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• Win Two Tickets to French Prog Legends Magma's April 3 Show at Crocodile

  05-03-2015 23:45 via thestranger.com
  
  This is the best Magma album.
  The Stranger has two pairs of tickets to give away for operatic French prog-rock/avant-jazz giants Magma's April 3 show at the Crocodile. (It's their Seattle debut!) We'll bestow one pair today and another tomorrow to whoever can answer Magma trivia questions first in comments. Ready? Magma leader Christian Vander's invented language Kobaïan is derived from which real-world tongues?
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• How Much Will It Cost to Dispose of Your Remains?

  05-03-2015 23:21 via thestranger.com
  
  An artist's rendering of bodies in the Urban Death Project. JON ADAMS
  In the course of working on this week's story about Katrina Spade and her Urban Death Project—which proposes a third way between burial and cremation: composting—I talked to several funeral directors who said their industry is bizarre in its wild price differences.
  As Nora Menkin, director of the People's Memorial funerary co-op explained in the article, many funeral homes have been able to act wi
  
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• Republican State Senator Caves to Pressure, Apologizes for Clueless Racial Comments

  05-03-2015 23:04 via thestranger.com
  
  Why does this out-of-touch white man represent a 54 percent majority Latino district in Eastern Washington? WA.GOV
  On Monday, I wrote about state Senator Jim Honeyford's controversial remarks during a committee hearing last week: "The poor are more likely to commit crimes, and, uh, colored most likely to be poor," he said, expressing skepticism about a common sense proposal to assess the racial impacts of government policies. Then on Tuesday, speaking to a local TV station, Hon
  
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• It’s Official: Urban League President Pamela Banks Will Take on Kshama Sawant

  05-03-2015 22:41 via thestranger.com
  
  Urban League President Pamela Banks is running against Kshama Sawant for the new city council district covering Capitol Hill and the Central District. Courtesy of Pamela Banks
  She’s been publicly toying with the idea for a few weeks now, but today she made it official. Pamela Banks, president of the Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle, will take on City Council Member Kshama Sawant in the newly created District 3, representing Capitol Hill and the Central District.
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• Bought and Paid For—Is ACT's Seven Ways to Get There the New Model For Arts Patronage?

  05-03-2015 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Seven Ways to Get There. Way number one: Get out your checkbook… TRUMAN BUFFETT
  Last weekend, first-time playwright Dwayne Clark sat in ACT's biggest room—the 434-seat theater in the round upstairs—to watch the world premiere of Seven Ways to Get There, a two-act play about how his life was changed by group therapy. The experience, he said, was "phenomenal"—a sold-out house with CEOs and professional football players in attendance, hundreds of people a
  
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• The Bachelor Heats Up on Sex Island + the Group Argument Episode!

  05-03-2015 21:46 via thestranger.com
  
  Sex Island is a real culture shock!
  Despite the hype, nothing of real interest happens during episode 10, at least not anything that can be shown on TV. The remaining The Bachelor contestants—Kaitlyn, Whitney, and Becca—went to Bali Sex Island. I can't stress this episode's premise enough: the women are flown to "OMG exotic" Bali solely to go on separate dates with Chris that may or may not end in an invitation to spend the night in the "Fantasy Suite" with him. A
  
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• The Bachelor Heats Up on Sex Island

  05-03-2015 21:46 via thestranger.com
  
  Sex Island is a real culture shock!
  Despite the hype, nothing of real interest happens during episode 10, at least not anything that can be shown on TV. The remaining The Bachelor contestants—Kaitlyn, Whitney, and Becca—went to Bali Sex Island. I can't stress this episode's premise enough: the women are flown to "OMG exotic" Bali solely to go on separate dates with Chris that may or may not end in an invitation to spend the night in the "Fantasy Suite" with him. A
  
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• Frequent Fox News Guest: Islamic Radicals Support Gay Rights (Cannibalism Too)

  05-03-2015 21:38 via thestranger.com
  
  Right Wing Watch:
  Walid Shoebat, a right-wing activist and frequent Fox News guest who has built his career around the questionable claim that he is an “ex-terrorist,” told Alaska politician and radio host Joe Miller in an interview last week that Islamists in the Middle East are seeking to introduce an anti-Christian tyranny that will ultimately “bring in homosexual rights” and “rights to cannibalism” because “that’s how tyrannie
  
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• Seattle City Council won’t block elephants’ move to Oklahoma

  05-03-2015 21:35
  Seattle City Councilmember Sally Bagshaw says the battle over elephants in zoos will continue, but she won’t oppose moving Woodland Park Zoo’s animals to Oklahoma City.
  
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• Why You Should Give a Fuck About Port Commissioner Bill Bryant

  05-03-2015 21:22 via thestranger.com
  
  Bill Bryant says he's a conservationist, but he moved to allow the lease for Shell's Arctic drilling fleet. Don Wilson/Port of Seattle
  Meet Port Commissioner Bill Bryant. We should be giving him hell. He's one of the three elected port commissioners who moved to push Arctic drilling activities through Seattle.
  Bill Bryant is a Republican businessman with hair so nice that it looks like it came out of a frozen yogurt machine. On January 13, he took a position in favor of the l
  
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• Why We Should Be Giving Port Commissioner Bill Bryant Hell

  05-03-2015 21:22 via thestranger.com
  
  Bill Bryant says he's a conservationist, but he moved to allow the lease for Shell's Arctic drilling fleet. Don Wilson/Port of Seattle
  Meet Port Commissioner Bill Bryant. We should be giving him hell. He's one of the three elected port commissioners who moved to push Arctic drilling activities through Seattle.
  Bill Bryant is a Republican businessman with hair so nice that it looks like it came out of a frozen yogurt machine. On January 13, he took a position in favor of the l
  
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• Sen. Honeyford apologizes for comments on race, crime

  05-03-2015 20:47
  Sen. Jim Honeyford, R-Sunnyside, issued an apology Thursday, a week after making comments about race and crime that offended many across the state.
  
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• Police arrest man in U-District bank robbery

  05-03-2015 20:05
  
  Police arrest man in U-District bank robbery
  
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• My Night with Jeffrey Dahmer

  05-03-2015 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  My Night with Jeffrey Dahmer
  
  
  
  —like any night spent out in a bar—this one
  
  doused in the pall of neon, 1989, Formica,
  
  
  brushed metal and the spin of sound in the club,
  
  while downstairs in a darker bar, where the older men
  
  
  enjoyed each other's company and where I had gone
  
  to cool off, a man stood next to me
  
  
  and knocked my beer to the floor, so sorry—he was
  
  very sorry—hand on my arm as I bent to pic
  
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• Why Does Seattle Still Have a Race Problem?

  05-03-2015 18:38 via thestranger.com
  
  A view of the diverse half of Seattle. Charles Mudede
  The Globalist post "Time to shed the ‘progressive mystique’ and confront racism in Seattle" by Sharon H. Chang says something that many people of color say day after day: Seattle is not as progressive as it thinks itself to be, that it has a serious and worsening race problem, that the city's wealth is distributed strongly along racial lines. Though there's a great amount of realism in this picture of the situa
  
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• Hate Crime Forum Coalesces Around Demand for a Homeless LGBTQ Youth Shelter

  05-03-2015 18:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Jackie Sandberg, in the purple beanie, listens before getting up to speak about her experiences with violence at a forum on hate crimes. Alex Garland
  Statistics on a surge of hate crimes on Capitol Hill are one thing. The piercing personal testimony from Jackie Sandberg, at a forum held Tuesday at All Pilgrims Church about those hate crimes, was something else entirely.
  "A queer-phobic couple attacked me with skateboards," Sandberg told the crowd, before breaking
  
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• Brain Surgeon Apologizes for Being an Idiot

  05-03-2015 17:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Fox News:
  Potential 2016 presidential candidate Ben Carson apologized Wednesday for saying homosexuality was a lifestyle choice. "I do not pretend to know how every individual came to their sexual orientation," Carson said on his Facebook page late Wednesday afternoon. "I regret that my words to express that concept were hurtful and divisive. For that I apologize unreservedly to all that were offended."
  Carson, a neurosurgeon, was attempting to clarify comments he made earlier
  
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• The Morning News: Bills Against Peeping Drones on the Move in Our State Legislature

  05-03-2015 17:30 via thestranger.com
  
  No peeping, says the state house. risteski goce/Shutterstock
  Legislators Move to Restrict Drones: "The Washington state House of Representatives passed a series of bills Wednesday to strengthen privacy rights against emerging incursions from surveillance technology and drone aircraft," KOMO reports. "Under the bills sent to the Senate by wide, bipartisan margins, it would become a state misdemeanor and civil liability for a private citizen to use a drone to peep on another pers
  
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• Sketch released in Bellingham groping incidents

  05-03-2015 17:19
  
  Sketch released in Bellingham groping incidents
  
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• Clerk dragged in shoplifting-turned-robbery

  05-03-2015 16:50
  
  Clerk dragged in shoplifting turned robbery
  
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• Fire erupts at aluminum can manufacturing facility in Kent

  05-03-2015 16:16
  
  Fire erupts at aluminum can manufacturing facility in Kent
  
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• Why You Should Give a Fuck About the Port of Seattle's Decision to Help Destroy the Planet

  05-03-2015 15:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Meet our port commissioners, the people who are mostly willing to host the apparatus of planetary destruction if it means bringing in upwards of $20 million. Don Wilson/Port of Seattle
  Seattle is a port city. The Port of Seattle is a public agency. It gobbles up our city's tax dollars to run its money-making operations, and in exchange we elect five port commissioners who—in theory—make sure port business is representing our interests.
  But the ugly truth is that n
  
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• Man tries to lure student into car in South Park

  05-03-2015 14:22
  
  Man tries to lure student into car in South Park
  
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• Bothell man to be sentenced in beating, drowning of wife

  05-03-2015 14:14
  
  Bothell man to be sentenced in beating, drowning of wife
  
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• Gov. Inslee to address vandalism at Hindu temples

  05-03-2015 13:59
  
  Gov. Inslee to address vandalism at Hindu temples
  
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• Costly ferry repairs being put to the test

  05-03-2015 13:30
  
  Costly ferry repairs being put to the test
  
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• Should young hockey players be exempt from labor law?

  05-03-2015 11:31
  
  Bills in Olympia supported by labor-friendly Democrats would exempt the Western Hockey League and its young players from labor laws that the league is under investigation for violating.
  
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• Seattle School Board hints it needs time to weigh halting tests

  05-03-2015 09:31
  Seattle School Board members voted against considering a last-minute proposal to suspend new Common Core-related tests Wednesday evening, citing concerns about how quickly the resolution arose.
  
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• Big, diverse slate of candidates runs in city’s first vote by district

  05-03-2015 09:01
  
  The Seattle City Council’s move to voting by geographic district is yielding a large, diverse crop of candidates, and everyone is trying to figure out how the new system is going to change local politics.
  
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• Patients fear medical marijuana may not fare well with new rules

  05-03-2015 08:01
  
  With lawmakers and the recreational-marijuana industry eager to regulate medical marijuana, patient advocates are often finding themselves left out of the conversation.
  
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• Tunnel machine Bertha ready for disassembly

  05-03-2015 07:46
  
  State transportation officials say the broken tunnel machine Bertha reached a stopping point inside the rescue pit late Tuesday, clearing the way for workers to start the disassembly process.
  
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• Widow sues Virginia Mason; hospital begins notifying ‘superbug’ victims

  05-03-2015 07:31
  Theresa Bigler, of Woodway, is suing Virginia Mason Medical Center and a medical-device manufacturer after the death of her husband following a “superbug” infection. Hospital officials have reversed course to reach out to affected patients and families.
  
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• Tuned into great weather

  05-03-2015 05:11
  
  James Hyde plays saxophone at Lake Washington.
  
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• Labor board orders vote count in Seattle U. union election

  05-03-2015 04:27
  
  The local office of a national labor board has ordered that votes be counted in a stalled election to decide whether adjunct faculty at Seattle University should form a union. The school has until March 17 to appeal the decision.
  
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• Vision of Spock, ‘Star Trek’: Think, feel, be human

  05-03-2015 03:04
  We can get closer to Star Trek’s universe by better understanding the power our emotions have.
  
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• Free Will Astrology for the Week of March 4

  05-03-2015 02:30 via thestranger.com
  
  FESTA/Shutterstock
  PISCES (Feb 19–March 20): When Arnold Schwarzenegger became governor of California in 2003, the state had the eighth largest economy in the world, right behind Italy and just ahead of Brazil. Schwarzenegger had never before held political office. When Cambodian doctor Haing Ngor performed in the film The Killing Fields, for which he ultimately won an Oscar, he had no training as an actor. He was a novice. Will you try to follow in their footsteps, Pisc
  
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• Poster of the Week: Poster by Tory Franklin

  05-03-2015 02:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Tory Franklin's eye-catching work, which you can see around town at the Broadway Sound Transit construction fence and the Greater Seattle Bureau of Fearless Ideas, among other places, is an interesting blend of animal imagery and intricate, colorful patterns…
  
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• My Earlier Post About Ben Carson Inspired an Email Exchange With an Incensed Reader of a Different Website

  05-03-2015 01:25 via thestranger.com
  
  sir - your total scum. Pervert filth! Racist Anti-catholic bigot.—John
  "You're total scum."
  "Your total scum" reads like you're saying that you, John, are my own personal total scum. And that's not what you meant. Right? — Dan
  no- your scum-and your a racist anti-faith bigot.—John
  "You're scum," John. "You're a racist."—Dan
  You sir- are the hater!—John
  I don't hate anyone, honestly, with the possible exceptions of Vladimir Putin, the
  
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• Recommended Events and Nearby Snacks for Stoners: Chimurenga Renaissance, Chastity Belt, and Chappie

  05-03-2015 01:20 via thestranger.com
  
  Princess Leia (not pictured: the iconic metal bra).
  Chimurenga Renaissance
  MUSIC Wed March 4, Barboza (925 E Pike St)
  The windowless womb that is Barboza is best experienced when it's filled with a wall of sound and good vibes. Tendai Maraire of Shabazz Palaces is behind Chimurenga Renaissance, a deep, glittering galaxy of experimental Zimbabwean hiphop highlighted with the golden tingly chimes of the mbira...
  
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• Bertha's AMAZING Transition! What's Her Secret? #NoMakeup

  05-03-2015 01:00 via thestranger.com
  
  BEFORE AND AFTER: Bertha in 2007 and Bertha in 2015. What do you think of her new look? Washington State Department of Transportation
  The Washington State Department of Transportation must be very proud of this new Bertha photo. That's because it shows the front end of the tunnel boring machine fully exposed in its rescue pit. Today WSDOT announced that the machine had moved a total of 57 feet, and now it's time for its contractor to dismantle the machine by hauling 2,000 tons
  
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• Tunnel machine Bertha now in position for repairs

  05-03-2015 00:59
  
  State transportation officials say the broken machine reached a stopping point inside the rescue pit late Tuesday, clearing the way for workers to start the disassembly process.
  
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• I Love Television: Why "Cybercriming" Is Better Than Regular "Criming"

  05-03-2015 00:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Stay in your underpants... allllll day.
  Yes, I know I announce a new career path every other week—but this time? It's gonna STICK, panty-holes! Because from now on, you can call me "Wm.™ Steven Humphrey: CYBERCRIMINAL!"
  Why a cybercriminal? Well, I've heard a lot of good things about this growing industry, and I want to get in on the ground floor. Number one great thing about being a cybercriminal: You can work from home. Sure, I loved the glamour of being an intern
  
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