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• How to Get High and Have Fun at Hempfest

  16-08-2018 23:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Hempfest is this weekend, here's how to find the good stuff at Myrtle Edwards Park.by Lester BlackSeattle's biggest collection of stoners, all in one place. Hempfest
  Seattle Hempfest is this weekend so that means the wildfire smoke that has permeated Seattle all week will be replaced by clouds of smoke from thousands of people taking bong rips at the same time. Downtown Seattle’s Myrtle Edwards Park is going to be ground zero for getting so fucking high you can’t tell the difference
  
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• Is That Cloud Cover or Wildfire Smoke Blocking the Sun Right Now?

  16-08-2018 23:33 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogGreat view out there today.Clouds! Cliff Mass told me, and unlike some people around here (ahem), when it comes to matters of climate, I defer to him.Cliff also mentioned that the high smoke days we've seen as of late are reminiscent of a century ago, when there was far more pollution around here, in no small part thanks to wood-burning stoves. Then, after the advent of the automobile, particularly nasty fuels like diesel were the norm, which also contributed to high levels of air
  
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• As smoke hangs over Northwest, study shows air pollution was already high

  16-08-2018 23:06
  The study analyzed levels of the smallest particulate matter — the kind that poses the biggest health risks — as measured by air-quality stations around the country.
  
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• Amazon Wants to Buy a Movie Theater Chain That's All But Dead in Seattle

  16-08-2018 23:05 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede maksicfoto/Getty
  Just over a year ago, Landmark Theatres suddenly shut down the Seven Gables and Guild 45th theaters. At the time, the company claimed the theaters were only being renovated, but many in the industry did not believe this story. The consensus was that the theaters had seen their last days. In Seattle, all that remains of the company—which is based in Los Angeles, and is partly owned by Mark Cuban, the celebrity billionaire and owner of the Dallas Mavericks&
  
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• Seattle police investigate Central District drive-by shooting

  16-08-2018 22:54
  Two women suffered non life-threatening injuries.
  
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• US vows to work more closely with states to fight wildfires

  16-08-2018 22:38
  Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue pledged a "shared stewardship" approach in which the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and other federal agencies work with state, local and tribal officials to fight and prevent wildfires.
  
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• Smelly German Dick, Texas Legal Codes, and an Eight-Year-Old Column

  16-08-2018 22:33 via thestranger.com
  
  Savage Love Letter of the Day: Reader Advice Round-upby Dan Savage
  Recent Savage Love Letters of the Day: Her ex-boyfriend has cancer and her current girlfriend can't handle it; a very long, very good, very fake letter; her partner likes sex clubs and she thinks they're dirty, gross, and crawling with consent violators; and he's 40, she's 16—she's also his girlfriend's niece. What could go wrong? And, as always, last week's column and Savage Lovecast.
  First, for that smelly German dick:He
  
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• Three Hundred Papers Circle Jerk to Their Own Image

  16-08-2018 22:15 via thestranger.com
  
  You've gotta fire up those subscribers any way you can.by Katie Herzog artisteer/Getty Images
  The big news in media land today is that 300 newspapers across the U.S. ran editorials calling Donald Trump out for shit-talking the press—or, more specifically, for calling the media "fake news," "the enemy of the people," etc etc etc.The move was coordinated by the Boston Globe. Here's an excerpt from the letter in the Globe:
  The greatness of America is dependent on the role of a free press to s
  
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• Three Hundred Papers Across the U.S. Circle Jerk to Their Own Image

  16-08-2018 22:15 via thestranger.com
  
  You've gotta fire up those subscribers any way you can.by Katie Herzog artisteer/Getty Images
  The big news in media land today is that 300 newspapers across the U.S. ran editorials calling Donald Trump out for shit-talking the press—or, more specifically, for calling the media "fake news," "the enemy of the people," etc etc etc.The move was coordinated by the Boston Globe. Here's an excerpt from the letter in the Globe:
  The greatness of America is dependent on the role of a free press to s
  
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• ‘Respect’ indeed: Aretha flipped man’s song into epic anthem

  16-08-2018 21:44
  The 1965 original focused on a man asking his woman for some respect after he worked a long, hard day. But a young Aretha Franklin flipped the track in 1967, recording one of the most celebrated cover songs ever released.
  
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• How About Those Donations, David Meinert?

  16-08-2018 21:35 via thestranger.com
  David Meinert's business partners told us he would donate the profit he made off their bars to charities dealing with sexual assault. Did he ever donate the money? No one knows.by Lester BlackDavid MeinertJaya Nicely
  Did David Meinert, the longtime Seattle nightlife businessman that has been accused by 11 women of sexual assault, actually donate the money he earned from his restaurants to nonprofits, as his business partners publicized last month?Probably not. His business partners are not comme
  
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• US approves new generic competitor to EpiPen

  16-08-2018 21:33
  The new version from Teva Pharmaceuticals is the first that will be interchangeable with the original penlike injector sold by Mylan. The Food and Drug Administration announced the approval in a statement.
  
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• Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, Has Died; Her Songs Never Will

  16-08-2018 20:38 via thestranger.com
  
  Here's an expression of undying respect for the late Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin.by Dave SegalRespect to the best who ever picked up a mic. YouTube screengrab
  I knew the awful inevitable had happened when I was awakened at 5:5FML o'clock in the morning by the dream-shattering strains of Aretha Franklin—who succumbed to pancreatic cancer in Detroit today at age 76. Two feet away on my bedside radio, she was blessing that old warhorse, "Amazing Grace," in her inimitable acrobatic yet none
  
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• 26 Festivals to Check Out in Seattle This Weekend: Aug 17-19, 2018

  16-08-2018 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffIt's time for the 27th annual Hempfest, the ever-growing stoner-friendly waterfront festival that bills itself as the "premier flagship event of the global cannabis culture."
  These long summer days and balmy nights won't last forever, and this weekend happens to be brimming with ways for families, foodies, stoners, music lovers, and everyone in between to make the most out of t-shirt weather. Here are all the festivals happening in Seattle and surrounding areas in t
  
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• ‘No one did it better’: Tributes pour in remembering Aretha Franklin

  16-08-2018 19:56
  Notable musicians, politicians and others share tributes upon the death of Aretha Franklin Thursday in Detroit.
  
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• Queen of Soul also leaves a powerful civil rights legacy

  16-08-2018 19:50
  Aretha Franklin, who was born and rose to fame during the segregation era and went on to sing at the inauguration of the first black president, often used her talent, fortune and platform to inspire millions of black Americans and support the fight for racial equality. “The earth lost a lot of music when she […]
  
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• Half the Picture, a Documentary About How Hollywood Still Sucks for Women

  16-08-2018 19:31 via thestranger.com
  
  by Kathy Fennessy Half the Picture
  Gina Prince-Bythewood (Love and Basketball, Beyond the Lights) describes the day she got rejected from film school as the worst of her life. Instead of moving on to something else, she wrote the school an impassioned letter, and two days later, she got in. Would a man have done the same? Possibly, but he would've also had more choices. Prince-Bythewood says there was nothing else that she wanted to do.
  Dozens of other women explain how they got into the field i
  
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• Environmentalists sue federal government in Seattle to protect endangered orcas

  16-08-2018 19:26
  The lawsuit alleges that the government had agreed in February 2015 that expanding the protection zone for the orcas was "warranted," but has since failed to take action, putting the orcas at greater risk of extinction.
  
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• The Guy Who Made Armor for Kids Doesn't Want to Talk Politics

  16-08-2018 18:21 via thestranger.com
  
  “I didn’t ask any probing questions like you’re asking me,” Materazo said. “It’s about making this product.”by Nathalie GrahamIt's bulletproof, it's not a backpack, and it'snotpolitical. SKYNESHER / GETTY IMAGES
  The doldrums of summer are eclipsing, Targets around the country have shelves stacked high with Ticonderoga pencils and Jansport backpacks. Students have just one thing on their minds as the coming school year looms: how can I prevent my delicate
  
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• Physician to Queen Elizabeth II killed in cycling accident

  16-08-2018 17:58
  LONDON — A physician to Queen Elizabeth II has been killed by a truck as he cycled through Central London. The Metropolitan Police force says 67-year-old Peter Fisher was pronounced dead at the scene of Wednesday morning’s accident. University College London Hospitals, where Fisher worked, said he was an expert in homeopathy “and physician to […]
  
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• School workers donate sick days to help Florida teacher

  16-08-2018 17:56
  PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — A Florida teacher who burned through his sick days fighting colon cancer last spring was forced to plan chemo treatments around his class schedule for the fall semester. That was until some 60 teachers and employees of the Palm Beach County School system stepped up when world history teacher Robert […]
  
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• 3 die in car crash near Usk

  16-08-2018 17:33
  The car the victims were in drove off a cliff five miles north of Usk on Wednesday morning.
  
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• Slog AM: Central District Drive-By Shooting Injures 2, Washington's Potentially Historic Carbon Tax, Aretha Franklin Dead At 76

  16-08-2018 17:13 via thestranger.com
  
  Trump is a threat to the press, national security, and also there's too much child porn in the newsby Nathalie GrahamPollution doesn't pay! Until we pass this carbon tax of course ANGEL_NT/GETTYIMAGES.COM
  Two injured in Central District shooting: Two women were injured in a late afternoon shooting yesterday. A passing car fired shots into their car’s open window. They were struck. It’s an ongoing investigation. That’s scary. One commenter on this post isn’t filled with ri
  
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• ‘Queen of Soul’ Aretha Franklin dies at 76

  16-08-2018 15:58
  A professional singer and accomplished pianist by her late teens, a superstar by her mid-20s, Aretha Franklin had long ago settled any arguments over who was the greatest popular vocalist of her time. Her gifts were a multioctave mezzo-soprano, gospel passion, taste sophisticated and eccentric, and the courage to channel private pain into liberating song.
  
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• AP Newsbreak: ‘Queen of Soul’ Aretha Franklin dies at 76

  16-08-2018 15:58
  A professional singer and accomplished pianist by her late teens, a superstar by her mid-20s, Aretha Franklin had long ago settled any arguments over who was the greatest popular vocalist of her time. Her gifts were a multioctave mezzo-soprano, gospel passion, taste sophisticated and eccentric, and the courage to channel private pain into liberating song.
  
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• To address homelessness, City Council creates another committee

  16-08-2018 15:00
  Council President Bruce Harrell announced the creation of a new council committee on homelessness and housing affordability Wednesday.
  
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• Remains found in Olympic National Park belong to hiker missing for a year

  16-08-2018 15:00
  On Aug. 10, park employees and volunteers found outdoor equipment and clothing near Hoh Lake. On Saturday, a team sent to search found human skeletal remains.
  
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• Logging in Upper Skagit River watershed put on hold as Seattle has ‘grave concern’

  16-08-2018 15:00
  Conservationists fear recent logging at the Canadian headwaters of the Skagit River, the premier salmon producer of Puget Sound, will open the door to mining down the road.
  
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• Chinatown’s elders are being priced out of their traditional neighborhood

  16-08-2018 15:00
  In gentrifying Seattle, low-income seniors in the Chinatown-International District are feeling the housing-affordability squeeze.
  
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• India’s Vajpayee, who set off nuke race and peace, has died

  16-08-2018 14:22
  NEW DELHI (AP) — Former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, a Hindu nationalist who set off a nuclear arms race with rival Pakistan but later reached across the border to begin a groundbreaking peace process, died Thursday after a long illness. He was 93. The All India Institute of Medical Sciences, where Vajpayee had […]
  
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• Former Indian PM Vajpayee dies after illness at age 93

  16-08-2018 14:22
  NEW DELHI (AP) — Former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, a Hindu nationalist who set off a nuclear arms race with rival Pakistan but later reached across the border to begin a groundbreaking peace process, died on Thursday after a prolonged illness. He was 93. The All India Institute of Medical Sciences, where Vajpayee […]
  
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• New York law curbing Uber may spread — and return focus to congestion pricing

  16-08-2018 13:04
  New York City’s new law capping the number of ride-hailing vehicles and setting a minimum wage for drivers could mark the beginning of a new wave of governmental attempts to regulate ride-hailing services. The measure was passed amid growing concerns about traffic congestion, fair pay for taxi and ride-hailing drivers, and the impact of ride-hailing […]
  
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• ‘It is taking people out’: More than 70 people OD on synthetic marijuana in one day near Yale

  16-08-2018 12:14
  Federal officials issued a warning about the spread of synthetic marijuana across the country. K2 has caused hundreds in about 10 states to be hospitalized, sometimes with severe bleeding. Several have died. The danger lies in the drug's unpredictability and its tendency to be cut with potent opioids or an anticoagulant used in rat poison.
  
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• Washington state man pleads guilty to attacking parents

  16-08-2018 07:34
  The father survived the attack, but 58-year-old Vicki Konicke died in the burning house.
  
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• TS Lane forecast to become major hurricane in Pacific

  16-08-2018 06:00
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Lane is pushing westward across the Pacific while Subtropical Storm Ernesto heads across the Atlantic in the general direction of Ireland and the United Kingdom. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said that Lane had maximum sustained winds of 60 mph (95 kph) Thursday and is expected to become a […]
  
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• Storm forecast to become hurricane far out in east Pacific

  16-08-2018 06:00
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — A strengthening tropical storm is swirling out in the eastern Pacific, while another named storm is moving across the open Atlantic. Neither Tropical storm Lane in the Pacific nor Subtropical storm Ernesto in the Atlantic poses any immediate threat to land. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said late Wednesday that Lane […]
  
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• Boys & Girls Club visitors feel the thrill of learning to fly

  16-08-2018 04:47
  The flight simulator, along with a new green screen setup and 3-D printer, was recently purchased for the Renton/Skyway Boys & Girls Club with a grant from Boeing.
  
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• Dave Dave, whose father set him on fire in 1983, dies at 42

  16-08-2018 04:43
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Dave Dave, a respected Las Vegas artist who was badly scarred as a boy when his father tried to burn him to death in Southern California, has died. He was 42. Dave, who was born David Rothenberg, died on July 15 at Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas, Clark County Coroner John […]
  
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• Democratic candidates vow unity to defeat Rossi in 8th District

  16-08-2018 03:18
  At a rally in Issaquah, Democrats Shannon Hader and Jason Rittereiser urged their supporters to do everything they can to back Kim Schrier, who beat them in the Aug. 7 primary and faces Republican Dino Rossi this fall.
  
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• A Fancy Pot Shop Designed by Olson Kundig Is About to Open on Capitol Hill

  16-08-2018 02:16 via thestranger.com
  
  There's a new pot shop on Capitol Hill and it looks fancy.by Lester BlackThe construction equipment should be gone soon. Lester Black
  When I walked into The Reef this Thursday there were construction workers running about, people installing signs and sanding the edges off things that needed to be sanded, and a constant flow of people running in and out trying to make sure Seattle's newest pot shop opens on time. Yet the space never for a moment felt claustrophobic.
  Being comfortable with a crowd
  
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• Kent students return to school in two weeks — but not if teachers go on strike first

  16-08-2018 02:07
  With only two weeks until classes resume in the Kent School District, teachers there are threatening to strike. Unless the district’s teachers union and district officials reach a deal on higher pay, teachers say they will walk out the day before school starts. The threat comes during a hectic negotiation season for teachers unions, whose contracts reopened […]
  
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• Katie Herzig Talks Moment of Bliss with Katie Herzog

  16-08-2018 01:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogKatie Herzig, not Katie HerzogNashville musician Katie Herzig first came to my notice about a decade ago, when people started asking me, Katie Herzog, if I'm a musician. I am not, but since then, Herzig has put out four albums, toured extensively, including with Brandi Carlile, burned out, took a live music hiatus, and, in March, came back with Moment of Bliss, the poppy, folky, sometimes sweet and sometimes sad album that she's on tour promoting right now. I caught up with Herzig
  
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• Should coffee come with cancer warnings? California says no

  16-08-2018 01:45
  A Los Angeles judge ruled that coffee companies must provide cancer warnings to coffee drinkers. But a California agency has proposed a rule, being considered Thursday, declaring that not only does coffee pose no significant risk of cancer, it may actually have health benefits.
  
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• Report: Oatmeal, breakfast foods contain unsafe amounts of weed killer

  16-08-2018 01:21
  The Environmental Working Group (EWG), an environmental advocacy organization that conducted the study, said Wednesday that glyphosate was found in all but five of 29 oat-based foods that were tested.
  
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• Oatmeal, breakfast foods contain unsafe amounts of weedkiller, report says

  16-08-2018 01:21
  The Environmental Working Group, an environmental advocacy organization that conducted the study, said that glyphosate was found in all but five of 29 oat-based foods that were tested.
  
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• Oatmeal, breakfast foods contain unsafe amounts of weed killer, report says

  16-08-2018 01:21
  The Environmental Working Group, an environmental advocacy organization that conducted the study, said that glyphosate was found in all but five of 29 oat-based foods that were tested.
  
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• Summer of ‘84 Joins Stranger Things in Making the '80s Rad and Horrifying

  16-08-2018 01:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Andrew WrightThat '80s movie... Summer of ‘84
  The '80’s horror revival just keeps on trucking, with the success of Stranger Things inspiring a whole new appreciation for monsters in the closet, John Carpenter-ish keyboards, and loving closeups of Jolt Cola. Summer of ‘84 proves to be a worthy addition to the movement, with both a knack for the old familiar steps, and the ability to hit some brand new creepy beats.
  Set within a sleepy Oregon suburb, the script by newcomers Ma
  
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• He's 40, She's 16—She's Also His Girlfriend's Niece. What Could Go Wrong?

  16-08-2018 00:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Savage Love Letter of the Dayby Dan Savage
  I'm a 40-year-old man and my girlfriend's 16-year-old niece has a crush on me. That's not necessarily a problem; the problem is I have a crush on her too, and we're both perfectly aware of our feelings. We see each other often, and she stays over with us regularly. Though we've never acted upon our mutual crush, we'll steal glances and smiles, and take every opportunity to sit closely and hold hands. This can be for 30 seconds while everyone's out of th
  
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