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• Sarah Lee Circle Bear Died in Police Custody After Alleged Neglect

  29-07-2015 23:54 via thestranger.com
  
  A 24-year-old Lakota mother of 2 died while in police custody. Now the family wants answers: http://t.co/nO2RCfs27H pic.twitter.com/i5uQHsRYPh
  — Simon Moya-Smith (@SimonMoyaSmith) July 28, 2015Sarah Lee Circle Bear, a 24-year-old mother of a 1-year-old and a 2-year-old, had been arrested and detained on a freaking bond violation. Law enforcement officials responsible for her safety allegedly dismissed Circle Bear's multiple pleas for medical attention. She died in their custody later that
  
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• Seattle mayor changes course on plan for denser neighborhoods

  29-07-2015 23:49
  
  Seattle mayor changes course on plan for denser neighborhoods
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Straightish

  29-07-2015 22:33 via thestranger.com
  
  I am a women who finds the occasional woman sexually attractive. It is a physical desire, not an emotional one, and sex for me has always been more of an emotional experience (I get clingy after sex and have no desire for an emotional relationship with a woman), so I've never really acted on it and have rounded myself up to straightish and moved on. My fantasies don't always revolve around women, and are highly varied in the gender of the participants and the activities involved.
  I've met and fa
  
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• In Food News: Charles Smith Jet City Winery Opens in Georgetown, PCC Comes to Columbia City, and More

  29-07-2015 22:22 via thestranger.com
  
  Charles Smith Wines Jet City: 32,000 square feet, two tasting rooms, and views of Mount Rainier and Boeing Field.Charles Smith Wines
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  • As Tobias reported, winemaker Charles Smith just opened an impressive—and massive—urban winery called, appropriately, Charles Smith Wines Jet City. The 32,000-square-foot space is located in a former Dr. Pepper bottling plant in Georgetown and boasts views of Mount Rainier, Boeing Field, as well as the winemaking process for labels such
  
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• The Horrifying Body Cam Video of Unarmed Man Sam Dubose Being Shot in the Head by a Police Officer

  29-07-2015 22:07 via thestranger.com
  
  After a grand jury watched the video, they indicted officer Ray Tensing for murder. University of Cincinnati Police Dept Body CamThe body cam video showing the killing of Sam Dubose by a cop with the University of Cincinnati Police Department was released today.Since the incident on July 19, the family has been skeptical of the officer's account of what happened. "I'm so upset about them not letting us see the video," Dubose's sister said. Yesterday, the police chief, who'd seen the video, admit
  
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• My Philosophy: I Ain't Tryna Roll No Dice, I Just Wanna Make It Right

  29-07-2015 22:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Nicki Minaj sets the standard and then gets no credit.
  Word to Dennis Coles: I want you to have a good summer. Hopefully, among other things, a cop doesn't decide to kidnap you, brutalize you, and then frame you for your own murder. More on that later, and back to Mr. Coles. Ghostface's now-infamous video-phone chin-check to Action Bronson's too-loose lips was—despite Tony Starks's insistence that it wasn't a racial matter—nonetheless a blow to unchecked rap colonialism. No, you may
  
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• Why We're Endorsing Lorena González for City Council Position No. 9

  29-07-2015 21:11 via thestranger.com
  
  Lorena González Courtesy Lorena GonzálezLorena González used to work for Mayor Ed Murray, has the endorsement of former council wet blanket Sally Clark, and has received $700 from the reform-blocking dickbags in the police union, so we went into this meeting really not wanting to like her. But she is a badass. González is a civil rights attorney and past president of OneAmerica. She says she grew up in a Spanish-speaking migrant farmworker household in the Yakima Valley, wher
  
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• The Largest (and Coolest?) Urban Winery on the West Coast Just Opened in Georgetown

  29-07-2015 21:07 via thestranger.com
  
  The 32,000-square-foot facility was designed by Seattle architect Tom Kundig. Courtesy of Charles Smith Wines
  The new Charles Smith Wine Jet City is a gargantuan venture—a sprawling, 32,000-square-foot winery with two tasting rooms and facilities to produce 45,000 cases annually. The mega-winery’s move into Georgetown—a neighborhood that has traditionally been dominated by cottage industry and straight-up industry—is certainly bold, and definitely timely given the amount
  
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• Protest Fun in Portland: Greenpeace Activists Are Dangling from the St. Johns Bridge to Imprison That Shell Oil Ship

  29-07-2015 20:44 via thestranger.com
  
  .@Greenpeace climbing ninjas hanging from st johns bridge near cathedral park in #pdx impeding Fennica #ShellNo pic.twitter.com/TFwknCNH4I
  — Backbone Campaign (@backboneprog) July 29, 2015
  It goes without saying that a boon of living in a river/port city is that you and your friends can dangle from a bridge in a spectacular attempt to trap an oil ship in town (get a bridge/river, Seattle!). Nice, then, to see some of our fellow citizens exercising those inalienable rights for once.A baker'
  
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• Seattle Art Fair Is Giving $30,000 to Artist Trust

  29-07-2015 20:30 via thestranger.com
  
  FEAT 2015 This installation by June Sekiguchi, Within Without, with projection by Spar Wilson, will be part of the exhibition at Galvanize this weekend of Artist Trust 2015 Fellows. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST
  Art Market, the Brooklyn-based company administering this weekend's inaugural Seattle Art Fair, promised to give the proceeds of its VIP Patron reception to Seattle nonprofit Artist Trust—even if nobody showed up. Artist Trust is getting $30,000 this weekend, guaranteed."I think it really
  
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• Coalition of City Council Candidates Promises to Pass Housing Policies Within First Year in Office

  29-07-2015 19:31 via thestranger.com
  
  City council candidate Jon Grant and incumbent Kshama Sawant are back with a trimmed down version of their housing plan, and now they've convinced other candidates to sign on. Ansel Herz
  A group of eight city council candidates running in seven different races have signed on to a list of housing policies they support, promising to enact them within their first year in office if elected.
  The group is announcing the plan at a press conference at City Hall today at 11 a.m. Leading the way are incum
  
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• Why Is America So Upset About the Death of Cecil the Lion?

  29-07-2015 18:58 via thestranger.com
  
  Cecil with his ladies in Hwange National Park.Paula French/www.shutterstock.com
  Zimbabwe is in the news again. The spotlight last fell on the country when the flag of Rhodesia (its former name) was seen on a jacket worn by Dylann Storm Roof, the white American charged with killing nine black Americans in a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina. This time, the spotlight on Zimbabwe concerns a white American, Dr. Walter Palmer, who admitted killing Cecil, Zimbabwe's most famous lion.
  
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• Start Planning Your Weekend at the Seattle Art Fair Now

  29-07-2015 18:01 via thestranger.com
  
  The art fair starts on Thursday, and is open to the public.
  You probably know about the Seattle Art Fair happening this weekend at CenturyLink Field, because there’s already an impressive buzz about it for an inaugural event. It’s open to everyone, but, if you aren’t a hardcore collector, you might not know your way around an art fair.
  Don't worry—we’ve put the full schedule of Seattle Art Fair events on our Things To Do calendar, so you can plan out your weekend. I
  
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• The Morning News: Activists Protest Pipelines in Canada and Shell in Portland, Oh, and, Prepare For Another Heat Wave

  29-07-2015 17:53 via thestranger.com
  
  Protesters packed into the Canadian consulate yesterday to protest the building of oil and gas pipelines through Northern British Columbia across what they say is sovereign First Nations land. Adam Ziemkowski
  Have You Heard About the Unist’ot’en?Sydney reports: On Tuesday afternoon, former mayor Mike McGinn and 29 indigenous and environmental activists crowded the Canadian consulate on the sixth floor of the Century Square building across from Westlake Park. They were there on behalf
  
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• Chris Christie Will Have to Pry Our Pot Cookies Out of Our Cold, Dead Hands

  29-07-2015 16:29 via thestranger.com
  
  Bloomberg:
  Residents in U.S. states that have legalized marijuana should toke up while they still can, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said. “If you’re getting high in Colorado today, enjoy it,” Christie, a Republican campaigning for the 2016 presidential nomination, said Tuesday during a town-hall meeting at the Salt Hill Pub in Newport, New Hampshire. “As of January 2017, I will enforce the federal laws.” At a time when a majority of Americans say recreational
  
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• The Lingering Hangover of Capitol Hill Block Party 2015 in Words and Photos

  29-07-2015 15:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Built To Spill played Friday night on the main stage. Nate Gowdy
  Given that the festival ended 48 long hours ago this post about Capitol Hill Block Party 2015 may already qualify as nostalgia. We invite you to talk a laconic stroll through our scrapbook of memories. Please enjoy our gallery of excellent photos by Nate Gowdy and Josh Bis (and hey, don't forget these by Kelly O), as well as a pair of dispatches from Stranger staffers Dave Segal and Sean Nelson, below.Meatbodies Alive Josh Bis
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• Radio Triumph, Cinema Tragedy, and a Judicial Review of Things Done by Butts

  29-07-2015 14:32 via thestranger.com
  
  Remember her?
  MONDAY, JULY 20 This week of radio triumph, cinema tragedy, and a judicial review of things done by butts kicked off with a plunge into history—specifically, those 79 hours in early June when American culture was dominated by Rachel Dolezal, the allegedly African American woman who ascended to the head of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP before being publicly outed as a Caucasian. After inspiring countless minutes of discussion about identity politics, modern minstrelsy, and
  
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• Woody Allen Doesn't Put Much on the Plate in Irrational Man

  29-07-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Woody Allen Doesn't Put Much on the Plate in Irrational Manby Ned LannamannRemember the joke Woody Allen tells in Annie Hall about the two old women in the Catskills? The gist is this: One woman complains that the food is terrible, and the other replies, "I know, and such small portions."Allen's films in this later part of his career are so innocuous, so wisplike, so slight, that while they're not exactly terrible, they do make you feel like a Catskills grandma, given a stingy portion of somethi
  
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• Tom Cruise Running in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

  29-07-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Tom Cruise Running in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nationby Erik Henriksen"Cruise not only has the most distinctive gait in Hollywood—the New Yorker's Anthony Lane drolly applauded his 'ability to remain totally upright when sprinting, as if carrying an invisible egg and spoon'—he's got the most omnipresent run, with close-watchers tallying that over 80 percent of his films feature him in a mad dash," Amy Nicholson wrote in her definitive treatise on Cruisology, Anatomy of an Actor: T
  
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• The Hilarity and Tragedy of I Am Chris Farley

  29-07-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The Hilarity and Tragedy of I Am Chris Farleyby Erik HenriksenWatching Chris Farley still feels weird. Everyone's favorite era of Saturday Night Live tends to be the one they grew up with, and for me, that was the SNL of the mid-1990s, when the show was the stomping ground of Norm Macdonald, Mike Myers, Molly Shannon, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, David Spade, Ellen Cleghorne, and Phil Hartman. And looming among them—sometimes literally—was Farley, who wholeheartedly commi
  
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• The Complete Schedule and Details for the Seattle Art Fair

  29-07-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
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• If Reboots Are All We Deserve, at Least Vacation's Got Spirit

  29-07-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  If Reboots Are All We Deserve, at Least Vacation's Got Spiritby Marjorie SkinnerNational Lampoon's Vacation and its ensuing franchise is a more-or-less-fondly remembered institution of 1980s America. The film served as an important stepping-stone for a certain John Hughes, for chrissakes, and its injection of crass, dark humor into the story of a typical family's attempt at a wholesome road-trip vacation was melted permanently into a generation of impressionable young minds. A product of the cok
  
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• The Seattle Art Fair Schedule is Now on our Calendar

  29-07-2015 02:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Complete with Recommendations from Jen Gravesby Stranger Calendar Staff[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Poll Shows People Aren't That Excited About Reelecting Jay Inslee, but They're Even Less Excited About a Republican

  29-07-2015 02:05 via thestranger.com
  
  A new poll shows about a quarter of Democrats are leaning toward "a different Democrat" for governor. Office of Governor Jay Inslee
  A new Elway Poll measuring Washington voters' opinions about Governor Jay Inslee is out today and the news is pretty "meh" for the governor. (Some possible reasons for that "meh" can be found here.) But it's even worse for Republicans eyeing a challenge to Inslee in 2016.
  The poll asked about 500 voters across the state how they think Inslee is doing and how incline
  
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• Governor Inslee to Ecology: Put a Cap on Carbon Emissions

  29-07-2015 01:54 via thestranger.com
  
  Inslee: A tall guy, particularly when compared to children, and even when sitting.Governor's Office/Flickr
  Not-so-jolly green giant Jay Inslee is sticking it to the opponents of his climate agenda in the state legislature. Today, Inslee's office announced that the governor is using his executive authority to direct the Department of Ecology to put a cap on carbon emissions.It's something of a last resort. Inslee started out the legislative session with a plan to generate $1 billion for the state
  
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• Capitol Hill Block Party Programmer Eli Anderson Assesses the Fest

  29-07-2015 01:49 via thestranger.com
  
  Shannon and the Clams fans swarm the Vera Stage Sunday at Capitol Hill Block Party. Kelly O
  I did a quick interview with Capitol Hill Block Party programming manager Eli Anderson to get his observations about how the event went this year. (Aesthetically, it surpassed my admittedly modest expectations.) It seemed like attendance was down in 2015 compared to the last few years, but Anderson, who, when asked, didn't provide any figures, says, "Overall we feel great about the event. Pretty much ever
  
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• What The Matrix Tells Us About the Crisis in Greece

  29-07-2015 01:35 via thestranger.com
  
  What The Matrix Tells Us About the Crisis in GreeceRelatedby Charles MudedeIn 2011, the economist and former finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis posted on his blog an essay, "The Trouble with Humans: Why is labour special and especially targeted at a time of crisis," that provides an interesting reading of the science-fiction classic The Matrix. For those who have never watched this film, here is the basic plot: In the year 1999, a computer hacker named Neo (Keanu Reeves) learns fro
  
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• How the Trial of a Black Lives Matter Protester Could Become a Deep Dive into One Cop's Turbulent Past at the SPD

  29-07-2015 01:35 via thestranger.com
  
  How the Trial of a Black Lives Matter Protester Could Become a Deep Dive into One Cop's Turbulent Past at the SPDby Brendan KileyOn the afternoon of December 6, in the middle of a Black Lives Matter march through downtown Seattle, a young man named John Raymond Loranger was tackled and arrested for allegedly kicking an officer in her shins. But if his case goes forward, he might not be the only one on trial.The sole witness and arresting officer, Robert Mahoney, has left a long and problematic p
  
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• Fact-Checking the Fight Against Campaign Finance Reform in Seattle

  29-07-2015 01:35 via thestranger.com
  
  Fact-Checking the Fight Against Campaign Finance Reform in Seattleby Heidi GrooverA couple weeks back, the Seattle City Council voted to send a new plan for campaign finance reform to the November ballot. Initiative 122 would give all Seattle voters four $25 "democracy vouchers," for a total of $100 they could donate to candidates running for city office. The initiative would also put new limits on campaign donations and lobbying.Council Member Mike O'Brien praised it as a way to "transform how
  
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• Ladies Who Rock: Who Was Your All-Time Favorite Lady At The Capitol Hill Block Party?

  29-07-2015 01:30 via thestranger.com
  
  I was going to make this a poll, but daaaamn, there have been just way too many excellent bands over the years at CHBP. Write your all-time favorite in the comments! A few of mine, in photos, after the jump...
  Kathleen Hannah, 2015, with her band Julie Ruin Kelly O
  Andrea Lukic of the band Nü Sensae, 2013 Kelly OShannon Funchess, Light Asylum, 2013 Kelly O
  Kim Gordon with Sonic Youth, 2009 Kelly O
  Shannon of Shannon and the Clams, 2015 Kelly O
  Meredith Franco of the Coathangers, who played
  
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• What The Matrix Tells Us About the Crisis in Greeceby Charles Mudede

  29-07-2015 01:15 via thestranger.com
  
  What The Matrix Tells Us About the Crisis in GreeceRelatedby Charles MudedeIn 2011, the economist and former finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis posted on his blog an essay, "The Trouble with Humans: Why is labour special and especially targeted at a time of crisis," that provides an interesting reading of the science-fiction classic The Matrix. For those who have never watched this film, here is the basic plot: In the year 1999, a computer hacker named Neo (Keanu Reeves) learns fro
  
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• The Real Seattle Art Fair Is Out of Sight

  29-07-2015 01:15 via thestranger.com
  
  The Real Seattle Art Fair Is Out of Sight—As International Art Dealers Flood the City, 100 Local Artists Grab the Micby Jen Graves"It would be criminal," said Greg Lundgren, Seattle's go-gettingest artist/impresario/glass-tombstone-maker/art-bar-proprietor, "not to try to do something with all this attention."Lundgren said it standing in a construction zone of his own making, surrounded by an army of 100 local artists coming in and out at all hours to set up their art for the exhibition Ou
  
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• The Hidden Reason Behind Seattle's Skyrocketing Housing Costs

  29-07-2015 01:15 via thestranger.com
  
  The Hidden Reason Behind Seattle's Skyrocketing Housing Costsby Kathleen RichardsSeattle is in the midst of a housing crisis. Politicians are arguing in public debates about rent control. Growth is booming, and rents are skyrocketing. More than 100,000 people are expected to move here over the next 20 years. As of May 2015, the average rent for a one-bedroom apartment in Seattle was $1,501—an increase of 11 percent over the previous six months, according to RentJungle.com. More than half o
  
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• I Ain't Tryna Roll No Dice, I Just Wanna Make It Right

  29-07-2015 01:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Nicki Minaj vs. MTV, the Plot to Kill Lil Wayne, and Other Rap Tabloid Distractions from More News of Killer Copsby Larry Mizell Jr.Word to Dennis Coles: I want you to have a good summer. Hopefully, among other things, a cop doesn't decide to kidnap you, brutalize you, and then frame you for your own murder. More on that later, and back to Mr. Coles. Ghostface's now-infamous video-phone chin-check to Action Bronson's too-loose lips was—despite Tony Starks's insistence that it wasn't a raci
  
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• Can Whitey Morgan Save Country Music from Nashville?

  29-07-2015 01:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Can Whitey Morgan Save Country Music from Nashville? Building a Bridge from Punk to Townes Van Zandt (with a Little Help from Spotify)TAGS: musicby Joseph SchaeferWhenever you find yourself thinking, "I liked the country music my parents listened to. It was so much better than this twangy frat-boy bullshit on the radio," you're probably thinking of outlaw country.A brief history lesson: In 1972, Waylon Jennings bucked label pressure when recording his album Ladies Love Outlaws. After the record
  
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• Black Sheep

  29-07-2015 01:15 via thestranger.com
  
  The Hilarity and Tragedy of I Am Chris FarleyRelated Film: I Am Chris Farleyby Erik HenriksenWatching Chris Farley still feels weird. Everyone's favorite era of Saturday Night Live tends to be the one they grew up with, and for me, that was the SNL of the mid-1990s, when the show was the stomping ground of Norm Macdonald, Mike Myers, Molly Shannon, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, David Spade, Ellen Cleghorne, and Phil Hartman. And looming among them—sometimes literally—was F
  
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• At Marjorie, It's a Dinner Party Every Night of the Week

  29-07-2015 01:15 via thestranger.com
  
  At Marjorie, It's a Dinner Party Every Night of the Weekby Angela GarbesDonna Moodie grew up the daughter of Jamaican immigrants in the predominantly black South Side of Chicago. Although there wasn't much space, their house was open to anyone—all because of her mother, Marjorie."My mom would be out at the bank, and the bank teller would tell her that she was new to town," recalls Moodie. "So my mom would say, 'Come over for dinner.' The woman would come over, and then they'd be friends fo
  
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• A Brief Encounter with the One-of-a-Kind Writer Maggie Nelson

  29-07-2015 01:15 via thestranger.com
  
  A Brief Encounter with the One-of-a-Kind Writer Maggie Nelsonby Rich SmithIf you say "Maggie Nelson" to a certain group of literary people, they will get a faraway look in their eyes and start talking about how much her book Bluets changed their life, how they hand it out to all their friends, how they got this one tattoo because of it, etc. Bluets is a book-length collage essay, similar to Nelson's new book, The Argonauts. A collage essay is essentially an essay in fragments—an essay with
  
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• Accusing the HALA Committee of “Playing the Race Card” Is an Attempt to Derail an Important Conversation

  29-07-2015 01:06 via thestranger.com
  
  This is a map of where people of color live in Seattle, based on 2010 census data. The city is highly segregated, and the argument that the mayor's housing committee "played the race card" is an attempt to derail debate about what we can do to make the city a fairer and less segregated place.City of Seattle
  Since the Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda (HALA) committee released its recommendations on ways to increase affordable housing in Seattle, some people—namely comfortably mid
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Magical Beasts

  29-07-2015 00:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Gay guy in my early 30s here. Last night, with my boyfriend's permission, I engaged in a kinky hookup/play party with some guys from a kink site. It was amazing! I honestly feel like a new man; I got to explore a part of me I hadn't enjoyed in a while. I want to thank you, first, for teaching me that I can have this and a stable relationship at the same time. I don't think I ever would have realized that on my own. Now my two questions:
  1. Would it be creepy or nice of me to text a thank-you not
  
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