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• The Best Art Shows in Seattle This Summer

  08-06-2016 23:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Picks from Seattle Art and Performanceby Julia RabanMuseums
  Asian Art MuseumMood Indigo: Textiles From Around the World (Through Oct 9): This show is 89 pieces of cloth in every possible shade of blue from every time and every place. Given our excessively connected and visually saturated global existence, who wouldn't want Mood Indigo's calming, transhistorical promise of blue immersion and also the possibility of infinite information that it makes available? Mood Indigo is both a diversion from
  
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• Bear takes a dip as it roams foothill suburb of Los Angeles

  08-06-2016 23:44
  
  LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities are keeping an eye on a bear taking advantage of the suburban amenities in the foothills northeast of Los Angeles. The bear was spotted wandering among homes in La Canada Flintridge on Wednesday morning, and at one point, the critter took a dip in a backyard pool. Los […]
  
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• Tomorrow is Capitol Hill Art Walk: Queer Edition

  08-06-2016 23:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do Staff
  Capitol Hill Art Walk is tomorrow, which means it's once again time to fill the streets with tipsy art lovers. June is the queer edition of the monthly art walk (timed perfectly for Pride Month), and, to help guide you through the gayborhood, you can find a map of the art shows and events you shouldn't miss on our Things To Do calendar, including Grant Rehnberg's intergenerational exploration of queerness, The Family Connection, and Welcome to the Taradome, a compl
  
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• Science News: Studying How a Dog Shakes Water from Its Body Is Important to Science but Wasteful to GOP Senator, Orcas Got Culture

  08-06-2016 22:59 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ethan LinckScientific American: "Clothes dryers take 40 minutes and much of our daily household energy budget. But a wet dog can shake off 90 percent of water in a fraction of a second."Liubov Silanteva/shutterstock.com
  Confessions of a Wasteful Scientist: A reliable feature of American political theater is the spectacle of the cost-cutting senator bravely holding up the laughable excesses of science to the public eye. $165,000 for maple syrup research? Ridiculous. $246,000 to study bovine tu
  
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• Science News: Studying How a Dog Shakes Water from Its Body Is Important to Science but Wasteful to GOP Senator

  08-06-2016 22:59 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ethan LinckScientific American: "Clothes dryers take 40 minutes and much of our daily household energy budget. But a wet dog can shake off 90 percent of water in a fraction of a second."Liubov Silanteva/shutterstock.com
  Confessions of a Wasteful Scientist: A reliable feature of American political theater is the spectacle of the cost-cutting senator bravely holding up the laughable excesses of science to the public eye. $165,000 for maple syrup research? Ridiculous. $246,000 to study bovine tu
  
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• Highway 18 closes after wrong-way collision of semitrucks

  08-06-2016 22:12
  
  A portion of Highway 18 near Hobart could be closed for several hours after a crash involving two semitrucks.
  
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• Danni Askini Endorses Nicole Macri in Race for State House

  08-06-2016 22:01 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverNicole Macri is currently deputy director of the Downtown Emergency Services Center. courtesy of nicole macri
  Housing advocate Nicole Macri has picked up a notable endorsement in her race for the 43rd District: her former opponent, Danni Askini.Askini, a trans rights activist and head of the Gender Justice League, was a frontrunner in the race until she dropped out last month to focus on defeating the anti-trans Initiative 1515."We need a bold progressive leader in Olympia—
  
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• Suspect in deadly crash near Issaquah to be released from custody

  08-06-2016 21:47
  
  The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office says a suspect in Tuesday’s collision, which resulted in the death of a Maple Valley man, will be released from custody pending the results of a toxicology exam.
  
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• The Best Theater, Dance, and Comedy Events in Seattle This Summer

  08-06-2016 21:36 via thestranger.com
  
  Picks from Seattle Art and Performanceby Rich SmithTheater
  12th Avenue Arts9 Circles (Through June 25): Strawberry Theatre Workshop presents 9 Circles, a play by Bill Cain and directed by Greg Carter that likens the civilian trial of Steven Dale Green to the descent through Dante's nine circles of hell.
  ACT TheatreThe Mystery of Love & Sex (Through June 26): A story of two parallel relationships happening across generations. Charlotte's relationship with her childhood best friend Johnny may
  
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• SL Letter of the Day: Cyber-Cheating

  08-06-2016 21:35 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageOriginally posted on July 23, 2014.
  I am a gay man and have been in a relationship with my GGG boyfriend for more than three years. We are in our early 20s and have a good sex life. I just discovered that he has been engaging in what can only be described as cyber infidelity. He had a secret e-mail account, posted on Craigslist M4M, and also had an Adam4Adam account. About once a week, while I was at work in the evenings, he would exchange photos and engage in conversations with oth
  
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• Inaugural Multimedia TUFFEST Spotlights Female/Non-Binary/Trans Artists at Judkins Park July 9

  08-06-2016 21:13 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave Segal
  The first annual TUFFEST—which happens July 9 at Judkins Park—will present musical performances, visual art, and educational workshops that showcase and champion female, non-binary, and trans members of the electronic-music community. Organized by the Seattle collective TUF and funded by the Office of Arts & Culture Seattle, the event will feature live sets by Bolivian-born, Virginia-based abstract beat scientist Elysia Crampton, left-field Seattle hiphop producer/M
  
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• The Old Hugo House Building Is Being Eaten Alive (Video)

  08-06-2016 20:52 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithFrances McCue, co-founder of Hugo House, said the demolition feels like a collaboration. She's filming the building's tear-down for a documentary about her time in the house called Where the House Was. Tracey Cataldo
  As Christopher Frizzelle pointed out earlier on Slog, giant Tonka monsters are scraping, head-butting, gnawing, and chomping at the old Hugo House building right now. But for some reason—maybe he was running late for something, maybe he was distracted, or maybe he
  
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• The Best Readings & Talks in Seattle This Summer

  08-06-2016 20:48 via thestranger.com
  
  Picks from Seattle Art and Performanceby Rich SmithJune 8Yaa GyasiYaa Gyasi will read from her epic novel Homegoing, which tells the story of families in Ghana and "The New World" linked across 300 years of time, about which Ta-Nehisi Coates said, "I think I needed to remember what happens when you pair a gifted literary mind to an epic task. Homegoing is an inspiration."Elliott Bay Book Company
  June 9Poetry Northwest Spring CelebrationA celebration of the spring issue of Poetry Northwest, featu
  
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• Hillary vs. Bernie: Comparisons to Hillary vs. Barack in 2008

  08-06-2016 20:42
  
  The game of second guessing in the long-running, now resolved Hillary Clinton-Bernie Sanders Democratic nomination battle boils down to a simple fact:Sanders lost because he didn't get enough votes.
  
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• Everett student arrested for threatening classmate on Snapchat

  08-06-2016 20:16
  
  The Cascade High School student is accused of threatening a fellow student on social media.
  
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• 5 tips to keep you safe on early season hikes

  08-06-2016 20:14
  
  Hiking accidents are common this time of year, when conditions can be hard to predict.
  
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• Oil removed from train that derailed in Columbia River town

  08-06-2016 20:11
  
  Crews have removed the last of the crude oil from a train that derailed Friday in the tiny Columbia River Gorge town of Mosier.
  
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• Attend these community drills to prepare for chaos after a megaquake

  08-06-2016 20:02
  
  The biggest earthquake and tsunami drill in Northwest history is under way this week — and you can be part of it on Saturday.
  
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• Ijeoma Oluo on "Trickle-Down Progressivism"

  08-06-2016 19:24 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ansel HerzThere was plenty of liberal lamenting when this happened last year. Alex Garland
  Writing for The Establishment:
  As this election progresses, I hear with increasing frequency this lament of liberal elites: The left will eat itself. Cries of concern are usually focused on people like me, people who are marginalized: the loud and disenfranchised, the uncompromising and unforgiving, the brown, the queer, the poor, the disabled. We are never satisfied. We sacrifice the greater good for o
  
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• Cultural sensitivities obstacle at UN AIDS conference

  08-06-2016 19:18
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — No one at the high-level United Nations conference devoted to ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030 denies serious scientific and financial challenges remain, but cultural sensitivities may prove the toughest obstacle on the way to achieving that goal. A number of gay and transgender groups were excluded from attending the three-day-long […]
  
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• After ‘big bite’ from shark, water went red, victim recalls

  08-06-2016 19:14
  
  Shark bites are incredibly rare. But the waters off California have more great white sharks because of protections for the predators, and the human population also has grown.
  
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• Giant Machines Are Chewing Up Hugo House Right Now

  08-06-2016 19:05 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher FrizzelleAs seen a few minutes ago. Christopher Frizzelle
  As Rich Smith explains over here, the literary nonprofit's new home is on First Hill, temporarily. After the block above gets redeveloped, they'll be back.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• New fossils push ‘hobbit’ story back to 700,000 years ago

  08-06-2016 19:02
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists say new fossil finds on an Indonesian island have revealed ancestors of the “hobbits,” our extinct, 3 ½ -foot-tall evolutionary cousins that gained fame more than a decade ago after their remains were found in a cave there. The fossils are about 700,000 years old, extending the hobbit story far […]
  
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• You Have Permission to Feel Good About Politics for a Day (But Just a Day)

  08-06-2016 18:54 via thestranger.com
  
  by Matt BaumeFirst. Evan El-Amin / Shutterstock.com
  Hey, neato — Americans have decided that a woman should be the nominee of a major political party! It only took 94 years since women were allowed to vote, but hey, better late than never.
  For those of us who are cynical/terrified of this country's politics, Hillary's win is a drop of optimism. Don't ignore that feeling, and don't go scrambling for hot takes just yet — just take today, breathe, and bask the sight of a woman as presid
  
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• One of Muhammad Ali's Most Curious Pronouncements

  08-06-2016 18:53 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeA humble church in South Seattle... Charles Mudede
  In the second of Muhammad Ali's four appearances on Michael Parkinson's BBC chatshow (1971, 1974, 1975, 1981), something really strange happens. This strange thing is found in one of Ali's many statements about his religion and his God. This particular statement is striking because of the way it shows the other Ali, the Ali behind the Ali, the thinker outside of and looking into the believer, the objective mind dislocated from t
  
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• Woman Who Defended Brock Turner's Character in Trial Clarifies/Backpedals After Her Band is Shunned

  08-06-2016 18:51 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean NelsonGood English: Well and truly fucked
  The Brock Turner rape sentence fiasco has revealed, or confirmed, a depth of repugnance uncommon even in typical rape cases. I know I don't need to go back over the offense, the leniency of the punishment, the contemptible antimorality of the statements made by the judge and the father, or the harrowingly frank, frankly heroic letter that was written and read aloud in court by the woman who was forced to endure the whole disgusting tribulation. B
  
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• Man used 11-year-old daughter as a shield to flee from police

  08-06-2016 18:50
  
  Police say a Yakima County man used his daughter as a shield to flee from officers who confronted him at a home.
  
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• Female Ejaculate: Urine or Something Similar to Male Ejaculate?

  08-06-2016 18:37 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageYes.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Uber Will Stop Operating in Bremerton

  08-06-2016 18:20 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufThe ride-hailing service is bidding the city of Bremerton adieu. PRATHAN CHORRUANGSAK/SHUTTERSTOCK
  When the city of Bremerton began requiring Uber drivers, who are independent contractors, to obtain a $75/year business license, the app-based ride-sharing company decided to pull the plug.Now, Bremerton officials, who do not see the business license costs as burdensome, are left wondering whythe multi-billion dollar company would decide to leave.From the Kitsap Sun:
  "Regulations
  
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• The Best Festivals in Seattle This Summer

  08-06-2016 17:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffThrough Sept 1Marymoor Park Summer Concert SeriesMarymoor Park is at it again with their summer concert series, one of the best (read: only) reasons to visit Redmond. June through August this year, pack your blankets and head out into a sonic woodland experience. Artists like Flight of the Conchords, Weezer, and Salt-N-Pepa will carry the torch all summer long.Marymoor Park
  Through Sept 16Chateau Ste. Michelle Summer Concert SeriesEvery year, Chateau Ste. Michelle l
  
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• The Best Classical Concerts in Seattle This Summer

  08-06-2016 17:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffJune 11Seattle Modern Orchestra: Discrete InfinitySeattle Modern Orchestra, in its season finale, hosts composer Anthony Cheung in residency for the US premiere of his 2011 piece, Discrete Infinity, which borrows its name from Chomsky's The Architecture of Language. Themes explored within the piece include the dichotomy of infinite possibilities of expression with a finite material-like language.Chapel Performance Space
  June 18Samuel A. Crome and Greg KelleyUndergro
  
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• The Best Jazz Concerts in Seattle This Summer

  08-06-2016 17:38 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffJune 7–8The Bad PlusThe one thing I can say about Bad Plus, a technically sophisticated but open-minded jazz trio (piano, bass, drums) from Minneapolis, is that their rendition of Tears for Fears's new-wave classic "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" proves that great musicians are defined not so much by their ability to play difficult music in a canon but to raise simple music, pop tunes, to the level of a high and difficult art. CMJazz Alley
  June 9–12A
  
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• The Most Highly Paid CEO in America Lives in Washington, a State with No Income Tax

  08-06-2016 17:33 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneExpedia headquarters will move from the Eastside to a new home on the Seattle waterfront in 2018. Yan Balczewski/Shutterstock
  I’m late to this news from Equilar and the Associated Press, but it’s still news worth sharing: Last year, the highest paid CEO in America came from the state of Washington.Dara Khosrowshahi, the CEO of Expedia, made $94.6 million in 2015, nearly $40 more than the person in second place on Equilar’s list of highest paid CEO by state.
  
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• What Hillary Clinton's Win Brings into Focus

  08-06-2016 17:29 via thestranger.com
  
  by Eli SandersBye-bye, Bernie. ISTOCK
  Well, this is weird. But hey, it's a weird election year. Due to a deadline that didn't cooperate with this week's big political news, I'm writing to you from the day before the Democratic contests in California, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, and South Dakota. By the time you read this, the voting will be over in those states and Hillary Clinton will have the delegates needed to become the first woman to win the presidential nomination of an
  
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• Malaria-proof mosquito? Tool promising but needs more study

  08-06-2016 16:43
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A powerful new technology holds the promise of rapidly altering genes to make malaria-proof mosquitoes, eliminate their Zika-carrying cousins or wipe out an invasive species. It’s like hijacking evolution, a way to spread genetic change through insects, animals or plants faster than nature can, but a report Wednesday says these “gene drives” […]
  
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• Periodic table elements named for Moscow, Japan, Tennessee

  08-06-2016 16:27
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — You’ll soon see four new names on the periodic table of the elements, including three that honor Moscow, Japan and Tennessee. The names are among four recommended Wednesday by an international scientific group. The fourth is named for a Russian scientist. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, which rules […]
  
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• Names for chemical elements honor Moscow, Japan, Tennessee

  08-06-2016 16:27
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Three recently discovered chemical elements will be named after Moscow, Japan and Tennessee under a recommendation by an international scientific group. A fourth name honors a Russian scientist. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, which rules on element names, presented its recommendations on four elements Wednesday for public review. […]
  
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• The Morning News: Hillary Clinton Celebrates "Milestone," Claims Democratic Nomination

  08-06-2016 15:51 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverShe's the first woman to ever become the presumptive nominee of a major American political party. jctabb/Shutterstock
  Hillary Clinton Declared Victory: She won New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota, and California last night, becoming the first woman to ever be the presumptive nominee of a major American political party. "Thanks to you, we reached a milestone," Clinton told supporters. "Tonight's victory is not about one person. It belongs to generations of women and men who strug
  
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• Highline schools set ambitious graduation goal for next year

  08-06-2016 15:15
  
  An initiative called Graduate! Highline aims to increase Highline’s graduation rate to 95 percent next year.
  
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• Writing in stolen moments: City’s new Youth Poet Laureate has no home

  08-06-2016 15:00
  
  Without knowing much about Angel Gardner’s traumatic life, judges chose her to represent the city for the next year, citing the power of her verse.
  
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• Seattle’s new Youth Poet Laureate has no home — but she does have a book deal

  08-06-2016 15:00
  
  Without knowing much about Angel Gardner’s traumatic life, judges chose her to represent the city for the next year, citing the power of her verse.
  
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• Young musicians nurtured by free after-school program

  08-06-2016 14:00
  
  Seattle Music Partners, which provides free music lessons to elementary students, will host its year-end concert at Town Hall Seattle.
  
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• The Audition

  08-06-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Six Women Say This Seattle Man Posed as a Female Porn Recruiter in Order to Lure Them to His Apartmentby Sydney BrownstoneFirst the women received a friend request. Then a message."heya!""ahoy!""oh hi!""hi hi hi!"They didn't know the person adding them on Facebook. According to her Facebook profile, she was "Deja Stwalley," and her photo showed a youngish blonde woman in a blue romper. Stwalley claimed she was a recruiter for indie porn studios."i was just scoping your picsthey're hot!""Sorry fo
  
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• Real World Isn't Coming Back to Seattle. It Never Left.

  08-06-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Real World Isn't Coming Back to Seattle. It Never Left.by Sean NelsonQUESTIONSQ: Is it true that Real World is coming to Seattle?A: It appears so. Though Bunim/Murray Productions has yet to officially confirm, I have an e-mail from a member of the art department soliciting crew members. They were seeking a shopper and an art department PA, and the pay is $150 per day with a guaranteed five weeks of work—not bad by Seattle independent film standards. The start date for both jobs was May 16.
  
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• State-by-state look at chronic absenteeism across America

  08-06-2016 10:24
  
  The Education Department reported Tuesday that 13 percent of students were absent 15 or more days during the 2013-2014 year. A look, using the department’s data, at the absentee rate in each of the states. States Percent Absentee AK 23 AL 12.5 AR 11.6 AZ 16.5 CA 11.9 CO 16.4 CT 14.6 DC 31.5 DE […]
  
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• Washington state is No. 2 in nation’s worst rates of chronic school absences, behind only Washington, D.C.

  08-06-2016 10:22
  
  WASHINGTON — The government is out with discouraging new figures on how many students are habitually missing school — and an AP analysis finds the problem is particularly acute in Washington, D.C., where nearly a third of students in the nation’s capital were absent 15 days or more in a single school year. Washington state […]
  
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• Watch Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's Primary Night Speeches

  08-06-2016 06:35 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher FrizzelleHillary is giving killer speeches these days—that one last week, and now this one:
  Meanwhile, in Opposite Land: [ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• We Saw You Stopping Traffic in Ballard, Talking About Chakras in Phinney, and Showing Off a Whale's Tooth

  08-06-2016 06:05 via thestranger.com
  
  We Saw You Stopping Traffic in Ballard, Talking About Chakras in Phinney, and Showing Off a Whale's Toothby Stranger StaffBLUE SKIES ABOVE BEACON HILLWe saw you, a very pretty and partly puffy cloud, hanging out in the blue skies above Beacon Hill. It was Saturday. It was getting hot. You did not move much and had almost the whole sky to yourself. We thought: This cloud must be the happiest thing in Seattle.DUCK CROSSING IN BALLARDLast Thursday evening at 5:30 p.m., you, a handsome duck with tan
  
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• The Things You Learn at Burlesque School

  08-06-2016 06:05 via thestranger.com
  
  You Learn More at Seattle's Academy of Burlesque Than the Art of Taking It All Off—Although You Learn That, Tooby Matt Baume"I am excited and terrified and everything at the same time," Gino said as he prepared to strip down to his underwear before strangers, friends, and his boss.A quiet nerd hiding a shy smile behind a scruffy beard, Gino recently moved from New Orleans to Seattle. He does data entry for a legal company by day, and by night, he's been a student in the Boylesque 101 class
  
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• The First Facet of the Many-Sided Diamond That Is the Intiman Theatre Festival

  08-06-2016 06:05 via thestranger.com
  
  A Review of Stick Fly, the First Facet of the Many-Sided Diamond That Is the Intiman Theatre Festivalby Rich SmithStick Fly is the first performance of the 2016 Intiman Theatre Festival, which focuses on the work of black American women playwrights. Valerie Curtis-Newton, winner of a Stranger Genius Award, teamed up with Intiman to curate the festival. Her selections showcase an array of aesthetics among new and established playwrights. They also highlight older plays that deserve more attention
  
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