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• DJ Bad Ginger Pushes Her High-Energy House-Music Sets Into the Red

  10-12-2018 23:43 via thestranger.com
  
  Studio 4/4 resident DJ Bad Ginger's sets are an endless source of high-energy house-music euphoria.by Dave SegalDJ Bad Ginger strives to create sets that make people "feel like the best and most badass versions of themselves." nickydigital.com {SMILE}
  DJ BAD GINGER (aka HANNAH BREWER; Studio 4/4)
  Current top 6 tracks:Endor, "Dance & Dip (Club VIP)" (Strangelove)
  "This secret weapon of a track has been in almost every one of my sets since I discovered it. Whenever I drop it, there is almost a
  
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• Uber, Lyft offering discounted rides to transit hubs during viaduct closure

  10-12-2018 23:33
  The aging Alaskan Way Viaduct will close permanently Jan. 11. Crews will then need three weeks to connect surface ramps before the new Highway 99 tunnel can open in its place. Uber and Lyft are offering discounts to and from public transit hubs, to help with the expected heavy traffic.
  
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• King County Sheriff’s Office to pay motorcyclist held at gunpoint $65,000, plus change use-of-force rules

  10-12-2018 23:20
  A motorcyclist was recording the incident when a plainclothes detective pointed a gun at him at a red light. The motorcyclist is now settling his suit for both money and a change of rules on when officers can pull guns on members of the public.
  
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• Welcome to the Long Night, Welcome to Hell

  10-12-2018 23:19 via thestranger.com
  
  Until further notice, and further seasonal changes, "day" does not exist anymore and will be hereby substituted for nightby Nathalie GrahamGrab your candles, grab your kerosene, and maybe a good book—Winter is coming. SteveMcsweeny/Getty Images
  Hello, and welcome to The Long Night, The Eternal Doom, and the Endless Winter (do not confuse any of these with The Great Dying). It isn't here yet, but rest assured, its cold, dark fingers are inching toward us and inching us toward 15 (and-a-half
  
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• Evelyn Berezin, 93, dies; built the first true word processor

  10-12-2018 23:13
  Her device freed secretaries from the typewriter. But as word processing became ubiquitous, it helped eliminate their jobs.
  
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• NASA’s first look: Tiny asteroid is studded with boulders

  10-12-2018 23:09
  WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA’s first look at a tiny asteroid shows the space rock is more moist and studded with boulders than originally thought. Scientists on Monday released the first morsels of data collected since their spacecraft Osiris-Rex hooked up last week with the asteroid Bennu, which is only about three blocks wide and weighs […]
  
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• Trump's Nominee for Attorney General Wants to Impose Christian Rule

  10-12-2018 22:45 via thestranger.com
  
  William Barr bemoans "secular" society and the progress of women’s movements and LGBTQ movements in a 1995 article he published in The Catholic Lawyer.by Rich SmithNot my favorite. Sean Gallup / Getty Images
  Looks like Brett Kavanaugh isn't the only Trump nominee who likes to reveal the extent of his sycophancy and the paucity of his moral imagination in obscure legal journals!On Sunday The Daily Beast dug up an essay in the The Catholic Lawyer written by William Barr, the guy Trump nomina
  
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• Electric ferries, no more coal power: After carbon-fee defeat, Inslee rolls out clean-energy proposals

  10-12-2018 22:42
  Inslee said his proposals, which he called "a clean energy smart deal," would put Washington state on track to meet its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 25 percent below 1990 levels by 2035.
  
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• After carbon-fee defeat, Inslee rolls out new clean-energy proposals

  10-12-2018 22:42
  Inslee said his proposals, which he called "a clean energy smart deal," would put Washington state on track to meet its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 25 percent below 1990 levels by 2035.
  
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• Am I Still Preserving My Boyfriend's Virginity?

  10-12-2018 22:21 via thestranger.com
  
  Savage Love Letter of the Dayby Dan SavageOriginally published on Dec. 23, 2008.
  I'm a 34-year-old straight woman living with a 32-year-old straight man. His daughter is 2, and I am the only mother she has ever known. (Her real mother is a crack whore somewhere.) My boyfriend tells me he loves me, but it doesn't feel like he wants to spend any time with me. I pay the rent and am the only person in our household with a full-time job. When I get home, I want to relax. He wants to go out because he
  
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• FBI, sheriff open hate-crime investigation into attack on black DJ at Lynnwood tavern

  10-12-2018 22:12
  “We do not and will not ever tolerate acts of hate in Snohomish County. The violent behavior directed at members of our community over the weekend simply because of their race is disgusting," Snohomish County Sheriff Ty Trenary said.
  
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• Study Connects Climate Change to Mass Extinction While Trump Promotes Fossil Fuels at Climate Conference

  10-12-2018 21:38 via thestranger.com
  
  More bad news about the planet.by Katie HerzogA turtle swims among barren coral reefRainer von Brandis/Getty ImagesMore bad news about the planet.According to a study published last week by researchers at the University of Washington, climate change—that thing Republicans are trying desperately ignore—was the cause of planet's largest-ever mass die-off.Called the Great Dying, this period took place around 250 million years ago, and up to 80 percent of all species on the planet went e
  
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• Anchorage museum to archive social media memes on quake

  10-12-2018 21:07
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Anchorage Museum will include social media reactions to the powerful earthquake that rocked Alaska for its archived historical record. The collection will include viral memes and other Facebook and Twitter responses to the Nov. 30 quake that struck 7 miles (11 kilometers) north of Anchorage, Alaska Public Media reported . […]
  
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• ‘Modern Family’s’ Sarah Hyland had second kidney transplant

  10-12-2018 21:01
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Modern Family” star Sarah Hyland says she had a second kidney transplant last year, replacing a kidney from her father with another from her brother. Hyland detailed her lifelong health struggles in an interview in Self magazine, and tweeted Monday that she hopes it “spreads awareness of organ donation” and “brings […]
  
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• Meet The Stranger's New Art and Music Critic: Jasmyne Keimig!

  10-12-2018 21:00 via thestranger.com
  
  "Seattle artists, I want your work inside me."by Chase Burns
  Big news, Sloggers! Today, I'm very fucking excited to announce that Jasmyne Keimig will be joining The Stranger as a staff writer starting in January 2019. We've been huge fans of Jasmyne and her writing since adding her to the staff as an arts intern earlier this fall, and we're happy she accepted our offer to join this madhouse full-time. (ICYMI: Read her recent feature on artist Anthony White.)
  Jasmyne will be the paper’s pri
  
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• New Year's Resolution: Stop Sharing Your Location Data with Everyone All the Time

  10-12-2018 20:21 via thestranger.com
  
  If you don't want Peter Thiel collecting information on every move you make, start here.by Eli SandersA New York Times investigation is yet another reminder: take control of your smartphone privacy settings! Atsushi Tomura / Stringer
  If you're looking for an easy and important resolution to make before 2019, this investigation from The New York Times suggests you should be resolving to take control of the way your smartphone shares your location.The Times found your personal coordinates may be t
  
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• Police name man sought in fatal November shooting in White Center

  10-12-2018 20:18
  The sheriff's office said they have probable cause to arrest the suspect on suspicion of murder and called him "armed and dangerous."
  
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• Millions of People Are Watching Netflix's Shit Christmas Movies. I Am One of Them.

  10-12-2018 19:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ciara Dolan The Christmas Chronicles | Netflix
  While attending a recent conference in New York, Netflix's Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos reported that, in the week since it debuted, the streaming giant's new original film The Christmas Chronicles—which stars Kurt Russell as a roguish but tenderhearted Santa—has exceeded 20 million views. "If every one of those [20 million streams] was a movie ticket purchase, that's a $200 million opening week," Sarandos gloated. "Even movies
  
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• Resisting Patriot Prayer, Part One: How to Talk About Alt-Right Groups

  10-12-2018 19:20 via thestranger.com
  
  by Alex Zielinski AARON LEE
  Fighting right-wing extremism begins at home. In Portland, that means we need to have some real honest conversations about Patriot Prayer, the militant right-wing group based in Vancouver, Washington. For the past few years, Patriot Prayer’s top priority has been visiting Portland to incite violence, taunt the city’s lefty leadership, and collect praise from right-wing blogs. City officials continue to grapple with the best way to combat this violent group
  
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• The 78 Best Things To Do in Seattle This Week: Dec 10-16, 2018

  10-12-2018 19:15 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 43 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 an evening of stand-up with Conan O'Brien to Disney's The Lion King, and from a talk about Scandinavian trolls with Lotta Gavel-Adams to an opening party for a new Dick's Drive-In in Kent. See the
  
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• Record count reported for mysterious paralyzing illness

  10-12-2018 19:06
  The current mystery can be traced to 2012, when three cases of limb weakness were seen in California. The condition is called acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM. So far this year, there have been 158 confirmed cases, spread among 36 states, including Washington state.
  
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• Trump plan to reclassify nuke waste alarms environmentalists

  10-12-2018 18:37
  Conservation groups are alarmed by the Trump administration's proposal to rename some radioactive waste left from the production of nuclear weapons to make it cheaper and easier to achieve permanent disposal.
  
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• Climate group: 14 activists banned by conference host Poland

  10-12-2018 18:34
  KATOWICE, Poland (AP) — An environmental group said Monday that at least 14 foreigners have been detained or deported by Poland’s Border Guard since last week’s start of the United Nations climate conference in the south of the country. Svitlana Romanko of the group 350.org said the individuals were from Germany and from countries that […]
  
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• Motorcyclist Wins $65,000 Settlement After King County Deputy Pulls Gun on Him

  10-12-2018 18:14 via thestranger.com
  
  The King County Sheriff's Office agreed to pay $65,000 to a man that a detective drew his gun on in the middle of a crowded street.by Lester BlackA screenshot from Alex Randall's August 2017 video posted to YouTube. YouTube
  King County Sheriff Mitzi Johanknecht has agreed to update her department's use of force policies and pay a man $65,000 in damages after one of her department’s detectives drew his gun on an unsuspecting motorcyclist in a video that went viral last year.
  The settlement,
  
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• It's Day 10 of 25 Days of Giveaways—Enter Now!

  10-12-2018 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:
  Artist Home: Pair of tickets to the 7th Annual Artist Home New Year's Eve Celebration (Mon Dec 31 at the Neptune)
  Dexter Brewhouse: Three-course beer-pairing meal for two (must be 21+)
  Head over to our c
  
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• Slog AM:The Seattle Suburban-Urban Divide Is Real, Durkan's $200 Million Waterfront Tax Delayed

  10-12-2018 17:10 via thestranger.com
  
  by Michael BellIt's hard to tax angry rich people. James Griffiths Photo/Getty Images
  Used to be on top, now we’re on bottom: Same old sad song. Seattle used to have the most bidding wars on houses. Now we have the least. Boo hoo. Maybe it’s just that single-family homes aren’t the hot thing anymore. Maybe what people are yearning for isn’t to bid on a house but to bid on whatever the best policy solution is for adding the most affordable living options possible to the ci
  
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• Slog AM: The Seattle Suburban-Urban Divide Is Real, Durkan's $200 Million Waterfront Tax Delayed

  10-12-2018 17:10 via thestranger.com
  
  by Michael BellIt's hard to tax angry rich people. James Griffiths Photo/Getty Images
  Used to be on top, now we’re on bottom: Same old sad song. Seattle used to have the most bidding wars on houses. Now we have the least. Boo hoo. Maybe it’s just that single-family homes aren’t the hot thing anymore. Maybe what people are yearning for isn’t to bid on a house but to bid on whatever the best policy solution is for adding the most affordable living options possible to the ci
  
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• Crab season delayed again in Oregon

  10-12-2018 17:07
  ASTORIA, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s Dungeness crab fishery will not open until at least Dec. 31 after testing by state fishery managers revealed crabs are still too low in meat yield in some areas of the coast. The Daily Astorian reports the valuable commercial fishery traditionally opens on Dec. 1. In November, fishery managers announced […]
  
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• NASA’s Voyager 2 becomes 2nd craft in interstellar space

  10-12-2018 17:03
  WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA’s Voyager 2 has become only the second human-made object to reach the space between stars. NASA said Monday that Voyager 2 exited the region of the sun’s influence last month. The spacecraft is now beyond the outer boundary of the heliosphere, some 11 billion miles from Earth. It’s trailing Voyager 1, […]
  
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• Panama’s city frogs sing more alluring love songs than their country cousins

  10-12-2018 17:01
  Panama's tungara frogs take advantage of the relative absence of eavesdropping predators in cities to belt out longer love songs, researchers found. And those fancy urban love songs are three times more likely to attract the ladies.
  
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• Croak to croon: City frogs sing more alluring love songs

  10-12-2018 17:01
  WASHINGTON (AP) — City frogs and rainforest frogs don’t sing the same tune, researchers have found. A study released Monday examined why Panama’s tiny tungara frogs adapt their mating calls in urban areas — an unexpected example of how animals change communication strategies when cities encroach on forests. These frogs take advantage of the relative […]
  
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• 2 men found fatally shot in Tacoma

  10-12-2018 16:38
  TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say two people were shot to death in Tacoma. KOMO reports that police responded to a call in the McKinley neighborhood shortly before 5 p.m. Sunday. When they arrived, officers found two men, both dead, with what appeared to be gunshot wounds. Investigators said they don’t know if the victims […]
  
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• Artificial dyes fading, but food will still get color boosts

  10-12-2018 16:16
  NEW YORK (AP) — Many companies including McDonald’s and Kellogg are purging artificial colors from their foods, but don’t expect your cheeseburgers or cereal to look much different. Colors send important signals about food, and companies aren’t going to stop playing into those perceptions. What’s accepted as normal can change, too, and vary by region. […]
  
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• Weather drama on the way: Lots of rain in Seattle, snow in the Cascades, wind at the coast

  10-12-2018 16:05
  An incoming jet stream is bringing a very wintry weather pattern — including lots of mountain snow that will cheer skiers.
  
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• Renton shooting leaves 16-year-old boy with life-threatening injuries

  10-12-2018 15:27
  A 16-year-old boy has life-threatening injuries after being shot in a Renton apartment complex on Sunday, according to police. Renton police responded to a report of the shooting around 6:30 p.m. Sunday. They found the boy in the driver’s seat of a car that had crashed into a parked van in the 600 block of […]
  
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• Shootings are contagious: Prosecutors study King County gun violence from a public-health angle

  10-12-2018 15:00
  Since early 2017, the three-member Criminal Strategies Unit in the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office has collected data on shootings investigated by eight police departments and hopes to expand the project to include data from all police departments in the county next year.
  
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• Seattle zoning’s urban-suburban divide: Here’s how the city’s two halves are changing

  10-12-2018 15:00
  Seattle’s high-density census tracts cover less than a quarter of the city’s land area, but they have absorbed more than 70 percent of household growth this decade.
  
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• Seattle delays $200M tax on downtown-property owners as waterfront talks continue

  10-12-2018 15:00
  Mayor Jenny Durkan's administration hoped to pass legislation by the end of the year that would create a local improvement district (LID) for long-anticipated improvements to the waterfront.
  
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• By shutting down comments on this column, we erred on the side of civility

  10-12-2018 15:00
  The now-discontinued comments section of my column often turned into a vicious free-for-all, and that contradicted my goal of fostering awareness, inclusion and civil exchange.
  
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• After the viaduct: Seattle’s vision for waterfront up in the air because some property owners don’t want to pay

  10-12-2018 15:00
  Mayor Jenny Durkan's administration hoped to pass legislation by the end of the year that would create a local improvement district (LID) for long-anticipated improvements to the waterfront.
  
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• Wintry storm ices roads across much of US Southeast

  10-12-2018 13:19
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A lingering storm kept dumping immobilizing snow, sleet or freezing rain across five southern states, leaving dangerously icy roads and hundreds of thousands of people without electricity. Authorities urged people to stay home Monday in areas where driving was dangerous. Accidents on snow-covered interstates caused major delays Sunday, hundreds of flights […]
  
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• Snowed-in South makes the best of day off from work, school

  10-12-2018 13:19
  DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Snowed-in Southerners made the best of a day without work or school Monday while officials warned that roads remained treacherous after a wintry storm dropped snow, sleet and freezing rain across five states. Accidents on snow-covered interstates caused major delays over the weekend. Hundreds of flights were canceled and drivers in […]
  
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• Even the dogs get snow boots at this S.D. police department

  10-12-2018 13:11
  RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A police dog in South Dakota is learning how to walk a beat in snow boots. Video posted by the Rapid City police department shows Jary trying to adjust having the boots on its paws. The dog awkwardly lifts its legs while getting used to the new boots. The department […]
  
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• Protesters disrupt U.S. fossil-fuel event at U.N. climate talks

  10-12-2018 06:07
  The U.S. panel's premise — that fossil fuels can be made "clean" through innovation — stands at odds with recommendations from scientists who say countries should transition to renewable energy sources as soon as possible or risk catastrophic levels of global warming by the end of the century.
  
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• Hate watchdog group says man arrested in Lynnwood tavern melee linked to white-supremacist group

  10-12-2018 05:44
  On Sunday afternoon, patrons and the bar help at the Rec Room Bat & Grill, located in a strip mall at 149th and Highway 99, were shocked when shown what the Southern Poverty Law Center had to say about Travis Condor.
  
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• San Diego, Tijuana experts head off health issues at border

  10-12-2018 04:48
  Accessible health care inside shelters is an important part of keeping disease outbreaks from moving into the general population that crosses the border by the thousands every day.
  
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• Need a transplant? You’ll need to prove you can pay costs

  10-12-2018 03:27
  Most of the nation’s more than 250 transplant centersrequire patients to verify how they will cover bills that can total $400,000 for a kidney transplant or $1.3 million for a heart, plus monthly costs that average $2,500 for anti-rejection drugs that must be taken for life.
  
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• Fire ruled arson at Lacey Jehovah’s Witness Kingdom Hall

  10-12-2018 02:02
  The fire marks the sixth act of violence since March on a Kingdom Hall in Thurston County.
  
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• Sierra snowpack well above average after California storms

  10-12-2018 00:35
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Back-to-back California storms blanket the Sierra Nevada in snow, more than twice the snowpack level compared to this time last year, with winter still nearly two weeks away. At the same time last year, the Sierra snowpack was 47 percent of average, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday. A series of […]
  
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