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• Savage Love Letters of the Day: Three Pack

  16-07-2015 23:46 via thestranger.com
  
  I have a question. About a year and a half ago, I was surprise-broken up with by my girlfriend of 2.5 years. I was very much in love with her. It was like all my dreams could come true because I had her. Then I found out that she had been cheating on me. I wanted to move past this, and she said she did too, but said we should stay in a “grey area” and not be official. We kept fucking and I kept loving her. She would occasionally start crying and tell me how much she loved me. However
  
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• Savage Love: Quick Hits

  16-07-2015 23:14 via thestranger.com
  
  Joe NewtonI have been happily married for 12 years. I'm deeply in love with my wife—she's amazing, very sexy and gorgeous. I used to be jealous, but about six years ago, I lost my feelings of jealousy. In their place, I developed a strong desire to share my wife with other men. It's my only fantasy. She knows about this, but she says it's wrong. I never asked her to actually do it. Am I wrong for feeling this way?
  A Shamed Husband, A Marital Erotic Deadlock
  Objectively speaking, ASHAMED,
  
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• Entitled Techie Who Didn't Get The Stranger's Endorsement Won't Stop Braying About How Hurt He Is

  16-07-2015 23:05 via thestranger.com
  
  City hall reporter Heidi Groover reads a card from Gus Hartmann, who did not get the SECB's endorsement, much to the everlasting anguish of Gus Hartmann. Christopher Frizzelle
  So there's this guy in the race against Sally Bagshaw who's really, really butthurt he didn't get The Stranger's endorsement. His name is Gus Hartmann, and here's how he's described by the Stranger Election Control Board:Google engineer Gus Hartmann... good lord.
  This guy showed up looking very tech now—chunky glasse
  
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• John Oliver Eviscerated Municipal Stadium Deals, but He Forgot to Mention Seattle

  16-07-2015 22:37 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle didn't just give a handout to a wealthy sports team owner in its deal for CenturyLink Field. f11photo / Shutterstock.com
  This week, John Oliver ran his standard-issue evisceration mower over the unkempt lawn of publicly funded stadiums. A worthy target! Some of the best facts included:• $12 billion was spent on 51 stadiums opened between 2000 and 2010, during which time the United States suffered its worst economic meltdown since the Great Depression and saw inequality levels rise.
  
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• The Life and Death of Sandra Bland, Who Died After Being Taken into Police Custody

  16-07-2015 21:46 via thestranger.com
  
  She was active in the Black Lives Matter movement.a katz / Shutterstock.com
  Sandra Bland was a 28-year-old professional woman from Chicago who had just gotten a new job in student outreach. The job was located at her old alma mater in Prairie View A&M University in Texas. Bland was also an activist who regularly posted about issues related to police brutality, but who seemed hopeful that social media might affect social change:#SandraBland, truth-teller. pic.twitter.com/mJKCW5tt6n
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• Teen plane crash survivor recalls flight's final moments

  16-07-2015 21:45
  
  Teen plane crash survivor Autumn Veatch recalls flight's final moments
  
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• Kayaktivists Are Protesting in Washington, D.C. on Saturday

  16-07-2015 21:29 via thestranger.com
  
  Remember when kayaktivists swarmed the Polar Pioneer? Now they're going to swarm the White House. Alex Garland
  The Paddle in Seattle has reached the mean, too-clean streets of Washington, D.C. From TheHill.com:
  The "kayaktivists" will protest in front of the White House on Saturday. They are calling for President Obama to revoke oil and gas exploration leases in the Chukchi Sea, which surrounds Alaska.
  At the White House protest, the kayaktivists will stage an Arctic marine scene and show up wit
  
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• Gunman Opens Fire on Military Facilities in Tennessee, Leaving Four Dead

  16-07-2015 21:26 via thestranger.com
  
  NYT:
  ATLANTA — A gunman opened fire on two military facilities in Chattanooga, Tenn., on Thursday, leaving four people dead, including members of the military. The gunman was also killed.
  A member of the FBI says, "We will treat this like a terrorism investigation until we determine that it is not."[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Why, with Zero Joy in Our Hearts, We're Endorsing Bruce Harrell for City Council District 2

  16-07-2015 20:54 via thestranger.com
  
  “People don’t pay attention to some of the stuff Bruce Harrell has done," says Bruce Harrell about Bruce Harrell. But we do pay attention! We really do! And we really wish there was more to pay attention to. Kelly O
  We've never endorsed Bruce Harrell before. (Unless you count us calling him a "fucktard incumbent" as points in his favor.) But we're endorsing him now. Are we high? Of course we are—don't be ridiculous—but that doesn't have anything to do with it.
  Here's the
  
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• The River Reclaimed: One Hundred Artists Pay Tribute to Seattle's Essential Waterway in Duwamish Revealed

  16-07-2015 20:49 via thestranger.com
  
  A large sculpture by Ben Zamora mirrors its South Park surroundings in all directions. BRUCE TOM
  The authorities at the Port of Seattle got a phone call from a concerned citizen one day this summer. Was there a submarine lurking under the pier jutting out into the Duwamish River in Jack Block Park? No, came the reply, that's just art. But in some ways, the caller was right. The art along the Duwamish this summer is bringing up what's under the murk.
  The caller hadn't seen anything—it was s
  
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• I Feel Like We Say "I Feel Like" All the Time

  16-07-2015 19:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Women use the phrase more than men do, according to the research. DAVID LASKY
  I. Houston, I Feel Like We Have a Problem
  I feel like we say "I feel like." Like, a lot. The phrase is so ubiquitous that it's invisible, but then some nerd points it out and it's all you can hear.
  When did we all start doing this? Why did we start doing this? Should we be doing this?
  On one hand, it seems useful. Many people I've asked about it say they learned to say "I feel like" in various conflict-resolution lesso
  
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• TLC Cancels 19 Kids and Counting

  16-07-2015 18:13 via thestranger.com
  
  US Weekly:
  Almost two months after news broke of Josh Duggar's molestation scandal, TLC has canceled his family's reality show, 19 Kids and Counting, the Associated Press reported on Thursday, July 16.... TLC's cancellation puts an end to months of speculation about the fate of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar's famously large brood. The couple and their kids first rose to fame back in 2008, and finished their 10th season of 19 Kids this past May.
  TLC also announced that they're going to wrap up the
  
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• Caitlyn Jenner's Speech at Last Night's ESPY Awards

  16-07-2015 17:51 via thestranger.com
  
  Caitlyn Jenner was given the 2015 Arthur Ashe Courage Award, and her acceptance speech is amazing. Who knew that something this good—something that could reshape the culture for the better—would come out of the never-ending Kardashian shitshow? Watch the speech.
  All across this country, right now, all across the world, at this very moment, there are young people coming to terms with being transgender. They’re learning that they are different and they are trying to figure out h
  
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• The Morning News: Meet the Seattle Cop Who Writes Way More Tickets to Bicyclists Than Any Other

  16-07-2015 17:01 via thestranger.com
  
  All of you better watch out for Officer Mulkey. connel/Shutterstock
  Meet the One Seattle Cop Who Writes 124 Tickets to Bicyclists a Year: "Riding a bike in Seattle hasn’t been quite the same since Glen Mulkey started as a motorcycle patrol officer," writes Gene Balk in the Seattle Times. "After transferring from a Seattle Police Department SWAT team to a traffic detail downtown in 2006, Mulkey began his, uh, complicated relationship with the city’s cycling community. In just four day
  
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• Men who found airplane crash victim: She's 'remarkably strong'

  16-07-2015 02:18
  
  Men who found airplane crash victim: She's 'remarkably strong'
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: The Piss-Poor Judgment of Solomon

  16-07-2015 02:02 via thestranger.com
  
  Let's say two people entered a marriage under the agreement there would be no children resulting from this union. A few years into the marriage, one person decides he/she wants children. The other has not changed his/her mind, and wants to remain child-free. What advice would you give to each of these people?
  Short And To The PointShort and to the point: I would advise these people to divorce.
  And if the "she" half of this he/she union is the half whose mind has changed, SATTP, I would advise th
  
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• Free Will Astrology for the Week of July 15

  16-07-2015 02:02 via thestranger.com
  
  FESTA/SHUTTERSTOCKCANCER (June 21–July 22): "A poet must not cross an interval with a step when he can cross it with a leap." That's an English translation of an aphorism written by French author Joseph Joubert. Another way to say it might be this: "A smart person isn't drab and plodding as she bridges a gap, but does it with high style and brisk delight." A further alternative: "An imaginative soul isn't predictable as she travels over and around obstacles, but calls on creative magic to
  
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• The High List: Male Strippers, Kawaii Faces, and Aural Immersion. Bonus: Slurpee Recipe

  16-07-2015 01:20 via thestranger.com
  
  The Spits, Thurs July 16 at Chop Suey.
  The Spits, Wimps, Gazebos
  MUSIC Thurs July 16, Chop Suey (1325 E Madison St)
  Spits shows are a rad pile of sweaty punk rock no matter what drug you're on, but this particular Spits show will be opened by two of the best local bands going right now—Wimps! Gazebos!—plus hot jams from DJ MF Cake and DJ Danger Nun. Most importantly, this night is a memorial for Libra drummer A.J. Pero of Twisted Sister, who died this past March of a heart attack and
  
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• TRAFFIC ALERT: One Direction Seattle concert Wednesday, delays expected

  16-07-2015 01:02
  
  TRAFFIC ALERT: One Direction Seattle concert Wednesday, delays expected
  
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• Yes! Art AIDS America Is Here

  16-07-2015 00:43 via thestranger.com
  
  JOEY TERRILL (Born Los Angeles, California, 1955) Still-Life with Forget-Me-Nots and One Week's Dose of Truvada, 2012. Mixed media on canvas, 36 by 48 inches. (Art AIDS America's sponsors are the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Support, and additional support is provided by Gilead Sciences, makers of Truvada.) LESLIE-LOHMAN MUSEUM OF GAY AND LESBIAN ART
  A bold, big, ambitious exhibition meant to addr
  
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• Word of the Day

  16-07-2015 00:41 via thestranger.com
  
  Spotted outside a building at 16th and Pike..."Gentrification isn't a good thing," writes someone who follows me on Instagram. "But this building is not an example of it. It has been a coop for 65 years, it is one of the more affordable buildings in this city. Residents are diverse in race, sexuality, and age, and many have lived here for over 20 years. Gentrification would be the removal of this building and its residents."Some would argue that long-term residents selling units they bought 20 o
  
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• East Lansing Is Getting a New Sex-Ed Curriculum

  16-07-2015 00:02 via thestranger.com
  
  Alice Dreger is a faculty member of the Medical Humanities and Bioethics program at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. Feinberg is located in Chicago, but Dreger and her family live in East Lansing, a small town in Michigan. Back in April, after Dreger's science-minded, data-loving 14-year-old son told his mom about his awful sex-ed class, Dreger decided to exercise her parental right to sit in on her son's next sex ed class.
  Dreger was there to observe the class, not speak d
  
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• I Love Televison: Murder, NBC Wrote

  16-07-2015 00:01 via thestranger.com
  
  I’ll be producing, directing, and starring as Hannibal. WM. STEVEN HUMPHREY
  It's with great regret that I inform you that your favorite TV show, Hannibal (NBC, Thursdays, 10 pm), has not been picked up for a fourth season, and... WHADDAYA MEAN HANNIBAL ISN'T YOUR FAVORITE SHOW?! Look, I write about Hannibal probably more than any other current TV show, so ACTUALLY it's already been well established (BY ME) that Hannibal is your favorite show. Got it? So apparently you were just confused wh
  
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