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• Watch an Eagle Knock a Drone Out of the Sky

  12-08-2015 23:55 via thestranger.com
  
  Behold! A highly territorial wedge-tailed eagle knocked a drone out of the sky in Australia. This is why drones are illegal to fly in US national parks (and parks right here in Seattle). Clearly this bird collided with the drone on purpose (the bird was okay, btw), but the Audubon Society notes that some collisions aren't intentional and recommends equipping drones with ultraviolet light (which birds can see but humans cannot) to make them more noticeable to our feathered friends. [ Comment on t
  
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• My Philosophy: Would You Rather Watch a Republican Debate or Listen to Dr. Dre Rap in 2015? And Other Questions...

  12-08-2015 22:20 via thestranger.com
  YG brags that he’s the “only one that made it out the West without Dre.”
  Things I enjoyed more than Dr. Dre's Compton: A Soundtrack by Dre:
  • Last week's Rethuglican debate. Fly, Donald Trump! You're a walking crazy-thermometer for white America, you piece of shit.• Literally everything else Dr. Dre has ever done (especially finally admitting that Detox is never coming out).• YG's "Twist My Fingaz."On the aforementioned "Fingaz," YG recounts getting shot outsi
  
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• Pun Times with the Punny Local Artist Frida Clements

  12-08-2015 20:59 via thestranger.com
  Clements had me in stitches. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
  You may have seen Frida Clements's prints and gig posters on merch tables at indie rock shows. She draws up these intricate, muted, figures of flora and fauna that you can stare at for hours—some bright bit of color snags the eye, and the level of detail holds your attention.The publication of Have a Little Pun: An Illustrated Play on Words marks her entry into the world of books. Some of the puns are smart-dumb, some are good-dumb, some a
  
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• If You Like Your Opera Crazy and Biblical, You’re Going to LOVE Verdi's Nabucco

  12-08-2015 19:47 via thestranger.com
  Verdi, post-depression. YANGCHAO/Shutterstock
  Neither opera nor the Bible are known for sensible plots, so operas based on Bible stories can get really, really nuts. Nabucco, Verdi’s third opera, composed when he was in his twenties and barely climbing out of the depression he suffered after the deaths of his wife and his two little kids, is really, really nuts. The plot fits together like a blooper reel.Over the course of the four head-spinningly fast “parts” (such weirdly sha
  
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• Read At Your Own Risk

  12-08-2015 19:30 via thestranger.com
  A friend spotted this sign in a park and sent it to me at the exact same time I was working on this week's Savage Love. Coincidence? There are no coincidences.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• The Morning News: Building Boom Leads to Sky-High Rents, Drought Conditions Prompt Officials to Enact Water Shortage Plan

  12-08-2015 18:35 via thestranger.com
  Vacancy rates in Seattle office buildings are half of what they were five years ago. KR
  Office-Building Boom Leads to Record-Breaking Rents: As of late June, the rent for premium office space in downtown Seattle was $36.76 a square foot, 7.5 percent higher than a year ago, reports the Seattle Times. And the vacancy rate is nearly half of what it was five years ago, at 11.4 percent.
  City to Crack Down on Drivers That Block Intersections: On Thursday the city council will discuss intersections in
  
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• Don't Miss These Events This Week: Have a Little Pun Launch Party Edition

  12-08-2015 18:01 via thestranger.com
  A page from Frida Clements' Have a Little Pun
  READINGS & TALKS
  Have a Little Pun Launch Party
  Clements is known as a prolific and generally kick-ass Seattle illustrator. She's written a book of beautifully illustrated puns called, you guessed it, Have a Little Pun. Some of the puns are smart-dumb, some are good-dumb, some are dumb-dumb. Buy the book and decide for yourself which is which. Chances are you'll want to very carefully rip out a page, slide it into an old frame, and hang it in you
  
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• New Poll Shows Sanders Leading in New Hampshire

  12-08-2015 16:47 via thestranger.com
  CNN:
  Bernie Sanders has for the first time pulled ahead of Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire, according to a poll released Tuesday. Sanders topped Clinton with 44% compared to her 37% support among likely Democratic primary voters, according to a Franklin Pierce University/Boston Herald poll. Sanders has been gaining momentum as he generates enthusiasm among the Democratic Party's progressive base but until now he has still trailed Clinton in every early state poll.
  The first primaries are still
  
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• Who Likes Joanna Newsom's New Song & PT Anderson Video the Most?

  12-08-2015 15:04 via thestranger.com
  Joanna Newsom and a feathered friend enjoy a picturesque sunset in this memorable promotional photograph. Annabel Mehran
  Joanna Newsom's new song, "Sapokanikan," arrived this week, along with a video directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, and the news that her latest album, Divers, will be out on October 23. Newsom is a divisive artist—equally revered and reviled for her unconventional, outsidery art (though this song and its accompanying video are both totally accessible). Speaking of divisive
  
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• Last Days: A Week of War on Women, Black Americans, and Circus-Goers

  12-08-2015 14:37 via thestranger.com
  The Warren on women. Ann Heisenfelt/Thinkstock
  MONDAY, AUGUST 3 This week of war—on women, on black Americans, on circus-goers—kicked off with the war on women, as today the US Senate voted on whether or not to deny government funding to the nonprofit reproductive health organization Planned Parenthood, following the release of videos showing Planned Parenthood reps crassly discussing the (legal) facts of fetal tissue donation. Immediately before today's vote, Senator Elizabeth
  
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• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Is Totally O.K.A.Y.

  12-08-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Is Totally O.K.A.Y.by Ned LannamannThere's nothing particularly wrong with The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Guy Ritchie's adaptation of the Ian Fleming co-created spy-fi TV show from the 1960s. And thank god, Ritchie doesn't update it for 2015: U.N.C.L.E. is set in a Kodachrome-tinted version of the Cold War era, a time when Americans and Soviets fought, coldly, on principle and with principle. We get to watch secret agents traipse through exotic European settings, wear luscious
  
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• The Complete Hempfest 2015 Schedule

  12-08-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Three Days of Bands, Speakers, and Weed at Myrtle Edwards Parkby Stranger Calendar Staff[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• If You Loved Alex Garland’s Ex Machina, You have to Watch Jennifer Phang’s Advantageous

  12-08-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  If You Loved Alex Garland’s Ex Machina, You have to Watch Jennifer Phang’s Advantageousby Charles MudedeThe good news is Advantageous is an excellent science-fiction movie; the bad news is it screens only on August 14. What makes this film great, which is also what made Alex Garland’s Ex Machina great, is it’s not about the future but our moment and the technological and economic forces that are shaping this moment.In Advantageous, an employee, Gwen (Jacqueline Kim), of bio-tech corporat
  
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• Private inner-city school closing

  12-08-2015 04:47
  
  Private inner city school closing
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Will the Cheating Cheater I Cheated With Ever Stop Cheating On Me?

  12-08-2015 02:50 via thestranger.com
  
  I'm a 35-year-old woman married to a 50-year-old man. We have been married for three years, together for seven, and have a 18-month-old child. I recently discovered that my husband has slept with at least six other women in the last five years. He seems to be a compulsive liar and serial cheater, and my question to you is whether he can ever really change.The backstory is that we met when he was still married to his now-ex wife (they have two older children together). He told me they were essent
  
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• In Her Own Words: The Political Beliefs of the Protester Who Interrupted Bernie Sanders

  12-08-2015 02:18 via thestranger.com
  Marissa Johnson, left, on Saturday at the Bernie Sanders rally in Westlake Plaza. Yesterday, Johnson spoke to the podcast This Week in Blackness about her motivations and political beliefs. Alex Garland
  The roar of internet response to what happened in Seattle on Saturday surprised even one of the activists behind the action. But in retrospect, it makes some sense. On that stage in Westlake Plaza, some of the most emotional issues of the moment collided: race, class, age, opportunity, privilege.
  
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• What Bernie Sanders Said (and Didn't Say) After the Black Lives Matter Interruption

  12-08-2015 02:04 via thestranger.com
  The Big News Bernie Sanders Intended to Deliver in Seattle Was Overshadowed by What Happened at Westlakeby Rich SmithWhen Bernie Sanders stood before the packed-in crowd of mostly white liberals and their children at the Comet Tavern last Saturday, you never would have guessed he'd just been screamed at by Black Lives Matter activists. The disruption ultimately caused Sanders to leave Westlake Park without speaking on the issues he was there to address—Social Security and Medicare, also kn
  
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• Ryan Boudinot's The Octopus Rises Is Pedestrian Sci-Fi Blahness

  12-08-2015 02:04 via thestranger.com
  Ryan Boudinot's The Octopus Rises Is Pedestrian Sci-Fi Blahnessby Rich SmithRyan Boudinot has done many things to showcase the prestige and excellence of Seattle literature, but writing The Octopus Rises was not one of those things. The Octopus Rises is a collection of merely competent, semi-humorous Twilight Zone–like short stories. Like that TV show, almost every story is fueled by a Premise. A big "What if..." For instance, "The End of Bert and Ernie" asks readers to imagine "What if...
  
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• Person of Interest: Shannon Perry

  12-08-2015 02:04 via thestranger.com
  Person of Interest: Shannon Perry, musician (Gazebos), tattoo artist, illustratorShannon Perry, photographed in her shop, Valentine's Tattoo Co., on Capitol Hill. PHOTO BY KELLY O / QUESTIONS BY SEAN NELSONGiven all your creative pursuits, is there one you consider your main thing?Music is my favorite. I'm lucky that I get to do my second favorite [tattoo artist] as a job. You wouldn't want to do your favorite for a job. It would ruin it.There's no delicate way to ask this: Is it true that you u
  
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• Paris Is Still Burning

  12-08-2015 02:04 via thestranger.com
  Paris Is Still Burning—The Documentary of '80s Drag-Ball Culture Remains Complicated, Glorious, and Essential at 25by David SchmaderFor sheer density of vibrant life, few films compare with Paris Is Burning. Released in 1990, Jennie Livingston's documentary dives into the gay ball culture of Harlem, New York, in the late 1980s, getting up close and personal with a number of the scene's key individuals, who hold forth on their lives and art with the otherworldly self-possession of superstar
  
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• Jackson's Catfish Corner Comes Full Circle

  12-08-2015 02:04 via thestranger.com
  Jackson's Catfish Corner Revives a Seattle Institution in Rainier Valley—and, Soon, the Central Districtby Angela GarbesWhen Woodrow ("Woody") Jackson and his wife, Rosemary ("Rosie"), first opened Catfish Corner in the Central District in 1985, it wasn't entirely by choice. "I was a steelworker, but Bethlehem Steel shut down," said Woody, who grew up fishing with his grandfather on the Louisiana bayou. "The only thing I knew how to do was fry catfish."The Jacksons started holding fish fri
  
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• How to Make a Kick Ass Painting

  12-08-2015 02:04 via thestranger.com
  How to Make a Kick Ass Painting. Artist Robert Hardgrave Shares the Recipe for His Dazzling Out of Sight Piece.by Jen GravesAt the big local show responding to the big Seattle Art Fair earlier this month, there was a big work of art named Kick Ass. Just like it sounded, it was ambitious; it stretched 12 feet long and stood 6 feet tall, swallowing an entire wall. But it was also attractively subtle. It was a picture of various things, but you couldn't quite make out what they were, or how exactly
  
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• Elvis Owned an M-16

  12-08-2015 02:04 via thestranger.com
  Elvis Owned an M-16 and Other Facts about the King's Final Yearsby Marti Jonjak. Art by Seth Goodkind[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Fire destroys van used to help homeless families

  12-08-2015 02:00
  
  Fire destroys van used to help homeless families
  
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