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• Air Raid Podcast Live w/Pickwick and More Tomorrow Night

  19-06-2015 23:53 via thestranger.com
  
  Air Raid host Aaron Roden returns to the classics. Mike Hipple
  Far be it from me to tell you how to live your life, BUT, if you're looking for something to do tomorrow night, and the group of things you love best includes any of the following—local podcasting, local music, local comedy, beer, audio engineering—you should definitely consider heading over to the Screening Room at Naked City Brewery and Taphouse in scenic Greenwood for a live taping of Air Raid, the podcast hat features
  
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• Asked and Answered: An Exclusive Interview With the "Why Does My Cat Smell Like Curry" People

  19-06-2015 23:25 via thestranger.com
  
  Possible answers: garbage wallows, secret feeders, anal glands. bk
  This is part of a veeeery occasional series called Asked and Answered, in which I track down answers to random questions from readers. If you're confused about something, email [email protected] and I'll see what I can do.
  If you've walked around Seattle lately, you may have noticed posters, such as the one above, asking why someone's cat smells like curry. A reader emailed to ask what the deal was, so I flipped my
  
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• Jeb! Bush: "I Don't Know" if AME Church Shooting was Racially Motivated

  19-06-2015 23:14 via thestranger.com
  
  Jeb! Bush can't quite get to the bottom of the mystery surrounding Dylann Storm Roof's intentions. Andrew Cline / Shutterstock.com
  The Huffington Post's Laura Bassett asked Jeb! Bush whether he thought Dylann Storm Roof's murder of nine innocent black people at AME church was racially motivated. This was his response: "I don't know."She followed up with him and he clarified his position by retracting and then immediately restating it:Bush also said "looks to me like it was" racially motivated, b
  
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• A Man Wore a Bright Red Nazi Swastika Armband at the Seattle Ferry Terminal Last Night

  19-06-2015 21:56 via thestranger.com
  
  "It's like he's trying to flex his little Nazi bicep," said Jay Trinidad, the man who took this photo. Copyright Jay Trinidad
  Jay Trinidad, a professional photographer who lives on Bainbridge Island, was on his way home on Thursday evening when he saw a man with a red swastika armband sitting in the passenger waiting area of the downtown Seattle ferry dock. He took an extraordinary photo of the man.
  They did not exchange words. "I was walking around the terminal and then I saw him," Trinidad tol
  
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• A Man Wore a Bright Red Nazi Swasitka Armband on a Seattle Ferry Last Night

  19-06-2015 21:56 via thestranger.com
  
  "It's like he's trying to flex his little Nazi bicep," said Jay Trinidad, the man who took this photo. Copyright Jay Trinidad
  Jay Trinidad, a professional photographer who lives on Bainbridge Island, was on his way home on Thursday evening when he saw a man with a red swastika armband sitting in the passenger waiting area of the downtown Seattle ferry dock. He took an extraordinary photo of the man.
  They did not exchange words. "I was walking around the terminal and then I saw him," Trinidad tol
  
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• Four Places That Go Beyond the Typical Fried Buffalo Wing

  19-06-2015 21:34 via thestranger.com
  
  Duck wings at Old Sage: The meat is smoked, sous vide, and braised, making it unbelievably tender. Kelly O
  Recently, while working my way through a plate of crispy chicken wings ($13) at Quality Athletics (121 S King St, 420-3015) in Pioneer Square, my eight-month-old daughter began voicing displeasure from her end of the table. I couldn't blame her. As my husband and I sucked tender meat off of bones and dragged our fingers through the fantastic black garlic ranch sauce that lined the plateR
  
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• Drunk of the Week: What's the Weirdest Reason You Ever Quit a Job?

  19-06-2015 21:15 via thestranger.com
  
  "I clicked on the 'Things to Do' tab, and it told me to quit my job and then pour a beer on my head. So I did." What, whaaat??!! READ MORE! >>>Kelly O
  
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• The Mental Health of Dylann Storm Roof Doesn't Matter

  19-06-2015 21:12 via thestranger.com
  
  The deadly and racist ideas that Dylann Storm Roof subscribed to aren't "crazy." They're common.rorem / shutterstock.com
  Even if, as Newsweek's Matthew Lysiak pointed out today, Dylann Storm Roof was "taking a drug that has been linked with sudden outbursts of violence," suggesting that perhaps the mass-murderer was maybe suffering from mental illness (my hunch is that he was just a pill popper), the fact of his possible mental illness doesn't mean that in America his ideas are considered "crazy
  
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• Do You Know About the $5-and-Under Cheese Bins at QFC?

  19-06-2015 20:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Pick up four of these, some crackers, and a bottle of wine, and you're literally a party waiting to happen.Perhaps you already know about the $5 cheese bins at QFCs around town. The little baskets hang out, somewhat stealthily, at the Murray's Cheese counters. Tucked amid large wheels of aged cheddars, pricey stacks of pecorinos and parmesans, and soft, fat piles of camemberts, the baskets are filled with adorable (and very approachable) nubs and wedges of cheese, wrapped up neatly, and all pric
  
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• It's Basically Carnival at Seattle Art Museum Until 11 Tonight

  19-06-2015 20:35 via thestranger.com
  
  There's a big party at Seattle Art Museum tonight for the opening of Disguise: Masks and Global African Art (7 to 11 pm)—and seven (!) of the young contemporary artists featured in the exhibition are doing live performances tonight, and only tonight. (Including Jacolby Satterwhite, above.)Disguise is a response to SAM's African mask collection by young artists from around the world—from Lagos, Japan, Texas, the UK, South Carolina, New York, Jamaica, Kenya, India, Canada, Zimbabwe, P
  
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• Police Reports Illustrated: Spitting Mad and Chomping at the Grate

  19-06-2015 20:30 via thestranger.com
  
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• Home destroyed in Shoreline fire

  19-06-2015 20:13
  
  Home destroyed in Shoreline fire
  
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• Body found in Pierce County in possible hit-and-run

  19-06-2015 19:39
  
  Body found in Pierce County in apparent hit-and-run
  
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• The Night Two White Teenagers Set My Father's Black Church on Fire

  19-06-2015 19:37 via thestranger.com
  
  Around the time my father's church was destroyed by young white men. Charles Mudede
  I remember being shaken out of a dream by my father. I was in my bedroom. The first light of the day was visible in the window, just beyond the foot of my bed. My father, who was a pastor at the time, looked very strange. He was not angry, or panicked, or in pain, or even worried. There was in his face and movements an emotion I had never seen before. He told me we had to go to his church, Mount Zion Methodist (t
  
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• Heroin Deaths in King County Up 58 Percent Since Last Year, Other Opiate Deaths Declining

  19-06-2015 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  In 2012, Washington State formalized laws tightening access to prescription opiates—opiate deaths dramatically decreased while heroin deaths dramatically increased. UW Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute
  Over the past year in King County, heroin deaths have increased by 58 percent, other opioid deaths are down, and methamphetamine deaths—traditionally a very white phenomenon in King County—are beginning to migrate into Native American and African American populations.
  Those are a
  
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• Matt Drews Goes Gaga and Danielle Agami’s ATE9 Company Performs mouth to mouth this Weekend at Velocity Dance Center

  19-06-2015 18:41 via thestranger.com
  
  Matt Drews performs The Weltgeist and Danielle Agami'sATE9 performs mouth to mouth tonight, Fri June 19-Sun June 21, 7pm at Velocity Dance Center. $18 adv/$20 door. Andrew Swanson
  Movement artist Matt Drews creeps across the studio floor like a beautiful version of Gollum, the efforts of each muscle and tendon visible with the exaggerated slowness of his movements. Occasionally rising to a standing position, Drews’s tall frame moves with the illusion of being propelled only by the balls of
  
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• The Morning News: Seattle Responds to Charleston, Pregnant Woman Shot at Bus Stop, and Houseboat Gentrification

  19-06-2015 17:52 via thestranger.com
  
  About 70 people gathered at Westlake yesterday evening for a vigil in response to the killings of black church members in Charleston, South Carolina. They lit candles, sang songs, and held 10 minutes of silence—nine minutes for the victims, and one minute for all of those killed by white supremacist ideology. Alex Garland
  Seattle Responds to Charleston: There were vigils yesterday evening at Westlake and Seattle’s First African Methodist Episcopal Church, where Rev. Carey G. Anderson
  
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• Man tries to abduct teenager in Mason County

  19-06-2015 16:01
  
  Man tries to abduct teenager in Mason County
  
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• Condo owners say 520 bridge work causing cracks in walls

  19-06-2015 15:29
  
  Condo owners say 520 bridge work causing cracks in walls
  
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• Blabbermouth: Our Week-in-Review Podcast Talks to Mike O'Brien About Breaking the Oil-Loving Law. (Plus: Jeb! & Hill)

  19-06-2015 15:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Episode 11 of our Stranger week-in-review podcast. (Now available on iTunes.) BrAt82/Shutterstock
  This week we talk to Seattle City Council member Mike O'Brien, who paddled out into Puget Sound recently to try to stop a Shell Oil rig from heading off to drill in the Arctic.O'Brien was hauled off the water by the US Coast Guard in the process, detained, and fined $250. So were a number of other activists. Now O'Brien is asking: "Why is the law protecting Shell Oil but not the planet?" He says he'
  
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• Minivan goes through wall of Kent apartment

  19-06-2015 14:58
  
  Minivan goes through wall of Kent apartment
  
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• Pregnant woman shot, unborn baby killed at bus stop

  19-06-2015 13:29
  
  Pregnant teenager shot in stomach in Rainier Valley
  
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• Pregnant woman shot in stomach loses baby

  19-06-2015 13:29
  
  Pregnant teenager shot in stomach in Rainier Valley
  
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• Seattle Gangs Unite To March Downtown Tomorrow #UnitedHoodMarchSeattle

  19-06-2015 04:57 via thestranger.com
  
  Tomorrow, Friday June 19, the first #UnitedHoodMarchSeattle will take place downtown from 5:30p.m. to 8:30 p.m. starting at the SPD headquarters on 610 5th Ave and heading towards Myrtle Edwards Park.I spoke to one of the event's organizers, Amir Islam, about the march. He said:So, I'm from 2-0 and Yesler, gang affiliated all my life pretty much. Myself and another brother who's from the Southend, had gotten together around the time of the Baltimore situation, and we've just been thinking about
  
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• I Love Televison: The Mob-tastic Return of True Detective

  19-06-2015 02:03 via thestranger.com
  
  Everyone's got mob probs in True Detective season 2.
  UGGHHH, BEING "OWNED" BY THE MOB IS THE WORST! Now, this isn't to say I don't appreciate what the mob has done for me. Unlike certain people I know—do you see me glaring at you? I'm glaring at you—they were absolutely thrilled to help me pay off my gambling debts. And when I found myself in jail (again) on trumped-up charges (again) of stealing a police car and banging the mayor's daughter in the backseat (again), who was it that b
  
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• Free "Out to Lunch" Concert Series Features Industrial Revelation, Craft Spells, and 27 Other Acts

  19-06-2015 01:57 via thestranger.com
  
  This summer, Industrial Revelation are one of 29 acts you can experience for free downtown during your lunch hour. Beth Crook
  The 37th annual free Out to Lunch Concert Series features 2014 Stranger Music Genius winners Industrial Revelation, Seattle's own dream-pop group Craft Spells, ex-War harmonica king Lee Oskar, the Maldives, Kenya-born folk-soul, singer-songwriterNaomi Wachira, along with 24 other artists.All concert take place on various dates starting July 9 and ending September 4. There
  
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• Guest Editorial: Municipal Broadband Is Far from Dead In Seattle

  19-06-2015 01:07 via thestranger.com
  Devin Glaser, a member of Upgrade Seattle, argues that municipal broadband is still possible in Seattle, despite what you may have heard about a recent city report on the idea. ASHARKYU/Shutterstock
  Last week the City of Seattle released its latest study on building out municipal Internet here in Seattle. The in-depth report gave clear specifics on multiple pathways for how Seattle can create our own Internet utility.
  The report’s filled with lots of different options as to how to move for
  
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• To Ride or Not to Ride: The Fremont Solstice Cyclists

  19-06-2015 01:01 via thestranger.com
  
  The 2015 summer solstice is almost upon us! Saturday, June 20th, tons of free souls (not giving two f*cks about nudity) will lose their clothes, gain some body paint, and ride bicycles in the annual Fremont Solstice Parade. What do you think about this long-standing Seattle tradition? Let's vote about it!
  "Miss [Solstice Cyclist] America, circa 2013 Kelly OBuy tickets for the weekend-long Fremont Solstice Fairhere. See more photos of cyclists from the 2013 Solstice Parade here, and find informat
  
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• Brian Brown Suggests Terry and I Stole Our Son From His Biological Parents

  19-06-2015 00:12 via thestranger.com
  
  Brian Brown, the head of the National Organization for Marriage, spoke yesterday at an anti-gay conference hosted by anti-gay pastor Jim Garlow at his anti-gay church. A lot of anti-gay assholes had a lot of anti-gay things to say at this anti-gay conference. (Although one anti-gay preacher got caught telling the truth: preachers and pastors and priests and rabbis and imams are not going to get arrested for refusing to marry gay couples.) But gay blogger and activist (and husband and dad) Jerem
  
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