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• Inbox Jukebox Track of the Day: The Adrenalized Punk Blurt of "Guest Girl Vocalist" by Local Hard-Rock Mainstays Kinski

  27-09-2018 23:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle hard-rock institution Kinski shock and awe with a sub-two-minute punk blast off their forthcoming LP, featuring the rare vocals of bassist Lucy Atkinson.by Dave SegalKinski's new single gives you a lot of catharsis in under two minutes. Kill Rock Stars
  Kinski, "Guest Girl Vocalist" (Kill Rock Stars)
  Kinski have been stalking Seattle's rock circuit for 20 years now, so it's relatively easy to take them for granted. Yes, they play out often, both opening for amazing touring acts (Acid Moth
  
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• Weekday Trumpdate: Biggest Brain Edition

  27-09-2018 23:10 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogLukassek/Getty ImagesThe nation's eyes briefly diverted from the shit show that is Donald Trump's very existence to Christine Blasley Ford's testimony about alleged attempted rapist Brett Kavanaugh today in DC. And yet, that didn't stop Donald from using his short moment out of the spotlight to embarrass us as a species. Let's get started, shall we?Remember before computers were a thing and every time you went to visit a friends' house you would be subjected to an hour-long slide
  
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• Brett Kavanaugh's Tearful, Angry, Shouted Opening Statement Is Unbelievable and Unhinged

  27-09-2018 22:48 via thestranger.com
  
  Shouting, tearful, entitled baby-man who wants to be on the Supreme Court comes across as unhinged.by Christopher Frizzelle"My name and family have been totally and permanently destroyed," Judge Kavanaugh says, the first of many exaggerations. His reputation has been destroyed, but his family is intact. Youtube screenshot
  "We're seeing a 53-year-old man facing a consequence for the first time," someone just tweeted. "This is a man for the Supreme Court? One who is nearly in tears of self pity?"
  
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• Teachers: How are you talking to your students about the Kavanaugh hearings today?

  27-09-2018 22:33
  Are you a teacher watching the hearings with your students today? Why or why not? If you're not watching the hearings, how are you addressing them with your classes? We want to hear about the discussions you and your students are having.
  
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• Teachers: How are you talking to your students about the Kavanaugh hearings?

  27-09-2018 22:33
  Are you a teacher watching the hearings with your students today? Why or why not? If you're not watching the hearings, how are you addressing them with your classes? We want to hear about the discussions you and your students are having.
  
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• Denver removes storage units for homeless; people were living in them

  27-09-2018 22:26
  DENVER — Denver officials have removed large outdoors storage containers set up last year for homeless people; officials discovered that people were living inside them. The city in a pilot program paid $30,000 for 10 4-feet by 6-feet containers meant to give homeless people a safe place to store clothing and other possessions. But the […]
  
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• Denver removes homeless storage units lived in by people

  27-09-2018 22:26
  DENVER (AP) — Denver officials have removed large outdoor storage containers set up last year for homeless people after discovering that people were living inside them. The city paid $30,000 for 10 4-by-6-foot (1-by-2-meter) containers meant to give homeless people a safe place to store clothing and other possessions. But the city decided to do […]
  
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• Mechanics of memory: Experts say Ford mostly got it right

  27-09-2018 22:16
  NEW YORK (AP) — In her testimony to a Senate committee, the woman who accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers dipped briefly into the mechanics of memory. Experts say she got it pretty much right. When asked Thursday how she could be sure it was Kavanaugh who put a hand […]
  
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• Experts say Ford got the science of memory mostly right

  27-09-2018 22:16
  NEW YORK (AP) — In her testimony to a Senate committee, the woman who accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers dipped briefly into the mechanics of memory. Experts say she got it pretty much right. When asked Thursday how she could be sure it was Kavanaugh who put a hand […]
  
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• Amazon Gives Whole Foods Union-Busting Training Video

  27-09-2018 21:44 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie Herzog Whole FoodsLooks like our friendly neighborhood bookseller has a bit of a union problem. Amazon, the second-largest private employer in the U.S., has long been anti-union, which made the company compatible bedfellows with Whole Foods, another notoriously anti-union retailer, when they bought the grocer for almost $14 billion last year.Amid rumbling of unionization attempts by Whole Foods employees, Gizmodo got a hold of a 45-minute video produced by Amazon and reportedly shown to
  
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• Officials: Hunter shot grizzlies in Montana in self-defense

  27-09-2018 21:42
  BILLINGS, Mont. — Wildlife officials say a hunter along Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front shot and killed a female grizzly bear and wounded a cub that was later euthanized. Grizzlies are protected in the Lower 48 states as a threatened species. Investigators determined the hunter acted in self-defense, meaning he won’t face charges. Montana Fish, Wildlife […]
  
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• Republican Senators' Own Lawyer Admits This Hearing Is Not the Proper Way to Question Dr. Ford

  27-09-2018 21:32 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher FrizzelleRachel Mitchell, on the right, admitted openly during the hearing that a hearing like this is not the best place to conduct an interview about sexual assault allegations.Youtube screenshot
  Two things are clear after this morning's hearing with Dr. Ford: Everyone agrees that Dr. Ford is "extremely credible," and everyone agrees that Rachel Mitchell's questioning of Dr. Ford is a disaster. Even Mitchell herself admitted as much at the very end of her meandering and inconseq
  
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• Throwing Shade Live at the Showbox Tonight

  27-09-2018 21:28 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageBryan Safi and Erin Gibson of Throwing Shade
  Bryan Safi and Erin Gibson are the co-hosts and co-creators of Throwing Shade, a weekly comedy podcast that focuses on women's rights, LGBTQ issues, progressive politics, and pop culture. They're currently touring the country, taping live shows, and the tour stops in Seattle tonight. The show is at 8 PM at the endangered-but-freshly-landmarked Showbox. The Seattle stop of Throwing Shade's "There's No Place Like Condo Tour" features singin
  
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• Rapper Nelly settles sexual-assault lawsuit with Seattle-area woman

  27-09-2018 20:38
  The Seattle lawyer for the rapper’s accuser disputed a published comment from Nelly’s attorney contending no money exchanged hands as part of the agreement to drop the case.
  
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• Nelly Rape Accuser Drops Suit

  27-09-2018 20:35 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie Herzog MICHAEL LOCCISANO/GETTY IMAGES
  Nelly's defamation case is officially over and over.
  The 43-year-old rapper was arrested last October in Auburn, Wash. after Monique Greene, a 22-year-old University of Washington student, called the police and reported that Nelly had raped her on his tour bus in a Walmart parking lot. According to Greene's account, the rapper invited her onto his tour bus, then sexually assaulted her and threw her off the bus with a $100 bill.Nelly, whose name is C
  
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• Police find body they believe to be missing 6-year-old boy

  27-09-2018 20:30
  GASTONIA, N.C. (AP) — Search crews have found a body they believe to be that of a 6-year-old boy who ran off from his father at a park, a North Carolina police department said Thursday. A statement from Gastonia police said the body was found around 1 p.m. Thursday at a location approximately 4 miles […]
  
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• Police chief ‘heartbroken’ after body discovered in creek

  27-09-2018 20:30
  GASTONIA, N.C. (AP) — The chief of a North Carolina police department said Thursday he was “heartbroken” over the discovery of a body believed to be that of a missing 6-year-old boy. Gastonia Police Chief Robert Helton fought back tears and a breaking voice during a news conference in which it was announced officials believed […]
  
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• Hatch Act complaint filed against Don Benton, former Trump campaign chair in Washington

  27-09-2018 20:25
  The Campaign Legal Center, a D.C.-based nonprofit ethics watchdog group, filed a complaint this week with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, alleging Benton violated the Hatch Act, a 1939 law that restricts political activities by federal employees.
  
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• Warm waters boosted 2017’s major hurricane tally, study says

  27-09-2018 20:05
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Atlantic’s warmer waters triggered the unusual number of major hurricanes last year, according to a new study that predicts the region could see a couple of extra whopper storms each year by the end of the century. Six major hurricanes — with winds of at least 111 mph (178 kph) — […]
  
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• Even Fox News Commenters Are Admitting That Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's Testimony Is "Extremely Credible"

  27-09-2018 19:52 via thestranger.com
  
  "Indelible in the hippocampus of the nation is the power of Christine Blasey Ford's testimony."by Christopher Frizzelle"I tried to yell for help. When I did, Brett put his hand over my mouth to stop me from screaming." Cspan screenshot
  Dr. Christine Blasey Ford made it clear this morning that she did not want to be here in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, but had come because she felt it was her "civic duty." She made it clear that she had tried to send word about her allegations against
  
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• Florence death toll increases; 1,500 still in NC shelters

  27-09-2018 19:26
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The death toll from Hurricane Florence has increased again, nearly two weeks after the eye of the storm reached the Carolinas. North Carolina Emergency Operations Center spokeswoman Sonja Bennett-Bellamy said Thursday that an 85-year-old man from New Hanover County died Tuesday. The man contracted an infection in a wound he received […]
  
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• King County Courthouse to reopen Friday after water main break

  27-09-2018 19:15
  Courthouse offices and services, including the court, prosecuting attorney's office and sheriff'soperations, were canceled Thursday.
  
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• King County Courthouse closes after water main breaks

  27-09-2018 19:15
  The King County Courthouse says its offices and services will be shut for the day.
  
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• Broadway Performance Hall Won't Include a Theater in, Like, Ten Years

  27-09-2018 18:46 via thestranger.com
  
  That's one fewer performance space in Seattle.by Rich SmithSay hello to your new "achievement center." RS
  Seattle Central College is planning to transform Broadway Performance Hall into the "Broadway Achievement Center." Plans include removing the curtain and turning the 295-seat theater into an auditorium, essentially making the room less of a theater space and more of a place for talks and panels.
  SCC will also add a library annex to the hall, which includes meeting rooms and a tutorial center
  
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• I Had Never Laughed Hard at a Ballet Before—Then I Saw the Jerome Robbins Festival

  27-09-2018 18:24 via thestranger.com
  
  In these performances, Robbins shows us that we're always dancing.by Rich SmithI'm telling you, there's a lot of premium, A+ slapstick in The Concert. Angela Sterling
  I had never laughed out loud at a ballet before I saw Jerome Robbins's Dances at a Gathering and The Concert at Pacific Northwest Ballet last weekend. Both pieces had me grinning and swooning, but for different reasons.Dances at a Gathering, which is considered Robbins's masterpiece, follows five couples as they dance-flirt with ea
  
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• Help Wanted! Tech Support!

  27-09-2018 18:05 via thestranger.com
  
  by Anthony Hecht anouchka / Getty
  Hi!
  The Stranger is hiring a tech support specialist!
  All around this place, there are computers, mice, keyboards, and things that network the networks. They're everywhere, and every one of them needs your help. Like human babies, they can only grow into loyal, trustworthy, efficient, and productive workers with the proper care.
  And so we're looking for someone to give them that loving care, and also, critically, to help the humans around here who so depend on t
  
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• Sexism and Racism in the Age of Trump and #MeToo Spirit Featured in This Year's Tasveer South Asian Film Festival

  27-09-2018 17:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Deepa Bhandaru
  As a kid growing up in the Midwest, all I knew of South Asian cinema came to me through poorly dubbed VHS tapes that traveled by mail across the ocean. Reenactments of gory Hindu epics were my father’s favorite. My grandparents, on the other hand, loved romantic song-and-dance movies or anything starring Raj Kapoor, India’s Charlie Chaplin. No matter the genre, what I remember most were the women: demure and dutiful, grappling with familial obligations, marriage pro
  
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• Sexism and Racism in the Age of Trump and #MeToo Featured in This Year's Tasveer South Asian Film Festival

  27-09-2018 17:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Deepa Bhandaru
  As a kid growing up in the Midwest, all I knew of South Asian cinema came to me through poorly dubbed VHS tapes that traveled by mail across the ocean. Reenactments of gory Hindu epics were my father’s favorite. My grandparents, on the other hand, loved romantic song-and-dance movies or anything starring Raj Kapoor, India’s Charlie Chaplin. No matter the genre, what I remember most were the women: demure and dutiful, grappling with familial obligations, marriage pro
  
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• Space station receives special delivery from White Stork

  27-09-2018 17:31
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Space station astronauts have received a special delivery from a Japanese capsule named White Stork. The cargo ship known as Kounotori in Japanese arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday, five days after liftoff. It’s the seventh Japanese shipment and the first in two years. Commander Andrew Feustel (FOY-stull) […]
  
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• Slog AM: Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Faces the Senate Judiciary Hearing; Northwest Harvest Food Bank Finds New Home; A Word About Cat Content

  27-09-2018 17:21 via thestranger.com
  
  by Michael Bell“I am here because I believe it is my civic duty to tell you what happened to me while Brett Kavanaugh and I were in high school" - Christine Blasey Ford wellesenterprises/Getty Images
  The hearing has begun: Christine Blasey Ford, one of three women who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, is testifying today before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The hearing began this morning at 7:00 am. Meanwhile, Dr. Elizabeth Swisher, a University of Wash
  
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• Slog AM: Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Faces the Senate Judiciary Hearing; A Word About Cat Content

  27-09-2018 17:21 via thestranger.com
  
  by Michael Bell“I am here because I believe it is my civic duty to tell you what happened to me while Brett Kavanaugh and I were in high school" - Christine Blasey Ford wellesenterprises/Getty Images
  The hearing has begun: Christine Blasey Ford, one of three women who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, is testifying today before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The hearing began this morning at 7:00 am. Meanwhile, Dr. Elizabeth Swisher, a University of Wash
  
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• Man seriously hurt in shooting in Rainier Valley

  27-09-2018 16:21
  The victim was taken to Harborview Medical Center with life-threatening injuries.
  
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• Sirens near Seattle Center? A tunnel-rescue drill at noon Thursday

  27-09-2018 15:00
  The scenario involves wrecked cars and buses in the northbound, upper level of the double-decked tunnel.
  
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• A wave of condos is coming to Seattle, Bellevue for the first time since the housing bust

  27-09-2018 15:00
  After a half-decade of building rental apartments, developers are switching gears to construct for-sale condo projects, which should open up more homeownership options that are less expensive than single-family homes but still not cheap.
  
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• A wave of condos is coming to Seattle and Bellevue for the first time since the housing bust

  27-09-2018 15:00
  After a half-decade of building rental apartments, developers are switching gears to construct for-sale condo projects, which should open up more homeownership options that are less expensive than single-family homes but still not cheap.
  
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• TS Kirk expected to drop heavy rain across eastern Caribbean

  27-09-2018 14:53
  ROSEAU, Dominica (AP) — Forecasters are warning of heavy rains across the eastern Caribbean as Tropical Storm Kirk approaches. A tropical storm warning has been issued for Barbados, St. Lucia, Dominica, Martinique and Guadeloupe. A tropical storm watch was issued for St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Thursday that up […]
  
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• TS Kirk drops heavy rain across eastern Caribbean

  27-09-2018 14:53
  ROSEAU, Dominica (AP) — Tropical Storm Kirk dropped heavy rain and unleashed flooding as it passed through the eastern Caribbean on Thursday. A tropical storm warning was issued for Barbados, St. Lucia, Dominica, Martinique and Guadeloupe. A tropical storm watch was issued for St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Officials in the French Caribbean island of […]
  
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• Nigerian authorities say nearly 200 killed in flooding

  27-09-2018 14:24
  LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian authorities say the death toll from large-scale flooding in recent weeks has jumped to nearly 200 people. The National Emergency Management Agency said Thursday the toll is up from the 100 reported last week. It says more than 1,000 other people have been injured, with more than 800,000 affected overall […]
  
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• Bellingham police seek identity of voyeurism suspect

  27-09-2018 05:59
  The suspect has been seen peering into windows holding a flashlight or cellphone, and some victims reported he exposed himself and was masturbating, according to the Bellingham Police Department.
  
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• Tacoma couple arrested in connection with death of 67-year-old Renton man

  27-09-2018 04:44
  The man was found wrapped in a comforter and tarp with his ankles and wrists bound, according to the King County Sheriff's Office.
  
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• Not your ordinary putting course at Flatstick Pub

  27-09-2018 04:34
  The mini golf course at the South Lake Union pub is populated with the characters of local artist Henry.
  
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• Lummi Island ferry on the mend in Ballard

  27-09-2018 04:32
  The ferry Whatcom Chief, the Lummi Island car and passenger ferry, will return to service Friday at 6 p.m. The car and passenger ferry travels between Lummi and the mainland, west of Bellingham.
  
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• Here’s what sexual-assault survivor advocates will be watching for during Kavanaugh hearing

  27-09-2018 04:09
  Advocates at the King County Sexual Assault Resource Center say they will be watching for specific phrases and terms that they say can keep perpetrators from being held accountable.
  
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• Traffic alert: Emergency and scheduled repair work on I-5 may cause delays through Monday

  27-09-2018 03:49
  Crews will reduce southbound I-5 to a single lane Wednesday and Thursday night between Spokane Street and the Corson-South Michigan Street exit for emergency pothole repairs.
  
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