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• My Philosophy: RIP, Sean Price

  19-08-2015 23:14 via thestranger.com
  
  Records like Mic Tyson made him an underground icon.
  Rest in power to Sean Price (fka Ruck of the Boot Camp Clik duo Heltah Skeltah), a Brownsville titan, who at 43 years of age passed away in his sleep earlier this month. Price was hilarious, completely unpretentious—he called himself "The Brokest Rapper You Know"—intimidatingly skilled (and steady improving over two decades of work), and totally genuine. His candor on the mic was legendary—whether it was his precisely measure
  
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• Hillary Does Not Compute Black Lives Matter's Requests

  19-08-2015 22:10 via thestranger.com
  
  Hillary Clinton can't help you if you're not asking for specific solutions.JStone / Shutterstock.com
  On Monday, Black Lives Matter released video of their conversation with Hillary Clinton, which they had following a town hall meeting last week in New Hampshire. Part two of the edited video shows Clinton as a kind of defensive, interrupting politician who's trying to assert control of the conversation. The Clinton campaign thought the video misrepresented the candidate, and so released a transcr
  
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• In Food News: Manolin Named One of the Country's Best New Restaurants, Chop Shop Adds Breakfast and Lunch

  19-08-2015 21:17 via thestranger.com
  
  Manolin is heavy on seafood and the seasonal bounty of the region. Jennifer Richard
  • Big news: Manolin was just named one of Bon Appétit ten best new restaurants in the country. "The star of the menu at this dream seafood spot isn't the daily catch, it's the seasonal mole—a mysterious sauce with more ingredients than we can remember," they write. Back in May, we called the Wallingford restaurant—which serves Latin-American-inspired, seafood-focused dishes—"the best
  
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• North access to Seattle tunnel mostly done, state DOT says

  19-08-2015 21:13
  
  While crews are still putting Bertha back in the ground less than two miles to the south, the north end approach to the Seattle tunnel is on track to be finished next June. State Route 99 will close this weekend to allow workers to complete the last third or so of the project, Washington Department of Transportation officials said Wednesday.
  
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• AG Ferguson cracks down on fraudulent immigration services, targets repeat offenders

  19-08-2015 20:51
  
  The state is cracking down on illegal immigration services and is taking legal action against four firms that allegedly provide unlawful immigration assistance, Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced Wednesday morning. “Scammers who prey on Washington residents who are working hard to follow complex federal immigration laws will not be tolerated,” Ferguson said. “Immigration services fraud has dire consequences for Washington families, and my office is committed to prosecuting
  
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• An Open Letter to People Thinking About Checking to See if Their Husbands or Wives Were On Ashley Madison

  19-08-2015 20:11 via thestranger.com
  
  Dear Concerned Spouse,
  I'll be quick—I know you have a lot on your mind this morning—but there are two things I want you to think about before you search for your spouse's name on Ashley Madison.
  1. Do you really want to know? Many people who were cheated on and found out—because they discovered evidence, because the cheater unburdened themselves (and burdened their spouse), because a couples counselor insisted the cheater disclose, because the cheater/cheatee/counselor all fe
  
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• The Making of a Memorial to an Unknown Number of People Killed in Jamaica

  19-08-2015 20:02 via thestranger.com
  
  Originally exhibited in a residential yard in Jamaica, Patterson’s memorial is on display at Seattle Art Museum through September 7. ANNIE PAUL
  The Jamaican artist Ebony G. Patterson followed the events as they happened just a few miles away from her home. She tuned in to local radio, where women holed up in their besieged homes called in and wept, describing how their husbands, brothers, and sons were being dragged from their homes and beaten, disappeared, or killed in front of them.
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• Sanders moves up on Clinton in national poll: Support for Black Lives Matter

  19-08-2015 20:01
  
  Sen. Bernie Sanders, his campaign fueled by West Coast rallies that drew 70,000 people, has gained substantial ground on 2016 Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton, according to a CNN/ORC national poll released Wednesday morning. According to the latest figures, Clinton enjoys support from 47 percent among Democrats, Sanders scores 29 percent, with Vice President Joe Biden at 14 percent. Biden is considering whether to enter the Democratic race. The same poll, in July, had Clinton in front
  
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• Morrissey (and His Many Necklaces) Meets Larry King

  19-08-2015 19:33 via thestranger.com
  
  Larry King and Morrissey: The meeting for which no one was waiting, goes live at 11am.
  Listen, I understand: You're no longer interested in Morrissey (if indeed you ever were). You can't understand why people keep going on and on and on about him. You think he's a tired old racist vegan scold. That's fine. You are excused. For those of us who can't seem to shake (or reconcile) the continued fascination with this most contradictory of pop stars, today brings a truly unlikely... treat? Morrissey w
  
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• It's Not True the Cascadia Fault Has Been Totally Inactive

  19-08-2015 18:52 via thestranger.com
  
  That was my impression, but Seattle Times science writer Sandi Doughton clears things up this morning.Initial results from a program to monitor the Cascadia Subduction Zone in unprecedented detail show that the fault off the Northwest coast isn’t as seismically quiet as it has long appeared.
  In fact, the fault "chatters and pops with little quakes." Which is just about the cutest way to describe something so potentially terrifying. But Doughton is quick to point out there's nothing any mor
  
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• Ashley Madison Hackers Dump Data Online

  19-08-2015 18:37 via thestranger.com
  Wired:
  Hackers who stole sensitive customer information from the cheating site AshleyMadison.com appear to have made good on their threat to post the data online.... The data released by the hackers includes names, addresses and phone numbers submitted by users of the site, though it’s unclear if members provided legitimate details. A sampling of the data indicates that users likely provided random numbers and addresses, but files containing credit card transactions will yield real names a
  
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• Don't Miss These Events This Week: Boots Riley Edition

  19-08-2015 18:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Boots Riley will be at the University Book Store on Thursday to discuss his new book, Boots Riley: Tell Homeland Security—We Are the Bomb.
  READINGS & TALKS
  Boots Riley in Conversation with Jesse Hagopian
  Boots Riley (of the Coup) has been making politically and aesthetically engaged hiphop full of brains and heart for more than two decades. In advance of the Coup's Mural Amphiteatre show, Riley will discuss politics, culture, and his new book of collected lyrics (and related commentary
  
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• The Morning News: Bremerton Hotel Explodes, Hookah Lounge Debate Rages, Seattle Police Help Deliver Baby

  19-08-2015 17:55 via thestranger.com
  
  We don't have any photos of the Bremerton hotel, but this is basically what the aftermath of a gas leak explosion looks like. a katz / Shutterstock.com
  Bremerton Motel 6 Explodes After Gas Leak: One person is critically injured and two are unaccounted for, the Seattle Times reports. The building was evacuated just minutes before it burst into flames, after reports of a gas leak.
  Mayor Murray Rallies Supporters of His Hookah Bar Crackdown to City Council: Things got heated in the city council cha
  
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• Every Year, Seattleites Try to "Save" Seal Pups from Local Beaches (It Usually Doesn't End So Well)

  19-08-2015 16:01 via thestranger.com
  
  DON’T LOOK INTO THEIR EYES: No, seriously, don’t. Federal law prohibits humans from getting closer than 100 yards to a seal (no matter how cute). PAWS
  If a human stumbles across a baby seal, one of the first things that person might notice about the baby seal is its eyes. "They're just these big, dark, limpid, black eyes holding yours," West Seattle resident Brenda Peterson tells me on a recent August evening. "You're just a goner, and people go, 'Oh, my god.'"
  We're at an undisclose
  
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• The Artist Who Thought, Hey, Nobody's Here in Detroit Anyway, So I'll Just Bring in a Tiger and Some Wolves and Whatnot and What Could Go Wrong?

  19-08-2015 15:58 via thestranger.com
  
  Seriously, David "Jackass" Yarrow? "That tiger ain't go crazy—that tiger went tiger." Denis Makarenko/Shutterstock
  The hattest-off of hats off to Sarah Rose Sharp, who wrote yesterday's report on Hyperallergic about photographer and conservationist David Yarrow, who went to Detroit to make ruin porn photography and LET A TIGER LOOSE.Sharp is sharp enough not to have to resort to all-caps in her writing. She begins,
  With the rise of Detroit as a sexy location for artistic spirits to be free
  
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• WILDFIRE WATCH:Second town evacuated in Okanogan Co. fires

  19-08-2015 15:57
  
  Central Washshington town of Conconully evacuated after wildfire
  
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• WILDFIRE WATCH: Thousands evacuated as fires burn across Washington

  19-08-2015 15:57
  
  WILDFIRE WATCH: 100 uncontained fires burn across Washington
  
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• WILDFIRE WATCH: Evacuations continue as 10 fires burn in Okanogan Co.

  19-08-2015 15:57
  
  Central Washshington town of Conconully evacuated after wildfire
  
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• WILDFIRE WATCH: 100 uncontained fires burn across Washington

  19-08-2015 15:57
  
  WILDFIRE WATCH: 100 uncontained fires burn across Washington
  
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• Central Wash. town evacuated after wildfire

  19-08-2015 15:57
  
  Central Washshington town of Conconully evacuated after wildfire
  
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• 3 US Forest Service firefighters die in Wash. wildfire; 1 remains in ICU

  19-08-2015 15:57
  
  Central Washshington town of Conconully evacuated after wildfire
  
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• 3 fallen firefighters remembered as 'big heroes protecting small towns'

  19-08-2015 15:57
  
  Central Washshington town of Conconully evacuated after wildfire
  
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• Struggling Campaigns, Introspective Comics, and an Amazon Story for the Ages

  19-08-2015 14:32 via thestranger.com
  
  MONDAY, AUGUST 10 This week of struggling campaigns, introspective comics, and an Amazon story for the ages kicked off near the back bar of the Seattle performance venue the Showbox, where tonight Last Days had the pleasure of standing throughout the performance of D'Angelo and the Vanguard, who created one of the most impressive nights of live music we've ever experienced. D'Angelo, of course, is the standard-bearing R&B singer-songwriter whose languorous creation cycle (five years between
  
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• The 2015 Bumbershoot Lineup

  19-08-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Complete with a Day-by-Day Breakdown and Recommendations from Our Criticsby Stranger Things To Do
  
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• Don't Miss These Events This Week

  19-08-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  A Talk with Boots Riley, Summit Block Party, The Diary of a Teenage Girl and Moreby Stranger Things To Do[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• The Man Behind the Menus

  19-08-2015 06:56 via thestranger.com
  Yadesa Bojia Designed a Flag That Once Hung Behind Muammar el-Qaddafi. Now He Designs Menus for Some of Seattle's Ethiopian Restaurants.by Charles MudedeHere is one connection between Seattle and former Libyan dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi: Yadesa Bojia. In 2009, the Ethiopian-born graphic designer was watching Larry King Live when Qaddafi appeared on screen. He was in New York City for a conference at the United Nations, and had just made headlines for delivering a 100-minute speech to the Genera
  
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• The Making of a Memorial to an Unknown Number of People Killed in Jamaica

  19-08-2015 06:56 via thestranger.com
  The Making of a Memorial to an Unknown Number of People Killed in Jamaicaby Jen GravesThe Jamaican artist Ebony G. Patterson followed the events as they happened just a few miles away from her home. She tuned in to local radio, where women holed up in their besieged homes called in and wept, describing how their husbands, brothers, and sons were being dragged from their homes and beaten, disappeared, or killed in front of them.It was May 2010. Jamaican military and police forces, backed by the U
  
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• Sister Kate's "Black Bottom"?

  19-08-2015 06:56 via thestranger.com
  Sister Kate's "Black Bottom"? A Five-Minute Dance Performance Raises Temperatures and Questionsby Brendan KileyThere's no real consensus about where the "black bottom" started: New Orleans, Nashville, and Detroit have all laid claim to the jazz dance. Musician and dancer Perry Bradford said he invented it in the early 1900s, based on a dance affiliated with "rounders" (pimps) in Jacksonville, Florida. Some say its fundamental gestures—two-footed slides, shaking the hips, slapping the body&
  
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• Person of Interest: Anastacia Tolbert

  19-08-2015 06:56 via thestranger.com
  
  Person of Interest: Anastacia TolbertAnastacia Tolbert, photographed near Hugo House, where she is poet in residence.PHOTO BY KELLY O / QUESTIONS BY RICH SMITHNice muscle. Do you lift?Thank you! Yes, I lift: fighting social injustices (QWOC), mothering two black boys in America, writing, performing, teaching, one-woman-showing at the Project Room—oh yes, and a few weights. If my muscles could talk... they would choose not to. Silent types.What are you working on during your Hugo House resi
  
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• Octopuses Are Not Aliens

  19-08-2015 06:56 via thestranger.com
  Octopuses Are Not Aliens—Nick Lane's New Book Explains Whyby Charles MudedeOn August 14, a writer for Geek.com, Meredith Placko, posted a story with this headline: "Scientists Declare That Octopuses Are Basically Aliens." If you have a Facebook account, you certainly saw this headline in your news feed. And if you bothered to read the post, you would have learned that American and Japanese researchers have sequenced the sea creature's genome and found its DNA structure to be so strange tha
  
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• Mary Anne Carter's Broadsides Do More Than Illustrate Poems

  19-08-2015 06:56 via thestranger.com
  
  Mary Anne Carter's Broadsides Are More Than Mere Illustrations of Poemsby Rich SmithA broadside is like one of those screen-printed band posters you see at indie rock shows and in Etsy shops, but for poetry. The tradition is almost as old as the printing press itself.And like broadsides of old, contemporary versions are priced to move, with most running between $15 and $30. The price point makes sense when you consider the nature of the form. Broadsides are paradoxical. They're ephemeral but sui
  
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• Mackned's Fifth

  19-08-2015 06:56 via thestranger.com
  West Seattle Rapper/Producer Mackned’s Fifth Album in Two Years Is Low on Serotonin, Lean on Lust, and Laced with Venomby Larry Mizell Jr.In 2013, I described the emerging music of West Seattle–bred rapper/producer Mackned as "focused on glamorous/dangerous living, drug abuse, and zero-trust/100-percent-predation on the entire female half of the planet's population. There's only so much room for truly groundbreaking content within those strict parameters, but none of these releases a
  
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• Hey Seattleites, Stop Trying to "Save" Seal Pups

  19-08-2015 06:56 via thestranger.com
  
  Every Year, Seattleites Try to "Save" Seal Pups from Local Beaches (It Usually Doesn't End So Well)by Sydney BrownstoneIf a human stumbles across a baby seal, one of the first things that person might notice about the baby seal is its eyes. "They're just these big, dark, limpid, black eyes holding yours," West Seattle resident Brenda Peterson tells me on a recent August evening. "You're just a goner, and people go, 'Oh, my god.'"We're at an undisclosed location near a West Seattle waterfront so
  
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• Finally, a Portrait of the Artist as a Teenage Girl

  19-08-2015 06:56 via thestranger.com
  Finally, a Portrait of the Artist as a Teenage GirlRelated film: The Diary of a Teenage Girlby Megan BurbankWatching The Diary of a Teenage Girl is like being hugged by a Lisa Frank panda while floating on a sea of Hitachi Magic Wands and cotton candy. It's like diving into a claw-foot tub of Lush products while wearing a snorkel full of root beer. Its color palette is indica-laced rainbow sherbet. Its heart is a sentient mug of hot cocoa. Its eyes are Bel Powley's cartoonishly gigantic, wide-op
  
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• Evel Is Straight Outta Butte, Montana

  19-08-2015 06:56 via thestranger.com
  Evel Is Straight Outta Butte, MontanaLocation: Sundance CinemasRelated: Dock Ellis's LSD Baseball Triumph|Evel Forever, Evel No Moreby Charles MudedeI did not know the most famous daredevil of the 1970s, Evel Knievel, was born in Butte, Montana, until I watched the documentary Being Evel. The man, whose career was pretty much over around the time he first entered the consciousness of my childhood (the early '80s), was a complete mystery to me until I learned this fact. Before he was world-famous
  
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• City Proposes a Massive Overhaul of Its Labor Laws

  19-08-2015 06:56 via thestranger.com
  Low-Wage Workers May Finally Be Able to Sue Their Employers If They're Not Paid the Minimum Wageby Heidi GrooverGood news for workers: A massive, 100-plus-page bill currently circulating in the mayor's office would strengthen the city's labor laws, including stiffer penalties for lawbreaking businesses, better compensation for workers who aren't paid adequately or given sick days, and more ways for workers to file complaints anonymously.But perhaps the most controversial piece of the draft legis
  
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• Cancel Your Plans and Go See the Funny, Sexy, Warm Revival of Pippin at the Paramount

  19-08-2015 06:56 via thestranger.com
  Why Haven't You Seen Pippin Yet? Is It Because You Don't Enjoy Great Music, Great Acting, and Great Writing?by Christopher FrizzelleYou know how the musical Chicago has great songs and great dancing but it's kind of a nothing musical? It's all about "dazzle"? It's about as deep and lasting as the flash of a camera bulb? Yeah. The music is great, but Chicago as a live show kind of sucks. The musical vamping that launches most of the numbers is intensely seductive, like it's squirting serotonin in
  
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• Brando's Penis Had Its Own Agenda

  19-08-2015 06:56 via thestranger.com
  Authorized Doc Listen to Me Marlon Offers a Privileged View of Brando's Thought Process (and Penis)by Kathy FennessyDocumentaries engineered by a subject's estate deserve a dose of skepticism. Access to rare materials is no small thing, but complete artistic control tends to make for better art. In the style of family-approved documentaries like Tupac: Resurrection and Montage of Heck, British director Stevan Riley drew from more than 200 hours of private audio recordings to construct Listen to
  
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• An Interview with Mattathias Schwartz About “A Massacre in Jamaica”

  19-08-2015 06:56 via thestranger.com
  An Interview with Mattathias Schwartz About “A Massacre in Jamaica”by Jen GravesThis week in The Stranger, I interview the artist Ebony G. Patterson, who made a memorial to the victims of the 2010 attack on Tivoli Gardens. Your piece in the New Yorker called the event “A Massacre in Jamaica.” Your reporting represents a full turnaround from the first press reports of what happened. The Associated Press first described the events as a fight between Jamaican authorities and
  
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• Washington’s Congressman Denny Heck is willing to give peace with Iran a chance

  19-08-2015 04:19
  
  The first strong Washington endorsement of the agreement under which Iran will not develop nuclear weapons, negotiated by the U.S. and five major powers, has come from two-term U.S. Rep. Denny Heck. A pair of Republican lawmakers from Eastern Washington — U.S. Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Dan Newhouse — have directed fire at the accord, mostly in partisan boilerplate language.  While citing no evidence, McMorris Rodgers has charged that the agreement provides “a path f
  
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• A long march to LGBT equality: Employment, housing next stop in campaign to end discrimination

  19-08-2015 03:26
  
  The triumph of marriage equality across America is not an end, but a step on the long path to equal rights, gay-lesbian-transgender rights supporters heard Tuesday at a symposium hosted at the headquarters of Amazon.com. “So much more needs to be done,” said U.S. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, whose work on LGBT issues began with the HIV/AIDS crisis when she was elected to Congress 28 years ago. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi:  “The American people are decent
  
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• List: Seattle food truck among America’s 101 best

  19-08-2015 02:40
  
  To continue our tear with food lists, we bring you a public survey that ranked a Seattle food truck among America’s top 101. Where Ya At Matt, a perennially celebrated New Orleans soul food restaurant on wheels, made it to No. 79 on The Daily Meal’s public survey of food trucks. They’re known for their fried oyster po’boy and also serve up muffulettas, beignets and jambalaya — all the New Orleans favorites. Owner and chef Matthew Lewis has since turned his food truc
  
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• This Is What a Reading Party In Scotland Looks Like

  19-08-2015 02:35 via thestranger.com
  
  This photo was taken last night. Mariel Symeonidou
  "Last night's reading party went really well!" writes Mariel Symeonidou, who organized a reading party in Dundee, Scotland, based on the reading party in Seattle. There have also been reading parties in Brooklyn, Toronto, Tacoma, and some other places I can't remember at the moment. "The atmosphere was great and I think everyone had a good time," Symeonidou says. They didn't have a musician, but the bartender made "a very fitting playlist."Anyon
  
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• FDA Approves First Libido Pill for Women

  19-08-2015 02:27 via thestranger.com
  
  Addyi (pronounced ADD-ee) is being called the “pink Viagra.” piggu/Shutterstock
  A couple months ago, I wrote about the first libido pill for women (it's apparently the first pill to address desire in general), and questioned whether such a pill might work. Well, the FDA just approved that pill.Reports the New York Times:
  The drug — Addyi from Sprout Pharmaceuticals — is actually the first drug approved to treat a flagging or absent libido for either sex. Viagra and other
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: The Boyfriend Is Out—Should I Get Out?

  19-08-2015 02:14 via thestranger.com
  
  Here’s my situation: I’m 27, straight, and female (and GGG, or trying to be anyway), and I’ve been with my partner, male, for six years. A little over a year ago he came out to me as bisexual. To keep a long story as short as possible: We got through it (part of getting through it meant that I went to counseling, and it was one of the best things I ever did), we have had a few threesomes (with other men), and after the first one—at least—when everything was fresh an
  
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• Bad News for Northwest Snowboarders & Skiers

  19-08-2015 01:17 via thestranger.com
  
  Slate takes a look at the coming El Niño—the biggest ever—and while there's lots of rain coming to California this winter (rain the state needs, rain that won't be enough), we're not going to see much snow:
  One place that probably won’t benefit from this winter’s El Niño is the Northwest. It’ll be another low-snowpack year, putting additional pressure on salmon, hydroelectricity, and ski resorts in the Cascades. Local officials are treating the current
  
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• Wallingford restaurant makes Bon Appetit’s ‘Hot 10′

  19-08-2015 01:14
  
  The results are in and Seattle has made the cut. After three Seattle restaurants appeared in Bon Appetit’s top 50 new restaurants in the United States at the beginning of August, the pared-down “Hot 10″ released Tuesday retains a nautical-themed Wallingford space: Manolin. Bon Appetit magazine says Wallingford’s Manolin is one of the United States’ 10 best new restaurants. (Instagram/@dansgoodside) Named after the apprentice in Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man a
  
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• Seattle-area defense attorney who ditched clients disbarred

  19-08-2015 00:30
  
  A Seattle-area defense attorney accused of taking his clients' money and leaving them in the lurch has been disbarred.
  
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