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• Fighting for Black Excellence: Let's Talk About the Grammys and Kanye

  24-02-2015 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Yeezus and Beck at the Grammys.
  Artistry. We all know the Grammys tend to recognize and reward artistry a decade or two after they should've. You know that if you've got the best fucking album that came out in the last year, the most relevant and realized breakout album, and Steely Dan is on that ballot, too—well, Steely Dan is probably gonna be hitting that aisle before your ass does. Fear not, they'll be sure to give President Knowles-Carter a Grammy for her holiday alb
  
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• Let's Play: Who's The Bigger Asshole? The Person Who Graffitied This Tree or the LaRouchie Who Wants War With Russia?

  24-02-2015 23:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Who's the bigger asshole? The person who decided to spray paint an unintelligible mess on a healthy, living tree? ...OR the LaRouchie that chose to loudly protest our "current war with Russia" with posters all over the otherwise pleasant Lunar New Year celebration in the streets of Seattle's International District over the weekend?
  Before you vote, please note the *bonus* LaRouche poster after the jump...
  What does this tag even say? Kelly O
  "Stop the war with Russia!" Kelly O
  
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• More Details About the Cat Cafe Coming to Seattle

  24-02-2015 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Tip: Don't feed the cats caffeine. COURTESY OF MATTHEW LEUNG PHOTOGRAPHY
  No, it’s not a place that serves cats. Nor is it a cafe run by cat baristas (sadly). As the Seattle Globalist reported, the Seattle Meowtropolitan will be a “community hub for people in Seattle who love cats.” Unlike cat cafes in Asia, where the primary focus is on allowing people to hang out with cats that aren’t their own (for a fee), the proprietors of Seattle’s first cat c
  
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• Want to Hear Marshawn Lynch Speak for Himself? Here's the Four Minute Promo For His Biopic

  24-02-2015 22:01 via thestranger.com
  
  The film is called "Family First: The Marshawn Lynch Story." No release date yet. There are a lot of great things about this clip, but my favorite has to be the reference to the great James Baldwin on the whiteboard, as young Marshawn sits in class.
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• Macy's shoplifting suspect arrested after I-5 chase

  24-02-2015 21:21
  
  Police chase suspect on I-5 Tuesday afternoon
  
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• Two Washington men receive Congressional Gold Medal 70 years after service

  24-02-2015 21:19
  
  Two Washington men receive Congressional Gold Medal 70 years after service
  
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• Never Heard of 'Em: The Go-Go's

  24-02-2015 20:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Anna Minard, our former city hall reporter, claims to "know nothing about music." For this column, we force her to listen to all the records that music nerds consider important.
  The Go-Go's
  Beauty and the Beat
  (I.R.S.)
  The first song on here, "Our Lips Are Sealed," sounds vaguely familiar, but I can't tell if it's from karaoke bars or because I just watched Pretty in Pink again recently and "Our Lips Are Sealed" sounds like it comes straight out of a John Hughes movie. I d
  
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• Benefit Shows for DIY Venue the Josephine to Take Place Feb. 26-28

  24-02-2015 20:31 via thestranger.com
  
  Beyond This Vessel by Geist & the Sacred Ensemble
  Three benefit shows for the recently defunct Josephine performance space will be taking place February 26-28. On Thursday, February 26 at Kremwerk, Wrtch, Marcus Price, DJ Explorateur, and Blue Sabbath Black Cheer play an early show (6 pm). On Friday, February 27 at Lo-Fi, Geist and the Sacred Ensemble, Bone Cave Ballet, Future Fridays, and Werebearcat perform at 9 pm (more info here). Finally, on Saturday, February 28 at Ho
  
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• Twink: The Other T-Slur

  24-02-2015 19:58 via thestranger.com
  
  Michael Sunderland takes issue with the term "twink" at Vice:
  For the first decade of my life as a gay man, countless older homosexuals branded me as a twink. For those outside the gay world, the term probably conjures up images of those Hostess desserts—vanilla cake on the outside, sweet and creamy in the center. Similar to those treats, twinks are usually white, smooth, and everyone wants to eat their insides. But the word is not really one of endearment. Just as soon a
  
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• City Fails to Fix Broadway Cycletrack Smurf Turds, Again

  24-02-2015 19:52 via thestranger.com
  
  The Broadway cycletrack this morning. Mike Scully
  The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) is undermining the city's bicycle infrastructure by allowing a signature protected bike lane on Capitol Hill to fall into disrepair. What message does this send, both to the public at large and to cyclists attempting to use this facility?
  Librarian Mike Scully tweeted the above photo this morning at 8 a.m, as he commuted by bicycle to work. "Swerving when bad parking
  
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• City Fails to Protect Cyclists from Broadway Smurf Turds, Again

  24-02-2015 19:52 via thestranger.com
  
  The Broadway cycletrack this morning, featuring a giant smurf turd (technically known as a "bollard"). Mike Scully
  The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) is undermining the city's bicycle infrastructure by allowing a signature protected bike lane on Capitol Hill to fall into disrepair. What message does this send, both to the public at large and to cyclists attempting to use this facility?
  Librarian Mike Scully tweeted the above photo this morning at 8 a.
  
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• Hooray! Four Weeks Paid Parental Leave for City Employees! Now: Is That Enough?

  24-02-2015 19:34 via thestranger.com
  Mayor Ed Murray announced Monday that all city employees will soon get four weeks of paid parental leave. Some say that's not nearly enough. HG
  Mayor Ed Murray announced Monday that all city employees who’ve been on the job at least six months will soon get four weeks of paid leave for the “birth, adoption or foster placement” of a child. “With this new policy, we are honoring that long Seattle tradition of standing up for progressive values that protect
  
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• The Mariners Are Good, But What Would It Take For Them To Be Great? Part One

  24-02-2015 19:33 via thestranger.com
  
  Imagine if our new skinny Jesus Montero is as good as old fat Jesus Montero was supposed to be. Richard Paul Kane / Shutterstock.com
  A heads-up to all you Slogheads out there: the Seattle Mariners, whose opening day is April 6, could be very good this year. Not just “by the standard of all the post/pre-Griffey-Mariners-teams-save-for-that-one-Brett-Boone-steroid-fueled-year good.” Actual professional baseball good. Las Vegas has the M’s as the seventh most l
  
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• PHOTOS: Iconic North Seattle Native American mural vandalized

  24-02-2015 19:28
  
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• Oil train protesters to rally near King Street Station

  24-02-2015 18:53
  
  Oil train protesters to rally near King Street Station
  
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• Driver hits house, suffers critical burns when flames erupt in SUV

  24-02-2015 18:25
  
  Driver hits house, suffers critical burns when flames erupt in SUV
  
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• Car Ads Never Tell the Truth About Traffic

  24-02-2015 17:57 via thestranger.com
  
  How is this image from a car ad lying to us? Screenshot from YouTube
  One more thing about "Sheet Metal," a 2003 advertisement for automobiles manufactured by an American company that was made to compete with Japanese imports but failed to survive the economic crash of 2008, Saturn Corporation. Because the ad "portrays a number of auto-related scenarios—a car backing out a driveway, bad traffic on a highway, children on a school bus—with no cars involved," it unex
  
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• Fire breaks out at Silverdale lighting store

  24-02-2015 17:50
  
  Two-alarm fire breaks out at Silverdale business
  
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• Morning News: Citing Safety Concerns, Local Judge Gives Seattle a Reprieve from Surge in Exploding Oil Trains

  24-02-2015 17:38 via thestranger.com
  
  A new federal study shows that oil trains are expected to derail an average of ten times a year over the next two decades. Seattle is right in the line of fire. Steven Frame/Shutterstock
  Local Judge Puts the Brakes on Oil Train Expansion: A Skagit County hearing examiner has agreed with concerns raised by six environmental groups and ordered an additional review of Shell's plans to bring yet more oil trains through the region to its refinery in Anacortes. "The crude oil being b
  
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• Contractors fined in electrocution death of worker in Edmonds

  24-02-2015 17:22
  
  Contractors fined in electrocution death of worker in Edmonds
  
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• Bill O'Reilly Threatens NYT Reporter

  24-02-2015 16:58 via thestranger.com
  
  The New York Times has written a couple of very mild, very timid pieces about Bill O'Reilly's bullshit war stories—nothing like the scalding pieces the NYT wrote about Brian Williams bullshit war stories—but O'Reilly isn't exactly reacting with gratitude:
  Mr. O’Reilly’s efforts to refute the claims by Mother Jones and some former CBS News colleagues occurred both on the air and off on Monday. During a phone conversation, he told a reporter for The New Y
  
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• Oil industry not buying Gov. Jay Inslee’s cap-and-trade plan

  24-02-2015 15:52
  
  The oil industry acknowledges that a price on carbon emissions is inevitable, but it shows no interest in Gov. Jay Inslee’s cap-and-trade proposal.
  
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• Mayor Murray Joins Calls to Address the Somali Remittance Crisis

  24-02-2015 15:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Shiil Grocery and Halal Meats, a Columbia City business that can no longer transfer money to needy Somalis. Charles Mudede
  Three Slog posts and two weeks after the 30,000 Somali-Americans in the greater Seattle area found out they would no longer be able to send desperately needed funds to their families, I received a copy of this letter from Mayor Ed Murray to Secretary of State John Kerry asking for assistance in finding a solution. In it, Mayor Murray expresses support for
  
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• School staff member being investigated for inappropriate conduct with student

  24-02-2015 14:44
  
  School staff member being investigated for inappropriate conduct with student
  
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• Granite Falls man found shot to death in front yard

  24-02-2015 14:00
  
  Granite Falls man found shot to death in front yard
  
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• Bellevue names 4 finalists for chief of police

  24-02-2015 07:20
  
  The city of Bellevue will consider four law-enforcement veterans, all from out of state, as its second search for a new chief nears an end. The finalists will meet the public from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at City Hall.
  
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• Ferguson lawyer to represent slain Mexican man’s parents

  24-02-2015 07:14
  
  A high-profile attorney who represented the family of a black man killed by police in Ferguson, Mo., said he’ll represent the family of a Mexican man slain by police in Pasco earlier this month. A Seattle attorney working on the case said the announcement was a surprise, but he’s willing
  
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• Artist vows to restore defaced Native American murals

  24-02-2015 06:59
  
  Just months before a set of larger-than-life murals honoring local Native Americans was scheduled to be memorialized on a new school’s campus, a graffiti vandal defaced the artwork in an act described by the murals’ creator as “stupid” and an “act of terrorism.”
  
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• Oil industry not buying Inslee plan

  24-02-2015 06:53
  
  The oil industry acknowledges that a price on carbon emissions is inevitable, but it shows no interest in Gov. Jay Inslee’s cap-and-trade proposal.
  
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• Shell’s plan to increase oil trains in Anacortes hits snag

  24-02-2015 06:31
  Citing the risks of oil spills and fires, a Skagit County examiner rules that Shell should conduct a full-blown environmental review of a proposal to handle tanker trains at the corporation’s Anacortes refinery.
  
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• Loss of lifeline to Somalia shocks immigrants here

  24-02-2015 06:29
  
  U.S. Rep. Adam Smith of Bellevue is working to find a way for Washington state’s Somali Americans to keep sending needed money to their families in East Africa.
  
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• I-594 groups seek to fight suit by gun-rights backers

  24-02-2015 06:16
  
  The coalition that sponsored last fall’s successful gun-purchase background-check initiative wants to intervene in a lawsuit trying to overturn the state law.
  
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• Seattle’s cool kids raise five figures for Vera Project at Triple Door

  24-02-2015 05:57
  Now the music nonprofit just needs an executive director.
  
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• Woonerf? It means pedestrians, bikers and SLU developer win

  24-02-2015 05:26
  
  The Seattle City Council voted Monday to waive more than $500,000 in permit fees to help a real-estate developer build a special street in South Lake Union.
  
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• The Walking Dead Chitty-Chat Club: SHOOT HIM, SHOOT HIM, SHOOT HIM!!!

  24-02-2015 03:30 via thestranger.com
  
  A stranger approaches Rick's Rangers with a deal they might not be able to refuse. Should they go with him, or SHOOT HIM, SHOOT HIM, SHOOT HIM??? (I think you know what my answer will be... but I want to hear your opinion about last night's episode of The Walking Dead. Hit the jump for my spoiler-filled recap and let's get chitty-chatting!)
  Courtesy AMC"Hi guys. One question: Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your lord and...OH GOD DON'T SHOOT MEEEEE!!!"
  MORE AFTER THE JUMP!
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: What Comes Up (Or: A Question From Someone Who Couldn't Follow My Advice to #FuckFirst on Valentine's Day)

  24-02-2015 02:44 via thestranger.com
  
  I am a pansexual female in my early 20s, and I have been an emetophile since maybe when I was six. I remember seeing pregnant women on TV dramas throwing up and feeling a weird warm sensation in my crotch area, like I want to pee, but I don't need to pee. In my teenage years I started associating that with sex, and realized this is a fetish. Nowadays, when I want to watch porn, 95% of the time just look at videos of people, mostly girls, vomiting. Things like "the milk challeng
  
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• Seahawks president talks about team, efforts for next season

  24-02-2015 02:26
  
  Seahawks president talks about team, efforts for next season
  
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• Why Should Republican Lawmakers Should Be In Charge of Women's Reproductive Health Care?

  24-02-2015 01:34 via thestranger.com
  
  Because they're already so smart about vaginas that they're practically doctors:
  An Idaho lawmaker received a brief lesson on female anatomy after asking if a woman can swallow a small camera for doctors to conduct a remote gynecological exam. The question Monday from Republican state Rep. Vito Barbieri came as the House State Affairs Committee heard nearly three hours of testimony on a bill that would ban doctors from prescribing abortion-inducing medication through telemedici
  
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• Why Republican Lawmakers Should Be In Charge of Women's Reproductive Health Care?

  24-02-2015 01:34 via thestranger.com
  
  Because they're already so smart about vaginas that they're practically doctors:
  An Idaho lawmaker received a brief lesson on female anatomy after asking if a woman can swallow a small camera for doctors to conduct a remote gynecological exam. The question Monday from Republican state Rep. Vito Barbieri came as the House State Affairs Committee heard nearly three hours of testimony on a bill that would ban doctors from prescribing abortion-inducing medication through telemedici
  
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• Film Rock Stars—The Best, Worst, and Weirdest Films Starring Musicians Playing Loose Variations on Themselves

  24-02-2015 00:30 via thestranger.com
  Slade in Flame: Glam-rock absurdity.
  Tennis Pro's film debut, Big in Japan, puts them in rarefied air, cinemawise. The tradition of rock stars playing thinly veiled versions of themselves in narrative films—non-documentary, non-biopic, non-concert—is as noble as rock 'n' roll itself, which is to say: not noble at all. But also like rock 'n' roll, it has generated some excellent art, some colossal garbage, and some excellent garbage. Herewith: a partial list of the f
  
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