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• District Date: Riding Bikes With Mike O'Brien + Standing on a Street Corner with His Challenger!

  04-06-2015 23:29 via thestranger.com
  
  For this first-ever "District Date," Stranger food writer Angela Garbes and I got lunch with Mike O'Brien at Drunky's Two Shoe BBQ in city council District 6. It was only OK. Kelly O
  Hey, welcome to this new thing we’re doing! We’re calling it “District Date.” I know that name is a little girl-reporter-ish, but we can’t think of anything better to call it and, to be honest, talking about city politics is something I wish happened on more of the actual dates I go on.
  
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• District Date: Riding Bikes With Mike O'Brien Plus Standing on a Street Corner with His Challenger!

  04-06-2015 23:29 via thestranger.com
  
  For this first-ever "District Date," Stranger food writer Angela Garbes and I got lunch with Mike O'Brien at Drunky's Two Shoe BBQ in Seattle City Council District 6. It was only OK. Kelly O
  Hey, welcome to this new thing we’re doing! We’re calling it “District Date.” I know that name is a little girl-reporter-ish, but we can’t think of anything better to call it, and, to be honest, talking about city politics is something I wish happened on more of the actual dates
  
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• City to Close Streets in Pike/Pine Nightlife Zone

  04-06-2015 23:02 via thestranger.com
  
  It's an experiment and, because this is Seattle, we're going to do this incrementally and at great expense. Capitol Hill Seattle:
  The Capitol Hill Eco District is planning to test out one or more pedestrian-only street closures in Pike/Pine this August to improve safety and possibly bring some of the area’s food and music activity to the street. The trial run could lead to regularly occurring pedestrian zones by next year, according to Eco District senior planner Alex Brennan. “We re
  
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• Kinski's Chris Martin on Rock, Strip-Club Paranoia, Tool, and Penis Size

  04-06-2015 22:57 via thestranger.com
  
  Kinski circa 2015: Now tighter, harder, and faster.
  Imagine a rocket orbiting Earth in ever tighter and faster spirals. This is the story of Seattle rock mainstays Kinski since they started up in 1998. Their new album 7 (or 8), via Kill Rock Stars, represents the culmination of a catalog that started in deep space (see past albums SpaceLaunch for Frenchie, Be Gentle with the Warm Turtle, and Airs Above Your Station) before gradually descending closer to terra firma. They’ve been muscling u
  
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• PHOTOS: Most wanted sex offenders in Washington (updated June 4)

  04-06-2015 22:13
  
  PHOTOS: Most wanted sex offenders in Washington (updated June 4)
  
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• Shoreline vehicle search reveals hoard of drugs, cash

  04-06-2015 20:53
  
  Shoreline vehicle search reveals hoard of drugs, cash
  
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• Wig-wearing bathroom photographer charged with voyeurism

  04-06-2015 20:02
  
  Wig-wearing bathroom photographer charged with voyeurism
  
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• Slog Poll: Should I Go Fly Drones with the Drone Bros?

  04-06-2015 19:47 via thestranger.com
  
  What, you don't want me flying this over your head? Tyler Olson/Shutterstock
  Last week, I complained (A LOT) about how annoyed I was by drones—specifically, drones that had interrupted my otherwise peaceful picnic at Magnuson Park. Well, one of the alleged drone bros I wrote about sent me an email, inviting me to go fly drones with him and his posse at the park. (Bro-Droning? Broning?) Keeping in mind the fact that flying drones in Seattle parks is illegal, do you think I should go with hi
  
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• You Know the Central District Has Gentrified When Polite Drug Dealers Have Been Replaced with Obnoxious Dog Owners

  04-06-2015 19:12 via thestranger.com
  
  Andre Helmstetter has witnessed a lot of change in the CD since 1998. He says "dog owners that have taken over the hood" and they are "self righteous, rude, and uncivil." He's a dog owner himself. AshaAung Helmstetter
  Andre Helmstetter has lived in the Central District since 1998. He used to operate a small business in the neighborhood, Cafe Vega at 19th Avenue and East Yesler Way (it's now Broadcast Coffee), for two years, between 2006 and 2008. As everyone knows, in the '90s, the CD was transi
  
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• You Know the Central District Has Gentrified When Polite Drug Dealers Have Been Replaced by Obnoxious Dog Owners

  04-06-2015 19:12 via thestranger.com
  
  Andre Helmstetter has witnessed a lot of change in the CD since 1998. He says "dog owners that have taken over the hood" and they are "self righteous, rude, and uncivil." He's a dog owner himself. AshaAung Helmstetter
  Andre Helmstetter has lived in the Central District since 1998. He used to operate a small business in the neighborhood, Cafe Vega at 19th Avenue and East Yesler Way (it's now Broadcast Coffee), for two years, between 2006 and 2008. As everyone knows, in the '90s, the CD was transi
  
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• Why Aren’t Presidential Candidates Talking About Climate Change? What Could Force Them to?

  04-06-2015 19:03 via thestranger.com
  
  “Companies shouldn’t cave in to the demands of climate-change scientists,” says presidential contender Carly Fiorina.SCOTT OLSON / GETTY IMAGES
  Last 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 th
  
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• Megyn Kelly Interviews Ma and Pa Duggar

  04-06-2015 17:57 via thestranger.com
  
  Josh was "just curious about girls." No big deal. Nothing to see here. Not rape or anything like that. Lots of Ma and Pa Duggar's friends tell 'em the same thing goes on in their god-fearin', home-schoolin', kid-diddlin' families. Parents aren't mandatory reporters so back the fuck off, America. And the real criminal is the person who leaked the information. Take it away, Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian...
  It's so disgusting that pandering @megynkelly in #DuggarInterview asks facili
  
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• Firefighters rescue ducklings from Snohomish storm drain

  04-06-2015 17:52
  
  Firefighters rescue ducklings from Snohomish storm drain
  
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• The Morning News: Shell's Oil Rig Gets a Hearing, Seattle Startups Dominated by Men, Whooping Cough Cases on the Rise

  04-06-2015 17:30 via thestranger.com
  
  The Polar Pioneer is expected to leave the Port of Seattle sometime this month, well before a hearing will determine whether it was okay for it to be there in the first place. Alex Garland
  Shell’s Arctic Drilling Rig Hearing Scheduled for July 23: The Port of Seattle and Foss Maritime finally have a date for their hearing to appeal the city’s determination that the port’s land-use permit isn’t in compliance with its ability to host Shell’s Polar Pioneer. The city ha
  
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• The Morning News: Shell's Oil Rig Gets a Hearing, Seattle Start-Ups Dominated by Men, Whooping Cough Cases on the Rise

  04-06-2015 17:30 via thestranger.com
  
  The Polar Pioneer is expected to leave the Port of Seattle sometime this month, well before a hearing will determine whether it was okay for it to be there in the first place. Alex Garland
  Shell’s Arctic Drilling Rig Hearing Scheduled for July 23: The Port of Seattle and Foss Maritime finally have a date for their hearing to appeal the city’s determination that the port’s land-use permit isn’t in compliance with its ability to host Shell’s Polar Pioneer. The city ha
  
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• Puyallup motorcyclist hit by train escapes major injuries

  04-06-2015 17:17
  
  Puyallup motorcyclist hit by train escapes major injuries
  
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• Though local home prices up, down payments getting smaller

  04-06-2015 16:38
  
  Though local home prices up, down payments getting smaller
  
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• Sightline Institute: Pacific Northwest Could Become "Speed Bump on a Fossil Fuel Highway to Asia"

  04-06-2015 15:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Washington's expanding crude-by-rail infrastructure.
  Environmentalists say that the Pacific Northwest is staring down a future of radical transformation. They're not specifically talking about climate change, though that's also a radical transformation we're currently staring down. They're talking about the industries that contribute to climate change, and how they increasingly want to use this state as a thruway.
  The Sierra Club, Washington Environmental Council, and Climate Solutions hosted a
  
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• Suspicious house fire under investigation in Bothell

  04-06-2015 13:51
  
  Suspicious house fire under investigation in Bothell
  
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• Body found inside home after Bothell fire

  04-06-2015 13:51
  
  Suspicious house fire under investigation in Bothell
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: The Offering

  04-06-2015 02:56 via thestranger.com
  
  I'm a 22-year-old bisexual female. I have had a flirty relationship with a close family friend for awhile now. He is 24. The closest we have ever come to fucking was on a family vacation a few years back, but I didn't go through with it because of the guilt of my conservative Christian upbringing. I'm no longer a Christian and have gotten past all the bullshit I was taught. Now I really want to fuck this guy but he is in a relationship—an on-again, off-again monogamous one. I realize there
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Offerings

  04-06-2015 02:56 via thestranger.com
  
  I'm a 22-year-old bisexual female. I have had a flirty relationship with a close family friend for awhile now. He is 24. The closest we have ever come to fucking was on a family vacation a few years back, but I didn't go through with it because of the guilt of my conservative Christian upbringing. I'm no longer a Christian and have gotten past all the bullshit I was taught. Now I really want to fuck this guy but he is in a relationship—an on-again, off-again monogamous one. I realize there
  
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• Free Will Astrology for the Week of June 3

  04-06-2015 02:08 via thestranger.com
  
  FESTA/Shutterstock
  ARIES (March 21–April 19): The Persian scholar Avicenna was so well-rounded in his knowledge that he wrote two different encyclopedias. Even as a teenager, he was obsessed with learning all he could. He got especially consumed with trying to master Aristotle's Metaphysics, which did not easily yield its secrets to him. He read it 40 times, memorizing every word. When he finally understood it, he was so excited that he celebrated by giving out money and gifts to destitut
  
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• 10 Frames: A Selection of Shots from Train Car House Party's Gemini BDay Jam at Orient Express

  04-06-2015 01:35 via thestranger.com
  
  Trinity aka Trinitron celebrating her birthday at TCHP—one of about a zillion parties she enjoyed as part of her "birthday tour." Brooklyn Benjestorf
  Jacinthe gets down on one of Trinity's birthday cupcakes. Brooklyn Benjestorf
  Anthony Toledo slays on the decks. Unfortunately Seattle will be losing Anthony to Boston in late summer/early fall, so go see him play while you still can! Brooklyn BenjestorfA dancer loses his mind because the vibes are just that tight.Brooklyn Benjestorf
  One of m
  
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• The High List: Yes to Equal Rights, No to Shrimp Chips

  04-06-2015 01:20 via thestranger.com
  
  Weeed
  Black Box Festival
  ART Through June 7, various locations
  Black Box—the art, film, and technology festival—features works from more than 70 ultratalented international artists and is free and open to the public! I spent, oh, I don't know, four hours (seven hours? Forty minutes? Who could know?) having my brain melted by the Fullscreen portion of Black Box—the online program that features one new work per day on the home page. Get to it…
  
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• A Short Film In Which I Play a Funeral Director: "Remains"

  04-06-2015 00:46 via thestranger.com
  
  remains from Nathan M. Miller on Vimeo.Directed by Nathan M. Miller, produced by Humpday's Alycia Delmore and 2015 Genius nominee for film Mel Eslyn, "Remains," a sad litte beauty of a film, stars Matt Dy and was shot in late 2013.As for the funeral director in the movie...This is what a funeral director looks like. Nathan Miller[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• I Love TV: Hannibal the Cannibal

  04-06-2015 00:04 via thestranger.com
  
  Wait... what? Your name is Hannibal... the cannibal?Here's a public-service reminder that your name shouldn't rhyme with what you do for a living. For example: the titular character in NBC's Hannibal... who's a cannibal! Now, this is an entirely awesome show, and I'll tell you much more about it in a minute—but this "rhyming" thing has got to be addressed! It's never a good idea to rhyme your name with who you are—for the same reason you don't pair floral shirts and pants, dye your h
  
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