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• We Asked 12 People at a Bernie Sanders Rally: Why Do You Support Bernie?

  30-07-2015 23:32 via thestranger.com
  Last night, Bernie 2016 organized a nationwide rally to support the candidate's presidential run. The campaign estimates that 100,000 supporters from every state in the union turned out at roughly 3,500 meetings, all of which were happening simultaneously. Of the 62 events that popped up around Seattle, Kelly O and I chose to attend the one at Neighbours on Capitol Hill. There was supposed to be a live video of Bernie talking directly to supporters, but the tech folk at Neighbours couldn't get i
  
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• SPD targets another crime-ridden part of downtown Seattle

  30-07-2015 23:21
  
  SPD targets another crime-ridden part of downtown Seattle
  
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• 10 Frames: Scenes from Cascadia NW Arts & Music Fest, the Rural Alternative to CHBP

  30-07-2015 23:16 via thestranger.com
  
  Two performers seek shelter from the rain. Brooklyn Benjestorf
  It may have rained all weekend in Granite Falls, but that did nothing to dampen spirits at the first annual Cascadia NW Arts & Music Festival. If anything, the gray skies only served to accentuate the Northwest vibe, as performance artists, musical acts, workshops, installation art, and campsites spread like mist throughout the woodland environment.Music varied from dreamy down-tempo to hard-hitting techno. It was pretty much imp
  
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• Defeated on the Willamette, Shell Takes the Fight to the Courts

  30-07-2015 22:43 via thestranger.com
  
  The bridge was up around 7 a.m., but the Fennica went back to the dock.
  What's a multibillion-dollar energy giant to do when 13 mean activists in hammocks block its ship from pressing Arctic plunder? Ask the courts for help, apparently.After Shell Oil's ship the Fennica was forced back into dry dock this morning by the Greenpeace activists who've been hanging from the St. Johns Bridge since early Wednesday, the company hurriedly pressed a judge to hit the activist organization in the wallet.Sinc
  
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• Virtual Reality Gaming Company Endeavor One Taps Local Electronic Music Label Hush Hush Records for Soundtracks

  30-07-2015 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Endeavor One's Tom Doyle wants people to "feel the exhilaration of bounding through" some of the world's major cities.
  Endeavor One, a new Seattle-based virtual reality gaming company composed of AAA developers, has tapped local label Hush Hush to provide the soundtrack for its inaugural product, titled JUMP, which comes out today via Valve’s Steam platform. Endeavor One’s mission statement is to build “the next generation of Virtual Reality experiences while partnering with ot
  
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• Virtual Reality Game Company Taps Local Electronic Music Label Hush Hush Records for Game Soundtracks

  30-07-2015 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Endeavor One's Tom Doyle wants people to "feel the exhilaration of bounding through" some of the world's major cities.
  Endeavor One, a new Seattle-based virtual reality gaming company composed of AAA developers, has tapped local label Hush Hush to provide the soundtrack for its inaugural product, titled JUMP, which comes out today via Valve’s Steam platform. Endeavor One’s mission statement is to build “the next generation of Virtual Reality experiences while partnering with ot
  
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• Savage Love: Girl Party

  30-07-2015 21:24 via thestranger.com
  
  joe newtonI have always wanted to have a girls-only sex party, but I'm not sure how I feel about actually organizing one. What's the etiquette if I do organize one myself? Do I need to provide the dildos for people's harnesses? Or just the condoms and lube? And how do I find people who want to attend? Do I just tweet out an invite? Is there a better way that makes me seem less sketchy?
  No Snappy Acronym
  What I know about hosting girls-only sex parties could fit inside what I know about the Marv
  
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• The Real Seattle Art Fair Is Out of Sight—As International Art Dealers Flood the City, 100 Local Artists Grab the Mic

  30-07-2015 20:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Out of Sight: Casey Curran rides the golden wave. GREG LUNDGREN
  "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 Out of Sight. Out of Sight is about wanting to be seen, and the view from
  
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• What the Beggar on Link Light Rail Means

  30-07-2015 20:04 via thestranger.com
  
  The suitcase enjoying all of that room to itself is owned by the balding man. Charles Mudede
  During a recent light rail trip between Columbia City and Beacon Hill, a certain individual gave his stylish suitcase the space of three seats, and as a consequence a number of riders were left standing. I at first wanted this post to be about the root and nature of this type of individual and about how he and others like him should face some form of punishment for refusing to be social. Clearly, the new
  
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• Powerful Seattle Talent in Emboldened, a New Play About Tragic Jazz Innovator Buddy Bolden

  30-07-2015 19:48 via thestranger.com
  
  Some of the cast of Emboldened. Playwright and star Reginald Andrè Jackson reclines on the couch as legendary cornet player Buddy Bolden. Courtesy of Freehold Theatre Lab
  Before Louis Armstrong, before Jelly Roll Morton, there was Buddy Bolden—the brash, hard-drinking, hard-blowing New Orleans cornet player who may have been to jazz what Benjamin Franklin was to electricity. There are no known recordings of Bolden's band, but oral accounts say his mania for improvisation and playing l
  
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• These Planes Will Join the Blue Angels in the Sky Tomorrow—But One's Just Sitting in Westlake Center Right Now

  30-07-2015 19:18 via thestranger.com
  
  You can meet all of the tan, French pilots today at Westlake from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm. Mary Seton
  You hear those Blue Angels in the sky? Well, starting around 12:11 p.m. tomorrow, they will be joined by these guys. Try not to be alarmed. It won't mean we're at war with another country. It won't mean Seattle is being attacked by sparrow-like fighter jets. It will just mean you're being entertained by yet another group of warplane ballerinas.But these jets aren't helmed by good ol' fashioned porn-
  
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• These Planes Will Be in the Sky with the Blue Angels Tomorrow—But One's Just Sitting in Westlake Center Right Now

  30-07-2015 19:18 via thestranger.com
  
  You can meet all of the tan, French pilots today at Westlake from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm. Mary Seton
  You hear those Blue Angels in the sky? Well, starting around 12:11 p.m. tomorrow, they will be joined by these guys. Actually, these guys will precede the Blue Angels in tomorrow's show. Try not to be alarmed. It won't mean we're at war with another country. It won't mean Seattle is being attacked by sparrow-like fighter jets. It will just mean you're being entertained by yet another group of warpla
  
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• It's Not Just For Buyers: Here Are A Few Things I Definitely Want to See at Seattle Art Fair

  30-07-2015 18:29 via thestranger.com
  
  COURTESY OF DAVID ZWIRNER GALLERY
  There's no law against bad art in New York. So you never know what you're going to get with an art fair, even when there are plenty of big New York galleries showing up. They might bring what's meh, or they might themselves be pretty meh. (A display of Damien Hirst dot paintings is no more interesting in Seattle than it is in New York, folks.) That said, I got a sneak peek of what David Zwirner is bringing, and I'm actually getting excited. The gallery's illust
  
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• The Morning News: Mayor Murray Turns Against His Housing Committee, and Protesters Turn Back Shell Ship in Portland

  30-07-2015 17:53 via thestranger.com
  
  Mayor Ed Murray: Taking marching orders from the Seattle Times and turning on his own affordable housing committee. Kelly O
  After More Than Ten Months of Process by An Affordable Housing Committee HE APPOINTED, and After Initially Supporting His Committee's Recommendations to Modestly Upzone Seattle's Single-Family Neighborhoods, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray Has Decided There's Too Much Backlash to Support That Idea Anymore: "The mayor," Ansel reports, "is backing away from two of HALA's key recommen
  
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• Mayor Murray Loses Spine, Comes Out Against His Own Committee's Recommendation for Increased Density

  30-07-2015 02:40 via thestranger.com
  
  Is this the Mayor of Seattle, or a Danny Westneat puppet? Kelly O
  Never mind what you may have thought. The Seattle Times, not Mayor Ed Murray, runs Seattle. The mayor sent out this pathetic press release this afternoon:
  Today Mayor Ed Murray issued the following statement announcing he will not recommend pursuing a Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda (HALA) committee recommendation that could have changed 94 percent of single-family zones in Seattle. Instead, he is calling for renewed p
  
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• Why Does the Police Report About Sam Dubose Not Match the Video of the Shooting?

  30-07-2015 02:17 via thestranger.com
  
  A few moments after Sam Dubose was shot in the head by officer Ray Tensing. UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI POLICE DEPT BODY CAM
  The events in Eric Weibel's police report (PDF) for the shooting death of Sam Dubose, a black American, are not the same as those recorded by the body cam worn by the officer, Ray Tensing, who shot him.In the police report, Weibel writes:Officer Tensing stated that he was attempting a traffic stop (No front license plate) when, at some point, he began to be dragged by a male
  
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• Free Will Astrology for the Week of July 29

  30-07-2015 02:01 via thestranger.com
  
  FESTA/SHUTTERSTOCKLEO (July 23–Aug 22): I expect you to be in a state of constant birth for the next three weeks. Awakening and activation will come naturally. Your drive to blossom and create may be irresistible, bordering on unruly. Does that sound overwhelming? I don't think it will be a problem as long as you cultivate a mood of amazed amusement about it. (P.S. This upsurge is a healthy response to the dissolution that preceded it.)
  VIRGO (Aug 23–ept 22): Expiration dates loom.
  
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• The Mariners Baseball Badly, but You Should Watch Them Anyway

  30-07-2015 01:35 via thestranger.com
  
  By gazing upon the paint-drying tedium of late-season Mariners baseball, we can see the illusions of modern life for what they are. alens / Shutterstock.com
  This Mariners season, which started with great hopes of great promise, is at this point, broadly speaking, full blown off the rails. Wednesday saw the Mariners lose as Felix Hernandez gave up two home runs to former Mariners backup catcher Welington Castillo, a man who was traded for Mark Trumbo (who watched the game from the bench) and repl
  
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• The High List: Psych Rock, Wild Sharks, Cryptozoology, and More!

  30-07-2015 01:20 via thestranger.com
  
  A Curious Bestiary: Chimeras and Cryptozoology from American Print Makers BEAUVAIS LYONS/DAVIDSON GALLERIES
  Northwest Psychfest
  MUSIC July 30–Aug 1, Sunset Tavern (5433 Ballard Ave NW)
  Three days of psychedelic music—a genre that has grown to include all that is reverberating and/or trippy, from heavy rock freak-outs to mellow pop haze. Whatever you're into, man, doing some weed will accentuate the rich tapestry that is music. Can you dig it or whatever?
  
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• I Love Television: The Return of Wet Hot American Summer!

  30-07-2015 00:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Let's meet in the morning so we can make a day of it. Like 9, 9:30.
  First of all, if you've never seen the 2001 cult classic film Wet Hot American Summer, then go watch it right this instant! Seriously, right now. I'll wait. (Are they gone? Good. UNNGGGH, aren't people who refuse to familiarize themselves with popular culture the worst? I mean, it's bad enough these people never get your hilarious movie and TV references, but then they get all high-horsey and act like they're too evolved to lear
  
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• Seattle Prog Rock Festival Founder Likens Seattle's Notorious Prog Hostility to Red Staters’ Proud Ignorance

  30-07-2015 00:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Italian composer/vocalist Debora Petrina's oblique and sensual songwriting has won praise from David Byrne and Terry Riley.
  Seaprog 2015—the only Seattle-based festival dedicated to progressive rock—is gearing up for its third annual edition August 7-9 at the Royal Room and Columbia City Theater. Organized by veteran guitarist/composer Dennis Rea (Moraine, Tempered Steel, and many other projects), Seaprog is a musician-run event that, despite its nonprofit status, faces the crucial c
  
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