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• If you want 'Hamilton' tickets you'll have to win the lottery

  08-11-2017 23:57
  Did you manage to score "Hamilton" tickets on Monday? If not, you aren't alone. Unfortunately, that also puts your chances at getting tickets in the hands of Lady Luck.
  
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• Seattle police identify suspect after man set on fire in Fremont

  08-11-2017 23:28
  The victim was taken to Harborview Medical Center, where he was listed in critical condition Wednesday in the hospital’s intensive care unit.
  
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• Seattle police identify suspect after man is set on fire in Fremont area

  08-11-2017 23:28
  The victim was taken to Harborview Medical Center, where he was listed in critical condition Wednesday in the hospital’s intensive-care unit.
  
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• Seattle police identify suspect after man is set on fire in Fremont

  08-11-2017 23:28
  The victim was taken to Harborview Medical Center, where he was listed in critical condition Wednesday in the hospital’s intensive-care unit.
  
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• After Two Suspensions in Three Years, Will the LCB Relinquish Control of Cannabis Labs?

  08-11-2017 23:20 via thestranger.com
  
  Agency emails show big changes afoot.by Lester BlackIs the LCB stepping back from the cannabis regulation business?Ethan Miller/Getty Images
  Emails released in a public records request show that Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board (LCB), the state’s go-to agency for regulating cannabis, may be looking to get out of the businesses of ensuring the safety of legal weed in Washington.The LCB currently licenses private labs that test the potency and safety of legal weed in the state, but
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Should a Dancer Accept Money from Creeps?

  08-11-2017 23:10 via thestranger.com
  
  $500 sure is nice.by Dan Savage
  I am a 29-year-old female belly dancer. My basic question: Should I accept money from perverts? The back story...
  I recently traveled to another state to teach two dance workshops. This was the first time I have ever done this, my first mini-tour of sorts. It was a great opportunity and next step for me professionally. For one of my workshops, I was at a couple's home studio. This couple is in their early 70's. I met them previously at other dance-related events a
  
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• Anti-Oil Terminal Candidate Don Orange Wins Vancouver Port Commissioner Race by a Landslide

  08-11-2017 22:49 via thestranger.com
  
  Not today Big Oil, not today.by Amber CortesA giant crude-by-rail terminal in Vancouver, WA: not gonna happen. KEVIN SCHAFER VIA GETTY IMAGESWell, looks like big oil can’t buy this election. Despite the fact that mega Texas oil company Tesoro gave Kris Greene the largest direct donation to any Washington state candidate in 2017, the people of Vancouver have spoken—and they are saying “Hells no” to Tesoro’s plan to build the largest oil terminal in the country at the
  
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• A Few Reasons to Stay Home and Watch the Joan Didion Netflix Documentary

  08-11-2017 22:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher FrizzelleSince the Netflix release last Friday, I have watched The Center Will Not Hold three times. CF
  It's about to rain a lot around here—tonight, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday—and it has come to my attention that some people have still not see the Joan Didion documentary.The legendary journalist, essayist, novelist, fashion model, screenwriter, Californian, New Yorker, mother, wife, widow, cigarette smoker, gin drinker, Dexedrine taker, car driver, a
  
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• Blabbermouth Podcast: A Year After Trump Victory, Democrats Finally Start Winning; Another Day, Another Mass Shooting; and More

  08-11-2017 22:19 via thestranger.com
  
  by The StrangerVirginia's next governor will be Ralph Northam, a Democrat.WIN MCNAMEE/GETTY IMAGESSubscribe to the podcast FOR FREE by clicking right here!
  Exactly one year after Trump's election, voters around the country delivered a major wave of Democratic victories on Tuesday. Dan Savage, Eli Sanders, and Rich Smith talk about why the Resistance is winning and what it means for 2018.
  After that: the lessons of another mass shooting and the important, horrifying details of the Republican tax
  
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• ‘Dark Sky’ advocates gather in the bright lights of Boston

  08-11-2017 22:12
  BOSTON (AP) — Advocates for keeping the night skies dark are gathering in one of the most light-polluted cities in the country: Boston. The International Dark-Sky Association is holding its annual meeting starting Friday at a hotel in Boston’s affluent Back Bay neighborhood. The Tucson, Arizona-based organization was founded in 1988, and its mission is […]
  
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• Overlook Out! Corey J. Brewer to Score The Shining Forward & Backward for Puget Soundtrack

  08-11-2017 21:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle's Corey J. Brewer talks about his dream project: recording a new score for The Shining Forward & Backward for Puget Soundtrack.by Dave SegalCorey J. Brewer's realizing his ultimate dream to score the scariest film he's ever seen.
  Local experimental musician Corey J. Brewer will create a new score for Stanley Kubrick's The Shining for the next Puget Soundtrack at Northwest Film Forum (Friday, December 1). But this isn't The Shining as Kubrick originally intended you to view it; rather
  
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• Trump Taps Climate Change Denier for Top Environmental Advisor

  08-11-2017 21:29 via thestranger.com
  
  Kathleen Hartnett White faced a barrage of pointed questions from Senate Democrats Tuesday.by Katie HerzogKathleen Hartnett White said that fighting climate change "would lead to poverty, socialism and concentration camps." DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES
  Senate hearings have begun on the confirmation of Kathleen Hartnett White, Trump’s pick for the top environmental job in the White House. White, a longtime climate change denier, has previously compared the belief that carbon emissions cause gl
  
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• Efforts to capture, save Mexico’s endangered porpoise end

  08-11-2017 21:19
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Experts said Monday they have suspended a program to capture and enclose the few remaining vaquita porpoises in Mexico’s Gulf of California, after the one they managed to catch died quickly in captivity. Lorenzo Rojas, the lead scientist in the effort, described what may be the last close contact between humans […]
  
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• Miley Cyrus Is Excited About Jenny Durkan

  08-11-2017 21:04 via thestranger.com
  by Heidi GrooverOkay.
  Yassss #JennyDurkan ! Last time Seattle elected a woman as mayor was in the '20s & she is an out lesbian determined to do great things! Awesome role model! Congrats! @happyhippiefdn pic.twitter.com/cPwGJLENP3
  — Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) November 8, 2017Read more about Durkan's win here and the rest of last night's results here.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Connelly: Election repudiated Trump from one Washington to the other

  08-11-2017 21:03
  President Trump was not on the ballot.  But he was a major factor in Democrats' wins on Tuesday, from the Virginia governorship to a Washington State Senate seat on the Eastside.
  
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• Deliverance Interrupted

  08-11-2017 20:42 via thestranger.com
  
  A Vancouver music company tried to release new music from Prince. They didn’t get very far.by Robert HamOn April 18, a piece of news began to ripple through the internet: Deliverance, an EP of never-before-heard music from Prince, was to be released on April 21, the one-year anniversary of the musician’s death.It was something music fans around the world had been hoping for. A peek into Prince’s legendary vault of unreleased material stored at Paisley Park, the late artist&rsqu
  
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• Gilbert Is So Sweet! And a Goddamn Bore.

  08-11-2017 20:25 via thestranger.com
  Nice guys finish last.by Wm. Steven HumphreySuccessful stand-up comedians are natural subjects for documentaries, because they carry an inherent tension. Many are loners addicted to attention (as well as other substances), and their larger-than-life personalities can be the stuff of great, revealing films.Then there are outlier comedians like Gilbert Gottfriend, the subject of Neil Berkeley’s documentary Gilbert. Many might not remember Gottfried’s meteoric rise to comedy glory in th
  
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• Son Little Finds New Magic in a Loaned Guitar

  08-11-2017 20:16 via thestranger.com
  The Philadelphia musician is a musical alchemist.by Santi Elijah HolleySome people say guitars have songs living inside them. Aaron Livingston, the Philadelphia-based musician who performs as Son Little, experienced this firsthand while touring through Australia last fall. He’d been working on his second album, and believed he’d written all the songs he needed. But near the end of the tour, in the country’s Northern Territory, he was loaned a guitar by the beloved Aboriginal si
  
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• Sheep can recognize Baaaa-rack Obama’s face, new study shows

  08-11-2017 19:44
  The researchers say this study of the ability of sheep to recognize faces may be useful in research into Huntington's disease and other human brain disorders that affect mental processing.
  
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• I Braved a Theme Restaurant to Eat the Impossible

  08-11-2017 19:24 via thestranger.com
  
  The Impossible Burger looks like real meat, but it's actually vegan.by Katie HerzogThe Impossible Burger looks like meat... but it ain't made of it.Impossible Foods/InstagramThe list of things I don’t like is long and ever-evolving, but right at the top, perched between “live music” and “all comedy,” is “theme restaurants.” Even as a kid, before I turned into a haggard old crow who only enjoys listening to NPR and watching people trip over sidewalks, the
  
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• With Manka Dhingra’s Washington state Senate win, Democrats plot ambitious course in Olympia

  08-11-2017 19:19
  With Manka Dhingra winning Washington’s 45th District special Senate election, Democrats are soon expected to hold both chambers in the Legislature and the governorship. Now comes the test of governing.
  
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• Manka Dhingra’s double-digit lead in 45th District Senate race sends message to Trump, Gov. Inslee says

  08-11-2017 19:19
  The governor says a Democratic victory in the 45th District would open the door to legislation about voting rights, women’s contraceptives, gun safety and the environment.
  
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• Gov. Inslee plans ambitious climate-change plan if Manka Dhingra prevails in state Senate race

  08-11-2017 19:19
  The governor says a Democratic victory in the 45th District would open the door to legislation about voting rights, women’s contraceptives, gun safety and the environment.
  
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• Trial set for man accused of drowning his young nephew in Lynnwood

  08-11-2017 19:04
  Court documents say the 19-year-old man drowned the 6-year-old in a tub and later wrapped his body in a blanket, placed him in a box and threw it in a trash bin.
  
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• Stellar encore: Dying star keeps coming back big time

  08-11-2017 19:02
  This is one supernova that refuses to bite the cosmic dust, confounding scientists who thought they knew how dying stars ticked.
  
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• Boy with rare disease gets brand new skin with gene therapy

  08-11-2017 19:02
  Doctors treating a critically ill boy with a devastating skin disease used experimental gene therapy to create an entirely new skin for most of his body. He's now back in school, even playing soccer.
  
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• Opponent of Columbia River oil terminal holds large lead in Port commissioner race

  08-11-2017 19:00
  An opponent of the oil-by-rail terminal has garnered nearly 65 percent of the vote in Vancouver’s Port commissioner race. If elected, the terminal could be doomed.
  
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• Foe of Columbia River oil terminal holds big lead in Port race in Vancouver, Wash.

  08-11-2017 19:00
  An opponent of the oil-by-rail terminal has garnered nearly 65 percent of the vote in Vancouver’s Port commissioner race. If elected, the terminal could be doomed.
  
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• Trump environment nominees pressed on federal climate report

  08-11-2017 18:59
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as his top environmental adviser said Wednesday she is unconvinced by a new U.S. government assessment reaffirming that manmade carbon emissions are the primary cause of climate change. Kathleen Hartnett White testified before a Senate committee weighing her confirmation as chair of the Council on Environmental […]
  
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• Trump environment nominee pressed on federal climate report

  08-11-2017 18:59
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as his top White House environmental adviser says she is unconvinced by a recent U.S. government assessment concluding that man-made carbon emissions are the primary cause of climate change. Kathleen Hartnett White testified before a Senate committee Wednesday that carbon dioxide is a “plant nutrient,” not […]
  
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• Mitzi Johanknecht Leading King County Sheriff John Urquhart After First Ballot Drop

  08-11-2017 18:57 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneMajor Mitzi Johanknecht, a relatively unknown name in politics, overtook incumbent King County Sheriff John Urquhart in the first ballot count after allegations of sexual misconduct dogged his campaign. Photo courtesy of the Johanknecht campaign.
  Some voters didn't remember her name when they dropped off their ballots in downtown Seattle on Tuesday morning. "I voted against Urquhart," one voter told The Stranger. "Not the incumbent," said another. "I forget the name."
  But aft
  
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• Maybe Republicans Will Do Something About Gun Violence Now

  08-11-2017 18:33 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageNYT:
  Assessing the grim toll of the massacre in Sutherland Springs, Tex., sheriff’s deputies found 22 of the bodies inside the First Baptist Church, but by their reasoning, one more victim died there—inside the womb of Crystal Holcombe, who was killed in the pews along with three of her five children.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Other Election Night Results: Prop 1, School Board, Port and More

  08-11-2017 18:27 via thestranger.com
  
  What you might've missed last night.by Steven HsiehSchool board victors: Eden Mack, Zachary Pullin DeWolf, and Betty Patu
  What a night. Jenny Durkan secured her place as Seattle's first woman mayor in 90 years and Teresa Mosqueda won a decisive victory for City Council Position 8. Also, Maj. Mitzi Johanknecht is leading incumbent John Urquhart for King County Sheriff by a few points with most ballots counted (story coming soon). Dan Savage covered some of the big national races in The Morning Ne
  
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• How Sexism and Harassment Allegations at Seattle City Light Get Lost in the Dark

  08-11-2017 18:18 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney Brownstonen late September of 2016, Seattle City Light conducted an online department-wide employee survey. It ended with a question asking employees if they had anything additional to say.
  An employee we'll call Jasmine (she and other employees quoted in this story asked The Stranger not to use their real names for fear of retaliation) had worked at Seattle's public electric utility, part-time and eventually full-time, since 2009. She says she dealt with inappropriate touching and rem
  
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• 55-year-old Idaho inmate found dead in county jail cell

  08-11-2017 18:15
  LEWISTON, Idaho — Idaho State Police say they are investigating the death of a 55-year-old inmate who was found unresponsive and not breathing in his cell at the Lewis County Jail. The Lewiston Tribune reports officials are investigating the death as an apparent suicide. According to a statement by Lewis County Sheriff Jason Davis, the […]
  
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• Flames come from Hawaiian Airlines plane landing at Sea-Tac

  08-11-2017 17:51
  The flight was a ferry with just crew and no passengers and was being moved from Paine Field in Everett to Sea-Tac Airport.
  
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• Idaho Falls man charged with killing his 9-month-old son

  08-11-2017 17:36
  IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho Falls man has been charged in the killing of his 9-month-old son after the autopsy ruled the death a homicide. The Post Register reports 30-year-old Robert Lawrence Saad Sr. was arrested Friday on a first-degree murder charge for the September 2016 death of Robert Saad Jr. Charging documents […]
  
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• Man stabbed to death in southeast Portland

  08-11-2017 17:35
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Police are investigating a stabbing death in Portland’s Central Eastside neighborhood. Sgt. Chris Burley says officers found a man lying in a pool of blood Tuesday, shortly before midnight near the Morrison Bridge. The man was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Burley says investigators believe the victim […]
  
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• Celebrity chef and author Antonio Carluccio dies at age 80

  08-11-2017 17:24
  LONDON (AP) — Celebrity chef Antonio Carluccio, who helped popularize inexpensive Italian fare as the founder of an eponymous restaurant chain and a prolific cookbook writer, has died. He was 80. His death was announced on Carluccio’s website, by the restaurant business on Twitter and by his agent on Wednesday. The cause was not immediately […]
  
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• The Morning News: Big Night For Dems, Durkan Wins, Must-Watch Sam Bee

  08-11-2017 17:01 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageELECTION NIGHT: The Democrat won the governor's race in Virginia and Democratic candidates took 15 seats in the Virginia Assembly from Republicans, "an upset that stunned members of both parties and arrived with national implications." The Democrat won the governor's race in New Jersey. A black woman was elected mayor in Charlotte, North Carolina, a first. A black man was elected mayor in St. Paul, Minnesota, another first. A Sikh was elected mayor in Hoboken. A trans woman of color
  
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• New UW contract with Nike that allows inspections of overseas factories is first of its kind

  08-11-2017 16:54
  The University of Washington has signed a contract with Nike that gives a watchdog group the right to inspect its overseas factories. The contract could become a model for other universities around the country.
  
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• Teresa Mosqueda Wins City Council Seat, Now What?

  08-11-2017 16:42 via thestranger.com
  
  What to watch for on the new city council.by Heidi GrooverTeresa Mosqueda will take office on November 28. nate gowdy
  It was no contest in the race for the two citywide council seats Tuesday night. Like incumbent Lorena González, first time candidate Teresa Mosqueda won a citywide seat with more than 60 percent of the vote.
  "I’m so excited about these numbers, not just because I get to serve the Seattle city council for the next four years, but because I get to serve on the city cou
  
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• Senate committee narrowly backs Trump pick for NASA chief

  08-11-2017 16:32
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate committee on Wednesday narrowly backed President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as the next NASA chief. Republicans on the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee used their slender majority to overcome objections from Democrats to advance the selection of Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Okla. The party-line vote was 14-13. Bridenstine, 42, […]
  
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• What can Sound Transit do to keep projects in the black and on track?

  08-11-2017 15:00
  Transportation reporter Mike Lindblom answers your questions about the future of Sound Transit's light-rail projects, which are facing growing budget pressure from rising land values and construction costs.
  
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• A different sort of pet, Cha Cha the tortoise strolls Seattle’s South Lake Union

  08-11-2017 15:00
  “Very few people have interacted intimately with a tortoise,” says Jim Ferron. By that, he means having one as a long-term pet. His tortoise is Cha Cha. Like turtles, they are reptiles from the order Testudines. But tortoises are land-based while turtles live in or around water. Cha Cha is a 13-year-old leopard tortoise — […]
  
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• Why Are People So Weird About Eating Bugs? We'll All Be Eating Them Soon

  08-11-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  By 2050, grasshoppers, caterpillars, and ants will be part of Thanksgiving dinner.by Charles MudedeI remember the termites in the frying pan. I was standing on a chair and watching an old man (my grandfather?) cook the insects. I was boy-excited by the sweet smell of fat that rose from the pan and filled the kitchen. I can also recall the rain beating on the kitchen window. The rainy season began that day. There was some grumbling in the clouds that approached the southern African city of Kwekwe
  
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• To Boldly Go Where Pot Products Have Not Gone Before

  08-11-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Legal weed can't cross state lines, so how are some Seattle brands for sale in other states and even other countries?by Lester BlackTarukino's office building in the no-man's-land between Fremont and Ballard doesn't look like the home of a future international cannabis conglomerate. Open the company's front door, and you're greeted by a dated interior and a dark staircase. But the luxury SUVs parked in front of the building, and the résumés of the people sitting in the offices upst
  
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• Shut Up About Nazi-Punching, and Pick Up Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook

  08-11-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  The guy wrote the book on fighting fascism.by Chase BurnsBefore their recent death transformation, our dear friends at the Seattle Weekly ran an editorial titled "Don't Punch Nazis—Yet," arguing that Seattle has not reached a place where violence is an answer to fascism—"yet." Citing vehicular homicide in Charlottesville, throat-slitting on passenger trains in Portland, and gunshots on the University of Washington's Red Square, others argue, as Primo Levi once wrote—and Incubus
  
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• Lizzo Is the Body-Positive MC Who's Healing the Nation

  08-11-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  On Coconut Oil, Lizzo elevates feeling good about yourself to an art form.by Amber CortesOn her 2016 EP, Coconut Oil, Lizzo elevates feeling good about yourself to an art form, all while proclaiming that self-care is not a luxury but a necessity—especially for the strong black women to whom the album is dedicated."A lot of my fans are backpackers and white kids, but as much as I love that, when I got to tour with SZA, I saw black women in the audience, and the way they connected with my mu
  
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• Laurie Metcalf: Greatest Living Actress? Lady Bird Says Yes

  08-11-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Greta Gerwig's debut as a solo writer/director is startlingly smart and powerful.by Sean NelsonIf the short-lived and little seen sub-
  subgenre of low-budget American independent filmmaking called, regrettably, mumblecore had a breakout star, Greta Gerwig was unquestionably it.A lot of hugely talented filmmakers emerged from that movement (an ironic noun to use for a group of films that primarily consisted of sessile young white people sitting around talking; "apartment" might be a better one) t
  
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