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• SPONSORED CONTENT: Sirloin Burger Is Your Favorite Chunky Soup? You’ve Gotta Be Shitting Me

  04-04-2015 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Created in partnership with Chunky—It Fills You Up Right®
  You have said some outrageous shit in your life, but this is a new low. You're honestly going to sit there and tell me that of all the Chunky Soups, your actual favorite one is Sirloin Burger? Fucking Sirloin Burger? Seriously? Come on!
  We've had the conversation about the so-called "classic" Chicken Noodle. I'll grant you that. But the fact that you're straight up ignoring Hearty Italian-Style Wedding with Meatballs & Spin
  
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• Poster of the Week: Poster by Jon Adams

  04-04-2015 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Do yourself a favor and check out Jon Adams's comic Truth Serum at citycyclops.com. Turns out he's pretty good at making posters, too.
  
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• Where High Fidelity Brunch Meets "Super Japanese" Sushi: A Guide to West Seattle's Best Eateries

  04-04-2015 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Husky Deli makes 32 ice-cream flavors in-house. KELLY O
  To 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 Cafe
  4559 California Ave SW, 938-3279
  Easy Street feels l
  
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• Growth gone wild? Website map pins it down

  04-04-2015 08:16
  Land-use signs for new development are becoming the city’s official flower. A software engineer has quantified them for the first time — and with it some of the angst.
  
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• Judge refuses to block Seattle elephants’ move to Oklahoma

  04-04-2015 08:01
  
  A King County judge on Friday declined to block the transfer of Woodland Park Zoo’s two remaining elephants to a new home in Oklahoma.
  
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• Dog-poop DNA tests nail non-scoopers

  04-04-2015 08:01
  
  Is that your dog’s poop? DNA testing shows apartment building owners whose pets are making messes.
  
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• Bagshaw still unopposed in City Council’s District 7

  04-04-2015 07:31
  
  Despite 40 candidates and counting for all nine Seattle City Council seats up for re-election this year, nobody has yet challenged Sally Bagshaw in the 7th District.
  
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• Recall papers for state auditor say he ‘abused’ public trust

  04-04-2015 07:16
  Former state lawmaker Will Knedlik filed papers late Friday afternoon attempting to recall State Auditor Troy Kelley.
  
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• Highway 99 tunnel manager moving to job at Sound Transit

  04-04-2015 06:01
  
  Matt Preedy, the state’s deputy administrator for the Highway 99 tunnel project, is leaving for a job at Sound Transit.
  
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• Court upholds death penalty for rapist Clark Elmore

  04-04-2015 05:46
  The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the death penalty for Clark Elmore, who confessed to raping and murdering his 14-year-old stepdaughter 20 years ago
  
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• Seattle initiative drive seeks public campaign financing, reform

  04-04-2015 05:16
  A group of volunteers and local organizations calling itself Honest Elections Seattle filed a new public campaign-financing and elections-reform effort Friday.
  
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• It’s prison for serial house-squatter, scam artist

  04-04-2015 04:31
  A woman who spent decades lying, cheating and stealing to dupe home sellers out of their properties was sentenced Thursday to more than two years in prison.
  
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• Tonight at Northwest Film Forum: Vernae, A Performance-Installation Rite for The Rite of Spring

  04-04-2015 03:20 via thestranger.com
  
  A moment at the Vernae residency at Tieton. Courtesy of Ethan Folk
  Tonight, on this Good Friday, the Northwest Film Forum will host a double sacrifice—Vernae, an hours-long performance-installation with a 30-minute dance film inspired by Stravinsky's Rite of Spring that culminates in the sacrifice of twins (Jillayne Hunter and kb Thomason of the House of ia) who are connected by a cloth umbilical cord between their spines.
  Tonight's and tomorrow's performances are already sold out, but dur
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Help! My Boyfriend Wants to Get Pegged!

  04-04-2015 02:53 via thestranger.com
  
  So I'm just gonna get straight to the point: My boyfriend told me that he would like to be pegged. We talked about it a lot, and it's both something we have never done before. We haven't been together too long, so firstly, should we be experimenting with other stuff first? We have both never really had any play in the anal area, which scares me. I have no idea how to initiate this kind of play. Like obviously we have to go buy a strap-on and stuff, but how do we transition from pretty normalish
  
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• The Newest Idea to Get Money Out of Politics in Seattle: Give Every Voter $100

  04-04-2015 02:24 via thestranger.com
  
  This fall, you could get another chance to vote on campaign finance reform. GEORGE PFROMM
  If you’re the type who's always complaining about how city hall is full of rich assholes put in office by their rich friends to do those rich friends' bidding, listen up. You might get a chance to change that this year.A citizen group called Honest Elections Seattle has filed an initiative aimed at reducing the influence money has on local elections, and they’re about to start gathering signatur
  
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• Northbound I-5 blocked in Mt. Vernon

  04-04-2015 02:21
  
  Northbound I-5 blocked in Mt. Vernon
  
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• 18-vehicle crash backs up I-5 in Mount Vernon

  04-04-2015 02:21
  
  Northbound I-5 blocked in Mt. Vernon
  
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• 18 involved in I-5 crash in Mount Vernon

  04-04-2015 02:21
  
  Northbound I-5 blocked in Mt. Vernon
  
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• 17 involved in I-5 crash in Mount Vernon

  04-04-2015 02:21
  
  Northbound I-5 blocked in Mt. Vernon
  
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• Amazon rival may set up in Seattle

  04-04-2015 02:14
  
  Amazon Rival May Set Up in Seattle
  
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• Expedia adds more company to city already overbooked

  04-04-2015 02:01
  Seattle, a town that can’t seem to pile on newcomers fast enough, welcomesone more, Expedia. Cross-lake commuters and Legacy Citizens may not be so thrilled.
  
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• Al Pacino Seeks Rock ’n’ Roll Redemption in Danny Collins

  04-04-2015 01:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Another film that gets musicians all wrong.
  If 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 ecstatic camp of The Doors to the antibacterial sentimentality of Almost Famous and beyond, movies about rock musicians have ever been a repository of their creators’ projections about rock ’n’ roll mythos, or a means of preserving hoary old tropes about hedonism, persona, compromise, an
  
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• Are These Eyebrows On Fleek?

  04-04-2015 01:20 via thestranger.com
  
  Eyebrows on fleek, plus bonus chest ass! Kelly O[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• A Transgender Food Service Worker's Minimum Wage Story

  04-04-2015 00:56 via thestranger.com
  
  Dylan Paul was fired from Pagliacci's last year after she complained about customer harassment (the company apologized and later offered her job back to her). Now she makes a $13 an hour at Honey Hole, a local sandwich joint. Kelly O
  Seattle's new minimum wage law takes effect this week, hiking hourly wages for most employees to $11. But for Dylan Paul, a transgender woman who was fired from Pagliacci after complaining about customer harassment last year, $15-per-hour wages can't come soon enoug
  
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• Curt Kobaïan—Five Magma Tracks to Get You Pumped for Tonight's Show at the Crocodile

  04-04-2015 00:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Magma: Over-the-top flamboyance never sounded so weird.
  I'm not sure people are aware how big of a deal Magma's appearance at the Crocodile tonight is. I wrote a Suggests blurb about it, but perhaps more prodding is necessary to blast away the the evil forces of apathy and inertia that rule the universe. So here are five tracks by these French obsessive-compulsive geniuses to give you an idea of the Sturm und Drang-ed-out prog-jazz-opera they lay down."Soleil d'Ork" off Üdü Ẁüd&
  
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• Curt Kobaïan—5 Magma Tracks to Get You Pumped for Tonight's Show at the Crocodile

  04-04-2015 00:45 via thestranger.com
  Magma: Over-the-top flamboyance never sounded so weird.
  I'm not sure people are aware how big of a deal Magma's appearance at the Crocodile tonight is. I wrote a Suggests blurb about it, but perhaps more prodding is necessary to blast away the the evil forces of apathy and inertia that rule the universe. So here are five tracks by these French obsessive-compulsive geniuses to give you an idea of the Sturm und Drang-ed-out prog-jazz-opera they lay down."Soleil d'Ork" off Üdü Ẁüd&
  
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• Gérard Depardieu May Be a Little Too Convincing in Welcome to New York

  04-04-2015 00:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Inspired by the case against the former director of the International Monetary Fund.
  And 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 middle-aged
  
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• Bigoted Anti-Choice Activists in Maine Declare "Prayer Victory" Over Family Planning Clinic

  04-04-2015 00:21 via thestranger.com
  
  Mike Tipping:
  Maine’s Christian Civic League—the group that brought us Prohibition and decades of anti-gay bigotry—sent out an email blast yesterday with the subject “Prayer defunds abortion in Maine.” They claim that because Maine Family Planning in Augusta raised less money this year during the organization’s “Pledge-A-Picketer” campaign ($5,360, compared to $10,014 last year) that God must be acting on the CCL’s prayers. The fundraising ca
  
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• CenturyLink Apologizes for Misleading Customer About Its Gigabit Internet Service

  04-04-2015 00:20 via thestranger.com
  
  Can CenturyLink and Comcast be trusted to provide basic services like the internet? Robert Ullman
  As I've reported before, Seattle desperately needs affordable, reliable high-speed Internet service, and a lot of people are pissed off that the city's two dominant providers—Comcast and CenturyLink—haven't yet made it available in all parts of town. President Obama says he stands behind any city that wants to take matters into its own hands, over those companies' objections, by creating
  
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• Gov. Jay Inslee Rescinds Indiana Travel Ban

  04-04-2015 00:06 via thestranger.com
  
  Gov. Jay Inslee says state employees can travel to Indiana again. Office of Governor Jay Inslee
  Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has rescinded the ban he imposed Monday on any state-funded travel to Indiana.The initial ban was in response to that state's controversial "religious freedom" law that could have allowed businesses to refuse service to LGBT people. Since then, Indiana Governor Mike Pence has signed an amended version of the law that prevents business owners from using Indiana's "Religious F
  
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