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• According to ICE There Is No Hunger Strike at the Northwest Detention Center

  23-08-2018 23:29 via thestranger.com
  
  “Rumors of an ongoing hunger strike by detainees at the NWDC are false,” according to ICE.by Nathalie GrahamICE's version of reality doesn't quite add up here.NG
  There are hunger strikes occurring at prisons across the country. In Washington, over 200 detained immigrants are participating.The strike at the Northwest Detention Center started on Aug. 21 and is set to last until Sept. 9. Democracy Now reported the reason behind the strike was to demand change and closure of detention ce
  
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• 27 Movies Worth Watching in Seattle This Weekend: Aug 23-26, 2018

  23-08-2018 23:24 via thestranger.com
  Point Break,Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood, The Third Murder, and other film critics' picks for the weekend.by Stranger Things To Do StaffIt's still smoky out there, so take this weekend as an opportunity to go to the movies and check out one of our film critics' picks. You could hear Scotty Bowers' stories of the queerness that flowed through the Golden Age of Hollywood in Matt Tyrnauer's documentary Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood, watch Hirokazu Kore-eda's mystery about
  
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• Just Announced: The Complete Bumbershoot 2018 Schedule

  23-08-2018 23:12 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffIt's not too late to get tickets for next weekend's festival. David Conger
  The complete schedule for Bumbershoot 2018 (which will happen from Aug 31–Sept 2) was just announced. The Stranger's complete guide to the iconic Seattle Center music and arts festival is also now live on our Bumbershoot calendar!
  The schedule includes several new additions to the music lineup: Sam Lynch, Kung Foo Grip, episcool, Parisalexa, DJ Swervewon, and Trevor Little. Dr. Octagon,
  
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• Six Signs You're Vaping Weed All Wrong

  23-08-2018 22:39 via thestranger.com
  
  If you feel disappointed with what you’ve been vaping, heed this advice.by Lester BlackThis person probably bought a shitty vape cartridge. Mike Force
  I can’t go anywhere in Seattle right now without seeing someone hit a weed vape pen. In the last week alone, I’ve seen people vaping weed in public parks, waiting in line to get on the bus, and, I kid you not, even while deciding between different loaves of bread in the grocery aisle.I guess a hit of blue dream helped them pick t
  
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• Six Signs You're Vaping Pot All Wrong

  23-08-2018 22:39 via thestranger.com
  
  If you feel disappointed with what you’ve been vaping, heed this advice.by Lester BlackThis person probably bought a shitty vape cartridge. Mike Force
  I can’t go anywhere in Seattle right now without seeing someone hit a weed vape pen. In the last week alone, I’ve seen people vaping weed in public parks, waiting in line to get on the bus, and, I kid you not, even while deciding between different loaves of bread in the grocery aisle.I guess a hit of blue dream helped them pick t
  
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• A Follow-up From the 40-year-old Man on the Brink of Doing Something He Shouldn't With His Girlfriend's 16-year-old Niece

  23-08-2018 21:54 via thestranger.com
  
  Savage Love Letter of the Day: Reader Advice Round-upby Dan Savage
  Recent Savage Love Letters of the Day: He said he just got busy with work—should she see him again? Should he ask his girlfriend to have a threesome with his ex-wife? Her husband is taking Viagra on the down low—should she tell him she knows? And a creepy couple creeps out a budding new unicorn. And, as always, last week's column and Savage Lovecast.First, some thoughts for He's 40, She's 16—She's Also His Girlf
  
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• Cliff Mass Claims Fires Have Nothing to Do With Global Warming

  23-08-2018 21:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeThis is not the new normal, this is the old normal. Charles Mudede
  The local and popular weatherperson Cliff Mass said something that's really twisted on the Ron and Don Show. He claimed that all of this smoke is actually more normal than no smoke at all. Why? Because back in the day, 100 years or so ago, when cars did not dominate the culture and petrol corporations didn't rule the economy, lots of smoke was the usual state of things. "If you are... 120 years old," says Mass, "
  
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• Olympia hoax: It looked like a scary abduction — until it wasn’t

  23-08-2018 21:32
  Witnesses said five or six men dressed in white plastic jumpsuits and hoods grabbed three victims and restrained them with zip ties. According to witnesses, the victims were asking for help and for someone to call 911.
  
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• Olympia hoax: It looked like a scary abduction but turned out to be a family prank

  23-08-2018 21:32
  Witnesses said five or six men dressed in white plastic jumpsuits and hoods grabbed three victims and restrained them with zip ties. According to witnesses, the victims were asking for help and for someone to call 911.
  
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• Science Says: Hawaii hurricanes rare, but getting less so

  23-08-2018 21:18
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Hurricanes seldom get close to Hawaii and it’s even rarer for one of the islands to take a direct hit. Hurricane Lane is already drenching and pummeling the island chain, even without reaching land. The last time a major hurricane hit Hawaii was in 1992 when Category 4 Iniki caused billions in […]
  
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• Savage Love: Pickles & Surrogates

  23-08-2018 21:11 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage Joe Newton
  I'm in a pickle. All I want is to experience touch, intimacy, and sexual pleasure—but without freaking out. I grew up with a lot of negative messages from men due to developing early, as well as having some other physical/sexual trauma (no rape or abuse), but the combination has me seriously fucked up. Whenever I get close to physical intimacy with someone, I run away. I actually faked an emergency once and physically ran away because I knew sex was a possibility t
  
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• Oregon man gets jail time for harassing Yellowstone bison

  23-08-2018 20:46
  BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — An Oregon man has been sentenced to 130 days in jail after pleading guilty to misconduct in two national parks, including harassing a bison that had stopped traffic in Yellowstone National Park. Raymond Reinke’s crimes drew national attention when at least one Yellowstone visitor caught his interaction with a bison on […]
  
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• Read the Report on Rep. Matt Manweller's Pattern of Inappropriate Conduct With Students

  23-08-2018 20:41 via thestranger.com
  
  Let's read it together.by Rich SmithHe authorized Central Washington University to release the report.WASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATURE
  On Wednesday afternoon, Central Washington University released attorney Trish Murphy's 85-page report containing allegations that Rep. Matt Manweller demonstrated "unprofessional and inappropriate behavior with gender-based and sexual overtones." The 15 accounts (with witnesses) detailed in the report were issued by current or former students of Manweller's between 2
  
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• There's a New "Successor to the Honeycrisp" and It's Fucking Delicious

  23-08-2018 20:30 via thestranger.com
  
  How do you like them (Rave®) apples?by Leilani PolkHow do you like them (Rave®) apples?
  Apparently, this week on Slog is all about apples.When someone offers you free apples, you accept, happily and without delay, especially when they’re sold as the “successor to the Honeycrisp” and have a name like Rave® and are actually grown in our state, which does apples so well. These are from Stemilt Growers in Wenatchee; their other signature varieties include the aforementi
  
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• Hate Change? Here's How to Get Back the Old Gmail

  23-08-2018 19:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogDid Google recently force you, against your will, to adapt to their new Gmail interface? Well good news, folks! There's a time machine for that. Just click on that little wheel thing in the corner, then "Go back to Classic Gmail," and bam! It's like this nightmare never happened. Time marches forth but we don't have to.
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• Scientists find perfectly preserved ancient foal in Siberia

  23-08-2018 19:39
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russian scientists have found the carcass of an ancient foal perfectly preserved in the Siberian permafrost. The fossil discovered in the region of Yakutia has its skin, hair, hooves and tail preserved. Yakutia is also famous having wooly mammoth fossils found in the permafrost. Scientists from Russia’s Northeast Federal University who presented […]
  
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• Mandatory evacuations over eastern Washington wildfire

  23-08-2018 19:39
  The fire was burning Thursday about nine miles west of Twisp in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest.
  
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• State Patrol: Kidnapping in Olympia Was a Hoax

  23-08-2018 19:18 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogThe alleged kidnappers WSP
  On Wednesday at approximately 10:30 PM, the Washington State Patrol received reports of a potential abduction at Heritage Park in Olympia. According to a news release, by the time troopers arrived at the scene, the suspects had fled in a red Ford truck, but witnesses reported that "five to six males dressed in white plastic jumpsuits and hoods grabbed three victims and restrained them with zip ties." The alleged victims were kids between the ages of 4 an
  
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• Inbox Jukebox Track of the Day: The Unsettlingly Serene "Pastorale Vassant" by Innovative Trumpeter Jon Hassell

  23-08-2018 18:55 via thestranger.com
  
  81-year-old avant-garde trumpeter Jon Hassell is still making some of the strangest chillout music in the (fourth) world.by Dave SegalThe dude who played trumpet on Talking Heads' "Houses in Motion" is still chilling hard. Roman Koval
  Jon Hassell, "Pastorale Vassant" (Ndeya)
  I'm not sure enough hoopla has been generated about Jon Hassell's latest album, Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One). I wrote about its lead-off track, "Dreaming," in an Inbox Jukebox column back in April, and it's
  
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• Expert: Fires will get deadlier as cities grow, planet warms

  23-08-2018 17:28
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A senior German scientist who will lead an independent inquiry into last month’s deadly Greek wildfire says fires are expected to pose a greater threat worldwide in the coming decades. Johann Goldammer, who heads the Global Fire Monitoring Center at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, met with Greek Prime Minister […]
  
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• Slog AM: Drought Is Killing Washington Trees, Nationwide Hunger Strikes Jolt Prisons, California Will Erase Past Marijuana Convictions

  23-08-2018 17:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Pit bulls for Yakima, a new stadium jail for the Raiders, a new day with no smoke for Seattleby Nathalie Grahamthirsty, but in a not-sexy way CLAUDIA PROMMEGGER / GETTY
  New norm for Washington summers is killing trees: Damn, this was really the year when climate change was like “I’m sick of being ignored” and started acting out like an attention-starved first grader. Climate change, cool it! Or else all of our forests are going to die and also everything else bad that’s b
  
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• Yakima settles with utility over fire started by target-shooting police

  23-08-2018 16:37
  An investigation by the state Department of Natural Resources concluded that two police officers who were target shooting caused the June fire.
  
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• Yakima city settles with utility over fire started by police

  23-08-2018 16:37
  An investigation by the state Department of Natural Resources concluded that two police officers who were target shooting caused the June fire.
  
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• SWAT team fatally shoots man in Shoreline while serving search warrant

  23-08-2018 15:46
  The victim was shot after allegedly confronting SWAT team members with a handgun, the sheriff's office said.
  
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• King County SWAT shoots person in Shoreline while serving search warrant

  23-08-2018 15:46
  The sherrif's office didn't have information about the person's condition.
  
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• Despite hurdles, King County moves ahead with $12M in modular housing for homeless

  23-08-2018 15:00
  Under the plan, King County would purchase enough modular units to house 195 people in Seattle’s Interbay neighborhood, at a site in Shoreline and at a third, undetermined site.
  
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• Drought reveals ancient ‘hunger stones’ in European river

  23-08-2018 14:51
  DECIN, Czech Republic (AP) — Due to this summer’s drought in Central Europe, boulders known as “hunger stones” are reappearing in the Elbe River. The low water levels in the river that begins in the Czech Republic then crosses Germany into the North Sea has exposed stones on the river bed whose appearances in history […]
  
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• A local researcher is breeding an army of wasps to devour invasive stink bugs

  23-08-2018 14:00
  The brown marmorated stink bug is here in Washington. And it might move in with you this winter. A WSU researcher is breeding tiny samurai wasps in an effort to fight the pests.
  
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• Kroger to phase out plastic bags at all stores

  23-08-2018 13:50
  CINCINNATI (AP) — The nation’s largest grocery chain will be plastic-bag free at all of its nearly 2,800 stores by 2025. Kroger Co., which orders about 6 billion bags each year, will begin phasing out their use immediately at one of its chains based in Seattle, a city that has been proactive on reducing plastic […]
  
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• World’s biggest shipping firm to test Russian Arctic route

  23-08-2018 12:13
  COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish shipping group A.P. Moller-Maersk said Thursday it will send a cargo vessel through the Russian Arctic for the first time as a result of melting sea ice. Janina von Spalding, spokeswoman for the world’s biggest shipping company, said the new ice class container vessel, Venta Maersk, would embark on trial […]
  
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• Political storm brews after India nixes foreign flood aid

  23-08-2018 11:27
  NEW DELHI (AP) — A political battle is brewing in flood-ravaged south India, with the ruling party in Kerala state protesting the central government’s refusal to accept more than $100 million in foreign relief. Kerala’s top elected official Pinyari Vijayan said Wednesday that “It is only natural for nations to help each other,” as residents […]
  
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• South Korea, Japan brace for winds and rain from 2 typhoons

  23-08-2018 09:22
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — An approaching typhoon has caused strong winds and heavy rains in southern South Korea, forcing many flight cancelations and school closures. The weather agency says that Typhoon Soulik was moving north at the speed of 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) per hour off the southern island of Jeju around Thursday noon. […]
  
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• Hurricane Lane unleashes rain as it shifts closer to Hawaii

  23-08-2018 08:06
  Hurricane Lane was forecast to continue its northwest turn into the islands, which would make it the most powerful storm to hit Hawaii since Hurricane Iniki in 1992.
  
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• Hurricane Lane soaks Hawaii’s Big Island with foot of rain

  23-08-2018 08:06
  Hurricane Lane was forecast to continue its northwest turn into the islands, which would make it the most powerful storm to hit Hawaii since Hurricane Iniki in 1992.
  
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• Hawaii’s Big Island feels the effects of approaching hurricane

  23-08-2018 08:06
  Hurricane Lane was forecast to continue its northwest turn into the islands, which would make it the most powerful storm to hit Hawaii since Hurricane Iniki in 1992.
  
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• Drenching rain hits Big Island as hurricane approaches

  23-08-2018 08:06
  Hurricane Lane was forecast to continue its northwest turn into the islands, which would make it the most powerful storm to hit Hawaii since Hurricane Iniki in 1992.
  
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• Big Island feels the effects of approaching hurricane

  23-08-2018 08:06
  HONOLULU (AP) — As emergency shelters opened, rain began to pour and cellphone alerts went out, the approaching hurricane started to feel real for Hawaii residents. Hurricane Lane was forecast to continue its northwest turn into the islands Thursday, which would make it the most powerful storm to hit Hawaii since Hurricane Iniki in 1992. […]
  
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• Education Secretary Betsy DeVos considers letting schools use federal funds to buy guns

  23-08-2018 07:47
  Such a move appears to be unprecedented, reversing a long-standing position taken by the federal government that it should not pay to outfit schools with weapons. And it would also undermine efforts by Congress to restrict the use of federal funding on guns.
  
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• Betsy DeVos is considering letting schools use federal funds to buy guns

  23-08-2018 07:47
  Such a move appears to be unprecedented, reversing a long-standing position taken by the federal government that it should not pay to outfit schools with weapons. And it would also undermine efforts by Congress to restrict the use of federal funding on guns.
  
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• Magnitude 6.3 earthquake rattles Alaska

  23-08-2018 06:15
  ADAK, Alaska (AP) — A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck Wednesday night in Alaska. The Alaska Earthquake Center says the quake occurred in the remote Andreanof Islands region of Alaska, but was felt almost 70 miles (115 km) away in Adak. It had a depth of about 7 miles (11 km). There were no immediate reports […]
  
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• Yakima City Council votes to end 31-year pit-bull ban

  23-08-2018 05:04
  Yakima is lifting a decades-old ban against pit-bull terriers, which have had a bad reputation in the city. The City Council voted 5-2 to the cheers of dog lovers.
  
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• An artist explores the power of dreams

  23-08-2018 04:33
  The art installation [REM]EMBER will be featured at SAM Remix on Aug. 24 and will be open to the public until Sept. 7 at Prairie Underground in Georgetown.
  
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• Seattle Aquarium’s asthmatic otter: Mishka and her trainers are prepared for smoky haze

  23-08-2018 03:34
  Three years ago, Mishka the otter learned a potentially life-saving trick: breathe deeply through an inhaler. Now with smoke blanketing the region, she's prepared for the worst.
  
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• An otter in Seattle has asthma, but her trainers were ready for this terrible air quality

  23-08-2018 03:34
  Three years ago, Mishka the otter learned a potentially life-saving trick: breathe deeply through an inhaler. Now with smoke blanketing the region, she's prepared for the worst.
  
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• Drive-by shooting in Skyway seriously injures teen

  23-08-2018 03:33
  Detectives are on the scene searching for shell casings and interviewing witnesses. An area check for the suspect vehicle, a white SUV, is also being conducted.
  
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• Tommy Le’s Family Is “Disillusioned but Not Surprised” Over County Exonerating Officers That Killed Le

  23-08-2018 03:15 via thestranger.com
  
  The family of Tommy Le and their attorneys react to news that King County exonerated the Sheriff's Deputy that shot and killed their unarmed 20-year-old son.by Lester BlackJeff Campiche and Linda Diem Tran react to the county's review of Tommy Le's death. Lester Black
  The family of Tommy Le, the unarmed 20-year-old shot and killed by a King County Sheriff deputy last June, is “disillusioned but not surprised” by the announcement today that the county has cleared the two deputies invo
  
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• Free Will Astrology: August 22–28

  23-08-2018 02:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rob Brezsny
  ARIES (March 21–April 19): The two pieces of advice I have for you may seem contradictory, but they are in fact complementary. Together they'll help guide you through the next three weeks. The first comes from herbalist and wise woman Susun Weed. She suggests that when you face a dilemma, you should ask yourself how you can make it your ally and how you can learn the lesson it has for you. Your second burst of wisdom is from writer Yasmin Mogahed: "Study the hurtful patterns
  
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• Deal to protect submarines and geoducks: Washington signs new easement with Navy on Hood Canal

  23-08-2018 02:15
  The easement prevents possible development and noise pollution that could interfere with training and other exercises by Naval Base Kitsap. The state likes it as a way to protect wild geoduck, eelgrass and salmon, the latter of which is food for orcas,
  
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• Pink Martini Is Gonna Zhoosh Up the Zoo

  23-08-2018 02:10 via thestranger.com
  
  by Leilani PolkPink Martini plays Woodland Park Zoo tonight and tomorrow night CHRIS HORNBECKER
  Pink Martini’s name fits them like a Mousquetaire glove. They’re slinky yet robust, fluffy and flamboyant while also exotic and classily tasteful. Portland’s self-styled little orchestra, maestro’d by pianist Thomas Lauderdale, flits through different moods in music that is rooted in jazzy big band, classical, and classic pop realms, but is also heavy on richly exotic sounds an
  
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• The Stranger Is Looking for an Arts Intern!

  23-08-2018 01:35 via thestranger.com
  
  by The Stranger
  The Stranger is searching for an editorial intern to help cover Seattle's fall art and performance season. Specifically, we are looking for someone to help us cover nighttime arts events in the city (performance, music, art) and write about them in a lively, informed way the next morning on our blog, Slog. The candidate should be a quick writer with a hunger for reporting. They shouldn't be afraid to fight for an idea, story, or artist that seems a little out there. (Sure, Jell-O
  
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