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• Nine Places to Find Booze Bargains on Black Friday 2018 in Seattle

  21-11-2018 23:53 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffDon't miss Sun Liquor's eggnog, which has a cult following of devoted fans and regularly sells out each year, at Sol Liquor Lounge this Friday. Sun Liquor via Facebook
  If the mere idea of Black Friday bargain-hunting makes you yearn for a stiff drink, you're in luck: plenty of bars, wineries, and breweries use the day as an opportunity to offer special discounts, rare releases, and black beers. We've rounded them all up for your convenience below. For even more idea
  
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• Places to Find Booze Bargains on Black Friday

  21-11-2018 23:42 via thestranger.com
  Nine Places to Find Booze Bargains on Black Friday.by Stranger Things To Do StaffIf the mere idea of Black Friday bargain-hunting makes you yearn for a stiff drink, you're in luck: plenty of bars, wineries, and breweries use the day as an opportunity to offer special discounts, rare releases, and black beers. We've rounded them all up for your convenience below.Esquin Wine Merchants
  Snag an additional 10% off on all wines, with over 5,400 to choose from, in addition to discounts on cases and mor
  
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• 27 Movies Worth Watching in Seattle This Weekend: Nov 21-25, 2018

  21-11-2018 23:34 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffGreen Book dramatizes the meeting of Black Jamaican brilliance and the Deep South in 1962.
  By many accounts, the new movies to watch over Thanksgiving weekend are Green Book with Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen and Creed II with Michael B. Jordan, Tessa Thompson, and Sylvester Stallone, but there are plenty of other worthy options. Love world cinema? The Swedish fable Border and the Mexican comedy Museo starring Gael Garcia Bernal both look extremely promising, o
  
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• 26 Movies Worth Watching in Seattle This Weekend: Nov 21-25, 2018

  21-11-2018 23:34 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffGreen Book dramatizes the meeting of Black Jamaican brilliance and the Deep South in 1962.
  By many accounts, the new movies to watch over Thanksgiving weekend are Green Book with Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen and Creed II with Michael B. Jordan, Tessa Thompson, and Sylvester Stallone, but there are plenty of other worthy options. Love world cinema? The Swedish fable Border and the Mexican comedy Museo starring Gael Garcia Bernal both look extremely promising, o
  
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• Winter storm watch issued for Stevens and Snoqualmie passes for Thursday through Friday

  21-11-2018 23:30
  A strong weather system from the Pacific will bring the bulk of the snow on Thursday, followed by a weaker system on Friday, according to the National Weather Service.
  
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• New Next Door Neighbors Force Woman to Watch Them Fight, Fuck, Shit, Trim Pubes

  21-11-2018 23:20 via thestranger.com
  
  Savage Love Letter of the Dayby Dan Savage
  My small bedroom window looks DIRECTLY into my neighbor's kitchen, living room, and bathroom. We're close enough that their apartment takes up my entire view—I literally can't look out my window without looking into their apartment. (Happy to send you a photo, if you doubt how obtrusive this apartment is.)Three years ago, a poly couple moved in, took down the existing shades, and never replaced them. Since then, I've been forced into being a part
  
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• The Seattle Times Editorial Board Won't Stop Making Bad Arguments About Fain

  21-11-2018 22:55 via thestranger.com
  
  The Times is wrong again, and this time they're being dumber than they have to be.by Rich SmithSo many bad arguments in one little place.SEATTLE MUNICIPAL ARCHIVES
  The same editorial board who said they "believe Candace Faber’s accusations should be taken seriously and fully investigated" is now calling for Washington lawmakers to drop their investigation of former state senator Joe Fain, who was accused of raping Faber in a hotel room in 2007 after she graduated from a master's program at
  
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• A natural ‘wonder of the Earth,’ the size of Minnesota, was built by termites in Brazil

  21-11-2018 22:30
  In Brazil, the insects built 200 million mounds of rock-hard dirt.
  
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• Gay Immigrant Attacked in North Seattle After Being Outed by House Guest

  21-11-2018 22:20 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogSteffi Loos/Getty
  This week, the Seattle Times published a story about an alleged hate crime that took place recently in Seattle's Cameroonian community. According to the paper, an unnamed immigrant from Cameroon was attacked outside his home in North Seattle last month, allegedly by two other Cameroonians. Why? Because the man is gay.
  The victim, according to Seattle police and prosecutors, was approached by two men he knew early on the morning of October 21. "One of them grabbed
  
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• Researchers discover Oregon’s first dinosaur fossil

  21-11-2018 22:18
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — University of Oregon scientists discovered a dinosaur bone, the first fossil from a land-dwelling prehistoric creature found in the state. The Oregonian/OregonLive reported the discovery came in 2015 when earth sciences professor Greg Retallack was in central Oregon, leading a field expedition of students looking for fossilized plants near the town […]
  
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• California raises more than $800 million in carbon auction

  21-11-2018 21:57
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California raised more than $800 million from selling permits to release greenhouse gases in the latest quarterly auction. Auction results released Wednesday show all available permits were sold through California’s cap-and-trade program. The program requires polluters to obtain permits for each ton of carbon they release. Sixty percent of the revenue […]
  
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• This Romaine Lettuce Fiasco Is the Best Thing to Happen to West Coast Thanksgivings, Ever

  21-11-2018 21:48 via thestranger.com
  
  One thing we can learn from this E. coli outbreak is that salad never belonged on the Thanksgiving table.by Lester BlackWhy would you put hot gravy on romaine lettuce? ANIKO HOBE / GETTY IMAGES
  I took great pleasure in seeing yesterday's PSA from my colleague Rich Smith proclaiming that everyone must toss out their romaine lettuce "until further notice," because of a nationwide E. coli outbreak. This bacterial outbreak is perfectly timed to rid Seattle of its greatest seasonal affliction: salad
  
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• Ash from Alaska volcano prompts aviation warning

  21-11-2018 21:06
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An active Alaska volcano is ramping up, spewing ash emissions nearly 3 miles (5 kilometers) into the air. Alaska Volcano Observatory scientists said Wednesday that overnight ash emissions from Mount Veniaminof (VEN’-ee-ah-mean-off) generated an ash plume that drifted more than 150 miles (241 kilometers) to the southeast. The community of Perryville […]
  
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• The One (and Only) Trump Thing We're Thankful For

  21-11-2018 20:57 via thestranger.com
  Episode 175 of the Blabbermouth Podcastby The StrangerSubscribe to the podcast FOR FREE by clicking right here!On the day before Thanksgiving, Dan Savage, Eli Sanders, and Rich Smith sit around the table and say things about Trump’s terrible, no-good, un-American week that you *might* not want to repeat while your conservative uncle’s carving turkey.After that, Katie Herzog arrives with a shocking side-dish of inarguably good, Republican-supported criminal justice reform policy that
  
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• Scientists wind up deep-water probes in Caribbean waters

  21-11-2018 20:30
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A rarely seen shark embryo. Corals up to 7 feet (2 meters) high. Sponges with sharp edges. These were among the hundreds of findings reported by U.S. scientists who have wrapped up a 22-day mission exploring waters around Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands in the deepest dives […]
  
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• Scientists find possible new species in Caribbean waters

  21-11-2018 20:30
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.S. scientists have wrapped up a 22-day mission exploring waters around Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands with the deepest dives ever recorded in the region. They found a rare shark embryo, 2-meter (7 feet) high corals and sponges with sharp edges, among hundreds of other things. Daniel […]
  
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• The Great White Nope: Joe Kennedy III Reverses Position On Pot

  21-11-2018 19:47 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  Remember Joe Kennedy III? The sexy ginger dude who gave the Democratic response to Trump's first State of the Union address ten thousand years ago back in January?
  Kennedy delivered the Democratic response because, like everyone with D after his name, he's thinking about running for president in 2020. It was a good speech and it got some people talking about how we might wanna think about putting another Kennedy in the White House. But immediately after Kennedy delivered what was s
  
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• AP Explains: The hunt for missing, dead in California fire

  21-11-2018 19:47
  Here are questions and answers about the search for the dead and missing after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in at least a century destroyed the town of Paradise, population 27,000, and surrounding communities.
  
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• Entering Fat Bitch Territory with Kim Selling

  21-11-2018 19:44 via thestranger.com
  
  “If you wanna look cute and be comfortable then do it.”by Jasmyne KeimigThe latest installment of Prairie Underground's artist series features Stranger music calendar editor and Gramma editor Kim Selling, who has created two open-size garments (from 0 up to around 32) out of sheer silk organza. Mel Carter for Prairie Underground
  I think scrub-like attire is the next wave of fashion. Comfortable and customizable,scrubs provide a solid frame of reference for endless design possibilitie
  
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• Mars landing comes down to final 6 minutes of 6-month trip

  21-11-2018 19:24
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — It all comes down to the final six minutes of a six-month journey to Mars. NASA’s InSight spacecraft will enter the Martian atmosphere at supersonic speed, then hit the brakes to get to a soft, safe landing on the alien red plains. After micromanaging every step of the way, flight […]
  
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• Future Seattle Superstar

  21-11-2018 19:15 via thestranger.com
  by Dave Segal SAMANTHA ANNETTE OKADA MESA
  While working as a line cook at the ramen restaurant Kizuki, the 22-year-old Seattle producer/DJ named Chong the Nomad had a brilliant idea. She decided to record mundane kitchen sounds—ladles hitting vats, chopsticks hitting bowls, door knocks, coworker grunts—and then use the raw samples to make music. The track was intended to promote an upcoming gig. But the result—an astounding, frolicking, distorted-bass-heavy dance track she rele
  
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• Experimental plane flies silently, may lead to quiet drones

  21-11-2018 19:00
  NEW YORK (AP) — A nearly silent, drone-sized aircraft has shown it can fly, thanks to a scientist who was inspired by watching “Star Trek” as a child. With neither propellers nor jets, the airplane gets its thrust by applying a strong electric field to the air. That general idea has been demonstrated at science […]
  
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• DeVos reinstates for-profit college watchdog that was cut under Obama

  21-11-2018 18:07
  Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is restoring federal recognition of an accrediting group that oversees dozens of for-profit colleges but was shut down by the Obama administration. Her decision released Wednesday says the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools passed muster in 19 of 21 areas reviewed. DeVos says she is restoring the group’s recognition […]
  
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• DeVos reinstates for-profit college watchdog cut under Obama

  21-11-2018 18:07
  Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Wednesday restored federal recognition to an accrediting group that oversees dozens of for-profit colleges but was shut down by the Obama administration over allegations of lax supervision. Her decision says the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools was found to be “substantially in compliance” in 19 of 21 areas […]
  
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• Pirates Press Is Banking on Hologram Vinyl Being the Next Big Thing in Record Collecting

  21-11-2018 17:48 via thestranger.com
  
  With its new hologram vinyl releases, Pirates Press is striving to make records that serve as much as striking visual art as they do vessels for music.by Dave SegalThe Ratchets' hologram-vinyl single in action, ca. November 2018. DAVE SEGAL
  The Black Friday edition of Record Store Day is happening November 23, and one novelty that will be occupying shelf/bin space is the hologram vinyl release of the Ratchets' 7-inch single, "Gotta Be Cool"/ "Rock and Roll" (a Velvet Underground cover), via Emer
  
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• Simulator helps experts understand how whales get entangled

  21-11-2018 17:19
  BOSTON (AP) — Scientists have developed a video simulation of how whales become entangled in fishing lines, and say the technology could help lead to new and safer gear designs. The New England Aquarium’s Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life says more than eight in 10 critically endangered North Atlantic right whales become ensnared by […]
  
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• Man arrested, accused of fatally shooting 2 in Portland

  21-11-2018 17:11
  PORTLAND — Police early Tuesday arrested a 26-year-old man accused of fatally shooting two apparent strangers during separate incidents in downtown Portland, Oregon. The Oregonian/Oregon live reports the man was arrested early Tuesday. Authorities said Carol L. Horner, 70, of Portland, was shot around 9:05 p.m. Monday and found on the sidewalk under the Morrison […]
  
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• Slog AM: Seattle Police Return Trafficked Artifacts to Mexico, Seattle Buses Will Take a Moment of Silence, Trump Can Only Imagine Trump

  21-11-2018 17:05 via thestranger.com
  
  by Michael BellDust off your fedora, some of these items might belong in a museum.David Sacks/ Getty Images
  Today's Slog AM is brought to you by Uncle Bill's Pancake House in St. Louis:Never had a "large lean ham steak" before? Here it's one of their "Most Favorite Menu" items! Michael Bell
  This is the place my wife would eat potato pancakes late night in high-school—a refuge for her smoking friends, who enjoyed the cigarette-friendly environment. Nowadays you can't smoke inside, which wou
  
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• Washington state man is killed by bow and arrow on remote island in India

  21-11-2018 15:58
  John Allen Chau, a missionary from Washington state, had ventured to North Sentinel in the Andaman Sea, where the local tribe have killed outsiders simply for setting foot on their shore.
  
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• American is killed by bow and arrow on remote island in India

  21-11-2018 15:58
  John Allen Chau, from Washington state, had ventured to North Sentinel in the Andaman Sea, where the local tribe have killed outsiders simply for setting foot on their shore.
  
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• Once homeless themselves, South Seattle residents celebrate Thanksgiving with those in need

  21-11-2018 15:00
  This Thanksgiving, in the South Seattle community Annette Jones adopted and Cortez Charles once damaged, the two are joining to uplift the holiday they formerly swore off.
  
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• Here’s what’s open and closed on Thanksgiving and the day after

  21-11-2018 15:00
  Government offices and courts are closed Thursday and Friday, and bus and ferries will be operating on holiday schedules.
  
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• Buses will pause Friday to remember Metro Transit driver fatally shot in 1998 on Aurora Bridge

  21-11-2018 15:00
  The incident aboard Route 359 on Nov. 27, 1998 sent the bus through a guardrail, where it landed on an apartment roof in Fremont. The gunman shot himself. 
  
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• Texas doctor fights to keep dinosaur skull seized by feds

  21-11-2018 14:37
  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A doctor in Texas with a passion for paleontology is challenging the federal government after authorities seized a 70 million-year-old dinosaur skull from his fossil collection. Dr. James Godwin argues that the government waited too long to file a forfeiture claim after it seized the Tyrannosaurus bataar skull that authorities […]
  
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• Terror/Cactus Present Their Trippy Northwest Take on Cumbia Digital

  21-11-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  The Seattle band delivers a new album and stages a party at Timbre Room.by Greg ScruggsSeattle is almost 7,000 miles from Buenos Aires, but our city is finding a niche for the hypnotically irresistible sound of cumbia. For the uninitiated, cumbia is a pan–Latin American folkloric genre that originated in Colombia. It has a trademark guitar style and an unmistakable steady beat from the güiro, a shaker-like percussion instrument. Like a slower cousin of salsa, it's also a popular partn
  
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• John Waters's Advice to Antifa: Get Sexier

  21-11-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  An interview with John Waters about Melania Trump, Black Friday, and Christmas-themed porn.by Chase BurnsJohn Waters comes to Seattle every Christmas season, doesn't he? It feels like it. The potty-mouthed original daddy of filth is putting in his time yet again this year, and we're lucky to have him. If you ever wanted your face or butt or bloody tampon to be signed by the troubled filmmaker behind Hairspray, Pink Flamingos, and Female Trouble, he will do it at A John Waters Christmas. Just buy
  
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• "I Have a Long Childhood History with Box Forts"

  21-11-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  A review of Clyde Petersen's exhibition Merch & Destroy at Bellevue Arts Museum.by Jasmyne KeimigThe first thing I heard walking out of the elevator was Kimya Dawson's voice. I remember thinking, "Where's the party at?" as I scoured the nooks and crannies of Bellevue Arts Museum's top floor, eventually finding my way to a gallery tucked away in the corner, full of Seattle artist Clyde Petersen's latest work. A jaunty mix of Pacific Northwest punk and post-punk music blared from tiny speakers
  
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• How to Make a Dank Holiday Dinner

  21-11-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Know what makes a good a holiday meal? Being stoned.by Leilani PolkI've endured my fair share of excruciating holiday meals. There was a several-years-long stepsister freeze-out during which she ignored me so hard, I might as well have been a mashed-potatoes-eating ghost. There were multicourse dinners with conservative (ex) in-laws that devolved into political shouting matches. And you should have seen me navigating the clashing personalities of my estranged parents and moderating their vague a
  
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• How Many Times Has Dino Rossi Been Declared a Loser?

  21-11-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Dino Rossi needs a new hobby.by Rich SmithIt's not every day you get to celebrate the complete and total failure of a millionaire. In the race to represent Washington's 8th Congressional District, former state senator Dino Rossi lost against Kim Schrier, a pediatrician and first-time Democratic candidate from Sammamish, by nearly 15,000 votes. It's one for the history books, and not just because a Democrat has never represented the 8th District in the US House of Representatives before.I guess a
  
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• Hey, Patrons: Passive-Aggressive Much?

  21-11-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  by AnonymousHey, I'm new working here—so give me a break. Do you see me running in circles like a chicken with its head cut off? There was some confusion about vegetarian options when you'd both initially ordered dishes with meat. But neither of you was difficult, and all seemed well. I could have smiled more, I could have gotten down on my knees and blown glitter on your faces, I could have tried to read your minds and give you the most spectacular experience of your life. But I'm just a
  
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• Facing Climate Change and Human Extinction

  21-11-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  The documentary Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival presents a philosopher for a planet in crisis.by Charles MudedeThe world as we know it is in rapid decline.The cause of this decline is without question a mode of human/cultural metabolism that has, unfortunately, unlimited growth as its only condition of existence. This cultural form (the political economy known as capitalism) has resulted in a "metabolic rift."Put another way: The historically specific mode of wealth generation
  
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• Crossword Solution: You Are What You Eat

  21-11-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  The solutions to the crossword puzzle in the Nov 21, 2018 issue of The Strangerby Brendan Emmett Quigley[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Cleaning Up Toxic Sludge with a Little Help from Gentrification

  21-11-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Seattle developers aren't all awful. In some cases, they're fixing our past environmental mistakes.by Nathalie GrahamMontlake businesses Mont's Market and Jay's Cleaners occupy a spot on 24th Avenue East that used to be a Gull gas station. There were steel tanks underground that stored toxic substances. What no one knew until it was too late was that these tanks were leaking."Since the 1990s, there have been several underground storage tank requirements that are aimed at detecting leaks and prev
  
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• Capitol Hill's Best New Taco Stand Is Hidden Inside Hillcrest Market

  21-11-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Carmelo's Tacos make their own tortillas, and the flavors are from Mexico City.by Christopher FrizzelleOn a recent trip to Hillcrest Market, a mini-mart at Summit Avenue East and Olive Way, I noticed something I hadn't noticed before: the sound of sizzling. In one corner, a taco stand had materialized overnight.A whiteboard listed four taco options: al pastor (pork), asada (steak), campechano (chorizo and steak), and veggie (potato and cactus). They were $2.50 each. What the hell, I was hungry.
  
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• A Revealing Memoir of Airport Detention

  21-11-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Mohamed Asem reflects on the differences between how he sees himself and how the state sees him.by Rich SmithThere's nothing quite like spending a night in an airport detention facility due to racist immigration policies to really kick-start that existential crisis you've been putting off. That's more or less the whole story in Mohamed Asem's slim but revealing memoir, Stranger in the Pen (out on Portland's Perfect Day Publishing).On his return to the UK from a vacation, immigration officials at
  
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• A Queer, Ukulele-Strumming, Harmonica-Blowing Beatboxer Is About to Blow Up the Music Scene

  21-11-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Chong the Nomad throws everything and the kitchen sink into her music.by Dave SegalWhile working as a line cook at the ramen restaurant Kizuki, the 22-year-old Seattle producer/DJ named Chong the Nomad had a brilliant idea. She decided to record mundane kitchen sounds—ladles hitting vats, chopsticks hitting bowls, door knocks, coworker grunts—and then use the raw samples to make music. The track was intended to promote an upcoming gig. But the result—an astounding, frolicking,
  
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• What views? Fog to make way for rain

  21-11-2018 04:15
  Recent fog is giving way to the return of rain.
  
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• I just got treated to a whole chapter in the book on ‘white fragility’

  21-11-2018 04:00
  Many readers, maybe about half, seemed spectacularly resistant to accepting that anything wrong happened in that Kirkland yogurt shop incident that ended with police telling a black man to leave. A sociologist who got her Ph.D. at the UW coined a term for this phenomenon: white fragility.
  
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• New building to bring affordable housing, arts spaces to Seattle’s Uptown neighborhood

  21-11-2018 03:41
  The city announced it would fund $6.9 million to help bring up to 91 units of housing for tenants who are previously homeless.
  
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• Seattle police return artifacts to Mexican government

  21-11-2018 03:22
  The figures made of clay and mud were discovered at an estate sale in Capitol Hill in 2017. Now, "they're going to be part of the Mexican collection that allows us to really understand the original people," said Roberto Dondisch, head consul of Mexico in Seattle.
  
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