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• Missed These Films at SIFF? Now You Can See Them Again at Best of SIFF 2018

  14-06-2018 23:52 via thestranger.com
  My Name is Myeisha, The Guilty, and more highlights of the Seattle International Film Festival playing June 15–21.by Stranger Things To Do StaffThe 44th annual Seattle International Film Festival ended last Sunday after 25 days of excellent programming, but, even if you attended SIFF screenings every day, chances are you probably missed some of the films. But you're in luck: SIFF has also announced their lineup for their Best of SIFF Festival, which will run from June 15-21 at SIFF Cinema
  
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• The Long Odds of Poe Ballantine’s Whirlaway Pay Off

  14-06-2018 23:38 via thestranger.com
  A weird, wonderful yarn about horse races, record collectors, and telepathic dogs.by Ned LannamannNebraska-based author Poe Ballantine has given his new novel the subtitle The Great American Loony Bin, Horseplaying, & Record-Collecting Novel, but despite the book’s relative slimness, that doesn’t cover nearly all of it.Whirlaway, published by Portland’s Hawthorne Books, also manages to pack in multiple ghosts, a few serial killers, a smuggler’s tunnel, a glorious all-
  
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• Savage Love: Retroactive Blessings

  14-06-2018 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage Joe NewtonWithout snooping, I came across texts between my wife "Mary" and a guy "Jeremy" of a very sexual nature. While I would be okay if she were doing this and I knew about it, this has been going on since before we met. (We've been together 10 years.) She says she has never met him in person (despite communicating with him for more than a decade!) and this was the only thing she was doing that she thought would have been out of bounds. Again, if I had known, it would have been
  
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• The Doc Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf Is Beautiful Because Oudolf's Gardens Are Beautiful

  14-06-2018 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede
  Here is a correspondence that caught me by surprise: The films of Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky, and the gardens of Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf. What brings the two together is a sense of beauty that is highly conceptual and yet achieves the illusion of being aleatory or accidental. The impulse here is to recreate those moments when beauty just happens, when it's brought together by forces that have no designer or goal. It is these experiences that make us mystical
  
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• 25 Movies Worth Watching in Seattle This Weekend: June 7–10, 2018

  14-06-2018 23:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffIncredibles 2 is funnier and more beautiful than the first movie.
  It's a great weekend for indie, world, and popular movies, and we've compiled the best ones below. Seattle International Film Festival is over, but you've got a second chance to see some of the greatest hits and award-winners at Best of SIFF, which lasts until next week. You can also check out the new Incredibles 2, Nick Offerman in Hearts Beat Loud, or the archival and musical Queerama. Follow the li
  
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• Rescued seahorse released into the wild in Florida

  14-06-2018 22:41
  Swim free, Frito the tiny seahorse. The little creature was released back into the Gulf of Mexico after she was wrapped around a discarded fishing line
  
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• Your Complete Guide to Pride Month 2018 in Seattle

  14-06-2018 22:39 via thestranger.com
  Our Calendar Has All the Queer Events in Juneby Stranger Things To Do Staff
  
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• Suspicious package at Kitsap Naval Base near Bremerton ferry terminal prompts closure, police response

  14-06-2018 22:32
  Navy technicians determined the package was not a threat but authorities were examining it for hazardous materials
  
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• Possible bomb at Kitsap Naval Base near Bremerton ferry terminal prompts closure, police response

  14-06-2018 22:32
  A package that police say "appears to be an explosive device" was discovered within Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton, and the official response resulted in a road closure and state ferries staying away from the Bremerton terminal.
  
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• Reader Advice Round-up: Big Dick Volkswagen Enthusiasts, Incels, Diaper Lovers, and More

  14-06-2018 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  Recent Savage Love Letters of the Day: How dangerous is it to leave a tied up person alone? A husband cheated on his wife with a MTF sex worker, but is it inevitable that he will cheat again? Should this skinny guy stop fucking muscle dudes because they make him feel bad about his body? And surely there are other Volkswagen van enthusiasts who don't have this much baggage. And, as always, last week's column and Lovecast.
  Regarding that Volkswagen mess MESS:You recently published a
  
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• Did the City Council Violate the Law Before Voting to Kill the Head Tax?

  14-06-2018 21:55 via thestranger.com
  
  It's maybe not over!by Steven HsiehSally Bagshaw and Bruce Harrell during Tuesday's special meeting to repeal the head tax. SH
  Three lawyers filed a lawsuit against the City of Seattle on Thursday claiming Mayor Jenny Durkan and seven city council members violated transparency laws by reaching an agreement to repeal the head tax “via unlawful clandestine discussions."
  The lawsuit, first reported by the Seattle Times, alleges that local lawmakers violated the Open Public Meetings Act, which
  
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• Comedian Emily Heller Is Taping Her "No Men Allowed—Kinda!!!" June 16 Performance at Showbox

  14-06-2018 21:46 via thestranger.com
  
  You can be a part of comedian Emily Heller's live taping in Seattle.by Dave Segal"I don't really understand people who stay friends with their exes after a breakup. Why would you want to stay friends with the one person who really knows what's wrong with you? I don't need them hanging around in my life, ready to warn all the new people I'm trying to trick."
  If you like to be in the crowd when comics tape live performances for posterity, you have an opportunity to do so at the Showbox when Emily
  
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• Let's Fight: Reading Indoors vs. Reading Outdoors

  14-06-2018 20:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich Smith PAIGE VICKERS
  This story is presented as part of The Stranger's Art + Performance Quarterly, Summer 2018 Edition. In this piece, Charles Mudede and Rich Smith share their opposing views about reading outdoors. Here are the opening arguments from both.
  Rich Smith: "It has come to my attention that people continue to pretend to enjoy reading outside. Like any romantic person, I'm sympathetic in theory. Actors in movies look great tucked into the crotch of some mighty oak with a class
  
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• Oregon woman dies from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome

  14-06-2018 20:27
  Health officials say an Oregon woman died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a disease transmitted through rodent droppings.
  
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• Many animals are shifting from day to night to avoid people

  14-06-2018 20:03
  Fear of people is driving many animals around the globe to shift their activities from day to night
  
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• On Chesil Beach: Top-Shelf Nicholas Sparks or Bottom-Shelf Keira Knightley?

  14-06-2018 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Elinor JonesIn On Chesil Beach, romance isn’t romantic
  As a scholar of the rom-com genre, there’s nothing I love more than a whimsical courtship. But as a cynical human, I always wish every movie would give us an epilogue: “Sadly, it didn’t work out. He’s kind of a dick, she’s kind of passive-aggressive, and they’re both way too young.” While not a rom-com, On Chesil Beach consists almost entirely of that epilogue.
  On Chesil Beach takes us back
  
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• Lawsuit accuses Seattle of violating open-meetings law before head-tax repeal vote

  14-06-2018 19:53
  Three attorneys contend that each of the named city officials be fined and that the city bear their legal costs, but the lawsuit doesn’t ask that the council’s vote to repeal the head tax be invalidated.
  
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• After lawsuit accuses Seattle of violating meetings law on head tax, campaign will submit signatures for repeal measure just in case

  14-06-2018 19:53
  Three attorneys who contended the city violated the open meetings law didn't seek repeal vote to be invalidated, but campaign opted to seek referendum "out of an abundance of caution" anyway.
  
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• After lawsuit accuses Seattle of violating meetings law on head tax, campaign submits signatures for repeal measure just in case

  14-06-2018 19:53
  The No Tax on Jobs campaign opted to submit the 46,372 signatures shortly before 4 p.m. Thursday, just in case the unrelated lawsuit's contentions might invalidate this week's council vote to reverse the head tax
  
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• Drink Cold Craft Beers and Catch Killer Bands at Search Party, The Vera Project’s Music Festival-Style Fundraiser

  14-06-2018 19:31 via thestranger.com
  
  Enjoy beers by more than 40 local breweries plus sets by Young the Giant, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, Deerhunter, and Sundries, all while contributing to a local nonprofit.by Sophia Stephens
  As I type away at my desk, which is vibrating furiously from the ongoing jack-hammering at the corner of Pine Street and 11th Avenue (I’m still waiting on those headphones that my colleague Katie Herzog kindly requested, Jeff Bezos), I’m day-dreaming of taking a break, of getting down t
  
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• Lake Tahoe clarity sinks to all-time low in 2017

  14-06-2018 18:50
  Scientists at Lake Tahoe say the clarity of the alpine lake that straddles the California-Nevada line sank to an all-time low last year
  
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• Whale dolphin washes up on Oregon’s Manzanita Beach

  14-06-2018 18:44
  Right whale dolphins are rarely spotted on the northern Oregon coast, but one washed ashore last week at Manzanita Beach
  
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• Gunfire on highway, and hot weather coming | Thursday Morning Brief, June 14

  14-06-2018 18:30
  Morning Brief is a newsletter from The Seattle Times delivered straight to your inbox every morning, Monday through Friday. Our editors choose the morning’s most important and entertaining items, and deliver them to you in short, easy-to-digest bites.
  
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• The Best Film Events in Seattle: Summer 2018

  14-06-2018 18:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffDon't miss the opening of Sorry to Bother You, Boots Riley’s absurdist comedy about a black telemarketer who discovers a magical talent for “white voice.”
  Hollywood movies come out in full force during the summertime. Look forward to everything from the new Marvel movie to a Mr. Rogers flick to the return of everyone’s favorite animated superhero parents. Plus, there’s no shortage of places to watch the classics outside. Below, we've ro
  
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• Stone engraving leads Oregon man on historical investigation

  14-06-2018 18:13
  Stone engraving leads Oregon man on historical investigation
  
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• Body of missing man recovered from river

  14-06-2018 18:01
  Authorities say the body of an Oregon man has been recovered from an Idaho river
  
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• Survey finds homelessness rising in Southern Oregon

  14-06-2018 17:46
  An annual count tallied at least 732 homeless people living in Jackson County, an increase of 99 people from a year earlier.
  
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• ‘Oh my god’: Giant 45-pound catfish caught in Green Lake

  14-06-2018 17:44
  After his friends doubted him, Ahmed Majeed set out to catch something really, really big in Green Lake. But even he was surprised to hook a 45-pound channel catfish.
  
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• ‘Oh my god’: Catfish the weight of small refrigerator caught in Green Lake

  14-06-2018 17:44
  After his friends doubted him, Ahmed Majeed set out to catch something really, really big in Green Lake. But even he was surprised to hook a 45-pound channel catfish.
  
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• Ancient Native American remains reburied on California isle

  14-06-2018 17:41
  The remains of a Native American man who died 10,000 years ago have been returned to an island off Southern California where they were discovered in 2005
  
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• Slog AM: Sinclair Broadcasting's Discount Prices For Conservative Commentator, Amazon's Ranks Keep Growing

  14-06-2018 17:21 via thestranger.com
  
  Ratatouille in Bellevue, shootings galore, a not-happy birthday to Donald Trumpby Nathalie GrahamTry the exclusive "Friends With Ben Carson" discount from Sinclair Broadcasting! Three tv stations for a fraction of the price!Getty Images
  Sinclair Broadcasting sells conservative commentator three stations for dirt cheap: Armstrong Williams is a well-known conservative commentator and confidant of Ben Carson, a hell of a thing to be. Williams has acquired television stations in Salt Lake City, Okla
  
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• Don’t touch that temperature dial: Seattle due for record-testing heat wave

  14-06-2018 16:05
  Temperatures expected to approach 90 degrees in the Seattle area next week, according to the National Weather Service.
  
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• Utility worker dies in accident at central Washington dam

  14-06-2018 15:44
  The Chelan Public Utility District says one of its employees has died while working at a hydroelectric dam south of Wenatchee
  
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• UW student imprisoned in Egypt: A reminder that study abroad can be both dangerous and rewarding

  14-06-2018 15:00
  American universities are becoming more concerned about academic freedom and safety in countries that restrict freedom of expression, opting to hire travel risk specialists. More than 325,000 American students received credit abroad in the 2015-2016 school year.
  
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• Suicide rate up in all regions of Washington — but why? ‘No one is exactly sure,’ expert says

  14-06-2018 15:00
  The suicide rate in Washington state has increased 19 percent compared to the period from 1999 to 2001. There are more than 1,100 suicides each year in the state.
  
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• Study: Traces of radioactive contamination found in homes of six Hanford workers

  14-06-2018 15:00
  The levels are low, but if some microparticles are inhaled or ingested by nuclear-site workers or their families, the radioactive dust is a “potential source of internal radiation exposure,” the study’s author writes.
  
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• Man, 25, dies in overnight shooting in Kent

  14-06-2018 14:32
  A 25-year-old man was killed in an early Thursday shooting in Kent, according to police. Police said the shooting, about 2 a.m. near the 22400 block of Benson Road Southeast, appears to have been the result of a dispute between two people who knew each other. “Early investigation indicates that there was a dispute between […]
  
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• Spacewalking astronauts set up TV cameras for arriving ships

  14-06-2018 14:14
  Spacewalking astronauts are setting up TV cameras for new crew capsules set to arrive in coming months
  
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• Man sentenced for transporting women to work as prostitutes

  14-06-2018 07:32
  A man who authorities say brought two women from Idaho to Oregon to work as prostitutes has been sentenced to more than six years in federal prison.
  
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• World Cup should visit Seattle in 2026, and here’s three reasons why

  14-06-2018 06:05
  Of the 17 U.S. cities bidding to host World Cup games, Seattle deserves to be one of the 10 FIFA selects (three cities from Canada and three more from Mexico are already guaranteed to host). It has the resources, it has the scenery, and it has one of the more rabid soccer fan bases.
  
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• World Cup should visit Seattle in 2026, and here are 3 reasons why

  14-06-2018 06:05
  Of the 17 U.S. cities bidding to host World Cup games, Seattle deserves to be one of the 10 FIFA selects (three cities from Canada and three more from Mexico are already guaranteed to host). It has the resources, it has the scenery, and it has one of the more rabid soccer fan bases.
  
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