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• Silas Blak and the Return of the Black CNN in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter

  05-08-2015 23:31 via thestranger.com
  
  Ladies and gentlemen, Silas Blak is leaving the cabin. Charles Peterson/cabin games
  In the late '80s, the leader of the musical revolution called Public Enemy, Chuck D, described rap as "the invisible TV station that black America never had.” This statement could not be made about mainstream hiphop after 1997. What channel is Lil Wayne on? As for watching Flo Rida, we are "tuned to a dead channel."News about black America is now mostly found and circulated on social media, but occasionally
  
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• Last Night's Port Primary Winners Are Underdogs with Anti-Pollution Platforms. This Is a Big Deal.

  05-08-2015 22:19 via thestranger.com
  
  Port commission candidate Fred Felleman says the president and the pope's new climate initiatives helped him win the primary. Courtesy of Fred Felleman
  Environmental consultant Fred Felleman and former Normandy Park City Council member Marion Yoshino weren't supposed to come out as the frontrunners for Republican Bill Bryant's old port commission seat. Their campaign war chests combined added up to less than half of the $102,756.79 that was backing the favored candidate of Alaska Airlines and th
  
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• My Philosophy: Out of the Sky, Into the Dirt

  05-08-2015 22:02 via thestranger.com
  
  Gifted Gab. Fresh in the Northwest.
  It's not a shock that campus cop killed Sam DuBose (I really can't watch the video), but it is one that the cop is actually being condemned and indicted for murder. Without that footage, and without this rage that's been sparked in the last two years, that shit wouldn't have even happened, though. It's just too bad that they weren't yet scared of their cities burning back when they let Trayvon Martin's killer get off.
  Meanwhile, five black women—Sandra B
  
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• Jean Godden Is the Only City Council Incumbent Who May Not Make It to November's General Election. What Happened?

  05-08-2015 21:28 via thestranger.com
  
  An early bad sign for Jean Godden's reelection: That candidate forum in which she refused to answer yes-or-no questions. Josh Kelety
  After last night's initial vote count, most of the city council incumbents appear to be doing just fine. Kshama Sawant is toeing the 50 percent line. Tim Burgess got 48 percent of the vote against two strong challengers (and one not-so-strong challenger). Bruce Harrell, Mike O'Brien, and Sally Baghsaw all led comfortably.If you supported district elections because
  
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• Medical Marijuana in the Congo Basin

  05-08-2015 21:17 via thestranger.com
  
  Anthropologist Casey J. Roulette (left) in the midst of fieldwork. Edward H Hagen
  This summer, anthropologists at Washington State University published new research about medical-marijuana use in the Congo Basin. According to their report, the hunter-gatherer Aka people “are characterized by a preference for forest life, polyphonic music… and are generally peaceful and egalitarian with marked gender equity.”
  They also smoke. A lot.
  The research, led by Casey Roulette, Edward Ha
  
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• We Will Be Covering BOTH Republican Debates Tomorrow, Because We Love Democracy (and Hate Ourselves)

  05-08-2015 21:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Donald Trump, who is currently leading the polls by a comfortable margin, will likely take center stage in the prime time debate tomorrow. So, a little more to the left, please, blondie. Andrew Cline / Shutterstock.com
  Why are they doing this to us. Why are they having TWO debates on the same day, on the same network, making us listen to the same roll call of chattering doofuses spout two-minute versions of the same stump speech we've already heard from all of them for month? Why has the univers
  
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• You're the Worst Season Two Trailer: "I Thought We Could Do Butt Stuff Tonight!"

  05-08-2015 20:58 via thestranger.com
  
  My favorite new sitcom of last year was, hands down, You're the Worst—an FX comedy about two terrible people who fall in love, and struggle to retain their terribleness. SO FUNNY. Now You're the Worst returns for a second season on the network's li'l sis station FXX (Wed, Sept 9) and here's the first trailer. Set Up: Jimmy and Gretchen decide to move in together—which should begin the slow death of their relationship, right? WRONG. Because both of them are determined not to fuck anyt
  
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• Listen Here: New Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Song "Growing Up (Sloane's Song)" May Soon Blow Up Internet—Not In a Good Way

  05-08-2015 20:32 via thestranger.com
  Macklemore & Ryan Lewis's first new song since 2012.
  Seattle hiphop's most conspicuous export has just released their first new song since the non-stop victory lap of their big hit record from 2012. According to press materials, "Growing Up (Sloane's Song)," is not a single per se, but "rather a personal moment of expression from Ben & Ryan for their fans." (It can be downloaded here, and is embedded below.)
  "Growing Up" is a dad-to-newborn love song in the vein of Will Smith's version o
  
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• Socialist Bernie Sanders to Hold Fundraiser at the Comet, Which Is Owned by a Prominent Critic of Local Socialists

  05-08-2015 19:48 via thestranger.com
  
  Some nights at the Comet have looked like this. (That's Tel Aviv band Monotonix at the Comet back in 2008.) We're guessing the only presidential candidate who'd strip and sit on a bass drum is Trump.
  This Saturday, raging socialist and $15 minimum wage advocate Bernie Sanders will hold a fundraiser at the Comet Tavern—which is owned in part by David Meinert, one of the most vocal critics of local socialists Kshama Sawant and Jess Spear during Seattle's $15 debate. Political analysts estima
  
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• How Seattle Restaurants Are Coping Without Tips (So Far), Plus a New Restaurant Goes Tipless

  05-08-2015 18:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Since April 1, Ivar's has increased wages to $15 an hour and eliminated tipping.Jennifer RichardIncreased Wages and Tip Elimination at Ivar's Successful So Far
  • As I previously reported, Ivar's Salmon House on Lake Union raised wages for front- and back-of-house workers to $15 an hour on April 1, when Seattle's new minimum wage ordinance took effect. To cover the increase in labor costs, Ivar's president Bob Donegan increased menu price by 21 percent, eliminated tipping, and gave employee
  
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• Don't Miss These Seven Events Happening This Week

  05-08-2015 18:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Is She Dead Yet? runs through Aug 22 at Annex Theatre.
  Starting today, you’ll find our complete list of suggested events for the week in the new Things To Do section of the paper. As always, find all events happening in the city on our online Things To Do Calendar.FILM
  The Wanted 18
  This excellent little film mixes animation and real interviews to form a documentary about an attempt by Palestinians in Beit Sahour to achieve independence from the Israeli milk industry by starting a dairy. I
  
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• Don't Miss These 7 Events Happening This Week

  05-08-2015 18:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Is She Dead Yet? runs through Aug 22 at Annex Theatre.
  Starting today, you’ll find our complete list of suggested events for the week in the new Things To Do section of the paper. As always, find all events happening in the city on our online Things To Do Calendar.FILM
  The Wanted 18
  This excellent little film mixes animation and real interviews to form a documentary about an attempt by Palestinians in Beit Sahour to achieve independence from the Israeli milk industry by starting a dairy. I
  
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• The Morning News: The Results of Seattle’s Primary Election Are In! Sawant, Grant, Gonzalez, Juarez Leading; Roderick, Godden Trailing

  05-08-2015 17:24 via thestranger.com
  
  Jon Grant is trailing behind Tim Burgess in the District 8 election, but he's ahead of John Roderick by nearly 10,000 votes. Kelly O
  Seattle Held Its First-in-a-Long-Time District Elections: Voters got to elect seven out of nine city council members by district. And, as Heidi notes, the results show that NIMBYs did not benefit from the new system.Kshama Sawant, Jon Grant, Lorena Gonzalez, Debora Juarez, and Mike O’Brien Are Currently in the Lead: In fact, all city council incumbents did un
  
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• The First Primary Under Our New Districts System Happened Last Night. Here’s One Thing the Results Tell Us.

  05-08-2015 15:09 via thestranger.com
  
  City Council incumbent Kshama Sawant drew nearly 50 percent of the vote in her race and will take on challenger Pamela Banks in the general election. Among other things, Sawant tapped into anger at rising rents in Seattle. Kelly O
  Yes, Seattle had city council districts a long time ago, but too long ago for most of us to remember. That means this new system might as well be brand new, and it was a complete shit show. Seven new districts, 47 candidates, passive aggressive chocolate-covered fruit
  
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• Cops Charged with Murder, Cops Killed by Murder, and Lions Killed by Dentists

  05-08-2015 14:32 via thestranger.com
  
  Shell Hath No Fury
  MONDAY, JULY 27 This week of cops charged with murder, cops killed by murder, and deeply despised dentists kicked off with Donald Trump, the pumpkin-colored racist and GOP presidential front-runner who was today the subject of an explosive report at the Daily Beast. "Donald Trump introduced his presidential campaign to the world with a slur against Mexican immigrants, accusing them of being 'rapists' and bringing crime into the country," reported the Daily Beast, reminding rea
  
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• Everyone in Dark Places Is Getting Typecast

  05-08-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Everyone in Dark Places Is Getting Typecastby Suzette SmithChristina Hendricks never phones it in—even in this quick cash-grab made to mine the success of Gone Girl. Dark Places, like Gone Girl, is adapted from a Gillian Flynn novel—but unlike Gone Girl, Flynn didn't adapt the script, and David Fincher didn't direct. It was punted over to a moderately unknown writer/director, Gilles Paquet-Brenner (Sarah's Key), and stuffed with an impressive number of my favorite actors.As establish
  
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• Primary Election Night 2015: So Many Candidates! So Many Parties! So Many Free Drinks!

  05-08-2015 03:54 via thestranger.com
  
  Goodbye, Gus Hartmann's passive aggressive gifts! Hello, primary night! ESPARTIES, HERE WE COME
  6:52 PM
  The Stranger Election Control Board has tossed Gus Hartmann's hate-balloons in the trash (having long ago devoured the chocolate-covered strawberries that accompanied said hate-balloons) and is now coming your way, primary night parties. Prepare thyselves.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Shitty GF #2

  05-08-2015 02:33 via thestranger.com
  
  Male from Canada writing, 36 years old, straight.Two years ago, I was in a common law relationship with a woman for a little over 4 years.Several times during our relationship, I would notice her trying to shield her phone from me while she texted. Invariably, she would be talking to a guy she met somewhere, I’d discover that she planned to cheat on me, we’d fight, she’d forget about the other guy, things would go back to normal, then the whole process would start again.In the
  
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• What Happened After an Undercover Cop Elbowed Me at a Protest and Lied About It

  05-08-2015 02:22 via thestranger.com
  
  What Happened After an Undercover Cop Elbowed Me at a Protest and Lied About Itby Ansel HerzThere are two things I want you to remember when you've finished reading this article: (1) Always film the police, even during what seem to be risk-free, mundane encounters, and (2) always file a complaint when you believe something weird has happened. This is not a waste of time. Logging an official statement of concern in the Seattle Police Department's files creates a record of the incident that can he
  
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• The Seattle Art Fair Was So Successful, the City Literally Applauded

  05-08-2015 02:22 via thestranger.com
  
  The First-Ever Seattle Art Fair Was So Successful, the City Literally Applaudedby Jen GravesWhen the clock struck 6 p.m. on Sunday night and the loudspeaker announced, "Seattle Art Fair is now closed," the few hundred stragglers still standing inside CenturyLink Field Event Center clapped and cheered. They were exhausted, relieved, exhilarated, and already nostalgic. The fair was a long flight that landed, safely, at last."Whoo!" called Greg Kucera, the elder statesman of Seattle gallerists, sur
  
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• The Most Lamentable Tragedy Might Be a Masterwork

  05-08-2015 02:22 via thestranger.com
  
  Titus Andronicus's Bipolar Rock Opera Might Be a Masterwork, but That Doesn't Mean You'll Want to Play It Againby Sean NelsonIt's uncommon these days for an album (A) by a rock band (B) that isn't very famous (C) to occupy the designated Music You Should Pretend to Care About slot in non-music-only media. But the new album by Titus Andronicus, The Most Lamentable Tragedy, is an uncommonly ambitious rock-band album—a double CD (triple vinyl!), 93-minute-long rock opera about bipolar disorde
  
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• Resentment and Road Trips

  05-08-2015 02:22 via thestranger.com
  
  The End of the Tour Isn't About David Foster Wallace (So You Can See It Even If You Never Finished Infinite Jest)Isn't About David Foster Wallaceby Alison HallettA certain segment of the reading population simply shouldn't see The End of the Tour: David Foster Wallace diehards, the ones who've read Infinite Jest not just once but several times, who've internalized those famously complex sentences, and who've waded through that final, unfinished novel about tax codes. When a writer means as much
  
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• Person of Interest: Rodrigo Valenzuela

  05-08-2015 02:22 via thestranger.com
  
  Person of Interest: Rodrigo Valenzuela, artistRodrigo Valenzuela in the Factory, an art gallery on Capitol Hill where an exhibition of his opens September 10. By the end of 2015, Rodrigo will have shown work in 19 exhibitions around the world this year alone. The Stranger Genius Award winner also has work in the Frye Art Museum's exhibition Genius, which opens September 26. Photo by Kelly O / Questions by Christopher FrizzelleIs that a flag?Yeah. If you take labor-union logos and turn the shapes
  
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• Out of the Sky, Into the Dirt

  05-08-2015 02:22 via thestranger.com
  
  The War Is On. Punk-Rock Devil's Advocates Are Part of the Problem. Plus: A Word About Macklemore's Relapse Narrative.by Larry Mizell Jr.It's not a shock that campus cop killed Sam DuBose (I really can't watch the video), but it is one that the cop is actually being condemned and indicted for murder. Without that footage, and without this rage that's been sparked in the last two years, that shit wouldn't have even happened, though. It's just too bad that they weren't yet scared of their cities b
  
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• Orcas Have Ruled the Planet Longer Than We Have, and They're Smarter Than We Know

  05-08-2015 02:22 via thestranger.com
  
  If You've Given Up on Humanity, Might I Recommend David Neiwert's Book About Orcas?by Christopher FrizzelleKiller whales are smarter than we know. Not only do they have their well-documented senses of humor and empathy and mischievousness, they also have a part of their brain that is beyond the understanding of human scientists. It's called a paralimbic cleft, and it's a highly developed set of lobes that "may enable some brain function we can't even envision because we lack it," David Neiwert w
  
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• Lark's Understated Greatness

  05-08-2015 02:22 via thestranger.com
  
  In Its Expanded New Location on Capitol Hill, Lark Continues Its Quiet Reverence for the Pacific Northwestby Angela GarbesWhen chef John Sundstrom and partners J.M. Enos and Kelly Ronan opened their Capitol Hill restaurant Lark in 2003, it was a radical move. At the time, its location—a worn-down 1930s building located on a stretch of 12th Avenue just south of Madison—was, in Sundstrom's words, "a little off the beaten path."Then there was the food. Rather than the familiar categorie
  
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• Ken Loach Returns to Form with Jimmy's Hall

  05-08-2015 02:22 via thestranger.com
  
  Ken Loach, Laureate of British-Class-Struggle Cinema, Returns to Form with Jimmy's Hallby Charles MudedeKen Loach's new film, Jimmy's Hall, answers a very important question: What is the left supposed to do when the struggle against our oppressors is won?Do we keep on working as before but under improved conditions? Do we spend more time in bed or with our partners or in the pub? What should life in a fully realized social democracy look and be like? Are we fighting for the right to become perma
  
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• I, Anonymusic

  05-08-2015 02:22 via thestranger.com
  
  I'm Your Bandmate, Not Your Roadieby AnonymousDear piece-of-shit egomaniac: Here is a little something I believe they call a "pro tip" in "the business" that you think you are already a big deal in: I am your bandmate, your bass player to be precise. You have other bandmates, too. In no particular order, they are called a guitar player and a drummer and sometimes even a keyboard player. If you're not too busy looking in a mirror or checking Facebook to see if anyone has mentioned you lately (sam
  
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• Annex Theatre's Discomforting Is She Dead Yet? Examines Race Anxiety Through the Lens of Greek Tragedy

  05-08-2015 02:22 via thestranger.com
  
  Annex Theatre's Discomforting Is She Dead Yet? Examines Race Anxiety Through the Lens of Greek TragedyRelated event: Is She Dead Yet?by Brendan KileyIn 438 BCE, Euripides won second prize at the Dionysia theater festival with his strange play Alcestis, an uncomfortably ambivalent story about a queen who volunteers to die in her husband's place and is then wrestled back into the land of the living by a hungover Hercules.The mechanics behind the plot are ridiculous: Apollo is exiled from Olympus,
  
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• Come Back to Slog Tonight for Primary Election Results and Party Coverage!

  05-08-2015 02:07 via thestranger.com
  
  This may or may not be how the SECB plans to start the night. Kelly O
  It's Primary Election Night! Are you gonna party? We're gonna party. At the candidates' parties. 'Cause the candidate parties don't stop... Okay, that's not at all true. But we're going anyway!City council candidates, port commission candidates, school board candidates—we'll find them all. Except the school board candidates' parties. Because really.
  But we will be at the others! Parties start around 7; results come in at
  
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• Solving the Literary Mystery of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Lost Story

  05-08-2015 01:36 via thestranger.com
  
  Get your hope chests of sad short stories ready: F. Scott Fitzgerald has a new posthumous story coming out.
  Today, in literary mysteries, a story known to have been written by F. Scott Fitzgerald but commonly thought to be lost—"mentioned in correspondence but no surviving transcript or manuscript"—has been found. Originally reported by the AP on Friday, the story can be found at the literary magazine The Strand, a publication that's so delightfully old-school it looks like the story
  
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• Elizabeth Warren: "The Government Doesn't Perform Abortions. Period."

  05-08-2015 01:14 via thestranger.com
  
  On Monday, the president of my heart, Elizabeth Warren, gave a full-throated defense of Planned Parenthood that made me jump out of my chair and start running around hooting and hollering. (Okay, actually I just started sending the link to a lot of people, but I was jumping out of my chair and running around emotionally.)
  In case you've been out of it or distracted by Trump coverage for the last few weeks, Planned Parenthood, a non-profit health clinic that serves millions of women each year, h
  
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• Does Anyone Remember Seattle Public Access TV Weirdo Reverend Bruce Howard?

  05-08-2015 01:01 via thestranger.com
  
  There's a local filmmaker who's working on a documentary about the man, and looking for people to possibly interview. Leave your thoughts in the comments! [ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Re: Fine. I Voted. God. (Or, Another Goddamned Slog Post About Voting)

  05-08-2015 00:46 via thestranger.com
  
  We'll get to this pie chart in a minute. Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission
  Dear Sean: I'm with you when you write: "Nothing makes me feel quite so diminished as voting." Voting in an election is like clapping after a performance. The feeling that it doesn't really matter, and that you're doing it out of an obligation to fulfill some social contract you don't remember signing, is inescapable. And the reactionary anger you might feel towards people who get all smug about the fact that they a
  
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• Stranger Music Geniuses the Intelligence Return from Three-Year Absence with Vintage Future

  05-08-2015 00:44 via thestranger.com
  
  The Intelligence: Still geniuses after all these beers. In the Red Records
  It’s been three years since Seattle/Los Angeles band the Intelligence released their last whip-smart garage-rock album, Males, and the world only has gotten grimmer and Trump-ier in the interim. Which means we need new music from Lars Finberg and company more than ever. Enter Vintage Future, the ninth full-length from the 2011 Stranger music Genius band. In the Red Records will release it September 25. Yesterday Bro
  
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• Kevin Bacon Really Wants You to See His Wiener

  05-08-2015 00:15 via thestranger.com
  
  In this new video from Mashable's Watercooler, the beloved Kevin Bacon presents a PSA on THE most important topic of our times: gratuitous male nudity, and how we need more of it. Marvel at Bacon's crystalline logic on how male nudity (and in particular his wiener) is an issue of gender equality—the absence of which led to the cancellation of his TV show The Following. (This is not true, but it does give Kevin Bacon another excuse to talk about his wiener. Let's just look at his wiener and
  
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