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• HIV+ People On Drug Cocktails Can't Pass the Virus to Their Sex Partners

  21-07-2015 23:38 via thestranger.com
  
  News Observer:
  Groundbreaking research conducted at UNC-Chapel Hill has demonstrated that potent drug cocktails can disable HIV to the point that the deadly virus can’t be transmitted to other people through sexual activity. The findings were announced Monday by AIDS researcher Myron Cohen at the eigth International AIDS Society Conference in Vancouver, Canada. Cohen, UNC’s chief of the Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases, has headed the global research project for
  
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• So. Lame. The Art That Convinced Someone There Was a Submarine in the Duwamish River Has Been Vandalized, Artist Says

  21-07-2015 23:29 via thestranger.com
  
  REALLY? Really???!!! Images JG
  Under Pier Pressure, the eight-channel sound installation that haunts the pier at Jack Block Park during this summer's Duwamish Revealed exhibition, has been vandalized to the point that it no longer works, says artist Robb Kunz.
  This is the art that made someone call the authorities to find out whether a submarine was in the waters below.
  This is the art that Kunz had to brave high tide for five separate times in order to install it, because he had to lash the spe
  
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• Next Weekend's Other Big Party: A Few Important Facts About Cascadia NW Arts & Music Festival

  21-07-2015 23:23 via thestranger.com
  
  Though Capitol Hill Block Party may be getting the lion's share of attention, it's not the only festival on the near horizon. The weekend ahead brings the debut of Cascadia NW Arts and Music Festival at Masonic Family Park in Granite Falls. (Well, sort of debut. Its original incarnation was called Photosynthesis.)I asked Michael Manahan, the event’s producer, what to expect from a three-day electronic music festival in the forest.How did you go about putting together your bill?We pull hea
  
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• Artist Says His Chief Seattle Murals Were Vandalized by Native American Man, Calls It an 'Inner Hate' Crime

  21-07-2015 22:15 via thestranger.com
  
  These guys have seen worse. Images courtesy of Andrew Morrison
  Where the murals were, today there are only holes in the walls.
  But it's a good thing—well, relatively speaking.
  The murals in question were 25-foot-tall portraits of Chief Seattle, Geronimo, Chief Joseph, and Sitting Bull. They were painted, over a period spanning more than a decade, by Andrew Morrison, who lives locally and is Haida/Apache.Don't worry—that hole where Andrew Morrison's mural once was means that the mural
  
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• It's Time to Submit Events for the Fall Issue of Seattle Art and Performance!

  21-07-2015 22:08 via thestranger.com
  
  Autumn is approaching, and with it the fall issue of Seattle Art and Performance!You know what that means: if you're an artist, performer, or arts venue and you're putting on an event between September 9 and December 8, we need you to submit your events for the fall issue of Seattle Art and Performance. Anything goes: visual arts, readings, theater, dance, music, comedy, film, drag/cabaret, and anything in between. If you're planning an arts event for this fall, you need to tell us about it, no
  
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• Space Needle employees celebrate raise, but say fight is not over

  21-07-2015 21:44
  
  Space Needle employees celebrate raise, but say fight is not over
  
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• Trump Is King Shit of Primary Campaign Mountain

  21-07-2015 21:31 via thestranger.com
  
  Lindsay Graham just had his cell phone number read on live TV by Donald Trump. Lindsay Graham, Donald Trump / Shutterstock
  Confidence is America's favorite perfume, and Donald Trump wears buckets of the stuff. If Trump survived a plane crash in the Alps, he'd be the guy who'd step forward and say "we're going this way," and your choices would be to leave the group or try to hit him over the head with a stick.Yesterday, Lindsey Graham—a military hawk who has been in the Air Force for 33 yea
  
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• Donald Trump Wants You To Call Lindsey Graham To Tell Him He's a Loser

  21-07-2015 21:14 via thestranger.com
  
  TPM:
  Republican presidential candidate and real estate mogul Donald Trump gave out his rival candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham's (R-SC) cell phone number on Tuesday during a speech in Bluffton, South Carolina. Trump told the crowd that Graham had previously been "begging" for a mention on the Fox News show "Fox & Friends" when the real estate mogul still made regular weekly appearances. "I wrote the number down! I don't know if it's the right number, but let's try it," Trump said, proceeding to
  
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• Donald Trump Wants You To Call Lindsey Graham and Tell Him He's a Loser

  21-07-2015 21:14 via thestranger.com
  
  TPM:
  Republican presidential candidate and real estate mogul Donald Trump gave out his rival candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham's (R-SC) cell phone number on Tuesday during a speech in Bluffton, South Carolina. Trump told the crowd that Graham had previously been "begging" for a mention on the Fox News show "Fox & Friends" when the real estate mogul still made regular weekly appearances. "I wrote the number down! I don't know if it's the right number, but let's try it," Trump said, proceeding to
  
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• #BlackLivesMatter Activitsts Who "Don't Care About Big Banks" Are Wrong

  21-07-2015 20:54 via thestranger.com
  
  Black lives should worry about big banks. They do matter. Northfoto/Shutterstock.com
  The tweet that sparked Sunday's massive hashtag #BernieSoBlack was by Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady), a #BlackLivesMatter activist who clearly has been hardened to the core by a relentless sea of trolls nipping at every of her comments. The tweet stated: "If I see one more Bernie acolyte mention that he marched with MLK, I'm going to burn the Internet to the ground."The thing that Bernie Sanders' supporters are o
  
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• #BlackLivesMatter Activists Who "Don't Care About Big Banks" Are Wrong

  21-07-2015 20:54 via thestranger.com
  
  Black lives should worry about big banks. They do matter. Northfoto/Shutterstock.com
  The tweet that sparked Sunday's massive hashtag #BernieSoBlack was by Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady), a #BlackLivesMatter activist who clearly has been hardened to the core by a relentless sea of trolls nipping at every one of her comments. The tweet stated: "If I see one more Bernie acolyte mention that he marched with MLK, I'm going to burn the Internet to the ground."The thing that Bernie Sanders's supporters
  
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• Why We're Endorsing Lisa Herbold for City Council District No. 1

  21-07-2015 20:49 via thestranger.com
  
  Lisa Herbold Courtesy Lisa HerboldWest Seattle—as West Seattle will definitely tell you—is its own special place, full of mommy bloggers, beach volleyballers, old white guys on Harleys, secessionists, working-class heroes, garage-sale maniacs, Christmas-light enthusiasts, and new immigrant communities. Now it's also crawling with candidates. Nine—NINE!—people are running to represent this neighborhood on the city council. That's so many people that we had to clear the bul
  
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• "By Excluding Drag Performers from a Safe Space, They're Implying that Drag Is Unsafe, That It's Dangerous"

  21-07-2015 20:27 via thestranger.com
  
  Another take on Free Pride's banning of drag performers in Glasglow, courtesy of Slog favorite Matt Baume:ICYMI: Here was Savage's take on the Glasgow controversy yesterday.
  (And FWIW: The only "unsafe"/"dangerous" drag act I can think of is Kiki & Herb (RIP) who used to do things like throw trays of steak knivesduring performances. God, I wish I'd seen that. [Almighty Father, what do I have to sacrifice to make Kiki & Herb get back together?]) [ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the
  
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• At Least Our Congressional Delegation Is Trying—Really Trying—to Fund an Earthquake Early Warning System

  21-07-2015 19:24 via thestranger.com
  
  Show us the money, Patty! Courtesy of Senator Patty Murray
  We already know that earthquakes are scary; that a big earthquake here in Cascadia is really, really scary; and that if two people are having sex on Capitol Hill when the big one strikes, it's at least recommended that those people continue to have sex.But there is one thing we can do outside of staying put on Capitol Hill and finding a partner willing to persevere amid a 9.0 earthquake on the Cascadia subduction zone (that is, the fault
  
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• Staff At Iowa Hotel Call Cops On Trans Women For Crime of Being Trans Women

  21-07-2015 18:05 via thestranger.com
  
  ThinkProgress:
  Meagan Taylor, a 22-year-old transgender woman of color, has been sitting in an isolated Iowa jail since last Monday simply because she was profiled for her identity. Taylor was visiting Des Moines with a friend from Illinois, where she lives. She works in a beauty salon and goes to cosmetology school. But when she noticed hotel staff at the Drury Inn “acting really funny,” her suspicions proved correct. They reported her and her friend, who is also transgender, to the
  
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• The Morning News: Seattle's Sticky Rent Control Debate, the Mayor's Trip to the Vatican, and a Bud-and-Breakfast

  21-07-2015 17:52 via thestranger.com
  
  LOOK AT HOW CIVICALLY ENGAGED THESE PEOPLE ARE. LOOK. AT. THEM. Alex Garland
  The Big Rent Control Debate of Summer 2015 Happened Last Night: And it packed Town Hall to sweaty, 800-person capacity. Seattle City Council members Kshama Sawant and Nick Licata took on developer lobbyist Roger Valdez (Smart Growth Seattle) and House Republican Matt Manweller (R-Ellensberg) over whether the state's rent control ban ought to be lifted. Heidi was there and live-tweeted the whole thing.Licata says new dev
  
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• What I Learned from Watching "Horse Whisperer" Buck Brannaman

  21-07-2015 16:08 via thestranger.com
  
  Riders soak up Buck's wisdom on Saturday in Ellensburg. KR
  I have a weird obsession with horse trainer Buck Brannaman—“weird” because I’m not really a horse person. It’s not that I don’t like horses, but I didn’t grow up with them, I’ve only ridden one once, and I’ve never been into cowboys or that whole aesthetic. On the surface, there’s nothing about Buck I should be into. Except that I am.
  It started a few years ago when I was at hom
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: The Memory Hole

  21-07-2015 02:35 via thestranger.com
  
  I am a 30-year-old straight man married to a wonderful 29-year-old bisexual woman. We have been married almost three years and together for five, and we have a beautiful two-year-old son. Our marriage is monogamish—occasional threesomes, leeway to make out with other people with prior consent—and despite the normal stressors of parenting and work life, our relationship is happy, stable, and fulfilling. I love my wife, and she is the best thing to ever happen to me. Even though I feel
  
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• When Was the Last Time You Read To Kill a Mockingbird? Do You Remember How Funny It Is?

  21-07-2015 02:26 via thestranger.com
  
  TKAM makes me cry, but it also makes me LOL. Mary Carmichael
  Before I get going here, I just want to remind everyone that you should not buy Harper Lee's new book Go Set a Watchman. It's a trap.
  But the fact that GSAW is as boring and tedious and slightly icky as a bad Tinder date doesn't diminish the awesomeness of To Kill A Mockingbird. The only thing that diminishes the awesomeness of TKAM is the pious smog that engulfs so many discussions of it.It's important to remember that the book is fun
  
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• Engineer sues U.S. Navy for discrimination

  21-07-2015 01:58
  
  Engineer sues U.S. Navy for discrimination
  
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• Figs: Masculine, Feminine, or Transcendant?

  21-07-2015 01:10 via thestranger.com
  
  Figs make us feel funny. bk
  There's a very big, very old fig tree growing in the backyard of my apartment building and every summer around this time they ripen into big, green sugarballs—the heat and light of this summer has made them especially sweet—and it's a race between us, the birds, and the squirrels to see who can eat them all first. I've been bringing them into the office in an effort to help the humans win.
  Fresh figs always remind me of an afternoon during my high-school y
  
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• Figs: Masculine, Feminine, or Transcendent?

  21-07-2015 01:10 via thestranger.com
  
  Figs make us feel funny. bk
  There's a very big, very old fig tree growing in the backyard of my apartment building, and every summer around this time they ripen into big green sugarballs—the heat and light of this summer has made them especially sweet—and it's a race between us, the birds, and the squirrels to see who can eat them all first. I've been bringing them into the office in an effort to help the humans win.
  Fresh figs always remind me of an afternoon during my high-school y
  
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• How Washington's New Transportation Package Forces Electric Vehicle Owners to Pay More for Not Using Gasoline

  21-07-2015 00:53 via thestranger.com
  
  Congratulations for going gas-free! Now give the State of Washington $50. J.D.S/Shutterstock
  Last week, Governor Jay Inslee finally signed a $16 billion transportation package after accepting a painful compromise. Under the terms of that compromise, if the governor uses an executive order to implement a clean fuel standard—a type of climate policy that California, Oregon, and British Columbia have already adopted—the new legislation will stick a knife in transit (by siphoning funding
  
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• Listen Here: Pony Time Shares New Song, "Time Tells Me," BUT ALSO LOOK AT THEIR ALBUM COVER ART

  21-07-2015 00:06 via thestranger.com
  
  Rumours 2: The Rumours Are True, arrives Sept. 11
  If you don't already love Pony Time, prepare to make some room in your shriveled heart. The duo of Luke Beetham and Stacy Peck are having a very busy week. Why just this weekend, Consequence of Sound premiered "Time Tells Me," their killer new single(trace elements of mod, garage, White Light White Heat-era VU, and Paisley Underground). It's the kind of propulsive, emotionally ambivalent gem you realize you just listened to nine times in a row. T
  
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• Listen Here: Pony Time Share New Song, "Time Tells Me," BUT ALSO LOOK AT THEIR ALBUM COVER ART

  21-07-2015 00:06 via thestranger.com
  
  Rumours 2: The Rumours Are True, arrives September 11
  If you don't already love Pony Time, prepare to make some room in your shriveled heart. The duo of Luke Beetham and Stacy Peck is having a very busy week. Why, just this weekend, Consequence of Sound premiered "Time Tells Me," their killer new single(trace elements of mod, garage, White Light White Heat-era VU, and Paisley Underground). It's the kind of propulsive, emotionally ambivalent gem you realize you just listened to nine times in a ro
  
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