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• Remembering Yoko Ott, a Beloved Leader of the Art Community

  31-10-2018 23:58 via thestranger.com
  
  “Yoko lived and worked her values. We will be seeing the positive impact of her legacy for generations.”by Katie KurtzYoko Ott, Oct. 31, 1970 – Oct. 19, 2018 FAYTHE LEVINE
  "Great words won’t cover ugly actions,
  good frames won’t save bad paintings."
  This quote from the song “New Noise” by Swedish punk band Refused is now the forever banner of Yoko Ott’s Facebook profile. Yoko’s profile photo shows her all wild-haired and sexily dressed in a s
  
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• 8th Congressional District candidate Kim Schrier disputes ads claiming she would raise middle-class taxes

  31-10-2018 23:49
  The attacks concerned Schrier enough in the final days of the historically expensive House race that she recorded a video response and posted it to Facebook.
  
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• Counterpoint: There's Plenty to Enjoy in the New Suspiria

  31-10-2018 23:20 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ciara Dolan
  There’s so much to love about Daria Argento’s 1977 giallo horror film Suspiria: the oversaturated color palette of neon pinks and purples; the melodramatic, opulent gore (impaling by stained glass, so fancy!); Goblin’s twinkling score; and viscerally disturbing images of stuff like maggots falling from the ceilings, which will never not make me frantically comb my fingers through my hair. The whole thing feels like a tormented fever dream—intoxicating and a
  
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• Suspect identified in bomb threats to Washington state buildings

  31-10-2018 23:00
  Police say Said Farzad has made multiple bomb threats by phone from countries outside the United States, though they do not where he is now.
  
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• Trump's Fascist Playbook and a Truly Frightening Six-Minute Movie

  31-10-2018 22:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by The StrangerEpisode 172 talks about Trump's fascist script and the scariest Halloween movie you can watch this year. Scott Olson / Getty ImagesSubscribe to the podcast FOR FREE by clicking right here!
  With just days left to go before the midterm elections, Dan Savage, Eli Sanders, and Rich Smith talk about how the fascist future now feels like a very real possibility—if Democrats don’t at least take back the House.Also: Trump’s toxic rhetoric, his terrible response to the Pi
  
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• A New Box Preserves and Expands the Kinks’ The Village Green Preservation Society

  31-10-2018 22:13 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ned LannamannA giant, multi-disc edition of the Kinks’ The Village Green Preservation Society has hit store shelves.Very few bands of the 1960s saw their fortunes wax and wane as much as the Kinks did. The English group came snarling out of the gate with massive hits in the form of the jagged-edged “You Really Got Me” and “All Day and All of the Night,” beating bands like the Rolling Stones and the Who to the top of the pops. But then bandleader Ray Davies turned
  
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• Phishing attempts on Oregon election officials increase

  31-10-2018 21:49
  SALEM — Oregon’s elections director says the voting system in the state has never been more accurate or secure, though the number of phishing attempts targeting elections officials has increased here and elsewhere. Oregon Elections Director Steve Trout told The Associated Press that he himself has been hit by a dozen attempts since July, including […]
  
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• After chase, Snohomish County deputies shoot man suspected in Lynnwood car crash, stabbing

  31-10-2018 21:37
  Witnesses reported the suspect intentionally crashed his car into another, then stabbed its driver and fled.
  
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• Never Gonna Be Speaka Again Now

  31-10-2018 20:45 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageRemember this? October 8, 2016? The day after the Access Hollywood "grab 'em by the pussy" tape broke?I'm talking about 2:48 to 3:02. Yeah. I was reminded of those 14 secondswhen I read this...Nancy Pelosi is declaring victory in the battle for the House. In public and private, the House minority leader — who wants to make history herself by retaking the speaker’s gavel she lost eight years ago — has said Democrats will pick up more than enough seats to win back th
  
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• Open Enrollment for State Healthcare Marketplace Opens Nov. 1

  31-10-2018 20:41 via thestranger.com
  
  The open enrollment period is just six weeks. Thanks Trump!by Katie Herzog Joe Raedle/Getty Images
  The good news: Washington Healthplanfinder, the state marketplace for residents who purchase health insurance on their own, will be open for business as of Tuesday. The bad news: It's only open for six weeks, the shortest open enrollment period since the system lauched in 2013. Thanks Trump!What's President Pig Butt got to do with it? Plenty. While the Affordable Care Act stipulated a minimum of si
  
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• Officials: California dam spillway will be ready for rain

  31-10-2018 20:41
  OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) — California water officials said Wednesday that the $1.1 billion spillway at the nation’s tallest dam will be in full working order if it’s needed this winter, nearly two years after it was damaged and thousands were forced to flee. Crews have finished pouring concrete on the main spillway at Oroville Dam, […]
  
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• California officials say $1.1 billion spillway at nation’s tallest dam will be ready for this year’s rainy season

  31-10-2018 20:39
  OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) — California officials say $1.1 billion spillway at nation’s tallest dam will be ready for this year’s rainy season.
  
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• Tacoma special-needs students without rides for third day with 22 bus drivers out sick

  31-10-2018 20:02
  Some bus drivers spoke to the School Board recently to ask for better work conditions and pay. “We’re overworked,” bus driver Sheryl Armstrong told the board.
  
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• Tacoma special-needs students without rides for third day; 22 bus drivers out sick

  31-10-2018 20:02
  Some bus drivers spoke to the School Board recently to ask for better work conditions and pay. “We’re overworked,” driver Sheryl Armstrong told them.
  
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• Hardy Fox, Main Producer of Musical Subversives the Residents, Has Died

  31-10-2018 19:57 via thestranger.com
  
  Hardy Fox, prime catalyst behind paradigm-shifting musical subversives the Residents, has died.by Dave SegalHardy Fox was... in there somewhere, conspiring to mess up your mind with sound. Cryptic Corporation
  Hardy Fox, who played a major role in creating the uniquely warped sound of long-running audio-visual subversives the Residents, has died from brain cancer at age 73.
  The Residents' Facebook page ran an announcement last night. Formed in Shreveport, Louisiana and based for most of their car
  
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• Startling new research finds large buildup of heat in the oceans, suggesting a faster rate of global warming

  31-10-2018 19:32
  In essence, the higher-than-expected amount of heat in the oceans signals that global warming itself is more advanced than scientists thought.
  
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• Oregon State Police finish testing backlog of rape kits

  31-10-2018 19:32
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon State Police say they have finished testing a backlog of thousands of evidence kits collected after sexual assaults. KOIN-TV reported Wednesday that more than 5,000 kits were stored as evidence for years and were discovered in 2015. New legislation passed in 2016 allowed testing of those kits and a […]
  
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• Extreme Right-Wing Washington Rep. Distributes Extreme Right-Wing "Biblical Basis for War"

  31-10-2018 19:31 via thestranger.com
  
  Matt Shea is at it again!by Katie HerzogWarrior for an invisible God and Washington state Representative Matt Shea Washington State RepublicansWhat a time to be alive! Washington Rep. Matt Shea has admitted that he's responsible for distributing a four-page manifesto entitled “Biblical Basis for War," which reads like something out of an apocolyptic Sunday school handbook.
  The Spokesman Review reports:The document is organized in 14 sections with multiple tiers of bullet points and a smatt
  
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• Spokane man must pay $600,000 for Idaho triple-fatal boat crash

  31-10-2018 18:00
  A jury on Monday determined Dennis Magner of Spokane is 30 percent responsible for the 2016 crash that killed two men and a woman.
  
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• Big Soda Breaks $21.5 Million in Fundraising for I-1634

  31-10-2018 17:25 via thestranger.com
  
  by Nathalie GrahamLive look at our elections drowning in corporate money! artisteer/Getty Images
  The Big Soda coalition that wants to stop any and all future taxes on any and all groceries quietly cracked open another can of funding this morning.The Yes on 1634 campaign, the anti-grocery tax, poured $7 million more dollars into their campaign. That brings their total campaign contributions to over $20 million.Only 10 entities have contributed funds. Nearly $17 million alone has come from the Coc
  
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• We Did the Math Wrong

  31-10-2018 16:55 via thestranger.com
  
  Robert Bowers broke into my family’s synagogue and began firing. We did not put armed guards outside to protect ourselves, because we thought it was a normal day.by Eve AndrewsPeople gathered to hold a prayer session Monday afternoon at the site of the mass shooting that killed 11 people and wounded 6 at the Tree Of Life Synagogue.Jeff Swensen / StringerOn October 27, a man named Robert Bowers broke into a service at my family’s synagogue in Pittsburgh and began firing. Because, in h
  
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• Slog AM: Washington Wants to Teach the Kids About Jobs, Eastern Washington Teaches Teachers to Disarm

  31-10-2018 16:29 via thestranger.com
  
  by Michael BellA for effort. dolgachov/ Getty Images
  How do we reach these keedz? Apparently four out of five voters think our state is failing to prepare kids for "the workplace," whatever the fuck that is. From the Seattle Times, "the state has recently launched a public-private initiative called Career Connect Washington that aims to link high school and college classes to jobs," and Governor Jay Inslee is a big supporter. He even went to Switzerland to learn more about their similar programs
  
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• Rain boots required: Seattle may be in for wettest Halloween in years

  31-10-2018 14:42
  Seattle may get as much rain on Halloween as the area received during all of September.
  
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• Russia blames rocket failure on technical malfunction

  31-10-2018 14:15
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s space agency said on Wednesday that an investigation has found that a rocket carrying a crew to the International Space Station failed three weeks ago because of a technical malfunction of a sensor. The Soyuz-FG rocket carrying a NASA astronaut and a Roscosmos cosmonaut failed two minutes into the Oct. 11 […]
  
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• These are the luckiest — and unluckiest — places to play the Washington lottery, data show

  31-10-2018 14:00
  ZIP code data reveal where it was most likely to buy a winner in Washington's lottery last year.
  
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• Race for Washington State Supreme Court pits incumbent against candidate who has raised no money

  31-10-2018 14:00
  In recent weeks, the state Supreme Court has gotten attention because of high-profile rulings overturning the death penalty and life without parole for juveniles, as well as a ruling upholding the reworked charter-school law.
  
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• Gonzalez vs. Choi: How much will a name help — or hurt — in race for Washington State Supreme Court?

  31-10-2018 14:00
  In recent weeks, the state Supreme Court has gotten attention because of high-profile rulings overturning the death penalty and life without parole for juveniles, as well as a ruling upholding the reworked charter-school law.
  
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• Gonzalez vs. Choi: How much will a name help — or hurt — in a race for Washington State Supreme Court?

  31-10-2018 14:00
  In recent weeks, the Supreme Court has gotten lots of attention because of high-profile rulings overturning the death penalty and life without parole for juveniles, as well as a ruling upholding the state’s reworked charter school law
  
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• Flyers citing Latino businesses’ opposition to carbon fee ignites campaign controversy

  31-10-2018 14:00
  Proponents of Initiative 1631, on the Nov. 6 statewide ballot, allege misleading tactics, and some business owners say they did not expect their enterprises to be listed on the flyers. No on 1631 says it got signed consents for the endorsements.
  
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• Flyer citing Latino businesses’ opposition to carbon fee ignites campaign controversy

  31-10-2018 14:00
  Proponents of Initiative 1631, on the Nov. 6 statewide ballot, allege misleading tactics, and some business owners say they did not expect their enterprises to be listed on the flyer. No on 1631 says it got signed consents for the endorsements.
  
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• Washington voters don’t think schools prepare kids for careers. The state is trying to change that.

  31-10-2018 13:00
  Washington is starting a public-partnership that will give high school and college students real-world work experiences, including internships and apprentices, with the aim of closely connecting students to good jobs.
  
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• Billionaires back fusion energy projects in pursuit of a ‘SpaceX moment’

  31-10-2018 02:56
  A growing number of ultrarich clean-energy advocates are pouring money into startups that aim to produce the first commercially viable fusion reactor, fueling discoveries that could someday generate clean, almost limitless energy.
  
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• Prosecutors: Suspect became ‘fixated’ on homeless man before fatal Seattle shooting

  31-10-2018 02:55
  John Thomas Davis had grown increasingly frustrated and angry about increasing crime that he blamed on the homeless before the deadly shooting in the Licton Springs neighborhood. King County prosecutors said.
  
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• A mobster of many enemies, Whitey Bulger may have been killed in a hit

  31-10-2018 02:39
  James “Whitey” Bulger had amassed enemy after enemy over a lifetime of murder, extortion, double-crossing and — in a breach of the cardinal rule of his ilk — snitching on rival mobsters. When Bulger was sent to federal prison about five years ago after more than a decade on the run, his enemies remained, their […]
  
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• Slog PM: Big Daddy Bezos Is Bleedin' Billions, Seattle City Council Doesn't Want You to Pay to Bleed

  31-10-2018 02:08 via thestranger.com
  
  Lime wants to break into the car market, climate change is making for soggy Venice dinners, Canadians smoke too much cannabis for the U.S. Borderby Nathalie GrahamWhat could a tampon cost? $10?emapoket/Getty Images
  Pullman police officer charged with assaulting drunk WSU freshman: The Washington State University student was drunk. She got a ride home to her dorm from a police officer. Arguably, the responsible thing to do. The officer then allegedly blackmailed her, saying she didn’t follo
  
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• Des Moines police search for suspect car in Sunday shooting

  31-10-2018 01:30
  A man was fatally shot near a Des Moines shopping complex Sunday night. Police are now searching for a tan or gold 1998-2001 Toyota Camry LE.
  
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• ‘My life was wasted’: Whitey Bulger once penned a letter to three teens about his regrets

  31-10-2018 01:18
  Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger penned a letter to three teenage girls in 2015, telling them that he was "a 9th grade dropout" who "took the wrong road." Bulger, imprisoned for life for his role in 11 murders, died in prison Tuesday.
  
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• Your Complete Guide to Last-Minute and Affordable Halloween 2018 Events in Seattle

  31-10-2018 00:59 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffIs your Halloween costume this elaborate? We've listed tons of parties at which to show it off (and to win prizes for it). Kelly O
  If you missed your chance to get tickets to the biggest Halloween parties and concerts (or you don't want to shell out the cash), fear not: There are still tons of events happening around town that won't cost more than $15. We've rounded them all up below, from parties (like the Chophouse Row Halloween Costume Party) to music shows (like
  
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• Concerned woman’s phone call saves German hiker’s life

  31-10-2018 00:58
  Authorities say the hiker's shelter had blown away and that she wanted to call for help but had no cell service.
  
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• Concerned Sultan woman’s phone call saves German hiker’s life

  31-10-2018 00:58
  Authorities say the hiker's shelter had blown away and that she wanted to call for help but had no cell service.
  
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• After two employees were killed on Highway 18, Snoqualmie Casino offers $1M for safety improvements

  31-10-2018 00:23
  Snoqualmie Casino is offering the state $1 million to accelerate safety improvements on Highway 18 after two casino employees were killed in a head-on collision at Tiger Mountain summit. Maria Wong and Jasmine Lao were on their way to work early Oct. 12 on the highway when a pickup crossed the centerline and collided with […]
  
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• Big Oil Is Exploiting Latinos in Washington State With Misleading Advertising

  31-10-2018 00:19 via thestranger.com
  
  This money is being used for deceptive tactics to mislead voters.by Nathalie GrahamBig Oil is "Not Good" Nathalie Graham
  What the fuck are the petroleum companies behind the No on 1631 campaign even doing?The carbon fee on Washington's ballot, Initiative 1631, is one of the most hotly contested races for this midterm election season. Big Oil is scared that Washington is going to pass I-1631. Petroleum companies from all over the country have been dumping money into the campaign. They've also bee
  
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• 126 Stranger (Than Usual) Things To Do in Seattle This Week: Oct 30-Nov 4, 2018

  31-10-2018 00:11 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffBeat your post-Halloween blues at the third annual Cunning Crow Witches' Ball & Pop-Up Market on Saturday, where you and your coven can dance to indie-rock, shop from mystical vendors, and enter a costume contest.
  Our arts critics have already recommended 84 great things to do this week and our music critics have picked the 47 best concerts, but there are still hundreds more events happening. To prevent some of the quirkier and more extraordinary ones from slipp
  
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• ‘Super coral’ scientist dies in Hawaii at age 56

  31-10-2018 00:04
  HONOLULU (AP) — Pioneering coral reef scientist Ruth Gates, who dedicated much of her career to saving the world’s fragile and deteriorating underwater reef ecosystems, has died. She was 56. The University of Hawaii said Tuesday that Gates died in Honolulu on Thursday. The researcher, also the president of the International Society for Reef Studies, […]
  
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