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• The Craftswoman Behind the Artist: An Interview with Florist Nisha Kelen About Bouquet XI

  22-06-2015 23:33 via thestranger.com
  
  Nisha Kelen changes the art every 10 days. Courtesy of Nisha Kelen
  In this week's paper, I wrote about Bouquet XI, an installation of flowers designed to make you sneeze, at the Henry Art Gallery. The living piece, which gets refreshed every 10 days in a complicated dance involving two ladders and three people, is intended to evoke the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. All the plants are native to the contested lands in and around Israel, and several have strong allergenic properties.
  Bouquet XI is
  
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• In Music News: Apple Bows to Taylor Swift, New Janet Jackson Track After Seven-Year Hiatus, New New Order and More

  22-06-2015 23:19 via thestranger.com
  
  Swift was all, "Apple are you JOKING?" and then Apple was like, "JK, JK. We'll get you the money, Tay."JStone / Shutterstock.com
  • Last night, Apple announced that it will pay revenue to labels during the free three-month trial period it's offering to users on Apple Music. And then Twitter exploded. (Now, will that money go to the artists or their labels? Who knows! It's all a fun guessing game out there in the Wild West of the music industry.) In the labels' initial contact with the new s
  
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• In Music News: Apple Bows to Taylor Swift, New Janet Jackson Track After 7-Year Hiatus, New New Order and More

  22-06-2015 23:19 via thestranger.com
  
  Swift was all, "Apple are you JOKING?" and then Apple was like, "Jk, jk. We'll get you the money, Tay."JStone / Shutterstock.com
  • Last night, Apple announced that it will pay revenue to labels during the free three-month trial period it's offering to users on Apple Music. And then Twitter exploded. (Now, will that money go to the artists or their labels? Who knows! It's all a fun guessing game out there in the Wild West of the music industry.) In the labels' initial contact with the new s
  
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• I, Anonymous: Next Time, Just Reject Me

  22-06-2015 23:14 via thestranger.com
  
  steven weissman
  You profiled me. I know you did, because we had mutual friends and you knew how hard turning 40 was for me. Then you just turned up one day. I wish I had never let you sit down next to me at the bar. I wish I hadn't been beguiled by your bedroom eyes. I was going through a crisis when I asked you over, and I would rather have been rejected then, instead of what came after. The worst part is that you touched me in such a way that I can't erase your existence from my memory...
  
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• District Date: Watching Strangers Give Kshama Sawant Money and Praise, Plus Downing Drinks With Her Challengers

  22-06-2015 22:02 via thestranger.com
  
  "Often I think people are looking for a politically neutral way to deal with this," Council Member Kshama Sawant says about affordable housing. "But there isn't one. The fact is it is a deeply unequal society and if you want to take measures to address the inequality, then it requires challenging the status quo."Kelly O
  I just have one question: Is the guy in the tie-dye shirt a plant?
  I am standing in front of the Anthem, a new workforce housing development at Yesler Terrace, with City Council
  
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• Television Play Moore Theatre Tomorrow, Seattle Musicians Channel Their Best Tunes

  22-06-2015 21:49 via thestranger.com
  
  NYC's Television plays the PNW tomorrow, Tuesday, June 23.
  Legendary NYC rock band Television play the Moore Theatre tomorrow, Tuesday, June 23. They are, of course, responsible for one of the greatest albums ever, Marquee Moon—the Sgt. Pepper's for bohos and poetic mofos born in the late '50s and early '60s. (Only guitarist Richard Lloyd is missing from that LP's lineup for this tour; Jimmy Rip replaces him.)The 1978 follow-up, Adventure, was about 75 percent as great, which is still amaz
  
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• Television Play Moore Theater Tomorrow. Seattle Musicians Channel Their Best Tunes.

  22-06-2015 21:49 via thestranger.com
  
  NYC's Television plays the PNW tomorrow, Tuesday June 23,
  Legendary NYC rock band Television play the Moore Theatre tomorrow, Tuesday June 23. They are, of course, responsible for one of the greatest albums ever, Marquee Moon—the Sgt. Pepper's for bohos and poetic mofos born in the late '50s and early '60s. (Only guitarist Richard Lloyd is missing from that LP's lineup for this tour; Jimmy Rip replaces him.)The 1978 follow-up, Adventure, was about 75 percent as great, which is still amazin
  
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• Mike Huckabee: My Position on Displaying Confederate Battle Flag is Irrelevant

  22-06-2015 20:14 via thestranger.com
  
  It's irrelevant because he isn't personally displaying the Confederate battle flag:
  NBC's Chuck Todd made several attempts on Sunday to get presidential candidate Mike Huckabee to weigh in on whether or not South Carolina should remove the Confederate battle flag from the capitol grounds after the murder of nine black people at a church in Charleston last week. "I still feel like it's not an issue for a presidential candidate," the former Arkansas governor responded.... "I don’t personally
  
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• Should the LGBT Pride Parade Be Canceled?

  22-06-2015 19:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Originally posted Sunday morning... moving up.
  In the mailbag...
  Gay pride should not go forward in memory of our black brothers and sisters who were gunned down in a safe place, a place of freedom by a culture that encourages and embraces racism, a culture of evil.This was not the action of just one man, it was the action of all of us. We as members of the LGBT community cannot stand by and remain silent. Let us stand up and say, "Not in our community, not in our country."
  Cheryl C.👣
  Cancel
  
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• Marc Maron Interviewed POTUS

  22-06-2015 19:44 via thestranger.com
  
  POTUS: Optimistic but frustrated. Everett Collection / Shutterstock.com
  ICYMI, Marc Maron interviewed the president of the United States on Friday. The episode, which was posted today, covered a wide range of topics, from Obama's upbringing and racial identity to his feelings about red state/blue state politics and race relations in America.Here are some highlights:On the shooting in Charleston and mass shootings in general:
  The grieving that the country feels is real....[but] It's not enough to
  
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• The Morning News: Officer Involved in Pasco Shooting Resigns, No Snowpack in Washington State

  22-06-2015 16:38 via thestranger.com
  
  Snow, yes; snowpack, no. Dan Schreiber/Shutterstock.com
  There Is No Snowpack in Washington Right Now: “That doesn’t mean there isn’t any snow at higher elevations. There are glaciers up there,” Jeff Marti of the state Department of Ecology told the Seattle Times. “It does mean the snowpack — what we depend on for our water supply — has essentially gone to zero already for the summer.”
  #ParadiseFireOlympic Natl Park, #WAFire
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