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• Police Reports Illustrated: Seeking Change in Downtown Seattle

  05-06-2015 23:58 via thestranger.com
  
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• ShellNo Protesters Are Back at the Port; Port Continues Business as Usual

  05-06-2015 23:17 via thestranger.com
  
  ShellNo protesters blocking a Marginal Way spur to the Port of Seattle early this morning.Charles Conatzer
  Last month brought a flotilla of kayaks, a block party at the Port of Seattle's Terminal 5, and an activist's 63-hour stay on the Arctic Challenger, all in an effort to stop Shell from drilling in the Arctic this summer. This morning, the protests continued as a group of ShellNo protesters marched back to the nexus of highways servicing the port and attempted to block traffic for a couple o
  
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• That Time Jon Batiste, Colbert's New Bandleader, Stopped by The Stranger Offices

  05-06-2015 23:11 via thestranger.com
  
  Congratulations to young New Orleans jazz maestro Jon Batiste, who has been named the bandleader for CBS's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, which will begin airing September 8. Though the Stranger was not consulted about this decision directly (unless Fearless Leader has something he'd like to share with the rest of the class), our approval was tacit, based on the time in October, 2013 when Mr. Batiste and his band enlivened our humble offices with an impromptu performance before a show at t
  
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• Savage Love: The Affairs

  05-06-2015 23:10 via thestranger.com
  
  I'm a 35-year-old divorced man. I've been on plenty of dates since my marriage ended, but I invariably get asked this question on or before date #2: "Why did you get divorced?" This is where everything goes to shit. I'm honest: "We got divorced because I cheated on my wife. A lot." This usually catches my date off guard because I'm "not the kind of guy I'd have thought could do that." But I can hardly get past date #2 after this, because this information is "too much to handle." Sometimes my da
  
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• Bank Customer Alleges She Was Refused Access to Her Account Because She's a Trans Woman

  05-06-2015 22:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Lizzi Duff at Westlake Park. bk
  Last November, People's Bank customer Lizzi Duff called to check her balance. "I'm low-income," she says. "I have a habit of checking my balance to make sure I don't overdraw." But on that day, Duff says, the bank employee on the other end of the line refused to give her information about her account—even after answering a series of security questions—because she didn't sound like a woman.
  "She said, 'I talked to my manager and I can't give you the acc
  
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• SPU Shooting victims remembered on one-year anniversary

  05-06-2015 22:21
  
  SPU Shooting victims remembered on one-year anniversary
  
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• Wait, Are We Hippies Now? AMMA "The Hugging Saint" at XFINITY Arena

  05-06-2015 22:15 via thestranger.com
  
  We drove up to Everett last Sunday because, hey, FREE HUGS! Kelly O
  Words by Trent Moorman, photos Kelly O
  Last Sunday the renowned humanitarian and spiritual leader, AMMA, was at Everett’s XFINITY Arena giving hugs and “darshan.” Her real name is Mata Amritanandamayi, and she is known as the Hugging Saint. She will hug anyone that wants a hug. In the past 40 years, AMMA has physically hugged over 34 million people. For the six hours Kelly O and I were there waiting to hug her,
  
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• New Music from Chance the Rapper and Sax G

  05-06-2015 21:46 via thestranger.com
  
  Check out Chance the Rapper's new release, Surf.
  Last week, gifted Chicago oddball Chance the Rapper—who saw his profile skyrocket after the release of 2013's Acid Rap—released his anxiously awaited follow-up, Surf, for free on iTunes. Given that the album is actually credited to Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment, it's not just another rap tape from Chance. He and his bandmates have extrapolated Acid Rap's broader instincts (with dashes of BK's Phony Ppl and To Pimp a Butter
  
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• Etymology of the Day (With a Potentially Life-Altering Poll!): Augury

  05-06-2015 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  A possible omen on my way to work this morning. Seems like a bad one, doesn't it? bk
  On my way to work this morning, I saw a dead bird. And I would like to know what it means.
  There are two main theories about where the word "augury," meaning divination via bird-related matters—eating, flying, shape of guts in—comes from. One holds that the word is descended from the Old Latin augos, or "increase," related to the word "augment." As in, the ancient priests would fiddle around with bir
  
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• Gunshots exchanged during Thurston County road rage incident

  05-06-2015 21:14
  
  Gunshots exchanged during Thurston County road rage incident
  
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• Watch Hillary Clinton Talk about Voting Rights and a "Phantom Epidemic of Election Fraud"

  05-06-2015 21:08 via thestranger.com
  
  Wow, this is so good. I don't think I've ever seen someone articulate so well the evil perpetuated in places that make it as hard as possible to vote.I would recommend skipping ahead about 20 minutes, because there are several introductions and performances and that come before Hillary gets to speak. (Aside: Can you imagine the amount of politely clapping and smiling and clapping and smiling and being polite and clapping and smiling you have to do to run for office? My heart goes out to her at
  
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• Where to Get Frozen Treats (Including Free Japanese Shave Ice!) Now That It's Hot Out

  05-06-2015 21:05 via thestranger.com
  
  You should probably have ice cream on every one of these days
  Have you seen the weather forecast? At least eight straight days of hot, sunny weather are ahead of us. Because I care, here is a week's worth of delicious, sweet, frozen treats to help you cool off.• Samurai Noodle in the University District has just started serving kaki gori (Japanese shave ice), created by their "house mochi master" Ryuichi Maruoka. And they're celebrating by giving away free samples today, Friday, June 5. Sa
  
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• The Ford House Was a Very, Very, Very Strange House—Seattle Artist Leo Saul Berk Has a New Show All About It

  05-06-2015 20:04 via thestranger.com
  
  Leo Saul Berk's Structure and Ornament: Precisionism. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST / PHOTO BY MARK WOODS
  The 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 the house is what made him in
  
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• Disney Laid Off American Workers and Forced Them to Train Their Indian Replacements

  05-06-2015 19:13 via thestranger.com
  
  Disney is not the happiest place for American workers.Katherine Welles/Shutterstock
  Let's leave for a moment the sunny economic news in May's jobs report (an impressive 280,000 jobs were added last month) and enter the shadows of a disturbing story that recently appeared in The New York Times. The reporter, Julia Preston, explains that around 250 American tech workers employed by Walt Disney World were laid off and immediately replaced by cheaper ones from India.To add lots of salt to injury, Di
  
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• Why Would a Museum with a $1B Endowment Cut Staff Health Care Benefits? Inside the Ongoing MoMA Labor Dispute

  05-06-2015 18:44 via thestranger.com
  
  A protest poster created by the design staff at the Museum of Modern Art, using the museum's own font and color scheme.
  "Let's try my office," Emily Hall says to me. "With the door closed." Her office is at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where she works as an editor of exhibition catalogs. She and more than 100 of her colleagues spent Tuesday night just outside the museum, in the rain, to protest the museum's attempt to cut staffers' health care benefits—not long after the behemoth
  
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• Rick Perry Is Running for President

  05-06-2015 18:26 via thestranger.com
  
  International Business Times:
  Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry launched his second bid for the White House Thursday, striking a tone of optimism about the future and calling for new leadership. He focused his ire on President Barack Obama—avoiding criticizing fellow Republican hopefuls or even taking a full swing at Hillary Clinton, as most GOP candidates have done. "The reason I’m running for president is I know for certain our country's best days lie ahead," Perry said. "There is nothi
  
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• Mayor, police react to cop killer's conviction

  05-06-2015 18:14
  
  Chris Monfort convicted of 2009 shooting death of Seattle police officer Timothy Brenton
  
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• The Morning News: A Seawall Stench, a Gender First, and Some Parking Advice

  05-06-2015 17:44 via thestranger.com
  
  The downtown seawall project: Source of a stench? SEATTLE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
  Seawall Stench? "It's described as anything from a pungent sulphur odor to the aroma of sewage," KOMO reports. "Some say the unpleasant odors emerged once construction started. They acknowledge it's not noticeable every day. But they suspect it's coming from the construction site."
  Money, Gender, Power, and the Sweet 'n' Sour: We talk about it all on this week's Blabbermouth podcast. Dylan Orr, the man just pi
  
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• Orca whale built to scare away sea lions flips, takes on water

  05-06-2015 16:56
  
  Orca whale built to scare away sea lions flips, takes on water
  
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• Naked bicyclists to take to the streets in Bellingham

  05-06-2015 16:16
  
  Naked bicyclists to take to the streets in Bellingham
  
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• SIFF NOTES 2015: Home Stretchin’—The Road Warrior Screening Added! The Harvard Exit’s Final Curtain! The Overnight!

  05-06-2015 15:16 via thestranger.com
  
  The Road Warrior, starring the prelapsarian Mel Gibson, will screen Sun June 7 at 8pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
  By now we've all heard so much wild-eyed praise for George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road—every word deserved, as multiple viewings confirm—that it's only natural to start asking: Hang on a second, were the Mel Gibson ones as good as everyone used to think? Well ask no more! The 41st annual Seattle International Film Festival has pulled one more rabbit of programming magic out of
  
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• Blabbermouth: Our Week-in-Review Podcast Talks About Money, Gender, Power, and the Sweet 'n' Sour!

  05-06-2015 15:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Blabbermouth: Episode nine of our Stranger week-in-review podcast. (Now available on iTunes!) BrAt82/Shutterstock
  Dylan Orr is on Blabbermouth this week! He's the new leader of Seattle's Office of Labor Standards, which means he's the man in charge of enforcing this city's trailblazing $15 minimum wage, our kinda new sick leave ordinance, and many other worker protections. He's also a trailblazer himself as the first transgender appointee to any US presidential administration (he worked at the L
  
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• Thief steals vintage candy machine

  05-06-2015 14:57
  
  Thief steals vintage candy machine
  
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• Truck leaks fuel onto I-405 in Renton

  05-06-2015 13:55
  
  Truck leaks fuel onto I-405 in Renton
  
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• Edward Snowden's Op-Ed for the New York Times: "We Are Witnessing the Emergence of a Post-Terror Generation"

  05-06-2015 03:30 via thestranger.com
  
  On the second anniversary of his legally risky revelations about the NSA, Snowden, still stuck in Moscow, writes:
  We are witnessing the emergence of a post-terror generation, one that rejects a worldview defined by a singular tragedy. For the first time since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, we see the outline of a politics that turns away from reaction and fear in favor of resilience and reason. With each court victory, with every change in the law, we demonstrate facts are more convincing than f
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Can't We All Porn Together?

  05-06-2015 02:46 via thestranger.com
  
  I'm bi but there are many words that could describe my sexual/identity fluidity. I like romance with guys (though I have had romances with women too), I like sex with women and men, I like porn of all types—and I generally think sex is personal and that folks should do whatever they like while being respectful. I am female but I get turned on by many types of porn. Why is it that men love F2F porn but only gay/bi guys are supposed to be turned on by M2M porn? M2M porn turns me on even thou
  
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• Bary Massey, who killed at 13, may go free

  05-06-2015 02:21
  
  Bary Massey, who killed at 13, may go free
  
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• Electronic Music Heads Take Note: First Wave of Artists Announced for Decibel Fest 2015

  05-06-2015 02:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Behold. The first wave.
  It's never too early to start getting excited about the 2015 edition of Decibel, Seattle's massive celebration of electronic music, happening September 23-27. Not least because this year's big names so far include ambient maverick Tim Hecker, electro goober Dan Deacon, Seattle's own dark techno maven Raica, experimental R&B singer Shaprece, and avant-garde deities Autechre. Information's scarce on their website right now, but be sure to check back there or on our calendar
  
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• Love & Mercy Looks at Brian Wilson’s Tragic/Heroic Life

  05-06-2015 02:12 via thestranger.com
  
  Good vibrations.
  Director Bill Pohlad gives Beach Boys mastermind Brian Wilson’s tragic/heroic life a heavy-handed, although occasionally artful, treatment in this biopic. (Water appears in almost every scene, symbolizing escape and refuge.) Love & Mercy toggles between Brian’s mid-1960s genius spurt, conceiving songs for the iconic rock masterpiece Pet Sounds and the long-delayed cult opus Smile…
  
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• Mayor's Nominee for Seattle Housing Authority Board Resigns After Protests

  05-06-2015 02:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Last fall, tenants filed into an SHA community meeting to protest against the "Stepping Forward" plan to raise rents. Alex Garland
  Over the past few weeks, Seattle Housing Authority tenants have been organizing against Nora Gibson, the chair of the board of the public housing provider. The mayor had supported Gibson for reappointment to the board, but she withdrew her name yesterday in the face of opposition."I felt that it would be better to resign than to fuel the controversy," she said today.
  
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• Mock Not, Lest You… Like Eating Crow

  05-06-2015 01:25 via thestranger.com
  
  Yeeeaaahhhhhhh, those are dolls.
  Salem resident Terry Coffey posted the above photo and caption on his Facebook page.See how it bites him in the ass after the jump.Within hours, the post had been shared hundreds of thousands of times by brainiacs like whoever runs this site:'merica!
  Coffey was incredulous. Is this "some kind of Facebook bug?" he wondered:
  It's a bug. Your ignorance has gone viral!
  But then, in true karmic beauty (and, I must say, Coffey's admirable willingness to admit when he's
  
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• Did You Hear the One about Walking Joke Book Rick Perry Launching a Presidential Do-Over?

  05-06-2015 00:03 via thestranger.com
  
  There is no punchline. Oops. Christopher Halloran / Shutterstock.com
  Earlier today, as part of his commitment to job creation for comedy writers, Rick Perry announced that he will run for president.His platform is exactly what you'd expect—lower taxes, stronger military, small government. Don't even bother learning about his political positions, because he won't be around long enough for them to matter.Instead, merely expect Rick Perry to amuse and delight us over the next few weeks, ma
  
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