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• You Must Watch Watch Wes Hurley's "Little Potato" Now

  29-06-2018 23:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede
  My favorite short film of 2017, and one that won many awards—even at top festivals like SXSW Film Festival—is now available on Vimeo. Directed by Wes Hurley and Nate Miller (both local filmmakers), and starring the former, and concerning the former's mother and move from Russia to the US in the 1990s, "Little Potato" also has a great soundtrack by local musician Robyn C. Miller. Seattle's leading music critic, Dave Segal, describes it as "extraordinary electronic mu
  
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• King County Metro’s $2.75 flat fare for adults takes effect Sunday

  29-06-2018 23:12
  Metro has said the simplified bus fares will make riding more convenient and reduce confusion that sometimes leads to boarding delays.
  
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• Listen to the Fall of the British Empire While Experiencing the Fall of the American

  29-06-2018 22:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeThis is the grave of Cecil Rhodes. He was a leading figure of the British Empire. He died and was buried here, at Zimbabwe's Matopos National Park. He once said: “To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far.” steve_is_on_holiday/gettyimage.com
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• Colorado cares for bear cub that burned its paws in wildfire

  29-06-2018 22:37
  DURANGO, Colo. (AP) — An orphaned bear cub that suffered painful burns to her paws in a Colorado wildfire that drove people from their homes in a drought-stricken part of the state is being nursed back to health, state officials said Friday. Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers believe the bear will recover well enough to […]
  
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• Bear cub with burnt paws rescued from Colorado wildfire

  29-06-2018 22:37
  DURANGO, Colo. (AP) — An orphaned bear cub suffered painful burns to her paws in one of the half-dozen significant wildfires scorching Colorado, but she is being nursed back to health, state officials said Friday. Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers believe the bear will recover well enough to be released this winter. “When the bear […]
  
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• Seattle's "Families Belong Together" Events This Weekend: Here's What You Need To Know

  29-06-2018 22:35 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do Staff Jessica Fu
  This Saturday, June 30, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., there will be a Families Belong Together Rally at the Federal Detention Center in SeaTac, organized with the intention of protesting the Trump administration's inhumane persecution of immigrants at America’s southern border. It's expected to be big: On the Facebook page that was created for the event, nearly 1,500 people have marked that they're "interested" in attending.
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• Tank Girl Is Comic Book Feminism at Its Best

  29-06-2018 22:27 via thestranger.com
  
  by Leilani PolkRemember Lori Petty? She used to be the bees knees.Tank Girl hit theaters when I was 15, and I fell in instant love.It had everything an angsty ’90s-era teen could want in a film: a postapocalyptic future setting; a kickass antiheroine who had a righteous ’do (Lori Petty, bleached blonde and shaved), a mutant kangaroo boyfriend (Ice-T in solid special-effects makeup), a jet-flying BFF (Naomi Watts), and crew of genetically modified super soldiers; and a plot that pits
  
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• Raised Doughnuts Opens and More Seattle Food News You Can Use: June 29, 2018 Edition

  29-06-2018 21:56 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffRaising the bar: Pastry chef Mi Kim opens a permanent location for her cult-favorite pop-up Raised Doughnuts in the Central District this weekend. Raised Doughnuts via Facebook
  This weekend, former Macrina Bakery lead pastry chef Mi Kim will officially open her highly anticipated doughnut shop Raised Doughnuts in the Central District, and you better believe the lines will wrap around the block. If that's not enough for you, Side Hustle Doughnuts has also announced p
  
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• Don’t Get Your Feminism from The Misandrists

  29-06-2018 21:40 via thestranger.com
  Bruce LaBruce is like John Waters with more porn.by Suzette SmithHave you ever watched a John Waters film and thought: “I wish this had more of a porn vibe”? If so, the films of Bruce LaBruce may be your style.The Canadian director is something of an underground cinema icon, focusing his camera on subjects that are generally relegated to fetish films—like stylized lust between people wearing Nazi uniforms, or stylized lust between hot young street hustlers. That sort of stuff!
  
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• Inbox Jukebox Track of the Day: "Wit's End" by Politically Enraged Metal-Punks Matriarch

  29-06-2018 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  The four women in local metal-punk band Matriarch get insurrectionary on your ass on their new EP.by Dave SegalMatriarch deliver a politically engaged metallic KO on their debut EP. Matt McKenze
  Matriarch, "Wit's End" (self-released). Woo, boy girl! Matriarch ain't fucking around. The Seattle quartet bust out of the gate with Hold & Release, an eight-song exercise in swift and heavy catharsis for leftists experiencing hourly rage episodes under the world-class corruption of the current GOP.O
  
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• Smuggler who used helicopters to deliver drugs sentenced

  29-06-2018 20:45
  Colin Martin spent much of the past decade fighting extradition to the United States following his 2009 indictment.
  
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• Vaccination critic placed on probation by medical board

  29-06-2018 20:37
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California pediatrician and outspoken critic of mandatory vaccinations has been placed on probation for 35 months by the state’s medical board. Dr. Bob Sears had been accused of failing to obtain a detailed medical history before writing a 2014 letter excusing a toddler from immunizations. Officials said he wrote […]
  
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• Vaccination critic placed on probation by California medical board

  29-06-2018 20:37
  LOS ANGELES — A Southern California pediatrician and outspoken critic of mandatory vaccinations has been placed on probation for 35 months. Dr. Bob Sears says in a Facebook post on Friday that he accepted a settlement with the state medical board. He had been accused of failing to obtain a detailed medical history before writing […]
  
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• Alaska ferry evacuated after smoke detected in thruster room

  29-06-2018 20:36
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska state ferry was evacuated after crew members saw black smoke in a room. State transportation officials say the crew of the Columbia spotted the smoke in the bow thruster room after the vessel docked Friday in Bellingham, Washington. Crew members did not see flames. The crew deployed a carbon […]
  
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• Washington’s Congress members, big businesses urge feds to help fund light rail to Lynnwood

  29-06-2018 20:25
  The Puget Sound region's entire congressional delegation wrote to the U.S. Transportation Secretary, urging her to "keep the federal government's promises" by providing $1.2 billion in funding to expand light rail to Lynnwood. Many of the region's biggest employers also threw their weight behind the cause.
  
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• Former Washington state Auditor Troy Kelley sentenced to year in prison

  29-06-2018 20:17
  Federal prosecutors had sought a prison sentence of more than seven years, while Troy Kelley's attorneys had asked the court to sentence him to five years of probation and six months under house arrest.
  
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• Former Washington state auditor sentenced to year in prison

  29-06-2018 20:17
  Federal prosecutors had sought a prison sentence of more than seven years, while Troy Kelley's attorneys had asked the court to sentence him to five years of probation and six months under house arrest.
  
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• Former state Auditor Troy Kelley sentenced to year in prison for theft, fraud

  29-06-2018 20:17
  Federal prosecutors had sought a prison sentence of more than seven years, while Troy Kelley's attorneys had asked the court to sentence him to five years of probation and six months under house arrest.
  
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• Idaho Republicans seek to oppose Medicaid expansion on statewide ballot

  29-06-2018 20:01
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — GOP delegates are asking the Idaho Republican Party to formally oppose a Medicaid expansion ballot initiative expected to be on the November ballot. Republicans adopted the resolution on Friday during the second day of the Idaho GOP convention in Pocatello. Just a handful of participants opposed the measure. Janice McGeachin, the […]
  
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• Idaho Republicans push opposition to Medicaid expansion

  29-06-2018 20:01
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — GOP delegates on Friday called on the Idaho Republican Party to formally oppose a Medicaid expansion initiative expected to be on the November ballot. A Republican delegate panel adopted a resolution outlining the opposition during the second day of the Idaho GOP convention in Pocatello. Just a handful of participants opposed […]
  
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• Idaho Republicans push Medicaid expansion opposition

  29-06-2018 20:01
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — GOP delegates on Friday called on the Idaho Republican Party to formally oppose a Medicaid expansion initiative expected to be on the November ballot. A Republican delegate panel adopted a resolution outlining the opposition during the second day of the Idaho GOP convention in Pocatello. Just a handful of participants opposed […]
  
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• Pixar's Bao Is More Than an Appetizer: It Is a Landmark in Asian Visibility

  29-06-2018 19:45 via thestranger.com
  
  From one culture to another: itadakimasu!by Sophia Stephens WALT DISNEY PICTURES / PIXAR
  With the push of a button, I was well on my way to enjoying my night out at the movies. The slightly awkward adjusting of my spacious seat-desk at Regal Cinemas last night didn’t deter me from getting comfortable, and I was soon ready for the traditional merry-go-round ride of previews before enjoying the main feature: The Incredibles 2. After seeing Bumblebee’s attempt to bring Transformers back
  
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• Polish stork vanishes from GPS but delivers huge phone bill

  29-06-2018 19:42
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish environmental group that was using a mobile-phone transmitter to track migratory movements of a stork has received a phone bill of 10,000 zlotys ($2,650) after the bird went missing in Sudan and someone started using the chip to make calls. Like many other storks who nest in Poland in […]
  
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• Sicario: Day of the Soldado Is a Gross Pastiche of Xenophobic Fox News Dad Paranoia Fantasies

  29-06-2018 19:32 via thestranger.com
  by Vince ManciniI had inklings that screenwriter Taylor Sheridan might have some Fox News Dad tendencies as far back as Sicario. Not enough to totally ruin his movies, but... reservations. So when Sicario announced a sequel and the poster for it came out looking like an Affliction shirt, I was already worried that everything that felt mildly xenophobic about the original might, in the sequel, become an orgy of Oakley guy flexing.Prepared as I thought I was, even I didn't fathom how closely Sicar
  
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• Savage Love: Both & Baggage

  29-06-2018 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage Joe NewtonWhen I started dating my husband, he told me he had a low libido. I said I could deal with that. We waited several months before having sex, and then after we started, it was infrequent and impersonal. There was some slow improvement over the three years we dated. Then we got married, and suddenly he had no libido at all. He blamed health problems and assured me he was trying to address them. Despite being diagnosed and successfully treated for multiple physical and menta
  
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• Group: Rare great white shark in Mediterranean near Spain

  29-06-2018 18:49
  MADRID (AP) — A Spanish marine conservation group says it seen a great white shark in Spanish waters in the Mediterranean Sea, a rare sighting. The Alnitak-Conservation in Action group posted a photo on its Facebook page of what it says is a 5-meter (16½-foot) great white shark that its researchers spotted Thursday near the […]
  
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• More on the Maryland newspaper shooting, and the Special Olympics USA Games come to town | Friday Morning Brief, June 29

  29-06-2018 17:57
  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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• Slog AM: SPD Officers Keep Leaving, Dyslexic Children Fall Behind in Washington Schools, A Word on the Annapolis Shooting

  29-06-2018 17:02 via thestranger.com
  
  Bye bye Sasquatch, Apple store galore, Mexico's elections are really cutthroatby Nathalie GrahamIt's the hard-knock life for them Nate Gowdy
  Is Seattle about to have a police officer shortage? The Seattle Police department is experiencing an exodus of officers. City politics are apparently a big factor in many young cops leaving SPD for other law enforcement agencies. Many are afraid to do their job, especially after the backlash received after officer-involved shootings. Which, uh, that seems k
  
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• Man rescued after spending night in wrecked car near Forks

  29-06-2018 15:10
  FORKS, Clallam County — An 85-year-old man who spent a night in his vehicle after crashing off a mountain road has been found and taken to a hospital. The Peninsula Daily News reports that Ezra Buckle’s son found him Wednesday morning inside his car near the city of Forks. Clallam County fire chief Bill Paul […]
  
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• Fueled by express tolls, state draws big plans for Lynnwood-to-Puyallup corridor

  29-06-2018 15:00
  Washington state proposes to combine I-405 and Highway 167 into a vast, 40-mile network of both free lanes and toll lanes, and use future toll income on projects up and down the suburban crescent.
  
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• Capital Gazette shooting suspect held without bond on five counts of murder

  29-06-2018 13:22
  The man accused of killing five Capital Gazette staff had threatened the newspaper in 2013 but then “went dark,” police said. Until Thursday. Shortly before Jarrod Ramos blasted out the glass doors of the newsroom near Annapolis, Maryland, at about 3 p.m., he sent another threat on social media, police said, and then unleashed his […]
  
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• Capital Gazette shooting suspect charged with 5 counts of murder

  29-06-2018 13:22
  A man with a vendetta against a newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, has been charged with five counts of murder after he fired a shotgun through the newsroom’s glass doors and at its employees, killing five and injuring two others Thursday afternoon in a targeted shooting. Officials said Jarrod Ramos, 38, of Laurel carried out the […]
  
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• SpaceX launches AI robot, strong coffee for station crew

  29-06-2018 11:43
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A SpaceX rocket that flew just two months ago with a NASA satellite roared back into action Friday, launching the first orbiting robot with artificial intelligence and other station supplies. The used Falcon rocket blasted off before dawn, hauling nearly 6,000 pounds (2,700 kilograms) of cargo, including the spherical AI […]
  
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• Bali airport reopens after ash threat stranded thousands

  29-06-2018 10:06
  DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — The international airport on the Indonesian resort island of Bali reopened Friday afternoon after a nearly 12-hour closure due to a volcanic ash threat that disrupted travel plans for thousands. Nearly 450 flights were canceled Friday, affecting some 75,000 people, as the Mount Agung volcano gushed a 2,500-meter (8,200-feet) column of […]
  
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• Portland moms outraged by family separations become protest leaders

  29-06-2018 08:32
  Hundreds of marches nationwide could draw hundreds of thousands to protest U.S. immigration policies. In Portland, Oregon, several stay-at-home moms are organizing their first rally while caring for young children.
  
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• Police: Newspaper gunman worked methodically, blocked exit

  29-06-2018 06:33
  ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The gunman accused of killing five people in a vendetta against a Maryland newspaper barricaded the rear exit to prevent anyone from escaping and methodically blasted his way through the newsroom with a pump-action shotgun, cutting down one victim trying to slip out the back, authorities said Friday. “The fellow was […]
  
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• Police: Newspaper gunman planned deadly attack carefully

  29-06-2018 06:33
  ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The gunman accused of killing five people in a vendetta against a Maryland newspaper barricaded the rear exit to prevent anyone from escaping and blasted his way through the newsroom with a pump-action shotgun, cutting down one victim trying to slip out the back, authorities said Friday. “The fellow was there […]
  
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• Police called suspect in newsroom rampage no threat in 2013

  29-06-2018 06:33
  ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The man accused of killing five people at a Maryland newspaper was investigated five years ago for a barrage of menacing tweets against the daily, but a detective concluded he was no threat, and the paper didn’t want to press charges for fear of inflaming the situation, according to a police […]
  
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• Defendant in newsroom rampage was investigated 5 years ago

  29-06-2018 06:33
  ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The man accused of killing five people at a Maryland newspaper was investigated five years ago for a barrage of menacing tweets against the daily, but a detective concluded he was no threat, and the paper didn’t want to press charges for fear of inflaming the situation, according to a police […]
  
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• As shot-up Maryland newsroom grieves, others cast blame

  29-06-2018 05:16
  On Twitter and other social media outlets, shreds of good news were quickly overtaken by accusations and assumptions about who was responsible and how the shootings fit into the story of a divided and angry nation.
  
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• Amid horror in its newsroom, newspaper’s voice rang out

  29-06-2018 04:56
  When a gunman burst through the door of the Capital Gazette newspaper just outside Annapolis, Maryland, on Thursday, employees who could do so fled for their lives. Five didn’t make it, and more than 20 were wounded by gunfire. Yet almost immediately, the survivors did what journalists do: They spread the news. More on Capital […]
  
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• Suspect in Capital Gazette shooting had sued paper for defamation

  29-06-2018 04:50
  ANNAPOLIS, Md. – The man suspected of killing five people in or near the offices of the Capital Gazette newspaper had sued the paper for defamation and lost, and an Anne Arundel County police official said, “It was quite obvious this individual had a vendetta against the Capital newspaper.” More on Capital Gazette shooting 'Today, […]
  
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• Father of three takes sanctuary at Seattle church to avoid deportation

  29-06-2018 04:35
  Jose Robles was supposed to be on a plane back to Michoacan, Mexico, at 6 a.m. Thursday, but he packed his bags and went to Gethsemane Lutheran Church in downtown Seattle instead. He said he felt fear and anxiety driving to the church for sanctuary to avoid deportation. Churches are considered “sensitive locations” by Immigration […]
  
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• Apple’s expansive new Seattle store seeks to keep brick-and-mortar relevant

  29-06-2018 03:16
  Apple’s new University Village store emphasizes experiences and education as retailers try to give people new reasons to go into physical stores.
  
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• Seattle offers to settle lawsuit claiming head-tax vote broke open-meetings law

  29-06-2018 03:13
  The offer by City Attorney Pete Holmes would cover any civil fines for breaking the law, but the city wouldn’t admit that it actually did so before the June 12 council vote to repeal the head tax.
  
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• Sasquatch! Music Festival Is Not Happening Next Year

  29-06-2018 02:22 via thestranger.com
  
  Sasquatch! Music Festival founder Adam Zacks announced that the huge Memorial Day weekend event at the Gorge will not happen next year.by Dave SegalSasquatch! 2016. Timothy Rysdyke
  Sasquatch! Music Festival founder/producer Adam Zacks announced today that he is ceasing to operate the event he has run since 2002 and that it will not return next year. In a press release, Zacks said:
  The Festival began 17 years ago on a hunch, greenlit on nothing more than a name and instinct there was space for so
  
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• Lisa Prank Fights With Elon Musk About Her Dad's Unicorn Fart

  29-06-2018 02:12 via thestranger.com
  
  by Leilani PolkElon Musk and current gf Grimes. THEO WARGO/GETTY
  Up until yesterday, if you typed "unicorn farts" into a Google search, you found more than 600,000 entries featuring a variety of results. That all changed when The Guardian posted a new piece, "Elon Musk drawn into farting unicorn dispute with potter."
  It's a story we see played out a lot—an artist discovers that his or her work has been lifted or copied in some way (or all the way) by a big corporation or a rich fuck, tries
  
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• Jimmy Webb Is Still Pissed at Kanye West About "Famous"

  29-06-2018 01:39 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean NelsonThe composer of "Do What You Gotta Do" has Kanye on the brain. Mike Coppola/Getty Images
  The celebrated songwriter Jimmy Webb played the second of two concerts at Dimitriou's Jazz Alley last night, and went over very well to a good size crowd. The setlist consisted almost entirely of massive hit songs that have been beloved for decades, played with virtuosic invention on a nine-foot Steinway grand piano and, well... sung, for the most part.
  I've always been a strong partisan of the
  
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