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• I, Anonymous: Food Court Vomitorium

  27-04-2015 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  STEVEN WEISSMAN
  To those eating their hot dogs and pizza when my son barfed all over the food-court floor: sorry not sorry. The collective intake of breath when you all saw it was understandable. I was just as surprised. Thank you for not coming to my rescue and distracting me from focusing on him. Also, fuck you for not coming to my rescue with something to help me clean up the massacre. I hope the show gave you just what you needed to choke down your food. Next time, maybe direct traffic away
  
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• Everything Is Awesome When Felix Hernandez Pitches

  27-04-2015 23:03 via thestranger.com
  
  Men dressed as moose, Legos, and Batman dance atop outdoor room of pajama men, as captured by my extremely high-quality camera. Spike Friedman
  I attended two Mariners games this weekend. The first one, on Friday, saw the Mariners score two runs. The second game, on Sunday, saw the Mariners score two runs. The former felt like an easy win after Nelson Cruz walloped a solo shot in the second inning. It was so great. The latter was a heartbreaking loss that saw the Mariners get shut down by some gu
  
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• Antigay Bigots: Here's What You Should Do Instead of Getting Gay Married!

  27-04-2015 22:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Mary Bonauto will make the case for a constitutional right to same-sex marriage when the Supreme Court hears arguments in Obergefell v. Hodges tomorrow. The court's decision—expected this June—could legalize same-sex marriage in all 50 states. Pro-equality legal scholars, court watchers, and pundits are optimistic. (The NYT has a very moving story about the lead plaintiff.) Irish voters go to the polls on May 22 to vote in a referendum that will legalize same-sex marriage in the Iri
  
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• Anti-Gay Bigots: Here's What You Should Do Instead of Getting Gay Married!

  27-04-2015 22:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Mary Bonauto will make the case for a constitutional right to same-sex marriage when the Supreme Court hears arguments in Obergefell v. Hodges tomorrow. The court's decision—expected this June—could legalize same-sex marriage in all fifty states. Pro-equality legal scholars, court watchers, and pundits are optimistic. (The NYT has a a very moving story about the lead plaintiff.) Irish voters go to the polls on May 22 to vote in a referendum that will legalize same-sex marriage in th
  
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• Complaints say Sawant’s housing meeting was actually ‘political rally’

  27-04-2015 22:50
  A town-hall meeting about housing affordability hosted by Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant last week has some people — including a fellow council member — complaining about possible violations of the city’s ethics code.
  
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• Local climbing outfits airlifted off Everest to ‘epicenter of disaster’

  27-04-2015 22:48
  Four Washington-basedmountaineeringfirmswith teams caught on Mount Everest during Nepal’s massive earthquake have descended by helicopter and “are happy to be healthy and alive.”
  
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• Here's What You Should Do Instead of Getting Gay Married!

  27-04-2015 22:29 via thestranger.com
  
  Mary Bonauto will make the case for a constitutional right to same-sex marriage when the Supreme Court hears arguments in Obergefell v. Hodges tomorrow. The court's decision—expected this June—could legalize same-sex marriage in all fifty states. Legal scholars, court watchers, and pundits are optimistic, with most predicting a majority of the justices will rule in favor of marriage equality. (The NYT has a a very moving story about the lead plaintiff and the city he and his late hus
  
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• Jesse goes undercover, investigates low-cost air duct cleanings

  27-04-2015 22:13
  
  Jesse goes undercover, investigates low-cost air duct cleanings
  
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• Hillary Clinton's Building a Nerd Army

  27-04-2015 20:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Nerd alert. Marianne Campolongo / Shutterstock.com
  Hillary Clinton's a bit of an enigma, technologically-speaking: On one hand, she supports net neutrality, so yay for that. On the other hand, she uses a Blackberry, which is alarmingly old-fashioned. Unless she's just doing it as some kind of hilarious hipster joke?
  At any rate, Clinton's lately been surrounding herself with nerds. Right before her announcement, she hired a Google exec as her Chief Technology Officer, and the campaign's been put
  
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• Could plan for new arena in Tukwila lure NHL team?

  27-04-2015 20:45
  
  Could plan for new arena in Tukwila lure NHL team?
  
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• Inside Seattle's Real-Life-Room-Escape Boom

  27-04-2015 20:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Real-life room escape: Trapped in a room with strangers.The video game Zork was released in 1978. It was the primitive kind where you type in your commands—"hit troll" or "drink water"—and get trapped in rooms and have to solve little puzzles to escape. The Legend of Zelda (1986) copped this feature to a degree, then Myst (1993) took it even further, and plenty more followed suit. Eventually, the "room escape" feature became a mainstay of the adventure genre of video games. Then some
  
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• Climbers rescued from Everest by helicopter

  27-04-2015 20:01
  
  Climbers with local ties were stuck on Mount Everest after an avalanche triggered by Nepal’s massive earthquake slammed into a section of their base camp, killing at least 18, including a camp doctor working for a Seattle-based mountaineering company.
  
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• What We Learned at Friday's Throwdown Over the Current City Council Vacancy

  27-04-2015 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Disappointingly, city council members didn't manage to ask former council member Jan Drago any hard-hitting questions about her pre-government ice cream career. Dan Nolte, City of Seattle
  Today, the Seattle City Council is going to choose a replacement for Sally Clark, who resigned earlier this month to take a job at the University of Washington. Council members have spent the weekend talking about who they support and they'll make their final pick at their full meeting today at 2 p.m. in counci
  
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• Music Review: Kanye Embraces Jenner's Transition, Jay Z Defends TIDAL, and Ciara Might Be Hanging Out in Seattle

  27-04-2015 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Kanye West: "I'm nothing if I can't be me." Carl Bjorklund/Shutterstock
  Music Review is a new Slog music news column, written by Lindsay Hood, former News Editor of the late, great Wondering Sound and recent Seattle transplant. Lindsay's pledge: "I'll try and pay attention to the important stuff—you know, like Rihanna's Instagram—then round it all up for you to devour in the morning. I look forward to learning more about the local scene as the column develops. Feel free to drop off h
  
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• Kanye Embraces Jenner's Transition, Jay Z Defends TIDAL, and Ciara Might Be Hanging Out in Seattle

  27-04-2015 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Kanye West: "I'm nothing if I can't be me." Carl Bjorklund/Shutterstock
  • During an interview with Diane Sawyer on Friday night, Bruce Jenner topped the worldwide Twitter trend and gave Kanye West a nice shout out. The former Olympian said West helped wife Kim Kardashian accept Jenner's gender reassignment by telling her:
  Look, I can be married to the most beautiful woman in the world, and I am. I can have the most beautiful little daughter in the world, and I have that. But I’m noth
  
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• Eritreans Deported by Israel Because They Are Not Jewish Were Killed by ISIS Because They Are Christians

  27-04-2015 19:36 via thestranger.com
  
  Eritreans demonstrating in Holot, an Israeli prison in the desert. YouTubeA recent post on +972, a web magazine that that gets its name from the telephone area code shared by Israel and Palestine, reports that at least three of the East Africans who were videotaped being beheaded or shot by the ISIS on a Libyan beach were deported from Israel last year after failing to obtain legal status. They were identified by a number of Eritreans detained at the notorious Holot, a desert detention center in
  
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• This Weekend's "Shell No" Rally Focused on People, Not Polar Bears

  27-04-2015 19:04 via thestranger.com
  
  Hundreds of people—one organizer estimated more than a thousand—attended the event. Leaders from Bayan-USA, Got Green, Gabriela Seattle, Greenpeace, Plant for the Planet, and the Tsleil-Waututh Nation delivered speeches before the crowd marched south to Port of Seattle headquarters with big signs and a red kayak full of handwritten messages to port commissioners.Joshua Kelety
  "Stand up in whatever manner you can," University of Washington fossil fuel divestment organizer Sarra Tekola
  
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• PHOTOS: Shooter at high school tackled by teacher

  27-04-2015 18:35
  
  PHOTOS: Shooter at high school tackled by teacher
  
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• The Morning News: Locals Missing on Everest, the End of Medical Marijuana as We Know It, and Obama's Weed Joke

  27-04-2015 17:48 via thestranger.com
  
  The casualties on Mount Everest in the wake of Nepal's earthquake included a few Pacific Northwesterners. Mount Everest / Shutterstock
  A Member of a Seattle-Based Climbing Group: Has died on Mount Everest, along with at least 18 other people.
  A Lumi Island Couple That May Have Been on Mount Everest: Is currently missing. They've been married for 25 years. They haven't been heard from since the ground started rumbling.
  Here's Footage of the Avalanche: From someone at base camp.The Overall Death T
  
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• Teacher who tackled shooter 'thankful' students OK

  27-04-2015 16:42
  
  Gunman at North Thurston High taken down by staff
  
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• Teacher who tackled shooter 'thankful' student, staff OK

  27-04-2015 16:42
  
  Gunman at North Thurston High taken down by staff
  
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• The Koch Brothers Have Become America's Real Third Party

  27-04-2015 16:37 via thestranger.com
  
  Oh, for the days when this was the worst Koch you had to worry about. lev radin / Shutterstock.comGo ahead and register to vote as a Democrat or a Republican, for all the good it'll do you. The only way to really influence an election is to be a Koch, and that's a party you have to be born into.
  A secret Koch brothers memo reveals the brothers are planning to spend $125 million in 2015, preparing for the election. But that's dwarfed by their 2016 budget: $889 million, about equal to what the Dem
  
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• White House Correspondents Association Dinner: Who Was Funnier?

  27-04-2015 16:23 via thestranger.com
  
  President Barack Obama...Comedian Cecily Strong... [ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Man arrested after 56-year-old acquaintance shot, killed inside mobile home

  27-04-2015 16:18
  
  Deputies called to shooting in southeast King County
  
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• Deputies called to shooting in southeast King County

  27-04-2015 16:18
  
  Deputies called to shooting in southeast King County
  
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• 1 dead, 1 arrested in Ravensdale shooting

  27-04-2015 16:18
  
  Deputies called to shooting in southeast King County
  
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• No sign owner intends to claim sailboat abandoned on Mukilteo beach

  27-04-2015 15:50
  
  No sign owner intends to claim sailboat abandoned on Mukilteo beach
  
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• Scam alert: Con artists posing as heating, air conditioning workers

  27-04-2015 14:43
  
  Scam alert: Con artists posing as heating, air conditioning workers
  
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• City Council to vote on plan to clean up Seattle’s U-District

  27-04-2015 14:16
  
  City Council to vote on plan to clean up Seattle’s U-District
  
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• Public meeting to be held on Makah whale hunt

  27-04-2015 13:58
  
  Public meeting to be held on Makah whale hunt
  
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• Local couple missing in Nepal quake zone

  27-04-2015 13:37
  
  Local couple missing in Nepal quake zone
  
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• 2 from Bellingham among those missing in Nepal; relative hears from Seattle hiker’s group

  27-04-2015 10:31
  A couple from Bellingham are among those missing in Nepal after Saturday’s devastating earthquake, family members said Sunday.
  
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• 2 from Seattle, 2 from Bellingham among those missing in Nepal

  27-04-2015 06:21
  Oneman from Seattle and a couple from Bellingham are among those missing in Nepal after Saturday’s devastating earthquake, family members said Sunday.
  
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• Transportation talks roll on as Legislature extends session

  27-04-2015 06:16
  
  Legislators don’t face the same mandate to get a transportation deal done that the Supreme Court’s contempt order puts behind education spending or the threat of government shutdown gives the overall operating budget, but leaders have saidpassing a package is urgent.
  
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• Hearthstone’s rooftop ‘farm’ yields bumper crop of fun

  27-04-2015 06:16
  
  Residents at the Hearthstone retirement home at Seattle’s Green Lake enjoy the changing scene at their imaginary rooftop farm.
  
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• Climbers trapped high on Everest seeking helicopter rescue

  27-04-2015 06:14
  
  Climbers with local ties are stuck on Mount Everest after an avalanche triggered by Nepal’s massive earthquake slammed into a section of their base camp, killing at least 18, including a camp doctor working for a Seattle-based mountaineering company.
  
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• End this pattern: Stop deporting people to places they never lived

  27-04-2015 05:46
  A documentary explores the impact on one man of U.S. deportation policies that prolong the suffering of Cambodian refugee families.
  
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• State lawmakers address sexual violence on campuses

  27-04-2015 05:43
  
  In a bipartisan effort, state lawmakers have passed two bills to better assess and address campus sexual assault.
  
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• Paul Allen bankrolls initiative to ban rare-species trafficking

  27-04-2015 05:24
  
  Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is backing a state initiative that would criminalize trafficking in 10 endangered species, from the elephant to the little-known pangolin.
  
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• Hundreds of local Nepalese gather in Bothell for prayers

  27-04-2015 04:32
  
  Four hundred members of the Seattle area’s Nepalese community gathered at the Hindu Temple and Cultural Center in Bothell on Sunday to pray for those affected by the devastating earthquake.
  
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• Plans to expand U District’s improvement zone raise fears

  27-04-2015 04:24
  
  Proponents of a plan to create a larger business improvement area in Seattle’s University District say raising more money will help locals guide change. But opponents fear the move will speed up gentrification.
  
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• A chance to try on Japanese styles and sounds

  27-04-2015 04:24
  
  Japanese swordsmanship, drumming, origami and kabuki were just a few things on display at Seattle Cherry Blossom and Japanese Cultural Festival at the Seattle Center on Sunday.
  
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• Shouting into the Void in The Water Diviner

  27-04-2015 00:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Noted telephone-thrower Russell Crowe tries directing with The Water Diviner, 2014's highest-grossing movie (in Australia). Joshua, the titular diviner (surprise! he's played by Crowe), is mildly psychic and mourning his three sons who went missing during the Battle of Gallipoli in World War I. After a women-in-refrigerators moment, he goes looking for his children, enlisting the help of Turkish Major Hasan (Yilmaz Erdogan). Along the way, a tentative friendship develops between two men who wou
  
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