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• Um, Can We Talk About How More Than 23,000 of You Voted for Goodspaceguy?

  07-08-2015 23:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Goodspaceguy has run for office 16 times. He says he's the "capitalist" of his port commission race and is against the state minimum wage.ES
  According to the latest numbers, one candidate has made it to the November general election with more votes than those earned by City Council members Kshama Sawant and Mike O'Brien combined. His name is Goodspaceguy, and this is his 16th election (he believes).
  Okay, okay, it's not exactly a fair comparison: Goodspaceguy, a staunchly persistent local candid
  
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• Fantastic Four Is Grim, Gritty, and Boring

  07-08-2015 22:02 via thestranger.com
  
  "Wait. I think we did the math wrong."
  Even among the legions of characters in long underwear, the Fantastic Four have always stood apart, both for their squabbling family dynamics and an endearingly retro squareness. The latest attempt to move the team to the big screen captures, well, exactly neither of those aspects, with results that are too bloody and dour for kids (heads start popping off toward the end, GWAR-style), too laissez faire for continuity geeks, and too uninspired for everybody
  
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• In Its Expanded New Location on Capitol Hill, Lark Continues Its Quiet Reverence for the Pacific Northwest

  07-08-2015 20:52 via thestranger.com
  
  TAGLIATELLE: The pasta is freshly made and comes with abalone, Sungold tomatoes, and shaved bottarga. It's mind-bogglingly good. kelly o
  When 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 fa
  
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• Overheard in the Office (When You Share an Office with Dan Savage)

  07-08-2015 20:09 via thestranger.com
  
  "Is it accurate to describe you as someone who is so turned on by ball torture that you can come without touching yourself while torturing another man's balls?"[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Police Reports Illustrated: Tosser in the Produce Section

  07-08-2015 20:05 via thestranger.com
  
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• La Luz Shares Brand New Video Just in Time for their Record Release Show Tonight!

  07-08-2015 19:57 via thestranger.com
  
  New La Luz vid directed by Meghan Tryon
  Band of the hour La Luz is having a pretty good day: (1) Weirdo Shrine, their fantastic second LP, is at long last available. (2) They're headlining a show tonight at the Showbox to celebrate its release (and kick off several months of what one hopes will be triumphant touring), and (3) now, hey look, they've released a new video for the album's (almost) title track, "Black Hole, Weirdo Shrine." The clip is directed by Meghan Tryon, and animated with a tri
  
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• La Luz Share Brand-New Video Just in Time for Their Record Release Show Tonight!

  07-08-2015 19:57 via thestranger.com
  
  New La Luz vid directed by Meghan Tryon
  Band of the hour La Luz are having a pretty good day: (1) Weirdo Shrine, their fantastic second LP, is at long last available. (2) They're headlining a show tonight at the Showbox to celebrate its release (and kick off several months of what one hopes will be triumphant touring). And (3) now, hey look, they've released a new video for the album's (almost) title track, "Black Hole, Weirdo Shrine." The clip is directed by Meghan Tryon and animated with a tri
  
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• The Memory Palace Host Nate DiMeo Reveals Details of His First-Ever Live Show (Which is TONIGHT at the Vera Project)

  07-08-2015 18:45 via thestranger.com
  
  The Memory Palace podcast live show is tonight at 7:30pm at the Vera Project. $20
  The Memory Palace is one of those podcasts: the kind you decide to try after reading a "Best Podcasts in the World" article or on the advice of a devout friend, and then can't ever stop listening to. The format is simple and elegant. Host Nate DiMeo tells you a story, usually about an arcane event from some sepia-toned byway of history, accompanied by perfect music. And then it's over. Some of the stories are monum
  
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• Look at These Amazing Photos Taken by Drone of Northern Resident Killer Whales

  07-08-2015 18:22 via thestranger.com
  
  The one in the middle is a calf born this past winter.NOAA/Vancouver Aquarium
  Granted, I'm obsessed with orcas, but even if you're not, you have to admit this is pretty amazing. According to NOAA:
  For the first time, scientists have used an unmanned aerial vehicle to study killer whales from above. The device they're using is a remote-controlled hexacopter with a high-resolution camera mounted in its belly, and the photos it produces are beautiful and full of detail. The images offer an entirely
  
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• The Morning News: Council Candidate got DUI in 2012, Mayor Faces Backlash Over Hookah Crackdown, Republicans Debate

  07-08-2015 17:59 via thestranger.com
  
  In 2012, Debora Juarez, the leading vote-getter in District 5, had a blood-alcohol content of more than twice the legal limit almost two hours after she hit a guardrail with her car. Courtesy of Debora Juarez
  City Council Candidate Debora Juarez Pleaded Guilty to a DUI in 2012: In this week's primary, Juarez led the vote count to represent North Seattle's District 5. Daniel Beekman at the Seattle Times reports that Juarez "was driving east on North Northgate Way about 3:08 a.m. on Aug.R
  
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• Blabbermouth: Our Week-in-Review Podcast Does the Republican Debates, the Primary Election, and the Seattle Art Fair!

  07-08-2015 15:02 via thestranger.com
  
  Episode 16 of our Stranger week-in-review podcast. (Now available on iTunes.)
  This week's show begins with some analysis of the Seattle primary results from city council candidate Michael "Get Crunk" Maddux, and then at about 18:05...
  Rich Smith comes back on Blabbermouth for a veeeeery special review of this week's Republican presidential debates—both the "kids table" debate AND the "adults table" debate. We recorded our review before the debates happened, but come on: we all knew what wa
  
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• Liveslogging the First 2016 Republican Debate with Donald Trump, Jeb! Bush, and Eight Other Pro-Life Lunatics

  07-08-2015 02:40 via thestranger.com
  
  "Open your mouth and get ready to swallow." lev radin / Shutterstock.com
  5:40 pm: If you missed the kid's table debate earlier today, read this. Carly Fiorina did laps around everyone else. Also: Rick Santorum thinks gay marriage is like the Dred Scott decision. And even the one pro-choice guy in that group wants to defund Planned Parenthood. If you can believe it, tonight's debate tonight is a different collection of asshats. The top 10 asshats in the running: Donald Trump, Jeb! Bush, Scott Wal
  
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• Liveslogging the First 2016 Republican Debate with Donald Trump, Jeb! Bush, and Eight Other Man-Child Woman-Haters

  07-08-2015 02:40 via thestranger.com
  
  "Open your mouth and get ready to swallow." lev radin / Shutterstock.com
  5:40 pm: If you missed the kid's table debate earlier today, read this. Carly Fiorina did laps around everyone else. Also: Rick Santorum thinks gay marriage is like the Dred Scott decision. And even the one pro-choice guy in that group wants to defund Planned Parenthood. If you can believe it, tonight's debate tonight is a different collection of asshats. The top 10 asshats in the running: Donald Trump, Jeb! Bush, Scott Wal
  
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• City Council Candidates Sawant, Grant, and Herbold Improve Standings in Latest Vote Count; Godden Concedes

  07-08-2015 01:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Late-arriving ballots are favoring council candidates on the left, like incumbent Kshama Sawant. Kelly O
  With about 43,500 more ballots counted in King County, the elections office has released the latest list of frontrunners from Tuesday's primary election. Nothing has changed about which city council candidates will make it through to this November's general election, but lefties Kshama Sawant, Jon Grant, and Lisa Herbold widened their margins slightly.While ballots will continue to be counted
  
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• Okay, Wait. So Rick Santorum Thinks Marriage Equality Is the Same as the Dred Scott Decision?

  07-08-2015 01:32 via thestranger.com
  
  Go ahead, get married! It'll lead to centuries of slavery and oppression! Andrew Cline / Shutterstock.com
  Jesus, these Fox News debates. This was my first Fox News debate. There's so much to try to keep an eye on, so many desperate claims to sift through. Is Lindsey Graham using organ-harvesting fear tactics to pick up chicks? How can George Pataki be pro-choice and also want to cut all funding for Planned Parenthood? How is Carly Fiorina going to capitalize on her newfound role as Queen of the
  
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• OK, Wait. So Rick Santorum Thinks Marriage Equality Is the Same as the Dred Scott Decision?

  07-08-2015 01:32 via thestranger.com
  
  Go ahead, get married! It'll lead to centuries of slavery and oppression! Andrew Cline / Shutterstock.com
  Jesus, these Fox News debates. This was my first Fox News debate. There's so much to try to keep an eye on, so many desperate claims to sift through. Is Lindsey Graham using organ-harvesting fear tactics to pick up chicks? How can George Pataki be pro-choice and also want to cut all funding for Planned Parenthood? How is Carly Fiorina going to capitalize on her newfound role as Queen of the
  
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• Behind-Schedule Bertha to Reenter Pit Two Weeks Late

  07-08-2015 00:44 via thestranger.com
  
  Think Bertha's shiny new parts will work this time around? Washington State Department of Transportation
  Bertha, the broken, $80 million tunnel boring machine that’s been stuck on the Seattle waterfront for nearly two years, will begin reassembly in a rescue pit two weeks behind schedule.Typical? Hoo boy. In July, the Washington State Department of Transportation announced that the Bertha tunnel’s new completion date would be March 2018, a full 27 months later than the tunnel’s
  
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• Behind-Schedule Bertha to Re-Enter Pit Two Weeks Late

  07-08-2015 00:44 via thestranger.com
  
  Think Bertha's shiny new parts will work this time around? Washington State Department of Transportation
  Bertha, the broken, $80 million tunnel boring machine that’s been stuck on the Seattle waterfront for nearly two years, will begin reassembly in a rescue pit two weeks behind schedule.Typical? Hoo boy. In July, the Washington State Department of Transportation announced that the Bertha tunnel’s new completion date would be March 2018, a full 27 months later than the tunnel’s
  
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• The End of the Tour Isn't About David Foster Wallace (So You Can See It Even If You Never Finished Infinite Jest)

  07-08-2015 00:32 via thestranger.com
  
  A tale of two Davids: Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) and Foster Wallace (Jason Segel).
  A 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 to you as Wallace means to so many, you really don't need to see him impersonated
  
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• The Mystery of the Central District Surveillance Cameras

  07-08-2015 00:02 via thestranger.com
  
  If you look at the top of the light pole, you’ll see a little white box with a black bubble beneath it. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms confirms it belongs to them, but won’t say whether a court order or city agency—if any—agreed to let it be installed. BK
  A federal law-enforcement agency has installed surveillance cameras along 23rd Ave, but declines to say if any local agency was involved in the decision.
  A spokesperson for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, a
  
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