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• Ultra-Heavy Power Duo godheadSilo Making a Comeback Nov. 20 at Chop Suey

  31-08-2015 23:59 via thestranger.com
  
  Share the fantasy of godheadSilo's unexpected comeback. Sub Pop
  Good news for people missing the monolithic, low-end destruction propagated by Olympia via Fargo, North Dakota's godheadSilo. Bassist Mike Kunka and drummer Dan Haugh, the power duo, who split in 1998 after releasing three albums, are returning to the live stage November 20 at Chop Suey. Tickets go on sale Friday, September 4.My godheadSilo story: My first trip to Seattle occurred in 1996 when their label, Sub Pop, invited a bunch o
  
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• Spotted in Downtown Seattle Yesterday: What Does This Photo Say to You?

  31-08-2015 23:45 via thestranger.com
  
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• Will Republican Outrage at Obama for Renaming Mt. McKinley Outlast This Revelation?

  31-08-2015 23:41 via thestranger.com
  
  McKinley Peak / Shutterstock
  TPM:
  Republican strategist Karl Rove said Monday that President Obama should be "more gracious" to the man whose name he just stripped from North America's tallest peak. After all, Rove told Time magazine, it was President McKinley's administration that annexed Hawaii, making it possible for Obama to be President.... Rove, former deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush who is working on a book about President McKinley, told Time that he'd expect Obama to be
  
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• The Rentboy Raid Burned Up the Internet All Weekend

  31-08-2015 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  We talk a lot about people who sell sex—men and women—but we rarely listen to people who sell sex. This video was made by male sex worker responding to the Rentboy.com raid. Watch it.Then read this amazing blog post by Dirk Caber, porn star and occasional escort...It is not enough to call something criminal simply because there is a law against it.If that law exists, it is in place (or should be) to protect someone, perhaps many of us, from becoming a victim.Rape laws are in place t
  
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• Rep. Ross Hunter will head state’s Department of Early Learning

  31-08-2015 23:26
  
  One of Olympia’s most capable and impatient legislators, State Rep. Ross Hunter, D-Medina, will begin a new job on Sept. 8 as director of the state’s Department of Early Learning. “With landmark investment this year, Washington is poised to be a world leader in early learning,” Gov. Jay Inslee, who is on a trade mission to Japan and Korea, said in a statement announcing the appointment. State Rep. Ross Hunter:  He will head state’s Department of Early Learning
  
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• I, Anonymous: Ungratefully Yours

  31-08-2015 23:14 via thestranger.com
  
  steven weissman
  Dear Poseur Fuckhead: It must be hard being the savior of Seattle's benighted small businesses. We should be grateful for the way people like you have pushed rent into the stratosphere and turned South Lake Union, Capitol Hill, and Queen Anne into your soulless, condo-choked playgrounds. It's a wonder more people don't stop to shake your hand. Locals aren't happy about the influx of "well-paid, well-educated tech workers" because the dollars you throw at local businesses come at
  
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• Sarah Palin Brings Out the Big Government Spender in Trump, Cruz, and Jeb!

  31-08-2015 22:32 via thestranger.com
  
  She's the best spy the Democrats never asked for.Andrew F. Kazmierski / Shutterstock.com
  Lots of people, including me, were freaking out last Friday about Sarah Palin's inscrutable Facebook message, wherein she announced her intention to interview Donald Trump on her show "On Point with Sarah Palin."The program's hosted by a right wing cable network called One America News Network, which Wikipedia says reaches 15 million homes. Since everybody watches TV on their computer, people rushed to the O
  
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• The Best Things To Do Every Day This Week

  31-08-2015 21:59 via thestranger.com
  
  "Awesome" will perform at Nordo's Culinarium this Thursday.
  It may be sweater weather, but that doesn't mean you have to stay inside all week. Here are our critics' top picks for things to do this week.MONDAY
  See Counting at Northwest Film Forum, Iron Ministry at Grand Illusion, or Wild at Heart or Valley Girl at Central Cinema.
  The Protomen
  A nerd-approved show at El Corazón for the final night of PAX Prime.
  TUESDAY
  Naomi Jackson & Anastacia Tolbert at Elliott Bay
  Jamaican novelist M
  
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• Gov. Walker: U.S. should ‘look’ at building a wall along Canadian border

  31-08-2015 21:49
  
  Gov. Scott Walker has been losing ground in the Republican presidential race,and lately has tried to stem his fall in the polls by plowing the same ground as GOP front runner Donald Trump. On Sunday, after discussion of Trump’s pledge to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, Walker suggested that the United States should “look at” a wall along the 4,000-mile border (or 5,500 miles if you count the boundary with Alaska) between the U.S. and Canada. The U.S.-Mexico border, b
  
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• Seattle restaurant manager dies crossing stream in Alaska backcountry

  31-08-2015 21:33
  
  A Seattle woman who managed Cafe Flora was found dead Friday morning in Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska.
  
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• Will the GOP Ever Stop Fooling Itself About "Naturally Conservative" Latino and Hispanic Voters?

  31-08-2015 20:29 via thestranger.com
  
  Says Ted Cruz...
  Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz told Newsmax TV on Friday that he can win the Hispanic vote because they support conservative values. "I grew up in the Hispanic community," the Texas senator, son of a Cuban immigrant, told "The Hard Line" host Ed Berliner. "It's who I am. Hispanics, the values in our community, are conservative values: faith, family, patriotism."
  Says Rachel Campos-Duffy at The National Review...
  Hispanics are social conservatives. They are family-ori
  
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• Watch Duwamish Chairwoman Meet Interior Secretary Sally Jewell Near Her West Seattle Home to Talk Federal Recognition

  31-08-2015 20:10 via thestranger.com
  
  Duwamish chairwoman Cecile Hansen approached Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell on Saturday to talk about federal recognition for the Duwamish tribe. SB
  In 1855, Chief Sealth signed the Treaty of Point Elliott in 1855, turning over 54,000 acres of land in what is now present-day Seattle to the United States, with the expectation that his descendants—the Suquamish and Duwamish—would retain certain rights, including a reservation. Though the Duwamish have lived in what's now called
  
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• Cliff Mass Says this Weekend's Exceptional Windstorm Has Nothing to Do With Global Warming

  31-08-2015 20:03 via thestranger.com
  
  This tree in Genesee Park was uprooted by Saturday's windstorm. Charles Mudede
  Though the local and popular meteorologist Cliff Mass acknowledges that the windstorm which this weekend killed two people, shutdown power for almost a half million people, and uprooted trees everywhere, was "the most powerful summer storm EVER to hit our region"—and that, according to his own research, there has "never been a summer storm even close to this one for western Washington"—he believes it has n
  
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• Two Skywritings Over Seattle Yesterday, One Expected and One a Surprise

  31-08-2015 19:36 via thestranger.com
  
  This came first, at around 4 pm yesterday, by the artist DK Pan. DAN HAWKINS
  We knew that artist DK Pan's poem, "TIME IS MEMORY," would appear in the sky over Seattle this weekend and, as time slips to memory, disappear before the writing could even be completed.
  "TIME IS MEMORY" is the whole poem.
  That happened around 4 pm yesterday, when there was a brief break in what appeared to be some of the most unpredictable clouds in Seattle history.This one I call "Suburban Pastoral." I believe that's
  
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• Ohioans denounce renaming Mount McKinley

  31-08-2015 18:41
  
  The name “Mount McKinley” has infrequently crossed the lips of Alaskans for the last 40 years, since Alaska’s bush pilot Gov. Jay Hammond caused the state to officially recognize North America’s highest peak by its Koyukon Athabascan name Denali, roughly meaning “the high one.” On Sunday, as President Obama prepared for a three-day trip to the 49th State, U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell used her authority to officially rename the 20,320-foot peak “D
  
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• Seattle Police Officers Accused of Lying About Racial Bias Complaints in the Arrest of William Wingate

  31-08-2015 18:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Captain Pierre Davis told investigators that community members were only concerned about clearing William Wingate's record and raised no objections to the arrest related to racial bias.SPD
  Last week, I wrote about newly obtained public records that show that Officer Cynthia Whitlatch believed she was being investigated for her controversial arrest of veteran and retired Metro bus driver William Wingate because she's white—not black.When the investigators questioned her supervisors, a stran
  
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• Could This Hack Really Solve the Inequality in Streaming Royalty Payments for Musicians?

  31-08-2015 18:10 via thestranger.com
  
  The average payout for a stream on Spotify is estimated to be between $0.006 and $0.0084. Anton Brand/Shutterstock
  It’s no secret that royalty payments from streaming services are laughably nonexistent for anyone not named Beyoncé or Taylor Swift (and even then, there are complaints). In recent years, some musicians have attempted to bring attention to this fact, and in the process have been shamed and pooh-poohed by the people who rely on their music to get them through their work
  
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• The Morning News: Strange and Upsetting August Weather Continues, Wildfires Calm Down Slightly, Obama Visits Alaska

  31-08-2015 17:42 via thestranger.com
  
  As of a few hours ago, this is no longer called Mount McKinley, it's called Denali. If you're upset about this, you're an idiot. From Ohio.McKinley Peak / Shutterstock
  President Obama Is Traveling to Alaska Today: "To the dismay of some Alaska Republicans, the White House has choreographed the trip to showcase melting glaciers and other cherished natural wonders in Alaska that Obama says are threatened by warmer temperatures." Yesssss. Thank you. This super weird August weather and the largest w
  
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