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• NAACP leader's parents say she lied about her race

  12-06-2015 23:25
  
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• John Criscitello's New NSFW Paintings Are So Dirty and Penis-Filled I Can't Show Them Above the Jump

  12-06-2015 23:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Okay, I can show you this one—this is hilarious:
  The puffy jackets!
  John Criscitello is the smart-ass street artist who's making a ton of work about the bro-ification of Capitol Hill. He's the guy who first got noticed locally for putting a penis on a Jagermeister ad.And even though you probably wouldn't be shocked to see a penis above the jump on Slog, there are so many penises in his new paintings I'm not going to do that to your coworkers' eyeballs. A few NSFW shots of Criscitello's pen
  
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• Fermented Shrimp Paste and Unfiltered Fish Sauce: Seattle, Can You Handle the Funk?

  12-06-2015 22:39 via thestranger.com
  
  This Monday, June 15, Food & Sh*t is serving a five-course dinner built entirely on bagoong, "that pungent pinkish grayish fermented seafood semi-liquid that is the soul of many Filipino kitchens." Geo Quibuyen
  This week, I reviewed Song Phang Kong, Beng Rajsombath's tiny restaurant in the International District serving Laotian and Thai food. Among Rajsombath's delicious offerings is her tham mak hoong, or green papaya salad, with tomatoes, fresh and dried shrimp, red chilies, and unfiltered
  
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• Activists spend 6 hours suspended from Shell ship in protest

  12-06-2015 22:15
  
  2 activists attach themselves to Shell ship in Washington
  
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• Heaven Knows What: A Former Addict Shows Us That Heroin Isn't the Best Life Choice

  12-06-2015 22:04 via thestranger.com
  
  Safdie and Ilya's love might be... uh... a little unhealthy.
  Heroin probably isn’t the best life choice, as repeatedly demonstrated by Arielle Holmes in Heaven Knows What. Holmes plays Harley, a teenage addict on the streets of New York who’s madly in love with brooding Ilya (Caleb Landry Jones). Their love might be... uh... a little unhealthy, as moments into the film, after an intense makeout sesh, Ilya goads Harley into slitting her own wrists—which she all too willingly doe
  
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• Elliott Bay Books Had a Seance for Arkansas Swamp Poet Frank Stanford Last Night, and C.D. Wright Was There

  12-06-2015 21:56 via thestranger.com
  
  Is that a gun in your pocket, Frank Stanford? Oh wait—it probably is?Courtesy of Copper Canyon PressBefore Copper Canyon Press released What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford back in April, few people knew the work of this Arkansan, southern-seer-type poet. Lots of his stuff was out of print, unpublished, hard to find. I imagine reams of muddy paper stuffed in the hollows of guitars. Frogs hopping around all over them.Despite his death by suicide in 1978 at the age of 29 he was
  
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• The Art by Kaili Chun Is All Locked Up at the Wing Luke Museum

  12-06-2015 21:36 via thestranger.com
  
  CREEPY: This is part of Kaili Chun's installation at the Wing, Janus, a roomful of doubly locked steel cages. Images JG
  Turn a corner and suddenly you're in the center of a miniature prison, with cells around you on all sides in the form of naked steel cages mounted on the walls. Keys hang on heavy metal chains from each cage. The light from above feels stark and institutional, making it so that the cages and chains cast dark shadows on the walls. You're standing there, wondering what to do.
  Tur
  
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• How an Emission of Hydrogen Sulfide from Shell's Refinery Drifted Over the Swinomish Reservation

  12-06-2015 20:22 via thestranger.com
  A visual representation of how an emission of hydrogen sulfide from Shell's refinery likely spread over the Swinomish reservation. Dan Jaffe/NOAA
  On February 20, people on the Swinomish reservation started smelling something strange. Some described the odor as burning tires or rotten eggs. Mike Cladoosby, 81, told KING 5 that breathing in the odor "burned," and that he spent the night in the hospital because of respiratory problems.The Swinomish reservation sits on a little piece of land situate
  
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• In Writing News: We Have a New Poet Laureate, and Yes, Joyce Carol Oates Knows What a Triceratops Is

  12-06-2015 19:11 via thestranger.com
  
  Poet laureates get to hang out at the Library of Congress and write poems. I'd write about the ceilings all day long.Alexey Rotanov / Shutterstock.com
  • Hey Everyone, We Have a New Poet Laureate! Juan Felipe Herrera is the first Mexican-American poet laureate we’ve ever had, and he’s the only person to write the poem Blood on the Wheel, which is one of those roiling incantatory numbers that's best read aloud. If you’re not in a place in your life where you can read poems
  
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• 2 activists attach themselves to Shell ship in Washington

  12-06-2015 19:10
  
  2 activists attach themselves to Shell ship in Washington
  
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• Police Reports Illustrated: Cyclist Gives Road Etiquette Lesson to Driver, Gets Raged on In Return

  12-06-2015 19:06 via thestranger.com
  
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• A Vision of the Great White Hunter Spotted on a Beacon Hill Bus

  12-06-2015 18:52 via thestranger.com
  
  In another time, he put the fear of God in jungle cats. Charles Mudede
  And there he suddenly was. The perfect picture of the Great White Hunter on, of all places, a Metro bus. The impeccable white shirt, the shadow of a mustache, and the pith helmet protecting his face from the light of an usually bright Northwest summer.
  The only reason I entered the bus was to get a better look at this miracle.And what I saw immediately after paying my fare (the realism of his colonial look) spooked the ghosts
  
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• The Morning News: Unions Join #ShellNo, Police Reformers Bypass Mayor, Spokane NAACP President May Have Lied About Race

  12-06-2015 17:24 via thestranger.com
  
  Today in Shell news: Unions join the anti-drilling movement and Bill Bryant is getting money from Shell supporters. Kelly O
  Unions Are Joining the #ShellNo Movement: OPEIU 8, SEIU 6, UAW Local 4121, UFCW 21, UFW, and Pride at Work King County Chapter are listed on this statement opposing Arctic drilling and declaring "our support for a strong climate policy at the state, regional and national level to reduce our global warming pollution and ensure that as we reduce this pollution we do so with e
  
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• Seattle Community Police Commissioners Are Sick and Tired of Waiting for Mayor Ed Murray to Move the Ball on Police Reform

  12-06-2015 16:30 via thestranger.com
  
  This is how we illustrated Dominic Holden's April 2014 feature "Reform in Reverse," which you should read. For much of the past year, reforms we expected from Mayor Ed Murray have been missing in action. Danny Hellman
  Do we want police accountability advocates drawn from the community to have a permanent oversight role when it comes to the Seattle Police Department?
  Well, of course. Who could be against that, except bad cops and those who want to protect them? Way back in November, it looked lik
  
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• Weekend events to cause triple traffic threat

  12-06-2015 15:45
  
  Weekend events to cause triple traffic threat
  
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• Weekend events cause triple traffic threat

  12-06-2015 15:45
  
  Weekend events to cause triple traffic threat
  
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• Blabbermouth: Our Week-in-Review Podcast's 10th Anniversary Special! With Cliff Mass, Josh Feit, and a Rare Album.

  12-06-2015 15:02 via thestranger.com
  
  We've made it to Episode 10 of our Stranger week-in-review podcast! Party time. (Also, the show is now available on iTunes.) BrAt82/Shutterstock
  It's our 10th Anniversary special! Ten episodes of this podcast and we're still not canceled, so it's time to celebrate with University of Washington meteorologist Cliff Mass, who's on the show to tangle with The Stranger's Sydney Brownstone over how we should be talking about climate change and ocean acidification.Mass says claims of climate change aff
  
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• Crumb rubber fields to be tested for possible link to cancer

  12-06-2015 13:49
  
  Crumb rubber fields to be tested for possible link to cancer
  
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• Man shot to death in Kent

  12-06-2015 13:35
  
  Man shot to death in Kent
  
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• Seattle Police Still Haven't Fired Officer Cynthia Whitlatch

  12-06-2015 02:38 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle police officer Cynthia Whitlatch, in 2014, arresting William Wingate for no apparent reason as he walked through Seattle. SPD
  The investigation into Officer Cynthia Whitlatch's lengthy record at the Seattle Police Deparment (on which we've reported several times) won't be finished until early next month, going right up to a 180 day deadline, according to Office of Professional Accountability Director Pierce Murphy. In case you were wondering.While we wait, it's worth keeping in mind that
  
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• If Someone Held a Gun to Your Head and Forced You to Play Air Guitar, What Would You Play?

  12-06-2015 02:30 via thestranger.com
  
  The US Air Guitar Championship Seattle Qualifier is TONIGHT at 9 pm! Kelly OAll hair air Kelly O
  The All-American Kelly O
  The high kick! Kelly O[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Monogamy Commitments vs. Monogamous Ultimatums

  12-06-2015 01:14 via thestranger.com
  
  I’m a straight-identifying Aussie guy in my mid-twenties, and I have recently started living with my girlfriend of just under two years. Let's call her "Mathilda."
  I need your help.
  I feel I need to start by mentioning that most of my prior ‘serious relationships’ has been marred and ultimately ended from full-on cheating or some degree of infidelity, by either myself or the other person. I discovered you at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney a few years ago at what woul
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Monogamous Commitments vs. Monogamous Ultimatums

  12-06-2015 01:14 via thestranger.com
  
  I’m a straight-identifying Aussie guy in my mid-twenties, and I have recently started living with my girlfriend of just under two years. Let's call her "Mathilda."
  I need your help.
  I feel I need to start by mentioning that most of my prior ‘serious relationships’ have been marred and ultimately ended from full-on cheating or some degree of infidelity, by either myself or the other person. I discovered you at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney a few years ago at what wou
  
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• The Film Critic: Cynical Writer Meets Beautiful Kleptomaniac

  12-06-2015 01:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Victor spends his days drinking, smoking, and scribbling in the dark.
  Victor (Rafael Spregelburd), the cynical Argentinian of the title, spends his days drinking, smoking, and scribbling in the dark. He must be a film critic! And he’s been at it for a while, since he conflates cinema with reality. “Films are suffocating me,” he laments. “I see the world like a huge movie.” (He even thinks in French, though the dialogue is in Spanish.) Victor, who dresses like a grad
  
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• Edge of the Circle Books Is Searching for a New Space After Getting the Boot

  12-06-2015 00:55 via thestranger.com
  
  Robert Anderson, operator of Edge of the Circle Books, will have to find a new home for this Capitol Hill staple.Rich SmithRemember Wednesday morning when you thought you heard that noise? A sort of loud, piercing sound that snuffed your Nag Champa and cracked your amethyst crystals in half? Well, that wasn’t just the wind. It was the collective cry of a thousand Seattle-based witches, free witches, casual druids, and other practitioners of the light and dark arts, all simultaneously sensi
  
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• Really, Starbucks? Really!?

  12-06-2015 00:49 via thestranger.com
  
  As seen outside the Starbucks Reserve Roastery & Tasting Room & Raunchy Sex Dungeon on Pike Street. Christopher Frizzelle[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Endangered Redmond man found

  12-06-2015 00:40
  
  Endangered autistic man missing out of Redmond
  
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• The Real Yves Saint Laurent Was More Engaging Than the One in Bertrand Bonello's Biopic

  12-06-2015 00:28 via thestranger.com
  
  The quality of symbolism would be better suited to a karaoke music video.
  Legendary 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. Gaspard Ulliel stars as Yves, an
  
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