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• How Many Seattle City Light Customers Are Affected by Power Outages Right Now?

  08-07-2015 23:46 via thestranger.com
  
  It's over 9,000!*
  Crews working to clear a fault at our East Pine Substation and restore service to about 9,700 customers. Udates at http://t.co/EUL5WkjaDL
  — Seattle City Light (@SEACityLight) July 8, 2015
  According to Seattle City Light's website, there are currently four separate outages and 9,655 customers affected. There's a map of the areas affected by the outages—much of the Jefferson St. and Denny Way corridors on Capitol Hill, and almost all of Madrona, over here on their web
  
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• At 35, I Thought I'd Be Taking the Plunge into Marriage—Instead, I Went to Tulum with a Bunch of Strangers

  08-07-2015 23:14 via thestranger.com
  
  ALISON GEORGE
  I am not what you would call a risk taker. I cringe when I see someone bicycling without a helmet. I wait an hour before swimming after I eat. I've visited ski resorts in Colorado, Germany, and Switzerland, but I've never hit the slopes. I prefer to trudge safely along flat surfaces in snowshoes instead.
  But when it comes to relationships, I'm like the sucker in the dunk tank at the county fair. Hit my heart hard enough, and I plunge right in.
  When I met Dan, I didn't jump into th
  
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• Thousands lose power after Seattle City light employee accident

  08-07-2015 23:05
  
  Thousands without power Wednesday afternoon in Seattle
  
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• Thousands lose power after 3 Seattle City Light employees injured

  08-07-2015 23:05
  
  Thousands without power Wednesday afternoon in Seattle
  
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• Keep Your Eyes Peeled for Newaxeyes' Stolen Guitar

  08-07-2015 23:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The guitar has distinctive features including sharktooth inlays and a reverse headstock with a holographic eye. Abby WilliamsonOn July 5, someone stole a guitar owned by Will Hayes of innovative Seattle sampledelic group, Newaxeyes.On his Facebook page, Hayes wrote:
  If anyone sees this Jackson DXMG [view photo above] floating around town, local music stores, pawnshops etc. please contact me at 206.459.1015. It's pretty distinctive: sharktooth inlays, reverse headstock with a holographic eye on i
  
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• Eight Photos From Last Night's #BlackLivesMatter March Against the Terrorist Attack in Charleston

  08-07-2015 22:48 via thestranger.com
  
  Last night, hundreds gathered inside First African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church on Capitol Hill, a sister church to Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, North Carolina, the site of a terrorist massacre on June 17. Dylan Roof, the suspect in the case, was indicted today on nine counts of murder. It's not clear why he wasn't charged with terrorism. Among the crowd packed into the sweltering church yesterday, I saw Mayor Ed Murray, City Council Members Bruce Harrell, Tim Burgess, Kshama Sawant, ca
  
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• Actually, You Can't Swim Everywhere in Seattle

  08-07-2015 22:28 via thestranger.com
  
  JACK DAWS PUT UP THAT SIGN It's a work of art, "not a real sign," as the sign marking the work of art/sign says, drolly. Daws's sign is part of the project Duwamish Revealed, which involves dozens of installations and performances throughout the summer along the river. JG
  In today's paper, I wrote a guide to swimming in Seattle, starting with, "Whenever people ask me where I swim in Seattle, I tell them I go to the edge of the land and get in—everywhere."
  Actually, there's a very significa
  
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• Speaking of Seattle Times Stupidity, Did You Hear Who They Endorsed for City Council District 6?

  08-07-2015 22:20 via thestranger.com
  
  Because he actually cares about the environment, Seattle Times practically treats Mike O'Brien like he's a member of ISIS. Kelly O
  Do you ever read Seattle Times and think: Um, does anyone read this before it gets published? Does anyone care? On Sunday, the paper published misinformation about the legality of public nudity, a story they have still not clarified or corrected. Think of the Puritans! Or something.
  And then yesterday, the paper got around publishing their endorsement in the city cou
  
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• Pass the Microbe: New Pacific Science Center Exhibit Explores the Gray Area Inside Human Bodies

  08-07-2015 22:17 via thestranger.com
  Putting a finger on the microbes all in our bodies. Charles Mudede
  Here is something that's said a lot but never really explained: "We know that 90 percent of the cells in the body are microbial and only the remaining 10 percent are human." Yes, just 10 percent! This fact boggled me to no end. How could most of me be microbes? The confusion wasn't clearled until I recently visited the new exhibit at the Pacific Science Center that explores the human microbiome.True, 90 percent of me is made of b
  
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• See video of ice cave rescue, explosion in follow-up work

  08-07-2015 22:16
  
  See video of ice cave rescue, explosion in follow-up work
  
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• My Philosophy: Swearing & Church

  08-07-2015 22:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Meek Mill's got the juice.
  I was tempted to write an entire column filled with "fucks" to properly give voice to how I'm feeling right now, but nah. That would just be so, so crass—and I know just how important it is to so many of y'all that I "speak so well," since you've been telling me that all my life.
  Actually, fuck it. Fuck the goddamn KKK (just to quote Willie D for the second consecutive week). Fuck Volksfront. Fuck the goddamn Northwest Front, and fuck that funky fedora-wearing fu
  
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• Where to Eat and Cool Off—Or Better Yet, Where to Just Get Hot

  08-07-2015 21:43 via thestranger.com
  
  The patio at the Twilight Exit: sun, shade, and ping pong.Kelly O
  It's hot out. Recently someone asked me for suggestions of good places to eat and cool off. I think the subtext of the question was really, "What bars and restaurants in Seattle have air conditioning?" To be honest, I don't know. It's an interesting question, mostly because it's one that's never really come up before. Seattleites don't normally have to contend with 85 (and above) temperatures for any significant period of time. (I
  
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• LISTEN HERE: Did a Bunch of Local Musicians Make a Summertime Comp of Sheryl Crow Songs? Yes They Did!

  08-07-2015 21:07 via thestranger.com
  
  Summer of Sheryl. via BANDCAMP
  Okay, I am possibly THE MOST unlikely person to ever appreciate an album of Sheryl Crow cover songs. Seriously. I'm the weirdo who's seen Slayer 23 times. I think Sheryl Crow is probably a terrific human, but my whole life, her happytime posi-jams just never fit in with my metalhead-rap-raver-garage-punk tendencies.
  BUT! GUYS AND GALS! Check this out—Summer of Sheryl. It's covers by members of local bands Chastity Belt, Slutever, Tacocat, Lisa Prank, Pony Tim
  
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• Did a Bunch of Local Musicians Make a Summertime Comp of Sheryl Crow Songs? Yes They Did!

  08-07-2015 21:07 via thestranger.com
  
  Summer of Sheryl. via BANDCAMP
  Okay, I am possibly THE MOST unlikely person to ever appreciate an album of Sheryl Crow cover songs. Seriously. I'm the weirdo who's seen Slayer 23 times. I think Sheryl Crow is probably a terrific human, but my whole life, her happytime posi-jams just never fit in with my metalhead-rap-raver-garage-punk tendencies.
  BUT! GUYS AND GALS! Check this out—Summer of Sheryl. It's covers by members of local bands Chastity Belt, Slutever, Tacocat, Lisa Prank, Pony Tim
  
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• 666th Annual Linda's Fest, the "MOST CRUSHING FREE ROCK SHOW OF THE SUMMER," Announced!

  08-07-2015 20:31 via thestranger.com
  
  Gotta love the little sign that says, "I
  
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• County Official Denies Kentucky Gay Couple a Marriage License, Staffers Heap Abuse On The Couple, The Cops Are Called

  08-07-2015 19:17 via thestranger.com
  
  David V. Moore and his fiancé have been together for 17 years and have lived in the county where they applied—or tried to apply—for a marriage license for a decade. The Advocate:
  A same-sex couple in Morehead, Ky., went to the county clerk Monday requesting a marriage license—but were met instead by local police after Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis refused to issue the license. The couple filmed the encounter with officers and the clerk, who is currently facing a lawsuit fr
  
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• The Owner of William Carlos Williams's Red Wheelbarrow Has Been Found

  08-07-2015 19:13 via thestranger.com
  
  Not exactly glazed with rainwater, but you get the idea. Julia Gaevskaya / shutterstock.com
  So much depends upon finding the guy who owned the most famous red wheelbarrow in literature.If you skipped English class throughout high school then you probably never ran across William Carlos Williams modernist gem, The Red Wheelbarrow, and you probably don't understand that first sentence of mine. The poem allows for many meanings, but the one that makes the most sense in the context of WCW's larger p
  
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• Kids Will Decide How to Spend $500,000 of Next Year's City Budget

  08-07-2015 18:41 via thestranger.com
  
  What would that kid spend $500,000 on? Courtesy of the Participatory Budgeting Project
  What if everyone in Seattle got to vote on the city's budget? Council Member Nick Licata got people thinking about that question earlier this year when he held a series of meetings about an idea called "participatory budgeting." The process, in use other cities including Boston and New York, allows citizens to vote directly on how certain city money should be spent.
  Now, it's going to happen in Seattle.I broke
  
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• Body found in 1 of 2 homes destroyed in fire

  08-07-2015 18:39
  
  Body found in 1 of 2 homes destroyed in fire
  
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• Police dog takes down fleeing suspect on 6-foot fence

  08-07-2015 18:25
  
  Police dog takes down fleeing suspect on 6-foot fence
  
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• The Morning News: Seattle Marches in Solidarity With Charleston, Council President Wants to Tax Gun Sales

  08-07-2015 17:54 via thestranger.com
  
  Marchers held hands and sang, led by a church chorus, "I love you... I need you to survive." Ansel Herz
  Seattle Marched In Solidarity With the Charleston Nine Last Night: The march was hundreds strong, beginning at First AME Church on Capitol Hill, where Macklemore, the mayor, and a whole bunch of city council candidates joined the proceedings, and winding through the Central District to MLK Memorial Park. "We have not yet rendered a final verdict on our original sin... of slavery and racial dis
  
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• United Airlines' ground stop cancelled after computer glitch

  08-07-2015 14:51
  
  All United flights are grounded after computer glitch.
  
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• United Airlines at full ground stop after computer glitch

  08-07-2015 14:51
  
  All United flights are grounded after computer glitch.
  
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• Vaccination Sanity, Girl Scout Glory, and the Unfortunate Overlap of Boners and American Flags

  08-07-2015 14:32 via thestranger.com
  
  When you see it, salute!THINKSTOCK
  MONDAY, JUNE 29 This week of vaccination sanity, Girl Scout glory, and the unfortunate overlap of boners and American flags kicked off with Donald Trump, the yam-toned racist and ambulatory hair experiment who two weeks ago spiced up his presidential-campaign announcement by denouncing Mexican immigrants as drugged-up rapists and has been getting his ass kicked around the globe ever since. Today's Trump-thumpers: NBCUniversal, which announced its severing of al
  
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• Seattle considers tax on guns and ammunition

  08-07-2015 14:22
  
  Seattle considers tax on guns and ammunition
  
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• The Feel Is There

  08-07-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The Helio Sequence Refuse to Let Perfection Ruin a Good Songby Trent MoormanThe Helio Sequence's self-titled, self-produced sixth album (out on Sub Pop Records) is so airtight and riveted with ingenuity, you get the feeling that vocalist/guitar player Brandon Summers and drummer/keyboardist Benjamin Weikel could construct anything they set their collective minds to, be it a dreamy crystal pop song or an indie-rock masterpiece. The duo recorded the material last year in their Portland, Oregon, st
  
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• Felt's Last 20 Minutes Ruined a Perfectly Good Movie

  08-07-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Felt's Last 20 Minutes Ruined a Perfectly Good Movieby Charles MudedeIf you want to watch Felt as a great film, here’s what you must do: Enter the Grand Illusion, take a seat, and at the moment the picture starts, set your smartphone’s timer to vibrate furiously in 58 minutes and 40 seconds. When the alarm goes off, leave the theater as fast as you can. You really do not want to make the mistake of seeing a minute more of this movie, which is so compelling up to this point. The rest of it, w
  
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• All of These Secret Seattle Beaches and Parks Belong to You—Use Them!

  08-07-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  All of These Secret Seattle Beaches and Parks Belong to You—Use Them!by Eli SandersSeattle has 149 secret beaches. They sit at the ends of public roads and dirt paths and seemingly private driveways. Nearby, razor wire and security cameras guard expensive private properties that have tennis courts, groomed gardens, guesthouses, and long docks. These beaches are tiny crevices of public space, little known and offering the average citizen a chance to quietly take in the view of a multimillio
  
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• Your Guide to Things To Do This Summer

  08-07-2015 07:32 via thestranger.com
  
  Plays in the Park, Outdoor Music Festivals, and Other Summery Activities, All on our Calendar[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Who Killed Amy Winehouse?

  08-07-2015 02:18 via thestranger.com
  
  The Powerful New Documentary Amy Holds Us All Accountableby Lindsay HoodAmy Winehouse died, and we all just watched. If there's one takeaway from the new documentary Amy, it's that our consumption of media related to her addiction played an active role in her death. Directed by Asif Kapadia and produced by James Gay-Rees—the same team responsible for the 2010 documentary Senna (also about a famous person's death)—the film successfully demystifies the singer's membership in the infamo
  
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• Where to Swim in Seattle?

  08-07-2015 02:18 via thestranger.com
  
  A Guide to Swimming in Seattleby Jen GravesWhenever people ask me where I swim in Seattle, I tell them I go to the edge of the land and get in—everywhere. It's not like Los Angeles or Chicago, where the beaches are obvious. You need a guide to figure out where to go. But I'm convinced there is more water here than anywhere else in the world. I have so much to tell you.This city has two public outdoor pools, eight public indoor pools, three lakes, and Puget Sound.The Pools (Outdoor)Our outd
  
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• Washington Just Announced the First Measles Death in the United States in 12 Years. What's Wrong with Us?

  08-07-2015 02:18 via thestranger.com
  
  Washington Just Announced the First Measles Death in the United States in 12 Years. What's Wrong with Us?by Sydney BrownstonePreventable diseases aren't supposed to be killing people in 2015. Yet the Washington State Department of Health recently had the unenviable task of announcing the first measles death in the United States in more than a decade. On July 2, the DOH revealed that a case of pneumonia brought on by measles had killed a woman from the Olympic Peninsula in the spring."We should b
  
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• Vacation: A Chance to Fall in Love and a Chance to Let Go

  08-07-2015 02:18 via thestranger.com
  
  At 35, I Thought I'd Be Taking the Plunge into Marriage—Instead, I Went to Tulum with a Bunch of Strangersby April KilcreaseI am not what you would call a risk taker. I cringe when I see someone bicycling without a helmet. I wait an hour before swimming after I eat. I've visited ski resorts in Colorado, Germany, and Switzerland, but I've never hit the slopes. I prefer to trudge safely along flat surfaces in snowshoes instead.But when it comes to relationships, I'm like the sucker in the du
  
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• The Tree Is Just a Context

  08-07-2015 02:18 via thestranger.com
  
  Sculptor Dan Webb Reduces a Douglas Fir to Sawdust Before Your Very Eyes in His New Performance Piece, Break It Downby Jen GravesThe sun is shining, and Dan Webb is talking about Christmas and death. "Doesn't it smell like Christmas?" the Seattle artist asks. It does smell like Christmas, because there's a Douglas fir lying at his feet, cut down not four hours ago.We're on the porch of a wood shack in the middle of the grounds of the Olympic Sculpture Park on the waterfront. It's a hot and silly
  
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• The Top 10 Songs of Summer

  08-07-2015 02:18 via thestranger.com
  
  Our Summer Playlist Includes Airy Dream Pop, Dark Surf Rock, and Sexy R&Bby Lindsay HoodSummer is the perfect season for pop music. After nine months of gray skies and drizzle—when the gloominess calls for introspective folk, furious heavy metal, and aggressive gangsta rap—it's time for something light.Seapony, "Saw the Light"After a three-year hiatus, Seapony have returned with this airy, reverb-filled dream-pop single. Recommended for: solo walks through Discovery Park or the O
  
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• The Summer I Got Drugged—Maybe

  08-07-2015 02:18 via thestranger.com
  
  The Summer I Got Drugged in Morocco—Maybeby Brendan KileyThis is a story about the summer I got drugged in North Africa. Every time I tell it, I hate it a little more—for reasons that, I hope, will become clear. In fact, this may be the last time I tell it.One summer afternoon several years ago, when the heat was so heavy, you could feel its weight on your shoulders, I was sitting outside at a table in a medium-sized town in the Rif Mountains drinking a cloudy tumbler of atay, a swee
  
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• The Mean Girls of Summer

  08-07-2015 02:18 via thestranger.com
  
  What a Vacation in Italy Spent with Two Mean Girls Taught Me About My Own Childless Statusby Matt HaberOn August 6, 1933, the New York Times ran a tiny item on page 59 headlined, "Mussolini Lays City Cornerstone." The story, in total, read: "Premier Mussolini today placed the cornerstone for the new city of Sabaudia, which will arise in the reclaimed Pontine Marshes. The city will be inaugurated April 21 next year with a capacity of 50,000 inhabitants."History remembers Mussolini as a pretty bad
  
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• The Helio Sequence Prize Feeling Over Sound

  08-07-2015 02:18 via thestranger.com
  
  The Helio Sequence Refuse to Let Perfection Ruin a Good Songby Trent MoormanThe Helio Sequence's self-titled, self-produced sixth album (out on Sub Pop Records) is so airtight and riveted with ingenuity, you get the feeling that vocalist/guitar player Brandon Summers and drummer/keyboardist Benjamin Weikel could construct anything they set their collective minds to, be it a dreamy crystal pop song or an indie-rock masterpiece. The duo recorded the material last year in their Portland, Oregon, st
  
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• How to Swim in a Lake If You Are Afraid of Open Water

  08-07-2015 02:18 via thestranger.com
  
  How to Swim in a Lake If You Are Afraid of Open Waterby Kathleen RichardsBefore a few weeks ago, I had not swam in a lake in maybe 20 years. Granted, I had not lived in the Pacific Northwest, where lakes are abundant. I lived in Oakland, a place where the nearest bodies of water are freezing and/or polluted. It's not that I don't like swimming—it's that I had little desire for skin, ear, respiratory, eye, neurologic, and gastrointestinal infections. Also, I'm not a very strong swimmer.Then
  
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• How to Get Lost on the Rugged Olympic Coast

  08-07-2015 02:18 via thestranger.com
  
  How to Get Lost on the Ruggedly Beautiful Olympic Coastby Angela GarbesSeattleites spend summer nights obsessively gazing west, watching as the sun works its way through a glowing, neon-colored sky to dip below the jagged edges of the Olympic Mountains. Well beyond those mountains is another world, Washington's Olympic Coast.Give yourself at least six hours to get there. It's a rugged landscape of cliffs, headlands, and islands, dominated by the cold, crashing waves of the Pacific. Towering abou
  
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• How Is Washington's Drought Affecting Local Farms?

  08-07-2015 02:18 via thestranger.com
  
  How Washington's Drought Is Affecting Local Farmsby Angela GarbesEverybody in Seattle knows that summer doesn't typically start until after the Fourth of July. It's when, after months of rain (the infamous "Juneuary"), the clouds finally part and the temperatures rise. But not this year.Nobody knows this better than local farmers. While people have been jumping in lakes and exuberantly eating strawberries and cherries weeks earlier than usual, farmers—whether they're located in the Snoqual
  
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• Black Rhymes Matter

  08-07-2015 02:18 via thestranger.com
  
  Summary: New Music from Silas Blak, SassyBlack, and Cam the Macby Larry Mizell Jr.Amid the war on blackness worldwide and the bum's rush out of the city, those on the receiving end of progress can find it all too easy to rely on familiar and trusted sources of cultural sustenance—that is to say, you just listen to old shit and miss how much good hiphop and soul can be found these days. That's if you know where to look—a great place to start is always in your metaphorical backyard (Go
  
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• Attention Must Be Paid to The Tribe

  08-07-2015 02:18 via thestranger.com
  
  The Tribe, the Brutal Ukrainian Bummer with an All-Deaf Cast, Is Grim but Worth Itby Kathy FennessyAttention must be paid when a film as formally audacious as The Tribe comes along.Debut feature director Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy made it with an all-deaf cast and chose to forgo narration and subtitles. Even knowledge of American Sign Language won't help, since the action takes place in the Ukraine, though the untrained actors communicate just fine through their gestures and body movements. The cen
  
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• An International Vacation in Seattle

  08-07-2015 02:18 via thestranger.com
  
  How to Experience Southern Europe, Asia, and Miami Beach—Without Ever Leaving Seattleby Charles MudedeMuch of Seattle is, admittedly, just Seattle: street after street lined with Craftsman bungalow after Craftsman bungalow and boxy condo after boxy condo. Our city only gets interesting when it goes tall or when it is seen from a distance. Once inside the city, many places look exactly the same. This is why trees are so important: Their leaves and trunks help to hide this monotony from us,
  
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• All of These Secret Beaches and Parks Belong to You, Seattle. Use Them!

  08-07-2015 02:18 via thestranger.com
  
  All of These Secret Beaches and Parks Belong to You, Seattle. Use Them!by Eli SandersSeattle has 149 secret beaches. They sit at the ends of public roads and dirt paths and seemingly private driveways. Nearby, razor wire and security cameras guard expensive private properties that have tennis courts, groomed gardens, guesthouses, and long docks. These beaches are tiny crevices of public space, little known and offering the average citizen a chance to quietly take in the view of a multimillionair
  
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• Acceptance Get a Second Chance

  08-07-2015 02:18 via thestranger.com
  
  Christian-ish Emo Band Acceptance Gets a Second Chance to Remove the Irony from Their Nameby Azaria PodpleskyIn 2005, Seattle band Acceptance seemed poised for success. Their second EP led to a deal with Columbia Records, and the group released its debut album, Phantoms. Despite the initial excitement surrounding the record, issues with their label began from the get-go."We're like the road map for how to become a band and how to not be in a band," lead singer Jason Vena said.Many labeled Accept
  
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• A Totally Non-Comprehensive but Semi-Useful Guide to Wild Waves

  08-07-2015 02:18 via thestranger.com
  
  A Totally Non-Comprehensive but Semi-Useful Guide to Wild Wavesby Rich SmithIf you think that Wild Waves is basically just an aquatic version of a carnie fair, filled with loose-screwed Twirly-Gigs and Vomitorium Octopuses and populated by the kind of people who have lower-back tattoos of the Batman logo and give zero fucks about "designated smoking areas," then you'd be right. But for a Midwest transplant like me, that's a welcome and familiar taste of the old dirt. Moreover! Wild Waves is one
  
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• Amber Alert called off after mother, boy found at home

  08-07-2015 01:42
  
  AMBER ALERT: Mother and 7-year-old last seen in Auburn
  
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• Cabin Games Drop Videos for Ghost Ease and Silas Blak Singles

  08-07-2015 01:36 via thestranger.com
  
  Rocking inside of Cabin Games' base of operations, which is in Mount Baker. Charles Peterson
  This image of the Ghost Ease was taken by the local and legendary photographer Charles Peterson for a series on the emerging label Cabin Games.Today, Cabin Games released two new videos—one for Ghost Ease's "Qwi Mai Yab," and the other for Silas Blak's "Yeah Yeah.""Qwi Mai Yab" is a pure blast of rock and part of the EP, Quit Yer Job, produced by Steve Fisk, one of this year's Genius nominees for m
  
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• In "Two-Block Radius" News, They're Painting Something Mysterious Across the Street from Our Offices

  08-07-2015 01:14 via thestranger.com
  
  I tried to get one of the painters (standing unluckily under a ladder) to tell me what they're painting, and he wouldn't.
  Is it an American flag? I pestered. He shook his head and said, "You'll just have to come back in a week or two."
  Just to round out the picture, here's how much painting is happening on this corner lately.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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