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• Do You Hate or Love to Hate Food Porn? Go to Elissa Washuta's Book Launch at Hugo House

  01-07-2015 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  For the love of God, calm down. It's a waffle.Joshua Resnick / shutterstock.comIt's no secret that the food pornographers of Pinterest, Instagram, and the Food Network present a highly aestheticized relationship between who we are and what we eat, but it's easy to forget how powerfully this new mode—the barrage of filtered vegetables and french words—influences the way we interact with food. The fetish for photogenic food, in part, inflates the price of a fucking salad to $12, heirlo
  
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• The Eternal Re-Terminator—As Promised, Schwarzenegger Is Back in a Loopy Reboot of His Only Great Film

  01-07-2015 23:16 via thestranger.com
  
  Time travel is lonely.
  In the first and greatest film in the Terminator series, James Cameron's The Terminator, a terrible loop is established. We have two points of time: 1984 and 2029. In the latter point, a war between machines and humans is about to end in a victory for the humans. The machines concede that they have lost the war in space, but they do not surrender. Instead, at the last minute, they add another dimension to the war: time. The machines send a cyborg Terminator T-800 Model 101
  
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• Oh, Look. The City's Finally Giving Out Those Minimum Wage Education Grants It Promised Months Ago

  01-07-2015 22:21 via thestranger.com
  
  Remember this signing of Seattle's minimum wage law? It was more than a year ago. City of Seattle
  The city's new Office of Labor Standards today announced $1 million in grants it will hand out to community organizations for education about labor laws.About. Fucking. Time.
  This is the money the city council set aside back in November. It wasn't ready to go out when the minimum wage increase took effect in April. At that time, the office didn't even have a director. (The mayor announced he'd hired
  
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• Don't Get Too Drunk to Register to Vote This Week!

  01-07-2015 21:12 via thestranger.com
  
  Eli went to a Fourth of July parade in western Montana once. This could be us IF YOU REGISTER TO VOTE BY JULY 6. Eli Sanders
  Citizens! Are you staring longingly out the window, waiting for a Fourth of July weekend in which you can play with other people's dogs and run around without a shirt, folding your bellybutton into a hairy mouth that recites the Pledge of Allegiance? Do you plan on getting so drunk that you forget how broken the system is? Are you angry about all the shitty, shitty, fucked
  
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• Chiho Aoshima's 64-Foot-Long Animation Transcends Japanese Neo-Pop

  01-07-2015 20:49 via thestranger.com
  
  'TAKAAMANOHARA’ (2015): This is only a freeze-frame, from a distance. The imagery moves constantly, and you can never take it all in. INSTALLATION VIEW OF “CHIHO AOSHIMA: REBIRTH OF THE WORLD,” 2015, ASIAN ART MUSEUM, SEATTLE ARTWORK©CHIHO AOSHIMA/KAIKAI KIKI CO., LTD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PHOTO BY JOSHUA WHITE
  There's a screaming in the galleries at Seattle Asian Art Museum. It's an alarm, bleeding panic through the rooms from a video that's screening in the back. Inside
  
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• Chiho Aoshima's 64-Foot-Long Animation Reinvigorates Japanese Neo-Pop

  01-07-2015 20:49 via thestranger.com
  
  'TAKAAMANOHARA’ (2015): This is only a freeze-frame, from a distance. The imagery moves constantly, and you can never take it all in. INSTALLATION VIEW OF “CHIHO AOSHIMA: REBIRTH OF THE WORLD,” 2015, ASIAN ART MUSEUM, SEATTLE ARTWORK©CHIHO AOSHIMA/KAIKAI KIKI CO., LTD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PHOTO BY JOSHUA WHITE
  There's a screaming in the galleries at Seattle Asian Art Museum. It's an alarm, bleeding panic through the rooms from a video that's screening in the back. Inside
  
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• After Developer Gets $3 Million Break on Housing Fee, Mike O'Brien Calls for Audit of City Planning Department

  01-07-2015 19:39 via thestranger.com
  
  After the city's planning department charged a developer less than it should have in affordable housing fees, Council Member Mike O'Brien wants an audit of the department. Alex Garland
  Labor and housing advocates gathered with city council members Mike O'Brien and Kshama Sawant Tuesday to declare victory on one piece of their challenge to the massive Hedreen hotel project in downtown Seattle.
  The war over the 1,600-room convention hotel is far from over, but Tuesday was about celebrating one spe
  
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• Ramiro's Place Apartments Offers Affordable Housing Option on Capitol Hill

  01-07-2015 18:54 via thestranger.com
  
  On the plus side, it's only 52 cents per square inch.
  July Fool's!
  Sorry, I know microapartmentalizationizing is old news, but still. STILL! Pretty cool that they got Bruce Willis to star in their orientation video, though:Also: The name of the rental company is Karma Residential. "With the Karma Brand, you can expect a great location, Great customer service, and well maintained buildings. We strive to create a amazing communities which our residents will want to stay at and share with friends a
  
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• Investigators have "ruled out natural causes" in Wenatchee wildfire

  01-07-2015 18:37
  
  Homes burned, more in danger in Wenatchee
  
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• 62 People Killed by Police in the Past 30 Days

  01-07-2015 18:14 via thestranger.com
  
  The policing of America looks like a battlefield.AstroStar/Shutterstock
  According to study conducted by the Washington Post, a total of 462 people have been shot and killed by the police in 2015. We have five more months left in the year. As for the past 30 days, it is estimated that "at least 62 people" have been shot dead. These numbers look less like crime statistics and more like those of a war.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• The Morning News: State Government Avoids Shutdown, Jay Inslee Signs a Budget Into Law Just Before Midnight

  01-07-2015 17:56 via thestranger.com
  
  The state government: Still running this morning. Governor's Office
  "Twenty-One Minutes to Spare": So said State Senator Jim Hargrove after Governor Jay Inslee signed into law a $38.2 billion budget just before midnight, narrowly avoiding a shutdown of state government. He called it a "darn good budget for the people of the state of Washington."
  The Budget Will Cut Tuition at UW: By 15 percent in its second year, according to the AP. Senate Republicans wanted an even larger 25 percent tuition cu
  
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• Health Care, Marriage Equality, and A-Plus Presidenting

  01-07-2015 15:02 via thestranger.com
  
  MARK DAVIS / THINKSTOCK
  MONDAY, JUNE 22 This week of affordable health care, marriage equality, and an American president at the top of his game kicked off in California, where today a superior court judge struck down the Sodomite Suppression Act, a proposed ballot initiative that sought to make homosexuality punishable by "death by bullets to the head or by any other convenient method." Filed by some Bible-thumping loon for $200, the would-be initiative was rejected as "unconstitutional on its
  
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• Gov. Jay Inslee signs new two-year state budget

  01-07-2015 14:18
  
  Gov. Jay Inslee signs new two-year state budget
  
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• New wildfire near Quincy forcing evacuations

  01-07-2015 14:01
  
  Wildfire near Quincy forcing evacuations
  
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• Evacuation orders lifted in new wildfire near Quincy

  01-07-2015 14:01
  
  Wildfire near Quincy forcing evacuations
  
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• Your Complete Guide to Things to Do This Fourth of July

  01-07-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Fireworks, Concerts and Drag Burlesque Shows, All in One Place[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Ted 2: Thou Shalt Not Breed

  01-07-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Ted 2: Thou Shalt Not Breedby Marjorie SkinnerAgainst the odds of a stupid premise—a teddy bear named Ted (voiced by Seth MacFarlane, who also writes and directs) comes alive and grows up, along with the little boy who loves him (John, played by Mark Wahlberg), to be a foul-mouthed womanizing pothead—the original Ted kind of worked. It maximized the contrast of ostensible cuteness with a willingness to go to outer extremes of depravity: there were impressive drug freakouts, major com
  
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• Magic Mike XXL Is the Feminist Male Stripper Movie You've Been Waiting For

  01-07-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Magic Mike XXL Is the Feminist Male Stripper Movie You've Been Waiting Forby Elinor JonesThere is a phenomenon in sequels: They need to trade off the success of the first film, so they need a similar story. But they also have to at least pretend to offer something new. In dance, a cappella, or cheerleading movies, this usually means rounding up everybody from the first movie, then sending them to a national competition of some sort—one last hurrah, but for real this time.So I wasn't very e
  
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• Eden Belongs on the Dance Floor

  01-07-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Eden Belongs on the Dance Floorby Charles MudedeI’m almost certain that Eden—a fictional account of the rise and fall of a Parisian house DJ named Paul (his time is the 1990s and the ’00s)—will make my top five list for the year’s best films.Why? For one, the way the movie weaves music and narrative, beats and story, sounds and images, dancing and fucking, singing and talking, soundtrack and cinematography is so effortless (no seams on the transitions) that one wonders if it is better
  
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• Carol Reed's Classic The Third Man Gets a Slick Digital Restoration

  01-07-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Carol Reed's Classic The Third Man Gets a Slick Digital Restorationby Erik HenriksenEveryone thinks of The Third Man as an Orson Welles movie—despite the fact Welles neither wrote nor directed it, and despite the fact he doesn't even show up until the film's already been rolling for a long stretch.In true Welles style, once he does show up, he makes everyone else seem superfluous. As Harry Lime—an ostensibly dead expat in a Vienna that's rubbled and scarred from WWII—Welles is
  
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• Your New One-Stop Shop For Things to Do During Capitol Hill Block Party

  01-07-2015 02:37 via thestranger.com
  
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• What to Eat (and Not Eat) When You're Backpacking

  01-07-2015 02:37 via thestranger.com
  
  What to Eat (and Not Eat) When You're Backpackingby Angela GarbesBackpacking requires you to carry all your food—and everything else you need—so keeping your pack weight low is crucial. Recently, an avid backpacker told me he brings only jerky and dehydrated fruit, eschewing even the most lightweight camp stove in order to keep his load light. That sounds like a great idea, but I love cooking too much to stop doing it just because I'm not in my kitchen.The first time I went backpacki
  
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• Trans Am's Pyroclastic Fun

  01-07-2015 02:37 via thestranger.com
  
  Trans Am's Pyroclastic Funby Trent MoormanTen albums later, and the three-piece known as Trans Am is still barreling through layers of earth crust and rock. Post rock, prog rock, hard rock, electro rock—their drill bits have seen it all. Bassist Nathan Means, guitarist Phil Manley, and drummer Sebastian Thomson stroke their instruments with well-developed finesse. Signature portions of their sound ooze with slathering, pulsating synthesizers. Thomson is the Muhammad Ali of drummers—s
  
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• Time to Get Rid of the Seattle Police Department's Bad Cops

  01-07-2015 02:37 via thestranger.com
  
  Time to Get Rid of the Seattle Police Department's Bad Copsby Ansel HerzThe last time a Seattle police chief tried to fire one of the city's 1,300 officers for using excessive force, the officer got his job back through a special tribunal stacked two-to-one with police. That was seven years ago.The tribunal's ruling is a chilling read. According to the report, officer Donald George approached a colleague's patrol car on April 10, 2007. A 16-year-old Somali American teenager, arrested for breakin
  
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• The Famous (and Not-So-Famous) Writers I Met While Working at Hugo House

  01-07-2015 02:37 via thestranger.com
  
  The Famous (and Not-So-Famous) Writers I Met While Working at Hugo HouseRelated location: Hugo Houseby Brian McGuiganDuring the 10 years I worked at Hugo House, the second largest writers' center in the country, I met hundreds of writers, from nobodies who have always been somebodies in their own minds to best-selling authors your aunt's book club has read.I started at Hugo House as a 22-year-old intern who couldn't get into an MFA program and worked my way up to program director, holding other
  
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• The Eternal Re-Terminator

  01-07-2015 02:37 via thestranger.com
  
  The Eternal Re-Terminator—As Promised, Schwarzenegger Is Back in a Loopy Reboot of His Only Great Filmby Charles MudedeIn the first and greatest film in the Terminator series, James Cameron's The Terminator, a terrible loop is established. We have two points of time: 1984 and 2029. In the latter point, a war between machines and humans is about to end in a victory for the humans. The machines concede that they have lost the war in space, but they do not surrender. Instead, at the last minu
  
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• The Citizen Kane of Orson Welles Documentaries

  01-07-2015 02:37 via thestranger.com
  
  Magician Is the Citizen Kane of Orson Welles DocumentariesTAGS: filmRELATED FILM: Magician: The Astonishing Life & Work of Orson WellesRELATED CONTENT: Why Yes, Orson Welles DID Do the Narration for the Revenge of the Nerds Trailer | Me and Orson Welles: A High School Theater Geek's Wet Dream | Welles Welles Wellesby Sean NelsonThe life of the deep Orson Welles nerd is riddled with redundancy. Though there is a library full of secondary source material to complement the relatively few films
  
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• Heart Is in the Grooves

  01-07-2015 02:37 via thestranger.com
  
  Cascade Record Pressing Brings Vinyl Manufacturing to Oregonby Ned LannamannOregon's first vinyl pressing plant is now open for business.On May 28, Cascade Record Pressing began accepting orders for vinyl projects, with runs of 500 records and up, at their brand-new plant in Milwaukie.The transformation of Cascade from wild idea to economic reality is the work of three partners: Mark Rainey, Adam Gonsalves, and Steve Lanning, all vinyl devotees and music obsessives. Rainey, Cascade's chief opera
  
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• Bleaker Than Bleak House

  01-07-2015 02:37 via thestranger.com
  
  The Immense Loneliness of Jim Shepard's Holocaust Novel The Book of Aronby Rich SmithBefore we can even get into the story of The Book of Aron, the bleaker-than-Bleak-House narrative of boys smuggling turnips and information through the heavily guarded walls of the Jewish ghetto, the decline of an orphanage therein, and the looming specter of Treblinka—before we can dig into the language, it seems important to ask this question: Why did a non-Jew living in the 21st century write a book abo
  
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• Big Screen, Big Scream

  01-07-2015 02:37 via thestranger.com
  
  Chiho Aoshima's 64-Foot-Long Animation Reinvigorates Japanese Neo-Popby Jen Graves{{ image: 1 }}There's a screaming in the galleries at Seattle Asian Art Museum. It's an alarm, bleeding panic through the rooms from a video that's screening in the back. Inside that dark room one afternoon last month, people sat, astounded.The video, a world premiere, depicts a tsunami slamming into a city, knocking down towers. It is a digital animation crawling with drawn detail: a byzantine cartoon. There is no
  
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• Big Phone's Machine Intelligence

  01-07-2015 02:37 via thestranger.com
  
  Big Phone's Machine Intelligence—How Producer/Developer Kenric McDowell Made Seattle's Best Techno Release in a DecadeReleases Under the Moniker Big Phoneby Dave SegalEveryone cursing the influx of tech people to Seattle should meet Kenric McDowell. An electronic-music producer who records under the name Big Phone, he is the antithesis of your most feverish stereotyping. This is no money-obsessed brogrammer.As a machine-intelligence designer and prototyper at Google, his team recently deve
  
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• Federal Judge, Decrying Local Attempts to "Grab Power," Says He's the Boss of Police Reform (And It's Going Well)

  01-07-2015 02:36 via thestranger.com
  
  Police chief Kathleen O'Toole, center in white jacket, listens while Judge James Robart holds forth about the SPD's reforms. Ansel Herz
  If you like big declarations from on high, then I have good news for you: James Robart, a 68-year-old judge who oversees the Seattle Police Department's compliance with a Department of Justice reform agreement, said this morning that he is pleased with the department's progress."I am so pleased that my city is not New York, not Charleston, not Baltimore," said R
  
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• Against the Odds, Summit Block Party Will Happen August 22

  01-07-2015 01:07 via thestranger.com
  
  Many people thought Summit Hill Block Party was history after the Summit Inn—its operational base—was sold last year, but the event is happening after all, on August 22.
  17 acts representing a healthy cross-section of Seattle's underground rock, electronic, and hiphop scenes will perform on three stages.The line up includes authoritative, conscious rapper RA Scion, psych-rock powerhouse Terminal Fuzz Terror, electronic torch-song brooders youryoungbody, ex-Rose Windows-led rock clas
  
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• The Bozos in Olympia Have Killed the Bill to Increase Funding for Washington Filmmaking

  01-07-2015 00:57 via thestranger.com
  
  Enough with Olympia, let's focus on this place.Photo by Chris Hadfield/NASA
  Washington Filmworks has announced that SB 6027 (the bill to expand the incentive fund for film production in Washington from $3.5 million to $10 million a year) "was not included in the final budget" of the state legislature.the whole effort to increase film funding to a level that is still far from adequate was a big waste of time. Why? Because when you are dealing with Olympia, you are dealing with a bunch of hicks wh
  
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• We Are Now Your One-Stop Shop for Things to Do During Capitol Hill Block Party

  01-07-2015 00:42 via thestranger.com
  
  This picture is from last year's CHBP, but the song remains the same, jean shorts-wise. Kelly O
  To the tune of "Ready or Not" by the Fugees: Like it or not, here it comes, it's going to find you and make you want it: Capitol Hill Block Party, 2015 edition. July 24 through 26 finds the contested Pike/Pine corridor hosting heavyweights like alt-rock heroes Built to Spill, badass electro punks Julie Ruin, cosmically-inclined hiphop scientists Shabazz Palaces, and recently-crowned prince of diet rav
  
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• You're Getting an Extra Second Today, Don't Waste It

  01-07-2015 00:12 via thestranger.com
  
  Neil deGrasse Tyson is a giver. Helga Esteb/Shutterstock
  Neil deGrasse Tyson, friendly astrophysicist extraordinaire, has informed us via Facebook that the minute of 4:59 p.m. Pacific Time will have 61 seconds in it.Why is this happening!? He explains:Today marks the 26th time a Leap Second will be added to the calendar. In the second half of the 20th century, we started tracking time via atomic clocks, which happen to be more accurate and precise than the rotating Earth itself — our techn
  
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