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• She's Big and Her Boyfriend Seems to Hate Fat People—What Should She Do?

  30-11-2018 23:44 via thestranger.com
  
  Savage Love Letter of the Dayby Dan Savage
  Originally published March 5, 2009.
  I have lived with my boyfriend for almost two years. He says he loves me and does a lot of loving things for me. We are both in our early 60s, but we have the sexual energy of 20-year-olds. Here's the problem: I am overweight. I was overweight when he met me. I now know that he hates fat women. You should hear his disgust when he sees them on TV or on the street. He has begun to tease me and make jokes about my weight
  
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• Terror/Cactus Present Their Trippy Northwest Take on Cumbia Digital Tomorrow Night at Timbre Room

  30-11-2018 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Greg ScruggsTerror/Cactus eschew lyrics and perform in masks.MELISSA KAGERER
  Seattle 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 partner danc
  
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• Washington State Might Be Reversing Their Pot Candy Ban, Baby!

  30-11-2018 22:54 via thestranger.com
  
  The state might be walking back on their proposal to ban all pot candies.by Lester BlackGirl, that better not be weed! ONOKY - ERIC AUDRAS
  The state just released a new update on their proposed ban on pot-infused candies and this latest bit of news looks promising for pot candy fans. The state appears to be walking back from their earlier announcement that they would enforce a strict ban on infusing pot into things like gummies or hard candies.
  Friday’s announcement did not include the act
  
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• 39 Holiday Markets and Gift Bazaars in Seattle This Weekend: Nov 30-Dec 2, 2018

  30-11-2018 22:47 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffDon't miss "Seattle’s largest indie craft show," the Urban Craft Uprising, which features over 150 artsy vendors. Urban Craft Uprising via Facebook
  If you want to join the early-holiday-shoppers club and support local vendors, you have myriad options for pop-ups, special store events, and bazaars this weekend. For music-related gifts, check out Hollow Earth Radio and Vera Project's DIY Holiday Fair. If you're looking for cute artsy gifts, stop by the Urban Cra
  
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• Holiday Markets and Bazaars This Weekend

  30-11-2018 22:45 via thestranger.com
  All the places to shop for holiday gifts in Seattle this weekend.by Stranger Things To Do StaffIf you want to join the early-holiday-shoppers club and support local vendors, you have myriad options for pop-ups, special store events, and bazaars this weekend. For music-related gifts, check out Hollow Earth Radio and Vera Project's DIY Holiday Fair. If you're looking for cute artsy gifts, stop by the Urban Craft Uprising Winter Show. And to support indigenous artists, check out the United Indians
  
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• California wildfire emissions equal year of power pollution

  30-11-2018 22:32
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Wildfires in California in 2018 released the rough equivalent of about 68 million tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide — about the same amount of carbon emissions as are produced in a year to provide electricity to the state, U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Friday. The carbon dioxide figure — based […]
  
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• Pierce County’s outgoing prosecutor, Mark Lindquist, admonished by state bar over conduct

  30-11-2018 22:31
  Lindquist, who was criticized for politicizing the prosecutor's office and whose office was called out by the appellate courts for overzealous prosecutions, admitted to unprofessional conduct by appearing on the "Nancy Grace" TV show during a murder trial.
  
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• NPR's Fresh Air Fires Film Critic Over a Facebook Joke

  30-11-2018 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  David Edelstein has left the building.by Katie HerzogDarwin Brandis/Getty
  David Edelstein has left the building.Edelstein, a renowned film critic for both the public radio show Fresh Air and New York Magazine was unceremoniously dispatched from Fresh Air this week after 16 years on the air after committing an apparently grievous sin on Facebook.
  Edelstein crime occurred shortly after the death of Italian film director Bernardo Bertolucci this week at the age of 77. In a quickly deleted status up
  
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• Last-Minute Plans: 154 Free, Cheap & Easy Things To Do In Seattle This Weekend: Nov 30-Dec 2, 2018

  30-11-2018 22:24 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffWest Seattle Junction will kick off their Hometown Holidays festivities with a magnificent tree lighting ceremony on Sunday. West Seattle Junction
  Panicking because you haven't yet made plans for the weekend and you're short on cash? Don't worry—below, find all of your options for last-minute entertainment that won't cost more than $10, ranging from the closing of Maja Petrić: We Are All Made of Light to the Nordic Museum's Holiday Book Flood (Jóla
  
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• The Pleasure of Watching a Baby Have a Meltdown in Public

  30-11-2018 21:46 via thestranger.com
  
  Some thoughts on Lena Dunham.by Jasmyne KeimigWe don't need more Lena Dunham, and yet I'm writing this blog post about her. Theo Wargo / Getty
  One of the main problems with HBO's Girls was its name: Girls. All of them. Every single one of us. But of course, Girls was never about all girls, it was about its creator and star Lena Dunham, a wealthy white girl living in NYC, and the elite cadre of white women in her life. I was reminded of all of this when reading Allison P. Davis’s excellent
  
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• Inbox Jukebox Track of the Day: The Moodily Melodic "Messenger" by New-Wave Luminaries Pylon Reenactment Society

  30-11-2018 21:25 via thestranger.com
  
  Pylon Reenactment Society resurrect the spiky, tuneful spirit of the revered '80s post-punks Pylon. See them Dec. 5 at Barboza.by Dave SegalFor those who missed Pylon the first time around, front woman Vanessa Briscoe Hay's newish project is a godsend. Chunklet Industries
  Pylon Reenactment Society, "Messenger" (Chunklet Industries)
  Pylon Reenactment Society is exactly what the name implies: a project led by Vanessa Briscoe Hay, vocalist for the revered and Athens, Georgia post-punk group Pylon w
  
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• Matcha Desserts, BOGO Boba, and More Seattle Food News You Can Use: November 30, 2018 Edition

  30-11-2018 20:46 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffJapanese import Nana's Green Tea, which specializes in matcha-based desserts, just opened its first continental U.S. store in Seattle. Nana's Green Tea via Facebook
  This week, Nana's Green Tea brings matcha parfaits to Seattle, Filipino restaurant Archipelago opens this weekend in Hillman City, and chef Edouardo Jordan of Salare and Junebaby prepares to open his new restaurant. Read on for more essential food news, plus events for your weekend, like the Cherry Bombe
  
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• More strain for Seattle motorists: A Sodo onramp to the viaduct closes Jan. 4, a week early

  30-11-2018 20:42
  This change worsens the coming "Seattle Squeeze," by blocking access to the ramp for a fourth week, until the new Highway 99 tunnel and Sodo interchange open the week of Feb. 4. An average 12,500 drivers per weekday use this entrance off Royal Brougham Way South.
  
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• A Sawant challenger and 2 dropouts: Things are heating up ahead of 2019’s Seattle City Council elections

  30-11-2018 20:19
  A challenger to socialist Kshama Sawant is among the things to know so far about the 2019 Seattle City Council elections. Things are already heating up. Here are six things to know.
  
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• Hawk native to South America wows crowd in Maine park

  30-11-2018 20:08
  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A hawk that is native to Central and South America drew a lot of attention from Maine’s birding community Friday after appearing in a park, where it brawled with a fellow raptor and dined on a squirrel. The great black hawk has been a source of fascination in Maine since it […]
  
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• Mamorou Hosoda's Family Drama Mirai (with Time Travel!)

  30-11-2018 19:58 via thestranger.com
  
  by Suzette Smith Gkids
  Ever since anime director Hayao Miyazaki retired (like four times) and his acclaimed Studio Ghibli shuttered (wait, sorry, It's open again), film critics have been announcing prospective heirs to the his legacy. Ghibli films like Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke lifted anime from the realm of kids' movies to that of laudable fantasy dramas, and some lesser known Ghibli films, like Yoshifumi Kondō's Whisper of the Heart, are straight-up dramas that just happen to be
  
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• Big-Ass Earthquake Hits Alaska

  30-11-2018 19:44 via thestranger.com
  by Katie HerzogA large 7.0 earthquake hit Anchorage, Alaska, this morning and there is currently a tsunami warning for Cook Inlet and the Southern Kenai Peninsula.If you are reading this from either of those locations, put down your phone and get the fuck out.There are reports of damage, including possibly a collapsed bridge (this has not been verified) around Anchorage. According to Nathalie's mom's friend who lives there, it is "chaos," with cracked roads, power outages, and massive gridlock.
  
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• Live updates on 7.0-magnitude earthquake near Anchorage: tsunami warning issued

  30-11-2018 19:29
  A tsunami warning was issued for parts of coastal Alaska.
  
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• Live updates on 7.0-magnitude earthquake near Anchorage: tsunami warning canceled

  30-11-2018 19:29
  Officials canceled a tsunami warning that had been issued for parts of coastal Alaska.
  
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• Live updates on 7.0-magnitude earthquake near Anchorage: ‘Not the Big One,’ but significant

  30-11-2018 19:29
  "It was sort of a shallower version of the Nisqually earthquake in 2001," said the director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network.
  
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• 7.0-magnitude earthquake near Anchorage: ‘Not the big one,’ but significant

  30-11-2018 19:29
  "It was sort of a shallower version of the Nisqually earthquake in 2001," said the director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network.
  
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• Seattle Needs to Ban Cars From Its Streetcar Tracks

  30-11-2018 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Our streetcars would finally become useful if we banned cars from their tracks.by Lester BlackThe streetcar is always the last to move. Lester Black
  Seattle’s streetcars are an easy target to hate. They’re so damn slow and serve a narrow slice of the city. Just looking at their lumbering, mostly empty train cars can be irritating. But it’s not totally the streetcar’s fault. Private automobiles are really the ones we should be blaming.
  A scene that plays out on the corner
  
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• Powerful quakes buckle Alaska roads, trigger tsunami warning

  30-11-2018 18:43
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Back-to-back earthquakes measuring 7.0 and 5.8 rocked buildings and buckled roads Friday morning in Anchorage, prompting people to run from their offices or take cover under desks and triggering a warning to residents in Kodiak to flee to higher ground for fear of a tsunami. The U.S. Geological Survey said the […]
  
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• Back-to-back earthquakes shatter roads and windows in Alaska

  30-11-2018 18:43
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Back-to-back earthquakes measuring 7.0 and 5.7 rocked buildings and shattered roads Friday morning in Anchorage, sending people running into the streets and briefly triggering a warning to residents in Kodiak to flee to higher ground for fear of a tsunami. The warning was lifted without incident a short time later. There […]
  
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• El Nino teases as Southwestern US remains in drought

  30-11-2018 18:09
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — National climate experts have been watching and waiting but El Nino has only been teasing, leaving the American Southwest to hang on longer until the weather pattern develops and brings more moisture to the drought-stricken region. Experts with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center and the National Weather […]
  
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• If the Future Is Nonbinary, It's a Bleak One for Women

  30-11-2018 17:42 via thestranger.com
  
  In the beginning, the future was female.by Katie Herzogogichobanov/Getty ImagesIn the beginning, the future was female.
  This four-word slogan started popping up online in the last few years, but it originated with a snapshot taken by Liza Cowan in 1975. The photo, which has gone viral many times over on Instagram, shows Cowan’s then-girlfriend, a folk singer named Alix Dobkin, with short hair, red-framed glasses, and a white t-shirt that read, in all caps, “THE FUTURE IS FEMALE.&rdqu
  
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• Slog AM: Seattle Millennials Are The Best, Non-Stick Pans Make Your Penis Smaller, Drink Some Beers To Help California

  30-11-2018 16:57 via thestranger.com
  
  by Michael BellYou said what about these frying pans? JohnnyGreig/Getty Images
  Seattle millennials don’t suck? We’re even more special than millennials in other parts of the country, it seems! As Gene Balk, the Seattle Times FYI Guy reports, 1 in 3 millennials nationwide live at home with their parents. But in Seattle? Only 1 in 10! Oh, and it looks like one reason for why that’s the case may be that all the young people here are fucking transplants. That’s OK, we love ou
  
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• Principal: Long-term sub taped second-grade student to chair

  30-11-2018 15:20
  PASADENA, Md. — A substitute teacher has been suspended after her principal said she taped a second-grader to her chair. News outlets cite a letter this week from Lake Shore Elementary School Principal Julie Little-McVearry, who says she took action after learning about it from a parent. The letter says the long-term substitute taped the […]
  
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• Millennials are most likely to live at home with parents — but not in Seattle

  30-11-2018 15:00
  Only one in 10 people age 18 to 34 live under the same roof as their parents here, compared to one-third of millennials nationwide.
  
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• How the ‘Battery Street Subway,’ downtown Seattle’s other traffic tunnel, was built

  30-11-2018 15:00
  Originally called the "Battery Street Subway," this tunnel finally linked Aurora to the Alaskan Way Viaduct.
  
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• High-tech Seattle cancer center wins reprieve as lenders take $135M loss

  30-11-2018 15:00
  The massive write-down is part of a negotiated Chapter 11 bankruptcy that will provide the SCCA Proton Therapy Center some financial breathing room to seek profitability after a net loss of $81 million over the past two years.
  
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• High-tech Seattle cancer center gets new life as lenders get $135M ‘haircut’

  30-11-2018 15:00
  The massive write-down is part of a negotiated Chapter 11 bankruptcy that will provide the SCCA Proton Therapy Center some financial breathing room to seek profitability after a net loss of $81 million over the past two years.
  
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• Congressional bill would keep early earthquake-warning-system projects on track, if Trump signs it

  30-11-2018 15:00
  The earthquake-warning system could give warning 10 seconds to a minute before dangerous shaking begins in Seattle for a Cascadia megaquake.
  
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• Bucking national trend, Seattle millennials least likely to live at home with parents

  30-11-2018 15:00
  Only one in 10 people age 18 to 34 live under the same roof as their parents here, compared to one-third of millennials nationwide.
  
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• UW may implement online sexual-assault reporting system as soon as next fall

  30-11-2018 14:00
  The third-party system, Callisto, aims to make survivors feel more in control of the reporting process and identify repeat offenders, which the company thinks will make it more likely survivors will report.
  
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• Student Voices: We shouldn’t eliminate gifted classrooms. We should make them equitable.

  30-11-2018 14:00
  General education was not meeting Millan Philipose's learning needs. Now a student at Garfield High School, he didn't love school until he entered a gifted program, which he argues must be preserved for students like him.
  
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• Russian immigrant’s handwritten note leaves many questions about treatment at Northwest Detention Center

  30-11-2018 14:00
  Was a Russian detainee thrown naked into a cold cell in the before he tried to hang himself in the Tacoma detention center? A handwritten note raises the possibility, and the case is drawing international attention.
  
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• Pullman cop arrested in sex assault of WSU student resigns

  30-11-2018 13:35
  A Pullman Police Department officer accused of sexually assaulting a Washington State University student in March has resigned. Pullman Police Chief Gary Jenkins said Thursday that Sgt. Dan Hargraves resigned Monday, the day before police investigators conducting an internal investigation were going to interview him. Jenkins says that investigation concluded that Hargraves violated multiple department […]
  
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• Fear that uproar over gene-edited babies could block science

  30-11-2018 07:47
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists working on the frontiers of medicine fear the uproar over the reported births of gene-edited babies in China could jeopardize promising research into how to alter heredity to fend off a variety of disorders. Researchers are rapidly learning how to edit DNA to fight such conditions as Huntington’s, Tay-Sachs and hereditary […]
  
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• Mystery ballot could sway control of Alaska state government

  30-11-2018 07:38
  JUNEAU, Alaska — Control of Alaska state government, at least for the next two years, could hinge on a mystery ballot that an election worker found on a table in a Fairbanks voting precinct more than three weeks ago. The uncounted ballot could break a tie in an Alaska state House race. A decision on […]
  
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• Every vote counts: Mystery ballot could decide Alaska race

  30-11-2018 07:38
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Control of Alaska state government, at least for the next two years, could hinge on a mystery ballot that an election worker found on a table in a Fairbanks voting precinct more than three weeks ago. The uncounted ballot could break a tie in an Alaska state House race. A decision […]
  
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• Fire-scarred California escapes large-scale rain damage

  30-11-2018 07:35
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A major storm brought localized mudslides and street flooding to California and some people had to be rescued from stranded vehicles, but the fire-scarred state escaped large-scale damage. Flash flood waters receded in Northern California and crews on Friday cleared debris from roads, culverts and levees that flooded in Chico, said […]
  
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• Fire-scarred California areas escape large-scale rain damage

  30-11-2018 07:35
  The heavy rain inundated roads, trapping people in about 100 vehicles and forcing some mandatory evacuations in Chico, a city of 90,000 where many of the fire evacuees from Paradise are staying.
  
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• California floods recede after storms in wildfire burn areas

  30-11-2018 07:35
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — After fleeing a wildfire that came dangerously close to his Northern California home earlier this month, Dale Word evacuated again when flash floods inundated roads and trapped motorists and residents. Swift water teams used boats to make rescues at three homes and officials told people in about 100 vehicles to stay […]
  
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