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• I, Anonymous: Bystander Effect

  10-08-2015 23:14 via thestranger.com
  
  steven weissman
  To the man who was passed out on the sidewalk at Belmont and Pike: I'm sorry. I watched you for a while to make sure you were still breathing, but I didn't want to disturb your rest. You weren't a typical stew-bum or gutter punk. You were wearing what looked to be soccer gear—field shoes, athletic shorts, sports bag—and you were lying facedown on the concrete. As I paid for parking at the station next to you, you came to semi-consciousness and started moaning, "Ow, o
  
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• This Two-Part This American Life Is A Must-Listen. School Integration Fixes Inequity, But We Gave It Up.

  10-08-2015 22:20 via thestranger.com
  
  What do German kids want? When do they want it? Robert Kneschke/Shutterstock
  If you listen to one episode of one podcast this year, this should be it: This American Life's July 31 episode "The Problem We All Live With," reported by Nikole Hannah-Jones.
  It's about school segregation, which is an issue across the country now that forced busing is widely considered to be a failed strategy.
  But how did forced integration fail? In Seattle, as in other places, a large part of the problem was white fli
  
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• You Have Two Days to Submit Your Event for Seattle Art and Performance

  10-08-2015 21:54 via thestranger.com
  
  This is last fall's Seattle Art and Performance guide. Submit your fall arts event now to be part of this year's publication.
  This Wednesday, August 12, submissions are due for the fall issue of Seattle Art and Performance.If you're an artist, performer, or arts venue and you're putting on an event between September 9 and December 8, we need you to tell us about it now. We know you don't want to be left out of the publication that lists every arts event in Seattle, so if there's an art gallery o
  
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• Warped Is Over (If You Want It). Can the Last Corporate Punk Road Show Survive Sex Scandals and Changing Times?

  10-08-2015 21:13 via thestranger.com
  
  The Vans Warped Tour 2015 wasn't all fun and games. Kriston McConnell
  Though the multi-day, multi-stage, multi-genre music festival continues to thrive as a model for concert promoters, the touring guitar-rock-based version is on the brink of extinction in the US. Having wrapped up its 2015 run—a year more memorable for backstage sexual misconduct controversies than for musical triumphs—at the White River Amphitheatre in Auburn this past Saturday, the 21-year-old Vans Warped Tour now
  
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• Seattle Is More Islamic than Dubai, According to a Muslim I Met This Weekend

  10-08-2015 20:33 via thestranger.com
  
  A billboard on Martin Luther King Jr Way for Why Islam?, a New Jersey-based organization that claims to provide"accurate and un-biased information about Islam and Muslims."Charles Mudede
  This weekend, I had a brief but interesting talk with a Lyft driver who, though originally from Baltistan (a place I had never heard of until I was in his car), lived for many years in Dubai. One of his daughters was born there, and the other here in Seattle, the city his family moved to two years ago. Why Seatt
  
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• The New Rock Opera by Titus Andronicus Shows the Symptoms of Bipolar Disorder as Rock Star Virtues, Pathologized

  10-08-2015 20:04 via thestranger.com
  
  Patrick Stickles and his merry band.
  It'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 disorder—so it stands to reason that the Atlantic, the New York Times, NPR, and even Roll
  
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• Seattle Rock Royalty Will Play Stooges Songs on Pike Place Market Roof for KEXP

  10-08-2015 19:46 via thestranger.com
  
  This should be a real cool time: Seattle radio station KEXP has arranged a free concert on Pike Place Market's roof featuring local rock luminaries paying tribute to Iggy and the Stooges Sunday, August 23, at 7 pm. The "Raw Power" band—Mark Arm (Mudhoney), Barrett Martin (Tuatara, Screaming Trees), Duff McKagan (Guns n’ Roses, Velvet Revolver; by the way, Duff's currently recording a new album with former GNR bandmate Izzy Stradlin), and Mike McCready (Pearl Jam, Mad Season)—w
  
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• Why Am I Always the Last to Know?

  10-08-2015 19:44 via thestranger.com
  
  This just came in to the group editors email...
  Hello editors,
  I have been reading Savage Love for over a decade in your publication and will no longer be purchasing it as you have fired Dan Savage. Let me know if you decide to reinstate the only advice column that deals with sex positivity, education and consent in a nation plagued with bullying, shaming and sexual assault.
  Thank you,
  Jerusha Rone
  ...and now I'm wondering if I have to go in to work today. I mean, is it true? Or did this person
  
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• Airplane Carves a Frisbee Shape Into Clouds Above Queen Anne

  10-08-2015 19:41 via thestranger.com
  
  KOMO says this is a "hole punch" cloud. KANtext
  According to the local news:
  It might look like a rip in the fabric of the universe, but it's caused by a plane ascending or descending through a stable cloud layer.
  I don't know, I think it looks more like a frisbee. Or a baguette. Or a paramecium. But yeah, I could see "rip in the fabric of the universe."[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• The Morning News: A Weekend of Black Lives Matter Activism, and the 45th Anniversary of an Orca Capture

  10-08-2015 17:59 via thestranger.com
  
  ICYMI: Black Lives Matter activists took the mic from Bernie Sanders on Saturday. Alex Garland
  If You Haven't Heard Yet, You Are the Last to Know: On Saturday, during the Vermont senator's first speaking engagement of the day, two women demanding to be heard took the mic, insisted on a moment of silence for Mike Brown, and accused the crowd of "white supremacist liberalism."Bernie Sanders Called the Interruption "Disappointing," But to His Credit He Updated His Website the Next Day: With an expl
  
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