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• Former Garfield High student Leah LaBelle dies in LA crash with ex-NBA player

  31-01-2018 23:57
  LOS ANGELES — R&B singer Leah LaBelle Vladowski, an alumna of Seattle’s Garfield High School, was killed in a single-vehicle rollover crash in Los Angeles early Wednesday with her husband, former NBA forward Rasual Butler. The Range Rover crashed around 2:30 a.m. in the Studio City area and left a swath of damage along a major […]
  
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• Former Garfield High School student Leah LaBelle dies in LA crash with ex-NBA player Rasual Butler

  31-01-2018 23:57
  LOS ANGELES — R&B singer Leah LaBelle Vladowski, an alumna of Seattle’s Garfield High School, was killed in a single-vehicle rollover crash in Los Angeles early Wednesday with her husband, former NBA forward Rasual Butler. The Range Rover crashed around 2:30 a.m. in the Studio City area and left a swath of damage along a major […]
  
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• Wenatchee officer shot in the hand during suicide call

  31-01-2018 23:35
  Police say officers were struggling with Ernesto Figueroa in a home when he grabbed a gun and it fired, hittingSgt. Mark Huson's hand.
  
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• Police: Men steal teen’s phone, tell dad to pay ransom

  31-01-2018 23:34
  A 25-year-old man and an accomplice used a stolen phone to convince the phone owner's father that she had been abducted and held for ransom, according to Seattle police.
  
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• As Sundance Continues to Snub Seattle, SXSW Shows It More and More Love

  31-01-2018 23:16 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeOutside InNathan M. Miller
  Sundance has lately shown little to no love for Seattle films. This would be a big, if not fatal, blow to scene if that festival was the only game in town. Thankfully, it's not. There's also Austin's SXSW. Last year, that festival, which actually launched the career of Moonlight director Barry Jenkins in 2008—his first film, Medicine for Melancholy, was accepted by SXSW but rejected by Sundance—featured two films from Seattle (SJ Chiro's fe
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Unsolicited Dick Pics Are a Hard No But She's Tempted To Make An Exception For This Dick

  31-01-2018 23:11 via thestranger.com
  by Dan Savage
  I'm a mostly hetero female who hooks up on Tinder, a lot. A vast majority of these hookups lead to fun, satisfying, amazing sex. That said, I have a set of criteria to decline some candidates. Recently, one exchange left me questioning those criteria, so I seek your sage advice.I matched with a really sexy guy, we started talking and I quickly made my intentions clear. His bio mentioned bdsm (which I'm not into) but I figured he might not be against hookups with vanilla women. When
  
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• Washington Senate approves abortion insurance bill

  31-01-2018 23:04
  The measure now heads to the state House, where it has passed in previous years but ultimately stalled when the Senate was controlled by Republicans.
  
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• Seattle school-bus driver strike could last for days, union says

  31-01-2018 23:03
  The strike by 400 bus drivers means that, for the second time this school year, 12,000 Seattle students will need to find other ways to get to and from school without their usual yellow-bus service.
  
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• ICYMI: University Book Store Made Publishers Weekly Short List for Bookstore of the Year

  31-01-2018 22:53 via thestranger.com
  
  Congrats!by Rich SmithYayyyyyyy Kelly O
  Last week Publishers Weekly announced its nominees for Bookstore of the Year. The list includes University Book Store, the benevolent behemoth on the Ave, along with Astoria Bookshop (Queens, New York), Boulder Bookstore (Boulder, Colo.), Gibson’s Bookstore (Concord, N.H.), and Source Booksellers (Detroit, Mich.). According to PW, winners will be announced in late March.The competition, as it always tends to be, is stiff. "The shortlist includes two
  
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• Local Music Community to Support Safe Consumption Spaces in Seattle

  31-01-2018 22:08 via thestranger.com
  
  Four influential local music-community figures lead a campaign to build a Safe Consumption Space in Seattle.by Dave Segal Yes to SCS
  With drug overdoses hitting record levels—resulting in over 300 deaths annually among King County residents—Seattle-area musicians Jenn Champion, John Roderick, and SassyBlack, plus Sub Pop CEO Megan Jasper today have kickstarted a media campaign in support of the Yes to SCS organization. In conjunction with the Public Defender Association, the movement
  
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• 2 men wounded in shooting in Seattle’s South Park area

  31-01-2018 21:59
  The victims told police they saw a car speeding away from the scene after the shooting.
  
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• Mexico and America Unite in Movement at the Seattle International Dance Festival Winter Mini-Fest

  31-01-2018 21:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Andrew HamlinCiudad Interior Company from Mexico City (pictured) joins Seattle's Khambatta Dance Troupe during the Winter Mini-Fest David Steck
  Staging international dance festivals on American soil was already a challenge, admits Seattle’s Cyrus Khambatta, the artistic director of Khambatta Dance Troupe (KDC), but the 2016 election has only made it worse.He's presented international dance programs locally since 2006, but under the Trump administration the work is noticeably tougher. &l
  
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• SPD: 2 shot in South Park

  31-01-2018 21:36
  Seattle police confirmed that two people were shot midday Wednesday in the South Park area.
  
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• Blabbermouth Podcast: The Stormy State of the Union, Plus Nikki Haley and Alleged Liberal Hypocrisy

  31-01-2018 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by The StrangerEpisode 134 discusses the Stormy Daniels non-scandal, Trump's demagogic State of the Union, and some new shows you need to watch! Ethan Miller / Getty ImagesSubscribe to the podcast FOR FREE by clicking right here!
  Dan Savage is back to talk about Trump’s “State of the Union” address with Rich Smith and Eli Sanders. The speech was, in a word, madness.After that, Stormy Daniels’s take on Trump's speech, plus Dan’s take on why Trump’s alleged affa
  
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• Environmental groups sue to block road through Alaska refuge

  31-01-2018 21:23
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Nine environmental groups are suing the U.S. government to prevent a land trade that could lead to construction of a road through a national wildlife refuge in Alaska. The groups say a road through Izembek (EYE-zem-bek) National Wildlife Refuge on the Alaska Peninsula will harm internationally recognized habitat for migrating waterfowl. […]
  
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• Charge: Woman shot Renton man over breakfast

  31-01-2018 21:23
  Renton police say that a woman who shot a longtime friend of hers without provocation last week may have done so due to symptoms of her mental illness.
  
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• Seattle can move forward with Burke-Gilman Trail’s missing link, hearing examiner says

  31-01-2018 21:19
  But the coalition challenging the city, a group of Ballard businesses, including Salmon Bay Sand and Gravel, had previously promised to appeal the hearing examiner’s decision if it went against them.
  
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• As Bike Advocates Celebrate Burke-Gilman Decision, Nearby Businesses Are Likely to Challenge

  31-01-2018 21:04 via thestranger.com
  
  The question is where Durkan stands.by Steven HsiehA rendering of the city's proposed Burke-Gilman connector.
  Seattle’s transportation department just cleared another legal hurdle to break ground on the “missing link” of the Burke-Gilman trail.
  A hearing examiner ruled on Wednesday that the city did enough review of the environmental impacts of constructing a bike and pedestrian trail along an industrial stretch of Shilshole Avenue and a segment Market Street.The 1.4 mile segme
  
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• Why "The Father Thing" Episode in Amazon's Electric Dreams Series Is Like Close Encounters of the Third Kind

  31-01-2018 20:43 via thestranger.com
  
  The son has indeed a serious "father thing" going on.by Charles MudedeGreg Kinnear is the father in “Father Thing.” Amazon
  The episode on Amazon's sci-fi series Electric Dreams is called "The Father Thing," but the Philip K. Dick short story it's based on is called "The Father-Thing." The absence of the hyphen in the title of the Amazon show cannot be ignored. It changes the tone of the whole story. The TV episode has at its core an Oedipal twist. SPOILER ALERT. The father in the plo
  
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• For How Many Years Have We Been Misusing the Word "Anniversary"?

  31-01-2018 19:49 via thestranger.com
  
  By this time next year, you should be celebrating the first anniversary of using the word "anniversary" correctly.by Dave Segal Dictionary.com
  To answer the question in the header: too damn many. In the realm of quixotic endeavors, trying to get people to use the word "anniversary" correctly ranks as one of the most daunting. It's up there with "hopefully" in the frequency with which it's wrongly deployed. (Even the AP Stylebook editors threw up their hands in futility over that one in 2012.)As
  
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• Mayor 'showcasing' Seattle's best. Why not tour its failings?

  31-01-2018 19:38
  During last fall's campaign, Durkan topped her to-do list with a promise that the city would do a better job delivering basic services. The promise was straightforward: Seattle voters are generous with tax levies, and they should get to see results.
  
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• Stone tools in India suggest earlier human exit from Africa

  31-01-2018 19:02
  NEW YORK (AP) — Just a week after scientists reported evidence that our species left Africa earlier than we thought, another discovery is suggesting the date might be pushed back further. Homo sapiens arose in Africa at least 300,000 years ago and left to colonize the globe. Scientists think there were several dispersals from Africa, […]
  
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• Listen: Orca imitates human speech ... seriously

  31-01-2018 18:55
  Wikie, a 14-year-old female orca held at the Marineland Aquarium in France, has been taught to mimic sounds from her trainer. That includes speech, according to a paper published by researchers from Complutense University of Madrid.
  
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• People across Seattle area got up early to see #SuperBlueBloodMoon — but saw clouds instead

  31-01-2018 18:27
  It's been 150 years since this rare lunar event has been viewable from the Americas. But it was a bust for those in the Puget Sound region.
  
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• Seattle School Bus Drivers Will Strike Thursday

  31-01-2018 18:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Drivers say the company must offer better insurance.by Heidi Groover SPACES IMAGES/GETTY
  After a one-day strike in November, Seattle school bus drivers will begin a lengthier strike Thursday. Drivers plan to strike until they reach a deal with management at First Student, the bus company that contracts with Seattle Public Schools, according to their union, Teamsters Local 174.
  The drivers say they are fighting for health insurance that is more affordable and covers their families. The company ha
  
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• Slog AM: White Center a Soda-Tax-Free Promised Land, Seattle's Murder-Rate IncreasesSeattleites Flock to White Center for Tax-Free Soda, School Bus Strike Tomorrow

  31-01-2018 17:29 via thestranger.com
  
  High Toronto cops, the lunar event we missed, and all the facts from the State of the Union.by Nathalie GrahamParents! Do you have a contingency plan? pyzata / GETTY
  #MeToo in Olympia: The Legislature relies on an antiquated complaint system for sexual harassment claims. The complaints are investigated by partisan staff members, legislative leaders, and administrative leaders. Since concerns that complaints aren't adequately investigated have surfaced, the Legislature has improved its sexual har
  
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• Slog AM: Seattleites Flock to White Center for Tax-Free Soda, Olympia Working on Sexual Harassment Policies

  31-01-2018 17:29 via thestranger.com
  
  High Toronto cops, the lunar event we missed, and all the facts from the State of the Union.by Nathalie GrahamYou could have it all. arto_canyon
  #MeToo in Olympia: The Legislature relies on an antiquated complaint system for sexual harassment claims. The complaints are investigated by partisan staff members, legislative leaders, and administrative leaders. Since concerns that complaints aren't adequately investigated have surfaced, the Legislature has improved its sexual harassment prevention tr
  
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• Dutch cut gas firm out of quake damage compensation process

  31-01-2018 16:58
  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch authorities unveiled a new agreement Wednesday to compensate homeowners for damages due to earthquakes caused by gas extraction, a deal that removes the company responsible for the quakes from the compensation process. In a concession to thousands of northeastern residents whose homes have been shaken by hundreds of small […]
  
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• Seattleites making a run to the border for … Coke?

  31-01-2018 15:00
  White Center finds itself a city divided — literally, down Roxbury Street — by the price of pop.
  
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• #MeToo in the Legislature: Harassment complaint process ‘is not reflecting women’s experiences’ in Olympia

  31-01-2018 15:00
  Instead of being investigated by a neutral party, like a human-resources manager, harassment complaints in the state Capitol are reviewed by partisan staff members, as well as administrative and legislative leaders.
  
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• Cure for parking overload? Shuttle experiment begins from Des Moines to Angle Lake light-rail station

  31-01-2018 15:00
  King County Metro this week started Route 635, which circulates as often as every 15 minutes during morning and afternoon peak times.
  
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• Southern California gets clear view of super blue blood moon

  31-01-2018 14:29
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Clear skies are giving Southern Californians an unimpeded view of the first super blue blood moon in 35 years. At the famous Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, hundreds of people gathered on the lawn to catch the cosmic show that started around 3:45 a.m. Wednesday. Sky-gazers also lined the beach near […]
  
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• What does Seattle’s next schools chief need to know? Share your questions for the finalists with us.

  31-01-2018 14:00
  A coalition of community groups and the principals’ and teachers’ union have urged the Seattle School Board to slow down its search for a new superintendent. What do you think the next schools chief needs to know before taking the job? What would you ask potential finalists?
  
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• Welcome to Kyle Craft’s Full Circle Nightmare

  31-01-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  The Portland singer-songwriter releases his swaggering sophomore album.by Ben SalmonWhen Kyle Craft made his debut album—2016’s Dolls of Highland—he did so on a laptop in a laundry room in Shreveport, Louisiana. He played almost all the parts himself (except for some drum tracks), and recorded with the freedom that comes with being relatively unknown.By contrast, Craft made his new record Full Circle Nightmare with a full band in a real studio in his new home of Portland, with
  
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• Valentine's Day Is a Made Up Corporate Holiday, but at Least We Have Weed Chocolates

  31-01-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Pot chocolates are the only good thing about Valentine's Day.by Lester BlackTaste-Testing Weed ChocolatesI don't like Valentine's Day.I realize that puts me on a bit of an island, but the "holiday" has just never felt very good to me. Did you know it has historic roots in a Roman tradition of drunk, naked men slapping women with parts of dead goats and dogs? I'm not into blood or bestiality, so I'll pass on that. The modern corporate iteration—with its emphasis on depressing single people
  
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• Three Documentaries About the Greatest City on Earth

  31-01-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  SIFF is showing Los Sures, Stations of the Elevated, and Dark Days on the same day.by Charles MudedeMy first trip to New York City happened in April 1980. It was a family trip in a new car, a dark-brown Datsun 210. Though we lived in Washington, DC, at the time, nothing had prepared me for the Big Apple. And it wasn't the height and abundance of the city's buildings that astounded me. Nor was it the crowds going up and down Broadway. It was just one person in one span of time that lasted maybe o
  
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• There Is a Flower for True Love, Yes, but There Is Also a Flower You Can Use to Declare War on Someone

  31-01-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The strange, hidden, historical roots of Valentine's Day rituals.by Rich SmithIn Austria, it was once customary for young women to dance with slices of apples tucked beneath their armpits. When they finished dancing, the women would then give the sweaty fruits to their crushes as a sign of affection.While this sounds incredibly hot to us now—almost pornographically hot—it is also weird. But it's not that much weirder than plucking a flower from the ground and giving it to somebody, o
  
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• The Stranger's 2018 Valentine's Day Issue

  31-01-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Falling in love is still a thing people do.by Christopher FrizzelleA few weeks ago at The Stranger's offices, we noticed something shocking out the window: people having sex.It was two people, and they were in the newly built apartment building across the street. Given the angle and the lighting, we could only see their midsections, but one of them was bent over, and the other one was standing behind the bent over person, and the standing person was going at it. Some editorial staffers guessed i
  
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• The Secret History of Romantic Customs

  31-01-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The strange, hidden, historical roots of Valentine's Day rituals.by Rich SmithIn Austria, it was once customary for young women to dance with slices of apples tucked beneath their armpits. When they finished dancing, the women would then give the sweaty fruits to their crushes as a sign of affection.While this sounds incredibly hot to us now—almost pornographically hot—it is also weird. But it's not that much weirder than plucking a flower from the ground and giving it to somebody, o
  
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• The Romance of Chili Cheese Fries

  31-01-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  The inexpensive, late-night, bad-for-us food my husband and I ate as we were falling in love.by Angela GarbesI knew I was in trouble on our third date, when, on our second round of beer and whiskeys at the Summit Public House, we decided to order a large pepperoni pie from Toscana Pizzeria next door. Over the next four hours of conversation, we polished off every bite. At 2 a.m., we stumbled home toward our apartments, clutching each other's hands instead of an oil-soaked take-out box.When I sum
  
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• The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore Is an Absorbing Book About the Lives of Women

  31-01-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  A traumatizing experience at summer camp reverberates for years in Kim Fu's new novel.by Rich SmithAlmost everything about Kim Fu's The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore looks like a young-adult novel—the overlong and fantastical-sounding title, the apparent focus on youths, the dreamy starlit cover with oars crossing in the center—but it's not. It's a gripping survival story about the lives of six diverse women—Nita, Andee, Kayla, Isabel, Dina, Siobhan—who first meet at an
  
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• The Craziest Outfits These Three Drag Queens Have Ever Had Sex In

  31-01-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Ugly looks that inspired sexy times.by Chase BurnsMiss Texas 1988{{ image:1 }}The drag clown Miss Texas 1988 was determined to wear three different looks to Rapture, the monthly party at the Timbre Room. Her first outfit, a crimson skirt paired with black kitten heels, felt lackluster, so Miss Texas was surprised when a normcore stranger followed her outside to tell her how good she looked. Miss Texas was even more surprised when the man began making out with her in her messy car. "Sorry about a
  
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• Romancing the Stone-Cold Pregnant Woman

  31-01-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  She's growing a human being, for Christ's sake.by Leilani PolkThere's an old midwives saying that describes the three trimesters of pregnancy as "dreary," "cheery," and "weary." I wish. That indicates there's a period between the first trimester (constant illness, relentless mood swings) and the third trimester (when you're huge and exhausted) that feels good.I didn't experience this glittering promised land of a second trimester. All I got were bouts of moodiness, tender breasts, an overactive
  
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• Multimedia Spectacular PYLON III Has Catastrophic Choreography, an Enigmatic Score, and Unexpected Notes of Hope

  31-01-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  If you go to only one avant-garde dance performance this year, make it PYLON III.by Dave SegalEven if you think you don't like avant-garde dance, you should still consider checking out PYLON III. Its predecessor, PYLON II, in 2016, blew the minds of the King Street Station crowd with its harrowing beauty and power. It felt at once zeitgeisty and like a cautionary tale with undertones of George Orwell's 1984 on steroids. I've gone to two avant-dance events in my life, but PYLON II—choreogra
  
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• I, Anonymous: Hey, SPD, Stop Horsing Around

  31-01-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  I, Anonymous: Hey, SPD, Stop Horsing Aroundby AnonymousI see you, horse-top police officers of downtown. And what the actual fuck? Why do you still feel the need to transport these monstrously large live animals into Pioneer Square, trailered by an even bigger Ford F-350, and lower them into the concrete garbage heap that is downtown? Usually in pairs, you clip-clop these broken old mammals in and around First and Second Avenues for no apparent reason. Are you going to pull me over on horseback?
  
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• Hypercritical: Dogs in Public

  31-01-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  If my emotional-support cow isn’t welcome in Safeway, why should your dog be any different?by Katie HerzogImagine for a moment that you're sitting in your favorite coffee shop. It's early in the morning, before the freelancers have arrived to turn the place into an office. You've grabbed your favorite seat by the window and you're sipping your soy-green-tea-yerba-mate latte and reading the newspaper in peace.A guy comes in. At first, all seems normal. He waits patiently in line for his bev
  
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• Disgusted by Men? Date Women Instead.

  31-01-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  A primer for women who have always dated men and are suddenly interested in dating women instead.by Judy BerryUnless you've been living in a menstrual hut for the past few months, you've probably heard by now that men are out. From (alleged) serial predators like Harvey Weinstein to (admitted) public masturbators like Louis CK to (accused) bad dates like Aziz "The Claw" Ansari, women have just about had enough. Men rape, men pillage, men offer us white wine when we really prefer red, and, when t
  
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• Crossword Solution: "Stability"

  31-01-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  The solutions to the crossword puzzle in the January 31 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: A New Kind of Massage

  31-01-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Ball massage.by AnonymousMy boyfriend had just gotten home from deployment, and we were having a celebratory fuck. He stopped mid-thrust and said he wanted to try something new. He promised it wasn't weird, but sensual. He told me to lie on my belly. He lubed himself up from neck to nuts and straddled me, as if I were a pony. His two golden labs were lying on the floor, nearly face-to-face with me. I suggested putting them out of the room, but he insisted that they didn't mind being there, as if
  
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• Artist Matt Browning Is Making Moving Work with Metals

  31-01-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  A review of Matt Browning's art show Moving-Metal at Veronica.by Emily PothastIn the early 1980s, a curious thing happened to pennies. The value of a penny-
  sized piece of copper rose above one cent, making the coins more valuable as raw material than as currency. That's why pennies minted since 1982 have contained a zinc core plated by a thin veneer of copper.The switch to zinc wasn't the first time zinc was used to preserve more valuable materials. Shipbuilders use zinc in sacrificial anodes&m
  
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