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• New Ash vs. Evil Dead Trailer LOOKS SO GOOD!

  24-08-2015 23:55 via thestranger.com
  
  One of the more exciting and fun new series debuting this fall—specifically on Halloween—is Starz's Ash vs. Evil Dead, starring a still remarkably handsome Bruce Campbell revisiting his camp classic Evil Dead character. As god is my witness, you will LOVE this new trailer... that is, if you love lots of blood splatters, chain-saw tosses, Lucy Lawless, zombie grandmas, and comedy. Hey! I LOVE ALL THOSE THINGS!! [ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• I, Anonymous: Be Grateful I’m Here, Seattle

  24-08-2015 23:14 via thestranger.com
  
  STEVEN WEISSMAN
  I am a tech worker. I am a transplant. I cause a lot of Seattleites to scream "BINGO" as they cover their "Stereotypes We Don't Like" squares. The Stranger and other local sites blast tech workers for gentrification. This is unfair. Tech workers are not a hive mind. I think we're being unfairly singled out as the reason that rents in Seattle are rising and local businesses are closing. That's bullshit. Cities change and evolve, with or without the influx of highly paid, highly e
  
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• Political Correctness Is Not the Enemy, Donald Trump Is

  24-08-2015 22:52 via thestranger.com
  
  Last week, he said, "I'll use the phrase 'anchor babies'" to talk about the children of undocumented immigrants. During the first Republican debate, he said, "I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct."Albert H. Teich / Shutterstock.com
  Trump didn't pull this "I hate political correctness" idea wet and dripping from the depths of his heart, nor does he pull any other ideas from there either. Earlier in the month on Meet the Press, Chuck Todd interviewed Trump, and got
  
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• The Gun Lobby sues to shoot down Seattle’s new tax on firearms, ammunition purchases

  24-08-2015 22:35
  
  Three major national gun rights groups, along with two local gun dealers, filed suit on Monday to block and overturn the $25 local tax on firearms purchases voted unanimously by the Seattle City Council earlier this month. Using an analogy to the civil rights movement, Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, argued:  “We’re battling what amounts to a poll tax on gun owners and retailers.” AR-15, semi-automatic, magazine-fed rifle, pictured on wall of a g
  
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• Gun rights advocates sue city of Seattle over 'gun tax'

  24-08-2015 22:05
  
  Gun rights advocates sue city of Seattle over "gun tax"
  
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• Punk Place Market: Stooges Tribute/KEXP Benefit Show Raw Power Was Raw, Powerful (But Coulda Been Louder)

  24-08-2015 21:28 via thestranger.com
  
  KEXP DJ Troy Nelson's view of the swarming crowds Troy Nelson
  A huge crowd swarmed to Pike Place Market Sunday evening to witness Raw Power, a makeshift group of four Seattle rock luminaries, perform a rooftop set of seven songs by the Stooges, the legendary Michigan proto-punk band. According to Raw Power singer Mark Arm, the idea came about when it was discovered that Pike Place Market president and KEXP CEO both loved the Stooges and rooftop concerts. (What were the odds?) In the pre-show spe
  
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• Incoming Duke Freshmen Refuse to Read Alison Bechdel's Fun Home Because Lesbians Are Gross

  24-08-2015 21:28 via thestranger.com
  
  Duke University asks incoming freshmen to read one book over the summer before classes start. This year the university chose Fun Home, Alison Bechdel's award-winning graphic memoir about her childhood. But some of Duke's incoming students are refusing to read Fun Home because Jesus hates lesbians. Duke Chronicle:
  Several incoming freshmen decided not to read “Fun Home” because its sexual images and themes conflicted with their personal and religious beliefs. Freshman Brian Grasso pos
  
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• Obama will visit rural Alaska communities in trip focusing on climate change

  24-08-2015 21:05
  
  President Obama is headed to Alaska next Monday, to speak at a State Department conference in Anchorage and then stay to spend the first two days of September visiting the rural towns of Dillingham on Bristol Bay and Kotzebue near the Chukchi Sea. The president will also stop in the Seward area “where he will have the opportunity to view the effects of climate change firsthand,” according to White House spokesperson Hallie Ruvin. Seward is just east of Kenai Fjords National Park, who
  
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• GQ Has a Piece Up About Stephen Colbert That's Pretty Amazing

  24-08-2015 20:30 via thestranger.com
  
  He's amazing. His life story is enough to make you cry. Helga Esteb / Shutterstock.com
  If your esteem for Colbert isn't already through the roof, read this piece in GQ. There are all kinds of interesting things in it: his take on people calling him influential, his take on moralism, his analogy that late-night TV shows are just like Chopped. ("Who are your guests tonight? Your guests tonight are veal tongue, coffee grounds, and gummy bears. There, make a show.… Make an appetizer that appe
  
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• R.E.M.'s Chronic Town Is as Old as Jesus (and Twice as Real)

  24-08-2015 20:03 via thestranger.com
  
  Happy birthday, Chronic Town
  If you are a sentimental sucker for rock anniversaries, today is a pretty good one.WHEREAS on the 24th day of August in the year of our lord 1982, the Athens, Georgia, rock band R.E.M. released its debut EP, Chronic Town, on IRS Records, and
  WHEREAS the number one song on Billboard's Hot 100 that week was "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor, followed by "Hurts So Good" by John Cougar, "Abracadabra" by Steve Miller Band, "Hold Me" by Fleetwood Mac, and "Hard To Say I'm Sor
  
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• Did Subway's Former Pitchman Hurt The Diary of a Teenage Girl at the Box Office?

  24-08-2015 19:55 via thestranger.com
  
  Bel Powley and Alexander Skarsgård in Marielle Heller's The Diary of a Teenage GirlSony Pictures
  The Diary of a Teenage Girl, which is based on an autobiographical graphic novel of the same name by Phoebe Gloeckner, had its widest release, 69 theaters, this weekend and made a total of $180,000. (Sony Pictures bought the film at this year's Sundance Film Festival for $2 million.)The question on my mind is: Why did an indie film that received generally positive reviews, and has a pretty big
  
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• Rand Paul in Seattle on Wednesday; rare public appearance here for a Republican presidential candidate

  24-08-2015 19:28
  
  Libertarian-minded Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul will speak at 8:30 Wednesday in Seattle Town Hall, then fly to Spokane for a 2:30 rally at the Doubletree Hotel. The Paul visit will mark the first public appearance by any 2016 GOP White House hopeful in the Puget Sound area. Ex-Gov. Jeb Bush and Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz have made “ATM visits” to the Seattle area, private and usually unannounced fundraisers with wealthy supporters. A brunch with Bush
  
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• I Went to the Hugo Awards in Spokane This Weekend. Here's What I Saw.

  24-08-2015 19:04 via thestranger.com
  
  Would haters hijack the Hugos?The INB Performing Arts Center in Spokane was more Doctor Who shirts than evening gowns on Saturday night, but most people had at least put on their nice pants. This is as fancy as speculative fiction gets. We filed to our seats. I got out my phone and my illustrious writer companion and I leaned in for a selfie.“Why are you smiling?” said my illustrious companion. “We aren’t having fun.”
  This was true. We were there for blood. We were
  
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• Octopuses Are Not Aliens—Nick Lane's New Book Explains Why

  24-08-2015 19:03 via thestranger.com
  
  You worship DNA; Nick Lane worships ATP. WIDE-EYED ENTERTAINMENT LTD.
  On 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 that it seemed
  
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• The Morning News: Restaurants Around the Country Copying Seattle, Wildfires Still Raging, Stock Market Going Crazy

  24-08-2015 17:53 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle restauranteur Renee Erickson is in the New York Times business section today. Kelly O
  The Walrus and the Carpenter, Ivar's, and Canlis Are in the New York Times This Morning: In a piece about restaurants across the country going tipless. Looking at what Seattle has done, a New York restauranteur says, "I think that restaurants will have to do this."
  Okanogan Complex Fires Are Ongoing: There's a map here. Yesterday, these fires were "estimated to be about 10 percent contained."
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