:14
  The 20-year-old man pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment and received a 364-day suspended sentence in Seattle Municipal Court. He was ordered not to operate drones and pay a fine.
  
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• #Resistence Hero Unintentionally Turns Tomi Lahren into a Martyr

  23-05-2018 20:06
  
  A woman at a Minneapolis eatery doused the Fox News pundit with a full glass of water over the weekend.by Katie HerzogTomi Lahren Joshua Blanchard/GettyImagine the scene. You're at brunch on a fine Sunday morning and you spy odious media personality Tomi Lahren nearby on the rooftop patio. Your stomach lurches, builds in the back of your throat, and thinking to yourself, "Let's see how this bitch really feels about waterboarding," you grab the nearest water glass and fling its contents at Lahren
  
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• #Resistance Hero Unintentionally Turns Tomi Lahren into a Martyra

  23-05-2018 20:06 via thestranger.com
  
  A woman at a Minneapolis eatery doused the Fox News pundit with a full glass of water over the weekend.by Katie HerzogTomi Lahren Joshua Blanchard/GettyImagine the scene. You're at brunch on a fine Sunday morning and you spy odious media personality Tomi Lahren nearby on the rooftop patio. Your stomach lurches, builds in the back of your throat, and thinking to yourself, "Let's see how this bitch really feels about waterboarding," you grab the nearest water glass and fling its contents at Lahren
  
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• #Resistance Hero Unintentionally Turns Tomi Lahren into a Martyr

  23-05-2018 20:06 via thestranger.com
  
  A woman at a Minneapolis eatery doused the Fox News pundit with a full glass of water over the weekend.by Katie HerzogTomi Lahren Joshua Blanchard/GettyImagine the scene. You're at brunch on a fine Sunday morning and you spy odious media personality Tomi Lahren nearby on the rooftop patio. Your stomach lurches, builds in the back of your throat, and thinking to yourself, "Let's see how this bitch really feels about waterboarding," you grab the nearest water glass and fling its contents at Lahren
  
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• Seattle, get ready for travel headaches Memorial Day weekend

  23-05-2018 19:30
  Traffic is likely to be pain as Seattleites head out for the unofficial kickoff of summer travel this weekend.
  
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• Problem with new US weather satellite could affect pictures

  23-05-2018 19:17
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The nation’s newest weather satellite, launched less than three months ago, has a serious cooling problem that could affect the quality of its pictures. The trouble is with the GOES-17 satellite’s premier instrument for taking images of hurricanes, wildfires, volcanic eruptions and other natural calamities, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric […]
  
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• New US weather satellite can’t keep cool, could hurt photos

  23-05-2018 19:17
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The nation’s newest weather satellite, launched less than three months ago, has a serious cooling problem that could affect the quality of its pictures. The trouble is with the GOES-17 satellite’s premier instrument for taking images of hurricanes, wildfires, volcanic eruptions and other natural calamities, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric […]
  
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• ‘Deadliest Catch’ star Sig Hansen pleads guilty to assault charge

  23-05-2018 19:02
  Celebrity boat skipper Sig Hansen is accused of spitting on an Uber driver and denting the car after learning he couldn’t pay cash for his ride home from Norway’s Constitution Day in Ballard.
  
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• Study offers new look at why our brains evolved to be so big

  23-05-2018 19:00
  NEW YORK (AP) — Why do people have such big brains? Some researchers asked a really powerful brain — a computer — and got back a surprising answer. In relation to body size, our brains are huge, about six times larger than one would expect from other mammals. And this three-pound organ sucks up fully […]
  
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• Amazon, Starbucks, Vulcan: Meet the Businesses Backing the Head Tax Referendum

  23-05-2018 18:49
  
  $350,000.by Steven HsiehAmazon gave $25,000 to the anti-head tax campaign. DAVID RYDER/GETTY
  Locals who want to place a head tax referendum on an upcoming ballot have the support of some of Seattle's heaviest hitters, according to a campaign disclosure filed Tuesday.
  Businesses have pledged more than $350,000 to support No Tax on Jobs, the political committee that needs nearly 18,000 signatures by mid-June to put the head tax up to voters. The list of donors who have promised money to that effor
  
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• What We Know About the Suspected Arson at the Youth Jail Construction Site

  23-05-2018 17:39 via thestranger.com
  
  Broken bottles and fire.by Steven HsiehThe youth jail construction site SH
  Police are investigating a suspected arson at the construction site of a juvenile detention facility in Central District.According to the Seattle Police Department blotter, this is what happened early Tuesday morning:
  An officer working as security for the site heard sounds from inside the fence line just after 3:30 a.m.When he went to investigate he found multiple small fires and what looked to be some shattered glass bo
  
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• Slog AM: A Proposed 65,000 Acre Conservation Effort In King County, I-5 Covered In Chicken Feathers

  23-05-2018 17:21 via thestranger.com
  
  Sinkholes are following Donald Trump, Vancouver's transit system gets better, Seattle biotech journalist summits Everestby Nathalie GrahamDow Constantine wants to keep the Emerald City green.chinaface/Getty Images
  Conservation initiative would protect 65,000 acres of open space in King County: Dow Constantine, King County Executive, is expected to announce the initiative today. It will save important natural and open spaces from development. Constantine will introduce legislation that will &ldqu
  
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• Sheriff: 4 people missing after car crashes into Idaho river

  23-05-2018 16:53
  LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — Officials are searching for four missing people after their vehicle was found in the upper Selway River in northern Idaho backcountry. The Idaho County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that the crash was reported early Monday to the Ravalli County Sheriff’s Department in Darby, Montana. Sheriff Doug Giddings said Tuesday […]
  
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• Mississippi: Up to 7,000 bodies from asylum may be in field

  23-05-2018 16:05
  STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Some of the boxes stacked inside anthropologist Molly Zuckerman’s laboratory contain full bones — a skull, a jaw, or a leg. Others contain only plastic bags of bone fragments that Zuckerman describes as “grit.” These humble remains are among as many as 7,000 bodies that were buried at Mississippi’s former insane […]
  
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• Estimated 7,000 bodies may be buried at former asylum

  23-05-2018 16:05
  STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Some of the boxes stacked inside anthropologist Molly Zuckerman’s laboratory contain full bones — a skull, a jaw, or a leg. Others contain only plastic bags of bone fragments that Zuckerman describes as “grit.” These humble remains are among as many as 7,000 bodies that were buried at Mississippi’s former insane […]
  
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• Semi filled with 40,000 pounds of chicken feathers overturns on I-5 in Federal Way

  23-05-2018 15:44
  Traffic engineers did the math on the 40,000 pounds of feathers hauled by the semi: about 18 million feathers — that's almost 2,300 chickens' feathers.
  
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• People who sleep in on weekends avoid dying young, study suggests

  23-05-2018 15:44
  Sleeping in on a day off feels marvelous, especially for those of us who don’t get nearly enough rest during the workweek. But are the extra weekend winks worth it? It’s a question that psychologist Torbjorn Akerstedt, director of the Stress Research Institute at Stockholm University, and his colleagues tried to answer in a study […]
  
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• Semi rollover blocks traffic, spills feathers on I-5 during morning commute

  23-05-2018 15:02
  A semi driver flipped over his vehicle on northbound I-5 in Federal Way early Wednesday morning, blocking almost all lanes of traffic during the morning commute. Making the wreck even messier, feathers were spilled all over the roadway following the crash.
  
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• No new trial for man convicted of three notorious Seattle-area murders in 1965

  23-05-2018 15:00
  Arthur Aiken, who was convicted in 1965 in the murders of three gas-station attendants, lost his bid for a new trial on one of the homicides although he claims he was asleep at the time.
  
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• GOP is right: It’s past time for a special session on school shootings

  23-05-2018 15:00
  Maybe Gov. Jay Inslee is too distracted by presidential dreamin’. But he’s missing a golden chance to show desperately needed urgency and action on the issue of school shootings.
  
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• Cost estimate hits $570 million for Seattle sewage tunnel

  23-05-2018 15:00
  Meant to dramatically reduce the amount of sewage and polluted water that pours into the ship canal during storms, the project is a major driver of rate increases for Seattle Public Utilities customers that the City Council approved in November.
  
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• Constantine wants to leverage conservation fund to buy 65,000 acres of ‘last best places’

  23-05-2018 15:00
  King County farmlands, forests, shorelines, trails, urban green space and natural areas are a target of a conservation initiative by the county executive.
  
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• 911 calls on cougar attack near Snoqualmie: Dropped calls and a ‘Help!’

  23-05-2018 15:00
  911 dispatch tapes from Saturday’s fatal cougar attack show a distraught survivor worried about his friend, and passers-by who stopped and tried to help.
  
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• Wyoming wildlife commission approves state’s first grizzly bear hunt in 40 years

  23-05-2018 13:28
  A Wyoming wildlife commission voted unanimously on Wednesday to approve the state’s first grizzly bear hunt in more than four decades, a proposal that could lead to the killing of as many as 22 bears just one year after Yellowstone-area grizzlies were removed from the endangered species list. Grizzly bears in the Lower 48 were […]
  
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• Wyoming may legalize trophy hunting of grizzly bears for the first time in 40 years

  23-05-2018 13:28
  A Wyoming wildlife commission will vote Wednesday on whether to approve the state’s first grizzly bear hunt in more than four decades, a proposal that could lead to the killing of as many as 22 bears just one year after Yellowstone-area grizzlies were removed from the endangered species list. Grizzly bears in the Lower 48 […]
  
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• The Loser

  23-05-2018 13:00
  Dino Rossi is running for office again. Don't let him win.by Rich SmithDino Rossi is famous for one thing: losing statewide elections.Let's count 'em. After a remarkably conservative but otherwise unremarkable tenure in the state legislature, Rossi ran for governor against Christine Gregoire in 2004. After a recount, he lost by a little more than a hundred votes. Feeling cheated out of a win, Rossi challenged Gregoire to another round in 2008. He lost again, but this time much more decisively. I
  
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• Splurging on Sinful Comfort Food in a Vegan Restaurant

  23-05-2018 13:00
  
  What makes vegan restaurant Plum Bistro so popular?by Dave SegalPlum Bistro is where you take skeptics to sway them toward the righteous path. A lot of people still confuse veganism with flavorless-ness, or with food that doesn't fill you up. Those people have clearly never eaten at Plum.It's become one of the go-to spots for both celebrities—Tobey Maguire, Common, Al Gore, Joaquin Phoenix, India.Arie, Sam Smith, Casey Affleck, and Stevie Wonder have been spotted at Plum over its nine-year
  
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• Los Angeles Has Sun, but Seattle's Music Scene Is Cooler

  23-05-2018 13:00
  Erik's Blood latest music has a sunnier sound than his previous albums.by Charles MudedeMore than a year ago, producer and musician Erik Blood decided to leave Seattle for Los Angeles. The move caught some by surprise because Blood had very deep roots in Seattle's music community. He worked with the Moondoggies, THEESatisfaction, Shabazz Palaces, and Tacocat. And he released two brilliant solo albums, Touch Screens and Lost in Slow Motion. Why did he leave all of these achievements and connectio
  
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