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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Gay, Bi, or Straight? Mystery Solved!

  01-04-2015 23:56 via thestranger.com
  
  My letter appeared in your column last week. I was the guy wondering what was up with the "straight" guy whose online personal ad said he had "an addiction to massive cocks in my ass." You said that the guy was most likely bi (and rounding down to straight), might be gay (and flying a false flag), but there was a very, very small chance he was actually straight (and turned on by the violation or doing "forced bi" for a dominant girlfriend).
  I took your advice and sent the guy a message and he re
  
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• Bait Shop Transforms Into Chain-Themed Dershangigan's Tonight

  01-04-2015 23:42 via thestranger.com
  
  Bait Shop employees showing off their FLAIR.Bait Shop
  Tonight, April 1, Capitol Hill’s Bait Shop is planning an April Fool’s Day overhaul and transforming into a one-night-only "chain-themed restaurant and bar" called Derschangigan’s (named in honor of owner Linda Derschang of Linda’s, Oddfellows, King's Hardware, et al). Guests can expect entirely new decor inspired by “vintage movie posters, old license plates, oversized playing cards, actual bags of trash, TMZ, a
  
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• Justin Bieber Roast: Martha Stewart Gets Down and Dirty

  01-04-2015 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Comedy Central presented its roast of Justin Bieber—and of ALL the acts, which included some very funny people, it was Martha Stewart (!!!) who gave the most mic-dropping performance. Check out her brilliantly deadpan delivery and ABSOLUTELY FILTHY burns that she perpetrates upon her cohosts. YOU WILL NEVER SEE HER IN THE SAME LIGHT AGAIN. (Audio NSFW!) [ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• New Sounds from Raz Simone, Earl Sweatshirt, and Future

  01-04-2015 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Earl Sweatshirt doesn't like shit, doesn't go outside.
  I know that Kendrick wasn't the first rapper this year to repurpose an old Tupac interview to great effect—that would be Raz Simone, on the song "Drake & Macklemore's Platform." Raz, not letting up on his prolific push for 2015, recently bounced right back with "That Ain't Love," a catchy new single featuring assists from Tacoma's Leezy (no more Soprano) and no less a personage than GOOD Music's coke-rap Clipse alumnus Pusha T. Whi
  
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• Isidor Martinez

  01-04-2015 20:34 via thestranger.com
  
  If you were going out to clubs in Seattle in the 1990s—Re-bar in particular—you knew Isidor. If you were lucky, Isidor knew you.
  Isidor was a big, smart, and sardonic presence. She worked the door in a shredded dress, a busted wig, a few bold smears of makeup. Isidor checked IDs and if you struck Isidor as the kind of person who would cause trouble—the wrong kind of trouble (Isidor loved the right kind of trouble)—you weren't getting into Queer Disco or Lemon Twist or Mo
  
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• Vulcan to Redevelop Cal Anderson Park

  01-04-2015 20:24 via thestranger.com
  
  The comment period begins and ends on 4/1. Get it? Erin Resso
  Capitol Hill as we once knew it—the Capitol Hill of the late-1980s through the early 2010s—is done. And by "done" I mean "changing/changed." And guess what? The neighborhood has changed before. Every neighborhood changes. (Please read this great piece on gentrification and the long, ever-changing history of one Oakland neighborhood at Slate.) Nothing about a city is static. A city is growing or contracting but it's never s
  
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• Indiana Idiocy, Suicidal Pilots, and the International Emancipation of Amanda Knox

  01-04-2015 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  This face was clearly made for sad clown makeup. CHIP SOMODEVILLA / GETTY IMAGES
  MONDAY, MARCH 23 This week of Indiana idiocy, suicidal pilots, and the international emancipation of Amanda Knox kicked off in the state of Virginia, where today Texas senator and Tea Party action figure Ted Cruz stood before a captive audience at Liberty University (where students faced $10 fines if they failed to attend) to announce his bid for the US presidency. "Cruz is the first Republican out of the starting g
  
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• The Morning News: Seattle Drivers Lost 89 Hours to Traffic Last Year, Republicans Kill Bill to Increase Minimum Wage Statewide

  01-04-2015 17:57 via thestranger.com
  
  Sick of traffic? Sick of talking about traffic? Me too. Kichigin
  Eighty-Nine Hours: That's how much time Seattle drivers spent sitting in traffic, according to a new study, which also says our traffic is the fifth worst in the country. Get mad at Olympia about this, right now, if you want to see a light rail network—one that would relieve much of this congestion—to West Seattle, Ballard, and beyond, in your lifetime.
  Raising the Minimum Wage to $12 an Hour? Not on Spokane senator Mic
  
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• Morning News: Seattle Drivers Lost 89 Hours to Traffic Last Year, Republicans Kill Bill to Increase Minimum Wage Statewide

  01-04-2015 17:57 via thestranger.com
  
  Sick of traffic? Sick of talking about traffic? Me too. Kichigin
  Eighty-Nine Hours: That's how much time Seattle drivers spent sitting in traffic, according to a new study, which also says our traffic is the fifth worst in the country. Get mad at Olympia about this, right now, if you want to see a light rail network—one that would relieve much of this congestion—to West Seattle, Ballard, and beyond, in your lifetime.
  Raising the Minimum Wage to $12 an Hour? Not on Spokane Senator Mic
  
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• Why the CEO of ExxonMobil Equals the Pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525

  01-04-2015 17:49 via thestranger.com
  
  The pollution in China is caused by the extraction of surplus value from cheap "local labor."Hung Chung Chih/ Shutterstock
  The German philosopher Walter Benjamin imagined humanity as being on a train that's rushing toward a disaster. He also saw revolution as not so much a change in course than pulling the emergency brake (PDF). What Benjamin had in mind when composing this horrific vision was Europe's then-approaching Second World War. Our moment finds itself in a similarly desperate situation,
  
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• Why the CEO of ExxonMobil Equals the Pilot of Germangwings Flight 9525

  01-04-2015 17:49 via thestranger.com
  
  The pollution in China is caused by the extraction of surplus value from cheap "local labor."Hung Chung Chih/ Shutterstock
  The German philosopher Walter Benjamin imagined humanity as being on a train that's rushing toward a disaster. He also saw revolution as not so much a change in course than pulling the emergency brake (PDF). What Benjamin had in mind when composing this horrific vision was Europe's then-approaching Second World War. Our moment of global warming finds its self in similarly de
  
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• Study: No elevated risk of suicide for post-9/11 troops who deployed

  01-04-2015 17:03
  Researchers find no higher rate of suicide resulting from post-9/11 deployments, but find higher risk among those who separated early from military service.
  
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• Seattle's New Minimum Wage Law Goes Into Effect Today

  01-04-2015 15:00 via thestranger.com
  
  15 Now organizer Jess Spear rallied Saturday in celebration of the minimum wage increase that starts rolling out today. HG
  I hope you're as excited as those socialists in party hats because Seattle's new minimum wage law takes effect today! That means all workers in the city will start making at least $10 or $11 an hour, depending on the size of their employer and whether they get tips or health insurance. By 2021, everyone will be making at least $15 an hour.Seattle was the first major city to
  
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• The Sauce's Recommended Restaurants

  01-04-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The Sauce's Recommended RestaurantsBallardBarnacle4743 Ballard Ave NW, 706-3379DinnerRenee Erickson's teeny-tiny, Euro-style bar is attached to her renowned restaurant the Walrus and the Carpenter (making it the best-named place ever). Its menu of great snacks, amaro, and lovely wine will knock your socks off.Bitterroot5239 Ballard Ave NW, 588-1577Brunch, Lunch, DinnerBitterroot uses an in-house smoker and picturesque stacks of apple wood to very good effect, especially with the chicken and the
  
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• Sex Is the One Big Problem No Microhousing Architect Discusses in Microtopia

  01-04-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Sex Is the One Big Problem No Microhousing Architect Discusses in Microtopiaby Brendan KileyOnly 55 minutes long, Microtopia is appropriately minimal for its subject—the future of living in small and portable spaces. Swedish director Jesper Wachtmeister skips between Europe and North America (Athens, Isla Mujeres, Paris, Joshua Tree) to interview architects, artists, and a few cheerful eccentrics who are convinced that less ephemeral housing is not just a preference but will become an inevitab
  
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• Only Catherine Deneuve Knows That the Movie She Is in, 3 Hearts, Is Not Good

  01-04-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Only Catherine Deneuve Knows That the Movie She Is in, 3 Hearts, Is Not Goodby Alison HallettMaybe 3 Hearts is an experiment: Shove the plot of a Sweet Valley High novel through a French-o-later, ship it off to America, and see if the Yanks will mistake this tortured and ridiculous love triangle between two sisters and a nebbish ginger for some sort of grand affair of the heart. After all, everyone's smoking and drinking, très francais, and doesn't Charlotte Gainsbourg look just like Patti Smit
  
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• In Search of the American Square Meal

  01-04-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Whatever Happened to "Choice of Soup, Salad, Rice, or Potato"? In Search of the American Square Mealby Rachel BelleIn a city with about 2,300 restaurants, the dining options are daunting. You can spend Sunday afternoon hunched over an aromatic bowl of pho, Tuesday evening pinching up turmeric-stained lentils with spongy pieces of injera, and Friday night slurping briny, freshly shucked Pacific oysters.But, every now and then, I miss the less exotic choices of my youth, of American-style family d
  
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• Gérard Depardieu May Be a Little Too Convincing in Welcome to New York

  01-04-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Gérard Depardieu May Be a Little Too Convincing in Welcome to New Yorkby Charles MudedeAnd then it happens: A black woman with an African (or West Indian) accent enters a posh Manhattan hotel room and announces herself. There is no reply. The room is a mess—and it must smell of sex, because a rich French banker and his seedy friends spent the previous night defiling several young, beautiful, white prostitutes. The hotel maid is not young, beautiful, or white. She's overweight and mi
  
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• Belle & Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch Describes the Dance-Funk Transformation of the Twee Amigos

  01-04-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Belle & Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch Describes the Dance-Funk Transformation of the Twee Amigosby Trent MoormanFor their ninth album, Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance, Glasgow's Belle and Sebastian veer from their twee refuge into a groove, dance, and funk affair. Producer Ben Allen (Animal Collective, Gnarls Barkley) appears to have pushed the band's book nook onto a dance floor and cranked up the Funkadelic and M83. P-Funk as twee-funk? There, I said it. The band used the Eurovision Song Contest
  
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• Al Pacino Seeks Rock ’n’ Roll Redemption in Danny Collins

  01-04-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Al Pacino Seeks Rock ’n’ Roll Redemption in Danny Collinsby Sean NelsonIf there’s one thing you can trust Hollywood to do, it’s get rock stars all wrong. From the boilerplate cornpone of Jailhouse Rock to the ecstaticcamp of The Doors to the antibacterial sentimentality of Almost Famous and beyond, movies about rock musicians have ever been arepository of their creators’ projections about rock ’n’ roll mythos, or a means of preserving hoary old tropes about hedonism, persona, compr
  
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• State GOP budget allocates education money without new taxes

  01-04-2015 06:43
  
  Senate Republicans released a budget proposal Tuesday to cover court-mandated education costs without raising taxes, a sharp contrast to the Democrats’ revenue-raising plan issued last week.
  
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• Crowd hears UW panel examine high cost of living in Seattle

  01-04-2015 06:33
  
  In a panel discussion at the University of Washington, representatives of real-estate websites, a real-estate firm and a labor union discussed how Seattle came to be increasingly unaffordable and what can be done to change that.
  
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• GOP senator stops minimum- wage hike in Olympia

  01-04-2015 06:25
  A GOP state senator won’t allow a $12-an-hour statewide minimum wage to advance in the Legislature.
  
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• Dealer: ‘They give you a loan that you can’t pay back’

  01-04-2015 06:19
  
  A Clayton mobile-home dealer lost his business and land ­— to Clayton.
  
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• Berkshire doesn’t disclose details about loan failures

  01-04-2015 06:19
  
  Warren Buffett lauds Clayton’s home-loan success rate, but his claims are hard to verify.
  
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• McMorris Rodgers should ask hometown folks about Obamacare

  01-04-2015 05:56
  
  Cathy McMorris Rodgers is trolling the Internet for negative stories about Obamacare, while her constituents are signing up for the program at high rates. This disconnect is all you need to know about national politics these days.
  
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• Auditor’s office created job for his ex-associate, emails show

  01-04-2015 05:38
  
  Newly released emails show state Auditor Troy Kelley worked to find a job for a former business associate who is now tied to a federal investigation into Kelley’s previous business dealings.
  
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• Inquest into police shooting in Pasco unlikely for months

  01-04-2015 05:35
  It could be summer before a coroner’s inquest is held in the February fatal shooting by Pasco police of an unarmed Mexican migrant, a prosecutor in Eastern Washington said.
  
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• New juvenile jail: fewer beds, more help keeping kids out

  01-04-2015 05:33
  
  The new youth-detention facility planned for 2019 will have fewer beds and a stronger emphasis on rehabilitation in an effort to address racial disparities in incarceration.
  
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• Safe Arctic drilling possible, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell says

  01-04-2015 05:33
  
  In a Seattle Times interview, U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell says she believes Arctic offshore drilling can proceed without doing harm but her department is working to help improve the safety culture.
  
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• ‘He didn’t deserve it’: Relatives testify in penalty phase of Carnation trial

  01-04-2015 05:31
  
  Relatives of the six people murdered by Joseph McEnroe in Carnation in 2007 testified about their loss during a trial that will determine whether McEnroe is sentenced to life or death.
  
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• Police search Port Orchard home, car in probe of Bremerton slayings

  01-04-2015 05:29
  
  Warrants were served on a residence and vehicle in Port Orchard in connection with last weekend’s double homicide in East Bremerton, authorities said Tuesday morning.
  
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• As Seattle wage law takes effect, city’s watchdog not up to speed

  01-04-2015 05:27
  Seattle’s much-hyped new minimum-wage law takes effect Wednesday, but the city agency created to supervise the law isn’t fully staffed and has yet to hire a director.
  
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• Gun in Marysville school shooting was sold despite check, court order

  01-04-2015 05:24
  
  The father of the Marysville-Pilchuck High School shooter has been charged in federal court with buying the handgun that 15-year-old Jaylen Fryberg used to kill four classmates and himself.
  
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• Suit challenges class-size measure approved last fall

  01-04-2015 05:10
  
  A Kittitas County man is challenging the state over a legal technicality he says invalidates Initiative 1351, a sweeping class-size measure approved by voters last fall.
  
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• Amid outbreaks, measles shots surge 27 percent in state

  01-04-2015 04:56
  
  Between December and February, vaccinations to prevent measles jumped 27 percent compared with the same period last year in Washington. A high-profile outbreak at Disneyland may have contributed, health officials said.
  
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• UW says lowest-paid workers are getting a raise to $11

  01-04-2015 04:46
  
  The University of Washington will be increasing the wages of its lowest paid employees (not including students) to $11 an hour on Wednesday, when the City of Seattle’s minimum wage law kicks in.
  
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• Environmental study corrected, allowing Arctic oil deal’s review

  01-04-2015 04:12
  The Department of Interior said Tuesday it has affirmed corrections to an environmental analysis of a 2008Arctic Ocean petroleum lease sale.
  
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• Spring brings hail the size of BBs

  01-04-2015 04:09
  
  Hail the size of BBs was reported as far south as downtown Seattle late Tuesday afternoon as storms associated with the Puget Sound convergence zone moved through the area.
  
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• House, Senate budgets direct more money to education

  01-04-2015 04:00
  
  How the Senate and House budget proposals compare on education spending.
  
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• 25 Things I Learned At Burgerama in Southern California

  01-04-2015 03:30 via thestranger.com
  
  I know a Prius or Car2Go is better for the environment, but if you show up at a music festival in this, well... YOU WIN. Kelly O
  Burgerama is a festival curated by the excellent Burger Records label. The actual hamburgers at the fest were dry as hundred-year-old pieces of cardboard, and I firmly believe Burgerama should team up with In-N-Out instead. I mean, just LOOK at these things! Vegetarians, ask for a "wish burger." Kelly O
  When you're playing a show, and its almost 90 degrees outside, som
  
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• The 20 New Restaurants and Bars You Should Try Right Now

  01-04-2015 03:24 via thestranger.com
  
  The 20 New Restaurants and Bars You Should Try Right Nowby Angela Garbes1. Big ChickieHillman City5520 Rainier Ave S, 946-1519Dining options in Hillman City continue to expand, and the neighborhood got a new favorite when Big Chickie opened in September. The specialty at this old converted gas station is "Peruvian-inspired pollo a la brasa," aka charcoal-roasted chicken, which comes with a side of fries or beans and rice. They consistently have a line out the door.2. Canterbury Ale HouseCap
  
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• Seven Years Ago Today

  01-04-2015 03:23 via thestranger.com
  
  Still in my thoughts.
  
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• Why Does Everyone Have to Have Their Own Four Walls?

  01-04-2015 03:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Why Does Everyone Have to Have Their Own Four Walls? A New Wave of Seattle Art Galleries Fights to Surviveby Sarra ScherbPour one out for the lost art galleries of the last year—priced out of their spaces, couldn't make sales, or just plain exhausted: Fetherston. Prole Drift. Francine Seders. Grover/Thurston. Seattle ArtREsource. Legacy. Tasty. Bherd Studios. LxWxH. Vignettes. Ltd. Some were high-end downtown mainstays, others were cornerstones of their neighborhood art walks. Some transfo
  
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• Why Are People So Weird About Eating Bones? I Eat Them Whole

  01-04-2015 03:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Why Are People So Weird About Eating Bones? I Eat Them Wholeby Charles MudedeMy grandmother was dirt-poor. She lived in a mud hut on what basically amounted to a rock (nothing grows on a rock) and rarely ate anything as exciting as meat. Whenever there was meat on the table, it was usually a part of the animal that had little value: the intestines, the head, the feet. If there was bone in that meat, you damn well ate it. Eastern Zimbabwe (then called eastern Rhodesia) was a world of primitive ac
  
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• What's in Season

  01-04-2015 03:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Summary: Cafe Juanita's Holly Smith Reveals the Two Local, Seasonal Ingredients She's Most Excited About—and How to Prepare ThemRelated locations: Cafe Juanitaby Kathleen RichardsWhat's the thing in season right now you're excited about and why?I'd say bronze fennel and Penn Cove mussels. The mussels are great right now and a sign that spring is here. Bronze fennel begins to appear all over the wakening gardens of Seattle as well. I love putting them together. A new favorite dish is a rare
  
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• What Do You See When You Look at This Attic?

  01-04-2015 03:01 via thestranger.com
  
  What Do You See When You Look at This Attic? Part Two of Everyone Sees Through Youby Sheila HetiGeorge is a gay man of 32 whose professional life is just adequate enough to support him. He works in electronics. His most significant romantic relationship was with a beautiful man named Lee, but that relationship was a secret. It went on for six years, during which time Lee had a boyfriend named Albert. Lee and Albert lived together (and had been together four years already when George and Lee's re
  
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• West Seattle Neighborhood Crawl

  01-04-2015 03:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Where High Fidelity Brunch Meets "Super Japanese" Sushi: A Guide to West Seattle's Best EateriesTo those who don't live there, West Seattle is considered almost like another state. Asking someone to grab dinner in the southwest portion of the city is often met with a reaction so fierce, you'd think they were being asked to jump off the bridge, not drive over it. Of course, West Seattle's charms are well-known to the people who live there. They include...Easy Street Records and Cafe4559 Californi
  
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• Wayne Rawley's Live! From the Last Night of My Life Has Only Improved with Age

  01-04-2015 03:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Don't Call It a Remount—Wayne Rawley's Live! From the Last Night of My Life Has Only Improved with Ageby Brendan KileyPeople talk facilely about theater "magic," but the ephemeral nature that sets performance apart from books or films or records is beyond the reach of cliché. Individuals congregate at a particular spot, make something to show other individuals, and then go away, never to be reunited in that particular configuration. There will be other Othellos, other Arcadias, and
  
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• The Seattle City Council Just Stood Up to an International Trade Agreement That's Shrouded in Secrecy

  01-04-2015 03:01 via thestranger.com
  
  The Seattle City Council Just Stood Up to an International Trade Agreement That's Shrouded in Secrecyby Sydney BrownstoneThe first thing you should know about the Trans-Pacific Partnership is that we do not know what it is.The Obama administration knows what it is, because it's negotiating the trade deal with 11 Asia-Pacific countries—a group that represents some 40 percent of the global GDP. Past that, what's inside the deal is largely a guessing game. Some members of Congress have said t
  
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