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• Protesting Planned Parenthood: Reading the Signs

  14-10-2015 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Did you know that anti-choice protesters show up nearly *EACH AND EVERY* Saturday in front Seattle's Planned Parenthood Health Center on East Madison Street? I live only five or six blocks away, and I had no idea. NONE. I went with some newly organized #ShoutYourAbortion supporters this past Saturday at 10 am when an anti-choice group, sponsored by Carnation Bible Church, was also scheduled to arrive. I honestly wouldn't have been surprised if some dude decided to spit on me (again? sheeeeesh!)
  
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• 34th District Republicans endorse Goodspaceguy for Seattle Port Commission

  14-10-2015 23:28
  
  The 34th District Republicans endorsed perennial candidate Goodspaceguy for the Seattle Port Commission as part of a slate of candidates and ballot issue recommendations released on Wednesday. Goodspaceguy, his legal name, has run at least 15 times for public office, with a driving idea. “Space Colonization should have been the goal from the beginning of our American space program: We should already have the beginning orbital space colonies with over 260 habitats, but we don’t,&
  
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• The NRA Presents Gun Safety Tips for Kids of All Ages

  14-10-2015 23:24 via thestranger.com
  
  You're never too young to start learning how to behave responsibly around guns. In light of recent threats to the sovereign liberty guaranteed by our constitution, we're stepping up our commitment to ensuring that every citizen has all the information he (or she) needs to live a long, prosperous, and, above all, free life as a member of the well-armed militia called America…
  
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• The Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel on Bernie Sanders, Kshama Sawant, and Running a 150-Year-Old Political Magazine

  14-10-2015 22:57 via thestranger.com
  
  Katrina vanden Heuvel Courtesy of The Nation
  Katrina vanden Huevel, editor and publisher of The Nation, is in Seattle this week for events today, tomorrow, and Friday as part of a yearlong celebration of her magazine reaching its 150th year. I spoke to her by phone while she was in Portland on Tuesday.
  How do you live to be 150? And keep in mind you're talking to a publication that just turned 24 and is still living with its parents.
  The Nation still lives with some of its parents. We have their
  
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• Parent protests won’t stop teacher transfers in Seattle

  14-10-2015 22:52
  
  The process of transferring about two dozen teachers to other buildings or positions will continue and be finalized by Oct. 26, Seattle Public Schools said.
  
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• Your Complete Guide to Halloween

  14-10-2015 22:48 via thestranger.com
  
  Halloween is just two weeks away, which means it's time to figure out where you're going to show off your costume. There are over 100 events happening in and around Seattle, and they're all on our Things To Do Halloween calendar. For example:
  If: You want to see some freaky performance art
  Check out: Spookhaus 3 or Carnevolar VI: The Funeral
  If: You want to attend a 21+ blowout costume party
  Check out: Pulse or Seduction: Seattle's Sexiest Halloween PartyIf: You want to watch a scary movie in s
  
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• After Allegations of Developer Blackmail, Mayor Backs Away from Deal on Project Across from City Hall

  14-10-2015 22:35 via thestranger.com
  
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  There's no way you've missed the news this week, first reported by Daniel Beekman at the Seattle Times, that city council candidate Jon Grant says a developer offered to help make some campaign spending against him "go away" if Grant could convince the Tenants Union to drop a lawsuit involving the developer in question. That is some truly shady shit.
  In response to the allegations, the mayor announced today that he wants the city to cut ties with th
  
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• Trump: Big lead in two early states, bashes Bernie Sanders with Seattle video

  14-10-2015 22:32
  
  Real estate mogul Donald Trump enjoys big leads in the early Republican primary state of South Carolina, and the early precinct caucus state of Nevada, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research poll. The national pundits keep predicting Trump’s demise, but in South Carolina he enjoys a 36 percent to 18 percent, lead over closest challenger Dr. Ben Carson. In turn, Carson has a two-to-one lead over Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, highest ranking officeholder in the GOP field. Ex-Hewlet
  
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• Mayor Murray: City will cut ties with developer accused of political shakedown

  14-10-2015 22:28
  
  Seattle Mayor Ed Murray says he’s disappointed with a developer accused of unethical politics and will cut the city’s ties with the company tapped to build on a key city property downtown.
  
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• Developer ‘severed ties’ with executive accused of political shakedown

  14-10-2015 22:28
  
  Seattle Mayor Ed Murray says he’s disappointed with a developer accused of unethical politics and will cut the city’s ties with the company tapped to build on a key city property downtown. The executive accused no longer works for the company.
  
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• The Curious Case of El Sirenito (Which Was First Called Botaneria, Then El Chamuco)

  14-10-2015 22:23 via thestranger.com
  
  Despite what these menus say, the place is actually called El Sirenito.The Stranger
  Two weeks ago, I reported on the opening of Botaneria, the lovely sibling bar of Georgetown's Fonda La Catrina. I assumed the bar was called Botaneria because, on the night that it opened, that's what it said on the menu. (Botaneria translates to a place to get snacks or appetizers).Two days later, though, I received a text from someone with a photo of the same menu, except the name at the top was El Chamuco, whi
  
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• Tonight, This Changes Everything with Naomi Klein in Person

  14-10-2015 22:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Confronting captialism in Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything. A Klein Lewis Productions and Louverture Films Production
  Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis’ latest movie, This Changes Everything, starts with Klein saying she’s never liked climate change documentaries. She takes a shot at polar bears’ struggling on melting ice. “Is it really possible to be bored by the end of the world?” Klein asks.
  Apparently, it is. Klein makes a good point that we humans have become dese
  
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• Out-of-state donors fuel ‘honest elections’ drive; big business backs big $930M levy

  14-10-2015 21:10
  
  The biggest spender in Seattle’s 2015 campaign is an outfit called Honest Elections Seattle, which is promoting a property tax levy that would pay for a voucher system to pay for local campaigns. With the cause of public campaign financing needing a victory — somewhere — wealthy out-of-state donors have sent bucks winging to Seattle.  Honest Elections Seattle has raised $476,000 over the last six weeks to bring its campaign total to a whopping $819,000. Amason, Vulcan, Mic
  
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• Here Are the Fun Parts of Last Night's Debate

  14-10-2015 19:02 via thestranger.com
  
  Did you miss last night's Democratic beauty pageant? Five bombshells strutted down the stage on Las Vegas to answer questions about their career ambitions and dreams for world peace. Alas, there was no time for a swimsuit competition.
  No huge surprises emerged from the debate, aside from an Amber Alert that threw viewing parties across the state into a panic. There's something maybe a little unseemly about how everyone at Comet booed when their entertainment was interrupted for a bulletin about
  
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• ‘I had to get them out of there’: Fire inspector riding burning bus on I-405 goes into action

  14-10-2015 18:51
  
  Like a firefighting superhero, Bellevue Fire Department inspector Hugo Sotelo whipped off his jacket — exposing his uniform underneath — to expedite the evacuation of a Sound Transit bus that had burst into flames on I-405. All passengers were safe.
  
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• Man sleeping in dumpster ended up inside garbage truck

  14-10-2015 18:43
  
  OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A man who was sleeping inside a downtown Olympia dumpster ended up inside a garbage truck. The Olympian reports that the incident happened when a driver of a front-loading truck was empting dumpsters last week. As he loaded a dumpster behind Three Magnets Brewery, he caught a glimpse of a person […]
  
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• Grand jury indicts parents of boy who died in septic tank

  14-10-2015 18:42
  
  PULASKI, Va. (AP) — A Virginia couple faces felony abuse and neglect charges stemming from their 5-year-old son’s death in a septic tank. Multiple media outlets report that the Pulaski County grand jury indicted Paul Thomas and Ashley White on Tuesday. Each also faces a felony abuse and neglect charge related to the care of […]
  
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• Dead mouse found in Subway sandwich in Oregon

  14-10-2015 18:41
  
  LINCOLN CITY, Ore. (AP) — A Subway customer says he found a dead mouse in a sandwich at a restaurant on the Oregon coast. Matt Jones says spotting the mouse at the Lincoln City restaurant last week was the funniest thing he ever saw — and the most disgusting. He tells Portland’s KGW-TV his friend Jay […]
  
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• Police: Daycare owner was attacked while protecting kids

  14-10-2015 18:35
  
  HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana daycare owner was punched and hit in the face with a shovel after refusing to hand three young siblings to their father, who was drunk and lacks legal custody, authorities said. Martha McClure had surgery for her injuries Monday and is still struggling with double vision, according to her […]
  
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• European body puzzled by uproar over Danish zoo dissection

  14-10-2015 18:19
  
  COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A European zoo organization says it supports a Danish park’s plan to dissect a year-old lion culled to avoid inbreeding, adding some of the online uproar disregards the educational part of it. David Williams-Mitchell of the Amsterdam-based European Association of Zoos and Aquaria, on Wednesday said dissection is common in European […]
  
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• 2 Ohio abortion clinics allowed to stay open for now

  14-10-2015 18:16
  CINCINNATI (AP) — A federal judge has ruled the last two abortion clinics in southwest Ohio can remain open while fighting to keep their state operating licenses. Court documents show a federal judge in Cincinnati issued the preliminary injunction Tuesday. The clinics sought the ruling in their lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of abortion restrictions approved […]
  
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• Family of man aboard sunken freighter files $100M lawsuit

  14-10-2015 18:11
  
  GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The family of a sailor aboard the cargo ship that sunk in roiling seas whipped up by Hurricane Joaquin filed a $100 million lawsuit Wednesday against the vessel’s owner and captain. Willie Gary, a Jacksonville attorney representing the family of El Faro crew member Lonnie Jordan, filed the suit in Duval […]
  
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• Susan Cheever chronicles drinking in America in new book

  14-10-2015 18:10
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Drinking, and not drinking, is as old as America itself, from the beer-loving pilgrims on the Mayflower and Paul Revere’s boozy horse ride to Prohibition and the rise of Alcoholics Anonymous. Some nations drink more and some less, but nowhere do those two things collide and replay on a loop through […]
  
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• ‘Report card’ gives Mississippi River basin a D+

  14-10-2015 18:07
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — A report card is out on the Mississippi River basin, and the grade is not good: a D+, with an aging transportation infrastructure topping the list of concerns. The report by America’s Watershed Initiative, released Wednesday in St. Louis, assesses categories such as the abundance of clean water, flood control and […]
  
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• Morning News: The Stranger Election Endorsements Are Out, Parents Are Pissed Off About Teacher Reassignments at Seattle Schools

  14-10-2015 17:53 via thestranger.com
  
  But for who? Cheat sheet right here. cigdem/Shutterstock
  The Stranger Election Control Board Endorsements for the November Election: Read 'em all. Things we mentioned: Splooge, pangolins, ball hairs, Dan Savage's cocaine drawer—plus, Bruce Harrell's "spineless pandering" and a switch from the August primary endorsement to his underdog challenger, Tammy Morales.
  Miss Last Night's Democratic Debate? It was surprisingly non-gimmicky and substantive. Bernie Sanders did great, Hillary did her t
  
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• Recently named head of VW North America will not take post

  14-10-2015 16:26
  
  FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The recently named head of Volkswagen’s North American business won’t be taking up his new job – and has left the company. The announcement comes as Volkswagen faces a scandal over rigging the results of emissions testing of its diesel vehicles in the U.S. It means that one of the company’s […]
  
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• 2016 VW diesels have new software affecting emissions tests

  14-10-2015 16:25
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Volkswagen has disclosed to U.S. regulators that there is additional suspect software in its 2016 diesel models that would potentially help their exhaust systems run cleaner during government tests. Volkswagen confirmed to The Associated Press that the “auxiliary emissions control device” at issue operates differently from the “defeat” device software included in […]
  
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• Sound Transit bus catches fire on I-405; no injuries reported

  14-10-2015 16:07
  Thirty passengers were safely evacuated from a Sound Transit bus that caught fire on northbound Interstate 405.
  
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• Man caught huffing in Wal-Mart restroom dies of cardiac arrest

  14-10-2015 15:58
  
  A 29-year-old man who had repeatedly been caught inhaling fumes from stolen cans of compressed air cans in Kitsap County died after police found him inhaling the substance in Poulsbo.
  
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• Toyota aims to nearly eliminate gasoline-only cars by 2050

  14-10-2015 15:15
  
  TOKYO (AP) — Toyota, under ambitious environmental targets, is aiming to sell hardly any regular gasoline vehicles by 2050, only hybrids and fuel cells, to radically reduce emissions. The automaker promised to involve governments, affiliated companies and other “stakeholders” in its push to reduce average emissions from Toyota cars by 90 percent by about 2050, […]
  
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• Surprising study may lead to better English-language instruction

  14-10-2015 14:01
  
  School districts are rethinking how to tailor instruction for kids learning English after report shows that older elementary school students may be missing out on basics.
  
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• Voter Cheat Sheet

  14-10-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
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• The 26 Best Things To Do This Week

  14-10-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
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• Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak Is Full of G-G-G-G-Ghosts

  14-10-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak Is Full of G-G-G-G-Ghostsby Erik Henriksen"It's not a ghost story," Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska) says in Crimson Peak. "It's a story with a ghost in it."Edith isn't talking about Crimson Peak, though she might as well be. Guillermo del Toro's latest is a visually sumptuous gothic romance—one that, amid all the melodrama, offers slivers of sly wit, loving nods to classic horror, and, by the time it's over, quite a bit of blood. It also has a ghost in it.
  
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• Don’t Let Eileen Myles’s Radical Badass Lesbian Reputation Overwhelm the Joy of Actually Reading Her Poems

  14-10-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Don’t Let Eileen Myles’s Radical Badass Lesbian Reputation Overwhelm the Joy of Actually Reading Her Poemsby Rich SmithIt’s hard to think about Eileen Myles without being overwhelmed by her reputation as a badass. She lived on the Lower East Side in the 1970s, hung out in the Chelsea Hotel while working for Pulitzer Prize–winning poet James Schuyler, and has been a fixture of queer/underground/small press scenes ever since. She ran a write-in campaign for the presidency i
  
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• Bridge of Spies' Cold War Skullduggery

  14-10-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Bridge of Spies' Cold War Skullduggeryby Andrew WrightThe farther he moves away from temples of doom, altered suburbs, and shooting stars, the easier it is to somehow underestimate Steven Spielberg. (Yes, yes, Crystal Skull, I know.) Even at his most earthbound, though, the filmmaker's basic chops still reside somewhere in the realm of the freakily supernatural. When he's cooking, there's nobody else who can do quite what he does.Bridge of Spies, Spielberg's first film since 2012's Lincoln, is a
  
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• Seahawks flag in secure hands

  14-10-2015 06:36
  
  At ceremonies at the Coast Guard 13th District headquarters in Seattle, the Seahawks 12th flag was displayed after being in the Coast Guard’s possession for the past year.
  
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• Small earthquake near Gold Bar in Snohomish County on Tuesday evening

  14-10-2015 06:28
  
  An earthquake with a magnitude at 2.9 sent a tremor near the Gold Bar area in Snohomish County Tuesday evening, according to initial estimates at the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network. The light quake, recorded at 8:07 p.m., happened at a depth of a little more than 1.3 miles below the earth’s surface, according to the network. […]
  
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• Small earthquake near Gold Bar in Snohomish County

  14-10-2015 06:28
  
  An earthquake with a magnitude at 2.9 sent a tremor near the Gold Bar area in Snohomish County Tuesday evening, according to initial estimates at the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network. The light quake, recorded at 8:07 p.m., happened at a depth of a little more than 1.3 miles below the earth’s surface, according to the network. […]
  
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• We Saw You Puking on Rainier, Bragging Outside Kremwerk, and Day Drinking in Ballard

  14-10-2015 06:13 via thestranger.com
  
  We Saw You Puking on Rainier, Bragging Outside Kremwerk, and Day Drinking in Ballardby Stranger StaffMAN-CHILD DOTH PROTEST TOO MUCH OUTSIDE KREMWERKThat was not a giant rat speeding around the street outside of Kremwerk on a Saturday night but actually a remote controlled Traxxas Rally Car. You said that it cost you $500, that it went from 0 to 60 in two seconds, that you had like five or six of them, and that you couldn't say anymore because you had to go home and fuck your girlfriend. Then yo
  
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• The Real Late-Night Food Scene in Seattle—and Its Challenges

  14-10-2015 06:13 via thestranger.com
  
  Beyond Dick's: Seattle's Late-Night Dining Optionsby Naomi TomkyA rock band sits at the bar as three guys—one wearing a fur coat and no shirt—are kicked out. Then the assistant chief of the Seattle Police Department and his son walk in for breakfast. According to Dave Meinert, this is the type of crowd that comes into his 5 Point Cafe (415 Cedar St), one of Seattle's few 24-hour restaurants.While people may complain about the lack of late-night food options in Seattle, the reality is
  
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• Danny Boyle and Aaron Sorkin's Steve Jobs Never Shuts Up and Becomes a Real Movie

  14-10-2015 06:13 via thestranger.com
  
  Danny Boyle and Aaron Sorkin's Steve Jobs Never Shuts Up and Becomes a Real MovieRelatedby Charles MudedeDanny Boyle's Steve Jobs is much more like a play than a movie. And this, above all, is why it is disappointing. It's so easy to see that the screen has been limited to the conventions of a stage, with claustrophobic results. You keep wanting the camera to do more, to break out of its theatrical confines, but it almost never does. As a consequence, Steve Jobs has no cinematic moments, no movi
  
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• Why Do Bands Break Up?

  14-10-2015 06:13 via thestranger.com
  
  Seven Now-Defunct Seattle Groups Share Stories of Money, Ego, Bad Luck, and Audience IndifferenceRelated Event: Related Location: FunhouseRelated Content: "What Makes a Great Band Break Up Before Most People Hear Them: Universe People Explain Why They're Quitting Finishing | "Whatever Happened to Seattle Space Rockers Jetman Jet Team"by Dave SegalBands are fragile, fraught things. They're like families, except even more combustible, because art is involved. So many things can go wrong in a band:
  
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• The Stranger's Endorsements for the November 2015 General Election! Plus Cheat Sheet!

  14-10-2015 06:13 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's Endorsements for the November 2015 General Election!by The Stranger Election Control BoardWhat the fuck is a pangolin?Of all the questions the Stranger Election Control Board has had to ask itself over these many years—questions like "Is 1:30 p.m. too early to have a drink if you're already stoned?" and "Why does The Stranger conference room have carpet on the walls?" and the perennial "What went so wrong with these people's lives that they want to run for school board?"&mda
  
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• The Making of Cafe Barjot's Matsutake Mushroom with Madrona-Bark Cream and Nettle Seeds

  14-10-2015 06:13 via thestranger.com
  
  The Making of Cafe Barjot's Matsutake Mushroom with Madrona Bark Cream and Nettle Seedsby Angela GarbesLong before the matsutake mushroom, madrona-bark cream, and nettle-seed dish made it onto Cafe Barjot's menu in early September, it had been taking shape within chef Nick Coffey's mind for weeks. Coffey had just gotten the first harvests of wild matsutakes when he took a trip to Orcas Island."I'd gone to Orcas to get away, but the matsutakes had just come in, so I was thinking about them. All t
  
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• The Forbidden Room Is Like Guy Maddin’s Greatest Hits

  14-10-2015 06:13 via thestranger.com
  
  The Forbidden Room Is Like Guy Maddin’s Greatest HitsRelatedby Kathy FennessyGuy Maddin's The Forbidden Room plays like a super cut of films from different countries, genres, and eras (but mostly the late 1920s and early 1930s). Using title cards, on-screen text in varying fonts, German Expressionist lighting, Soviet-style montage, and artificially aged digital imagery, he constructs a labyrinthine narrative that doubles as a sort of miniature film festival.Maddin begins and ends the proce
  
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• The Birth of the Weed Sommelier

  14-10-2015 06:13 via thestranger.com
  
  The Birth of the Weed Sommelierby Tobias Coughlin-BogueOrganoleptic evaluation is one of the oldest and simplest methods of food assessment. When you sniff beef to see if it's a little iffy, flip a package of raspberries to check for mold, or take a sip of wine to pick out distinct flavors of dried cherry and leather, that's organoleptic analysis. It is, in essence, the use of human senses to assess a substance.And now it's being used to assess marijuana.Organoleptic analysis of weed is still in
  
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• Mapping Seattle's Diverse Culinary Scene

  14-10-2015 06:13 via thestranger.com
  
  The Foodways Project Calls Attention to the Lack of Media Coverage of Seattle Restaurants Owned by People of Colorby Angela GarbesAnyone who follows Seattle food coverage is well aware of the many dining maps published by sites such as Eater Seattle, a food news site that's part of a national media group that runs similar websites in 24 cities across the United States. The guides include the Eater Heatmap, a collection of 12 of the "buzziest" new restaurants in Seattle; Eater 38, which Eater cal
  
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• Clyde Petersen's Florida Is a Show-er and a Grower

  14-10-2015 06:13 via thestranger.com
  
  Clyde Petersen's Florida Is a Show-er and a Growerby Jen GravesClyde Petersen's map of Florida is like one of those jokey refrigerator magnets for tourists, with each region represented by a hand drawing. Rendered in the multicolor splendor of Sharpies, there's a swamp, and a zoo, and Disney's pointy blue and pink castle, and a boiled-peanut shack, and a fuchsia-beaked, plum-feathered bird with spread wings. At Daytona, there's a car on fire, god bless, and on the beach where the spring breakers
  
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• Over 3,300 drivers charged double on I-405 toll lanes

  14-10-2015 05:57
  
  Officials say a system error caused several thousand drivers to be charged twice for trips in the express toll lanes on Interstate 405.
  
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