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• 42 Holiday Markets and Gift Bazaars in Seattle This Week: Dec 5-9, 2018

  05-12-2018 23:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffFind gifts from more than 70 "crackerjack artists" priced under one Benjamin at Art Under $100 this weekend. South Park Arts via Facebook
  The holiday market game is going strong—this week brings a whole new lineup of places to find unique gifts, special deals, and even some free giveaways from local vendors. If you're an art lover, check out Party Hat's Gift Hole. If you're looking for unique crafts, opt for Second Use'sHandmade Holiday Market. And if food and
  
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• Holiday Markets and Gift Bazaars This Week

  05-12-2018 23:37 via thestranger.com
  Art Under $100, the Winter Solstice Night Market, and More Places to Shop.by Stranger Things To Do StaffThe holiday market game is going strong—this week brings a whole new lineup of places to find unique gifts, special deals, and even some free giveaways from local vendors. If you're an art lover, check out Party Hat's Gift Hole. If you're looking for unique crafts, opt for Second Use'sHandmade Holiday Market. And if food and drink pop-ups are what you're after, don't miss the Winter Sols
  
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• 49 Holiday Markets and Gift Bazaars in Seattle This Week: Dec 5-9, 2018

  05-12-2018 23:31 via thestranger.com
  Art Under $100, the Winter Solstice Night Market, and More Places to Shop.by Stranger Things To Do StaffThe holiday market game is going strong—this week brings a whole new lineup of places to find unique gifts, special deals, and even some free giveaways from local vendors. If you're an art lover, check out Party Hat's Gift Hole. If you're looking for unique crafts, opt for Second Use'sHandmade Holiday Market. And if food and drink pop-ups are what you're after, don't miss the Winter Sols
  
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• Washington state denies Avista’s sale to Canadian utility

  05-12-2018 23:24
  The Utilities and Transportation Commission said the proposed merger with Toronto-based Hydro One doesn't adequately protect Avista or the utility's customers from political or financial risk.
  
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• Shout Your Abortion Is Launching Their Book Tonight at the Neptune

  05-12-2018 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Also, Lindy West did a very good job on The Daily Show.by Rich SmithSYA is throwing a big old party, and you're invited.When Congress tried to defund Planned Parenthood in 2015, Amelia Bonow logged on to Facebook and did something radical: She talked openly and positively about her abortion. Lindy West (a former writer at The Stranger and a current Stranger Genius) shared the post on Twitter with the hashtag #ShoutYourAbortion, and their movement to destigmatize and demythologize abortion began.
  
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• I'M SICK OF THIS QUESTION

  05-12-2018 22:59 via thestranger.com
  
  Savage Love Letter of the Dayby Dan SavageOriginally published on Apr. 9, 2010.All of these letters came today:
  I have a great husband that I have been married to for four years. We have been together about six years. I'm 43 and he's 35. We love each other and are a great match, except... you guessed it: we rarely have sex. When we do have sex its over in a minute or two—a problem he says that he has always had after a year or so with a partner. He says its just a low libido. And he's back
  
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• Feds approve exploratory mining permits near Mount St. Helens

  05-12-2018 22:22
  The decision this week would award Ascot USA two hard-rock prospecting permits within the Gifford Pinchot National Forest near the headwaters of the Green River.
  
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• Archipelago—a Fine Dining Filipino-American Restaurant with a Pacific Northwest Twist—Finally Opens in Hillman City

  05-12-2018 21:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Kara TiernanGreen apple sinigang is a dish you might find on an Archipelago tasting menu Rene Asis
  Chef Aaron Verzosa has always been fascinated with flying over the Philippines and soaking in the aerial view of the chain of islands. That experience inspired the name he and his wife, Amber Manuguid, chose for their new Hillman City restaurant, Archipelago. "We didn't choose a Filipino name because we're not Filipino—we're Filipino American," he said. "We chose a word that resonates with
  
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• Got Christmas Tree Sticker Shock? You're Not Alone.

  05-12-2018 21:10 via thestranger.com
  
  Allow us to explain.by Katie HerzogThese pretty green fuckers are pricey!!! olegbreslavtsev/Getty Images
  I was born with a rare genetic condition that causes me to dislike holidays—which, like the Olympics, should only be celebrated once every four years. Against doctor's orders, I also happened to attach my life to someone who actually enjoys holidays, and as a consequence, was recently forced to participate in finding a Christmas tree. This was harder than you'd think: We went by the old
  
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• Link's Dysfunctional Stations, Durkan's War on E-Scooters, and the Absence of Seriousness in Solving Seattle's Mobility Crisis

  05-12-2018 20:38 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeE-scooters in Tacoma... Charles Mudede
  It took two years of heavy use for the Capitol Hill Station to start crumbling. The screens that announce train arrivals are dying, one by one. And when they work, the information is often baffling or wrong. The sound of the wind in the tunnels often provides better information about trains than the hanging monitors, which run on Microsoft's software—something I discovered when one was rebooting after a crash. And let's not get into t
  
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• Pr0n 4 Freakz: A New Quarterly Skin-Flick Film Series with a Queer Focus

  05-12-2018 19:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Joule ZelmanSaira Barbaric and Isha Ali in Revelations of the Beast Courtesy of ScumTrust Productions
  Smut: We love it. It entertains and excites us. Can it also unite us? Can it be (dare we say) utopian?
  If you’ve been to Dan Savage’s HUMP! festival, you’ve already experienced the weird, awkward jollity of sitting in an auditorium with total strangers while watching other strangers fuck on the big screen. Whereas HUMP! leans more toward the participation of nonprofessionals
  
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• ‘We are in trouble.’ Global carbon emissions reached a record high in 2018.

  05-12-2018 19:44
  The message of Wednesday's report was unambiguous: When it comes to promises to begin cutting the greenhouse-gas emissions that fuel climate change, the world remains well off target.
  
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• Get Your Healthcare Before It's Too Late!

  05-12-2018 19:25 via thestranger.com
  
  There's only 11 days left to buy health insurance this year. Don't let Trump win; go get insured.by Lester BlackThat state might give you some cash to buy drugs, check it out! skaman306/Getty
  Right now is the only time most Americans will be able to buy health insurance for next year, but our president doesn't want you to know that.
  The orange and angry man has said that he wants the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) to "explode," he later proclaimed that "Obamacare is now on its last legs, fortun
  
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• Get Your Health Care Before It's Too Late!

  05-12-2018 19:25 via thestranger.com
  
  There's only 11 days left to buy health insurance this year. Don't let Trump win; go get insured.by Lester BlackThat state might give you some cash to buy drugs, check it out! skaman306/Getty
  Right now is the only time most Americans will be able to buy health insurance for next year, but our president doesn't want you to know that.
  The orange and angry man has said that he wants the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) to "explode," he later proclaimed that "Obamacare is now on its last legs, fortun
  
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• Christmas turkey, fruitcake rocketing toward space station

  05-12-2018 19:17
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Christmas turkey is rocketing toward the International Space Station, along with cranberry sauce, candied yams and the obligatory fruitcake. SpaceX launched the holiday shipment on a Falcon 9 rocket, which pierced the clear, chilly sky. The first-stage booster aimed for a touchdown on land back at Cape Canaveral, once its […]
  
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• Climate reality check: Global carbon pollution up in 2018

  05-12-2018 19:00
  WASHINGTON (AP) — After several years of little growth, global emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide experienced their largest jump in seven years, discouraging scientists. World carbon dioxide emissions are estimated to have risen 2.7 percent from 2017 to 2018, according to three studies released Wednesday from the Global Carbon Project , an international scientific collaboration […]
  
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• Justin Vernon Is a Midwestern Hero

  05-12-2018 18:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Chase BurnsCome Through is a gorgeous, dizzying fusion of talents that you can see tonight and tomorrow night at the Paramount.JAYME HALBRITTER
  For many people, Bon Iver came out of nowhere.
  "How the hell did he win an award over Nicki Minaj and J. Cole without no one ever hearing about his raggedy ass?" someone tweeted after the band won the 2012 Grammy Award for best new artist. As Justin Vernon trotted up to the stage wearing a tweed suit that looked like it came from a public-school math
  
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• It's Day 5 of 25 Days of Giveaways—Enter Now!

  05-12-2018 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:
  Retrofit Home: An evening for two with the Retrofit Home crew at the Dina Martina Christmas Show (must be 21+)
  The Space Needle: Four tickets to visit Seattle's Coolest Santa at the top of the Space Need
  
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• Hate-crime charge added to WWU student suspected of vandalism

  05-12-2018 17:44
  On Monday afternoon, around 200 students held a six-hour sit-in at WWU President Sabah Randhawa's office to protest how the university handled Merwin's arrest.
  
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• Hate crime charge added to student suspected of vandalism

  05-12-2018 17:44
  On Monday afternoon, around 200 students held a six-hour sit-in at WWU President Sabah Randhawa's office to protest how the university handled Merwin's arrest.
  
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• From a deceased woman’s transplanted uterus, a live birth

  05-12-2018 17:27
  A woman who received a uterus transplanted from a deceased donor has given birth to a healthy child, researchers in Brazil said Tuesday. It is the first such birth to be reported. Uterine transplants from living donors have succeeded; at least 11 babies have been born this way since 2013. But a viable procedure to […]
  
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• Slog AM: Mayor Jenny Durkan Grants Contract to 'Longtime Associate,' Listen to This Wu-Tang Tiny Desk Concert

  05-12-2018 17:23 via thestranger.com
  
  by Michael BellKeep your associates close and your longtime associates closer. ULYSSES CURRY
  Politics as usual: Mayor Jenny Durkan has granted a “longtime associate” a $720,000 no-bid contract to serve as Seattle’s “single point of contact for the third segment of light rail,” reports the Seattle Times. The longtime associate also happens to be married to one of Mayor Durkan’s deputy mayors. Four other candidates were interviewed for the gig, but we are left t
  
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• Police arrest teen in shooting death of 17-year-old boy in Tacoma

  05-12-2018 15:27
  The Pierce County Medical Examiner identified the victim as Antonio Douglas of Federal Way.
  
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• 17-year-old boy dies after Northeast Tacoma shooting

  05-12-2018 15:27
  The Tacoma Police Department is investigating the incident and interviewing witnesses.
  
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• Political trouble was ‘baked into the cake’ of Seattle’s sweeping upzoning plan

  05-12-2018 15:00
  The feeling that City Hall made up its mind how it wanted to make major land-use changes in Seattle without asking the public isn't just NIMBY paranoia. Several insiders confirmed it during testimony in recent appeal hearings.
  
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• How one teen made it from foster-care chaos to a loving family and UW’s halls

  05-12-2018 15:00
  Treehouse helps foster kids stay on track academically and personally and beat the odds to graduate at the same rate as other Washington students.
  
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• UN: Curbing climate change would reap huge health benefits

  05-12-2018 14:15
  KATOWICE, Poland (AP) — The United Nations says curbing climate change will have huge benefits for people’s health worldwide. The World Health Organization said Wednesday that meeting the 2015 Paris accord’s goals would significantly cut global air pollution, saving a million lives each year by 2050. Fossil fuels that produce air pollution, such as coal, […]
  
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• Brazil warns against sidelining poorer countries on climate

  05-12-2018 14:15
  KATOWICE, Poland (AP) — Brazil warned Wednesday against freezing developing nations out of negotiations at the U.N. climate summit, suggesting this could lead to an acrimonious collapse in talks seen in Copenhagen nine years ago. Accusations of backroom deals aren’t uncommon at such meetings, where diplomatic huddles often last late into the night. The two-week […]
  
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• Man pleads not guilty to murder of 5-year-old Vancouver girl

  05-12-2018 13:55
  Court records say Burge told police investigators that the girl hurt herself "while having a tantrum."
  
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• Man pleads not guilty to killing girlfriend’s 5-year-old daughter

  05-12-2018 13:55
  Court records say Burge told police investigators that the girl hurt herself "while having a tantrum."
  
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• You're Cute, but You're Stinky

  05-12-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  by AnonymousWow! Is that terrible odor from a skunk? No. Is something burning in the furnace? No. Is there an old glass of milk sitting out? Yes! Wait, no. It's your hoodie. Yes, sigh. I'm sorry to say, you are so freaking cute, but so freaking stinky. How can you not know you are wearing sour clothes? I hope you have some kind of olfactory defect. Or else you are just... I don't know... gross. But you are really, really cute. Come over here, I'll buy you a new hoodie.
  To submit an unsigned conf
  
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• Time for Myself

  05-12-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Based on a real-life story told at the recent Seattle/King County free health clinic at KeyArena.by Rachel Scheer
  
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• The Secret Art of the Urban Family in Shoplifters

  05-12-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  A beautiful and carefully crafted work that reveals a deep truth about life in the city.by Charles MudedeOne of the deepest differences between life in the city and life in the country is that in the former, you can choose your own family, and in the latter, it is given to you. The peculiar mystery at the core of Hirokazu Kore-eda's beautiful and deceptively tranquil masterpiece Shoplifters will never be properly solved if one does not have this understanding in mind. The urban family is compose
  
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• Puppy Love

  05-12-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Based on a real-life story told at the recent Seattle/King County free health clinic at KeyArena.by Roberta Gregory
  
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• Ode to Dan Dan Noodles

  05-12-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Go eat the dan dan noodles at Seven Stars Pepper.by Rich SmithDan dan noodles are traditionally considered a street food in China, but I'd eat this Szechuan dish anywhere—here, there, in a box, with a fox, etc.Normally, cooks pile the noodles on top of a spicy chili oil sauce laced with mouth-numbing Szechuan peppercorn oil (we'll talk about the numbing in a second) and/or a peanut or sesame sauce. Minced pork, some kind of green from the mustard family, and scallions also make an appearan
  
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• Margie Livingston Dragged Her New Paintings Facedown Through Downtown Bellevue

  05-12-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  A review of Margie Livingston's Extreme Landscape Painting at Greg Kucera Gallery.by Jasmyne Keimig"Dragging a painting down theroad is a comic gesture turned dark," artist Margie Livingston tells me. "Originally, I intended to harm a painting, so I could explore the rich potential of mending it. Enacting this gesture was more powerful than I anticipated." This process by which these finished paintings come together, this dragging, is the focus of Livingston's solo show Extreme Landscape Paintin
  
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• Kinski Celebrate 20 Years of Spacious, Hard-Driving Rock

  05-12-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Kinski celebrate 20 years as a Seattle rock institution with the reissue of Be Gentle with the Warm Turtleby Dave SegalAs Kinski mark their 20th anniversary, it's safe to say they've become a Seattle musical institution.In addition to celebrating two decades of spacious and hard-driving rock for cerebral hedonists, Kinski last month reissued—via Kill Rock Stars—their first proper studio LP, 2001's Be Gentle with the Warm Turtle (it's a double-LP version with two bonus tracks). Be Gen
  
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• Justin Vernon Proves That the Midwest Is More Than Flyover Country

  05-12-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Bon Iver's new boundary-breaking collaboration with TU Dance is gorgeous and in Seattle for two nights.by Chase BurnsFor many people, Bon Iver came out of nowhere."How the hell did he win an award over Nicki Minaj and J. Cole without no one ever hearing about his raggedy ass?" someone tweeted after the band won the 2012 Grammy Award for best new artist. As Justin Vernon trotted up to the stage wearing a tweed suit that looked like it came from a public-school math teacher's closet, Bon Iver, his
  
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• Is Bellevue the Next Williamsburg?

  05-12-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Light rail from Seattle to Bellevue is going to change both cities.by Lester BlackIs Bellevue the next Williamsburg?Wait, wait, wait—hear me out. It's true that right now Bellevue feels nothing like the hipster enclaves of New York City. Brooklyn is full of fashionable neighborhoods, and Bellevue is almost the opposite. But that might soon change.In five years, downtown Seattle and downtown Bellevue will be separated by a 21-minute train ride. There will be stops for the Central District,
  
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• Instagram Shuts Down a Popular Cannabis Account—Repeatedly

  05-12-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  What is their problem with Cannabess?by Katie HerzogBess Byers, as usual, has a theory about what really happened.The woman known online as Cannabess, a Seattle-based cannabis marketer and social-media influencer, has—or had—nearly 100,000 Instagram followers. Sometimes she'll show herself in a grow room holding giant bags full of weed. Other times she'll be deep in the woods, smoke snaking out of her half-open mouth.In addition to using Instagram to build her marketing agency, Blais
  
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• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Trolls

  05-12-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  UW Professor of Swedish studies Lotta Gavel Adams offers a complete history of Scandinavia's mythical beasts.by Rich SmithWhen I ask Professor Lotta Gavel Adams to compare internet trolls to the Nordic monsters she's loved since she was a Swedish schoolgirl, I can hear the disgust in her voice."Internet trolls are not trolls!" she tells me. "Though online trolls are also forces of evil and chaos, they are really just human beings who are trying to cause trouble. If they don't eat snails or frogs
  
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• Dave

  05-12-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Based on a real-life story told at the recent Seattle/King County free health clinic at KeyArena.by Tatiana Gill
  
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