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• Jay Inslee to Give Meinert Donations to Planned Parenthood

  23-07-2018 23:42 via thestranger.com
  
  Gov. Jay Inslee says he will give the cash he received from David Meinert to Planned Parenthood.by Lester BlackGov. Jay Inslee Getty
  The fallout continues for David Meinert four days after KUOW published allegations of sexual misconduct including rape against the Seattle businessman.
  Gov. Jay Inslee's campaign spokesman, Jamal Raad, told me today that the governor plans on donating the $1,500 that he received from Meinert to Planned Parenthood."We will be giving the donations to Planned Parentho
  
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• Dressed Like a Gay Joe Dirt, TR/ST's Robert Alfons Woos Capitol Hill Block Party with His Vampire Voice

  23-07-2018 23:21 via thestranger.com
  
  The dark force of underground clubbing is strong with this Alfons.by Chase BurnsTR/ST's Robert Alfons transformed the Vera Stage on 11th and Pike into the sort of spooky gay club you'd find in Florida. Lester Black
  After a three-day bro sausagefest, I needed some of that gay shit to balance out my nerves. Thankfully, TR/ST was scheduled to perform one of the last sets at Capitol Hill Block Party's Vera Stage.TR/ST, pronounced Trust, is the dark synthpop project of Robert Alfons, a man gifted wit
  
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• Dressed Like a Gay Joe Dirt, Robert Alfons Woos with His Vampire Voice

  23-07-2018 23:21 via thestranger.com
  
  The dark force of underground clubbing is strong with this Alfons.by Chase BurnsTR/ST's Robert Alfons transformed the Vera Stage on 11th and Pike into the sort of spooky gay club you'd find in Florida. Lester Black
  After a three-day bro sausagefest, I needed some of that gay shit to balance out my nerves. Thankfully, TR/ST was scheduled to perform one of the last sets at Capitol Hill Block Party's Vera Stage.TR/ST, pronounced Trust, is the dark synthpop project of Robert Alfons, a man gifted wit
  
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• The 48 Best Things To Do in Seattle This Week: July 23-29, 2018

  23-07-2018 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffDon't miss the ambitious, immersive, blow-out What is Home an Obscure Kingdom an Opera Buffa It's Always You this weekend. Coriolis Dance in What is Home, Photo by Bret Doss, Design by Christin Call
  Our music critics have already chosen the 32 best music shows this week, but now it's our arts critics' turn to pick the best events in their areas of expertise. Here are their picks in every genre—from Christin Call's dance performance What is Home an Obscure King
  
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• My Stepfather Asked Me to Spank Him—Right After My Mom and Brother Died

  23-07-2018 22:58 via thestranger.com
  
  Savage Love Letter of the Dayby Dan Savage
  I don't know who else to turn to right now. A little backstory before my "problem."
  In April, we lost my younger brother and my parents' house in a fire. In June, my mom died from a massive heart attack. I've been trying to help my stepdad get everything put back together since then. My step-dad helped raise me since I was eight; of all the kids in the family, everyone says I'm the most responsible and level-headed. (Yay me!) It's not unusual for my ste
  
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• Teen Walks Down Seattle's Pike Street Wearing a MAGA Hat, and Guess What Happened?

  23-07-2018 22:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeNot exactly MAGA, but still.... Charles Mudede
  On Friday, July 21, KIRO reported that a teenager, Ashton Hess from Illinois, pulled a dumb stunt: He wore a MAGA hat not just in Seattle, but on Capitol Hill. He walked out of the Starbucks Reserve Roastery and, as expected, was soon cursed at and his hat spat on and so forth. The teen filmed the incident and posted it to YouTube. He was a victim. He has a right to wear the cap. This is America. He is a boy who is just "avid in con
  
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• President Trump vs. Amazon, Round XVII

  23-07-2018 22:14 via thestranger.com
  
  by Eli SandersAnother day, another Twitter tantrum. Mark Wilson / Getty Images
  There's a lot of bad news out there for President Trump, including a report in the Washington Post on how Trump knows his big North Korea summit hasn't led to the amazing results he promised. So of course it's time for a distracting revenge-tweet!
  The Amazon Washington Post has gone crazy against me ever since they lost the Internet Tax Case in the U.S. Supreme Court two months ago. Next up is the U.S. Post Office whi
  
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• Today in Bad Ideas: Replace Libraries With Amazon

  23-07-2018 21:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogAll this could be an Amazon Bookstore one day.Kelly O
  This month's Bad Take Award goes to Panos Mourdoukoutas, a contributor to Forbes, who published an op-ed entitled, "Amazon Should Replace Local Libraries to Save Taxpayers Money" over the weekend.The headline says it all. Mourdoukoutas, an economist at Long Island University, argues that libraries are a waste of money and that the best way to save a few bucks for the bedraggled taxpayer is to close down all our local libraries
  
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• The 48 Best Things To Do This Week: July 23-29, 2018

  23-07-2018 21:42 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's arts critics recommend the best local events.by Stranger Things To Do StaffOur music critics have already chosen the 32 best music shows this week, but now it's our arts critics' turn to pick the best events in their areas of expertise. Here are their picks in every genre—from Christin Call's dance performance What is Home an Obscure Kingdom an Opera Buffa It's Always You to the Seattle Emerging Arts Pop Up Fair, and from CoffeeCon to The Mads Are Back: Live Movie Riffing wi
  
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• Attack on Burien mayor over city’s sanctuary-city policy investigated as hate crime

  23-07-2018 21:33
  Detectives are still trying to identify the suspect, though at least one witness has provided a possible first name for the man, the King County Sheriff’s Office said.
  
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• Inbox Jukebox Track of the Day: The Beautiful, Telekinesis-Produced Power-Pop of "Alright Already" by La Fille

  23-07-2018 21:31 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle band La Fille's instantly catchy new single is power-pop gold.by Dave SegalAgainst the odds, power-pop thrives in La Fille's capable hands.
  Power-pop seems easy to get right, but it's actually difficult to achieve greatness within this musical sub-species at this late date. After you've heard the style's pinnacles—Big Star, the Shoes, Badfinger, Todd Rundgren, Nick Lowe, the Beat, Split Enz, etc. etc.—it's hard to be impressed by its epigones. Yet sterling new examples of pow
  
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• State Considers Amnesty Program for Pot Business Owners That Hide Ownership

  23-07-2018 20:58 via thestranger.com
  
  The state is considering giving amnesty to legal pot farms and retailers that concealed who owns their businesses.by Lester BlackWho really owns all this weed? Getty Images
  If you want to own a legal pot farm or retail store in Washington you must tell the state every person that has invested money or shares revenue in your business. If you hide an investor, even accidentally, the state’s rules punish you by canceling your license.
  In theory, the strict disclosure requirements and harsh pe
  
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• Seattle-area temps to hit 90s this week — with no end in sight

  23-07-2018 20:50
  The National Weather Service warned people throughout the Puget Sound region to keep cool and drink lots of water.
  
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• Ask Your Next Door Neighbor, Hank Henderson

  23-07-2018 20:32 via thestranger.com
  
  by Hank Henderson KOLDUNOV / GETTY IMAGES
  Dear Next-Door Neighbor Hank Henderson: I noticed you glaring at me on several occasions as I passed your house. Care to explain?—Your next-door neighbor, Donna Tate
  You’re goddamn right I was glaring, “Donna”—if that’s even your real name! Every day at exactly 8:27 am and 6:42 pm, your precious Pomeranian pisses and/or shits all over my blue elderberry bush... which is reducing my property values! Even an idiot like y
  
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• Call-Out Blotter: Debbie Ryan, Mark Duplass, James Gunn, and More

  23-07-2018 19:17 via thestranger.com
  
  by Hari Hall, InternActor Debby Ryan was convicted of body-shaming, fat-phobia, and performing in fat-face. Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty ImagesDebby Ryan (25, she/her) was convicted of body-shaming, fat-phobia, and performative fat-face for appearing in a fat suit in the problematic new Neflix series Insatiable, a so-called "comedy" about a woman who loses weight after her jaw is wired shut. Ryan has been sentenced to wire her jaw shut.Lawrence Cole (57, he/him) was convicted after posting photos of h
  
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• This tiny Washington town has little hope of escaping a tsunami, so one tribe is building them all a tower

  23-07-2018 18:54
  The structure will be a tower, at least 50 feet high, engineered to withstand the surging force of multiple tsunamis, like those that swept away homes, schools and warehouses in Japan’s Tohoku region in 2011.
  
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• Shoalwater Bay Tribe will build Washington state’s second tsunami refuge, a tower at Willapa Bay

  23-07-2018 18:54
  The structure will be a tower, at least 50 feet high, engineered to withstand the surging force of multiple tsunamis, like those that swept away homes, schools and warehouses in Japan’s Tohoku region in 2011.
  
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• Slog AM: Seattle Not Hip with New Technology Called 'Air-Conditioning,' Republicans Keep Trying to Gut Endangered Species Act

  23-07-2018 16:59 via thestranger.com
  
  Legalizing weed is good for crime, Fox News is a sick joke, register your out-of-state carby Nathalie Graham"Is — isthisa blow job??"DmitriMaruta / Getty Images
  We have a right to complain about the heat: Don’t give me that flak about how “it’s summer and it’s supposed to be hot.” I get that. That’s why I’m complaining. I—and everyone else here—choose not to suffer in silence. That’s because Seattle is the least air-conditioned me
  
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• The 32 Best Music Shows in Seattle This Week: July 23-29, 2018

  23-07-2018 16:35 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's music critics picks for the best shows this week.by Stranger Things To Do StaffThis week, our music critics have picked everything from a free DIY showcase with Naomi Punk, Dreamdecay, Casual Hex, and So Pitted to a ZooTunes concert with the Psychedelic Furs and X to Calpurnia, a Canadian teenage indie band fronted by Stranger Things' actor Finn Wolfhard. Follow the links below for ticket links and music clips for all of their picks, and find even more shows on our complete music
  
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• Paraglider lands on highway, dies in eastern Washington

  23-07-2018 16:15
  The Idaho man died Sunday after taking a paragliding jump off Deer Mountain near Chelan.
  
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• Paraglider lands on highway, dies in Chelan

  23-07-2018 16:15
  The Idaho man died Sunday after taking a paragliding jump off Deer Mountain near Chelan.
  
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• What does Washington state do about newcomers who keep out-of-state license plates?

  23-07-2018 15:00
  New Washington residents have 30 days to register their vehicles with the state Department of Licensing and pay the required taxes and fees.
  
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• Seattle is least air-conditioned metro area in the U.S. So how do locals keep cool?

  23-07-2018 15:00
  Just 33.7 percent of Seattle-area households are air-conditioned. Here's who has A/C, who doesn't, and how readers say they cope when it sizzles.
  
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• Seattle is least air-conditioned metro area in the U.S., census data show. So how do locals keep cool?

  23-07-2018 15:00
  Just 33.7 percent of Seattle-area households are air-conditioned. Westerly wind over the Puget Sound acts as a sort of natural air conditioner — except when it doesn't.
  
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• ‘Parallel universe’: Residents and artists imagine Africatown in Seattle’s Central District

  23-07-2018 15:00
  Eight large, colorful signs placed around the Central District this summer are part of an art installation that projects a vision of Seattle’s Africatown.
  
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• In Seattle’s Central District, residents, artists imagine a ‘parallel universe’

  23-07-2018 15:00
  Eight large, colorful signs placed around the Central District this summer are part of an art installation that projects a vision of Seattle’s Africatown.
  
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• Frozen clothes, damp swimsuits — and a house hoser: How Seattle’s un-air-conditioned stay cool

  23-07-2018 15:00
  We asked Seattle Times readers to share their unusual and creative ways to try to beat the heat without A/C.
  
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• Does legal weed make police more effective?

  23-07-2018 15:00
  Marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington state has “produced some demonstrable and persistent benefit” to police departments’ ability to solve other types of crime, according to researchers at Washington State University. “Our models show no negative effects of legalization and, instead, indicate that crime clearance rates for at least some types of crime are increasing […]
  
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• Seattle archbishop emeritus Raymond Hunthausen dies at 96

  23-07-2018 07:14
  Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen was beloved by some and castigated by others for his support of nuclear disarmament, gay rights and broader roles for women within the church.
  
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• Drought spurs extreme measures to protect West’s wild horses

  23-07-2018 07:12
  "We've never seen it like this": Volunteers are hauling water and food to remote grazing grounds where springs and vegetation are gone. Federal land managers have begun emergency roundups.
  
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• Drought forces emergency measures for US West’s wild horses

  23-07-2018 07:12
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Harsh drought conditions in parts of the American West are pushing wild horses to the brink and spurring extreme measures to protect them. For what they say is the first time, volunteer groups in Arizona and Colorado are hauling thousands of gallons of water and truckloads of food to remote […]
  
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• Record high in Japan as heat wave grips the region

  23-07-2018 06:37
  TOKYO (AP) — Japan recorded its highest temperature ever Monday as a deadly heat wave continued to grip a wide swath of the country and nearby South and North Korea. The mercury hit 41.1 degrees Celsius (106 degrees Fahrenheit) in Kumagaya, a city in Saitama prefecture about 65 kilometers (40 miles) northwest of Tokyo, the […]
  
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• Faulty vaccines, faked records: China scrambles as scandals erupt

  23-07-2018 05:18
  A top rabies vaccine manufacturer in China was ordered to stop production and recall its vaccine. Days later, it was announced that more than 250,000 doses of defective DPT vaccine had been sold in the country.
  
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• Chong the Nomad Is Seattle's Best Harmonica-Blowing, Ukulele-Strumming DJ

  23-07-2018 03:48 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle artist Chong the Nomad's hybrid live/DJ set at Capitol Hill Block Party was full of awesome surprises.by Dave SegalChong the Nomad, elevating and elating. Lester Black
  Chong the Nomad (aka Alda Andara Agustiano) gave the Vera Stage crowd a DJ set with a lot of extras Sunday afternoon. From what I could tell, hers was a hybrid DJ/live performance, augmented by Agustiano’s formidable harmonica and ukulele-playing skills, plus her irrepressible dance moves and impressive jumping abili
  
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• Sniffles? Cancer? Under Medicare plan, payments for office visits would be same for both

  23-07-2018 02:21
  Administration officials said the proposal would radically reduce paperwork burdens, freeing doctors to spend more time with patients. The government would pay one rate for new patients and another, lower rate for visits with established patients.
  
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• They worked at Amazon, Apple and Microsoft, and now they’re working to get you stoned

  23-07-2018 02:00
  Cannabis startups are seeing an influx of tech talent drawn by the money, the opportunity to leave a mark on a burgeoning industry where there aren’t yet any clear winners, and the compelling story of cannabis.
  
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• Saturday Night at Capitol Hill Block Party: Bad Men, Mediocre Tacos, and Brockhampton

  23-07-2018 01:33 via thestranger.com
  
  Plus: How the youth are voting!by Rich SmithMoon's out, mom's up! RS
  Oh my god I'm so tired. The third and final day of Capitol Hill Block Party is already well underway, but I cannot imagine enduring another day of pounding $12 Red Bull and Vodkas while uploading blurry videos of bands to Instagram. However! Chase, Lester, and Dave are much stronger than me, and they will fill you in on all the musical and gustatory and anthropological goings-on at CHBP today.But before my colleagues hurtle you
  
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• It’s not just about a tax: Why menstrual periods are also political

  23-07-2018 01:12
  “Menstrual equity” refers to equal access to hygiene products. And it’s the focus of a variety of new laws and policies.
  
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• northwest-summit

  23-07-2018 00:53
  Trade and trade wars will almost certainly be among the issues discussed at a regional economic summit in Spokane this week.
  
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• Lawmakers, policymakers and business people from NW, Canada to talk economics in Spokane

  23-07-2018 00:53
  Trade and trade wars will almost certainly be among the issues discussed at a regional economic summit in Spokane this week.
  
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• Vacation rental owner sues after being slapped with $1.8M fine

  23-07-2018 00:08
  Oregon property owner sues after she’s fined for allegedly operating a vacation property without a license and not paying taxes.
  
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