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• Tully’s creditors seek to force parent of embattled coffee chain into bankruptcy

  24-10-2018 23:42
  By filing the petition for involuntary Chapter 7 bankruptcy against Tully’s Seattle-based parent company, Global Baristas US, the four creditors are essentially pressing the recalcitrant coffee chain to address a long list of overdue debts.
  
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• I Hope Christians Like Bohemian Rhapsody, Because Someone Should

  24-10-2018 23:35 via thestranger.com
  
  It's a ballet of tragic gay clichés.by Chase BurnsThis LEGO bust of Freddie Mercury has more depth than anything you'll find in Bohemian Rhapsody. Cate Gillon / GettyQueen is one of America's few commonalities, which is funny because the band isn't even American. "Bohemian Rhapsody" plagues every middle school dance. It haunts the jukeboxes across this great nation's rural bars. The specter of Queen is everywhere, maintaining an apolitical place in our culture, even though its lead singer
  
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• Seattle middle-school student injured in crash near Cle Elum dies

  24-10-2018 23:01
  Two Seattle boys were killed and a third injured in the August crash about two miles east of Cle Elum. The driver of the car, the father of one of the boys, is facing criminal charges.
  
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• Costco gets the go-ahead for expanded corporate headquarters in Issaquah

  24-10-2018 22:55
  The retailer plans to add a nine-story, 620,000-square-foot office building and adjacent parking garage with about 1,650 stalls at its Issaquah campus.
  
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• Inbox Jukebox Track of the Day: The Spooky Post-Punk of "Raven Raven" by Anika's Newish Band, Exploded View

  24-10-2018 22:54 via thestranger.com
  
  Check out the seasonably apropos post-punk of "Raven Raven" by Anika's newish band, Exploded View, who play Vera Project on Oct. 30.by Dave SegalThere's no (candy) corn in this seasonably apt track—just unfiltered, low-key menace. Exploded View
  Exploded View, "Raven Raven" (Sacred Bones)
  After proving herself the Nico of post-modern, 21st-century dub earlier this decade with a series of outstanding releases on Geoff Barrow's Invada label, Anika (Berlin-based Welsh political journalist Anni
  
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• Why Not Donkey Punching?

  24-10-2018 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Savage Love Letter of the Dayby Dan Savage
  Originally published October 26, 2006.
  I'm working with Wikipedia, where we're currently debating the "Donkey Punch." It may not be real, but Wikipedia has articles on perpetual motion, sewer alligators, and creationism—why not Donkey Punching? The difference, though, is that the Donkey Punch (fucking someone in the ass and then punching them hard in the back of the head or neck, so that the sudden pain and/or unconsciousness causes the asshole to
  
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• Submit Your Events For The Winter Edition of Seattle Art and Performance Today

  24-10-2018 22:19 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffThe submission deadline is today, October 24.
  It's not yet Halloween, but it's officially time to think about winter—including the winter edition of Seattle Art and Performance, the city's most comprehensive seasonal arts guide, which will be out on the streets on December 5.
  If you have an event you'd like to see included, we need to know about it today—Wednesday, October 24.
  The winter edition of Seattle Art and Performance covers visual art shows, rea
  
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• Science Says: Fatal outbreak germ a threat to frail patients

  24-10-2018 22:10
  A common virus blamed for a deadly outbreak at a New Jersey children’s rehabilitation center usually poses little risk for healthy people but can lead to dangerous pneumonia in already frail patients. The patients, most younger than 18, were infected by a germ called adenovirus 7, a strain that is among the more potent of […]
  
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• Shit Is Crazy, Shit Is Yaeji: A Seattle-born Prophecy of Asian Music Representation Comes True

  24-10-2018 21:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Greg ScruggsYaeji at the Showbox last night. Yiting Lim
  When the first familiar drum machine beats of Yaeji’s “Feel It Out” enveloped the cavernous confines of the Showbox last night, the assembled crowd collectively lost its shit. “I love you, Yaeji!” they screamed, as the Brooklyn-based artist née Kathy Yaeji Lee pranced onto the stage for an hour-long solo performance.
  Yaeji, a 25-year-old Korean-American house music producer, is on a remarkable rise th
  
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• Councilmember Sawant says Seattle could slow police hiring, cut bureaucrats to replace head-tax money

  24-10-2018 21:41
  No other council members have signed onto Kshama Sawant's call, and she needs at least two allies to advance the idea in budget talks.
  
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• Kissing Comes Up a Lot on Mitski's New Album, Be the Cowboy

  24-10-2018 21:15 via thestranger.com
  by Ciara DolanMitski plays the Showbox Sodo on Wed., Oct 31; the show is sold out. Bao Ngo
  When Mitski Miyawaki’s new record Be the Cowboy came out in August, my friend wondered, “Is this a concept album about kissing?” Upon closer inspection, kissing does come up a lot: On “Nobody,” an electrifying ode to loneliness, Mitski pleads, “I know no one will save me/I’m just asking for a kiss/Give me one good movie kiss/And I’ll be all right.” On t
  
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• Jonah Hill’s Mid90s Is a Nostalgic Portrait of Patriarchal Found Families

  24-10-2018 21:00 via thestranger.com
  Jonah Hill’s directorial debut paints a nostalgic portrait of patriarchal found families.by Suzette SmithThere’s little you can expect about Jonah Hill’s directorial debut, Mid90s, based on what you know about him as an actor. The Hill we’re familiar with—first as the hilarious loudmouth in Superbad, then as the writhing, Quaalude-popping businessman in The Wolf of Wall Street, and most recently as a super-sad potential schizophrenic in Cary Fukunaga’s Maniac&
  
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• Last-Minute Halloween Costume Ideas!

  24-10-2018 20:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by The StrangerSexy Midterm Election Anxiety
  Sexy Bird E-Scooter
  Sexy Angry Miniature Horse
  Sexy Climate Change
  Sexy Ex's Costume from Last Year (come get your stuff, Seth!)
  Sexy Saudi Bone Saw
  Sexy Self-Checkout Machine at QFC
  Sexy Couch (achieved by taping couch cushions to your front and back)
  
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• Man injured in Capitol Hill shooting, prompting police gang-unit investigation

  24-10-2018 20:42
  The man, 21, was treated for a non-life threatening wounds, according to Seattle police.
  
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• Man injured in Capitol Hill shooting; gang unit investigating

  24-10-2018 20:42
  The man, 21, was treated for non-life-threatening wounds, according to Seattle police.
  
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• El Nino could bring drought relief to southwestern US

  24-10-2018 20:23
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Climatologists say conditions are right for development of an El Nino weather pattern that could bring wetter than normal conditions this winter in drought-stricken area of the southwestern U.S. But weather researchers said Wednesday that even if an El Nino occurs, that doesn’t assure that parched areas of the Southwest will […]
  
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• Super Typhoon Yutu hits Northern Marianas with 180 mph winds

  24-10-2018 20:10
  HONOLULU (AP) — Super Typhoon Yutu is crossing over the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands producing damaging winds, flooding and high surf. The National Weather Service says maximum sustained winds of 180 mph (290 kph) were recorded around the eye of the storm, which passed over Tinian and Saipan early Thursday local time. […]
  
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• Northern Marianas slammed by strongest US storm this year

  24-10-2018 20:10
  HONOLULU (AP) — Super Typhoon Yutu crossed over the U.S. commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands early Thursday as the equivalent of a category 5 hurricane, making it the strongest storm to hit any part of the U.S. this year, the National Weather Service said. “At its peak, it felt like many trains running constant,” […]
  
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• Injuries reported in Marianas after Super Typhoon Yutu hits

  24-10-2018 20:10
  HONOLULU (AP) — Super Typhoon Yutu crossed over the U.S. commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands early Thursday as the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane, making it the strongest storm to hit any part of the U.S. this year, the National Weather Service said. Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marina […]
  
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• Seattle energy consultant gets 4 years for fraud tied to Oregon solar tax credits

  24-10-2018 19:51
  Martin Shain has been sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison for evading income taxes on $1.3 million in commissions he collected in a fraud scheme involving the sale of solar energy tax credits.
  
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• What Happens When You Juice Pot Leaves

  24-10-2018 19:32 via thestranger.com
  
  by Lester BlackIs this the medicine of the future?Lester Black
  The pot leaf made a pleasing snap as I grabbed it by its stem and ripped it off a cannabis plant. I threw that leaf in my bag and grabbed another, then another, then another. I was going to need a lot of leaves.
  The pot plant I was pulling leaves off of was more than 12 feet tall and full of plump flowers reaching toward the sky. But I wasn't after those nuggets. What I was making required only the leaves, and a lot of them. After fi
  
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• National environmental group buys $1 million in ads against Dino Rossi

  24-10-2018 19:16
  The League of Conservation Voters Victory Fund's anti-Rossi ad campaign is its largest among the more than $15 million it has committed to 26 House races, a spokeswoman says.
  
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• US approves first new type of flu drug in 2 decades

  24-10-2018 19:12
  The government on Wednesday approved Xofluza, a new drug that can reduce severity and shorten duration of flu symptoms after one just dose. It comes after a brutal flu season last year and just ahead of the brunt of this winter's flu season.
  
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• Oh My God, Come From Away Is Unbelievably Good

  24-10-2018 18:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher FrizzelleIt’s better than ‘Hamilton,’ okay? Plus, it’s only one act! MATT MURPHY
  After seeing Come From Away, I've been asking friends to help me try to describe how good it is.
  A friend who saw it said: "I've been telling my friends about it, and I'm trying to make them see it next week. I described it as the best show I've ever seen, and I've seen Hamilton."
  I found myself in full agreement. I saw Hamilton when it came through town earlier this year, afte
  
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• Dig at Italy’s Pompeii volcanic site yields 5 skeletons

  24-10-2018 18:21
  MILAN (AP) — The Italian news agency ANSA says new excavations in the ancient buried city of Pompeii have yielded the undisturbed skeletons of people who had taken refuge from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D.79. The director of the Pompeii archaeological site, Massimo Osanna, told ANSA on Wednesday the skeletons — believed to […]
  
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• Voting: You’re Not Going to Do It Wrong

  24-10-2018 18:20 via thestranger.com
  
  A message from the director of King County Electionsby Julie WiseJulie Wise, Director of King County Elections. COURTESY OF KING COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF ELECTIONS
  As the Director of Elections, sometimes I forget how intimidating voting can be. Even practiced voters can be overwhelmed when faced with a lengthy voters’ pamphlet, complicated ballot language, and races for positions they’ve never even heard of.For new voters, it can be downright daunting. Wait, my ballot comes in the mail?
  
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• Report: Efforts to suck carbon from air must be ramped up

  24-10-2018 18:01
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. report says efforts to suck heat-trapping gases out of the air must be ramped up to fight climate change. The report Wednesday from the National Academy of Sciences says technology to do so has gotten better, and climate change is worsening. By mid-century, the world needs to be removing about […]
  
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• Does Ted Bundy Still Haunt the Northgate Mall?

  24-10-2018 17:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Nathalie Graham Greg Houston
  Serial killer Ted Bundy drove a tan Volkswagen Bug. It was a run-down car, but he had thing for Volkswagens. He thought they were good for transporting cargo.
  In 1974, a woman was on her way to a meeting at Northgate General, a hospital that used to be attached to Northgate Mall. She was headed north on Interstate 5 when she took the wrong exit and got lost. She saw a tan Bug in her rearview mirror. Seattle's harrowingly narrow streets were hard for her to navigat
  
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• Slog AM: King County Is Looking Out for Our LGBTQ Community, Secret Service Intercepts Bombs Sent to the Clintons and Obama

  24-10-2018 17:20 via thestranger.com
  
  by Michael BellCareful of the mail, you guys!EVAN EL-AMIN / SHUTTERSTOCK.COM
  Being homophobic is just too darned expensive: The owners of the Oregon bakery that refused to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple’s wedding is filing to appeal their $135,000 fine to the U.S. Supreme Court. It's tough out there for homophobes these days, but with a stacked Supreme Court, who knows?
  Meanwhile King County is now looking out for ways to support our LGBTQ community: The latest King County Commun
  
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• EU parliament backs ban, limits on single-use plastics

  24-10-2018 15:08
  BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Parliament has overwhelmingly backed a wide-ranging ban on single-use plastics to counter pollution in seas, fields and waterways. The ban would affect a range of products for which valid alternatives are available — from plastic straws to earbuds and plates — as of 2021 and would make sure that plastic […]
  
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• Woman who created green bean casserole dies at 92

  24-10-2018 15:06
  HADDONFIELD, N.J. (AP) — The woman who created a Thanksgiving staple — the green bean casserole — enjoyed by millions has died at age 92. Dorcas Reilly died on Oct. 15 of Alzheimer’s disease, said Ken Tomlinson of the Hinski-Tomlinson Funeral Home in Haddonfield, New Jersey. Campbell Soup officials said the New Jersey resident was […]
  
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• Death toll hits 7 in viral outbreak at pediatric center

  24-10-2018 15:05
  Adenoviruses are a group of common viruses that typically cause mild illnesses, from cold-like symptoms to conjunctivitis. But people with weakened immune systems, particularly children, are at higher risk of severe illness.
  
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• Child death toll hits 7 in viral outbreak at rehab center

  24-10-2018 15:05
  Adenoviruses are a group of common viruses that typically cause mild illnesses, from cold-like symptoms to conjunctivitis. But people with weakened immune systems, particularly children, are at higher risk of severe illness.
  
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• The ‘Kavanaugh echo’ hits a Washington state legislative race

  24-10-2018 15:00
  Far from torpedoing the campaign of Sen. Joe Fain, R-Auburn, a rape allegation against him may have rallied a backlash of support. It comes as views on sexual assault suddenly are more tribal by party than views on many actual political issues, like taxes.
  
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• Tacoma Dome returns with a bang after $30 million renovation, expecting boost from KeyArena closure

  24-10-2018 15:00
  With KeyArena closing for a two-year, $700 million overhaul, Tacoma Dome brass expect a spike in high-profile concerts coming their way. Drake, Joe Walsh, Justin Timberlake and Twenty One Pilots are among the performers scheduled there in November.
  
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• State law-enforcement groups oppose firearms Initiative 1639, but top King County officials support it

  24-10-2018 15:00
  Some Washington law-enforcement groups contend that Initiative 1639 is unconstitutional and won't reduce gun violence. But the gun-regulations proposal is supported by top King County law-enforcement officials.
  
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• Behind the scenes at the Georgetown Morgue, a Seattle Halloween tradition

  24-10-2018 15:00
  Looking for spooky fun this Halloween season? A haunted house at the Georgetown Morgue offers an elaborate haunting experience.
  
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• Association of Washington cities backs Seattle in legal battle over income tax

  24-10-2018 15:00
  Despite the varying politics of the state's 281 municipalities, their association supports Seattle's bid for an income tax. The group has signed a letter to the state Supreme Court and bases its stand on "the issue of home rule," says the CEO.
  
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• Activist groups file First Amendment lawsuit in Seattle over ICE arrests

  24-10-2018 15:00
  Two Washingtonians, including well-known activist Maru Mora-Villalpando, are among those targeted for speaking out about immigration policies and arrests, according to the lawsuit.The intent, it says, is to "stifle dissent."
  
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• Snohomish County deputy fatally shoots man after chase ends in Bothell

  24-10-2018 14:54
  The shooting happened after sheriff's deputies responded to a report of a disturbance in unincorporated Snohomish County.
  
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• Boeing tops all expectations on strong defense spending

  24-10-2018 14:09
  The Chicago planemaker had a profit of $2.36 billion, or $4.07 per share, topping expectations for the third quarter and raising its outlook for the year on expanding defense spending.
  
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• Boeing 3Q profit rises 31 percent, tops expectations

  24-10-2018 14:09
  The Chicago planemaker had a profit of $2.36 billion, or $4.07 per share, topping expectations for the third quarter and raising its outlook for the year on expanding defense spending.
  
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• Judge chases inmates during attempted escape in Chehalis

  24-10-2018 13:21
  The judge chased the inmates down four flights of stairs and grabbed one just as he was about to flee the courthouse. The other got out but was arrested nearby.
  
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• They Say Cannabis Is Bad for Your Memory. Is that True?

  24-10-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  The latest science on weed and memory.by Katie HerzogIf you happened to be reading the UK's Daily Mail this past July (and, really, who wasn't?), you may have seen a headline with disturbing implications for the stoners among us. "Long-term use of cannabis... impairs memory, concludes researchers," the headline read.The truth, like most things, is more complicated. Researchers in this particular study found that long-term exposure to cannabinoids—the compounds found in weed—led to "s
  
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