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• Belle & Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch Describes the Dance-Funk Transformation of the Twee Amigos

  07-04-2015 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Twee want the funk? SOREN SOLKAER
  For 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, ground zero of European pop, as inspiration, trying to write songs that c
  
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• Tim Burgess Has Already Raised More than $100,000 for His Reelection Campaign

  07-04-2015 22:04 via thestranger.com
  
  About 400 people have donated $114,000 to get City Council President Tim Burgess reelected. City of Seattle
  If Seattle City Council President Tim Burgess was having a bad week (he got a new challenger; he seems genuinely bummed Sally Clark is leaving the council), maybe money can help.In his bid for reelection, Burgess has now raised about $113,000 in cash, with $34,500 of that rolling in over the last month, according to his campaign and filings with the state Public Disclosure Commission.All t
  
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• Jon Ronson is Reading Tonight at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park

  07-04-2015 21:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Jon Ronson, Tonight at Third Place Books in Lake Forest ParkPerhaps you were captivated by the excerpt from Jon Ronson's So You've Been Publicly Shamed—the book that addresses one of the most unwieldy moral, social, and linguistic issues of our time—in the New York Times Magazine back in February. Or maybe you've been enchanted by Ronson's soft Welsh speaking voice on This American Life. There's a perfectly good chance your admiration of Ronson issues from his back catalogue, books l
  
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• Obama Criticizes Shitty Christians, Shitty Christians Shit Pants

  07-04-2015 21:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Mediaite via Joe My God:
  Towards the end of his speech at Tuesday morning’s Easter Prayer Breakfast, President Barack Obama appeared to veer off script to make some comments that implicitly referenced the fierce debate that has been raging over the last week about “religious freedom” laws in Indiana, Arkansas and elsewhere. “On Easter, I do reflect on the fact that as a Christian, I am supposed to love,” Obama said. “And I have to say that sometimes when I li
  
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• A Suggestion from a Reader of The Stranger Arrived in the Mail Today

  07-04-2015 21:05 via thestranger.com
  
  According to the return address, this letter was sent from Tacoma.
  This arrived in the mail today. If I'm not mistaken, it says:
  I feel that you need to come up with a topic that will allow you to put a picture of a butt on the cover of your paper that's cuting [sic] a big nasty fart so the caption can read The Puget Sound.
  [name illegible]
  Thank you, Evanne, for bringing this to my attention.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Whatever Happened to "Choice of Soup, Salad, Rice, or Potato"? In Search of the American Square Meal

  07-04-2015 20:50 via thestranger.com
  
  The old-fashioned American square meal isn’t dead (yet). BRITTANY WRIGHT
  In 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 dining. I miss questions like "Baked
  
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• Woman flees home with son during West Seattle home invasion

  07-04-2015 20:44
  
  Woman flees home with son during West Seattle home invasion
  
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• Mayor Ed Murray Rescinds Indiana Travel Ban

  07-04-2015 20:18 via thestranger.com
  
  Ed Murray imposed a ban on city-funded travel to Indiana last month in response to a controversial anti-LGBT law there. Kelly O
  Mayor Ed Murray—along with the mayors of Portland, San Francisco, and Oakland—has reversed the ban on city-funded travel to Indiana he imposed late last month, Murray's office announced today.Murray's boycott, and a statewide ban Gov. Jay Inslee imposed and then rescinded on Friday, came in response to a so-called "religious freedom" law passed in Indiana th
  
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• Goats ‘hired’ to clear West Seattle hillside

  07-04-2015 19:36
  
  Goats ‘hired’ to clear West Seattle hillside
  
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• Today's Dinosaur News: Brontosaurus Is BACK!

  07-04-2015 19:31 via thestranger.com
  
  Today we have maybe THE MOST IMPORTANT DINOSAUR NEWS EVER!Brontosaurus is one of the most famous dinosaurs to ever exist, except for years it didn't exist. Briefly, the history goes like this: in 1877 O.C. Marsh named a juvenile specimen Apatosaurus ("Deceptive Lizard"). Two years later he discovered a similar adult specimen which he described as a unique genus and species, and named is Brontosaurus ("Thunder Lizard"). Though in 1903 Elmer Riggs wrote that the two were not different enough to wa
  
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• Claudetteia Love Is Going to Her Prom

  07-04-2015 19:22 via thestranger.com
  
  From the the National Center for Lesbian Rights press release:
  “We are pleased to hear that Principal Taylor and the Monroe City School Board corrected this wrong before any serious harm was done. Forbidding girls from wearing a tuxedo to the prom would have served no purpose other than to reinforce the worst sorts of harmful stereotypes and censor a core part of Claudetteia's identity,” said NCLR Executive Director Kate Kendell. “The school is doing the right thing by supporti
  
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• Restaurant Servers Say Eliminating Tips May Hurt Wait Service

  07-04-2015 19:03 via thestranger.com
  
  Many servers say they wait tables because of the tips. Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock
  On April 1, when Seattle’s new minimum wage law went into effect, the city’s restaurateurs responded to the increase in labor costs in a variety of ways: Tom Douglas announced he was adding a 2 percent “wage equity surcharge” to diners’ checks. (The next day, after a wave of negative feedback, he nixed the idea.) Ivar’s Salmon House also raised prices in order to pay for
  
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• Vigil planned for 2-month anniversary of shooting

  07-04-2015 18:30
  
  Vigil planned for 2-month anniversary of shooting
  
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• Jon Stewart: “Trevor Noah will earn your trust and respect. Or not.”

  07-04-2015 18:21 via thestranger.com
  
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  Last night Jon Stewart addressed the controversy that blew up last week—was it really just last week?—after the Internet discovered some "questionable tweets," aka unfunny jokes, in Trevor Noah's twitter feed. The NYT profiled Noah last week...
  Born [in South Africa] in 1984, Mr. Noah grew up in the final years of apartheid, when South Africa’s white-minority government became
  
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• The Morning News: Seattle Home Prices Shoot Up by Nearly 20 Percent, Senate Republicans Refuse to Raise Taxes

  07-04-2015 17:47 via thestranger.com
  
  It's not just rents that are skyrocketing. The median cost of a Seattle house is $535,000. canadastock/Shutterstock
  Median Cost of a Seattle Home Is More Than Half a Million Dollars: That's an almost $100,000 increase over the last year, and the biggest jump in the past five years. "The number of available homes for sale has been at historic lows in recent months," the Seattle Times reports, "helping drive up prices." Insert boilerplate pro-density rhetoric here.
  Ramping Up Enforcement of the Mi
  
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• Morning News: Seattle Home Prices Shoot Up By Nearly 20 Percent, Senate Republicans Refuse to Raise Taxes

  07-04-2015 17:47 via thestranger.com
  
  It's not just rents that are skyrocketing. The median cost of a Seattle house is $535,000. canadastock/Shutterstock
  Median Cost of a Seattle Home Is More Than Half a Million Dollars: That's an almost $100,000 increase over the last year, and the biggest jump in the past five years. "The number of available homes for sale has been at historic lows in recent months," the Seattle Times reports, "helping drive up prices." Insert boilerplate pro-density rhetoric here.
  Ramping Up Enforcement of the Mi
  
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• Why Eating Bones Lead Me to Marxism

  07-04-2015 17:47 via thestranger.com
  
  The Mudedes and an aunt visiting Niagara Falls. My Uncle
  And then one day, I asked myself: Why do the ǃKung, a member of San people, live in the desert? Why would, when I thought more deeply on the question, anyone live in the desert in the first place? Yes, as all cultural anthropologists will eagerly tell/teach you, the ǃKung developed very clever ways to survive on very little water and very uninteresting vegetable matter—but why go through all that trouble? Sam Kinison actually made
  
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• Buyers beware: Prices up as fewer homes for sale

  07-04-2015 16:05
  
  Buyers beware: Prices up as fewer homes for sale
  
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• Brazen burglar seen on surveillance in Seward Park neighborhood

  07-04-2015 15:05
  
  Brazen burglar seen on surveillance in Seward Park neighborhood
  
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• The Mariners Already 1-0 As Flowering New Baseball Season Yields First Fruit

  07-04-2015 15:01 via thestranger.com
  
  We'll get back to this in a minute.
  The Mariners opened their season home at Safeco Field for the first time in seven years on Monday, and they did so with genuine hope of making a playoff run for probably only the third time in the past dozen seasons. And both of the previous hopeful years (remembered as the Erik Bedard year and the Cliff Lee year to people like myself who measure time in trades for baseball pitchers) ended with 101 losses. Potentially delicious baseball seasons have a habit of
  
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• Wrong twin charged in grocery store robbery

  07-04-2015 14:14
  
  Wrong twin charged in grocery store robbery
  
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• Seattle teachers join movement to boycott new standardized tests

  07-04-2015 13:56
  
  Seattle teachers join movement to boycott new standardized tests
  
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• Police believe online escort ad led Bellevue woman's murder

  07-04-2015 10:22
  
  Bellevue police issue plea for murder suspect to turn self in
  
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• Nurse Nancy patches broken dolls at Suquamish ‘hospital’

  07-04-2015 07:31
  Nancy Korsak fixes dolls from her home in Kitsap County. She has loved dolls since she was a child, when they served as her playmates, she says.
  
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• More Seattle students opt out of new Common Core tests

  07-04-2015 07:31
  
  As many as150 students at one Seattle high school are refusing to take new Common Core tests mandated in Washington. Some teachers from Garfield High, the site of a 2013 testing boycott, are expected to announce their opposition to the tests Tuesday.
  
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• Bellevue’s new top cop to stress integrity

  07-04-2015 07:31
  
  Before his swearing-in, Bellevue’s new police chief responds to questions about sex trafficking and the recent resignation of a longtime lieutenant found to have bad-mouthed a colleague.
  
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• Seattle City Council gives OK to launch of preschool program

  07-04-2015 06:46
  
  The Seattle City Council has approved a plan to roll out the preschool program that voters approved last November.
  
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• Seattle man drawn to Germany 70 years after WWII surrender

  07-04-2015 06:31
  
  Bob Harmon, 89,a retired Seattle University professor, hada front-row seat at a historic World War II moment when a German city peacefully surrendered. He’s headed back there to commemorate the event.
  
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• Appeals court grants temporary stay of elephant move

  07-04-2015 06:01
  The state Court of Appeals issued aMonday, blocking transfer of Woodland Park Zoo’s elephants to the Oklahoma City Zoo until after a court hearing Thursday.
  
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• Greenpeace activists board Shell oil rig headed to Seattle

  07-04-2015 05:16
  
  Six environmental activists, who include one American, climbed aboard on the high seas and are camping on a catwalk to protest Shell’s plans to resume exploration oil drilling off Alaska’s North Slope this summer.
  
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• Sipping with the symphony, snacking at Safeco

  07-04-2015 04:46
  
  Nicole Brodeur visits a Seattle Symphony house concert; a Treehouse luncheon in support of foster kids; and Safeco Field’s concessions preview.
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: I'm Horny and He's Jerking Off In the Other Room

  07-04-2015 03:18 via thestranger.com
  
  My fiancé claims that after almost six years of being together he still does not know what he is doing in bed. Our sex life is super vanilla, but the quality of the orgasm is stellar. He knows to get me off he needs to finger my clit while tonguing my nipples. And he is great at it! Great to the point I am sure the neighbors know his name. And he just loves it when I am on top, where he can see my boobs bounce around.One problem with our sex life is that I have a high sex drive, as in I cou
  
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• Community colleges ace making math more relevant

  07-04-2015 03:01
  
  Washington’s 10-year-old I-BEST program is a groundbreaking approach to teaching community-college students who need help catching up in math, reading and writing, and it’s been widely copied around the country.
  
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• When Will Christine Gregoire, Rob McKenna, Pete Holmes, and the Shits on the City Council Apologize to Mike McGinn?

  07-04-2015 02:18 via thestranger.com
  
  Mike Lindblom in today's Seattle Times:
  With the Highway 99 tunnel project two years behind schedule, a top Republican lawmaker says he’ll resist a proposal to pay another $17 million, to keep transit buses moving through the construction zone. That’s a cost overrun Seattle should eat, as far as Ed Orcutt, R-Kalama, is concerned.... Five years, ago, pro-tunnel Gov. Chris Gregoire famously sparred about the overruns clause with anti-tunnel Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, whose questions sh
  
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• Coulee Dam man dies following Taser incident

  07-04-2015 00:46
  A 28-year-old Coulee Dam man died Saturday shortly after a U.S. Forest Service agent stunned him with a Taser, handcuffed him and took him into custody.
  
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• The GOP Nom: Future Clown Car Occupant Coming to Town

  07-04-2015 00:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Jeb Bush is a different sort of Republican too: While almost all national GOP pols do their fundraising in Bellevue, Jeb is risking a stop in downtown Seattle! Bush will be cashing 25K checks at the Premiere on Pine, right at the foot of Capitol Hill—and on 4/20, no less. Maybe we should organize a mass/stoned gay outdoor wedding on the corner of Pine and 9th while Jeb gets his roundtable on?[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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