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• A New Place for Cask Ale and More Seattle Food News You Can Use: July 6, 2018 Edition

  06-07-2018 23:57 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffThe Stranger's Lester Black once wrote that the English-style Machine House Brewery "pumps out some of the world’s finest cask ales." As of Friday, their second location in the Central District is open, complete with two TVs for watching the World Cup. Lester Black
  This week, like every week, we've rounded up all of the city's latest food happenings you need to know about. Thai-style rolled ice cream appears to be all the rage right now, as two new locations s
  
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• Seattle Trio Tres Leches Prove That Rock Still Has Some Vitality Left

  06-07-2018 23:31 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave SegalTres Leches play with Guayaba and Terror/Cactus at Timbre Room this Sunday Jack Hanson
  During this year's Upstream Music Fest, I made a good decision (for a change). I'd been hearing and reading positive things about Tres Leches from trustworthy sources, but I'd never seen them perform. As I entered Central Saloon, the Seattle trio was in full-on infectious spasm mode, making ye olde rock and roll sound like it had been guzzling from the fountain of youth. Former Stranger music edit
  
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• Potentially Bad Ideas, Vol. 1: Ordering Cannabis Online

  06-07-2018 23:00 via thestranger.com
  It sounds like a cough syrup fever dream that was run through a Russian to English translator app.by Josh JardineThe front page of Legal Marijuana Real Store.
  Every day, we are afforded the opportunity to make choices, both good and bad. When riding crowded public transit, do we remain in our seat, or offer it to someone who looks like they could use it more? (Offer the seat.)When given too much change by a cashier, do we pocket the favored difference, or point out the discrepency to the cashier
  
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• Gabriel and the Mountain Is the True Life Tale of Travels Gone Right—and Wrong

  06-07-2018 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie Herzog
  It won’t spoil the film to tell you Gabriel dies in the end. Actually, he dies (or is found dead) in the beginning, his lifeless body nestled in a cave on a steep Malawian hill. Over the next two hours, the story of how Gabriel ended up on that hill slowly unspools before you.Created by Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa, Gabriel on the Mountain tells the true story of Gabriel Buchmann, a young Brazilian who spent a year traveling around the globe, disappearing before his body was fo
  
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• We Need to Clear Up Some Misconceptions About Big Hole Energy

  06-07-2018 21:51 via thestranger.com
  
  Who has Big Hole Energy? Kim Kardashian, Hillary Clinton, Sean Spicer, and Big Bird. How do you define Big Hole Energy? That's easy.by Christopher FrizzelleThese four all have Big Hole Energy. Allow me to explain. Presley Ann/Getty Images; Robert Cianflone/Getty Images; Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images; Matthew Peyton/Getty Images
  Yesterday on this blog, a writer for The Stranger defined the phrase Big Hole Energy and gave a few examples. Not to be a big dick or anything, but that post was filled wi
  
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• Dean Ween Group Is Going to Rock Your Fucking Face Off at Neumos Tonight

  06-07-2018 21:36 via thestranger.com
  
  by Leilani PolkDeaner aka Mickey Melchiondo lands at Neumos tonightHigh Road Touring
  Breakups can be good for a band, as it forces the musicians within it who may have become complacent in their regularly scheduled roles to grow creatively as individuals—and potentially return to their old bandmates to reunite with a fresh head and new ideas.In the case of Ween—purveyors of ironic and absurd rock music—coleaders Dean and Gene Ween both took the opportunity to focus on their res
  
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• Murder suspect shot by jail guard slipped out of restraints, ran from Seattle hospital

  06-07-2018 21:31
  One jail guard left the room at Harborview and a second guard was briefly distracted, providing a window of opportunity for Giovanni Herrin to slip out, according to Seattle police. After a foot pursuit, Herrin was shot by one of the guards after he allegedly tried to coerce a Lyft driver into driving him out of the area.
  
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• 1 jail guard leaves the room, another gets distracted – and a murder suspect gets loose at Harborview

  06-07-2018 21:31
  Prisoner Giovanni Herrin slipped out of restraints on his wrists and ankles, according to Seattle police. As he fled in the streets outside the hospital, one jail guard shot him after he allegedly tried to coerce a Lyft driver into driving him away.
  
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• Elvis Costello Cancels Tour Dates to Undergo Cancer Surgery

  06-07-2018 21:07 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean Nelson"I Want You"... to recover from the surgical removal of "a small but very aggressive cancerous malignancy."Emily Nokes/Stranger Archives
  You know the feeling of waking up and looking at your phone before your rheumy eyes are even fully capable of focusing and the half-sight of a blurry headline turbo jolts you into full, panicky consciousness? Well, I had that this morning when, among the never-ending syllabus of the current president's crimes against humanity that constitutes my e
  
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• Washington’s gas-price surge not enough to deter summer travelers

  06-07-2018 21:00
  Over the past year, a gallon of regular unleaded has increased by 63 cents, a bigger jump than in 45 states and the District of Columbia.
  
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• Abolish ICE? Democrats running for Rep. Dave Reichert’s seat are cautious

  06-07-2018 20:09
  Democratic congressional candidates Kim Schrier, Jason Rittereiser and Shannon Hader have not embraced calls by some in their party to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement, better known as ICE.
  
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• Larger Than Life: The Kevyn Aucoin Story Is a Doc About a Makeup Designer Who Rose From Porn Shots to Top Models

  06-07-2018 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  If Unzipped became a hit by appealing to filmgoers who don't normally embrace fashion films, Tiffany Bartok's directorial debut aims for dedicated fashion followers.by Kathy FennessyThe art of beauty... Larger Than Life: The Kevyn Aucoin Story
  Fashion documentaries existed before 1995's Unzipped, Douglas Keeve's fizzy profile of fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi, but that's the point at which they exploded in popularity. At this year’s SIFF, there were documentaries about Alexander McQueen, Z
  
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• Bring Earplugs and a Change of Underwear to My Bloody Valentine

  06-07-2018 19:36 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave SegalThe wilting introverts who blossomed into brazen power rockers could very well make you shit yourself on Tuesday.COURTESY OF HIGH ROAD TOURING
  Very few rock bands in 2018 can take a five-year hiatus from releasing music and touring and then fill all 2,800 seats in the Paramount Theatre. But the English-Irish quartet My Bloody Valentine pulled off that feat, proving against the odds that an innovative group with no stage presence, no label, and no hits since 1992 can still draw large
  
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• California fire kills 1 as heat stokes blazes in Western US

  06-07-2018 19:23
  HORNBROOK, Calif. (AP) — A wildfire raging through drought-stricken timber and brush near California’s border with Oregon killed one person and destroyed multiple structures as it burns largely out of control, authorities said Friday. No other details were released about the death blamed on the fire that threatened 300 homes near Hornbook, a town of […]
  
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• 1 person dies in wildfire near California-Oregon border

  06-07-2018 19:23
  HORNBROOK, Calif. (AP) — A wildfire burning through drought-stricken timber and brush near California’s border with Oregon has killed one person and destroyed multiple structures as it grows largely out of control, authorities said Friday. The person died in the blaze that started Thursday in Siskiyou County. But no other details were released because next […]
  
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• Official: Girl with fireworks started wildfire in Southern Oregon

  06-07-2018 19:12
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A 14-year-old girl playing with fireworks started a small wildfire that burned a vacant house, other structures and vehicles in southern Oregon, officials said Friday. No injuries were reported in Thursday’s blaze in the community of White City, state Department of Forestry spokeswoman Melissa Rae Cano said. In addition to the […]
  
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• Washington man dies after diving into Idaho lake

  06-07-2018 19:02
  RATHDRUM, Idaho (AP) — Authorities say a Washington man died after diving into a lake in northern Idaho. The Kootenai County Sheriff’s says 23-year-old Brady M. Spillane of Greenacres, Washington, was cliff diving with friends at Twin Lakes on Thursday evening and failed to surface. Divers located Spillane in 26 feet of water, brought him […]
  
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• Mother of girl declared dead twice slams doctors at funeral

  06-07-2018 18:37
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — After battling for more than four years to keep a comatose daughter declared brain dead from being issued a California death certificate, Nailah Winkfield forcefully told mourners at her daughter’s funeral service Friday to stop letting doctors “pull the plug on your people.” The San Francisco Bay Area congregation gave Winkfield […]
  
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• Funeral to be held for girl at center of brain-death debate

  06-07-2018 18:37
  HAYWARD, Calif. (AP) — Family members are holding a funeral in Northern California for a girl at the center of a medical and religious debate over brain death. San Francisco Bay Area news station KTVU-TV reports that the service for 17-year-old Jahi McMath will be held Friday at an Oakland church. She will be buried […]
  
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• Funeral honors California girl who was declared dead twice

  06-07-2018 18:37
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Dozens of family members, friends and other mourners filed into a Northern California church Tuesday for the funeral of a teenage girl at the center of a medical and religious debate over brain death. The congregation gave Jahi McMath’s mother a standing ovation at the start of the service for fighting […]
  
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• He Could Be Killed If He Is Sent Back to Russia. So Why Won't the Judge Let Him Stay?

  06-07-2018 17:51 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogA protest over LGBT rights in Chechnya, outside the Russian Embassy on June 2, 2017 in London, England. Dan Kitwood / Getty
  Dmitri had a secret.
  He is 27 years old and from a republic in the Russian North Caucasus, not far from Chechnya. His secret was so big and so overwhelming that only a few people knew. It was the kind of secret that, if it were revealed, could get him arrested, tortured, or even killed.
  Dmitri is bisexual.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments o
  
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• Woman stabbed multiple times in Portland; suspect also hurt

  06-07-2018 17:39
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Police say a woman has been seriously injured in a stabbing in outer southeast Portland, and the suspect was also hurt. Portland police Sgt. Chris Burley says the woman was stabbed multiple times Friday morning. She was taken to a hospital by ambulance. Officers searching the area found a knife, and […]
  
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• Southern California starts to sizzle in intense heat wave

  06-07-2018 17:19
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Forecasters say a Southern California heat wave will be one for the record books. Most of the normally temperate region is expected to broil in triple digits Friday and Saturday before getting some relief. The heat is caused by a massive dome of high pressure, which also is expected to spread […]
  
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• Southern California hit by record-breaking heat wave

  06-07-2018 17:19
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Southern California baked Friday under a heat wave that forecasters correctly predicted would be one for the record books, with widespread triple-digit highs and increased fire danger. Officials urged residents to take advantage of cooling centers in libraries and other facilities and to watch out for those with vulnerabilities, warning that […]
  
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• Southern California hit by heat wave expected to set records

  06-07-2018 17:19
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Southern California baked Friday under a heat wave that forecasters said would be one for the record books, with widespread triple-digit highs and increased fire danger. Officials urged residents to take advantage of cooling centers in libraries and other facilities and to watch out for those with vulnerabilities, warning that minor […]
  
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• A look at Seattle neighborhoods where crime is (and isn’t) up and finally some good news for homebuyers | Friday Morning Brief, July 6

  06-07-2018 17:03
  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: Deadly Crash Near South Park, Violent Crime Spiking in Northgate, and a Woman Saved from Suicide

  06-07-2018 16:49 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher FrizzelleA deadly car crash near South Park knocked down this overhead highway sign last night. State Trooper Rick Johnson
  Fatal Crash on State Route 99 Near South Park: Traffic was shut down in both directions last night after a vehicle driven by a 17-year-old male "hit a sign and exploded."The Photo Below Is the Other Side of the Sign: Speed was a factor in the accident, believe investigators, who cite the damage that was done and the "very long" debris field. Southbound traffic
  
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• Teen killed in Highway 99 crash near South Park; northbound lanes reopened

  06-07-2018 15:51
  Crews have been working to remove the sign since around 11 p.m. Thursday, when a car left the roadway and struck the exit sign post, according to the Washington State Patrol. The 17-year-old driver was killed.
  
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• Teen killed in Highway 99 crash near South Park; northbound lanes closed

  06-07-2018 15:51
  Crews have been working to remove the sign since around 11 p.m. Thursday, when a car left the roadway and struck the exit sign post, according to the Washington State Patrol. The 17-year-old driver was killed.
  
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• Washington’s main psychiatric hospital is ‘like going into hell’

  06-07-2018 15:15
  U.S. and state regulators for years have found health and safety violations at the 800-bed Western State Hospital, ranging from assaults on staff to escapes of dangerous patients, including a man accused of torturing a woman to death.
  
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• Three ways you can advocate for students with disabilities and special education in Washington state

  06-07-2018 15:00
  You don't have to make regular trips to Olympia or Seattle to advocate for students with disabilities. If you're strapped for time or childcare, here are some simple ways to stay engaged and share your story.
  
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• Crime rates down in most Seattle neighborhoods — but there’s a big divide between north and south

  06-07-2018 15:00
  Comparing the average annual rates between 2008-2010 and 2015-2017, overall crime has dipped citywide. But there are differences from neighborhood to neighborhood.
  
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• Audit finds 70 percent of B.C. fish-processing plants do not comply with environmental regulations

  06-07-2018 15:00
  Stronger measures are needed for the fish-processing industry to ensure protection of the marine environment, including wild salmon, according to the audit of 30 fish-processing plants released Wednesday by the B.C. Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy.
  
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• Pope warns climate change turning Earth into desert, garbage

  06-07-2018 11:10
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis urged governments on Friday to make good on their commitments to curb global warming, warning that climate change, continued unsustainable development and rampant consumption threatens to turn the Earth into a vast pile of “rubble, deserts and refuse.” Francis made the appeal at a Vatican conference marking the third […]
  
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• New EPA chief Andrew Wheeler is former coal lobbyist, Senate staffer

  06-07-2018 07:55
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The new leader of the Environmental Protection Agency is a former coal industry lobbyist who helped lead an industry fight against regulations that protect Americans’ health and address climate change. Andrew Wheeler, the No. 2 official at EPA, will take over the agency Monday now that President Donald Trump has accepted the […]
  
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• EPA’s new chief is former coal lobbyist, Senate staffer

  06-07-2018 07:55
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The new leader of the Environmental Protection Agency is a former coal industry lobbyist who helped lead an industry fight against regulations that protect Americans’ health and address climate change. Andrew Wheeler, the No. 2 official at EPA, will take over the agency Monday now that President Donald Trump has accepted the […]
  
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• Spokane County’s population passes 500,000 mark after strong job growth

  06-07-2018 04:58
  Over the past 12 months, the county’s population grew by 8,150 people. Hiring in the region and affordable housing costs were likely drivers, local economists say.
  
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• 2 men killed in high-speed crash in Federal Way identified

  06-07-2018 03:42
  Phillip Mota, 28, and Antonio Lopez, 27, were thrown from their vehicle early Wednesday after crashing into several trees at high speed. Both died from multiple blunt force injuries.
  
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• Murder suspect shot by jail guard released from hospital, faces escape and robbery charges

  06-07-2018 03:37
  Seattle police didn't release an update on the ongoing investigation into the non-fatal shooting of Giovanni Herrin Wednesday by a King County jail guard. Herrin is accused of fleeing from Harborview Medical Center, where he had been taken after complaining that he wasn't feeling well.
  
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• Campaign delivers signature petitions to bar new soft-drink and food taxes in Washington

  06-07-2018 03:29
  The Initiative 1634 campaign would keep in place the city of Seattle’s recently enacted soda tax but bar other local governments from taking up such measures.
  
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• Injured hiker in San Juans hoisted after cliff fall

  06-07-2018 03:25
  Helicopter pilot Lt. Jacob Marks says paramedics administered CPR for about 20 minutes before finding the woman's pulse.
  
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• Man found dead in Mukilteo was victim of a homicide

  06-07-2018 02:42
  The victim's identity has yet to be released by the Snohomish County Medical Examiner's Office, pending the investigation and notification of his family members.
  
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• Diving Deeper Into the Data About Monogamy

  06-07-2018 02:29 via thestranger.com
  
  Who wants monogamy? We dig through your data to find out.by Christopher FrizzelleA reader asked us to reveal "the gender breakdown" for these results.The Stranger's 2018 Sex Survey included the question: "When I am in a relationship, I want ____________." There were only three possible answers: "to be monogamous," "to be monogamish," and "non-monogamy."The overall total results are shown in the chart above. Surprisingly, more than half of respondents chose something other than "monogamy," even t
  
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• Fireworks suspected in blaze that damaged five homes in Lake Stevens

  06-07-2018 02:13
  No injuries resulted from the fire in Lake Stevens Wednesday night that damaged five houses, with an estimated $1 million in damages.
  
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• Police called on black Oregon lawmaker as she knocked on doors

  06-07-2018 02:04
  Rep. Janelle Bynum, the only African-American member of the Oregon House of Representatives, said that after canvassing more than two dozen homes in the Clackamas neighborhood Tuesday, she was taking notes near a driveway around 5 p.m. when a sheriff’s deputy arrived.
  
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