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• Why I'm a Regular at Suika and Tamari Bar

  03-12-2018 23:49 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithThe server came by and asked if I wanted the shrimp’s head fried up. Yes! So good.ANTHONY KEO
  Last week, I barhopped between two Japanese pubs in Tokyo, but it was really just two places on Pine Street.
  Entering Suika, you're hit with an explosion of color and energy. Bartenders stick straws into wild watermelon cocktails. Servers mix bowls of pork-belly bibimbap for customers who don't know how to press the rice to the stone so that it forms an amazing crust. The whole staff
  
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• FBI impersonator who robbed immigrant businesses in Seattle sentenced to 5 years in prison

  03-12-2018 23:30
  Judge James Robart sentenced Fisher Monday and ordered him to pay $125,000 in restitution.
  
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• Dating Advice for a Baby

  03-12-2018 22:57 via thestranger.com
  
  Savage Love Letter of the Dayby Dan SavageOriginally published on Aug. 12, 2010.A long while ago, you wrote an incredible piece of general advice for teenage boys. The advice was so excellent that I clipped it out to keep in case I ever had a son. Well, years later, I have a son. But I no longer have that precious piece of paper.
  My son is only 9 months old, but I am worried that by the time he is a teenager, you will have retired to some fancy ranch where you will spend your days raising organi
  
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• Push for legalization of psychedelic mushrooms in Oregon

  03-12-2018 22:02
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s attorney general has approved language for a ballot measure to make psychedelic mushrooms legal. Oregon Public Broadcasting reports that the measure would reduce criminal penalties for the manufacture, delivery and possession of psilocybin — the hallucinogen contained in psychedelic mushrooms. The Oregon Psilocybin Society plans this month to start gathering […]
  
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• Federal judge orders city, federal attorneys to explain why SPD rehired officer who punched handcuffed woman

  03-12-2018 21:38
  The judge's extraordinary order comes as SPD is attempting to get out from under a 2012 consent degree mandating police reforms over use of force and biased policing.
  
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• Inbox Jukebox Track of the Day: The Eerie Synth Space-out "Death Money" by Moon Duo Member Sanae Yamada's Vive la Void

  03-12-2018 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Check out "Death Money," the eerie synth burbler by Moon Duo member Sanae Yamada's solo project, Vive la Void, who plays Neumos Dec. 9.by Dave SegalMoon Duo keyboardist Sanae Yamada busts a strong solo move with Vive la Void. Sacred Bones Records
  Vive la Void, "Death Money" (Sacred Bones)
  As half of Moon Duo, keyboardist Sanae Yamada has helped to forge a cool-browed strain of electronic rock that's ideal for zipping down the Autobahn at breathtaking speeds. They've perfected a kind of streamlin
  
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• The 93 Best Things To Do in Seattle This Week: Dec 3-9, 2018

  03-12-2018 21:29 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's arts critics recommend the best local events.by Stranger Things To Do StaffOur music critics have already chosen the 39 best music shows this week, but now it's our arts critics' turn to recommend the best events in their areas of expertise. Here are their picks in every genre—from a Shout Your Abortion Book Release Bash to Homo for the Holidays: Jingle All the Gay!, and from the Winter Solstice Night Market and Beer Festival to the touring exhibition Light In The Attic Reco
  
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• Businesses brace for impact of suspended steelhead season

  03-12-2018 21:21
  IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Idaho businesses that rely on steelhead fishing are bracing for the financial impact of the fishing season’s suspension. Fishing outfitters and guides along the Salmon River already are seeing spring booking cancellations due to the unknown status of spring steelhead season, the Post Register reported . “It’s going to hurt […]
  
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• An Important Editor's Note

  03-12-2018 21:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by The Stranger Johnny Sampson
  We need to clear up some confusion surrounding the piece in our last issue about juicing pot leaves. To be clear, we didn't fuck up writing this thing; our readers fucked up reading it. As Lester Black wrote, when you drink pot juice, you can't get high because you are only drinking THCA, not the closely related chemical THC. Only when you heat THCA does it turn into THC, and that's what gets you high. Raw juice alone won't get you high. "BUT WHAT ABOUT EDIBLES?!?"
  
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• Oregon doctor drowns while surfing

  03-12-2018 20:53
  NEWPORT, Ore. (AP) — A 30-year-old doctor from Corvallis, Oregon, has died while surfing near Devils Punchbowl, about eight miles north of Newport. KGW reports that police received a 911 call that Toren Stearns was in the water and in distress at around 3:30 p.m. Saturday. The U.S. Coast Guard sent out a cutter boat […]
  
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• World Health Organization wants panel to study gene editing

  03-12-2018 20:28
  GENEVA (AP) — The chief of the World Health Organization says his agency is assembling experts to consider the health impacts of gene editing. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Monday that gene editing “cannot be just done without clear guidelines” and experts should “start from a clean sheet and check everything.” Tedros’ comments followed […]
  
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• Did "President Trump" Start the Morning With Witness Tampering?

  03-12-2018 19:57 via thestranger.com
  
  Does the answer depend on who "President Trump" really is?by Eli Sanders"Who is this 'President Trump' guy? I like what he's saying." Amilcar Orfali / Getty Images
  If you refer to yourself in quotation marks on your own Twitter feed, does it get you out of witness tampering charges? This partly existential, purely Trumpian question arose this morning when the President of the United States tweeted:
  “I will never testify against Trump.” This statement was recently made by Roger Stone,
  
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• The 39 Best Music Shows in Seattle This Week: Dec 3-9, 2018

  03-12-2018 19:50 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's music critics' picks for the week.by Stranger Things To Do StaffThis week, our music critics have picked everything from Colombian duo Bomba Estéreo to Live From Our Living Room with Car Seat Headrest and Kimya Dawson to the jazz classic A Charlie Brown Christmas. Follow the links below for ticket links and music clips for all of their picks, and find even more shows on our complete music calendar.Stay in the know! Get all this and more on the free Stranger Things To Do mob
  
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• Rocket carrying 64 satellites takes off from California

  03-12-2018 19:46
  VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — A SpaceX rocket carrying 64 small satellites has lifted off from California with a first stage that has been used twice before. The Falcon 9 blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 10:34 a.m. Monday, arcing over the Pacific west of Los Angeles as it headed toward […]
  
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• Reused rocket takes off carrying 64 satellites

  03-12-2018 19:46
  VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — A SpaceX rocket carrying 64 small satellites lifted off from California on Monday, marking the first time the same Falcon 9 rocket has been used in three space missions. The rocket blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, arcing over the Pacific Ocean west of Los Angeles as […]
  
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• Sad News, Seattle: Gramma Press Folds as Bill and Ruth True Foundation Dissolves

  03-12-2018 19:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Adieu, Gramma.by Rich SmithDuring its short time on earth, the press published nine terrific titles, an amazing monthly broadsheet, and it hosted some of the best readings and parties in town.Melissa KagererAh, Gramma. We hardly knew ye. After a strong two-year run, the Seattle-based poetry press, founded by Bill True, will close up shop by the end of this month.Editor Colleen Louise Barry, who, along with Cold Cube Press's Aidan Fitzgerald, took over for founding editor Drew Swenhaugen in Janua
  
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• Tacoma News Tribune to Lay Off 67 Employees

  03-12-2018 19:10 via thestranger.com
  
  The Tacoma News Tribune is laying off 67 employees.by Lester BlackThis is what Tacoma looks like. MELEAH REARDON PHOTOGRAPHY / GETTY
  The Tacoma News Tribune will lay off 67 employees early next year, according to a filing with the state's Employment Security Department. It's not clear how many editorial employees will be affected by the layoffs.The Tacoma News Tribune, the second largest newspaper by circulation in the state, announced last week that they would stop using their in-house printer
  
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• Bill Gates reveals his favorite books of 2018

  03-12-2018 19:00
  The Microsoft co-founder and current co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has made a tradition of releasing a December list of his favorite books of the year. Here's his 2018 list.
  
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• Seahawks Win By Unprecedented Score… Again.

  03-12-2018 18:42 via thestranger.com
  
  by Spike FriedmanThe return of Richard Sherman as a 49er (left, trying to tackle former teammate Doug Baldwin) was rather anticlimactic. Otto Greule Jr / Getty Images Sport
  The strangest thing about Pete Carroll’s nine-year tenure as head coach of the Seattle Seahawks is that every season he has managed to put up a score that is unprecedented in the history of the NFL. This phenomenon—coined as Scorigami by SB Nation writer Jon Bois—is rare; at this point there have been a lot
  
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• Homeless man turns in $17,000 cash he found outside Sumner food bank

  03-12-2018 18:14
  “There are a lot of people who would have taken it,” Kevin Booth, 32, said. “I’m just not that person.”
  
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• NASA spacecraft arrives at ancient asteroid, its 1st visitor

  03-12-2018 18:09
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — After a two-year chase, a NASA spacecraft arrived Monday at the ancient asteroid Bennu, its first visitor in billions of years. The robotic explorer Osiris-Rex, right on cue, pulled within 12 miles (19 kilometers) of the diamond-shaped space rock. It will get even closer in the days ahead and actually […]
  
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• After California wildfire, new and old homeless populations collide

  03-12-2018 18:03
  Almost a month after the fire erupted, with the weather worsening and evacuation shelters closing or relocating farther away, tensions are growing between those who were already homeless and the newly homeless, as each group reaches for the other’s resources.
  
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• It's Day 3 of 25 Days of Giveaways—Enter Now!

  03-12-2018 18:00 via thestranger.com
  by Stranger Things To Do Staff
  Each day this month until Christmas, we're giving away new and exciting prizes from local Seattle businesses as part of 25 Days of Giveaways. Everything from event tickets to restaurant and retail gift cards to unique experiences is up for grabs.Today's prizes are:
  Seattle Neighborhood Farmers Markets: $50 gift certificate
  Meany Center for the Performing Arts (UW): Two tickets to Turtle Island Quartet with Liz Carroll (Sat Dec 8)
  Head over to our contest page to en
  
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• Meet a Future Seattle Music Superstar

  03-12-2018 17:44 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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• But where’s Rudolph? Swimming Santa a holiday tradition at Seattle Aquarium

  03-12-2018 17:41
  Tired of the same old Santa photo? A diving Santa poses for photos underwater while also exploring the massive Window on Washington Waters tank at the Seattle Aquarium on the downtown waterfront. Santa typically descends into the tank at noon on Mondays and Fridays, and twice a day (noon and 3 p.m.) on weekends. In […]
  
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• Tacoma News Tribune to lay off dozens of printing employees

  03-12-2018 17:33
  Layoffs will begin in February and last through September. They follow the company's recent decision to outsource its printing business.
  
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• Tacoma News Tribune to lay off dozens of employees, state employment office says

  03-12-2018 17:33
  Layoffs are expected to begin Feb. 3, according to a notice sent to the state Employment Security Department.
  
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• Slog AM: Secretive Earthquake Study Outlines Only Part of Our Undoing, Seattle Single-Family Neighborhoods Are Racist and Classist

  03-12-2018 17:10 via thestranger.com
  
  by Michael BellIn case of emergency: water, water, everywhere, but not a drop to drink.Petrovich9/Getty Images
  Why so secretive? Despite a 722-page study that Seattle Public Utilities commissioned on how The Big One will affect Seattle’s water system, just a 13-page summary has been publicly released. So why is the majority of the study being kept secret? The SPU cites the “U.S. Department of Homeland Security ‘Protected Critical Infrastructure Information’ designation in
  
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• 48 US college students awarded Marshall scholarships to study in UK

  03-12-2018 16:13
  Forty-eight U.S. students have been awarded the 2019 Marshall Scholarship, the largest class of scholars in the program’s 65-year history. The U.K. government mainly funds the scholarships and announced them Monday. Recipients come from across the U.S., and next year’s group includes more women than ever before. The scholarships enable intellectually distinguished young Americans to […]
  
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• Navy ends talks to ease Growler jet impacts on Whidbey Island historic district

  03-12-2018 15:00
  State and community organizations wanted money for soundproofing and other efforts to reduce the impacts of a big increase in EA-18G Growler flights over central Whidbey Island.
  
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• Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ebullient ‘In the Heights’ pulses with warmth at Seattle Rep

  03-12-2018 15:00
  Lin-Manuel Miranda's Latin pop/merengue/hip-hop musical, about a Dominican-heavy corner in northern Manhattan, radiates an atmosphere that's attractive, convivial, comforting. You can slip into it as easily as a favorite pair of dancing shoes.
  
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• Kathunk! Scientists seek to tame Highway 520 bridge noise across Lake Washington

  03-12-2018 15:00
  Cars produce a mighty din when they cross the bridge's large expansion joints, located over the hinges where the road decks on fixed columns meet the mobile transition spans. These spans swing up and down to match seasonal changes in the levels of Lake Washington.
  
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• ‘I feel so fortunate and protected’: You moved me with your reactions to my terrifying traffic stop

  03-12-2018 15:00
  It's not easy for me to talk about my own fears of the police, and I know not everybody can relate. But I was heartened that my story got some of you thinking about your own place in society.
  
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• Changes to Seattle’s single-family zoning could improve housing picture, city report says

  03-12-2018 15:00
  The single-family zones that make up about 75 percent of Seattle's residential land have accommodated just 5 percent of all new housing added in the city this decade, according to the planning commission's report released Monday.
  
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• 3 astronauts safely aboard International Space Station

  03-12-2018 12:42
  Anne McClain graduated from Gonzaga Prep in 1997 and went on to study mechanical engineering at West Point, before earning two master's degrees in England. NASA picked her as one of eight astronaut trainees from a pool of more than 6,000 applicants in 2013.
  
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• 3 astronauts blast off to International Space Station

  03-12-2018 12:42
  BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) — Three astronauts successfully blasted off Monday to the International Space Station from Kazakhstan, a perfect launch that follows October’s aborted mission. NASA astronaut Anne McClain, David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency and Oleg Kononenko of the Russian space agency Roscosmos lifted off as scheduled at 5:31 p.m. (1131 GMT; 6:31 […]
  
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• 3 astronauts from US, Russia, Canada blast off to International Space Station

  03-12-2018 12:33
  BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) — 3 astronauts from US, Russia, Canada blast off to International Space Station.
  
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• Rare December tornadoes reported in central US; 1 dead

  03-12-2018 10:55
  TAYLORVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Residents in central Illinois on Sunday assessed the damage after rare December tornadoes, including one the day before that was a half-mile-wide, ripped roofs off homes, downed power lines and injured at least 20 people. The severe weather in Illinois was part of a line of thunderstorms that raked areas of […]
  
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• The hunt for oil threatens pristine Alaska, as Trump administration clears the way

  03-12-2018 09:01
  For more than a generation, opposition to drilling has left the wildlife refuge largely unscathed, but now the Trump administration — with an influential and wealthy Alaska Native corporation — is clearing the way with extraordinary speed for oil exploration.
  
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• UN chief issues dramatic climate appeal to world leaders

  03-12-2018 08:46
  KATOWICE, Poland (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres opened the climate summit in Poland by issuing a dramatic appeal to world leaders Monday to take seriously the threat of global warming and act boldly to avert a catastrophic rise in temperatures before the end of the century. Guterres named climate change as “the most important […]
  
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• UN chief: Climate change is “most important issue we face”

  03-12-2018 08:46
  KATOWICE, Poland (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres opened the climate summit in Poland by issuing a dramatic appeal to world leaders Monday to take the threat of global warming seriously and to act boldly to avert a catastrophic rise in temperatures before the end of the century. Guterres called climate change as “the most […]
  
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• Leaders gather for key UN climate talks in Poland

  03-12-2018 08:46
  KATOWICE, Poland (AP) — Leaders from around the world are arriving for the ceremonial opening of the climate conference in southern Poland that will discuss ways of curbing climate change. The two-week conference in Katowice is expected to work out how governments can report on their efforts to reduce green gas emission and keep global […]
  
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• Menorah lighting in Ballard

  03-12-2018 03:42
  A giant menorah was lit to celebrate the Festival of Lights in Ballard's Bergen Place Park on Sunday, December 2. Hosted by Chabad of Northwest Seattle, the lighting of the menorah is an annual tradition.
  
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• Coal question looms large as climate talks begin in Poland

  03-12-2018 02:11
  KATOWICE, Poland (AP) — Negotiators from around the world opened the United Nations’ annual climate change conference Sunday in a Polish city built around mining coal, widely seen as a main culprit behind global warming. Arriving for two weeks of talks on tackling climate change, conference participants cast off hats, scarves and heavy coats as […]
  
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• Seattle police investigate gun fire at Seattle homeless shelter

  03-12-2018 02:06
  The shooting occurred at The Navigation Center, a shelter that opened last year and offers residents social services not commonly found in traditional shelters.
  
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• Earthquake doesn’t disrupt food, fuel supply to Alaska

  03-12-2018 01:14
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The supply chain of food and other goods delivered to the Port of Anchorage from the Lower 48 has not been disrupted by the powerful earthquake that caused widespread damage to roads in the Anchorage area. “The ships are coming in on schedule, the supply lines are at this point uninterrupted,” […]
  
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• Alaska putting together pieces after massive earthquake

  03-12-2018 01:14
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The supply chain of food and other goods delivered to the Port of Anchorage from the Lower 48 has not been disrupted by the powerful earthquake that caused widespread damage to roads in the Anchorage area. “The ships are coming in on schedule, the supply lines are at this point uninterrupted,” […]
  
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• Rare December tornadoes reported in central US, killing 1

  03-12-2018 00:49
  Residents in central Illinois on Sunday assessed the damage after rare December tornadoes, including one the day before that was a half-mile-wide, ripped roofs off homes in Taylorville, downed power lines and injured at least 20 people. The severe weather in Illinois was part of a line of thunderstorms that raked areas of the central […]
  
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• Dozens continue search for 2-year old boy presumed drowned in Skagit River

  03-12-2018 00:48
  Lower tides are expected in the coming days, which should help in the search as shallower areas of the river are exposed, according to the Skagit County Sheriff's Office.
  
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• Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre cancels matinee due to undisclosed ‘security threat’

  03-12-2018 00:28
  The Sunday evening performance of Annie is scheduled to go on. The theater plans to increase security through the rest of the run of the show.
  
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