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• Seattle Times Opinion Piece Responds to the Stranger's Criticism of Flawed Sex Work Research

  30-03-2016 23:39 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneThe Seattle Times continues to ignore that the sex work policies they've chosen to endorse will affect a range of people in different situations. Alex Garland
  According to the Seattle Times Editorial Board, the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office should continue its "end demand" crackdown on the sex trade. Under this recent strategy, prosecutors are primarily going after sex buyers—sex workers' clients—in the hope that this will reduce demand for commercial
  
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• Welcome the Birth of Seattle Label Killroom Records

  30-03-2016 23:27 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave SegalKillroom's debut release offers a surfeit of surf-garage-rock pleasure. Artwork: Alex de Meyer
  Despite an economy that’s partially recovered from the disastrous George W. Bush era, it’s still a risky venture to start a record label in 2016. (Actually, it’s ever been thus, but in this time of streaming, the gradual, agonizing death of the CD, and a pervasive aversion toward physical media, it does seem like a foolhardy business decision.) Nevertheless, Ben Jenkins (
  
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• Keep Tacoma In Your Thoughts and Prayers

  30-03-2016 23:12 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  Your friends in Seattle are thinking of you, Tacoma. We know you'll get through this. #TacomaStrong[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• My Philosophy: Imperfection and Determined Improvement Were the Keys to Phife Dawg's Greatness

  30-03-2016 23:01 via thestranger.com
  
  by Larry Mizell Jr.Malik "Phife Dawg" Taylor.
  "Yo—microphone check, one-two, what is this..."
  Not many rap verses have ever started better. What else is there to say: RIP to Malik "Phife Dawg" Taylor from A Tribe Called Quest. Tribe was a lot of people's first rap group and a lot of people's Greatest Rap Group of All Time, and Phife was every bit as essential to their immeasurable impact on hiphop—I don't have the words to calculate Tribe's cultural footprint, and it's huge enough th
  
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• Jupiter Hit Hard By an Object

  30-03-2016 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeTo have life on a habitable planet, you need a Jupiter. NASA
  One must add to the list of things that made life on Earth possible the planet of Jupiter itself. Its size helps keep life alive. How? By regularly getting slammed by all manner of objects. The massive gravity of Jupiter, which is 318 times more powerful than our one and only planet, draws asteroids and comets to it. As a consequence, it does a lot of sweeping; it keeps the core of the solar system pretty clean. It she
  
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• Police Go on Fishing Expedition, Search the Home of Seattle Privacy Activists Who Maintain Tor Network

  30-03-2016 21:56 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ansel HerzThe activists run a node that maintains the Tor network, which allows users to browse the web anonymously. g0d4ather / Shutterstock.com
  Seattle police descended on the Queen Anne condo of two outspoken privacy activists with a search warrant early this morning, leaving them shaken and upset.
  Jan Bultmann and David Robinson, a married couple and co-founders of the Seattle Privacy Coalition, said they were awakened at 6:15 a.m. by a team of six detectives from the SPD knocking on the
  
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• Person of Interest: Porter Ray, Seattle MC, Book Lover

  30-03-2016 21:47 via thestranger.com
  
  by Kelly OPorter Ray, photographed at the edge of Lake Washington. KELLY O
  The 28-year-old Central District native signed to Sub Pop Records in 2014, after his first three self-released albums—BLK GLD, WHT GLD, and RSE GLD—caught the ear of Ishmael Butler, founder of Shabazz Palaces and member of Sub Pop's A&R team. Ray's newest release, Nightfall, includes a song called "Outside Looking In," a track about the Central District that features Ca$htro and JusMoni.
  "It's the most vul
  
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• Uber gets OK to fetch passengers at airport starting Thursday

  30-03-2016 20:41
  
  Uber has agreed to terms with the Port of Seattle and will begin picking up Sea-Tac Airport passengers on Thursday.
  
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• Finalist named in search for WWU president

  30-03-2016 20:38
  
  OSU Provost Sabah Randhawa has been named as the sole candidate for Western Washington University president.
  
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• Carbon-tax initiative goes to November ballot

  30-03-2016 20:33
  
  Washington lawmakers adjourned the special legislative session without taking action on Initiative 732, thus sending the statewide ballot measure to voters.
  
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• Monorail Deadender: Can We Build Light Rail Without Shitting On Elevated Transit?

  30-03-2016 20:31 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  Reading Heidi's terrific piece in today's paper about the plan (and the upcoming vote) on expanding light rail throughout the city and nearby suburbs, particularly reading about the huge price tag, reminded me of something King County Executive Dow Constantine said to Eli on Blabbermouth last week.
  Eli asked Dow if he was in favor of building a tunnel through downtown Seattle—yet another tunnel through downtown Seattle—for the Ballard to West Seattle line. While Bertha
  
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• Oregon funeral home sanctioned for mishandling remains

  30-03-2016 20:19
  
  A Klamath Falls funeral home can no longer offer funerary services after the state revoked its license for mishandling remains.
  
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• Photos: WSDOT works to clear North Cascades Highway

  30-03-2016 20:18
  
  State road crews hope to have state Route 20 over Washington Pass cleared by the first week of May.
  
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• Hillary Clinton Has Yet to Land the Coveted Susan Sarandon Endorsement

  30-03-2016 20:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Matt BaumeDammit, Janet. a katz / Shutterstock.com
  Hey, look, I get it. Sometimes it's hard to make up your mind about who to vote for, so you turn to people you trust for their guidance. And we all have different standards for deciding whom we should trust, so some of us turn to business leaders; some of us turn to environmentalists; some of us turn to a friend who still gets a physical newspaper subscription; and some of us turn to Susan Sarandon.
  No shade! Susan's great. Really. Not only h
  
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• UW suing Seattle over control of historic campus buildings

  30-03-2016 20:12
  
  The fight over a building that housed a nuclear reactor on the UW campus raises the issue of just who decides which structures are landmarks. A lawsuit about the city’s Landmark Preservation Ordinance is scheduled to come before a Superior Court judge this week.
  
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• My Six Favorite Finds From Browsing Through Seattle's "Buy Nothing" Groups

  30-03-2016 19:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia Knauf buynothingproject.org
  There are a number of online groups dedicated to offering up goods, used and unused, to one's neighbors — the free section on Craigslist, Freecycle Seattle, and more. But to me, one of the most fascinating communities is the Buy Nothing Project, which encourages neighbors to give away belongings that are cluttering up their homes or simply share things they may have in excess. The Seattle division of the project lives in Facebook groups separated by
  
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• Did The New Foundation Seattle Just Go Up in Smoke?

  30-03-2016 19:42 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jen GravesThis house for culture is closing down at the end of May. This is an installation view of Martha Rosler's If You Lived Here..., part of what was going to be a yearlong, three-part exhibition anchoring the citywide project spearheaded by The New Foundation, Housing Is a Human Right. Courtesy of The New Foundation Seattle
  In a surprise email this morning—even to staff members—The New Foundation Seattle announced through a New York PR company that it is laying off its staff
  
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• Study: Antarctic ice may melt faster than expected

  30-03-2016 19:09
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Warmer air, less frigid water and gravity may combine to make parts of Antarctica’s western ice sheet melt far faster than scientists had thought, raising sea levels much more than expected by the end of the century, according to a new study. New physics-based computer simulations forecast dramatic increases in melting in […]
  
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• Science News: Old Orangutan Dies, Oklahoma’s Big One Bigger Than Seattle’s Because of Fracking

  30-03-2016 19:04 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ethan LinckOklahoma may have to learn this lesson in the hardest way possible. andyparker72/shutterstock.com
  Seismic Activity Most Likely East of the Rockies in 2016: There are hopefully few Pacific Northwesterners who remain ignorant of the catastrophic implications of the Cascadian subduction zone, and its potential for a low-probability, high-consequence earthquake, recently brought to national attention in the New Yorker. You should by all means continue preparing for The Really Big One,
  
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• Study: Indonesia “hobbit” fossils older than first thought

  30-03-2016 19:02
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — It was a spectacular discovery: Fossil remains in an Indonesian cave revealed a recent relative of modern humans that stood about 3 feet tall. The creatures were quickly nicknamed “hobbits.” With evidence that they had survived to just 12,000 years ago, the hobbits appeared to have been the last of our […]
  
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• Harborview Doctor: Being Sick While Homeless Is "Ongoing Brutality"

  30-03-2016 18:08 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneOne of Bann's diabetic patients couldn't take his insulin because he couldn't keep needles in a secure place. City of Seattle
  Dr. Maralyssa Bann works the night shift at Harborview Medical Center, where she treats patients with general medical issues. On Tuesday, she published a piece in the Atlantic on what it means when her patients with chronic illnesses are homeless.In a clinician's economical language, Bann walks her readers through what happened when she tried to convin
  
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• Nisqually Tribe helps out 53 stranded Norwegian dogs after Iditarod race

  30-03-2016 18:07
  
  The traveling Alaskan huskies and their handlers got a helping hand from the Nisqually Tribe when they were stranded on their way home from Anchorage after competing in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
  
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• A New Era at Seattle University's Experimental Art Gallery

  30-03-2016 18:06 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jen GravesSeattle artist Kat Larson took up residence inside a glass box at the Hedreen Gallery in its first, experimental years. Now those years are over and a new era is starting. Courtesy of the Hedreen Gallery
  In the decade since it opened its doors in 2006, the Hedreen Gallery at Seattle University—prominently fronting 12th Avenue—has been a full-fledged laboratory. This has been a place where local artists go to experiment, discuss, perform, build, and witness their own and
  
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• Steven Powell wins appeal in sexual-deviancy treatment case

  30-03-2016 17:54
  
  Steven Powell was convicted of voyeurism for taking photos of neighbor girls using the bathroom. He argued that being forced to discuss his sexual history violated his constitutional right that protects him against self-incrimination.
  
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• Medical community is fighting a new germ: celebrities

  30-03-2016 17:49
  
  The Tribeca Film Festival pulled a documentary by a discredited former doctor whose research into the connection between vaccines and autism has been debunked. The episode is the latest instance of the medical community being forced to combat the influence of a celebrity promoting questionable science.
  
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• Here's the Plan for How We Dramatically Expand Light Rail Over the Next 30 Years

  30-03-2016 17:33 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverNew stations: If you build it, they will ride.The city threw itself a party on Saturday, March 19, the day Seattle's newest light rail stations opened.
  There were street fairs on the surface—at the new Capitol Hill and University of Washington light rail stations—and what felt like an amusement-park ride underground. Crowds stood anxiously in line on Capitol Hill, funneled down full escalators, and packed themselves into trains. Wide-eyed toddlers—kids who will
  
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• The Morning News: Lawmakers Pass Budget with More Mental Health Funding, Police Investigate Pioneer Square Shooting

  30-03-2016 17:17 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverThe Washington State Legislature: They finally did something. Jon Bilous/Shutterstock
  State Lawmakers Passed Their Budget Deal: News of a compromise first came Monday evening and legislators passed it yesterday. The good news: It includes about $13 million more for homelessness and $40 million for mental health. The bad news: It delays most of the work on education funding until next year.
  Police Are Investigating a Shooting in Pioneer Square: The Seattle Police Department says t
  
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• Police investigate Pioneer Square shooting; 1 dead

  30-03-2016 15:20
  
  Seattle police are investigating a double shooting in Pioneer Square early Wednesday.
  
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• Readers: Vote for your favorite question for round 2 of Education Lab IQ

  30-03-2016 15:03
  
  From 90 questions, we chose five for you to choose from -- and we'll answer the question that receives the most votes.
  
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• Deep South bracing for heavy rain, severe storms

  30-03-2016 14:41
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Strong storms could spawn some tornadoes as they dump heavy rain on several states across the South through Friday, forecasters predict. Nearly 9 million people in parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas are in an enhanced area of risk Wednesday, putting them in the bull’s eye for some of the […]
  
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• Dog comes home with surprise for family: Bag of marijuana

  30-03-2016 13:42
  
  LAUREL, Miss. (AP) — Officials say a family dog in Mississippi recently came home with more than a bone or toy to play fetch — the pup had a big bag of marijuana. The Jones County Sheriff’s Office says in a statement that narcotics deputies were sent to the home Saturday to investigate the unusual […]
  
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• Wim Wenders Got a Lot Right About the Future in Until the End of the World

  30-03-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  From Screen Addiction to Normal Clothes, Wim Wenders's Until the End of the World Got the Future Right in 1991by Charles MudedeThe bible of my childhood was the World Book Encyclopedia, 1976 edition. I read almost every entry in its 22 volumes. I was informed about the horrible things that happened in the past and all the wonderful things that would happen in the future. I returned again and again to the encyclopedia's space section, which was vivid and convincing. Accompanying its words were im
  
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• Very Old Christopher Plummer Goes After a Very Old Nazi in Remember

  30-03-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Very Old Christopher Plummer Goes After a Very Old Nazi in Rememberby Kathy FennessyAfter more than a decade of more misses than hits, Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan returns to the character­-driven intrigues of his early career. Instead of the young protagonists of Exotica and The Sweet Hereafter, he builds the Benjamin August–penned Remember around two Oscar-winning octogenarians. A perfectly cast Christopher Plummer plays Zev Guttman, a Holocaust survivor with memory loss who transf
  
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• The Sauce

  30-03-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger StaffIn this issue of The Sauce:
  In Defense of All These New Restaurantsby Charles MududeThe Whole Fried Catfish at Rainier Restaurant and BBQby Angela GarbesProfoundly Delicious Frites at Cafe Presseby Tobias Coughlin-Bogue
  The Dining Options at Amazon’s Campusby Angela Garbes10 New Restaurants You Should Tryby Angela Garbes[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• The 10 New Restaurants You Should Try Right Now

  30-03-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Ten New Restaurants You Should Try Right Nowby Angela Garbes1. Bar Noroeste{{ image: 1 }}What it is: A sleek taqueria that aims to answer the question "What if tacos originated in the Northwest?" Given Seattle's obsession with local ingredients, the question was probably inevitable.Where it is: 2051 Seventh Avenue, DowntownWhy you should try it: Guacamole made from eggplants, not avocados. Salsas made from beets. Venison crudo made with fermented almonds from Oregon. Whether chef Shannon Martinc
  
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• Socialite Sings Opera in Marguerite

  30-03-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Socialite Sings Opera in Margueriteby Megan BurbankMarguerite is a punch in the heart for an art critic, because it's about a talentless French socialite (Catherine Frot) who longs to be an opera singer but can't carry a tune. And yet! She's so charismatic—and so brimming with commendable, borderline pathological self-regard—that this imaginary person made me want to retract every real, deservedly bad review I've ever written. I'm sorry, Marguerites of the world. Your art is bad, but
  
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• Record Review: Tortoise Return with The Catastrophist, Serious Music for Serious Musicians

  30-03-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Record Review: Tortoise Return with The Catastrophist, Serious Music for Serious Musiciansby Dave SegalTORTOISEThe Catastrophist (Thrill Jockey)1/2
  Standard-bearers of the nebulous post-rock movement, Tortoise have had an unpredictable 25-year career trajectory, with standouts like Tortoise, Millions Now Living Will Never Die, and Beacons of Ancestorship thankfully outweighing mediocre efforts such as TNT and It's All Around You. (It should be noted that even at their blandest, Tortoise still so
  
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• Record Review: The Ghost of Bowie Haunts Iggy Pop's New Album, Post Pop Depression

  30-03-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Record Review: The Ghost of Bowie Haunts Iggy Pop's New Album, Post Pop Depressionby Joseph SchaferIGGY POPPost Pop Depression
  (Loma Vista)A morbid sensibility lies just under the easy rock surface of Post Pop Depression¸ the newest album by Iggy Pop. It's the first after the death of his friend and collaborator David Bowie, whose ghost seems to haunt the album, most conspicuously in the vocals. When Pop sings, "Death is the pill that's hard to swallow," the melancholy brushes up against t
  
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• Record Review: Tacocat Take the High Road to Simple Pleasures on Lost Time

  30-03-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Record Review: Tacocat Take the High Road to Simple Pleasures on Lost Timeby Sean NelsonTACOCAT
  Lost Time(Hardly Art)To paraphrase William Shakespeare, some bands are born pop-punk, some achieve pop-punkness, and some have pop-punkness thrust upon them. There's something about the form, consecrated between the poles of the original Nuggets compilation and the Buzzcocks Spiral Scratch EP, that makes it equally available to all young bands to pour themselves into, allowing individual expression to
  
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• Record Review: Primal Scream Return to Indie Rock on Chaosmosis

  30-03-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Record Review: Primal Scream Return to Indie Rock on Chaosmosisby Joseph SchaferPRIMAL SCREAM
  Chaosmosis (First International)Primal Scream play rock music, though you'd be forgiven for not thinking so. Their newest record, Chaosmosis, presents itself as a jubilant, if dated, blend of light pop and electronica. This shouldn't come as news. Originally British indie also-rans, Primal Scream didn't develop a strong identity until they discovered synthesizers and drum loops. It's hardly a unique app
  
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• No Food Means More to Me Than the Frites at Cafe Presse

  30-03-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  How the kitchen makes them, and why they matter to me.by Tobias Coughlin-BogueFrites are not usually a memorable dish. Although a restaurant's ability to fry slivered potatoes is a surprisingly dependable metric of its overall quality, the dishes that leave the deepest imprint on a diner's mind are usually bigger and bolder. But the frites at Cafe Presse are, for me, an all-time favorite, in part because they are associated with certain memories, but also because they are stupefyingly delicious.
  
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• Music Is Resistance in They Will Have to Kill Us First

  30-03-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Music Is Resistance in They Will Have to Kill Us Firstby Ciara Dolan"If you ban people's music in Mali or in the whole world... it's like cutting people's oxygen off. Because music is like oxygen for human beings," says musician Khaira Arby in They Will Have to Kill Us First. Extremists took control of Northern Mali in 2012, imposing sharia law and strictly prohibiting all forms of music. Since playing music was punishable by death, most musicians moved south to refugee camps in the West African
  
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• I Saw the Light Is Country for Dummies

  30-03-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  I Saw the Light Is Country for Dummiesby Morgan Troper"Folk music, hillbilly—it's sincere," Hank Williams (Tom Hiddleston) tells an inquisitive New York reporter about halfway through I Saw the Light, in what's intended to be the film's pivotal mic drop moment.Unfortunately, the same can't be said for I Saw the Light, a movie marred by dull performances and overwrought dialogue. As one of the most important and influential American songwriters of the 20th century, Williams is ripe for the
  
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• How Creative Capital Replaced the NEA and Taught Artists to Be Ambitious

  30-03-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  How Arts Funding Organization Creative Capital Replaced the NEA and Taught Artists How to Be Ambitiousby Jen GravesLast week, in an attempt to contact the Bellingham artist Christian Vargas about winning a 2016 Creative Capital Award, I googled him, left a congratulatory voice mail, and shortly got a phone call back."I'm not the right Christian Vargas," said this Christian Vargas. "I wish I was!... That award—it's life-changing, from what I hear."This Vargas #2 happens to also be an artist
  
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• Going Back to the ’80s with Jeff Nichols's Midnight Special

  30-03-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Going Back to the ’80s with Jeff Nichols's Midnight Specialby Andrew WrightJeff Nichols is in the zone. With just a handful of films, the Little Rock, Arkansas, native has crafted his own busy little pocket of Southern Gothic, spilling over with feuding families (2007's Shotgun Stories), ordinary people touched with terrible prophecy (2011's Take Shelter), and the painful limits of self-aware mythologizing (2012's Mud). Whatever the subject, the writer/director's movies are all marked by u
  
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• Beautiful Sentences Can't Save Lesley Hazleton's Agnostic from Its Moral and Logical Flaws

  30-03-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Even Beautiful Sentences Can't Save Lesley Hazleton's Agnostic from Its Moral and Logical Flawsby Rich SmithI love Lesley Hazleton's sentences.Their slow and steady cadences comfort me, and they reflect the extremely balanced-seeming mind that creates them. Take this one, for instance: "Blessedly unencumbered by either the need to believe or the need to explain everything, the agnostic is free to experience awe without seeking to define it—to explore and interact with the world in ways tha
  
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• We Saw You Bring a Goat to Bernie's Rally, Caucus for Sanders on a Chair, and Choose Clinton While Wearing a Pantsuit

  30-03-2016 08:44 via thestranger.com
  
  We Saw You Bring a Goat to Bernie's Rally, Caucus for Sanders on a Chair, and Choose Clinton While Wearing a Pantsuitby Stranger StaffA FUTURE YOU CAN BLEAT IN?As the unimaginably long line snaked through block after block after block south of Pioneer Square on the day of the big Bernie Sanders rally at Safeco Field, the day before the Washington State Democratic caucuses, a few jokes came to mind (this'll be nothing compared to the bread lines when President Sanders takes office—that sort
  
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• The Time My Family Ordered a Whole Fried Catfish at Rainier Restaurant and BBQ

  30-03-2016 08:44 via thestranger.com
  
  The Time My Family Ordered a Whole Fried Catfish at Rainier Restaurant and BBQby Angela GarbesI come from a family of chronic over orderers. If you've ever been to a Filipino family party, or just a Tuesday night dinner at a Filipino household, you understand. My husband likes to tell the story of the first time he went to dinner at my parents' house. There were four of us, and my mom and dad served a dinner of salad, pancit, baked salmon, and white rice. Oh, and two racks of smoked pork ribs.At
  
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• Talking Dirty with the Seattle Kinksters Who Are Making Taboo Topics Trendy

  30-03-2016 08:44 via thestranger.com
  
  Talking Dirty with the Seattle Kinksters Who Are Making Taboo Topics Trendyby Matt BaumeMichael and I sat in the kitchen of a suburban split-level home, eating tacos and making small talk about the weather, his drive over from Spokane, and how he was about to be stripped naked and tied to a torture device in the basement."It's my first exposure to the scene," he said as men in collars and cuffs scampered around us. In a few minutes, they'd be stuffing Michael's face into a sensory deprivation ho
  
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• I'm Sick of People Complaining About All These New Restaurants

  30-03-2016 08:44 via thestranger.com
  
  I'm Sick of People Complaining About All These New Restaurantsby Charles MudedeWhile we are in the midst of what has to be the longest construction boom in the city's history (it seems to have no end in sight), it's worth stopping for a moment to think about what a city is. A city is built by humans, obviously. But it does not end with that. A city is not a passive thing or some neutral machine for living. It acts on us and it changes our manners, modes of thinking, and behavior. Our built envir
  
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