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• Book-It Repertory Theatre presents: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five

  13-06-2015 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Now - Friday, July 3, Book-It Repertory Theatre
  Out of the very real horrors he experienced as a World War II POW in Dresden, Kurt Vonnegut crafted the powerful Slaughterhouse-Five. Protagonist Bill Pilgrim has come unstuck in time and travels between the war in German; Illium, New York; and the alien planet Tralfamadore. This fractured tale of the personal fallout of war is laden with Vonnegut's signature black humor and imagination.
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• My Struggle... with Erectile Dysfunction by Karl Ove Knausgaard (Sponsored by Refractin)

  13-06-2015 23:14 via thestranger.com
  
  If you've read the fourth book in my current series of novels, it will not shock you to discover that I am a sexual being. I am married, and have been for many years. I am father to four children. So here again, you can see: I enjoy, or at the very least have had, sex. But I am also 46 years old, and the fruits of my literary success, though hard-won, have introduced many pressures and stresses into my private life. Sex doesn't always thrive under such conditions. With this in mind, I reluctant
  
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• Hillary Clinton Campaign Kickoff Speech

  13-06-2015 20:51 via thestranger.com
  
  We need justices on the Supreme Court who will protect every citizen's right to vote, rather than every corporation's right to buy elections. If necessary, I will support a constitutional amendment to undo the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United. I want to make it easier for every citizen to vote. That's why I've proposed universal, automatic registration and expanded early voting. I'll fight back against Republican efforts to disempower and disenfranchise young people, poor people, peo
  
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• Angst: Serial Killers Are So Uninteresting

  13-06-2015 20:50 via thestranger.com
  
  "I am a serial killer. I have to kill people. There is no reason."
  The great things about this film: the cinematography and the score. The cinematography is by Zbigniew Rybczyński, and the music is by Klaus Schulze. Rybczyński's camera work is just electric—the crazy crane shots, the harsh shots from the ground, the unsettling shots from above, the jerky pans, the monstrous close-ups, the denting and distorting of winter light. This all stands as some of the best cinematography of that d
  
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• BECU ZooTunes

  13-06-2015 20:36 via thestranger.com
  
  Friday, June 19 - Wednesday, August 19, Woodland Park Zoo
  BECU ZooTunes presented by Carter Subaru is back for another year of great concerts! This outdoor, family-friendly, affordable concert series brings back returning favorites and new greats for its 32nd year of festive music on the zoo's meadow. This year's lineup includes the Doobie Brothers, Melissa Etheridge & Blondie, Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers and more!
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• Blabbermouth: Our Week-in-Review Podcast's 10th-Anniversary Special! With Cliff Mass, Josh Feit, and a Rare Album

  13-06-2015 17:34 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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• Construction worker stops suspected car prowler

  13-06-2015 08:38
  
  Construction worker stops suspected car prowler
  
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• Vigil for missing mother renews hope

  13-06-2015 08:31
  
  Vigil for missing mother renews hope
  
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• This Week In Music Memoriam: James Last, Almeta Latimer, Ornette Coleman, And Christopher Lee

  13-06-2015 03:10 via thestranger.com
  
  James Last left a strong impression on the world of pop music.
  Prolific German pop composer James Last died on Tuesday. He was 86. Last began his career as a big band leader, but in the mid-60s, while a staff arranger for German Polydor Records, he hit on his definitive formula when he directed an album called Non-Stop Dancing.On the album he wove together contemporary pop using strings, horns, a swinging backbeat, and mixed in sounds of a live audience to make a party record. The record became
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: The Worst That Could Happen

  13-06-2015 03:08 via thestranger.com
  
  Straight-out-of-college female here. I've begun my foray into the real world with my first job at a large firm and, as an added bonus, a hunky, kind man. My relationship is new—we got together in January of this year. I have some work to do on myself: post-abusive relationship and recently uncovered mommy issues have landed me in therapy. I am a work in progress, and he is both aware and supportive. Really feels like this is a potential LTR.
  The one thing (I call it a thing and not an issu
  
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• I Have a Proposal for Rachel Dolezal

  13-06-2015 01:54 via thestranger.com
  
  Rachel Dolezal can be any race she wants. City of Spokane
  As people around the country are googling “Spokane” to figure out where the hell it is and why nobody there seems to know what black people look like, there is also a debate raging on the internet: Can you just be whatever race you want?Don’t worry, friends, when your mom told you that you could be anything you wanted to be, she was right! You can be black if you want to, and I can be white! I’ve had my eye on Whit
  
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• Poster of the Week for Songs in the Key of D

  13-06-2015 01:35 via thestranger.com
  
  A host of friends and bandmates will be gathering at Neumos to play songs in memory of beloved drummer-about-town and all-around fantastic guy Darius Minwalla...
  
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• Slog Poll: Are Shell's Attractivists Hotter Than Greenpeace's?

  13-06-2015 01:32 via thestranger.com
  
  Greenpeacers we called "attractivists." Vincenzo Floramo/Greenpeace
  Back in April, I wrote about Greenpeace "attractivists" who had boarded the Polar Pioneer while it was still traveling across the Pacific Ocean to Seattle. A few people in the environmentalist community took issue with that, but I stand by the value in pointing out various marketing techniques surrounding environmental issues. (A Greenpeace campaigner I interviewed at the time said that aesthetics were not a factor in their acti
  
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• Midday Veil's Lavish New Single "Babel" Features P-Funk Legend Bernie Worrell

  13-06-2015 00:53 via thestranger.com
  
  New album 'This Wilderness' is out 9/11 via Beyond Beyond Is Beyond.
  Seattle avant-rock group Midday Veil offer a preview of their forthcoming album, This Wilderness, with a new single "Babel."It's a gorgeous, rich, levitational song augmented by the organ and clavinet of Parliament-Funkadelic legend Bernie Worrell, who joined the band during their Randall Dunn-helmed sessions at Avast! Recording Co.A crucial contrast exists between space-rock bliss (Emily Pothast's voice is at its most silken,
  
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• District Date: Sally Bagshaw Won't Take Me Sailing, So I Huff Up a Hill Behind Her and Video Chat With Her Opponent.

  13-06-2015 00:48 via thestranger.com
  
  City Council Member Sally Bagshaw owns a sailboat and a Cessna, but she would only take me on a bike ride. Kelly O
  Sally Bagshaw won’t take The Stranger sailing.Oh, we ask her. We askwhen she says she’s going to join the kayaktivists for the “Festival of Resistance.” Then we ask again when it’s time for this second installment of our “District Date” series. She says maybe later in the summer, closer to or after the August 4 city council primary election.
  
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• Oh My God, You Absolutely Have to Go See Threesome at ACT Theatre

  13-06-2015 00:11 via thestranger.com
  
  Three amazing performers in the best new play I've seen in years. Courtesy of ACT Theatre
  I wish I had a bat signal I could wheel out and illuminate whenever a play like Threesome comes along. Threesome is bat-signal good. I not only want the whole city to know how good it is, I want the clouds to know how good it is. I think people in airplanes flying by should know. Most theater is frankly bad, a few plays a year are good, and one or two plays a year are bat-signal good. Our Town at 12th Avenu
  
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