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• Glass Is an Amazing Waste of Time and Talent

  16-01-2019 23:58 via thestranger.com
  by Bobby RobertsThe slide that filled the screen before the press screening of Glass featured a note from director M. Night Shyamalan. Most of it was a gentle plea for viewers to keep the film's secrets—a request I'm more than happy to indulge, so long as I can warn you that all those secrets are fairly fucking stupid—but the note closed with something along the lines of "I hope you enjoy Glass, a story 19 years in the making."Armchair executives on social media love lodging complain
  
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• Food & Drink Specials for the Seattle Squeeze

  16-01-2019 23:50 via thestranger.com
  Restaurant Deals, Freebies, and Specials to Help You Survive the Seattle Squeezeby Stranger Things To Do StaffWhatever your feelings on the viaduct's demise, there's at least one silver lining to the dreaded "period of maximum restraint": local restaurants are stepping in to ameliorate the three-week "Seattle Squeeze" with tasty food and drink specials, discounts, and freebies. Below, we've rounded up some options for your consideration. Plus, check out the Step Forward festival that will celebr
  
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• 26 Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2019 Events in Seattle

  16-01-2019 23:44 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffThe Seattle MLK, Jr. Day March and Celebration will include an opportunity fair, workshops, a march, and multiple rallies. Susan Fried
  Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. paved the way for desegregation in the United States and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent social justice activism. In Seattle, there are lots of ways honor his legacy at special events around town on MLK Day (Monday, January 21) and leading up to it, including Garfield High Sch
  
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• Restaurant Deals, Freebies and Specials to Help You Survive the Seattle Squeeze

  16-01-2019 23:42 via thestranger.com
  Restaurant Deals, Freebies and Specials to Help You Survive the Seattle Squeezeby Stranger Things To Do StaffWhatever your feelings on the viaduct's demise, there's at least one silver lining to the dreaded "period of maximum restraint": local restaurants are stepping in to ameliorate the three-week "Seattle Squeeze" with tasty food and drink specials, discounts, and freebies. Below, we've rounded up some options for your consideration. Plus, check out the Step Forward festival that will celebra
  
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• How Much Would a Russian Agent Spend on Big Macs?

  16-01-2019 23:41 via thestranger.com
  Episode 181 of the Blabbermouth Podcastby The StrangerSubscribe to the podcast FOR FREE by clicking right here!The president is maybe a Russian agent? Whose standing fast-food order, according to The New Yorker, is “two Big Macs, two Filet-o-Fishes, and a chocolate milkshake”? Oh. It must be Wednesday.And Eli Sanders, Rich Smith, and Katie Herzog are here to pick through the political mayhem, which also includes the ascension of William Barr, the racism of Rep. Steve King, and the re
  
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• Man driving stolen Yellow Cab crashes after police chase on I-5 near Northgate

  16-01-2019 23:37
  The cab was stolen after police responded to reports of a robbery and shots fired north of Lynnwood, authorities said.
  
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• Authorities: Man attacks Sikh at Oregon store

  16-01-2019 23:33
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon man has been charged with a hate crime, assault and other charges after he allegedly attacked a Sikh who was working at a convenience store. Andrew Ramsey, 24, of Salem targeted Harwinder Dodd because of Ramsey’s perception of the employee’s religion, according to a court document. It wasn’t immediately […]
  
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• Terrence Malick's 2011 Film The Tree of Life Reveals not the Origins of Life but the Origins of the Trump Voter

  16-01-2019 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeThe Tree of Life Fox Searchlight Pictures
  What can this mean? "Disclosure, Dasein, and the Divine in Terrence Malick's 'The Tree of Life.'"? What is the piece's writer, Ryan Poll, trying to say about this 2011 movie, which Criterion released on DVD and Blu-Ray in September? The writer feels that there's something deep in this work, something that the ordinary moviegoer needs to properly appreciate. It is not a Hollywood film; its story is all chopped up and the viewer's challeng
  
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• British Soul Singer-Songwriter Jacob Banks Brings His Village to Seattle Tonight

  16-01-2019 23:05 via thestranger.com
  
  by Leilani PolkJacob Banks Grace Rivera
  Jacob Banks has a thick, throaty, spacious vocal quality—he could fill a room with that booming rasp, which has moments of surprising creaminess amid the dramatic belting and crooning, the music a mix of soul, R&B, blues, and hiphop. Amid his repertoire highlights are the gospel-saturated chain-gang-stomp of “Chainsmoking,” which uses a bad habit as a metaphor for a toxic relationship he just can’t quit, and “Unholy War,&r
  
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• US lawmaker opposes drilling permit work during shutdown

  16-01-2019 22:46
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The oil and gas industry should not be spared the pain of the partial government shutdown, according to the chairman of the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee. Rep. Raul Grijalva (gri-HAWL-vah) on Tuesday sent a letter to Acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt objecting to the department changing plans to allow employees […]
  
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• Resource chairman: Halt drilling permit work during shutdown

  16-01-2019 22:46
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The chairman of the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee is calling on the Interior Department to halt work on oil and gas development permits and leases in Alaska and elsewhere during the partial government shutdown. A letter from Rep. Raul Grijalva (gri-HAWL-vah) to Acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt objects to the […]
  
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• Son suspected in mother’s death found hiding in woman’s home

  16-01-2019 22:38
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A man suspected of killing his mother and hiding in her home has been arrested in Alaska’s second-largest city. Fairbanks police announced Thursday that 34-year-old George Rosa is being held on suspicion of first-degree murder in the death of 70-year-old Molly Rosa. He was scheduled to be arraigned Thursday afternoon. Online […]
  
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• A Funny Thing Happened at the Opera

  16-01-2019 22:38 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher FrizzelleIl Trovatore has a gorgeous set.Jacob Lucas/Seattle Opera
  You have to be on your best behavior at the opera. It's not like seeing a show at the Paramount or the 5th Avenue, when you can often waltz in late, guided by an usher with a little flashlight. If you're a moment late to the opera, you often can't be let in. Earlier this year, I was a few moments late to the start of a performance, and thankfully, miraculously, I did get let in, without about a dozen other straggle
  
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• Idaho governor receives oil and gas chairman’s resignation

  16-01-2019 22:29
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Gov. Brad Little has received Idaho Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Chairman Kevin Dickey’s resignation after a potential conflict of interest. Little said in a statement Tuesday to the Idaho Statesman that he “asked for and accepted” Dickey’s resignation, and that his office “will work to fill the vacancy on […]
  
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• Women+s March Washington State to Disband In Protest of Anti-Semitism

  16-01-2019 22:21 via thestranger.com
  
  The national Women's March has been plagued by accusations of anti-Semitism.by Katie Herzog RAMON DOMPOR/Getty Images
  This weekend's Womxn's (née Women's) March might not be the last in Seattle, but it will be the last for the Women+s March Washington State, the statewide organization that was founded in 2017 to help support local groups organizing their own demonstrations.In December, Angie Beem, the board director of the Washington State Women+s March, announced that the group will be d
  
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• Medical tech in Hepatitis C outbreak challenges sentence

  16-01-2019 21:50
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A traveling hospital technician who was sentenced to 39 years in prison for infecting patients in multiple states with hepatitis C through tainted syringes has asked a federal judge to vacate his sentence, saying his lawyer was ineffective in representing him. David Kwiatkowski, 39, was a cardiac technologist in 18 hospitals […]
  
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• Check out WSDOT’s Viadoom nerve center: 900 cameras, 112 TVs and 5 humans, helping to keep traffic moving

  16-01-2019 21:37
  As Seattle-area residents change their daily habits to try to keep the region's arteries flowing through the Highway 99 shutdown, the nerve center of the entire system sits in an unassuming office building in a leafy Shoreline office park.
  
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• New Jersey and New York Are in a Race to Legalize Pot First

  16-01-2019 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  New York wants to legalize pot in 100 days, edging out New Jersey's legalization attempt.by Lester BlackNew York Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to legalize pot in 100 days. Spencer Platt / Staff/Getty
  Legal pot may soon be for sale on both sides of the Hudson River.
  Yesterday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled his plan to legalize pot, which would create a legal cannabis system very similar to the one in Washington state. Cuomo thinks he can pass this law in just 100 days and bring legal pot sales to
  
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• Chief Justice Mary Fairhurst again being treated for cancer

  16-01-2019 21:17
  Fairhurst made the announcement Wednesday toward the end of her State of the Judiciary address to a joint session of the state Legislature.
  
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• Seattle Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal Will Sit on Committee That Could Consider Trump's Impeachment

  16-01-2019 20:59 via thestranger.com
  
  Back in 2017, Jayapal declared the president had already committed "significant impeachable constitutional violations."by Eli SandersJayapal said back in 2017 that the president had already committed "significant impeachable constitutional violations." John Boal
  Adding to the serious clout that Seattle's Congressional delegation will have in the Democrat-controlled House, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal just announced that she'll continue sitting on the House Judiciary Committee, which will be cen
  
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• Robot recreates the walk of a 290-million-year-old creature

  16-01-2019 20:55
  WASHINGTON (AP) — How did the earliest land animals move? Scientists have used a nearly 300-million-year old fossil skeleton and preserved ancient footprints to create a moving robot model of prehistoric life. Evolutionary biologist John Nyakatura at Humboldt University in Berlin has spent years studying a 290-million-year-old fossil dug up in central Germany’s Bromacker quarry […]
  
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• What Jay Inslee Gets Wrong About Climate Change

  16-01-2019 20:51 via thestranger.com
  
  He’s wrong about thinking it’s all gain and no pain.by Greg ScruggsWe need some bright ideas for climate change, Jay. David Ryder / Stringer
  Although life in the other Washington is a shitshow of unimaginable proportions at present, our dear governor has his eyes set on an upgrade from Olympia to DC. While he has not yet officially announced, Governor Jay Inslee has shifted his answer from “no comment” to “here are all the things I would do if I were elected preside
  
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• Alaska House hopes for staff workaround while unorganized

  16-01-2019 20:46
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska House members hoped to find a workaround Wednesday to keep staff on the job while lawmakers try to organize a majority with the session under way. The Legislature’s human resources manager, Skiff Lobaugh, warned last week that House session staff would not be authorized to work if the chamber remained […]
  
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• ‘Add the Words’ demonstrators gather at Idaho Statehouse

  16-01-2019 20:42
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Roughly 200 demonstrators have gathered inside the Statehouse to get Idaho lawmakers to pass legislation to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from employment and housing discrimination. The demonstrators on Wednesday carried signs describing past instances of discrimination they or someone else has experienced. They want lawmakers to add the […]
  
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• Cool beans? Far from it: Global warming is helping to wipe out coffee in the wild

  16-01-2019 20:36
  More than half of the world's coffee species are at risk of vanishing in the wild because of climate change and deforestation, new research has found.
  
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• Idaho woman has 50-pound tumor removed

  16-01-2019 20:33
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho woman who thought she was gaining weight because of menopause discovered she actually had a 50-pound tumor that had been growing inside her for decades. Boise television station KTVB reports Brenda Cridland of Meridian chalked up her weight gain to aging, but when her health started to quickly decline […]
  
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• Marriage, Kids, Furry Porn, and the Price of Admission...

  16-01-2019 20:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  I'm an early-30s hetero women in a monogamous relationship with my mid-30s hetero guy. We've been together for about ten years, married for seven, no kids. We have a lot of fun together—traveling, shared hobbies, mutual friends, etc.—and get along really well. We have sex fairly regularly. It's not bad. Nothing mind blowing, but definitely on the good end of things. However, his primary sexual fetish is getting in the way of things for me.His main turn on is furry porn.
  
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• Sorry, MAGA Hats—Legal Weeds Means Less Illegal Imports

  16-01-2019 20:25 via thestranger.com
  The numbers for cannabis seized at the border has gone down since state legalization programs began.by Josh JardineIt’s gearing up to be a banner year for legalized weed, but that doesn’t mean we can ease up on fighting prohibitionists. That means it’s time for another installment of our series “Prohibition Arguments, Cannalyzed™”—in which we dissect stupid anti-cannabis arguments by using words and common sense. Here’s a favorite one cited by thos
  
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• Sorry, MAGA Hats—Legal Weed Means Less Illegal Imports

  16-01-2019 20:25 via thestranger.com
  The numbers for cannabis seized at the border has gone down since state legalization programs began.by Josh JardineIt’s gearing up to be a banner year for legalized weed, but that doesn’t mean we can ease up on fighting prohibitionists. That means it’s time for another installment of our series “Prohibition Arguments, Cannalyzed™”—in which we dissect stupid anti-cannabis arguments by using words and common sense. Here’s a favorite one cited by thos
  
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• Idaho wolf control board seeks $200,000 to kill wolves

  16-01-2019 20:14
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A $200,000 budget request by Gov. Brad Little for an Idaho board that manages money to pay a federal and state agency to kill wolves that attack livestock and big game is sufficient for fiscal year 2020, a board member told lawmakers Wednesday. “We’re fine with the $200,000 this year,” Wolf […]
  
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• The best Rx for teens addicted to vaping? No one knows

  16-01-2019 20:06
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s top health authorities agree: Teen vaping is an epidemic that now affects some 3.6 million underage users of Juul and other e-cigarettes. But no one seems to know the best way to help teenagers who may be addicted to nicotine. E-cigarettes are now the top high-risk substance used by teenagers, […]
  
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• Sex Education Reinvents the Teen-Sex Comedy Genre

  16-01-2019 19:09 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ned LannamannYou know what you’re in for with Sex Education right from the opening shot, which involves a fairly graphic sex scene between two teenagers. Look past all the hot ’n’ heavy humping, though, and you might notice the artistry of the composition itself, shot with a traveling camera that begins on an overhead lamp, surveys the ground floor with some parental characters (and a dog) whom we’ll get to know later, moves through a predictably suburban living and di
  
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• Inbox Jukebox Track of the Day: "Isolation Dub" by Jäh Division Is Exactly What You Think It Is—But Better

  16-01-2019 18:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Brooklyn collective Jäh Division's dubbed-out cover of Joy Division's "Isolation" will leave you feeling irie and eerie.by Dave SegalNovelty or atrocity exhibition? Ernest Jenning Record Co.
  Jäh Division, "Isolation Dub" (Ernest Jenning Record Co.)
  The original "Isolation" off of Joy Division's Closer is perhaps British post-punk icons' most club-friendly and uptempo track. (Dig the paradox.) It hinted at the direction New Order would take after their 1981 debut LP, Movement, with Pete
  
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• Our 2019 Guide to Surviving Winter with Weed

  16-01-2019 18:10 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher Frizzelle AARON BAGLEY
  We're only a few weeks into winter. Yes, it's true—it feels like it's been winter forever. But it's only just begun. Many of us at The Stranger battle the monocloud with regular infusions of dopamine—by way of THC—into our bloodstreams. There are so many different ways to use weed to survive winter that we've created this whole issue just to talk about it.
  
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• Teach kids about climate change? This state might require it

  16-01-2019 18:05
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A legislative proposal in Connecticut would mandate instruction on climate change in public schools statewide, beginning in elementary school. Connecticut already has adopted science standards that call for teaching of climate change, but if the bill passes it is believed that it would be the country’s first to write such a […]
  
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• Only 1 candidate applies for Idaho county prosecutor job

  16-01-2019 18:02
  BLACKFOOT, Idaho (AP) — Officials say only one person has applied to be appointed as Bingham County prosecutor, and the deadline for applications is looming. The Idaho State Journal reports the current prosecutor, Cleve Colson, has been appointed magistrate judge. That means The Bingham County Republican Party is expected to submit three nominees for the […]
  
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• Google Banned Political Ads in Washington State, Then Kept on Selling Them

  16-01-2019 17:55 via thestranger.com
  
  "If Google wasn't accepting ads," asked one local campaign treasurer, "why did they accept ours?"by Eli Sanders"If Google wasn't accepting ads," asked one local campaign treasurer, "why did they accept ours?" Justin Sullivan / Getty Images
  Washington state is a national leader in bringing transparency to the dark world of online political advertising.The law here is so tough, in fact, that Google announced in June 2018 that it would no longer sell political ads for local races in Washington stat
  
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• Former deputy accused of sexual abuse

  16-01-2019 17:46
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A former Jefferson County Sheriff’s deputy is being held without bail after being accused of raping a woman and sexually abusing a minor while working for a Salem security company that previously contracted with Salem-Keizer Public Schools. The Statesman Journal reports that 28-year-old Jorge Ulises Serrano of Woodburn, Oregon, was arrested […]
  
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