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• From Stranger Things 2 to Ready Player One, Here Are All the Comic-Con Trailers You Missed

  24-07-2017 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Erik Henriksen Courtesy of Netflix
  A few years ago, San Diego's Comic-Con International was a comic book convention. How quaint! These days, it rivals the Super Bowl as an annual consumerism orgy where giant soulless multimedia corporations relentlessly sell movies, TV shows, and video games—and this past weekend was no exception. A few mew major trailers dropped at Comic-Con; fittingly, given the setting, a bunch of 'em lean hard on nostalgia, the fire that, for better or worse, keeps
  
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• Seattle City Council approves upzoning of 3 Central District intersections

  24-07-2017 23:07
  The Seattle City Council voted Monday to upzone three intersections along 23rd Avenue in the Central District.
  
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• Pussy Riot Is Kickstarting a New Play That Will Immerse Audiences in Their Prison Experience

  24-07-2017 23:05 via thestranger.com
  
  The punk agitators want to show people what it's like inside a Russian prison.by Amber Cortes"Anybody can be Pussy Riot, it's a movement rather than a band." - Nadya Tolokonnikova JONAS AKERLUN
  Pussy Riot is gearing up to subvert the powers that be once again - and this time, they're using theater as a tool for political awareness. The punk band made up of radical Russian rebels have started a Kickstarter to raise money for an immersive theater project that documents their arrest and subsequent
  
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• Connelly: 'Burn baby, burn' – Watchwords of Olympia's budget impasse?

  24-07-2017 22:57
  A burning question: Our Legislature's failure to pass a capital budget has deprived the state Department of Natural Resources of $15 million, money that was going to thin 15,000 acres of forest in fire prone areas.  Time to light a fire under the Legislature?
  
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• The 56 Best Things To Do In Seattle This Week: July 24-30, 2017

  24-07-2017 22:56 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's arts and culture critics' picks for July 24-30, 2017.by Stranger Things To Do StaffOur music critics have already chosen the 21 best concerts in Seattle this week, but now it's our arts and culture critics' turn to pick the best events in their areas of expertise. Here are their picks in every genre—from the Firestone Walker Beer Dinner to An Evening with Ken Burns, and from Write On! Ghosts of Seattle Past to Mystery Science Theater 3000 Live! See them all below, and find e
  
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• Game of Thrones Recap: Valyrian Grammar and a Boat Fight in “Stormborn”

  24-07-2017 22:47 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ned LannamannBOAT FIGHT!!! COURTESY OF HBO
  Last night’s episode of Game of Thrones suggested there’s not going to be much in the way of downtime this season. We’re only on Episode 2, and shit is already going down. I think “Stormborn” may be one of my favorite episodes of the series—as the sphere of the show tightens for its final act, characters’ paths start to intersect in a way that’s really, really satisfying. And things that were set up all
  
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• Some Are Cracking Under Pressure of Peak TV, Pop Culture References, and the Normalization of Obsessive Fandom

  24-07-2017 22:44 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageI don't care about game of thrones pic.twitter.com/uyWOuuym24
  — derek (@eedrk) July 24, 2017
  It's true: movies can't kill you. Score one for the mountains. In other news... the trailer for Stranger Things Season 2 is out...[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal's Town Hall in Dave Reichert's District Was a Really Good Idea

  24-07-2017 22:42 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithThere was so much congressional shade at this town hall I could hardly see.JOHN BOAL
  Because Republican Congressman Dave Reichert wouldn't hold a town hall in his own district, Democratic Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal stepped in and did the work for him.Though Jayapal represents Washington's 7th district, she said she accepted Indivisible WA-8's invitation to speak at a town hall in the 8th because she was concerned about the country as a whole, and because people in the 8th deserve
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Dating with Busty Baggage

  24-07-2017 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  I'm newly on the dating scene and I'm trying to understand the mind of a guy with an extreme fetish since that's what I am. I have natural size 38T boobs and the rest of my body is relatively regular looking (google Milena Velba for a visual). I completely bungled my first attempt at dating someone ridiculously into my particular body type, although I suspect the issue was more on his end since he kept talking about how I was his dream girl, I'm so rare, blah blah blah, and now he'
  
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• You Should Be Watching TBS Comedy Series People of Earth; Season Two Starts Tonight

  24-07-2017 22:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Leilani Polk Ian Watson / TBS
  One of my favorite underrated shows of last year was TBS original comedy series, People of Earth, which takes the idea of alien abductions to a whole new level of cleverly wry entertainment. The premise? Ozzie, a city savvy journalist played by Wyatt Cenac (who you may remember from his tenure as a correspondent and writer for The Daily Show from 2008 to 2012) visits a smallish town in New York called Beacon to do a piece investigating a support group of people w
  
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• SECB Primary Election Endorsement for Mayor: Cary Moon

  24-07-2017 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Election Control BoardCary Moon Nate Gowdy
  Check out The Stranger's full list of endorsements for the August 1, 2017, Primary Election here.
  If you told us four months ago that six different candidates would have a shot at becoming Seattle's next mayor, we would have laughed in your face. Sure, Ed Murray was going to take some shit for his homeless-camp sweeps, capitulation to developers, and stubborn centrism. But no serious candidate was going to challenge a popular incumbent ridin
  
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• Seattle Times columnist Jerry Large wins awards for reporting on poverty, political psychology

  24-07-2017 21:59
  The nonprofit, anti-poverty group RESULTS and the International Society of Political Psychology each recently recognized his work.
  
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• Police recover body from Lake Union

  24-07-2017 21:44
  Seattle harbor officers recovered the body of a 36-year-old man from Lake Union Monday after he was reported missing from a boat Sunday morning.
  
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• Seattle Food News: Agua Verde Burns, the Seattle Dog Has a Hater, Maslow's at Amazon Open to the Public, and More!

  24-07-2017 21:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Tobias Coughlin-BogueThis herb-encrusted filet on Maslow's salmon burger makes me want to open my wallet very wide indeed. As does this month's $1 million matching promise made by Amazon. FareStart
  Maslow's Opens Today, Rounding Out FareStart's Amazon Adventure
  The nonprofit's Amazon campus flagship is a full-service, all-day restaurant helmed by chef Skylar Gemar, who previously helmed the kitchen at Ada's Restaurant and Bar in Phinney Ridge, and it's open today from 11am to 9pm for lunch, h
  
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• Black bear euthanized after encounters with Idaho campers

  24-07-2017 21:32
  KETCHUM, Idaho — Wildlife managers have killed a black bear after a string of encounters with people at a popular Idaho recreation area, including one in which a camper awoke with her foot in the bear’s mouth. Over the past three weeks, the bear rubbed up against a woman reading a book near a stream […]
  
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• Guest Editorial: Community Theater Transformed My Life. Prop 1 Could Change Someone Else's.

  24-07-2017 21:25 via thestranger.com
  
  by Isiah Anderson, Jr.Rehearsal time! Langston Hughes Performance Arts Center is one of the science and cultural programs that would benefit from Prop 1. Courtesy of Langston Hughes Performance Arts Center
  I am the oldest of three; we were raised by a single mother. I never had the opportunity to attend a paid dance school or professional acting classes, but I loved to dance and be around it. Where I grew up, there were little to no spaces where a young black man could go learn their craft&mdash
  
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• Guest Editorial: Community Theater Transformed My Life. Prop 1 Could Change Another.

  24-07-2017 21:25 via thestranger.com
  
  by Isiah Anderson, Jr.Rehearsal time! Langston Hughes Performance Arts Center is one of the science and cultural programs that would benefit from Prop 1. Courtesy of Langston Hughes Performance Arts Center
  I am the oldest of three; we were raised by a single mother. I never had the opportunity to attend a paid dance school or professional acting classes, but I loved to dance and be around it. Where I grew up, there were little to no spaces where a young black man could go learn their craft&mdash
  
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• The Democratic Party Has a New Slogan and Elites Think It's Stupid. Could That Mean It Just Might Work?

  24-07-2017 21:10 via thestranger.com
  
  by Eli SandersThe Democrats' new, simple promise of "A Better Deal" seems to be aimed directly at the places where the party needs to do better if it wants to win back the US House: small town and rural America. Spencer Platt / Getty Images
  So, yeah, the new slogan for the Democratic Party is "A Better Deal." Chuck Schumer lays it out here. Nancy Pelosi lays it out here. And a good number of coastal elites HATE it.
  Fire every consultant involved. https://t.co/eNr1RTGb4N
  — Jon Lovett (@jonl
  
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• Opponents of safe-injection sites say they have signatures to put ban on ballot

  24-07-2017 21:00
  Opponents of safe-injection sites in King County say they will submit more than enough signatures to place their proposed ban on the November ballot.
  
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• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time May Make You Uncomfortable, And That’s Why You Should See It.

  24-07-2017 20:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Anthony DerrickAdam Langdon as Christopher Boone in the touring production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Joan Marcus
  A few weekends ago, I had the chance to see the National Theatre’s traveling production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time while in in San Francisco. Because it wasn't set to open in Seattle until July 25, I jumped at the opportunity to see it early.
  I read the book shortly after it was published in 2003. It became significant for
  
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• LGBTQ Commission Calls on Mayor Ed Murray to Resign

  24-07-2017 20:52 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverThe Seattle LGBTQ Commission says Mayor Ed Murray's response to sexual abuse allegations has been "harmful and inappropriate." City of Seattle
  Seattle's LGBTQ Commission is joining the call for Mayor Ed Murray to resign from office following new information about allegations that he sexually abused teenagers in the 1980s.
  Four men have accused Murray of sexually abusing them when they were teenagers. One of those four, Delvonn Heckard, filed a civil suit against Murray, which he
  
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• Capitol Hill Block Party Highlights, Day 3: Danny Brown, Newaxeyes, Select Level

  24-07-2017 20:42 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave SegalDanny Brown: "This next song's about Adderall and pussy juice. Hell, they all are." Ulysses Curry
  DANNY BROWN AT THE MAIN STAGE
  Before Detroit's finest MC, Danny Brown (Em who?), even hit the stage, your correspondent got slammed into by a sprinting security guard who was chasing a young man who'd obviously done something very bad. So if my observations for this set come off as a bit scatterbrained, that's why.
  Anyway, Brown's DJ Skylar warmed up the crowd with Black Sabbath's "Iron
  
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• Robots to Livestream Washington's Deep Sea Nightmares

  24-07-2017 20:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneThe "Upside Down" or ocean nightmare porn captured by the E/V Nautilus? Ocean Exploration Trust
  Starting in August, a team of scientists will send two robots to explore the watery depths off the coast of Washington's Olympic peninsula. And we'll be able to watch them do it.
  The 2017 Nautilus expedition, led by oceanographer Dr. Robert Ballard (made famous by the discoveries of the RMS Titanic shipwreck, among others), will dive into three submarine canyons in the Olympic Coas
  
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• City Council Unlikely to Impeach Murray, but Drafting a "Succession Plan"

  24-07-2017 20:23 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverCouncil Member Lorena González wants the city council to create "contingency plans in the event of a voluntary or involuntary vacancy in the Office of the Mayor." City of Seattle
  A week after she called on Mayor Ed Murray to "consider" resigning, Seattle City Council member Lorena González has agreed to support Murray's own proposal for a joint committee to oversee the transition of power to the next administration, a sign of little support among the city council fo
  
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• Connelly: Four former mayors want Murray to stay but LGBTQ panel says to resign

  24-07-2017 20:18
  Four former Seattle mayors -- Wes Uhlman, Charley Royer, Norm Rice and Greg Nickels -- say Mayor Ed Murray should serve out his term, and prepare for an orderly transition.  The Seattle LGBT Commission wants Murray gone, saying accusers "must be believed and honored."
  
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• Seattle LGBTQ Commission says Mayor Ed Murray should resign; former mayors disagree

  24-07-2017 20:11
  The Seattle LGBTQ Commission on Monday called for Mayor Ed Murray to immediately resign, while four former Seattle mayors said Murray should continue to serve.
  
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• Advertising Cars in Seattle's Bus and Light Rail Stations

  24-07-2017 20:08 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede Charles Mudede
  You are on a platform in the University Street Station. The train stops. Its doors open. You step inside. It's packed and you have to stand uncomfortably close to someone who is a bit smelly, or creepy, or both. As the train begins to move, you gaze out the window and see a huge banner advertising cars that can be bought with "no guesswork." Maybe this will give you an idea. Maybe it's time to buy a car. This idea might also occur to someone waiting for an always
  
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• Fishing crew catches 926-pound shark off New Jersey coast

  24-07-2017 19:49
  BRIELLE, N.J. (AP) — A fishing crew has reeled in a 926-pound Mako shark, and New Jersey officials say it’s the biggest shark catch in the state’s history. The boat’s crew was fishing about 100 miles off the coast in an area known as Hudson Canyon on Saturday. The shark was weighed and displayed in […]
  
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• Fishing crew catches 926-pound shark in New Jersey

  24-07-2017 19:49
  BRIELLE, N.J. (AP) — A fishing crew in New Jersey has reeled in a 926-pound Mako shark, and environmental officials say it’s the biggest shark catch in the state’s history. The boat’s crew was fishing about 100 miles off the state coast in an area known as Hudson Canyon on Saturday. The shark was weighed […]
  
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• Scuba diver who died in Hood Canal identified

  24-07-2017 19:41
  The Dalles, Ore., man died Saturday while he was on a training dive in the Sund Rock Conservation Area near Hoodsport.
  
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• Gonzalez softens stance on Murray resignation

  24-07-2017 19:02
  A week after calling for Mayor Ed Murray to resign following sexual assault allegations, Seattle City Councilmember Lorena Gonzalez softened her stance on Monday, praising the idea of a joint committee to handle the transition of power following November's mayoral election.
  
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• Four Former Seattle Mayors: Ed Murray Should Not Resign

  24-07-2017 18:52 via thestranger.com
  
  by Steven Hsieh David Ryder / Getty
  Four former mayors of Seattle released a letter Monday morning saying Mayor Ed Murray should not resign amid multiple child sexual abuse allegations that have already ended his re-election campaign. Calls for Murray to step down amplified last week after the Seattle Times published a story revealing that a child welfare investigator in 1984 deemed one of those allegations, made by Murray’s former foster child, to be credible.
  The letter, emailed to repor
  
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• Bellingham climber dies after falling into crevasse on Forbidden Peak

  24-07-2017 18:12
  The 61-year-old woman fell several hundred feet to her death.
  
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• The Morning News: Distracted Driving Law Is Now a Thing, Seattle Must Not Ban Distracted Walking

  24-07-2017 18:05 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeThis crude statue at the epicenter of Seattle's traffic nightmare, the corner of Boren and Denny, has seen a lot of distracted divers. Charles Mudede
  Washington's Distracted-Driving Law Is Now In Full Effect: The best part about the law is that it bans checking texts or video on your smartphone while stuck forever in traffic. This is the kind of suffering that makes people abandon cars. What are you supposed to do when you are going nowhere? If you happen to be near the corner o
  
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• Seattle is just 2 weeks from rain-free record as we enter historically driest time of year

  24-07-2017 17:16
  The next seven days have been historically the driest on the climate record. Could we go 52 days without rain and break the dry-weather record?
  
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• The 21 Best Concerts in Seattle This Week: July 24-30, 2017

  24-07-2017 16:41 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's music critics' picks for July 24-30, 2017.by Stranger Things To Do StaffCapitol Hill Block Party is over and we have all emerged on the other side, ready for more music around town. Our critics have hand-picked their favorite shows this week, and we've got everything from the "Jewish Elvis" (Neil Diamond), to the man solely responsible for keeping Versace in business (Bruno Mars), to Angel Olsen for dramatic weirdos (Aldous Harding). Click through the links below for complete deta
  
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• Woman, 71, and terrier-Chihuahua named Yoda rescued after nearly week in Olympic National Park

  24-07-2017 16:03
  Sajean E. Geer said she had been in the park since July 17. Rangers had been searching for her after her brother reported her missing a day later on Tuesday. “It’s such good news for the family and for her," a park spokesperson said. "It’s really a good ending."
  
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• Divers to continue search for missing man in Lake Union

  24-07-2017 15:48
  There were conflicting witness accounts of how the man ended up in the water, police said.
  
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• Body of missing man recovered from Lake Union

  24-07-2017 15:48
  There were conflicting witness accounts of how the man ended up in the water, police said.
  
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• Distracted-driving law in full effect for Monday morning commute

  24-07-2017 15:13
  It’s tempting to check social media while stuck in traffic, but that’s illegal now in Washington state. Tickets cost $136 for a first offense.
  
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• Man arrested in rape of woman at assisted-living facility

  24-07-2017 15:10
  A 41-year-old man wanted on a Department of Corrections warrant has been arrested in a sexual assault of an elderly woman at a SeaTac assisted-living facility.
  
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• Why do electronic traffic signs sometimes show wrong info? Here’s why, and what might fix it

  24-07-2017 15:00
  Readers aren’t the only ones who have noticed big differences between the boards’ estimated traveling times and reality — Seattle transportation officials have, too.
  
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• Snohomish County Council election will set course of fast-growing region

  24-07-2017 15:00
  More people moved to Snohomish County than to almost anywhere else in the country last year. Republicans and Democrats are vying for County Council positions to shape its changing landscape — literally — in the Aug. 1 primary.
  
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• Snohomish County Council election will set course of 2nd-fastest-growing county in U.S.

  24-07-2017 15:00
  Snohomish County is growing faster than almost anywhere else in the country. Republicans and Democrats are vying for County Council positions to shape its changing landscape — literally — in the Aug. 1 primary.
  
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• Seattle’s renegade marching band; here’s what it takes to join

  24-07-2017 15:00
  The Seattle-based Chaotic Noise Marching Corps plays hard rock and Latin, classical, Brazilian, all-instrumental foot-stomping, move your feet to the beat music in the street.
  
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• To build trust among adults, Kent schools chief gathers them to tell their stories

  24-07-2017 14:00
  Talking circles, a Native American method often used in schools to resolve conflict between young people, are spreading beyond the classroom. In suburban Kent, educators are using it to work through adult-level problems at staff and school board meetings.
  
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• In a twist, nearly half of Seattle School Board District 4 hopefuls have no kids

  24-07-2017 14:00
  Three of the seven candidates in the race for the District 4 seat on the Seattle School Board don’t have children. Parent Eden Mack, however, is the front-runner.
  
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  24-07-2017 11:59 via thestranger.com
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• South Africa moves ahead on domestic trade in rhino horn

  24-07-2017 11:11
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa said Monday it is moving ahead with draft regulations for a domestic trade in rhino horn, despite critics’ concerns that a legal market will spur rhino poaching. Anyone possessing a rhino horn will need a permit under national rules that are being prepared, and South Africa continues to recognize a […]
  
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  24-07-2017 11:08 via thestranger.com
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