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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Work Friends and Threesomes and Pro Unicorns

  20-12-2017 23:53 via thestranger.com
  by Dan Savage
  I am a hetero, married, cis man. I'm also a bit of an introvert, and don't have a lot of close friends, particularly at work where I generally make acquaintances who I don't really connect with beyond a superficial level. But I hit it off with a new coworker. She reminded me of my small circle of friends,and when we started socializing outside work I introduced her to my wife and my best friends of fifteen years and it went great, except...
  It was a bit of a strain on my marriage a
  
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• Local Broadband Company Wave Files Claim Against Comcast for Unfair Business Practices

  20-12-2017 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Wave alleges that the cable giant is requiring Wave to bundle NBC Sports regional channels into Wave's basic cable package, forcing consumers to purchase high-priced channels they don't want and significantly increase the cost to consumers.by Katie HerzogCable giant/evildoer Comcast is the target of a new FCC complaint. Cindy Ord/Getty Images
  Geekwire reports that Kirkland-based Wave Broadband filed a complaint with the FCC Wednesday against Comcast, alleging that the cable giant has engaged in
  
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• Congratulations on Your Enormous Goddamn Tax Cut, Wyatt Ingraham Koch!

  20-12-2017 23:13 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean Nelson“Be authentic, be real, be yourself, be confident, and always be a gentleman, but still have that tenacity that no one can take away from you.”
  This man, nephew of the Koch brothers, and therefore son of the other Koch brother, has a company that makes fashion shirts for men. (He is also apparently suing his ex-fiancee for $265,000 to get the engagement ring back, but that is between them.)
  While I don't know much about the industry of fashion, when it comes to the subj
  
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• Renton PD identifies alleged Walmart child groper

  20-12-2017 22:59
  Renton police detectives say they have identified the man they believe groped a 10-year-old girl and tried to lure a 5-year-old at the Renton Walmart, but he's not yet in custody.
  
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• Fuck Trump, the GOP, and This Piece of Shit Tax Bill

  20-12-2017 22:51 via thestranger.com
  
  But it comes at the expense of the American public.by Katie HerzogWhat was it that Bible said again? "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a Republican legislator to enter the kingdom of Heaven."Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
  In a press conference that resembled a well-dressed white power rally, the man who somehow became President patted himself and his fellow Republicans on the back for finally passing a hugely unpopular piece of shit legislation and screwing ov
  
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• Lou Grant Reinterprets the Second Amendment (with a Little Help from the Guy Who Co-Created Taxi)

  20-12-2017 22:35 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean NelsonEd Asner: Actor, activist, Constitutional scholar?
  It might seem frivolous and absurd that a TV actor and a TV producer would have produced a work of Constitutional scholarship, A) at all, and B) worth paying attention to. And maybe it is frivolous and absurd, but look around, friends, at this frivolous and absurd world.Ed Asner—who played Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and the spin-off Lou Grant, and who was also the voice of the old man in Up—is part of the gr
  
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• Check Out Our Complete Seattle New Year's Eve 2017 Calendar

  20-12-2017 22:15 via thestranger.com
  
  It's everything you need to figure out where to kiss 2017 good-bye.by Stranger Things To Do Staff Shutterstock
  New Year's Eve is a week and a half away, which means it's time to start planning how you're going to say good-bye to 2017. Luckily, we have almost 200 options on our New Year's Eve calendar, which is sortable by neighborhood and venue. You can also narrow it down into music events, food events, parties, and performances—and if you want to keep the party going into 2018, there's a
  
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• Looks Like There's Another Law That Big Tech Is Ignoring. This One Covers All of Washington State.

  20-12-2017 22:05 via thestranger.com
  
  The Washington State Public Disclosure Commission says that a statewide appears to require greater political ad transparency from tech giants.by Eli SandersThe Washington State Public Disclosure Commission says that a statewide law—nearly identical this Seattle law—appears to require greater political ad transparency from tech giants. Sean Gallup / Getty Images
  For this week's Stranger, I wrote a feature on how tech giants like Google and Facebook are currently ignoring Seattle's lon
  
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• Connelly: Republicans' tax reform to be big issue here in 2018

  20-12-2017 21:46
  The Republicans' tax bill clears Congress, but its critics vow: The fight is not over.  It will be a major 2018 issue in two Washington congressional districts. Environmentalists will continue to fight oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
  
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• A Friday Night with Weed Lube, a Dominatrix, and a Bunch of Horny Plants

  20-12-2017 21:20 via thestranger.com
  
  by Lester BlackVelvet Swing weed lube doesn’t smell or taste like weed.
  I had never really noticed the phallic nature of a budding pot plant, its engorged flowers pulsating toward the sky, until a recent Friday night at Vela pot shop. I was looking at a small indoor grow while listening to Mistress Matisse say that weed was helping her accomplish her life mission of giving people more orgasms.
  "I kind of regard that as my purpose in life—to make people have more orgasms. And now they
  
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• Magic Leap Could Produce the Next Paradigm Shift in Music Listening—or Not

  20-12-2017 21:03 via thestranger.com
  
  Working with Icelandic rock band Sigur Rós, Magic Leap is developing a mixed-reality app that could change how we experience music.by Dave SegalIn the future, everyone will look dorky for 15 minutes. Magic Leap
  The internet is abuzz with chatter about Magic Leap, a start-up that is prepping a product called "Magic Leap One: Creator Edition," a mixed-reality headset it dubs "Lightwear." The company hails it as a tool "for creators who want to change how we experience the world" and expect
  
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• Auburn man, 40, among those killed in Amtrak train derailment

  20-12-2017 20:36
  Two others died when the Portland-bound train derailed onto Interstate 5: friends Zack Willhoite, 35, and Jim Hamre, 61.
  
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• Women Sues Rapper Nelly After Charges for Alleged King County Rape Are Dropped

  20-12-2017 20:27 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogNelly will not face charges but he will face a defamation suit.Michael Loccisano/Getty Images
  It's been a week of mixed blessings for Nelly.Last week King County prosecutors announced they are dropping rape charges against the rapper. In October, Nelly was arrested by Auburn police after Monique Greene said he raped her on his tour bus after a performance at the White River Amphitheater. Green allegedly met Nelly at a Seattle club after his show, and rode with him in an SUV to his
  
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• Two Bells Tavern, Belltown institution, will close New Year's

  20-12-2017 20:09
  The Two Bells Tavern, anchoring Belltown institution, to close on December 31.
  
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• Second season of Bill Nye's Netflix show tackles marijuana

  20-12-2017 20:08
  The Science Guy caught a whiff of reefer madness, for science.
  
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• City Light Hired an Outside Investigator to Look Into Sexual Harassment Anecdotes Read to Women's Commission

  20-12-2017 20:07 via thestranger.com
  
  Will institutions change to deal efficiently with sexual harassment complaints?by Sydney BrownstoneForty-two employees signed a petition decrying "blatant sexism" at City Light earlier this year. Seattle City Light/Flickr
  Last month, I published a piece looking at sexual harassment allegations and sexism complaints from City Light employees, and how the agency dealt with them. One part of the story looked at a petition demanding sexual harassment training that 42 City Light employees had signed,
  
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• Object Lesson: Where Do Christmas Trees Go When We're Done Abusing Them?

  20-12-2017 19:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie Herzog CSA-PRINTSTOCK Good people don't extinguish life just for the pleasure of it. I'm not talking about meat eaters (that's fine), I'm talking about a population that is, ethically, much, much worse: Christmas lovers.
  If Christmas itself is a consumerist disaster—and it is—Christmas trees are a moral one. A 2011 study found that the environmental impact between choosing a natural tree or an artificial tree is negligible, with fake trees being only slightly worse, likely b
  
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• Science Says: Are poinsettias poisonous? Some holiday truths

  20-12-2017 19:34
  CHICAGO (AP) — Are poinsettias really poisonous? Are snowflakes really pure as the driven snow? Does feasting really put on the pounds? Sure as sugarplums, myths and misconceptions pop up every holiday season. Here’s what science says about some of them: FLOWER POWER Poinsettias, those showy holiday plants with red and green foliage, are not […]
  
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• Are poinsettias poisonous? Some holiday myths — and truths

  20-12-2017 19:34
  Are poinsettias really poisonous? Are snowflakes really pure? Does feasting put on the pounds? Sure as sugarplums, myths and misconceptions pop up every holiday season. Here's what science says about some of them.
  
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• Tacoma man gets revenge on 'porch pirates'

  20-12-2017 19:33
  One Tacoma man has a way to stop thieves in their tracks – and provide a few chuckles from his security cameras as well.
  
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• Lost Classic Album Alert—Sue Ann Harkey’s The Ancient Past and the Ancient Future Are Both Seconds Away

  20-12-2017 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Cult local guitar heroine Sue Ann Harkey talks about her long-lost classic LP from 1989... and making her instrument sound like a garbage truck.by Dave SegalHarkey, getting ready to coax unprecedented sounds from her guitar, sometime in the '90s. courtesy of Sue Ann Harkey
  In 1989, Nirvana were releasing Bleach, Mudhoney their self-titled debut LP, Soundgarden Louder Than Love, and if you didn’t rock hard in flannel and long hair in this city, you might as well have been nowhere, on a macr
  
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• Big Tech Is Failing to Comply with Seattle's Law on Election Advertising Transparency

  20-12-2017 18:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Eli Sanders DANIEL ZENDER
  By now you've heard all about how Russians tried to help Donald Trump become president of the United States. They used an array of devious tactics, including turning the technologies of major American digital media companies like Facebook, Google, and Twitter against the American people. In just one example, Russians "weaponized" Facebook, in the words of one member of Congress, by buying 3,000 fake ads ahead of Election Day. Those ads used Facebook's algorithms to t
  
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• SpaceX unveils new Falcon Heavy rocket before January launch

  20-12-2017 18:38
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX has unveiled its new Falcon Heavy rocket a month before its first launch. Photos released Wednesday by SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk show the new rocket inside its Florida hangar. Missing is the cargo for the January test flight. Musk has said the Falcon Heavy will launch his own […]
  
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• Idaho tops list of fastest-growing states

  20-12-2017 18:27
  BOISE, Idaho — Federal officials say Idaho had the largest percentage increase in population of any state in the nation in a recent census. The U.S. Census Bureau on Wednesday announced that Idaho’s population from July 2016 to July 2017 increased 2.2 percent, to 1.7 million. The agency says that’s about 37,000 more people living […]
  
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• Health officials: If you're sick, skip the holiday gathering

  20-12-2017 18:21
  It's the most wonderful time of the year – to be a flu virus.
  
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• Friends and Family Remember the Great Pacific Northwest Actor, G. Valmont Thomas

  20-12-2017 18:20 via thestranger.com
  
  G. Val died of bone cancer early Monday morning. He was 58.by Rich SmithG. Val died of bone cancer early Monday morning. Chris BennionNorthwest actor, teacher, musician, dancer, father, and friend G. Valmont Thomas died of bone cancer early Monday morning. He celebrated his 58th birthday with friends and family last Friday, Dec. 15, shortly after entering hospice care in Ashland, Oregon.He's survived by three children—Aria Thomas, Langston Thomas, and Oliver Hansen—and also by a thea
  
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• The Morning News: Derailed Amtrak Train Ran without Safety Technology, Senate Passes Tax Bill

  20-12-2017 17:46 via thestranger.com
  
  Could this technology have prevented the deadly derailment?by Heidi GrooverThe derailment killed three passengers. washington state patrol
  Officials Rushed to Finish New Amtrak Route, Started Service without Safety Technology: Originally planning to open the line in 2019, officials sped up their timeline to finish it this year in order to get federal stimulus funding, the Seattle Times reports. A derailment on Monday, the new route's first day of service, killed three people and injured dozens.
  
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• Mistrial in Nevada standoff is latest defeat for prosecutors

  20-12-2017 17:04
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — A U.S. judge in Nevada dealt another defeat Wednesday to federal prosecutors trying to punish leaders of armed standoffs meant to oppose federal authority over vast swaths of land in the American West. Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro in Las Vegas declared a mistrial in the long-awaited case against states’ […]
  
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• Mistrial declared in Nevada armed standoff with U.S. agents

  20-12-2017 17:04
  LAS VEGAS — A U.S. judge declared a mistrial Wednesday in the Nevada case against a states’ rights figure, his two sons and another man accused of leading a 2014 armed standoff with federal agents during a cattle grazing dispute. Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro in Las Vegas dismissed a jury seated last month […]
  
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• Two southbound I-5 lanes blocked by Amtrak train crash in Washington state reopen

  20-12-2017 15:59
  The reopening of the two I-5 southbound lanes eases the traffic crunch that has enveloped the region since Monday's deadly Amtrak train crash. The right lane was to remain closed overnight but should be open for Thursday morning's commute.
  
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• Two I-5 lanes blocked by Amtrak train crash in Washington state to reopen about 5 p.m. Wednesday

  20-12-2017 15:59
  Two of Interstate 5's southbound lanes are expected to open Wednesday afternoon. The Amtrak train locomotive has been hauled away and the roadway is being inspected for damage.
  
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• Special equipment brought in from Oregon to remove derailed Amtrak locomotive from I-5

  20-12-2017 15:59
  The lone remaining piece of the derailed Amtrak train 501, which weighs more than 270,000 pounds, would be hauled away Wednesday on a specialized trailer, officials said. It's still unclear when southbound Interstate 5 would reopen.
  
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• I-5 could reopen later Wednesday: Derailed Amtrak train’s locomotive has been hauled off

  20-12-2017 15:59
  Interstate 5's southbound lanes could open later Wednesday, after an Amtrak train's locomotive is hauled away and the roadway is inspected for damage.
  
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• I-5 could reopen later Wednesday after special trailer removes derailed Amtrak locomotive

  20-12-2017 15:59
  Interstate 5's southbound lanes could open later Wednesday, after an Amtrak train's locomotive is hauled away and the roadway is inspected for damage.
  
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• All southbound I-5 lanes blocked by Amtrak train crash in Washington state reopen

  20-12-2017 15:59
  The reopening of the I-5 southbound lanes eases the traffic crunch that has enveloped the region since Monday's deadly Amtrak train crash.
  
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• Opponents vow to fight on as Congress opens Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to drilling as part of massive tax bill

  20-12-2017 15:00
  Opponents of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge pledge to continue their fight, vowing lawsuits and other action against companies that seek to drill there.
  
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• Tech is cool, but handwriting helps learning, so Kent tries new pen-friendly laptops

  20-12-2017 14:00
  Technology, while fast and shiny, is not all-powerful in the classroom. How to sketch out a science concept on a keyboard? Kent schools are tackling this quandary by buying thousands of laptops that allow students to hand-write on screens.
  
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• With Tech Support, Seattle Artists Try Plugging In to Tech Wealth

  20-12-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  The latest SOIL exhibit features works that appeal directly to the tech community—and that can be viewed and purchased online.by Emily PothastKatie Holden's floating world (version 2) isn't just a nice object, it's a good idea. Crafted from subtle, materially seductive wood and polymer clay, it's a small wall-mounted sculpture designed to hold an iPhone above your head, so you can watch videos while lying down without making your arms tired.Across the room, Julia Heineccius's Tree of Wifi
  
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• The Delicious Hand-Ripped Noodles of Xi'an

  20-12-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  A review of the biang biang noodles and cumin-stewed meats at Xi'an Noodles.by Angela GarbesGood cooking takes time and effort, and it's physical work. I am reminded of this every time I gleefully slurp my way through a bowl of biangbiang noodles at Xi'an Noodles.The onomatopoetic name of these noodles refers to the hard work that goes into making them—biang biang is the sound the hand-rolled dough makes when it's repeatedly slapped against the counter to thin it. The dough is then pulled
  
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• Rock Goddesses Thunderpussy Signed to a Major Label and Are Poised to Blow Up

  20-12-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  This might be the last New Year's Eve celebration ever. Why not go out with Thunderpussy's decadent rock bang?by Dave SegalReal talk—this might be the last New Year's Eve we're ever going to have. A quick look at the news fills one with a keen sense of apocalyptic anxiety. Irrational and greedy politicians who suck at diplomacy in positions of power; the nuclear football in Trump's tiny, inept hands; lethal climate change; religious intolerance; the death of "truth"; and music-streaming se
  
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• My Problem with Darkest Hour Involves a Bathtub, a Man, and His Penis

  20-12-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  The new film about Winston Churchill has an upsetting scene of sexual harassment in it.by Charles MudedeHere is my first (but not main) problem with Darkest Hour, a film about Winston Churchill pulling Great Britain from the brink of disaster in the early days of World War II: It's too long. Everything the film has to say could have been easily and neatly packed into 80 brisk minutes.We would see the unstoppable Nazis and Great Britain's defeat at Dunkirk; we would hear from those who want to ap
  
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• Joseph Osmundson's Inside/Out Is About Messy, Dirty, Raw Gay Love in the Age of Grindr

  20-12-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Inside/Out explores the hollowed-out feeling of dating the wrong guy.by Christopher Frizzelle"I haven't yet read much about how two boys can love and hate and abuse each other. Kiss deep while all the while kicking each other in the shins," Joseph Osmundson writes in his plaintive, fragmented, and very dirty mini-memoir Inside/Out.The book reads more like nonfiction poetry than memoir (some chapters are only five words long, and none are longer than three pages), but it depicts the true story of
  
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• I, Anonymous: My Disabled Daughter Is a Person, Not Your After-School Special

  20-12-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  by AnonymousI was at an upscale grocery store with my disabled adult daughter. We move slowly, but we managed to get through the store without too much trouble. I got up to the counter with my $7 worth of groceries and noticed that the woman in front of me in line was chatting with the cashier and glancing back at me. When I got up to the counter, the cashier burst out for all to hear that the woman had decided to pay for my groceries. Like I had just won the lottery or some shit. Suddenly, ever
  
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• Crossword Solution: "In Secret"

  20-12-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  The solutions to the crossword puzzle in the December 20, 2017 issue of The Stranger.by Brendan Emmett Quigley[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Conjugal Visit: We Made Love Until He Got Called Back to His White-Collar Digital World

  20-12-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  I nibbled his ears like I was munching on a piece of ginger.by AnonymousHe was visiting from India on business, and I was gazing at the Olympics from the Sculpture Park dressed in a suit I found at Goodwill. He asked if I had dinner plans, and I let him take me out for salmon. We drank wine from Walla Walla. At Golden Gardens, I gave him a real taste of Seattle, between blankets made of the fibers from recycled plastic bottles. He licked my butthole like he was digging the frosting out of a crea
  
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• Call Me by Your Name Is a Beautiful Love Song with a Hollow Center

  20-12-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Armie Hammer's drab masculinity seems out of place in Luca Guadagnino's swooning palazzo.by Sean NelsonI know I wasn't the only one who thought Anne Helen Petersen's Buzzfeed article "Ten Long Years of Trying to Make Armie Hammer Happen" seemed a little extra nasty, if not entirely inaccurate.The piece argued that the only reason Armie Hammer still has a high-profile career is that he's exactly the sort of rich, bland, white, patrician man the Hollywood machine is built to cosset, at the expense
  
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• Boobs, Butts, and Beignets at the Can Can's Winter Cabaret Wonderland

  20-12-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Even your grandma would love these (nearly) naked people.by Chase BurnsI was told by a publicist that even the beignets are naughty. Yes, the beignets. Apparently, sugary dough can be a tease at a cabaret and burlesque show. As I walked to the Can Can's popular winter show, Wonderland, I wondered: How can anything be sexy when everything is sexy? I was determined to find out.Located underneath one of Seattle's busiest corners, near the Public Market Center sign, the Can Can feels like a relic of
  
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• Aww! Look How Teensy Weensy Matt Damon Is in Downsizing!

  20-12-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  He's so itty bitty!by Vince ManciniIn Downsizing, Alexander Payne’s big idea is to try to treat his film’s title as literally as possible, positing a world where a Norwegian scientist has invented a shrink ray that can reduce organic matter to a thousandth of its original size. Why? Well, since we can’t enlarge the earth and its finite resources, maybe we can shrink ourselves to make them last longer.We’re conditioned these days to assume that the stakes of any story are
  
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• All the Money in the World Should Have Been a Disaster, but It’s Not!

  20-12-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Ridley Scott calls in the Plummer to salvage a kidnap thriller.by Ned LannamannIt sounded crazy: Mere weeks away from the release of All the Money in the World, director Ridley Scott decided to erase every trace of Kevin Spacey from his movie following disturbing allegations of that actor’s sexual assault and harassment. Scott quickly refilmed large sections with Christopher Plummer, who replaced Spacey in the role of J. Paul Getty, founder of Getty Oil and one of the richest men of the 20
  
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• Aaron Sorkin and Jessica Chastain Play Molly’s Game

  20-12-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Is her game... Jenga?by Eric D. SniderAfter writing several wordy screen plays and a few endearingly verbose TV shows, Aaron Sorkin sits down in the director’s chair with Molly’s Game, a fact-based story that is every inch An Aaron Sorkin Film. Walking and talking? Earnest speeches? Social justice? Daddy issues? You bet!This uneven but entertaining lark comes from a 2014 memoir by Molly Bloom (played by Jessica Chastain), a former Olympic hopeful who puts off law school and ends up r
  
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