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• 71-year-old man confesses to shooting out city hall windows

  03-06-2015 23:28
  
  71-year-old man confesses to shooting out city hall windows
  
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• KEXP Releases Midnight in a Perfect World's June/July Lineup and Host DJ Alex Rates the Best Sets So Far

  03-06-2015 23:24 via thestranger.com
  
  Zola Jesus has delivered the most distinctive and intense Midnight in a Perfect World set to date, says host DJ Alex. Jeff Elstone
  KEXP has announced the next wave of guest DJs for its Friday night program Midnight in a Perfect World; it includes the Wedding Present's David Gedge, UK electronic-pop artist East India Youth, Seattle dream-pop unit Craft Spells, Ghostly International beatmaker Michna, and Warp Records' arty post-punk phenom LoneLady.After the jump, check out the full June/July line
  
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• The Silent-Reading Party Is Tonight! With Live Music from 6 pm to 8 pm

  03-06-2015 23:00 via thestranger.com
  
  It's that time of the month again. Have a seat.
  It's the first Wednesday of the month. You know what that means. If you don't know what the reading party is, start here. If you don't know how to read and would rather listen to a radio show explaining the reading party, you can do that right here.Tonight on piano is the one and only Paul Matthew Moore at 6 pm. I'm bringing The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark, which I've never read. And you? What will you be reading?[ Comment on this sto
  
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• Sandwiches and Doughnuts for Ballard and Capitol Hill, Plus Albanian Pastries and the End of Cafe Juanita's Pop-Up

  03-06-2015 20:58 via thestranger.com
  
  Rodeo Donut is bringing brioche doughnuts to Cupcake Royale on Capitol Hill starting Friday, June 5.Rodeo Donut
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  Un Bien, a Caribbean sandwich shop, is opening its doors in Ballard today. According to Eater Seattle, it's owned by Julian and Lucas Lorenzo, the sons of the original Paseo owner, Lorenzo Lorenzo, who closed both the Fremont and Ballard locations abruptly last fall and filed for bankruptcy. While Lorenzo senior isn't officially involved in the business, Un Bien will serve Car
  
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• Are State Republicans Addicted to Marijuana?

  03-06-2015 20:41 via thestranger.com
  
  Rep Reuven Carlyle accuses Republicans in the state senate of reckless over-reliance on pot taxes to fill out their proposed budget. (This illustration is a little misleading since we don't even know if there will be much money to grab out of the till.)Robert Ullman
  Rep. Rueven Carlyle has a theory about why the Republican-controlled Senate and Democrat-controlled House of Representatives continue to fail at finding a budget both can agree on: State Republicans are addicted to marijuana.
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• Geico Advertises Cheap Car Insurance in the Sky Above Shell's Polar Pioneer Drill Rig

  03-06-2015 20:13 via thestranger.com
  
  Cars stuck in traffic, a US flag in the blurry distance, an Arctic drilling platform, and a plane advertising cheap car insurance. Charles Mudede
  If you are wondering about the how and the why of banner-towing planes, as I did while walking on Beacon Hill a few days ago, they are regulated by the Federal Aviation Administration. "The FAA has jurisdiction over all US, even airspace over municipalities," said FAA spokesperson Allen Kenitzer when I asked him if Seattle had the power to ban planes f
  
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• State Patrol vehicle struck in hit-and-run

  03-06-2015 19:59
  
  State Patrol vehicle struck in hit-and-run
  
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• Police investigating arson, suspicious substance at Capitol Hill school

  03-06-2015 18:58
  
  Police investigating arson, suspicious substance at Capitol Hill school
  
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• Chemicals found outside gender-neutral restroom after Capitol Hill school arson

  03-06-2015 18:58
  Police investigating arson, suspicious substance at Capitol Hill school
  
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• Tacoma to purchase 122-year-old Old City Hall for $4M

  03-06-2015 18:17
  
  City of Tacoma to purchase 122-year-old building for $4M
  
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• Morning News: Investors from Hong Kong Plan to Buy Seattle's Tallest Building, Environmentalists Sue Feds Over Shell Oil's Arctic Drilling Plans

  03-06-2015 17:55 via thestranger.com
  
  Have you been to the Starbucks on the fortieth floor? It's aite. Joseph Stohm/Shutterstock
  Hong Kong Investors to Buy Seattle's Tallest Building: "An investment group led by Hong Kong-based Gaw Capital Partners has a deal to acquire Seattle’s tallest skyscraper," Sanjay Bhatt reports, "a sign that Seattle has joined San Francisco and Los Angeles as a key gateway market for Asia’s institutional investors."
  Complaints to the SPD's Misconduct Investigators Are Way Up: That's being attri
  
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• Morning News: Investors from Hong Kong Plan to Buy Seattle's Tallest Building, Enviromentalists Sue Feds Over Shell Oil's Arctic Drilling Plans

  03-06-2015 17:55 via thestranger.com
  
  Have you been to the Starbucks on the forteith floor? It's aite. Joseph Stohm/Shutterstock
  Hong Kong Investors to Buy Seattle's Tallest Building: "An investment group led by Hong Kong-based Gaw Capital Partners has a deal to acquire Seattle’s tallest skyscraper," Sanjay Bhatt reports, "a sign that Seattle has joined San Francisco and Los Angeles as a key gateway market for Asia’s institutional investors."
  Complaints to the SPD's Misconduct Investigators Are Way Up: That's being attri
  
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• Scott Walker Knows Best How Women Feel About Being Forced to Give Birth to Their Rapist's Baby

  03-06-2015 17:35 via thestranger.com
  
  They don't feel great about it—but only for the first few months of the pregnancy. Then, like morning sickness, that icky feeling passes. TPM:
  Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) said Monday that he’d be willing to sign a 20-week abortion ban without exceptions for rape or incest, adding that women were mostly concerned about those issues "in the initial months" of pregnancy, television station WKOW reported. “I mean, I think for most people who are concerned about that, it’s
  
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• Marine looking for retired military dog missing from Tacoma

  03-06-2015 15:33
  
  Marine looking for retired military dog missing from Tacoma
  
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• Sale of Columbia Center could mean higher downtown Seattle rents

  03-06-2015 15:11
  
  Sale of Columbia Center could mean higher downtown Seattle rents
  
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• Deadly Weather, Stabby Swordfish, and the GOP's Molestation Problem

  03-06-2015 14:32 via thestranger.com
  
  Fatal impaler.
  MONDAY, MAY 25 This week of defensive swordfish, lousy cinema, and widespread deadly weather kicked off in Turkey, where a Muslim televangelist ascended to religious-kook superstardom by asserting that men who masturbate will wind up with pregnant hands. Details come from Hurriyet Daily News, which identifies our handy televangelist as Mücahid Cihad Han, who was fielding viewers' questions during a broadcast yesterday when a male caller asked about the propriety of masturbati
  
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• The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq Is Stranger Than Fiction

  03-06-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq Is Stranger Than Fictionby Kathy FennessyMichel Houellebecq, a literary provocateur known for making indelicate statements about Islam, plays himself in Guillaume Nicloux’s improvised imagining of a rumored 2011 kidnapping.In the film’s early stages, Michel wanders around Paris with a Deputy Dawg expression, cigarette dangling from his lips as he hobnobs with friends and relatives (The Mother and the Whore's François Lebrun plays his sister). One day, th
  
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• Results Is Mumblecore for Gym Rats

  03-06-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Results Is Mumblecore for Gym Ratsby Alison HallettResults looks, for a minute like another entry in Hollywood's ever-expanding catalog of schlumpy white guy wish-fulfillment films. When flinty bombshell Kat (Cobie Smulders) is hired as a personal trainer by miserable millionaire Danny (Kevin Corrigan), the immutable laws of heaven dictate that these two sad sacks, physical opposites though they are, will find unlikely respite in each other's arms. And they do, for a minute—a minute that a
  
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• La Sapienza Is Original and Elegant

  03-06-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  La Sapienza Is Original and Elegantby Charles MudedeSwiss-born architect Alexandre Schmidt (Fabrizio Rongione) has reached a peak in his career. He has some amount of fame and big plans for a new direction in design. He wants to make buildings for an age of climate change; he is going to challenge himself and the system.But he and his wife, Aliénor (Chistelle Prod Landman), a sociologist and humanitarian, are utterly soulless people. They have everything, but the core of their marriage is empty
  
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• Bully's Alicia Bognanno on the Hard Work of Keeping Things Simple

  03-06-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Bully's Alicia Bognanno on the Hard Work of Keeping Things Simpleby Trent MoormanAlicia Bognanno occasionally wonders if people will think she's a mess, but takes comfort in knowing everyone goes through their own shit. The singer/guitarist/producer puts herself out there with raw lyrics and garage-rock sounds. Also, she's got balls. For Bully's debut album, Feels Like (out June 23), the four-piece recorded live at Steve Albini's Electrical Audio in Chicago, doing as few takes as possible. That'
  
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• A Douche of Humanity

  03-06-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Entourage: Binge Watching for the Moviegoerby Wm. Steven HumphreyHBO'S FORMER SERIES Entourage gets a bit of a bum rap as a show by, for, and populated with douchebags. Originally created by Mark "Marky Mark" Wahlberg (douchebag), Entourage was inspired by his non-famous homeboys (douchebags) and their (douchebaggy) Hollywood adventures.The series—which ran for eight seasons, from 2004 to 2011—revolved around A-list star Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier), his best buddy/manager Eric (Ke
  
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• Centralia man says he was attacked with sledgehammer over rap music

  03-06-2015 03:59
  
  Centralia man arrested in sledgehammer attack
  
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• Comcast: Customers who lost service may get credit

  03-06-2015 02:50
  
  Comcast: Customers who lost service may get credit
  
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• Why Is Herring So Hard to Find?

  03-06-2015 02:35 via thestranger.com
  
  A Movement Is Under Way to Bring Back Herring—Once a Staple of the Seattle Diet and Plentiful in Puget Soundby Tobias Coughlin-BogueWhen Lexi, who owns Old Ballard Liquor Co. and goes by only her first name, was a kid growing up in the 1970s, herring was abundant in Seattle. She remembers when you could pull it out of Puget Sound yourself and grill it over a beach fire. But when she tried to find fresh herring to serve at her Nordic-inspired pop-up restaurant, Tumble Swede, earlier this ye
  
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• What Seattle Will Look Like After 2050 If We Don't Get Real About Climate Change

  03-06-2015 02:35 via thestranger.com
  
  What Seattle Will Look Like After 2050 If We Don't Get Real About Climate Changeby Sydney BrownstoneThe environmental science I studied in college kept me up at night. As a journalist covering an enormous and mystifying Arctic oil-drilling rig sitting next to Elliott Bay years later, I'm now taking notes on how other people are thinking about climate change, talking about the future of energy production and global emissions, and making their voices heard in public, too.Months of following the lo
  
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• Though He Keeps His Shirt On in San Andreas, Dwayne Johnson Is Still The Rock to Me

  03-06-2015 02:35 via thestranger.com
  
  Though He Keeps His Shirt On in San Andreas, Dwayne Johnson Is Still The Rock to Meby Ijeoma OluoSan Andreas is an amazing movie. Shut up. I'm serious. It's fucking amazing. Before you try to argue with me, let me say two words: The Rock. Dwayne Johnson, aka "The Rock," aka "Bronzed God of Dimples and the People's Eyebrow," is San Andreas. This could be the end of my review, as I've said everything that needs to be said about this film. But I'm paid by the word.When you tell friends that you are
  
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• The New Anthology Please Excuse This Poem Seeks a New Audience for Contemporary Poetry. No Excuses Necessary.

  03-06-2015 02:35 via thestranger.com
  
  The New Anthology Please Excuse This Poem Seeks a New Audience for Contemporary Poetry. No Excuses Necessary.by Alex Gallo-BrownThe paradox of contemporary American poetry is well documented: More people than ever before are writing, workshopping, and publishing poetry—and almost no one is reading it. To be an accomplished poet in 2015 must feel a little like having mastered the erhu or the banjolele, an archaic musical instrument that most of society has forgotten exists.A new anthology,
  
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• The Ford House Was a Very, Very, Very Strange House—Seattle Artist Leo Saul Berk Has a New Show About Living There

  03-06-2015 02:35 via thestranger.com
  
  The Ford House Was a Very, Very, Very Strange House—Seattle Artist Leo Saul Berk Has a New Show All About Itby Jen GravesThe Berk family moved to Aurora, Illinois, in the winter of 1980. It was 10 degrees and the only heating in the house was under the floor, so that's where the family slept, camped out in the living room. Six-year-old Leo Saul Berk went to sleep with one idea of what a house was and woke up with another. Now it's 35 years later, and Berk is a Seattle artist, and he says t
  
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• Stranglers Founder and Solo Artist Hugh Cornwell Remembers His Late Drummer and Friend Darius Minwalla

  03-06-2015 02:35 via thestranger.com
  
  Stranglers Founder and Solo Artist Hugh Cornwell Remembers His Late Drummer and Friend Darius Minwallaby Sean NelsonOn May 20, Darius Minwalla, drummer for the Posies and longtime fixture of the local music community, died suddenly at his home in Vancouver, BC. Two days later, news of his death hit Seattle music like an earthquake. The simile isn't meant to overstate the magnitude of loss felt by those who knew and loved him—significant though it was—but to convey the disorientation
  
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• Seattle Finally Hired Someone to Enforce Its New Minimum-Wage Law

  03-06-2015 02:35 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle Finally Hired Someone to Enforce Its New Minimum-Wage Lawby Heidi GrooverIt's been more than two months since Seattle's minimum wage bumped up to $11 an hour, the first step in a staggered series of increases that will have every employee in the city making at least $15 by 2021.And on June 22—which will be nearly three months since the city's minimum wage started rising—the new city department that's supposed to make sure workers actually get paid these new higher wages will
  
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• Paul Feig's Spy Is So Good, I Don't Know Where to Start

  03-06-2015 02:35 via thestranger.com
  
  Paul Feig's Spy Is So Good, I Don't Know Where to Startby Christopher FrizzelleOkay, this promotional photo. It's stupid, and it's part of the problem. Movies about fat people, of which there are like three, ever, often come with imagery like this—hey everyone, look at the dopey, stuck, hated fat person! Because fat people, right? No matter that she is Melissa McCarthy, Hollywood's Resident Tolerated Fat Person. The three other people in the photo are like, "Oh god, if that fat person woul
  
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• None of the 2016 Republican Presidential Candidates Care Much About Climate Change

  03-06-2015 02:35 via thestranger.com
  
  Why aren’t presidential candidates talking about climate change? What could force them to?by Matt BaumeLast week, President Obama asked Twitter users to send him questions about climate change, and Twitter users were happy to oblige. Some needled him about his support for Arctic oil drilling, others complained about climate-change deniers, and one asked him to deal with student-loan debt instead. He did his best to keep up, explaining that Arctic oil drilling is happening whether we like it or
  
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• Harmony Tividad and Cleo Tucker Approach Adulthood on Girlpool's Debut Album, Before the World Was Big

  03-06-2015 02:35 via thestranger.com
  
  Harmony Tividad and Cleo Tucker Approach Adulthood on Girlpool's Debut Album, Before the World Was Bigby Lindsay HoodLast month, when Waxahatchee rolled through town, I was just as excited to watch opener Girlpool as I was to see Katie Crutchfield play "Under a Rock" live. After releasing their self-titled EP via Wichita last fall, Girlpool decamped from their native Los Angeles and moved to Philadelphia—where they worked on their debut album with Kyle Gilbride of Swearin'. Turns out, noth
  
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• Don't Let Cannibalism, Gore, and Psychological Violence Stand Between You and Hannibal, the Most Transgressive Show on TV

  03-06-2015 02:35 via thestranger.com
  
  Don't Let Cannibalism, Gore, and Psychological Violence Stand Between You and Hannibal, the Most Transgressive Show on TVby Maggie SerotaThere are a million reasons why someone would bypass the show Hannibal entirely without giving it a sliver of a chance. For starters, we've already seen the whole serial-killer-hiding-in-plain-sight theme on Dexter, a show that subjected us to the laughable premise of the serial killer we could root for because he kills only the people who really deserve it. Ne
  
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• Bully's Alicia Bognanno Can Be a Mess, but She's Got Balls

  03-06-2015 02:35 via thestranger.com
  
  The Rawer the Better for Bully's Alicia Bognannoby Trent MoormanAlicia Bognanno occasionally wonders if people will think she's a mess, but takes comfort in knowing everyone goes through their own shit. The singer/guitarist/producer puts herself out there with raw lyrics and garage-rock sounds. Also, she's got balls. For Bully's debut album, Feels Like (out June 23), the four-piece recorded live at Steve Albini's Electrical Audio in Chicago, doing as few takes as possible. That's Bognanno, drumm
  
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• The Entourage "Honest" Trailer

  03-06-2015 02:25 via thestranger.com
  
  As the internet begins to sharpen their knives in anticipation of the Entourage movie (my review comes out tomorrow, but here's a preview: "That shit doesn't FLY anymore, BROS"), the makers of "Honest Trailers" present to us this BLISTERING takedown of the series. OUCH and ENJOY! [ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Five Big New Hires at the UW Art School

  03-06-2015 01:41 via thestranger.com
  
  Michael Swaine mends things. He's the new Akio Takamori at UW.
  The students who begin art school at the University of Washington next year will find themselves in a changed program. Today, UW announced five new faculty hires, in photomedia, sculpture (called "3D4M"), art history, industrial design, and human-computer interaction design. At least three of the positions replace longtime professors whose presences shaped what it meant to get an education in art at UW: Akio Takamori, Paul Berger, an
  
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• SL Letter of the Day: A Question about Caitlyn Jenner

  03-06-2015 00:50 via thestranger.com
  
  A big congrats to Caitlyn Jenner on her big reveal and lovely Vanity Fair cover!
  Now to the reason I'm writing: I am having a crisis of conscience. On one hand, I absolutely support a person's right to be whoever the heck they want to be. If you feel like you want to wear "women's" clothing and makeup and hair? You look fabulous! You want to carry a pillow person around and be "married" to said pillow? Congrats on your nuptials! You want to buy dolls that look creepily real and walk them around
  
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• In Music News: Drake Joins Apple Music Service, Australia Discovers Courtney Barnett, Mark Kozelek Mouths Off (Again)

  03-06-2015 00:10 via thestranger.com
  
  No need to look in the mail for that Apple money. DFree / Shutterstock.com
  • Yesterday, Billboard reported that Drake has signed on to be part of Apple's new music service. (Rumor has it an announcement about the service will be made at the Worldwide Developer's Conference next week.) According to the article, Drake was originally supposed to one of the 16 artist partners in TIDAL, but he bailed on Jay-Z two days before that nightmare of a press conference.In all fairness, Drake appears to
  
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