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• Look! Ted Cruz Is So Masculine and Strong He Fries Pig Strips on a Machine Gun! What?

  04-08-2015 23:39 via thestranger.com
  
  Ted Cruz, holding the same kind of gun used to kill 20 children in Newtown and 12 people in a Colorado movie theatre.Youtube ScreenshotYes, that is an actual screen shot from an actual political ad starring someone who wasn't even born in America who would like to be your president. (The video's embedded below.)
  As Rachel Maddow points out: That's no machine gun. It's an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. While it's true that the AR-15, like the machine gun, is basically only good for shooting and kill
  
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• Primary Turnout Wouldn't Be So Low if You'd Get Your Ballot In. Oh Look, You Still Can!

  04-08-2015 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Vote exactly how we tell you to. Or how Dan tells you to. Or whatever. ES
  Good god, this chart is depressing.As of last night at 8 p.m., voter turnout was at about 16.5 percent citywide. That's just barely above the 15 percent countywide turnout.Most of the city council districts are hovering around 15 or 16 percent of ballots returned. Southeast Seattle's District 2 (the city's only majority-minority council district) has the lowest turnout with about 14.5 percent. District 3 (Capitol Hill, Cen
  
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• Ballard "Up" house may be demolished if $205,000 isn't raised

  04-08-2015 21:49
  
  Ballard "Up" house may be demolished if $205,000 isn't raised
  
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• Damn the Weather, Manolin, and Trove Make Bon Appétit's List of America's Best New Restaurants

  04-08-2015 21:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Manolin's tea-poached squid with kumquats and crispy quinoa.Jennifer RichardBon Appétit magazine announced its 50 nominees for America's Best New Restaurants this morning, and three Seattle restaurants are on the list: Pioneer Square's Damn the Weather, Wallingford/Fremont's Manolin, and Capitol Hill's Trove. Last July, Bethany Jean Clement praised Damn the Weather as "damn good" (specifically its Caesar salad sandwich), and just a few months ago, I was really impressed by Manolin and its L
  
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• Fine. I Voted. God.

  04-08-2015 21:36 via thestranger.com
  
  I hope you're happy now.
  Trigger warning: What follows is an irrational, emotional response to a recurring social phenomenon. It is not, repeat NOT, a defensible moral position. If you are traumatized by reading ideas that are neither admirable nor tenable, proceed with caution.Nothing makes me feel quite so diminished as voting. But, since life is only mostly a series of degrading humiliations, it's probably valuable to be find new ways to feel like you're living in a counterfeit of a photocopy
  
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• In Food News: Lionhead Opens, La Bodega Changes Its Name, Sustainable Seafood Week Continues, and More

  04-08-2015 21:16 via thestranger.com
  
  La Bodega is now called Manu's Bodega. Owner Manu Alfau is changing the menu, too (but don't worry—the puerco asado sandwich isn't going anywhere).Kelly O
  Lionhead Opening Any Day Now
  • Chef Jerry Traunfeld (Poppy, The Herbfarm) is famous for his masterful use of herbs, spices, and Northwest ingredients. At Lionhead, located right next door to his Indian-inspired restaurant Poppy on the north end of Broadway on Capitol Hill, Traunfeld offers his take on the fiery, Sichuanese cuisine
  
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• The Stranger's Predictions for Primary Night 2015!

  04-08-2015 21:10 via thestranger.com
  
  The spirits are particularly unclear about who will make it through the top-two primary to challenge powerful Council President Tim Burgess in November. Will it be Jon Grant? Or John Roderick? Kzenon/Shutterstock
  We know what we want. But what's actually going to happen on primary night 2015, when the top two candidates in all the city council races are determined and the field of 47 council hopefuls is suddenly whittled down to a field of 18?For that, we had to consult our psychic powers (and o
  
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• Pansy Ass Ceramics

  04-08-2015 20:51 via thestranger.com
  
  I'm in love with Pansy Ass Ceramics: "Two Toronto boys making your Grandma's china & tchotchkes just a little bit more gay! All handpainted & one-of-a-kind." I can't post most of their stuff to slog—NSFW, NSFG—but check out their Kiss/Suck/Rim/Fuck Tea Set. (The perfect wedding present for any boys you know getting gay married this summer!) And check out the awesome dessert plates they made just for me and Terry. Lots more at PAC's Instagram.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscr
  
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• By This Time Next Year, Washington's Pot Connoisseurs Might Be Smoking Oregon Marijuana

  04-08-2015 20:19 via thestranger.com
  
  One of the many scenic highways running between Oregon and Washington. Albert Pego/Shutterstock
  Now that Oregon has charged into legalization, and at a faster clip than Washington has, I'd like to make a sweeping—and perhaps ill-advised—prediction about the notoriously unpredictable world of marijuana capitalism: By this time next year, local cannabis connoisseurs will be using high-quality, low-priced, gray-market weed that’s being quietly trucked up from Oregon. And the natio
  
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• If You Don’t Want to Live Inside the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Butthole, Make Sure You Pick the Right Port Commissioner!

  04-08-2015 19:52 via thestranger.com
  
  The Kulluk, Shell's problem-plagued drilling rig that attempted to hunt for oil and gas in the Arctic in 2012, ran aground off the Alaskan coast and had to be scrapped. This year, Seattle's elected port commission decided to host Shell's Arctic drilling fleet before the federal government even approved Shell's permits. LOGINOVA ELENA/SHUTTERSTOCK; US COAST GUARD
  Voter participation in King County is shaping up to be absolutely dismal this year. A lousy 15.2 percent. Now, take a minute to imagin
  
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• Little Oddfellows, the New Cafe at Elliott Bay Books, Is Open and Ready and Awesome

  04-08-2015 19:15 via thestranger.com
  
  This is the wallpaper in the bathroom. This collage must've taken hours. Look at little Larkin with his uncharacteristic smile! And Du Bois with his curly 'stache! And who knew Ralph Ellison was such a hunk? (I did. Striped shirt.) And hello there, Sylvia Plath. Rich SmithI went to the opening party for Little Oddfellows, the Linda-owned enterprise that's replacing Elliott Bay Café, because the press invitation mentioned "bubbles." I don't particularly like the word "bubbles," but I wanted
  
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• Get Your Ballots In the Mail Today

  04-08-2015 18:48 via thestranger.com
  
  I always vote the way the SECB tells me too—well, almost always. Our primary election endorsements are here—the cheat sheet is here.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Making the Ballard Bridge Safe for Cyclists: One of Us Has to Die or All of Us Have to Act

  04-08-2015 17:57 via thestranger.com
  
  I biked across the Ballard Bridge twice last weekend.On Saturday the bridge was its usual terrorscape: biking over the insanely/impossibly/unsafely narrow sidewalk, squeezing past cyclists and pedestrians coming in the opposite direction, concentrating on each concrete post (don't want to catch my handlebars on one and fall into oncoming traffic), then getting to the end of the west end of the bridge and waiting at an improvised cut in the curb as cars zoomed before jumping into traffic and hop
  
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• The Morning News: Your Voting Deadline Is TODAY, Election Parties Are Tonight, and Hundreds Evacuate a Wildfire

  04-08-2015 17:54 via thestranger.com
  
  Heidi Groover after the Stranger Election Control Board failed to endorse District 7 candidate Gus Hartmann. Sarcastic balloons courtesy of District 7 candidate Gus Hartmann. Please vote. Christopher Frizzelle
  VOTE TODAY BY 8 P.M. That's the final deadline! Getting stamps for a mail-in ballot is easy. Democracy is hard. Here's who The Stranger endorsed for the local primaries.You Can Even Drop Off Your Ballot at One of These Locations Without Using Stamps! No stamps, see? None. Just brinnng the
  
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• The Morning News: Your Voting Deadline Is TODAY, City Council Regrets Anti-Chinese Policies, and Hundreds Evacuate a Growing Wildfire

  04-08-2015 17:54 via thestranger.com
  
  Heidi Groover after the Stranger Election Control Board failed to endorse District 7 candidate Gus Hartmann. The SECB accused Hartmann of having more expensive clothes than we do, so he sent us a snotty note and balloons. Please vote. Christopher Frizzelle
  VOTE TODAY BY 8 P.M. That's the final deadline! Getting stamps for a mail-in ballot is easy. Democracy is hard. Here's who The Stranger endorsed for the local primaries.You Can Even Drop Off Your Ballot at One of These Locations Without Using
  
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• Are Office Temperatures Sexist?

  04-08-2015 16:05 via thestranger.com
  
  She's probably making a really cool noise with this fan. Milles Studio/Shutterstock
  Reports the New York Times:
  It happens every summer: Offices turn on the air-conditioning, and women freeze into Popsicles.
  Finally, scientists (two men, for the record) are urging an end to the Great Arctic Office Conspiracy. Their study, published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change, says that most office buildings set temperatures based on a decades-old formula that uses the metabolic rates of men. The
  
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• Get Your Goddamn Ballot In and Then Pick Your Primary Night Party from This Comprehensive List

  04-08-2015 15:02 via thestranger.com
  
  This is the level of enthusiasm for democracy we're expecting out of you tonight. Kelly O
  Like other good and thirsty journalists in town, we'll be heading out after work tonight to practice the delicate art of drinking enough to dull the pain of covering a primary election but not drinking so much that we can't actually cover the primary election.You, on the other hand, can disregard the second part of that equation, and the best place to do that is somewhere where you can watch a city council
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Advising On a Tight Deadline

  04-08-2015 02:59 via thestranger.com
  
  Long long long time reader and listener. I need your advice today, right now, please.
  I am distraught and don't know what to do. I've been dating a man for about eight months now. He's 30 I am 32. Everything was going well. You know this whole song and dance. Then out of the blue he says "I'm struggling with this." He says this is the best relationship he's ever been in. This is the first time he's ever been able to see himself with someone for the long term. "But I need space to think about it.
  
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• In Writing News: Seattle Has Selected Its First Civic Poet, and Yesterday Was James Baldwin's B-Day

  04-08-2015 01:41 via thestranger.com
  
  Our fair city now has an official civic poet. Her name is Claudia Castro Luna. Has anyone ever heard of her? Seattle / Shutterstock
  • The Office of Arts & Culture presents to you Seattle's first civic poet: Claudia Castro Luna. I'd never heard of her, so I did a little looking around, and found this video of her reading before a city council meeting back in February of 2013. She's good! Check her out. As Seattle's civic poet, Luna will have two years and $10,000 to perform at a few pub
  
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• The True Detective Chitty-Chat Club: A Garbage Pail of Exposition

  04-08-2015 01:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Hello! Did you people watch last night's exposition-filled episode of True Detective? Wonderful! Well, my spoiler-filled recap is after the jump... but don't worry, I staunchly REFUSE to put in any boring stuff (which means it'll be pretty short). Okay, True Detective fans... let's get CHITTY-CHATTING!
  Courtesy HBO"I cannot believe the Serial podcast photo-bombed us!"
  MORE AFTER THE JUMP!Here's what I'm thinking about last night's episode, "Black Maps and Motel Rooms":
  1) The non-action kicks of
  
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• Really?! The Development Going in Where Mars Hill Used to Be Is Called "The Mark"?

  04-08-2015 00:54 via thestranger.com
  
  God works in mysterious ways. Christopher Frizzelle[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Mayor Ed Murray Wants to Shut Down Every Hookah Lounge in the City

  04-08-2015 00:54 via thestranger.com
  
  Mayor Ed Murray today said the city "will no longer tolerate" smoking lounges. Dan Nolte, City of Seattle
  Claiming they’re associated with violence and flouting state law, Mayor Ed Murray announced today that the city will move to shut down hookah lounges throughout Seattle.
  Flanked by city council members, the city attorney, the police chief, and representatives from a number of minority communities, the mayor decried hookah lounges as hotspots of violence that are operating in violation
  
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• Court Is One of the Best Comedies You Will See This Year, If Not Decade

  04-08-2015 00:32 via thestranger.com
  
  The many many social, urban, and cultural layers of contemporary India.
  In Court, a film set in modern-day Mumbai, a folksinger, Narayan Kamble (Vira Sathidar), is arrested for indirectly abetting a suicide. According to the authorities, Kamble sang a song during a show that was so dark and deep that a young sewer worker, who happened to hear it, decided to take his life. A lawyer, Vinay Vora (Vivek Gomber), takes the case and argues to the judge that the law the prosecutor, Nutan (Geetanjali Ku
  
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• Immigrant Detention Center Protesters Cut Off Downtown Traffic for Two Hours

  04-08-2015 00:29 via thestranger.com
  
  Activists shut down traffic on Madison Street this morning near Seattle's Immigrant and Customs Enforcement field office to demand more transparency on the treatment of trans detainees. SB
  Roughly 50 people in glitter shut down traffic near the intersection of Madison Street and Third Avenue this morning and then left after two hours without arrest. They were immigrant rights advocates and activists were associated with the Trans and/or Women's Action Camp, and they chose an intersection closest
  
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