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• I.M. Pei, Architect Who Designed Louvre Pyramid, Dies at 102

  16-05-2019 23:52
  I.M. Pei's more than 50 projects ranged from the Musee d'Art Moderne in Luxembourg and the 72-story Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong to the John. F. Kennedy Library in Bostonand the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland.
  
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• A Beer Named Melissa, a Kvek Grisette, and Other Things I Loved at Pike's Women in Beer Event

  16-05-2019 23:40 via thestranger.com
  
  Drinking female-made beer isn’t just checking some kind of social justice box; drinking female-made beer in Seattle is the same as drinking some of the region’s best beer.by Lester BlackAriel Klein, head brewer at Outer Planet Brewing, serving a glass of her mild at Pike Brewing Monday. Lester Black
  Two things came to my mind as I walked around Pike Brewing on Monday evening for their annual Women in Brewing event. First off, that place is way fucking bigger and full of way more beer
  
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• Zachary DeWolf Goes on the Attack at Labor Council Candidate Forum

  16-05-2019 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  The non-Sawant candidates for District 3 are beginning to distinguish themselves from one another.by Rich SmithHey guess what, they all like unions.RS
  Wednesday night the MLK Labor Council held their endorsement meeting for city council candidates running in District 3. Of the seven people running, only incumbent council member Kshama Sawant, Seattle School Board member Zachary DeWolf, Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce director Egan Orion, Hashtag Cannabis co-owner Logan Bowers, and King County p
  
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• Flooding makes big ‘dead zone’ off Louisiana coast likely

  16-05-2019 23:08
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal scientist says the year’s widespread flooding makes it likely that a big “dead zone” will form off Louisiana’s coast this summer. Steven Thur says preliminary runs of predictive models “indicate a large to very large year” for the area where there’s too little oxygen to support marine life. Thur […]
  
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• US attempt to improve wildland firefighter shelters fails

  16-05-2019 23:03
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Federal officials say an effort to develop a better fire shelter following the deaths of 19 wildland firefighters in Arizona six years ago has failed. Officials at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise in a decision on Wednesday say the current fire shelter developed in 2002 will remain in use. […]
  
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• Maine governor signs bill to ban Native American mascots

  16-05-2019 23:02
  AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine public schools and universities will soon ban the use of mascots and logos depicting Native Americans. Democratic Gov. Janet Mills’ office says the bill she signed Thursday will become effective 90 days after the Legislature adjourns. Penobscot Nation Ambassador Maulian Dana says the law is “a huge step toward trust […]
  
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• Dems push bill on Obamacare, drug prices toward House OK

  16-05-2019 22:51
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats pushed legislation buttressing the 2010 health care law and curbing prescription drug prices toward House passage Thursday, advancing a bill that seems engineered with next year’s elections in mind and has no chance of surviving in the Senate or getting President Donald Trump’s signature. The measure forces Republicans into the uncomfortable […]
  
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• Dems push bill on health care, drug prices through House

  16-05-2019 22:51
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats pushed legislation buttressing the 2010 health care law and curbing prescription drug prices through the House Thursday, advancing a bill that has no chance of surviving in the Senate or getting President Donald Trump’s signature and seemed engineered with next year’s elections in mind. The measure forced Republicans into the uncomfortable […]
  
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• There Are Only Two Ways the US Can Win a War Against Iran: Nuke 'Em or Restore the Draft

  16-05-2019 22:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeThe world according to John Bolton... KREMLLgettyimages.com
  Right after the National Security Advisor and hawk of hawks John Bolton failed in Venezuela, he turned Trump's attention back to Iran. He is now pushing hard for a war with that country. He has always wanted war with Iran. One suspects that the fall of American-supported dictator the Shah of Iran in 1979 was a traumatic experience for Bolton. At least, that is my theory. On January 16, 1979, Iran's Imperial Guardsmen we
  
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• Ex-employees of Washington resort sue owners over alleged sexual harassment

  16-05-2019 22:30
  Bonneville Hot Springs and Carson Hot Springs resorts and its owners are facing lawsuits from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and a former employee for alleged sexual harassment.
  
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• Ex-employee of Washington resort sues owners over alleged sexual harassment

  16-05-2019 22:30
  Bonneville Hot Springs and Carson Hot Springs resorts and its owners are facing lawsuits from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and a former employee for alleged sexual harassment.
  
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• Oregon House speaker wants to cut tax rebate in half

  16-05-2019 21:57
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — House Speaker Tina Kotek is introducing a plan to halve cut the tax rebate Oregon residents receive. The Portland Democrat announced the idea Thursday, the day after state economists revealed that the “kicker” tax rebate could be the largest in state history. Oregon Public Broadcasting reports that in a bill Kotek […]
  
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• Coming soon to the SAT: an ‘adversity score’ offering a snapshot of challenges students face

  16-05-2019 21:56
  The "adversity score" will focus on social and economic factors associated with a student's school and neighborhood, such as median family income, crime reports and college attendance rates. It does not consider race or individual data about a student's circumstances.
  
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• Coming soon to SAT: ‘adversity score’ offering snapshot of challenges students face

  16-05-2019 21:56
  The "adversity score" will focus on social and economic factors associated with a student's school and neighborhood, such as median family income, crime reports and college attendance rates. It does not consider race or individual data about a student's circumstances.
  
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• Watch Woodland Park Zoo’s baby giraffe prance around in his new therapeutic shoes

  16-05-2019 21:55
  Two-week-old Hasani went outdoors for the first time. He was born with rear leg abnormalities and needs special care as he grows.
  
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• John Wick 3 Review: God Bless You, John Wick! Never Stop Murdering!

  16-05-2019 21:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Erik HenriksenJohn Wick: Still batshit LIONSGATE
  With its florid title, Fortnite tie-ins, and blockbuster-sized predictions that it will unseat Avengers: Endgame at the box office, John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum opens this weekend—cementing the bizarre fact that the ultraviolent, relatively low-fi action flick that was 2014's John Wick has grown into a massive, full-on, crowd-pleasing franchise. By all rights, the fantastic John Wick should have joined The Raid, Ong-Bak, and Dred
  
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• Ever Out in Portland? Check Out Our Sister Site!

  16-05-2019 21:55 via bit.ly
  Mercury Things To Do Has Comprehensive Portland Event Listings and Suggestions!by Stranger Things To Do Staff
  
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• $24M Suit: Oregon moved abuser into foster home with 2 girls

  16-05-2019 21:55
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon child welfare officials ignored years of warnings when they moved a 13-year-old boy with a history of abusing younger children into the same foster home as two young girls, according to a lawsuit against the Department of Human Services. New court documents say case workers labeled the boy a “risk” […]
  
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• Your Guide to Spring & Summer Farmers Markets

  16-05-2019 21:32 via thestranger.com
  Where To Find Fresh Produce, Flowers, Baked Goods, and More at local farmers markets.by Stranger Things To Do StaffA flurry of farmers markets are opening right now, so it's prime time to tuck a basket under your arm, peruse the stalls, and scoop up a bounty of fresh seasonal produce and artisanal products. Below, we've rounded up all of Seattle's summertime markets for your planning needs.TUESDAYS
  City Hall Farmers Market
  May 28-Oct 8, 10 am-2 pm
  This Pike Place satellite market will feature cr
  
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• Your Guide to Seattle Farmers Markets: Spring/Summer 2019 Edition

  16-05-2019 21:29 via thestranger.com
  Where To Find Fresh Produce, Flowers, Baked Goods, and More at local farmers markets.by Stranger Things To Do StaffA flurry of farmers markets are opening right now, so it's prime time to tuck a basket under your arm, peruse the stalls, and scoop up a bounty of fresh seasonal produce and artisanal products. Below, we've rounded up all of Seattle's summertime markets for your planning needs. For more ideas, check out our food & drink calendar.
  TUESDAYS
  City Hall Farmers Market
  May 28-Oct 8, 1
  
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• Appeals court to decide surgery for Idaho transgender inmate

  16-05-2019 21:25
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Attorneys for Idaho prison officials argued Thursday that a transgender inmate who is suing for access to gender confirmation surgery is too mentally unstable to receive the irreversible medical procedure. Lawyer Brady Hall told a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that Idaho has no policy barring […]
  
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• ACT Gets a $20,000 NEA Grant for the World Premiere of Yussef El Guindi's New Play

  16-05-2019 21:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher FrizzelleThe Seattle playwright Yussef El Guindi, photographed in 2015, the year he won a Stranger Genius Award. Kelly O
  I had just finished reading the script of Yussef El Guindi's newest play, The People of the Book—a short, funny, stereotype-subverting work about art, jealousy, sex, and war—when the news crossed my desk that ACT had won a grant from the NEA. The $20,000 grant will help pay for the world premiere production of The People of the Book at ACT this comin
  
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• Aid group: More funds needed for Ebola safe burials in Congo

  16-05-2019 21:00
  DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — An international aid organization says it only has enough funding to continue safe burials for Ebola victims in eastern Congo for two more weeks. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said Thursday that unless it gets more funding it won’t be able to continue providing support to […]
  
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• Another Day, Another Jeff Koons Sculpture Selling for $91 Million

  16-05-2019 20:55 via thestranger.com
  by Jasmyne Keimig View this post on InstagramA post shared by Haute Living (@hauteliving) on May 16, 2019 at 9:54am PDTOn Wednesday evening at Christie's in New York, American artist Jeff Koons's 3-foot-tall sculpture Rabbit (1986) sold for just over $91 million, the highest price ever paid for a work by a living artist. $91 million. Ninety-one million dollars. 91 millones de dólares. Jeeeeeeeeesus.The cold, vacuous sculpture was bought by art dealer Bob Mnuchin (father of U.S. Treasury S
  
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• Oregon Gov. signs $1 billion school funding tax package

  16-05-2019 20:50
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has signed a sweeping tax package set to raise $1 billion a year for schools. The governor says in a Tweet Thursday that “this is a big day for our kids, and their future.” Schools will be required to use the funds to decrease class size and […]
  
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• Spray foam-encased kitten rescued by Oregon garbage worker

  16-05-2019 20:49
  HILLSBORO, Ore. (AP) — A kitten that was encased in hardened spray foam is recovering after being rescued from a garbage can by an Oregon sanitation worker. Washington County sheriff’s Deputy Brian van Kleef said Thursday that the sanitation worker was using a hydraulic arm to empty a trash can near Hillsboro, Oregon but the […]
  
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• Illegal Cannabis Grows on Federal Lands in Oregon and Washington Have Declined

  16-05-2019 20:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Josh Jardine NASTASIC / GETTY IMAGESAmong the bad things cannabis prohibition wrought was the environmental damage brought on by illicit growers who secretly set up shop in our big, beautiful national forests. These growers weren't striving for permaculture—no Clean Green organic certification in these operations. In fact, one of the not-so-secret shames of the cannabis industry is that illegal grows on national forest lands were tremendously destructive to the soil, water, and wildlife
  
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• Alaska Legislature opens special session called by governor

  16-05-2019 20:38
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska legislators have convened a special session called by Gov. Mike Dunleavy when they failed to complete their work by a constitutional deadline. Lawmakers ended the regular session late Wednesday. Unresolved are state budgets, crime legislation and a decision on how to handle the dividend residents receive from Alaska’s oil-wealth fund. […]
  
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• About 500 people test positive for HIV in Pakistani district

  16-05-2019 20:36
  Authorities say the HIV outbreak in Larkana was apparently started when a local physician, who has AIDS, infected patients in early April. The doctor was arrested, and police are trying to determine whether the spread of disease was intentional.
  
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• The 23 Best Movies To See At SIFF This Weekend: May 16-19, 2019

  16-05-2019 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffLorenzo Ferro plays the serial killer El Àngel, playing this Saturday (and May 30).
  The 25 best days of the year are here—SIFF, the Seattle International Film Festival is upon us! As always, true movie-lovers will be tempted to cancel all other plans to consume as much delicious cinema as possible, as well as to enjoy the special guest appearances, parties, talks, and more. We've already compiled a list of all of the picks for the full festival that you
  
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• Lawyer says woman never forced kids to get birth control

  16-05-2019 19:54
  TURTLE CREEK, Pa. (AP) — Police have charged a woman accused of forcing her friend’s 12-year-old daughter to get a birth control implant in her arm without the mother’s permission, allegations the woman’s lawyer says are completely false. Valerie Marie Fullum is charged with two felony counts of endangering welfare of children and a misdemeanor […]
  
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• Cops: Woman forced friend’s 12-year-old to get birth control

  16-05-2019 19:54
  TURTLE CREEK, Pa. (AP) — Police have charged a woman accused of forcing her friend’s 12-year-old daughter to get a birth control implant in her arm without the mother’s permission. Valerie Marie Fullum is charged with two felony counts of endangering welfare of children and a misdemeanor charge of recklessly endangering another person, according to […]
  
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• Oregon OKs largest expansion of federal free lunch program

  16-05-2019 19:44
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon lawmakers have approved the largest statewide expansion of the federal free lunch program, ensuring all students living up to three times above the poverty line will have access to free meals. It’s the first time a state has offered to completely take on school meal costs, which can often run […]
  
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• Dead gray whale spotted along Alaska’s Turnagain Arm

  16-05-2019 19:41
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A second large whale has died in waters south of Anchorage. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is monitoring a dead gray whale in Turnagain Arm and hoping it will drift to shore so biologists can conduct a necropsy. On May 1 and 2, biologists conducted a necropsy on a humpback […]
  
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• Man charged in Alaska cold case drops extradition fight

  16-05-2019 19:24
  AUBURN, Maine (AP) — A Maine man is no longer fighting extradition to Alaska to face charges that he raped and killed a woman there more than 25 years ago. Steven Downs of Auburn is charged with assault and murder in the brutal killing of 20-year-old Sophie Sergie at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in […]
  
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• Seattle JazzED has grown by leaps and bounds, providing jazz classes to kids who may otherwise not have access

  16-05-2019 19:05
  Seattle JazzED, a nine-year-old nonprofit that provides jazz classes to kids, with an eye toward racial, economic and gender equity, has seen big success. And it has ambitious plans for the future. Its student ensembles play in an all-day Jamboree at Bellevue College on May 19.
  
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• New Yellowstone superintendent looks to technology, housing

  16-05-2019 18:09
  YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — From worker morale to preservation of the park’s natural wonders, new Yellowstone National Park superintendent Cam Sholly spoke with a singular philosophical theme. “We’re not just providing vacations,” he said. “We’re inspiring people.” Sholly took over as chief Yellowstone administrator last fall, but this week represented his first public […]
  
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• Obesity surgery benefits may be bigger for teens than adults

  16-05-2019 17:55
  Teens who have obesity surgery lose as much weight as those who have the operation as adults and are more likely to have other health problems such as diabetes and high blood pressure go away, a study finds. The results suggest there’s a benefit from not waiting to address obesity. Researchers say longer study is […]
  
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• Man sentenced for killing girlfriend during suicide attempt

  16-05-2019 17:41
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska man who attempted suicide and accidently shot his girlfriend has been sentenced to nine years in prison. The Anchorage Daily News reports 23-year-old Victor Sibson fired a shot into his own head in 2017. The bullet passed through his skull and struck and killed 22-year-old Brittany-Mae Haag. Sibson was […]
  
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• Man gets 12 years for fatal DUI crash

  16-05-2019 17:38
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A man has been sentenced to 12 years and six months in prison for hitting and killing a Salem, Oregon, couple while driving drunk. The Statesman Journal reports that about two dozen of the victims’ friends and family members filled the courtroom Wednesday during the sentencing of Eduardo De La Lima-Vargas. […]
  
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• Slog AM: Issaquah High School Has a Touch of Measles; Trump Releases Financial Disclosure; Ear Infection? There's an App for That

  16-05-2019 17:25 via thestranger.com
  
  by Timothy KenneySiri, why is my ear hurting?hatipoglu/Getty Images
  Issaquah High School is closed after measles exposure: It turns out that every single kid in the school has their MMR shots up to date, but a staff member is one of five confirmed cases of measles in the area. Now the school has to screen the entire staff to make sure nobody else has measles before they can let the students back into school. Back when I went to high school, we had snow days, local holidays, and even the occasion
  
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• Facebook buys land in New Mexico but mum on purpose

  16-05-2019 17:15
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Facebook has more than doubled its New Mexico footprint with the purchase of more than 400 acres (162 hectares) near its new data center. But the company isn’t saying what it plans to do with the property. The Menlo Park, California-based Facebook confirmed in an email to the Albuquerque Journal this […]
  
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• Alabama governor invokes God in banning nearly all abortions

  16-05-2019 16:37
  MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s Republican governor has signed the nation’s strictest abortion ban into law, making performing an abortion a felony in nearly all cases, punishable by up to life in prison, and with no exceptions for rape and incest. Gov. Kay Ivey said the law she signed Wednesday is a testament to the […]
  
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• These are the most common times and places people in Washington state crash while driving stoned, study shows

  16-05-2019 16:13
  There's a particular hour when stoned drivers crash most often in Washington state, according to a study of nearly 400 pot-related crashes. The analysis also pinpoints where they're happening, how many are fatal and, yes, how many of them occur on 4/20.
  
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• Studying while parenting, unequal discipline, a mock funeral: What Education Lab is reading this week

  16-05-2019 16:00
  If you appreciate good writing, you’re probably as disappointed with the final season of “Game of Thrones” as I am. Don’t worry, you can drown your sorrows by exposing yourself to some phenomenal writing about education. We’re sharing the “What We’re Reading” section from our weekly Education Lab newsletter right here. Subscribe to the newsletter to […]
  
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• A pregnant woman is killed, her baby cut from her body. Her family blames a Facebook post.

  16-05-2019 16:00
  The last time anyone saw Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, she was nine months pregnant. The petite 19-year-old left her alternative high school on the lower west side of Chicago at around 3 p.m. on April 23, driving away in her black Honda Civic. Later that day, her family got a call saying that she hadn’t shown up […]
  
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