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• This Weekend, Seafair Should Blanket the Sky with Drones

  27-07-2015 23:52 via thestranger.com
  
  If the Blue Angels actually reflected the power of our military might, they would burst into a thousand explosive, autonomous robots and blot out the sky. Chris Parypa Photography / Shutterstock.com
  It's that time again. [*gong noise*]Beginning Thursday at precisely 9:45 a.m., Seattle will be sonically harassed and/or visually inspired by the brutal dance of six F/A-18 Hornets, twin-engine supersonic, all-weather carrier-capable multirole combat jets originally designed not to perform aerial bal
  
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• I, Anonymous: Ride the Ducks? How About FUCK the Ducks.

  27-07-2015 23:14 via thestranger.com
  
  steven weissman
  Fuck the Ducks. Fuck your laughing. Fuck your leering. Fuck your happiness. I live on a boat near the public access ramp the Ride the Ducks vehicles use to enter Lake Union. I can stand on my front porch and see five at a time. The guides take their craft mere feet from my front porch. Are those tourists thinking about what an idyllic life has appeared before them? Well, in the great irony of tourism, their presence destroys the very thing they are trying to appreciate. Two year
  
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• The Place to Buy Horses in Enumclaw

  27-07-2015 23:07 via thestranger.com
  
  Getting my Enumclaw on at a horse auction joint. Kelly O
  If you do not know what happened in Enumclaw 10 years ago, I recommend you read my little feature on the subject. Though the business between the horse and the man was not at all pretty, the town itself isn't half bad. It has, I think, one of the best dive bars in the state (the Ski Inn Lodge), and the best-looking place to buy a big animal in this county (the roomy and woody Enumclaw Sales Pavilion). Indeed, one could film a whole western
  
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• Here Comes Seattle Art Fair, Already Under Construction at the Seahawks's Stadium

  27-07-2015 22:37 via thestranger.com
  
  THIS IS WHAT AN ART FAIR LOOKS LIKE And this is what's being built in the bowels of the stadium where the Seahawks play right now. The opening is Thursday, and the fair runs through Sunday evening. andersphoto/Shutterstock
  Inside CenturyLink Field Events Center this minute, crews are scurrying around putting up walls, hanging lighting, and painting everything white. Everything has to be perfect: The art arrives Wednesday to this warren of 61 show booths plus a full-on exhibition of new video wor
  
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• Seattle, Tacoma, and Everett Just Triggered Water Shortage Plans for All Three Cities

  27-07-2015 22:27 via thestranger.com
  
  This past spring, Seattle Public Utilities prepared for summer by topping up its reservoirs in the Cedar River Watershed a little higher than usual, but the utility is still issuing a water shortage advisory this summer. Seattle City Council/Flickr
  So much for William Shatner's plan to send water from Puget Sound to thirsty Californians! In the face of record-breaking heat and a snowpack drought across the state, Seattle, Tacoma, and Everett are activating the first stages of their water shortag
  
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• The True Detective Chitty-Chat Club: Brought to You By Molly™ Breath Freshener

  27-07-2015 21:44 via thestranger.com
  
  Hello, True Detective fans! Did you watch last night's episode? If so, you may agree that this show is now 100 percent UNINTENTIONALLY HILARIOUS. And therefore? I LOVE IT! Check out my spoiler-filled recap after the jump, and as always, I adore your opinions as well. So let's get CHITTY-CHATTING!
  Courtesy HBO"I thought hanging my cutting board on my kitchen wall would save space... BUT...."
  MORE AFTER THE JUMP!And now, True Detective episode six, "Church in Ruins"—brought to you by MOLLY&#
  
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• District Date: Exploring the Sprawling, Car-Dependent District 5

  27-07-2015 20:56 via thestranger.com
  
  Sandy Brown drove me around District 5 in his Mini Cooper. Kelly O
  When all of this insanity is over and you have a city council elected under the new districted system, things might not feel all that different if you live in a highly visible part of the city like downtown or Capitol Hill. But if you live in a far-flung burg like North Seattle, now city council District 5, the stakes are higher.
  Just like in West Seattle, a common refrain in North Seattle is that it's not well represented by the
  
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• Confidential to David Toledo: Your Posters Fucking Suck and We'd Never, Ever Endorse an Asshole Like You

  27-07-2015 20:48 via thestranger.com
  
  Oh look, at first glance it seems to be The Stranger but actually it's—UGH, David Toledo, you win for biggest asshole of the primary.
  The SECB is fucking done with David Toledo, a no-chance candidate running in North Seattle's city council District 5.Toledo and his amateur animation skills were almost charming for a hot second. Then he came into our endorsement meeting and suggested we count the number of people of color on his Facebook friends list in order to prove—well, we don't e
  
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• Have We Reached Peak App?

  27-07-2015 20:34 via thestranger.com
  
  This just popped into my inbox...
  Hello
  We just launched an app that helps you find oysters at restaurants around you with quick and easy to learn profiles, including the ability to rate the oyster and the aphrodisiac effect. We are giving consumers something new, real time information about seafood, in this case, oysters, by aggregating farmers, restaurants and consumers all into one app! The app works across the country, with major markets like SF, NYC and Boston already up and running.
  Look f
  
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• A Field Guide to Seattle's Vietnamese Delis

  27-07-2015 20:31 via thestranger.com
  
  TAMMY’S DELI & BAKERY: It’s the mystery that will keep you coming back for more.
  I often lament the fact that Seattle lacks a truly great New York delicatessen, a place where you can get pastrami sandwiches and knishes. But every time my friend Ben visits from Brooklyn, I'm reminded how the grass in Seattle really is greener.
  My friend is obsessed with the city's Vietnamese delis. On each trip, he works his way through not only various banh mi fillings, but also the many (often u
  
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• Black Americans Could Respond to "Driving While Black" Infractions by Boycotting Cars

  27-07-2015 20:15 via thestranger.com
  
  If racist traffic violations are here to stay, maybe blacks should leave cars alone. Anne Kitzman/Shutterstock
  A few days after a traffic stop, Sandra Bland was dead in a cell.Why was she stopped in the first place? Brian Encinia would tell you it's because she failed to signal a turn from one lane to another, but I believe that's ludicrous—she was stopped because of her color. As Ijeoma Oluo reminded us last week, Driving While Black is not an imaginary problem; it appears in the hard num
  
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• Capitol Hill Block Party 2015: How Did It Look?

  27-07-2015 20:07 via thestranger.com
  
  Best t-shirt about spankings Kelly O
  Best t-shirt with Bart Simpson: Moor Gang with Gifted GabBest (youngest!) music journalist Kelly O
  Best summer fur vest Kelly O
  Best real fur: This dog bouncing on a trampoline, soliciting tummy rubs from strangers Kelly O
  Best nod to 80s glam bands like Poison: MeatbodiesKelly O
  Best stage banter (about wearing the wrong size pantyhose): The Julie Ruin Kelly O
  Best sunglasses and shorts! Kelly O
  Best toe shoes... WAIT, WHAT?Kelly O
  Best food: The "Empire" Co
  
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• Not Gay Men Who Have Not Gay Sex With Other Not Gay Men

  27-07-2015 19:35 via thestranger.com
  
  Coming soon from NYU Press...
  A straight white girl can kiss a girl, like it, and still call herself straight—her boyfriend may even encourage her. But can straight white guys experience the same easy sexual fluidity, or would kissing a guy just mean that they are really gay? Not Gay thrusts deep into a world where straight guy-on-guy action is not a myth but a reality: there’s fraternity and military hazing rituals, where new recruits are made to grab each other’s penises and
  
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• Body found in suitcase in city of SeaTac

  27-07-2015 19:12
  
  Body found in suitcase in city of SeaTac
  
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• Body found in duffel bag in city of SeaTac

  27-07-2015 19:12
  
  Body found in suitcase in city of SeaTac
  
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• Have You Seen the Cover of New York Magazine?

  27-07-2015 19:09 via thestranger.com
  
  The magazine's latest cover features 35 women who've accused Bill Cosby of sexual abuse and were willing to be photographed.
  Weirdly, as soon as the piece went up, New York magazine's site was victimized by a denial-of-service attack. According to the New York Times, the hacker who boasted of causing the attack "said the attack was based on a hatred for New York City, and was not related to the cover that features Mr. Cosby’s accusers."
  Even though the New York Times says nymag.com is back
  
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• Another Black Woman Has Died in Police Custody

  27-07-2015 18:49 via thestranger.com
  
  Ralkina Jones was arrested Friday. She died on Sunday. sakhorn / shutterstock.com
  Several news outlets are reporting that Ralkina Jones died in a Cleveland Heights jail on Sunday. All that anyone knows so far is that she was arrested on Friday after a dispute with her husband. Investigators are waiting for an autopsy to determine the cause of death.Updates to come.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• The Morning News: There Have Been 227 Shootings in Seattle This Year, and the Columbia River Is Way Too Warm

  27-07-2015 17:40 via thestranger.com
  
  There was a shooting in Everett at 1:40 am on Sunday morning. An 18-year-old man was transported to Harborview with life-threatening injuries. Charles Mudede
  Also Damaged in the Everett Shooting: Two homes, two vehicles, and a boat.
  In Other Gun News: "A tense situation escalated Saturday evening when gunshots were fired near a KOMO reporter and photographer shortly after 5 p.m. in Mount Vernon."
  There Have Been 227 Shootings So Far This Year in Seattle, As of July 20: According to the Seattle T
  
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• Why We're Endorsing Sally Bagshaw for City Council District No. 7

  27-07-2015 15:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Sally Bagshaw Kelly OSally Bagshaw failed to take us out on either her airplane or her sailboat this year, she's a foe of district elections (worrying Seattle will now get stuck in "ward politics"), she's impossible to pin down on how much developers should be paying in linkage fees to fund affordable housing, and she told us we need to "stay the course" (borrowing a phrase from George W. Bush) on the insane, irresponsible, money-sucking, never-ending morass that is the downtown tunnel project.
  
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