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• Addiction and Compassion in Beautiful Boy

  18-10-2018 23:51 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ned LannamannBeautiful Boy opens in theaters today.
  I’ve never been a parent or a junkie (yet!), but I found a lot that resonated in Beautiful Boy, a low-key film based on a pair of interconnected memoirs from father and son David and Nicolas Sheff.
  It’s a narrative that could have easily been filled with blame and recrimination—not to mention a lot of slammed doors, teary shouting, and woozy Velvet Underground songs—but director Felix Van Groeningen (The Broken Circle
  
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• Officials: Body found in Virginia river is Florence victim

  18-10-2018 23:10
  ROANOKE, Va. (AP) — The death toll from Hurricane Florence has increased again, more than a month after the storm made landfall in North Carolina. Virginia’s Department of Emergency Management announced Thursday that the state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has attributed the drowning death of a person found in Roanoke this week to […]
  
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• Buy Your Tickets to These 26 Newly Announced Events Before They Sell Out

  18-10-2018 23:06 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffComedian, actress, writer, producer, and director Amy Schumer will come to Seattle in November.We all know that many of the biggest Seattle events often sell out well in advance. But it's not a lost cause—if you plan ahead, you can still score tickets for the most popular events. To help you with that, we've rounded up all of the major events that are going on sale in the next couple of days, like Toro Y Moi and Amy Schumer, plus things that have just gone on
  
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• Raye Montague, a Navy ‘Hidden Figure’ ship designer, dies at 83

  18-10-2018 22:39
  Montague was given one month to design a ship. She did it in 18 hours and 26 minutes.
  
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• Todd Bol, founder of Little Free Library book sharing, dies

  18-10-2018 22:07
  Bol put up a miniature version of a one-room schoolhouse on a post outside his home in 2009, filled it with books and invited neighbors to borrow them. The boxes have since popped up across the U.S. and spread to more than 80 countries.
  
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• Reader Thoughts on Short Guys, Booze, Buttons, and Wankers

  18-10-2018 22:02 via thestranger.com
  
  Savage Love Letter of the Day: Reader Advice Round-upby Dan Savage
  Recent Savage Love Letters of the Day: After 30 years... and two kids... should he stay... or should he go? Also: love connections after sudden and unexpected deaths, advice for the short and lonely, and permission to fight bigotry with Buck Angel. And, as always, last week's column and Savage Lovecast.
  First, a note on someone or other's finances:I love your column but have no sexual issues to ask help for. I would, however, lik
  
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• Queen Anne group again challenges Seattle plan to ease restrictions on backyard cottages

  18-10-2018 21:51
  Denser housing is banned across most of the city. A plan to expand the development of accessory dwelling units has been in the works for years, but has met staunch opposition from a neighborhood group.
  
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• Kim Schrier Won Her Only Debate Against Dino Rossi

  18-10-2018 21:20 via thestranger.com
  
  We're still voting for Kim now.by Rich SmithWe're all still voting for Kim now.RS
  Last night I learned two things at the one and only debate between Democrat Kim Schrier and anti-gay, anti-choice, anti-immigrant Republican Dino Rossi. 1.) Central Washington University's campus in Ellensburg is really lovely in the fall! 2.) Schrier can handle her own onstage against an arguably slick politician who has lost three elections, and who might lose his fourth in less than three weeks.I only have a few
  
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• Lab worker files suit after plutonium shipping led to firing

  18-10-2018 21:04
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A former worker at a national laboratory who was fired for shipping weapons-grade plutonium by air instead of ground alleges in a lawsuit that he was made a scapegoat for problems at the New Mexico facility. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports that the legal action by Juan Montoya cited […]
  
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• Inbox Jukebox Track of the Day: The Ridiculously Sinister "White Dirt" by Cypress Hill Legend DJ Muggs and Roc Marciano

  18-10-2018 20:21 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave SegalHeavier than Iron Butterfly. Soul Assassins
  DJ Muggs and Roc Marciano, "White Dirt" (Soul Assassins)
  It's very rare for hiphop producers to be making some of their best work nearly three decades into their career—Shabazz Palaces/Knife Knights' Ishmael Butler is one of the few exemplars. But based on the new Cypress Hill LP, Elephants on Acid, and the few tracks from the new collaboration with MC Roc Marciano that I've heard off their new KAOS album (out October 19), that's exa
  
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• Sadie Is a Thoughtful Portrait of a Budding Sociopath

  18-10-2018 19:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Gillian AndersonSadie opens at Northwest Film Forum tomorrow. TJ WILLIAMS JR
  Sadie, the latest from local filmmaker Megan Griffiths (Lucky Them, The Off Hours, Eden), has a perfect Northwest feel. Sadie is 13 years old and lives with her mother in a dilapidated trailer park. The place is both suburban and on the outskirts of society. It seems like a place where people just end up and get stuck, but the residents have created a tight-knit community for themselves.
  Sadie worships her absent fat
  
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• Planned March Demands Vancouver Stop Sending Alt-Right "Dildos" to Portland

  18-10-2018 19:00 via thestranger.com
  Portland has had enough of Patriot Prayer.by Erik Henriksen stopsendingdildostoportland.com
  "It's going to be something to see," says Martin Connolly. "Dildos flying all over Vancouver."
  Connolly is the man behind the "Stop Sending Dildos to Portland" march that will take place in Vancouver, Washington, on Saturday, October 27. Conceived on Reddit, the goal of the protest is, as its poster proclaims, "to tell Vancouver we are sick of Patriot Prayer and the other alt-right dildos."
  For over a yea
  
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• Wet and mild: Warm winter predicted for much of the US

  18-10-2018 18:11
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. meteorologists say winter is looking wet and especially mild for much of the country, thanks to a weak El Nino brewing. The National Weather Service forecasts a warmer than normal winter for the northern and western three-quarters of the nation. Forecaster Mike Halpert said Thursday no place is expected to get […]
  
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• Washington Supreme Court rules sentencing youth to life without parole is unconstitutional

  18-10-2018 17:47
  In a 5-4 decision, the court ruled that trial judges may not impose a minimum term of life for youth.
  
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• Sheriff Blocks Oversight Agency From Looking at Police Misconduct Allegations

  18-10-2018 17:45 via thestranger.com
  
  The King County Sheriff's Office blocked its independent oversight agency from viewing a database of misconduct allegations against its employees.by Lester BlackSheriff Mitzi Johanknecht (left) stands with Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and SPD Chief Carmen Best in July of this year. Lester Black
  The King County Sheriff’s Office (KSCO) has blocked its independent oversight agency from accessing the county’s database of misconduct complaints.Sheriff Mitzi Johanknecht’s chief of staf
  
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• Journal retracts stem cell work by former Harvard scientist

  18-10-2018 17:33
  The New England Journal of Medicine has retracted a 2011 study and is investigating two earlier ones describing stem cell research by a former Harvard Medical School scientist, Dr. Piero Anversa. Harvard and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, where Anversa had worked, have called for the retraction of dozens of articles involving him after […]
  
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• Slog AM: New King County Voters Coming Out in Droves; eBay Accuses Amazon of Top Seller Theft; What’s up With This Sign?

  18-10-2018 17:08 via thestranger.com
  
  by Michael BellStealing? This guy? As if! DREW ANGERER / GETTY IMAGES
  Good news for King County: In 2014 there were 61,191 new voters registered for the midterms. This year there have been 91,239 new voters registered. That’s an enormous increase! And there will be more still—while online/mail registration is now closed, people can still walk-in and register in-person, and the information for where can be found here.Obama dismantles seven common excuses people give for why they don&r
  
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• Slog AM: New King County Voters Coming Out in Droves, eBay Accuses Amazon of Top Seller Theft

  18-10-2018 17:08 via thestranger.com
  
  by Michael BellStealing? This guy? As if! DREW ANGERER / GETTY IMAGES
  Good news for King County: In 2014 there were 61,191 new voters registered for the midterms. This year there have been 91,239 new voters registered. That’s an enormous increase! And there will be more still—while online/mail registration is now closed, people can still walk-in and register in-person, and the information for where can be found here.Obama dismantles seven common excuses people give for why they don&r
  
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• Tunisia flash floods kill at least 5, cause major damage

  18-10-2018 16:41
  TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian authorities say at least five people have been killed in flash floods in the country caused by heavy rains Wednesday and Thursday. The interior ministry’s spokesman Sofian Zaag said two other people are missing. The regions of Bizerte in the north, and of Nabeul, about 70 kilometers (45 miles) east […]
  
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• Heads up: Millions across U.S. set to take part in annual earthquake drill

  18-10-2018 16:10
  The drill will start at 10:18 a.m. on the West Coast.
  
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• Antibiotics in beef: Burger chains are failing the test, except for a couple right here in Washington

  18-10-2018 16:05
  A new report highlights how "many meat producers routinely give the drugs to animals that are not sick either to promote faster growth or to prevent disease caused by factory farm practices."
  
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• Viaduct’s last-ever safety checkup will block traffic this weekend

  18-10-2018 15:00
  The next time it shuts down will be permanent — on Jan. 11 when contractors block the entrances and connect surface ramps into the new Highway 99 tunnel under downtown Seattle.
  
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• Opioid darts, helicopters, refrigerator trucks: How to move a goat from one mountain range to another

  18-10-2018 15:00
  The effort to move nearly 100 mountain goats from Olympic National Park to the North Cascades required refrigerator trucks, helicopters and the state ferry system. Because capture operations use the powerful synthetic opioid Carfentanil, people handling the goats had to carry opioid-reversing drugs.
  
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• King County and Washington state election officials see a surge in voter registration

  18-10-2018 15:00
  Midterm elections often draw more voters than off-year elections, but 2018 is seeing many more voter registering online than in 2014.
  
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• Election 2018: Here’s what you need to know

  18-10-2018 15:00
  Washington voters in the Nov. 6 election will decide on four statewide ballot initiatives, one U.S. Senate race, 10 U.S. House races, half of the state Senate seats, all of the state House seats and dozens of other local issues and races.
  
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• Former Interior Secretary Sally Jewell will guide UW’s new climate initiative

  18-10-2018 14:00
  Seattle's Sally Jewell, the secretary of the interior under President Barack Obama, will help guide a new University of Washington initiative to bring faculty research to bear on climate-change planning.
  
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• Child of the storm: Homeless baby, family shelter at Walmart

  18-10-2018 06:40
  PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — Their home full of soggy furniture and mosquitoes, Wilmer Capps was desperate to find shelter for his wife and their son Luke, born just three days after Hurricane Michael ravaged the Florida Panhandle. So Capps, his wife Lorrainda Smith and little Luke settled in for the longest of nights in […]
  
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• Baby born after Michael starts life in Walmart parking lot

  18-10-2018 06:40
  PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — Their home full of soggy furniture and mosquitoes, Wilmer Capps was desperate to find shelter for his wife and their son Luke, born just three days after Hurricane Michael ravaged the Florida Panhandle. So Capps, wife Lorrainda Smith and little Luke settled in for the longest of nights in the […]
  
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• Congressional candidates Dino Rossi and Kim Schrier clash in lone debate in Ellensburg

  18-10-2018 06:34
  Regarded as a safe seat for Republicans in recent years, the 8th Congressional District was thrown up for grabs last September by the retirement announcement from seven-term U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Auburn.
  
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• Seattle police arrest bank-robbery suspect who escaped from standoff in Chinatown apartment

  18-10-2018 05:17
  The man allegedly robbed a Wells Fargo bank then barricaded himself in an apartment in Chinatown.
  
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• Bank-robbery suspect barricades himself in Chinatown ID apartment

  18-10-2018 05:17
  Officers from the Seattle Police Department and FBI, including negotiators, are on the scene. It is not clear whether the man is armed.
  
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• Bank robbery suspect at large after standoff fizzles

  18-10-2018 05:17
  Police thought a robbery suspect was inside a Chinatown International District apartment Wednesday evening, but later entered the apartment and found no one inside.
  
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• Paul Allen’s death leaves many questions around what’s likely the largest estate in Washington history

  18-10-2018 04:50
  The Paul Allen empire includes a dizzying interplay of for-profit and philanthropic endeavors. His death raises a host of business succession planning and taxation questions, all with significant implications for the city and region Allen loved.
  
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• Federal judge orders EPA to protect salmon from warm temps in Columbia River basin

  18-10-2018 03:47
  Salmon in the Columbia River basin have struggled against slow-moving, warm waters produced by dams.
  
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