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• Box-Office Hit War Room Made Me Shake with Rage

  04-09-2015 23:52 via thestranger.com
  
  Don't be tricked by the happy faces and the magical old woman. These are dangerous people.
  If you don’t feel like reading this entire review—which, be warned, is mostly me just yelling—let me sum this up for you: The surprise box-office hit War Room is bad. Not just bad in the acting and the dialogue and the story line. It’s bad in the greater sense of good and evil, light and dark. This movie is bad and dangerous and wrong, and it should not exist. I’m angry that s
  
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• The High List: Recommended Events for Stoners at Bumbershoot

  04-09-2015 23:09 via thestranger.com
  
  Ben Harper is SO High List–approved, he practically transcends the list. EMILY NOKES
  SATURDAY 9/5
  Babes in Toyland, 5 pm, #NeverTamed StageRecently re-formed after a 14-year hiatus, Minneapolis, Minnesota's totally ripping Babes in Toyland have reportedly picked up the raw punk rock right where they left off. If Kat Bjelland's vocals are even half as ferocious as they were in the '90s, you're in for a delightfully brutal time. Wear your best doll-dress/combat-boots combo. (Update: Mid-reun
  
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• The Good Kind of SHT Show: Poster Art in Seattle, Havana, and Tehran

  04-09-2015 22:53 via thestranger.com
  
  Posters by (left to right) David Gallo of Seattle, Darwin Fornés of Havana, and Shahrzad Changalvaee of Tehran, at Bumbershoot 2015. COURTESY THE ARTISTS
  People aren't governments. And so Daniel Smith's entire point was to unite ground-level urban cultures in nations that are politically or officially separated. Over the last decade, the Seattle designer traveled to Havana, Tehran, and Moscow, and collaborated with poster designers in each city to create exhibitions that would originate a
  
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• All This Typing Is Making Us Terrible At Typing (or, This Atricle is Suprrmstrjms)

  04-09-2015 22:48 via thestranger.com
  
  "OMG i hrd uhsswdfkjsdh hrps LOL" SpeedKingz/shutterstock
  Looking for another article to stow in your Reading List or Saved Links, never to be heard from again? The Awl has delivered another gem (so what else is new?): I'm Becoming a Slack-fingered Idiot and I Guess That's Fine is a really smart, scary, amusing piece by John Hermann about a weird side-effect of the ongoing process of brain-hand-phone fusion: lazy, sloppy typing becoming perfectly acceptable in text-based communication.After year
  
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• Drunk of the Week's Rules For Bumbershoot

  04-09-2015 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Here's a good rule of what NOT to do at Bumbershoot (and yes, I really did witness a person trying to do this last year):
  1. Don't even THINK about trying to use your ATM card to get into the beer garden because you forgot your photo ID…
  What do you think makes a better Bumbershoot? Tell me over here >>>Kelly O
  
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• Rep. Kilmer is seventh in Washington delegation to support Iran nuclear accord

  04-09-2015 22:18
  
  U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer, D-Wash., on Friday became the seventh member of Washington’s congressional delegation to support the accord, officially the Joint Plan of Action, aimed at preventing Iran’s development of nuclear weapons. All six House Democrats, and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., have now declared themselves for the Iran deal.  The state’s four Republican House members are expected to vote against it, or support a resolution of disapproval. U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer:&nbs
  
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• 10 Frames: Studio 4/4 Second Anniversary at Q Nightclub with Q&A from Creative Director Sean Majors

  04-09-2015 22:03 via thestranger.com
  
  Sean Majors with Studio 4/4's two-year anniversary show headliner, Danny Tenaglia and Q Nightclub's Community Manager, Jade Gaines. Brooklyn Benjestorf
  Two years ago, the talented tastemakers Sean Majors, Brian Lyons, and Wesley Holmes gathered over plates of tacos to talk about dance music—the emerging movements, their impact on the culture, and the ways in which they wanted to participate in and help guide the future scene. As DJs and event producers with a senior citizen’s worth o
  
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• “Everyone Needs To Be a Feminist”: A Pre-Bumbershoot Q&A With Peaches

  04-09-2015 21:51 via thestranger.com
  
  Peaches at Neumos in 2011, making sure she was with a group of people who enjoyed what she was doing." TIMOTHY RYSDYKE
  Peaches’ new album, Rub, drops on Sept. 25. She recently released a photography book, What Else Is In The Teaches Of Peaches, with photos by Holger Talinski. At Bumbershoot, she’ll speak on the Sunday panel “Scary Feminist” with writers Chelsea Cain and Mandy Stadtmiller, then she’ll perform Monday evening at Key Arena. She spoke by phone.Your panel
  
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• Seriously, Joe Biden: Go Home, Lie Down, Rest, Don't Run for President

  04-09-2015 21:25 via thestranger.com
  
  Biden his time. He should just bow out gracefully.Frontpage / Shutterstock.com
  Yesterday in Atlanta Joe Biden finally said SOMETHING about the possibility of his run for the presidency. Before the audience gathered at Ahavath Achim Synagogue, Biden said, "I will be straightforward with you." He said, "Unless I can go to my party and the American people and say that I'm able to devote my whole heart and my whole soul to this endeavor, it would not be appropriate." He also said, "The honest to God
  
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• Supreme Court lets Eyman initiative on November ballot; Eyman ordered to appear in Superior Court

  04-09-2015 20:57
  
  The Washington State Supreme Court refused on Friday to strike Tim Eyman’s latest initiative from the November ballot, but reserved the right to later consider legal challenges to Initiative 1366. The high court’s ruling came hours after revelation, first reported in The Herald of Everett, that state attorneys are seeking Eyman’s bank records. It is part of a long-running Public Disclosure Commission investigation of whether Eyman moved money between two initiative campaig
  
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• Supreme Court allows Eyman initiative on November ballot; Eyman ordered to appear in Superior Court

  04-09-2015 20:57
  
  The Washington State Supreme Court refused on Friday to strike Tim Eyman’s latest initiative from the November ballot, but reserved the right to later consider legal challenges to Initiative 1366. The high court’s ruling came hours after revelation, first reported in The Herald of Everett, that state attorneys are seeking Eyman’s bank records. It is part of a long-running Public Disclosure Commission investigation of whether Eyman moved money between two initiative campaig
  
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• Police Reports Illustrated: Pot Shot

  04-09-2015 20:43 via thestranger.com
  
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• I Can't Handle All this Animal Killing—I'm Still Traumatized by the Time I Tried to Kill an Ant When I Was 6

  04-09-2015 20:29 via thestranger.com
  
  The only animal I've ever purposefully set out to kill was an ant and it did not go well. Ant / Shutterstock
  You may have noticed all the straight boys in the office are trying to out-straight each other with tales of purposefully killing poor defenseless creatures like mice and pigeons.Rich Smith won Charles Mudede's everlasting respect yesterday by crushing a mouse to death. If Mudede's glee was not palpable enough in the writing—"I will never forget the sound of all its bones breaking a
  
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• Where to Get Vegan and Gluten-Free Ice Cream Sandwiches

  04-09-2015 20:22 via thestranger.com
  
  A snickerdoodle-and-chocolate-ice-cream sandwich from Seattle Cookie Counter. One hundred percent vegan.Seattle Cookie Counter
  This week I looked at three different ice cream sandwich options in town, all from businesses that specialize in small-batch, homemade ice cream. Sampling sandwiches from Parfait, Sweet Bumpas, and Sweet Lo's, I was struck not only by the diversity of sandwich styles (Parfait is très French, with macarons and flavors like lavender-and-honey, while Sweet Lo's goes
  
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• How to Make Sense of the World's Irrational Love of the Corporate Creep Steve Jobs

  04-09-2015 20:09 via thestranger.com
  
  Steve Jobs on a stamp issued by a very poor African country. catwalker/www.shutterstock.com
  The documentary Steve Jobs: Man in the Machine, which opens today and I reviewed, begins with a disturbing story concerning a check that Steve Jobs and his partner Steve Wozniak received from Atari for contributing to the development of a video game. These were the days before the two formed Apple. Wozniak managed the technical side of things, and Jobs the business. The check was for $7,000, but, accordin
  
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• The Splendid Diversity of Seattle's Ice Cream Sandwiches

  04-09-2015 19:42 via thestranger.com
  
  Macarons at parfait: It’s shocking how much better homemade ice cream tastes KELLY O
  When it comes to ice cream, Seattle is an abundant place. Successful ice cream shops such as Bluebird, Cupcake Royale, Full Tilt, and Molly Moon's serve up delicious frozen delights—often made with high-quality, local ingredients—all over the city. In recent years, Seattle's homemade ice cream options have increased, with many smaller artisan producers like Half Pint, Kurt Farm Shop, Parfait, S
  
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• You Did Not Have to Stomp That Mouse to Death, Rich

  04-09-2015 19:18 via thestranger.com
  
  This may be a descendant of a Seattle pigeon I refused to kill back in 2006. Charles Mudede
  Regarding the mouse that Rich Smith stomped to death with his feet yesterday in our offices: Back in 2006, when I was killing and eating urban fauna in Seattle for the sake of an article called "The Urban Hunt," Stranger news editor Eli Sanders invited me to his Capitol Hill apartment to confront a problem.
  An ill-looking pigeon had taken up residence on his fourth-story balcony and he wondered if I, the
  
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• The Federalist: Baptists Aren't Christians

  04-09-2015 19:04 via thestranger.com
  
  One last thing to say about Kim Davis...
  When people pointed out that Davis's own marital conduct seemed less than biblical—three divorces, four husbands, pregnant by husband #3 while still married to husband #1, convincing husband #2 to adopt the children of the man who would eventually become husband #3, divorcing husband #3 and then marrying husband #4 (who was also husband #2—Davis's defenders on the right insisted that her conduct prior to husband #4 was completely irrelevant:T
  
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• The Morning News: Teachers to Strike, Space Needle Workers to Protest, Take-Home Pay Falls for Low-Wage Workers

  04-09-2015 17:59 via thestranger.com
  
  Some of the major issues teachers and the school board are bargaining over are pay, equity, recess, and special education caseloads. Sydney Brownstone
  Seattle Teachers Unanimously Vote to Strike: Just after 7:30 last night, Sydney reports, "a packed Benaroya Hall full of Seattle's teachers unanimously shouted, 'AYE!!!' on a motion to strike. There were no dissenting 'nays.' The Seattle teachers union will strike on the first day of school, September 9, if no tentative agreement is reached with t
  
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• Gay Couples in Rowan County, Kentucky, Issued Marriage Licenses This Morning

  04-09-2015 16:30 via thestranger.com
  
  NYT:
  A same-sex couple received a marriage license here on Friday, the first such couple to get one a day after the county clerk, Kim Davis, was jailed by a federal judge for refusing court orders to issue the licenses. The couple, James Yates, 41, and William Smith, Jr., 33, entered the Rowan County Courthouse shortly after it opened, walking through throngs of protesters. Supporters of Ms. Davis yelled Bible passages and held up signs, including one briefly held up by Ms. Davis’s husban
  
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• Bumbershoot Has Been in a State of Flux for Years

  04-09-2015 16:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Bumber-angst is a festival tradition. Kelly O
  Last winter, it became apparent that One Reel, the nonprofit that runs Bumbershoot, was in serious financial trouble. After last year's festival, One Reel laid off full-time employees along with its seasonal hires, workers complained about not getting paid, and tax records revealed a steep slide in net assets from $5.3 million in 2009 to -$1 million at the end of 2013.
  The 2014 festival had been celebrated as a return to Bumbershoot's roots as a cult
  
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• Blabbermouth: Our Week-in-Review Podcast Talks Kentucky Marriage Licenses With Dan Savage (Plus Smoke and Politics)

  04-09-2015 15:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Episode 20 of our Stranger week-in-review podcast. (Now available on iTunes.)
  Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who claims that Jesus Christ prevents her from issuing gay marriage licenses, is now in jail for contempt of court—and Dan Savage is on the show to talk about why that’s exactly where Kim Davis belongs.We also discuss the trouble-free gay marriage license that my husband and I recently secured in the great state of Montana, where I’ve been for the last few weeks while get
  
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• Seattle Teachers Unanimously Vote to Strike; Negotiations with School District Will Continue

  04-09-2015 05:26 via thestranger.com
  
  "UNION POWER!" Seattle's teachers are ready to go on strike. SB
  Just after 7:30 p.m. this evening, a packed Benaroya Hall full of Seattle's teachers unanimously shouted, "AYE!!!" on a motion to strike. There were no dissenting "nays." The Seattle teachers union will strike on the first day of school, September 9, if no tentative agreement is reached with the Seattle School Board.The vote at Benaroya Hall came after months of failed negotiations with the School Board. It's the first time Seattle
  
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• Republican candidates: An ‘Amen Corner’ for Kentucky county clerk who turned away same-sex couples

  04-09-2015 04:09
  
  Rowan County (Ky.) Clerk Kim Davis has been turned away by the U.S. Supreme Court, and taken into custody under a federal judge’s orders, after refusing on religious grounds to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples — or any couples. But Davis has found an “Amen Corner” among Republican presidential candidates. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas:  “Those who are persecuting Kim Davis believe that Christians should not serve in office.”(AP Photo/Alex Brandon) &md
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: This Guy Says He Slept With Marco Rubio

  04-09-2015 02:39 via thestranger.com
  
  I'm a man and I just slept with Marco Rubio. Marco didn't say a word the whole time and he hardly looked at me—and he was all thumbs.
  Want the details?
  I was flying Miami-LAX, and I noticed my generic-looking businessman seat-mate was busy on his phone, so I didn't pay much attention, and didn't do my usual introduction saying it was ok to tap me awake or jump over whenever he wanted to get out. Then the wheels started clicking and I realized is was Marco Rubio, one of the seventeen republ
  
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• There Was a Small Earthquake Near Mt. Saint Helens This Afternoon

  04-09-2015 01:59 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle Times:An earthquake measuring 3.1 on the Richter scale struck Southwest Washington about 11 miles northwest of Mount St. Helens on Thursday afternoon, according to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network.
  Washington Emergency Management said there were "no reports of being felt."[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• DelBene becomes sixth member of Washington delegation, 101st House member, to back Iran deal

  04-09-2015 01:55
  
  U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene, late on Thursday, became the sixth member of Washington’s congressional delegation to support the agreement negotiated by the Obama administration and five major powers, under which Iran would stand down from its nuclear weapons program in exchange for lifting of economics sanctions. DelBene and Rep. Rick Larsen became the 100th and 101st House Democrats to back the deal.  Thirty-seven Democratic senators have announced support for the Iran agreement, enough t
  
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• Charge: North Bend man showing off defective pistol kills childhood friend

  04-09-2015 01:52
  
  A North Bend man accused of fatally shooting a childhood friend while showing off a pistol he knew had been recalled has been charged with manslaughter.
  
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• I Just Saw Rich Smith Kill a Mouse With His Boot!

  04-09-2015 01:20 via thestranger.com
  
  These boots were made for killing mice! Kelly O
  This happened in our office not even an hour ago. Sean Nelson first heard some noise on the side of Jen Graves's desk and discovered it was a mouse caught in a glue trap. What were we supposed to do? One thing: kill it. But how? I noticed a tennis racket behind Brendan Kiley's desk. But it's made of wood, and so I feared it wasn't hard enough to kill the thing with one blow. Dave Segal recommended I use a scissors and stab it, but I wanted an objec
  
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• Charge: Paid caregiver raped severely disabled Renton woman

  04-09-2015 00:57
  
  A paid caregiver accused of sexually assaulting a severely disabled woman at a Renton group home has been charged with rape.
  
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• "Mostly Just Violent, Weird, and Dangerous": Kelton Sears Discusses Kithkin's Farewell Show (PS It’s Tonight)

  04-09-2015 00:54 via thestranger.com
  
  Kithkin's final show is tonight at Chop Suey.
  The local band Kithkin (“treepunk” is their term, and it’s not inaccurate, but I feel wrong about using it unattributed because the last time I touched a tree on purpose Jimmy Carter was president) will play their final show tonight at Chop Suey. Their live shows tend to be decadent and fantastic, and not without an appreciation for sacrificial ritual, so this one is highly recommended. I asked their bassist/singer Kelton Sears a fe
  
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• Seattle Police Union Says Contract Violation Prevents SPD from Firing Officer Cynthia Whitlatch

  04-09-2015 00:32 via thestranger.com
  
  SPOG, whose president Ron Smith is pictured here, has come up with a new way to stymie attempts to discipline Whitlatch: deadlines! Ansel Herz
  The Seattle police union that represents rank and file officers really, really doesn't want to allow the SPD to fire Officer Cynthia Whitlatch, who faces termination over her controversial arrest of an elderly black veteran last year.
  In a recent statement, SPOG claims the department's misconduct review arm, the Office of Professional Accountability (OPA)
  
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• The Man in the Machine Argues That Being an Asshole Was the Least of Steve Jobs's Flaws

  04-09-2015 00:06 via thestranger.com
  
  iToldYouSo.COURTESY OF MAGNOLIA PICTURES
  Alex Gibney, the director who exposed the dark secrets of Scientology with the documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief and detailed the collapse of Enron with Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, turns his attention to the late CEO of Apple in Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine. And what does he have to say about this much-worshipped visionary, whose death was a global event? That he was basically an asshole. He treated his family,
  
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• Reports: Cops catch felon in Central District with gun wrapped in Seahawks jersey

  04-09-2015 00:01
  
  Seattle police arrested a 24-year-old felon in the Central District on Wednesday, only to find he was carrying a handgun wrapped in a Seahawks jersey.
  
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