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• Hey, Seattle Times: It's Not True that Being Naked in Public Is Illegal

  07-07-2015 23:47
  
  Quinn Franzen backstage at ACT Theatre during Threesome last month, not breaking any laws. Kelly O
  It's no secret the Seattle Times is written for, you know, an older audience, but geez, Misha Berson's hedging, halting, nudity-can-be-okay-sometimes editorial doesn't just sound like it was written for my great aunt's bridge club, it's factually wrong. I subscribe to the print edition, and as I was reading it I was writing things in the margins like "no" and "no" and "?" and "!!!" and "OMG."
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• Cascade Record Pressing Brings Vinyl Manufacturing to Oregon

  07-07-2015 22:36
  
  Cascade Record Pressing owners Adam Gonsalves, Steve Lanning, and Mark Rainey. JAMES REXROAD
  Oregon'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, Ca
  
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• Rollover crash closes Seattle street

  07-07-2015 21:53
  
  Rollover crash closes Seattle street
  
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• The Carlile Room Opens, Little Uncle Adds Big Uncle, Kedai Makan Finds a Bigger Home

  07-07-2015 21:37
  
  Wiley Frank and Poncharee Kounpungchart (aka PK) are adding Big Uncle to the Little Uncle family this winter.Kyle Johnson
  Now OpenThe Carlile Room, the 19th restaurant in the Tom Douglas empire, is now open, right across the street from the Paramount Theatre. With theater-goers in mind, the restaurant offers three-course menus designed to get diners in and out before shows start. There are also à la carte veggie dishes, meat plates meant to be shared family-style, and plenty of cheeses, app
  
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• Hating on Junkies and Drunks Shows an Embarrassing Lack of Existential Empathy

  07-07-2015 21:06
  
  A view from an apartment on First Hill, a neighborhood one Crosscut writer believes is being ruined by urban planners. Charles Mudede
  What I find most disturbing in the pro-car and anti-public-space post on Crosscut, "Unreal city planning is hurting a real Seattle neighborhood," is the author's lack of existential sympathy with a class of people who spend much of the day and night high or drunk or both.Don Glickstein, the author of the post, says he lives on First Hill in a condo, does not say w
  
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• Listen Here: New Music from Tanlines, Helen, and Young Thug

  07-07-2015 20:58
  
  Tanlines play Neumos tomorrow, Wednesday July 8, with Mas Ysa.Let's talk about some tracks that you can add to your summer playlists.They recruited Orange Is the New Black's Natasha Leon and Girls' Alex Karpovskyfor the video, which is in danger of erring on the cutesy side, but the whole thing is just so darn likeable. (How could you ever dislike Nicky and Ray?)What's that you say? You'd like to catch a live performance of Tanlines? Well, you're in luck. They'll hit Neumos tomorrow, Wednesday J
  
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• The Stranger Obtains Hillary Clinton's REAL Spotify Playlist

  07-07-2015 20:09
  
  Hillary's playlist rocks so hard she has to wear a helmet when she listens to it.Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com
  Those masked Fawkeses over at Anonymous heard my plea. Last night, The Stranger received a link to Hillary Clinton's Spotify playlist, "Rod Rock," along with a brief note from someone claiming to be an affiliate of the group. The source claims to have found the playlist buried in private emails that Hillary had been writing to [email protected], in moments, the source suspects, o
  
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• NYT Glosses Over Repuiblican Efforts to Drive Up Abortion Rate in Colorado

  07-07-2015 20:01
  
  The New York Times writes up Colorado's hugely successful effort—funded by a private grant—to combat unplanned pregnancies in that state:
  Over the past six years, Colorado has conducted one of the largest experiments with long-acting birth control. If teenagers and poor women were offered free intrauterine devices and implants that prevent pregnancy for years, state officials asked, would those women choose them?
  They did in a big way, and the results were startling. The birthrate am
  
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• NYT Glosses Over Republican Efforts to Drive Up Abortion Rate in Colorado

  07-07-2015 20:01
  
  The New York Times writes up Colorado's hugely successful effort—funded by a private grant—to combat unplanned pregnancies in that state:
  Over the past six years, Colorado has conducted one of the largest experiments with long-acting birth control. If teenagers and poor women were offered free intrauterine devices and implants that prevent pregnancy for years, state officials asked, would those women choose them?
  They did in a big way, and the results were startling. The birthrate am
  
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• Duwamish Tribe Vows to Keep Fighting for Recognition, Despite Last Week's Decision

  07-07-2015 19:25
  
  A Lummi canoe glides by an outline of Suquamish-Duwamish leader Chief Sealth. Alex Garland
  On July 2, the Obama administration told Seattle's Duwamish tribe that they don't qualify for long-sought federal recognition. The Duwamish—who include descendants of Chief Sealth, or Seattle, the Suquamish-Duwamish leader who signed the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott—have been fighting for recognition for decades. Last week's decision, supposedly final, prevents the Duwamish from accessing those
  
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• The Morning News: Subsidized Preschool, Ballard NIMBYs, and the Comeback of Preventable Diseases

  07-07-2015 17:21
  
  Council President Tim Burgess has long fought for universal pre-K in Seattle. Seattle City Council/Flickr
  City Reveals Sites for Subsidized Preschool Pilot Program: Check them out over here. The pilot program will make preschool free for families making up to 300 percent of the federal poverty line and accommodate 2,000 kids by 2018. Next stop: universal pre-K!
  Mike O'Brien's Low-Rise Development Legislation Passed 8-1: Remember when Heidi wrote about that land use bill that was making people cr
  
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• Another Reason Why Seattleites Should Eat Herring

  07-07-2015 16:33
  
  Could eating more herring help boost the fish's population numbers? Kelly O
  Last month, we wrote about an effort by local restaurateurs to bring back herring—once a staple of the Seattle diet and now fished primarily for bait and shipped overseas to Japan. There are a lot of reasons to bring it back: In addition to being culturally significant, the bony fish is also extremely tasty and really good for you—chock-full of vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acids. But there's maybe another reas
  
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• District Date: Imagining a Date with Jean Godden and Talking Transit and Taxes with Her Challengers

  07-07-2015 15:02
  
  Transit advocate Rob Johnson is racking up cash and endorsements in his campaign against incumbent Jean Godden.Kelly O
  I really hoped to use this space to tell you about the sweet date I went on with Jean Godden.It would be all about how we tooled around the district, checking out her favorite badass lady-owned businesses and talking (again) about what bullshit it was that she got paid less than her male coworkers at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer back in the day. She’d show me the neighbo
  
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• Driver who fled after passenger killed arrested in Skagit County

  07-07-2015 14:21
  
  Driver who fled after passenger killed arrested in Skagit County
  
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• 2-year-old girl, 4-year-old boy hurt in South Seattle car accident

  07-07-2015 02:28
  
  2-year-old girl hurt in South Seattle car accident
  
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• Ballard Business Owners: Get Seattle’s Homeless Away From Us!

  07-07-2015 02:07
  
  Sites labeled in green are up for use for new homeless encampments this year. See a full map below.
  Claiming their trust in the mayor's office has been "shaken" and asking the city to "put the brakes on this process immediately," Ballard business groups are throwing a fit about a possible new homeless encampment in their neighborhood. The letter from business groups to the mayor was first reported today by My Ballard, where last week's announcement that there might be a new encampment in the nei
  
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• Watching a Confederate Flag Parade Fender-Bender Is So Satisfying

  07-07-2015 01:01
  
  The man who recorded this week-old video appears to have been getting some gas when he noticed a parade honoring the confederate flag motoring down the road. At 1:07, right after the cameraman seems to be at his saddest, saying "I don't know what the fuck going on" in response to this gratuitous display of an oppressive symbol, the parade comes to an abrupt halt.I first saw this delicious bit of schadenfreude on Ta-Nehisi Coates's Twitter feed, which has been excellent as of late. He's funny, a
  
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