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• The FCC Also Wants to Destroy Access to Phone and Internet Services for Low-Income People

  22-11-2017 23:56 via thestranger.com
  
  The cuts to the Lifeline program will hit the elderly, students, tribal members, and people who live in rural areas the hardest.by Amber CortesChairman Pai isn't done yet. Also, what a dumb mug. BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGES
  FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has been pretty busy these past couple of weeks. He’s taking the lead on trying to dismantle net neutrality so that internet service providers can hijack your access to the internet by charging more for certain websites and content.But it looks like
  
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• Pixar’s Coco Tackles Mortality with Humor and Depth

  22-11-2017 23:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jenni Moore
  Coco, the new Pixar film that’s set in Mexico during Dia de los Muertos, handles the subject of death with humor, lightness, and depth. The “Coco” in question is the oldest living relative of the film’s young protagonist, Miguel (voiced by Anthony Gonzalez), but the story is driven by Miguel’s passion for becoming a musician—and the conflicted relationship he has with his family, who label music as “bad” for reasons he has yet to lea
  
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• With Native Invader, Tori Amos Interweaves Politics and Mythology

  22-11-2017 23:23 via thestranger.com
  
  by Suzette Smith
  Many oddball moments in my life have intersected with Tori Amos songs. Like the time a boy who sat behind me in eighth grade sensually humped a chair while singing the chorus to her Boys for Pele hit “Caught a Light Sneeze,” or when a man at a Tiki bar in Hell’s Kitchen with avocado dip spread across his pants drunkenly accused me of being in a Tori Amos music video. Avocado Pants was right, though; I am in a Tori Amos music video—forever captured at an a
  
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• Some Picks for Record Store Day’s Black Friday 2017

  22-11-2017 22:59 via thestranger.com
  by Ned LannamannRecord Store Day happens every April, but it’s a holiday so nice, they hold it twice. The Black Friday edition of RSD comes the day after Thanksgiving, so avoid the mass of humanity at the big-box stores by getting to your local independent record shop and picking up these limited items—and don’t listen to the fun-hating snobs who pooh-pooh the event as a crass commercial exercise. There’s a solid batch of releases for this year’s Black Friday, which
  
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• You Don't Need Shakespeare, Shakespeare Needs You

  22-11-2017 22:42 via thestranger.com
  
  Two women reckon with the bard and their personal lives in two new solo shows called It Will Be Now.by Rich SmithSeattle actor Meme Garcia attempting not to drown in a bathtub of sadness.Rachel LiuzziSeattle actor Meme Garcia did a lot of great work in town before leaving on a Fulbright to pursue her masters in classical acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. As I've written before, she's known for turning in bold and brash comedic performances, but now she's back—hopefull
  
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• AD: Ballard Holiday Tree Lighting

  22-11-2017 22:13 via veritycu.com
  Free family-friendly event with caroling, crafts, refreshments and funby Stranger Things To Do PartnerStart the December holiday season with a family-friendly holiday tree lighting at Ballard’s Verity Credit Union branch on Friday, December 1. There will be caroling, ornament decorating, spiced cider and other refreshments. The fun starts at 6:00 p.m. and goes until 8:00 p.m. And there will be two tree lightings during the event so those will little ones can get home in time for bed. Best
  
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• Black Friday & Small Business Saturday Pop-Up Markets & Events

  22-11-2017 22:04 via thestranger.com
  30 Options For Nov 24-26, 2017by Stranger Things To Do StaffIf you want to get a head-start on your holiday shopping, there are many ways to support local businesses on Black Friday (Nov 24) and Small Business Saturday (Nov 25) instead of braving the mall. This year, there's an abundance of pop-up markets across town (with more showing up all the time) filled with local vendors and artisans. Whether it's a limited-edition release at a participating Black Friday Record Store Day location, small-b
  
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• 30 Pop-Up Markets and Events for Black Friday and Small Business Saturday 2017 in Seattle

  22-11-2017 22:03 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffThe monthlong Holiday Market at Westlake Park begins on Friday. Downtown Seattle Association Facebook
  If you want to get a head-start on your holiday shopping, there are many ways to support local businesses on Black Friday (Nov 24) and Small Business Saturday (Nov 25) instead of braving the mall. This year, there's an abundance of pop-up markets across town (with more showing up all the time) filled with local vendors and artisans. Whether it's a limited-edition re
  
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• If Portlandia Was Done Right, It Would Look and Sound Like Monica Drakes' Prose

  22-11-2017 21:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede Portlandia, Episode 6: "A guy, a girl, a cat and a kidnapping"
  Monica Drake, a Portland-based novelist and writing professor and Chuck Palahniuk associate and former books editor of the Portland Mercury and the only fiction writer in the history of the Stranger to have a whole paper dedicated to a short story, "Bones in the Garden" (those where the days), and my sister-in-law, has a marvelous post on Longreads about her experiences with a famous and unnamed Hollywood comedian (
  
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• Joe Scarborough's New Diss Song "The Drumpf" Mocks the Small-handed Tweeter in Chief

  22-11-2017 21:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Conservative television-news personality Joe Scarborough delivers a musical beatdown of Trump.by Dave SegalDon't quit your day job, Joe.
  If, like me, you didn't know that the co-host of MSNBC's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough, also maintains a musical career, you will be surprised by his new holiday-centric EP, A Very Drumpf Christmas, which came out November 17 via the very big and major Sony label. It's stunningly mediocre and mild-mannered indie-rock, in addition to being handicapped by linking
  
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• Climate activist convicted after pipeline protest in Montana

  22-11-2017 20:58
  FORT BENTON, Mont. (AP) — An activist who was trying to call attention to climate change has been found guilty of criminal charges for closing a valve on a pipeline carrying crude oil from Canada to the United States. A Montana jury found Leonard Higgins of Portland, Oregon, guilty of criminal mischief and trespassing on […]
  
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• Forest Service weighs changes to protections for sage grouse

  22-11-2017 20:44
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service is rethinking protection plans for sage grouse in six Western states after a U.S. court agreed with mining companies and others that the agency illegally created some safeguards in Nevada. The agency announced Tuesday that it’s working with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, which also is […]
  
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• Savage Love: Public Players

  22-11-2017 20:33 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  I'm a twentysomething straight woman. About a month ago, I had a really vivid dream in which I was at a party and engaging with a guy I had just met. We were seriously flirting. Then my fiancé showed up—my real, flesh-and-blood, sleeping-next-to-me fiancé—who we'll call G. In the dream, I proceeded to shower G with attention and PDA; I was all over him in a way we typically aren't in public. I was clearly doing it to get a reaction from the guy I'd just sp
  
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• ICYMI, a Federal Judge Halted Trump's Executive Order on Sanctuary Cities

  22-11-2017 20:31 via thestranger.com
  
  Still, "it remains to be seen if the Department of Justice is dissuaded by court rulings" like this one.by Sydney BrownstoneA protest against the detention of DACA recipient Daniel Ramirez Medina, a 23-year-old DREAMer, who was picked up by ICE near Seattle in March.HG
  A federal judge in San Francisco ruled on Tuesday that President Trump's executive order threatening to cut funding from "sanctuary cities" and attempting to deputize local law enforcement to carry out immigration enforcement is u
  
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• Connelly: Tim Eyman uses Trump's playbook to attack AG Ferguson

  22-11-2017 20:22
  As he faces a $2.1 million lawsuit from the state, centered on personal use of $308,000 in campaign money, initiative promoter Tim Eyman takes a page from the Donald Trump playbook.  He is attacking Attorney General Bob Ferguson.
  
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• Texas Woman Updates "Fuck Trump" Decal to Include Sheriff

  22-11-2017 20:07 via thestranger.com
  
  "FUCK TROY NEHLS AND FUCK YOU FOR VOTING FOR HIM."by Katie Herzog
  KSAT News reports that the Texas hero whose "FUCK TRUMP AND FUCK YOU FOR VOTING FOR HIM" truck decal made national news after Sheriff Troy Nehls threatened to arrest the owner for disorderly conduct has made a fun little addendum to her truck: "FUCK TROY NEHLS AND FUCK YOU FOR VOTING FOR HIM."Woman with F-Trump sticker adds Sheriff Troy Nehls to display on truck https://t.co/S0wU5n1TxL #KSATnews pic.twitter.com/MmTvlToeI3
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• This Is the Gayest Thing I've Ever Seen

  22-11-2017 20:05 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageThis is gayer than anything I've ever done. And my gayest-thing-ever-seen-or-done bar is set pretty damn high. Watch:An anti-gay hate group opened their poorly attended #Teens4Truth conference in Texas earlier this week with this... interpretive rainbow flag modern dance gay ass fucking spectacular. Okay, okay: there's no actual ass fucking—I watched to the glitter end—but this is as close as one fully clothed dude alone on a stage can get to ass fucking. Media Matters c
  
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• Vancouver man’s accidental recording of him beating wife is admissible, says state high court

  22-11-2017 20:04
  John Garrett Smith accidentally made the recording when he called his cellphone from his land line before the 2013 attack; he didn't hang up, and his cellphone recorded the beating.
  
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• Good night, night: Light pollution increasing around globe

  22-11-2017 20:03
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The world’s nights are getting alarmingly brighter — bad news for all sorts of creatures, humans included. A German-led team reported Wednesday that light pollution is threatening darkness almost everywhere. Satellite observations during five Octobers show Earth’s artificially lit outdoor area grew by 2 percent a year from 2012 to 2016. […]
  
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• Reports: 1 of 2 accused in Kent slaying was granted clemency

  22-11-2017 19:43
  Two men face life sentences if convicted as charged in the Nov. 2 slaying of David Alonso Cabrera at a Kent motel.
  
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• Connelly: Senators say 'Dreamers' deserve security by Christmas

  22-11-2017 19:24
  Sens. Cantwell and Murray, along with nine other Democratic women in the U.S. Senate, want Congress to pass the Dream Act before it recesses for Christmas, assuring that young undocumented immigrants will not face the risk of deportation.
  
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• A Couple Copes with a Rape in the Film The Light of the Moon

  22-11-2017 18:58 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede
  The Light of the Moon, a movie written and directed by Jessica M. Thompson, is set in a Brooklyn neighborhood that used to be bad in the 1980s but is now thoroughly gentrified. It concerns a young Hispanic woman, Bonnie (Stephanie Beatriz), and her young white boyfriend, Matt (Michael Stahl-David). Bonnie is an architect who works for a trendy firm. She is leading the design for a major project. She and her boyfriend are very ambitious and live in an apartment that easily costs
  
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• Thanksgiving travelers: Expect busy airport days and wet mountain passes

  22-11-2017 18:53
  Holiday skiing might be damp, but some ski areas will open as light snow returns on the weekend.
  
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• Natives in Seattle: Probably not in on early Thanksgivings

  22-11-2017 18:45
  The history of Thanksgiving if fraught with things that are not exactly true, and Native Americans' role in the holiday is just one piece of that web of understatements, exaggerations and "flexible" timelines.
  
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• I Had Never Touched a Gun Before the Las Vegas Massacre. Then I Bought One.

  22-11-2017 18:35 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean NelsonA liberal snowflake takes a look at gun culture from the inside.
  Three days after the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history, I fired a handgun for the first time.
  Because I am alive in the 21st century, the subject of guns is frequently on my mind. Specific details stick in the mind and retain their capacity to shock—the crowd being mowed down through broken windows in the Las Vegas hotel, the killer in the Texas church shooting babies at point-blank range, the m
  
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• The Gift of the Meth-Gi

  22-11-2017 18:05 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageIt's like an O. Henry story if O. Henry wrote stories about meth addicts...
  An Oregon woman whose inmate boyfriend died from a meth-laden kiss after a prison visit was sentenced to two years behind bars Tuesday on a drug conspiracy charge. Melissa Ann Blair and Anthony Powell shared a long kiss at the end of a visit last year at the Oregon State Penitentiary and she passed seven tiny balloons filled with methamphetamine into his mouth. Two of the balloons ruptured in Powell’s
  
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• Here's Washington's most Googled Thanksgiving recipe

  22-11-2017 18:03
  The holidays are almost here which means one thing, primarily: Furiously Googling what recipes you can feasibly offer, or pull together from the provisions in your pantry.
  
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• Lofty Thanksgiving: Astronauts feasting on pouches of turkey

  22-11-2017 18:00
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronauts at the International Space Station will feast Thursday on pouches of Thanksgiving turkey. The three Americans, two Russians and one Italian will also rip into single-serving bags of mashed potatoes, candied yams, cornbread stuffing and cranberry-apple dessert. Just add water, heat and bon appetit! Commander Randy Bresnik said he’ll […]
  
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• The Morning News: Renton Police Recommend Sexual Assault Charge Against Urquhart, Governor Wants High-Speed Rail to Vancouver

  22-11-2017 17:44 via thestranger.com
  
  Plus, a judge hears the fight over bikini baristas.by Heidi GrooverSheriff John Urquhart King County
  Renton Police Recommend Sexual Assault Charge Against King County Sheriff John Urquhart: "Renton police have found that there are grounds to file a sexual assault charge against King County Sheriff John Urquhart, who lost his reelection bid amid allegations of sexual misconduct ranging from groping to rape from two former deputies. Urquhart also faced criticism for attempting to discredit his two
  
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• Multi-billion-dollar battle as Walmart and Amazon duel in Eastern Oregon

  22-11-2017 17:26
  PENDLETON, Ore. — Two of the biggest names in retail are investing serious money in Umatilla and Morrow counties as they wage a multi-billion-dollar battle for the hearts and wallets of consumers across the globe. Walmart, which has stores in Pendleton and Hermiston as well as a massive distribution center just south of Hermiston, delivers […]
  
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• Steady rains produce minor flooding in Seattle area

  22-11-2017 16:56
  If the temperature in Seattle remains above 56 degrees Wednesday, it will set a record as the warmest low temperature for the month of November.
  
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• Flood warnings out as rivers crest banks in W. Wash.

  22-11-2017 16:40
  Several Western Washington rivers not far from Seattle had crested their banks Wednesday morning, and with more heavy rain due Thursday, flood warnings went up.
  
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• Wildlife giving thanks: There’s plenty for them to eat

  22-11-2017 16:37
  MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Abundant acorns, beech nuts and other foods are providing wildlife across at least parts of the Northeast with a bountiful Thanksgiving feast this year. The record volume of nuts and berries is fattening every animal species that depend on them. Experts attribute the abundance to the wet summer and the lack […]
  
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• Man shot, killed Tuesday night in Central District

  22-11-2017 15:12
  A man was shot and killed late Tuesday night in the Central District.
  
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• Man shot, killed overnight in Central District

  22-11-2017 15:12
  A man was shot and killed late Tuesday night in the Central District.
  
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• ‘Police station on wheels’ to hit King County roads over holiday weekend

  22-11-2017 15:00
  The specially equipped mobile home is a processing center and command post set up to support the WSP's four-day DUI emphasis in King County.
  
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• ‘I don’t know where we would be without them’: Kindering helps special-needs kids and families in Seattle area

  22-11-2017 15:00
  Founded in 1962 by moms with disabled children, Kindering now serves 4,000 families a year with science-based therapy. It has campuses in Bellevue, Bothell and Renton.
  
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• How to drill for oil in Alaska’s wildlife refuge: Sneak it through in tax bill

  22-11-2017 15:00
  The U.S. Senate is using its tax-cut bill to slink through a measure that would allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America’s most spectacular protected habitat.
  
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• 13 tips for avoiding Thanksgiving stress

  22-11-2017 15:00
  Dr. Nancy Goldov, a Seattle psychologist, has a few tips about how to avoid too much stress this holiday week.
  
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• Inmate death at Shelton prison investigated as homicide

  22-11-2017 14:30
  The inmate, Bryan Emmal, died after "sustaining injuries in his two-person cell" shortly before 10 p.m. Sunday, the state Department of Corrections said.
  
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• Jobs that pay without a B.A.: the most lucrative fields in Washington state

  22-11-2017 14:00
  Certain professional or technical degrees offered by the state’s community and technical colleges pay handsomely for their graduates.
  
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• Man fatally shot in Seattle’s Central District

  22-11-2017 13:32
  Seattle police said a description of a possible suspect was not immediately available.
  
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• Why Do Americans Love Bullshit? The New Book Bunk Gets to the Bottom of It

  22-11-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Kevin Young's Bunk is a necessary blast of truth in a world of BS.by Rich SmithIn Bunk, a thoroughly researched and consistently illuminating book of cultural criticism, Kevin Young combs through the lies, hoaxes, humbugs, conspiracies, fake news items, and general bullshitery of America's most famous and infamous bullshitters. He reveals why Americans are intrigued by and susceptible to the (often profitable) hokum produced by P.T. Barnum, Arthur Conan Doyle, JT LeRoy, Stephen Glass, Rachel Dol
  
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• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Is Southern Gothic with an Irish Accent

  22-11-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell shine in Martin McDonagh's new movie.by Sean NelsonOne way you know a film is written by a playwright is when everything everyone says in it is clever and wise and perfect. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, written and directed by Martin McDonagh, never fails on this score. The dialogue, particularly when given life by actors Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell, is hilarious and provocative. Rockwell in particular, as a dim-witted, violent, racist mama'
  
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• The Mysteries of Bill Murray, Including a Disturbing Rumor That's Going Around

  22-11-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  The uncategorizable Bill Murray comes to McCaw Hall with a musician he met on an airplane.by Katie HerzogIt's a hard time to have an old hero. From Cosby to Spacey to Weinstein, from C.K. to Toback to Hoffman, more famous men have been outed as jerking, rutting pigs than many thought plausible. Even Elie fucking Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor whose writing would bring any non-Nazi to tears, has been accused of copping a feel on a young woman's ass. Who, among men, can we admire? William James Mu
  
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• Our Love of Plastics Has Become a Dirty Fetish

  22-11-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  The art installation Motelscape ought to ignite a pornographic shame.by Leah St. LawrenceThe plexiglass-sculptor/dream-weaver/fantasy-maker Marina Fini has completely transformed Mount Analogue's bookstore and gallery into a fantastical neon-dripping motel room. The LA artist's installation is called, not surprisingly, Motelscape.Fini's first Motelscape was built for Art Basel in Miami Beach, where she collaborated with three other artists to transform one room at the Miami Princess Hotel into a
  
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• My Favorite Plate of Food in Town

  22-11-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  The spicy rice cakes at Joule, and the chef who created them.by Angela GarbesThere are dishes that get under the skin—they intertwine with our senses and emotions, nestle deep into our bodies and memories. The spicy rice cakes with chorizo and pickled mustard greens at Joule is my favorite plate of food in town.Contrast is the heart of this dish—and that's what makes it so good. The cakes, flat ovals made from glutinous rice, are inherently chewy, but after being fried in a hot pan,
  
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• I, Anonymous: Your Manicure Looks Great, but Your Parenting Skills Suck

  22-11-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Armchair parenting at a nail salon.by AnonymousAt the salon, my nails are slowly drying. You are sitting next to me, and your 3-year-old daughter is sitting two chairs away. This tells me you're a "hands off" parent, who prefers to use words that don't mean shit to a tiny person. She's playing with your cell phone. Suddenly, you begin a series of loud, empty attempts to parent from your chair as the tech is sanding off last month's manicure. Your rant includes threatening not to bring her to the
  
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• Crossword Solution: "Worst. Puzzle. Ever."

  22-11-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  The solutions to the crossword puzzle in the November 22 issue of The Stranger.by Brendan Emmett Quigley[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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