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• Here's How Much the Winning City Council Candidates Spent On Your Vote

  11-08-2015 23:42 via thestranger.com
  What do you think costs more: one of these Kshama Sawant T-shirts or getting one vote for Kshama Sawant? SECB
  After our first-ever election under the new districted city council system, we know who's headed to November's general election. How much did it cost them to get there?
  District races demand less overall money than the old citywide system since candidates have fewer people to reach by mail, fewer doors to knock on, and so on. But they've also attracted unprecedented outside spending and
  
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• The Bad Politics of the Black Lives Matter Protesters Who Interrupted Bernie Sanders

  11-08-2015 23:19 via thestranger.com
  The Bad Politics of the Black Lives Matter Protesters Who Interrupted Bernie Sandersby Charles MudedeBefore I criticize the August 8 disruption of the Social Security and Medicare rally in Westlake Park by Black Lives Matter activists Marissa Johnson and Mara Willaford, I want to make a few things clear. One, I support the Black Lives Matter movement, which is decentralized and more like a cloud of urgent conversations and interactions than a conventional political organization. BLM might be see
  
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• The Lark Cookbook Is Just As Lovely As the Restaurant

  11-08-2015 23:15 via thestranger.com
  You can check out one of the Seattle Public Library's 18 copies of this beautiful cookbook.Last week, I reviewed the new, expanded Lark and talked with chef John Sundstrom about the restaurant's past and present. When Lark opened in 2003 it was one of the city's first chef-owned restaurants serving small plates of food made with many locally sourced ingredients. You have only to look around at how many current Seattle restaurants fit that description to understand Lark's influence on our dining
  
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• Mistress Matisse Reacts to Amnesty's Resolution Calling for Decriminalization of Sex Work

  11-08-2015 22:49 via thestranger.com
  
  TIME:
  In a landmark decision Tuesday, Amnesty International voted to recommend the full decriminalization of sex work and prostitution in order to protect the human rights of sex workers. The resolution recommends a policy that would decriminalize all aspects of adult, consensual sex work, while still classifying coercion into sex work or having sex with a minor as a major human rights violation. The resolution is intended to protect adult sex workers from stigma and abuse by decriminalizing asp
  
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• Seattle, Everett, and Tacoma Take Water Shortage Plans to the Next Level

  11-08-2015 22:44 via thestranger.com
  Lawns? Fuck lawns! All three cities are asking that residents cut their water use by 10 percent.Maksud/Shutterstock
  Two weeks ago, for the first time in more than a decade, Seattle triggered its water shortage plan by issuing an advisory. Along with Everett and Tacoma, Seattle Public Utilities asked its customers to manage their water usage without making sacrifices.Today, all three cities have elevated that water shortage plan to the "voluntary" stage. They're asking—asking nicely—t
  
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• I, Anonymusic: I'm Your Bandmate, Not Your Roadie

  11-08-2015 22:32 via thestranger.com
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  Dear 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 (same difference), maybe you will noti
  
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• Federal Way house stripped by thieves

  11-08-2015 22:16
  
  Federal Way house stripped by thieves
  
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• Op-Ed: This Seattle Times Editorial Got Everything Wrong About Sex Work

  11-08-2015 21:39 via thestranger.com
  
  In a Seattle Times op-ed co-authored by Seattle city attorney Pete Holmes, opinions are presented as facts and bogus "statistics" are used to justify the continued criminalization of sex workers. The Stranger
  As a sex worker in a country with some of the harshest prostitution laws in the developed world, I consider it the height of irony that a bunch of actresses (an employment choice that was long considered a mere euphemism for prostitution) are now the public face of the anti-sex work crusade
  
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• This Seattle Times Op-Ed Got Everything Wrong About Sex Work

  11-08-2015 21:39 via thestranger.com
  In a Seattle Times op-ed co-authored by Seattle city attorney Pete Holmes, opinions are presented as facts and bogus "statistics" are used to justify the continued criminalization of sex workers. The Stranger
  As a sex worker in a country with some of the harshest prostitution laws in the developed world, I consider it the height of irony that a bunch of actresses (an employment choice that was long considered a mere euphemism for prostitution) are now the public face of the anti-sex work crusade
  
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• Buy Your Tickets Now for Fall Cooking Classes at The Pantry

  11-08-2015 20:55 via thestranger.com
  
  The full Pantry schedule will go live at noon today. DAN FROMHART
  Attention, food lovers: the fall schedule for The Pantry, the community kitchen in Ballard whose cooking classes generally sell out as soon as they're announced, will be released today at noon.As soon as it's live, we'll have the full schedule up on our calendar, complete with recommendations from Angela Garbes. From the calendar, you can read all about the classes and find the link to buy your tickets.If the sold-out summer sched
  
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• What We Learn from the Cop Who Shot and Killed a Small Dog

  11-08-2015 20:43 via thestranger.com
  
  For some cops, the glock solves almost all of their problems. Kai19/www.shutterstock.com
  On July 13, officer Michael Cruse of the Topeka Police Department in Kansas arrived at the home of Harriette and James Macnish for an alarm check. He walked to the back of the house, looked through a window, and saw nothing. He took a few steps toward French doors and heard a dog barking. The dog appeared from the backyard. It was small. It teared toward him. He shot it two times; the dog whimpered, wobbled,
  
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• Adult Swim's Singles Series Debuts Eerie New Song by Shabazz Palaces

  11-08-2015 20:30 via thestranger.com
  
  If you think this image is weird and dark, wait till you hear the song!
  On the early Shabazz Palaces track "Gunbeat Falls," MC/producer Palaceer Lazaro raps, "The beat will always save us." But on the Seattle avant-hiphop group's new cut for Adult Swim's Singles series, "The Mystery of Lonnie the Døn," the beats sometimes sound muted, like they're coming from a distant cellar—and at other times they come off like a police officer's truncheon cracking human bones. This odd percussive
  
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• Council Member Nick Licata Asks Mayor Ed Murray to Rethink Shutting Down Hookah Lounges

  11-08-2015 20:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Most of the council's more conservative wing backed up Mayor Ed Murray when he announced a crackdown on hookah lounges last week. Now, lefty Council Member Nick Licata is asking him to call it off. City of Seattle
  Last week, Mayor Ed Murray announced that he and the city's legal department would be moving to shut down all 11 hookah lounges operating in the city. Murray claims the lounges are illegal because of the state's ban on smoking in places of employment and that they are magnets for crime
  
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• An Interview with Poet Monica McClure About Tinder, New York, Fear, and—Oh Hey Monica You Have Something in Your Face

  11-08-2015 19:12 via thestranger.com
  
  She'll be reading tonight at "The Least Boring Poetry Event of the Year." David WorthingtonReading Monica McClure's poems taught me a new word. That word is "chiflada," which is Spanish for a "bratty and wild" girl. It's also the title of one of my favorite poems of hers, wherein she describes her complex relationship with the word and the ethos it projects. McClure has reclaimed "chiflada" and is using it as an aesthetic for her poems and persona.When she reads her stuff aloud, she adopts the t
  
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• The Morning News: Marissa Johnson's First Interview After Bernie Sanders Interruption, Marco Rubio's Bellevue Trip, and Seattle's New Gun Tax

  11-08-2015 17:57 via thestranger.com
  
  "I don't give a fuck about the white gaze," Marissa Jenae Johnson told interviewer Elon James White in her first interview since Saturday's interruption. Alex Garland
  The Seattle Times Investigates History of Black Lives Matter Activist Who Interrupted Sanders: Local activist Mohawk Kuzma told the Times that "he knew Johnson from past activism but that she generally didn’t get involved 'unless it’s a public stunt.'" Read more here.Johnson Also Gave Her First Interview About the Actio
  
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• The Morning News: Activist Who Interrupted Bernie Sanders Speaks About Her Politics

  11-08-2015 17:57 via thestranger.com
  "I don't have faith in the electoral process," Marissa Jenae Johnson told Elon James White in her first interview since Saturday's Bernie Sanders interruption. Johnson says her agitation work doesn't support one politician over another, but instead deals with "dismantling the system." Alex Garland
  Johnson Gave Her First Interview About the Action to Elon James White at This Week in Blackness:"I Don't Have Faith in Politicians. I Don't Have Faith in the Electoral Process," Johnson Says: "It's wel
  
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• D'Angelo Went There Last Night at the Showbox

  11-08-2015 17:39 via thestranger.com
  
  D'Angelo: "You need the comfort of my lovin' to bring out the best in you." True.
  D’Angelo is free.Watching him sing (and growl and scream) and move around the stage last night at the Showbox—between his glittery, silver guitar and keyboard, through choreographed dance moves with his back-up singers (including a few perfectly executed mic stand tricks), in and out of various capes and large fedoras—was to watch a grown-ass man fully inhabit his body with palpable joy. Black lib
  
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• Will the Outcry Over Cecil the Lion Hurt Conservation Efforts?

  11-08-2015 17:36 via thestranger.com
  
  Although there are problems with trophy hunting, some conservationists believe it is the only way to increase and protect wildlife. PAULA FRENCH/WWW.SHUTTERSTOCK.COM
  Reports the New York Times:Despite intensifying calls to ban or restrict trophy hunting in Africa after the killing of a lion named Cecil in Zimbabwe, most conservation groups, wildlife management experts and African governments support the practice as a way to maintain wildlife. Hunting, they contend, is part of a complex economy t
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: The Drama Club

  11-08-2015 02:59 via thestranger.com
  
  So my ex and I were in a relationship for four years beginning when she was 18 and I was 21. About 1.5 years in we became poly for another 1.5 years then we went back to being monogamous. Polyamory wasn't really an issue during that time. Last October we moved into a house together with two of our friends. It turned out to be an extremely stressful situation that did not go well. During the spring my ex became more and more distant and was spending more time away from home. I also knew there was
  
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• City Council Approves Taxes on Guns and Bullets

  11-08-2015 01:32 via thestranger.com
  
  Tim Burgess won unanimous support from his council colleagues for a city gun and ammunition tax, but that will only address a small sliver of the costs of gun violence in Seattle. City of Seattle
  The city council today unanimously* approved two measures from Council President Tim Burgess to tax guns and ammo sold in the city of Seattle and to require that all stolen and lost guns be reported.Burgess first introduced the legislation about a month ago.The new rule will charge gun sellers $25 per f
  
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• City Council Approves Gun and Bullet Taxes

  11-08-2015 01:32 via thestranger.com
  
  Tim Burgess won unanimous support from his council colleagues for a city gun and ammunition tax, but that will only address a small sliver of the costs of gun violence in Seattle. City of Seattle
  The city council today unanimously* approved two measures from Council President Tim Burgess to tax guns and ammo sold in the city of Seattle and to require that all stolen and lost guns be reported.Burgess first introduced the legislation about a month ago.The new rule will charge gun sellers $25 per f
  
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• SPD: Bernie Sanders’ campaign didn’t want Black Lives Matter protesters removed

  11-08-2015 00:49
  
  SPD: Bernie Sanders’ campaign didn’t want Black Lives Matter protesters removed
  
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• The True Detective Season Finale Chitty-Chat Club: Who Killed Caspere the Dead Pervert?

  11-08-2015 00:02 via thestranger.com
  
  Oh dear lord! Did you watch last night's chock-full o' drama season finale of True Detective? Are you wondering if it met up to my high expectations? Well, by all means, let's chitty-chat about that! Check out my spoiler-filled recap of the season finale after the jump—and then let's chitty-chat about it afterwards. CHITTY CHATTING ABOUT TRUE DETECTIVE! YEAH!!
  Courtesy HBO"For the last time, I don't CARE about Caspere... I wanna know who stole your mustache!!"
  MORE AFTER THE JUMP!Here's wh
  
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