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• 5th Annual Pride Picnic with Jenn Ghetto's S and Pony Time Happens June 13 at Volunteer Park

  10-06-2015 23:37 via thestranger.com
  
  The 5th annual Pride Picnic takes place on Saturday June 13 at Volunteer Park (11 am-4 pm, free, all ages).The lineup—curated by Chop Suey talent buyer Jodi Ecklund—features S (Jenn Ghetto), Pony Time, Glitterbang, Pig Snout, and MC Donnatella Howe. All of the proceeds from the event's food sales and on-site donations go to Youthcare. Ben London of Northwest Polite Society, which is helping to promote Pride Picnic, says, "We hope to grow this event in future years. It's a great oppo
  
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• More Trouble For Ma and Pa Duggar

  10-06-2015 23:20 via thestranger.com
  
  Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar are back in the news:
  The Duggar family is under investigation again by the Arkansas Department of Human Services and police were called when the family refused to cooperate, In Touch magazine is reporting exclusively in its new issue that hits newsstands today. A representative from the Washington County DHS called 911 on May 27 at around 11 a.m. asking for police assistance when DHS was not allowed to see the minor they were concerned about. In Touch, which broke th
  
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• I Love Television: Amnesiacs in Spaaaaace!

  10-06-2015 23:14 via thestranger.com
  
  This “lack of amnesia” thing is due to the decreasing number of people getting hit on the head with hammers.
  Nobody gets amnesia anymore. And no, I'm not sure why... do I look like a goddamn doctor to you? A goddamn brain-science major? All I know is I googled "amnesia news," and the only story that came up was one about how the entire country has seemingly forgotten that George W. Bush was AN EFFING TERRIBLE PRESIDENT. While the previous statement is absolutely true, what the Americ
  
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• New Restaurants, a New Farmers' Market, and Seattle Herring Week

  10-06-2015 23:02 via thestranger.com
  
  Herring nigiri: Try this oily, hard-to-find fish at Sushi Kappo Tamura during Seattle Herring Week, which runs until June 14.Seattle Herring Week
  Now Open
  Herb & Bitter Public House is now open on Capitol Hill, in the space that was home to Than Brothers Pho for many years. Owner Jesus Escobor, who also owns Rocco's in Belltown and used to own Downtown's Noc Noc, has completely overhauled the space, which now has skylights, a massive bar made of reclaimed wood, and, most notably, a back pati
  
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• Anatomy of a Backlash

  10-06-2015 22:04 via thestranger.com
  
  Iggy Azalea’s trout-mouth ass has canceled her 2015 headlining tour.
  First off, thanks go, as always, to Lil B the Based God. I'm amazed at his ability to stay in the game. The rapper/demiurge's curse—once solely the burden of hooper Kevin Durant—has now, as you well know, laid James Harden low, after Harden refused to admit that he was hitting B's well-known "cooking dance" to celebrate during games. The Rockets, and Harden's rep, have since suffered for such insolence. (Fake
  
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• Video: Police Shoving People After Tuesday's Chaotic Port Meeting

  10-06-2015 21:48 via thestranger.com
  
  A video taken after yesterday's failed port commission meeting shows police shoving at least one person down what appear to be the stairs. Mark Hennon/YouTube
  Things went to hell at yesterday's regular port commission meeting. Port commissioners ended the meeting early (before the public comment session) in response to some of the more vocal anti-Arctic drilling protesters in the room. Soon after, police from the Port of Seattle, Tukwila, and Auburn began clearing the room and aggressively pushi
  
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• McKinney's Police Chief Is Wrong to Claim That the Other Officers at the Pool Party Did an "Excellent Job"

  10-06-2015 21:40 via thestranger.com
  
  Other McKinney officers on the scene failed to restrain Eric Casebolt. YouTube
  Late yesterday, McKinney police chief Greg Conley held a press conference to announce the resignation of Eric Casebolt, the police officer who was captured on video going Rambo on a number of black teenagers who attempted to enter a neighborhood pool party.Conley used strong language to distance his department from the controversial officer. “The actions of Casebolt, as seen on the video," stated Conley, "are in
  
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• In Music News:Leaked Info Reveals Lower Payouts and Investigations of Apple Music

  10-06-2015 21:39 via thestranger.com
  
  What aren't you telling us, Jimmy Iovine?s_bukley / Shutterstock.com
  • Hold up before you rejoice over the free three month trial that Apple Music is offering. This morning, Digital Music News revealed a leaked contract that stipulates Apple will not be dishing out any artist revenue for music that's streamed on free trials or comped accounts. And after the trial period, it appears that"Apple will be paying a sharp discount of 58% on subscription revenues earned on Apple Music, including i
  
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• In Music News: Leaked Info Reveals Lower Payouts and Investigations of Apple Music

  10-06-2015 21:39 via thestranger.com
  
  What aren't you telling us, Jimmy Iovine?s_bukley / Shutterstock.com
  • Hold up before you rejoice over the free three-month trial that Apple Music is offering. This morning, Digital Music News revealed a leaked contract that stipulates Apple will not be dishing out any artist revenue for music that's streamed on free trials or comped accounts. And after the trial period, it appears that"Apple will be paying a sharp discount of 58% on subscription revenues earned on Apple Music, including i
  
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• City Council Wants to Tweak Mayor's Transportation Levy (Or, Nick Licata Has Zero Fucks Left to Give)

  10-06-2015 21:13 via thestranger.com
  
  Not running for reelection Nick Licata is the best Nick Licata. Seattle Channel
  For a little while, it looked like the mayor's $930 million transportation levy was going to be a pretty easy lift. Sure, it's a lot of money and we'd see some tweaking from the city council, but the loudest complaining would probably be Joel Spares-No-One-Not-Even-the-Raging-Grannies Connelly going on about some projects from 2006.
  Not anymore. Now Council Member Nick Licata wants to restructure the whole damn thing
  
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• City Council Tweaks Mayor's Transportation Levy (Or, Nick Licata Has Zero Fucks Left to Give)

  10-06-2015 21:13 via thestranger.com
  
  Not running for reelection Nick Licata is the best Nick Licata. Seattle Channel
  For a little while, it looked like the mayor's $930 million transportation levy was going to be a pretty easy lift. Sure, it's a lot of money and we'd see some tweaking from the city council, but the loudest complaining would probably be Joel Spares-No-One-Not-Even-the-Raging-Grannies Connelly going on about some projects from 2006.
  Not anymore. Now Council Member Nick Licata wants to restructure the whole damn thing
  
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• Live, Interactive, and Relationship-Based, Camming Is Changing Sex on the Internet

  10-06-2015 21:03 via thestranger.com
  
  Eevie can make $400 in 45 minutes. She broadcasts herself through the site MyFreeCams. Her screen name is EevieLain. Kelly O
  I'm in Eevie's bedroom watching her work. She's wearing a little black dress and drinking merlot from a shatterproof wineglass one of her viewers sent her after she'd broken a real one on camera. She makes almost $400 in the 45 minutes I'm with her, and she doesn't do much besides talk to me (offscreen) about camming.
  Eevie—like many of the models I spoke to for this
  
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• Allegations: Teacher, chaperones drank on field trip; student groped others

  10-06-2015 20:43
  
  Allegation: Inappropriate chaperone with student on field trip
  
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• Allegations: Teacher and chaperones drank on field trip; student groped others

  10-06-2015 20:43
  
  Allegation: Inappropriate chaperone with student on field trip
  
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• Allegation: Inappropriate chaperone with student on field trip

  10-06-2015 20:43
  
  Allegation: Inappropriate chaperone with student on field trip
  
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• Some Reasons Why Lindsey Graham Might Be A Bachelor

  10-06-2015 20:19 via thestranger.com
  
  Lindsey Graham, scoping for "talent."GurganusImages / Shutterstock.com
  Yesterday senator and slow rat in the long rat race to the White House Lindsey Graham embraced the possibilities of his bachelorhood: “I’ve got lots of friends, we’ll have a rotating First Lady,” the Daily Mail reports him saying. Many members of the media have dutifully spun that line (bahahahahah—forgive me) in gleeful ways.Jezebel has provided a neat little list of rotating female figures. Pol
  
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• No distress calls made from plane before fatal crash

  10-06-2015 19:37
  
  Reports of plane going down near Paine Field
  
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• Carnation murderer to be sentenced to life in prison

  10-06-2015 18:31
  
  Carnation killer Joe McEnroe to be sentenced to life in prison
  
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• Carnation murderer sentenced to life in prison without parole

  10-06-2015 18:31
  
  Carnation killer Joe McEnroe to be sentenced to life in prison
  
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• The Morning News: Amazon Holds Shareholder Meeting, Shell's Oil Rig Creates Half the Jobs Supporters Say It Does

  10-06-2015 17:52 via thestranger.com
  
  This is a good moment to revisit Paul Constant's "It's Time to Turn Your Back on Amazon." Julie Clopper / Shutterstock.com
  Amazon's Shareholder Meeting Is Today: As Sydney mentioned yesterday, unions want the e-commerce giant to improve working conditions for security guards on its Seattle campus and contribute to public transit and affordable housing in Seattle. The campaign is called Amazon Wake Up. Jesse Jackson will address shareholders to urge greater diversity in its hiring practices. Mean
  
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• Morning News: Amazon Holds Shareholder Meeting, Shell's Oil Rig Creates Half the Jobs Supporters Say It Does

  10-06-2015 17:52 via thestranger.com
  
  This is a good moment to revisit Paul Constant's "It's Time to Turn Your Back on Amazon." Julie Clopper / Shutterstock.com
  Amazon's Shareholder Meeting Is Today: As Sydney mentioned yesterday, unions want the e-commerce giant to improve working conditions for security guards on its Seattle campus and contribute to public transit and affordable housing in Seattle. The campaign is called Amazon Wake Up. Jesse Jackson will address shareholders to urge greater diversity in its hiring practices. Mean
  
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• Boeing plans to reduce size of bathrooms on planes

  10-06-2015 15:13
  
  Boeing plans to reduce size of bathrooms on planes
  
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• Vacant building gives homeless women, children temporary home

  10-06-2015 14:36
  
  Vacant building gives homeless women, children temporary home
  
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• Transgender Visibility, Incriminating Spit, and More Troubling Duggar Fuckery

  10-06-2015 14:02 via thestranger.com
  
  Perpetually full of shit. THINKSTOCK
  MONDAY, JUNE 1 This week of transgender visibility, incriminating spit, and troubling Duggar fuckery kicked off in the United States of America, where the first second of today brought the expiration of the USA Patriot Act, the law rushed through Congress after 9/11 for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT, get it?) but which allowed for unconstitutional mass surveillance by
  
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• The 2015 Stranger Genius Award Nominees

  10-06-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The 2015 Stranger Genius Award Nominees
  HAPPY SUMMER!Odd that we never had a winter, isn't it?Does that augur an August snowfall? Whatever happens to the climate, we'll always have the arts. Even when Seattle is just an archipelago of condo roofs poking out of a warm cup of water called the Pacific Ocean, Seattle Art and Performance will be here, with its ridiculously generous calendar, to celebrate indoor arts.In honor of the dawning of the age of Arctic drilling, we've added a new calendar cal
  
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• Chastity Belt, 2015 Stranger Genius Award Nominees in Music

  10-06-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Chastity Belt, 2015 Stranger Genius Award Nominees in Musicby Sean Nelson 
  Are:A four-piece rock band.Only recently:Released their rightfully acclaimed second album, Time to Go Home.Address such topics as:Male ponytails, sex, sexism, weed, beer, alienation.
  It wouldn't have been terribly difficult for Chastity Belt to capitalize on the success of their first album, No Regerts, by making another one just like it. The band, which began as a lighthearted pastime for four college friends looki
  
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• Scarecrow Video, 2015 Stranger Genius Award Nominee in Film

  10-06-2015 09:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Scarecrow Video, 2015 Stranger Genius Award Nominee in Filmby Charles Mudede 
  Is:Now officially called Scarecrow Project.Has:120,000 titles, many of which are not available online.Was:The place Quentin Tarantino walked to from his downtown hotel, calling it a pilgrimage.
  In October 2014, a big change happened at Scarecrow Video, a movie emporium that's been around since 1988 and is now run by its employees. Facing declining sales and a rapidly changing market, the world-famous rental store
  
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• Major Faculty Changes at UW School of Art Signal a "Ridiculous and Exciting" Future

  10-06-2015 09:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Major Faculty Changes at UW School of Art Signal a "Ridiculous and Exciting" Futureby Jen GravesThis week, the University of Washington announced its largest art faculty turnover in recent memory. The school has hired five full-time lecturers—two artists, an art historian, and two designers—and will soon add a sixth (sculpture). These changes come less than a year after two other major UW appointments: Jamie Walker was named director of the School of Art + Art History + Design and Sc
  
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• Klara Glosova, 2015 Stranger Genius Award Nominee in Visual Art

  10-06-2015 09:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Klara Glosova, 2015 Stranger Genius Award Nominee in Visual Artby Jen Graves 
  Creates:Ceramics of dirty laundry, watercolors of people's backs, public parades through the city, a very good house party.Stands:On the sidelines, often.Knows firsthand:What it was like among the students behind the Velvet Revolution.One way to describe Czech-born Klara Glosova is that she is the inventor and organizer of some of the most popular art spectacles to happen in Seattle in the last five years. Her NE
  
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• Cherdonna, 2015 Stranger Genius Award Nominee in Performance

  10-06-2015 09:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Cherdonna, 2015 Stranger Genius Award Nominee in Performanceby Christopher Frizzelle 
  Looks:Like a cross between a drag queen, a clown, and a bug.Is really:A professionally trained dancer named Jody Kuehner.Can't:"Make work that's serious. I've tried. It always has a comedic edge to it."Cherdonna is like if you put a drag queen and a modern dancer and a person with psychological issues into a blender, and then poured the result into a vintage gown. She falls, she squeals, she breaks things, she
  
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• PHOTOS: Terrifying 'vampire fish' falling from the sky in Alaska

  10-06-2015 03:26
  
  Creatures are called Arctic lamprey.
  
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• Yussef El Guindi, 2015 Stranger Genius Award Nominee in Literature

  10-06-2015 02:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Yussef El Guindi, 2015 Stranger Genius Award Nominee in Literatureby Brendan Kiley 
  Has a friend who describes being an “ethnic” playwright as:“A kiss and a slap.”
  Had to turn down PhD offers at Stanford and Yale:Because he needed a job to get a green card.
  Begins writing a new play when:“I hear voices—and they’re insistent.”For several years, playwright Yussef El Guindi was one of those Seattle artists whose talent seemed to be appreciated everywhere except here. While his play
  
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• Your Complete Guide to Gay Pride 2015, Plus the Entirety of Our Queer Calendar

  10-06-2015 02:47 via thestranger.com
  
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• There's No Place in Seattle Like Song Phang Kong

  10-06-2015 02:47 via thestranger.com
  
  There's No Place in Seattle Like Song Phang Kongby Angela Garbes{{ image: 1 }}The first time I ate at Song Phang Kong, I was filled with the sort of excitement I had forgotten was possible. New restaurants open practically daily in Seattle, but as rents continue to climb, the existence of a place like Song Phang Kong—a humble four-table spot in the International District that serves huge portions of Laotian and Thai food, all of which cost just $8 a plate—seems unbelievable.Song Phan
  
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• The City Was Taking a Deep Breath Before It Screamed for 20 Years.

  10-06-2015 02:47 via thestranger.com
  
  "The City Was Taking a Deep Breath Before It Screamed for 20 Years." Author Jason Schmidt on Seattle's Transformationsby Sarah GalvinJason Schmidt's first triumph as a writer was at Garfield High School, when another kid offered him five bucks for a scenario he made up in debate class. At Western Washington University, he wrote sci-fi and other genre fiction continuously while pursuing a law degree. Rosina Lippi, a professor of creative writing at WWU, encouraged him and became his mentor. When
  
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• The 2015 Stranger Genius Awards Nominees and the Summer Issue of Seattle Art and Performance

  10-06-2015 02:47 via thestranger.com
  
  The 2015 Stranger Genius Awards Nominees and the Summer Issue of Seattle Art and Performance
  HAPPY SUMMER!Odd that we never had a winter, isn't it?Does that augur an August snowfall? Whatever happens to the climate, we'll always have the arts. Even when Seattle is just an archipelago of condo roofs poking out of a warm cup of water called the Pacific Ocean, Seattle Art and Performance will be here, with its ridiculously generous calendar, to celebrate indoor arts.In honor of the dawning of the a
  
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• Sufjan Stevens Returns to His Orderly Ways for Carrie & Lowell, but I Still Prefer The Age of Adz

  10-06-2015 02:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Sufjan Stevens Returns to His Orderly Ways for Carrie & Lowell, but I Still Prefer The Age of Adzby Lindsay HoodFor Carrie & Lowell, Sufjan Stevens decided to pick up his banjo again. One friend said the album feels like the unofficial Oregon installment of Stevens's 50 States project, because the songs return to the time Stevens spent in Eugene with his mother, Carrie—a schizophrenic with bipolar disorder and substance-abuse issues who died in 2012.Carrie abandoned the family when
  
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• Steve Fisk, 2015 Stranger Genius Award Nominee in Music

  10-06-2015 02:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Steve Fisk, 2015 Stranger Genius Award Nominee in Musicby Dave Segal 
  Is:Most known as a producer, although he also performs and records.Has produced/engineered:Music by Nirvana, Soundgarden, Screaming Trees, Unwound, and the Wedding Present, and poetry by Steven Jesse Bernstein.Is a certified:"Genius," according to one of those culturally biased tests from the 1960s that he took as a 9-year-old, although he scoffs at the word.
  Steve Fisk exploits the recording studio and the history of mu
  
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• Show Us Your Dressing Room, Quinn Franzen

  10-06-2015 02:47 via thestranger.com
  
  What's in Your Dressing Room? Walking in on Quinn Franzen Behind the Scenes of Threesome at ACT Theatreby Christopher FrizzelleOh, hey there. Sorry for barging in. Where's your costume?This is my costume.You start the show in no clothes?I start the show in socks.And a watch and bracelets.My character, Doug, is a world traveler, and he's very privileged. He talks about being an embedded photographer in an unnamed Middle Eastern country, but he's also kinda vain about where he's been and what he's
  
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• Saint Laurent Is a Fashion Don't

  10-06-2015 02:47 via thestranger.com
  
  The Real Yves Saint Laurent Was More Engaging Than the One in Bertrand Bonello's Biopicby Marti JonjakLegendary couturier Yves Saint Laurent straddled two worlds. His steady accrual of riches and honors was accompanied by quantities of cocaine and liquor and nervous breakdowns, but Bertrand Bonello's pretentious biopic Saint Laurent simplifies Yves's struggles and smooths them away. Sequences are labeled by year, and following a loose chronology, we jump from one fashion moment to the next. Gasp
  
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• Pickwick's Pockets of Latent Anger

  10-06-2015 02:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Trent Moorman Interviews Pickwick Frontman Galen Disstonby Trent MoormanWhen Pickwick vocalist Galen Disston is on the microphone, he's a spark away from flame. Onstage, just like fire, you never know which way he'll go. Will he be engulfed? Or will he aim the flamethrower's nozzle your way? At any given moment, the band's vintage soul and rock 'n' roll elements can set him off screaming like a hungry wolf. His voice contains equal parts Dan Auerbach, Charles Bradley, Freddie Mercury, and Buddy
  
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• On the Spectrum

  10-06-2015 02:47 via thestranger.com
  
  How the FCC Is About to Cost Small Theaters a Fortuneby Brendan KileyFor theaters around the country, the airwaves are already crowded. Finding open frequencies for their wireless microphones and other devices can be tricky. That requires hopping around in the unused "white space" of America's broadcasting spectrum and hoping a more powerful transmission—from a passing emergency vehicle or big convention—doesn't stomp on their signals, causing loud popping and squelching sounds.But t
  
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• OCnotes, 2015 Stranger Genius Award Nominee in Music

  10-06-2015 02:47 via thestranger.com
  
  OCnotes, 2015 Stranger Genius Award Nominee in Musicby Charles Mudede 
  Is:A seemingly inexhaustible musician and sound engineer.Loves:Screaming into the microphone.Once:Worked at Alki Urban Market, but that's another story.Four years ago, OCnotes, a musician and sound engineer whose reputation is huge in Seattle's hiphop scene, conducted an experiment in his basement studio in the OK Hotel in Pioneer Square. In a small space filled with people drinking wine and beer in the semidarkness, he proj
  
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• Mel Eslyn, 2015 Stranger Genius Award Nominee in Film

  10-06-2015 02:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Mel Eslyn, 2015 Stranger Genius Award Nominee in Filmby Sean Nelson 
  Is:An independent film producer whose credits include The One I Love, Lamb, Uncle Kent 2, and Your Sister's Sister.Was Recently Hired:To be in charge of indie film content for Duplass Brothers Productions, which just signed a four-picture deal with Netflix.Can Execute:A very impressive high kick—to the shoulder—in a karaoke context.
  Mel Eslyn came to Seattle eight years ago, having been trained by film school to be
  
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• Matt Smucker, 2015 Stranger Genius Award Nominee in Performance

  10-06-2015 02:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Matt Smucker, 2015 Stranger Genius Award Nominee in Performanceby Brendan Kiley 
  Is a scenic designer who estimates:He's designed sets for 99 theater productions.Thinks tight budgets are:"A great tool for editing."Says the complicated sexual relationships at the old Annex Theatre:Were once diagrammed on a pizza box during a party.
  Scenic designer Matt Smucker talks about objects as if they have rich inner lives. In his world, a cement block can "gesture," the corner of a room can be "aggres
  
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• Mary Ann Peters, 2015 Stranger Genius Award Nominee in Visual Art

  10-06-2015 02:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Mary Ann Peters, 2015 Stranger Genius Award Nominee in Visual Artby Jen Graves 
  Makes:Paintings of Syria and Lebanon, hidden gardens, sculptures of bread cast in bronze.Can be found:Raising her hand at art talks to ask hard questions.Once:Smuggled actual floor plans into seemingly pure geometric abstractions.
  Mary Ann Peters has been creating sophisticated abstract watercolors on the soft, smooth surfaces of clay-coated panels for decades. She could have continued doing that into the sunse
  
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• Maria Semple, 2015 Stranger Genius Award Nominee in Literature

  10-06-2015 02:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Maria Semple, 2015 Stranger Genius Award Nominee in Literatureby Christopher Frizzelle Is:The author of the funniest book ever written about Seattle.Used to:Write for TV shows like Arrested Development and Ellen.Lived in Colorado as a teenager:But hated it. "I liked to sit by myself on a chairlift. That's when I became a writer, sitting by myself on a ski lift."Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, Bernadette is the funniest novel ever written about Seattle. One of the characters, Bernadette, is horri
  
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• Kinski's New Album 7 (or 8) Gets Straight to the Point

  10-06-2015 02:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Kinski's New Album 7 (or 8) Gets Straight to the Pointby Dave SegalSeattle rock mainstays Kinski started up in 1998. Their new album, 7 (or 8), released on June 2 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 up the riffs, getting more linear with their songwriting, and veering aw
  
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• Even 21 Years Later, This Building Is Still the Real Star of Chungking Express

  10-06-2015 02:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Even 21 Years Later, This Building Is Still the Real Star of Chungking Expressby Charles MudedeTwo years ago, Frances Cheong, a lecturer on genome sciences at the University of Washington, showed me two photos of Chungking Mansions, a Hong Kong high-rise featured in Wong Kar-Wai's 1994 classic Chungking Express. One photo was taken in 2007, and the other in 2012. In the first image, the building looks like it did in the movie: a hive of human activity, time-worn, time-warm—a place managed
  
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• Dawn Cerny, 2015 Stranger Genius Award Nominee in Visual Art

  10-06-2015 02:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Dawn Cerny, 2015 Stranger Genius Award Nominee in Visual Artby Jen Graves 
  Makes:Prints, paintings, sculptures, jokes, and performances.Uses:Words, glitter, paper soldiers, tissues, and animal claws reaching hilariously into the frame.Has:A sense of humor that's pointed and anarchic at the same time.
  For the first time in her life, Dawn Cerny, palpably anxious, was sitting onstage at a table with a glass of water like a regular Spalding Gray. This was earlier this year at On the Boards. Sh
  
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