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• The Possibilities of a Neo-Lamarckian Urbanism

  14-02-2018 23:25 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede Richard Newstead/gettyimages.com
  Before there was Charles Darwin, there was French zoologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829). His name is now attached to the idea of "inheritance of acquired characteristics." What this means is that an animal's experiences can be transmitted to its offspring. The classic example of this is a giraffe stretching its neck to reach leaves during his/her life, and this stretching causes the necks of his/her children to be extended. Darwin ag
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Can You Do That Cuckold Thing Without the Humiliation Part?

  14-02-2018 23:22 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  My girlfriend and I have been together for six months and it has been great! We truly love each other and are inseparable. We are good at communicating and are very honest with each other. I’ve worked in the mental health field and I have been a counselor, so I know how important communication is in a relationship. That said, my girlfriend and I have talked about what our fantasies are. Mine is simple, a FFM threesome, which she is open to trying. Hers is not so simple.
  That&
  
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• The Clock-Out Lounge Is Hosting a Dischord Records Tribute/Cover Night on April 13

  14-02-2018 21:54 via thestranger.com
  
  In a band that loves Dischord Records and would like to cover songs from its revered catalog? Clock-Out Lounge wants to hear from you.by Dave Segal1-2-3, repeater! Dischord Records
  On April 13, the new Beacon Hill venue Clock-Out Lounge will hold a night devoted to local bands covering songs from the catalog of the revered Washington DC punk/post-punk label Dischord. The club is seeking groups to perform three-four songs per artist and so far has confirmed Fugazi, Slant 6, and Shudder to Think.
  
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• Active School Shooting Underway in Florida

  14-02-2018 21:51 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageIt's the 19th school shooting this year, the school is still on lockdown, and the suspect is still at large. Early reports say one person is dead and twenty are injured. But not to worry: Donald Trump has already sent his thoughts and prayers — so we can safely assume the White House has already determined that the shooter is white and a U.S. citizen.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Ivar's to close up shop at Sea-Tac

  14-02-2018 21:28
  Ivar's restaurant in Sea-Tac is set to close, again, this time by early 2019.
  
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• Update: One Week Later and I Still Can't Stop Thinking About Marlon Brando and Richard Pryor Fucking

  14-02-2018 21:24 via thestranger.com
  
  Did they kiss? Did they cuddle? Did they giggle? Were circles drawn lightly with lazy fingers in chest hair flecked with perspiration?by Sean Nelson"What do you think you two are? A pair of queens?"
  I understand that time is a river, and that rivers aren't circular, and that in internet time, the subject I'm addressing here is essentially precambrian. However.Vulture published David Marchese's "In Conversation with Quincy Jones"—which, according to Columbia Journalism Review, was read (or
  
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• Sorry If You Were Expecting It: No Octopus Sex at the Aquarium Today

  14-02-2018 20:51 via thestranger.com
  
  Maybe if Raspberry hadn't gotten knocked up last year, this year would be different.by Sydney BrownstoneMaybe if Raspberry hadn't gotten knocked up last year, this would be different.FOTOKON/SHUTTERSTOCK
  In the recent Seattle past, if you had nothing else going for you on Valentine's Day, you could always head over to the Seattle Aquarium to watch two octopus* have sex. The aquarium's "Octopus Week" has traditionally coincided with Valentine's Day, during which time the aquarium handlers would p
  
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• Seattle not amused by real-estate company’s green pigs stunt

  14-02-2018 20:15
  A Very Seattle story unfolded this week as a Denver startup that put ads all over local parks to promote its new real-estate services ran up against locals protective of their park space and suspicious of out-of-towners coming in to profit off the booming real-estate market.
  
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• Lawmakers withdraw autonomous vehicle proposal

  14-02-2018 19:33
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Lawmakers effectively withdrew a proposal to allow autonomous vehicles on Oregon roads. The House Transportation Policy committee voted 8-0 Wednesday to substitute an amendment that replaced proposed rules for the vehicles with a study group. That group would report to the Legislature in the fall. Legislators questioned the safety of fully […]
  
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• New to Town? Need an Apartment? Looking to Make Friends? The Stranger Is Here to Help

  14-02-2018 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher Frizzelle
  There are a thousand new people arriving in Seattle every week—and you are one of them. You got a job at Amazon, or a job at a start-up, or a job in construction. Or you're a cannabis entrepreneur, or you're in the restaurant industry, or you've always wanted to live near the mountains. Maybe you're an activist who wants to live in the most left-wing city in the country. Maybe you're a designer who got tapped to work for Nordstrom HQ or a barista who got tapped to
  
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• Guest Editorial: Reproductive Parity Act Means Improved Health Care Access for All Washington Women

  14-02-2018 18:46 via thestranger.com
  
  The fight is more critical than ever.by Tiffany Hankins Courtesy of the author
  Thanks to reproductive rights voters and the pro-choice legislators they elected, a landmark health care bill is poised to pass in Washington State. The Reproductive Parity Act will require insurance companies to cover abortion care and birth control. These are important steps toward addressing the reproductive health disparities and cost barriers throughout the state. The bill will affirm Washington State as a nation
  
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• Spermgate? Spermghazi? Spermhannity?

  14-02-2018 18:11 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  Sean Hannity took one look at Barack Obama's official presidential portrait — unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery earlier this week — and saw what he wanted to see:
  Sean Hannity isn’t a fan of Barack Obama, and he’s not fond of the former president’s new portrait either. Hannity on Tuesday tweeted a remark claiming the portrait had “secret sperm” hidden within the image.... It was perhaps inevitable that controversy would su
  
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• Everett teen arrested after grandmother finds journal detailing school-shooting plot, police say

  14-02-2018 17:43
  The call to 911 was made Tuesday morning after the teen's grandmother found what she believed were "upcoming and credible threats" to shoot students at his high school.
  
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• KUOW Staffers Overwhelmingly Elect to Unionize

  14-02-2018 17:42 via thestranger.com
  
  It's the first time in the station's 65-year history.by Heidi GrooverPublic radio, organized. avdyachenko/GETTY
  Staffers at Seattle's most prominent National Public Radio affiliate are getting a union. In a card check this week, KUOW reporters, producers, and other staffers overwhelmingly elected to join SAG-AFTRA, a union representing radio and TV journalists across the country. The move represents the first time in KUOW's 65-year history that the station's journalists will have union represent
  
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• Prince Henrik, husband of Danish monarch, dies at age 83

  14-02-2018 17:37
  Prince Henrik, diagnosed with dementia last year and hospitalized late last month with a lung infection, died late Tuesday at the royal family’s residence north of Copenhagen.
  
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• Slog AM: Seattle Transit is Thriving, ICE Lawyer Steals Immigrant Identities

  14-02-2018 17:23 via thestranger.com
  
  Would you vote for a teenage boy or a dog for governor?by Nathalie Graham💖 Stanton Stephens
  Transit is Seattle’s Valentine: Hear that? Seattle loves transit! The numbers are in and they’re the first that fully account for the new UW and Capitol Hill light rail stations. Seattle added 10,000 morning transit commuters last year. Capacity constraints are definitely a thing, especially if you’re trying to hop on that E line in Aurora at peak hours. But, 11 more RapidRide bu
  
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• Bicyclist killed in hit-and-run crash in Pierce County

  14-02-2018 16:49
  The Washington State Patrol said they have no leads on the fleeing vehicle in Milton.
  
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• Rampaging bull leads to high school lockdown in Idaho

  14-02-2018 16:35
  BURLEY, Idaho (AP) — A high school in southeast Idaho was briefly placed on lockdown after a bull escaped an auction yard and stormed past the campus. The Times-News reports the Black Angus bull rampaged across the town of Burley on Tuesday, trampling over signs and charging at people before arriving at Burley High School. […]
  
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• Winter not over yet: Some in Puget Sound region saw dusting of snow, and more could be on the way

  14-02-2018 16:03
  Sad about missing the snow that dusted some parts of Snohomish and Whatcom counties early Wednesday morning? Don't despair yet; there could be a chance for more on Sunday.
  
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• Seattle Children’s Theatre’s ‘The Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559’ unleashes thorny questions

  14-02-2018 16:00
  What does an internment camp look like through a boy’s eyes? Playwright Naomi Iizuka’s earnest and moving play talks about a Japanese American family exiled in their own country.
  
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• Not spring yet: Areas around Seattle see snow after dry spell

  14-02-2018 16:00
  The National Weather Service predicted 5-10 inches of snow at elevations above 1,500 feet through Wednesday, but areas below 1,000 feet saw heavy showers of wet snow falling in the early morning.
  
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• How best to treat opioids’ youngest sufferers? No one knows

  14-02-2018 15:50
  CHICAGO (AP) — Two babies, born 15 months apart to the same young woman overcoming opioid addiction. Two very different treatments. Sarah Sherbert’s first child was whisked away to a hospital special-care nursery for two weeks of treatment for withdrawal from doctor-prescribed methadone that her mother continued to use during her pregnancy. Nurses hesitated to […]
  
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• Q&A: Governor Jay Inslee Talks Carbon, Car Tabs, Marijuana, Trump, and Rossi

  14-02-2018 15:20 via thestranger.com
  
  The governor brought us a valentine—and more.by The StrangerIn an interview, Gov. Inslee quotes Harvey Milk, slams the "inhumane narcissist in the White House," and tells The Stranger to get on its high horse.
  Governor Jay Inslee stopped by our office on Monday to pitch us on his signature carbon tax proposal, which faces a steep climb to passage in Olympia. We ended up chatting with the governor for an hour on a wide range of issues, including car tab fees, clemency for marijuana convicti
  
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• Bicyclist killed in hit-and-run crash in Milton

  14-02-2018 15:15
  A bicyclist died in a crash early Wednesday morning on state Route 161 near Military Road South in Milton.
  
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• Climber falls to death, others rescued on Mount Hood

  14-02-2018 15:07
  More than a half-dozen people had been climbing near Oregon’s tallest peak when a climber fell about 1,000 feet. “At first he was just sliding and right before he disappeared, he started cartwheeling,” a witness says.
  
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• Want to beat traffic in King County? The push is on: Work without going to work

  14-02-2018 15:00
  Telecommuting accounted for just over 3 percent of morning commutes to downtown Seattle in 2016, according to a survey of businesses from nonprofit Commute Seattle. Nearly 10 times as many people drove to work alone
  
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• Transit ridership continues to grow in central Seattle, while solo car commutes decline

  14-02-2018 15:00
  The proportion of commuters who arrive in the morning by train, bus, streetcar or walking onto ferries has reached 48.4 percent, or by 126,808 people.
  
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• Sorry, Hanford: Your radiation leaks aren’t as important as tax cuts

  14-02-2018 15:00
  The maddening disconnect in politics goes on, as politicians who just two months ago slashed taxes are demanding more money for the increasingly unstable and dangerous Hanford nuclear-waste cleanup.
  
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• Scientists study Washington’s Rattlesnake Ridge for clues to prevent landslide disasters

  14-02-2018 15:00
  Researchers are tracking the slope as it creeps downhill to learn more about unstable hillsides and — perhaps — improve slide prediction.
  
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• Scientists study Washington’s Rattlesnake Ridge for clues to prevent landslide disaster

  14-02-2018 15:00
  Researchers are tracking the slope as it creeps downhill to learn more about unstable hillsides and — perhaps — improve slide prediction.
  
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• A sign that Seattleites don’t have a lock on love, Parisian style

  14-02-2018 15:00
  The love locks attached to the Marion Street bridge are rather sparse.
  
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• A ‘landslide observatory’: Scientists study Washington’s Rattlesnake Ridge

  14-02-2018 15:00
  Researchers are tracking the slope as it creeps downhill to learn more about unstable hillsides and — perhaps — improve slide prediction.
  
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• 1st Amendment group gives Evergreen State College low marks for free speech

  14-02-2018 15:00
  The Evergreen State College was named one of the 10 worst in the country for free speech by a national nonprofit, a designation the college disputes.
  
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• You Can't Drink On Light Rail, but Here's Where You Can Drink Near Light Rail

  14-02-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The best bars near light rail stations.by Charles MudedeColumbia City StationIf you are a drinker, this is a station you need to know about. Othello Station, by contrast, has lots of great places to eat, but no bars of distinction. The same goes for Rainier Beach Station. The bars in Columbia City, however, include the popular Royal Room (5000 Rainier Ave S), Lottie's Lounge (4900 Rainier Ave S), and Island Soul (4869 Rainier Ave S). The first bar is a great music venue, the second is relaxed, a
  
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• What It's Like to Live in a Space the Size of a Closet

  14-02-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  How to have your own apartment on Capitol Hill for $795 per month.by Paulette PerhachThe landlord opens the door to a tiny room. It radiates the possibility that I have been wrong about everything.Every decision in my life has led me to this point, and I can't believe what it looks like: The space is 10 feet by 9 feet 3 inches. This living room/dining room/office/bedroom/closet is 175 square feet total, according to my calculations.A standard window lets in light, but it has a view of a wall, ju
  
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• Welcome to Seattle, New Person!

  14-02-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The unwritten rules of Seattle's social culture.by Derek ErdmanCongrats on the new job, Deb. (Mind if I call you Deb?) Good for you for getting that signing bonus (God, I hope you have one) and moving to a city you've heard so much about.As a person who lived in Seattle for the last seven years, I have some thoughts about what Seattle is like to live in. I know what it's like to be new here, because I was new here seven years ago. And I also know what it's like to move away: I recently moved bac
  
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• Want Tickets to See Hamilton in Seattle? There's Hope for Your Ass, After All

  14-02-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  I haven't seen the show yet, but I've been jogging to the original cast recording for three years straight.by Christopher FrizzelleThe first thing you should know about Hamilton at the Paramount Theatre, which is running now through March 18, is that you can still get tickets. Whatever anyone else tells you, seats are available. "There are some tickets being released every day on stgpresents
  .org and at the box office," publicist Julie Furlong confirmed."There is also the lottery, of course," sh
  
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• The Delicious Food and Warm Family Vibe of Aviv Hummus Bar

  14-02-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  The story behind Aviv Hummus Bar.by Sydney BrownstoneLet's get a couple of things straight. If you're going to eat hummus at Aviv, it is not pronounced "hum-MUSS." Hummus is pronounced "hoo-moos" with an emphasis on the "h" that sounds like you are trying to dislodge a piece of half-chewed pita (pronounced "pit-tah") from the back of your throat. Better yet, act like you're dislodging it from your small intestine. There is no such thing as excess when you are trying to pronounce the Hebrew "chhh
  
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• The Best Places to Take Day Hikes If You Live in Seattle

  14-02-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Five hikes every person who lives in Seattle should know about.by Rich SmithAs a decidedly indoors kid originally from the Great Plains region of the country, when I got to Seattle, the idea of hiking was as ludicrous to me as the idea of taking long walks on the beach. Both activities were mere tropes of romantic comedies.But after actually walking up and down mountains every weekend for nearly two years, I discovered hiking is a perfectly legitimate way to spend an afternoon in the Pacific Nor
  
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• The 1968 Film Memories of Underdevelopment Would Probably Make Marco Rubio Cry

  14-02-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Revisiting a film about why intellectuals are lousy revolutionaries.by Charles MudedeMemories of Underdevelopment has a scene near its beginning that the Republican senator Marco Rubio might find moving. It dramatizes the values that have helped Rubio rise to the upper ranks of a political party that rewards the most heartless Americans, the GOP.The scene is set in 1961. It's two years after the Cuban Revolution put Fidel Castro into power. A youngish man named Sergio is standing in Havana's air
  
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• Seven Places in Seattle to Go When You Feel Lonely But Don't Want to Interact with Anyone

  14-02-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Where to go in Seattle if you want to leave the house but don't want to be forced into conversation.by Sydney BrownstoneIt's winter in Seattle, you've watched every obscure police procedural Netflix has to offer, and now you're even beginning to smell like sadness. You're sick of yourself, and maybe you're sick of everyone else, too. That's okay! Every city offers tiny respites for people who suffer from both self-hatred and social anxiety, and Seattle is no different. Here are the places to go
  
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• Renting in Seattle? Ask Me Anything

  14-02-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  What your landlord won't tell you about living on a lease.by Heidi GrooverHello, new person. As you probably know by now, you have moved to one of the most expensive housing markets in the country.Median Seattle renters are now paying $1,448 a month, up $92 from 2015, according to census data analyzed by the Seattle Times. But the market feels more expensive than that because many of the new apartment buildings coming online or showing up on Craigslist are far more expensive than that. According
  
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• Outdoor-Grown Weed Is Not Only Better for the Environment, It's Also Dank AF

  14-02-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Why does outdoor-grown weed get such a bad rap?by Lester BlackI don't smoke outdoor weed.""Pot grown outdoors is really only good for putting into edibles.""Indoor weed will always be more potent than outdoor weed."Fuck. That. Shit.Over the last year, I've heard budtenders say each of these things, contributing to a pervasive myth hanging around Seattle's pot stores. People think that outdoor-grown weed is inferior to warehouse-grown weed, which is total bullshit.Outdoor weed gets a bad rap beca
  
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• New Store on the Block: Amazon Go

  14-02-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  This employee-free store requires so many employees.by Eli SandersFor a store that is supposed to have zero employees, Amazon Go, the bodega-from-the-
  future that recently landed on Seventh Avenue, currently has a lot of employees. A humanities major, for example, was now employed as one of several Amazon workers standing outside of "Go" in a bright-orange jacket, handing out tote bags promising "Good food fast" and tutoring people on how to install Amazon Go's app on their smartphones.Although
  
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• Mean Jeans’ Jingles Collection Is Wonderful Junk

  14-02-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Mean Jeans’ Jingles Collection is full of odes to Applebee’s, Capri Sun, and more.by Chris StammThe goofball wits of Mean Jeans have never shied away from product placements. The band’s carefully constructed wasteoid universe, which lives in the brilliantly silly zone between Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Rock ’n’ Roll High School, is a burnout paradise of Cheerios and Jäger and Kraft and Coors Light.It should shock no one, then, that Portland&rs
  
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• “It’s Gotten a Lot More Scary,” Says Helium’s Guitarist and Singer Mary Timony

  14-02-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  The musician reflects on how much the world has changed in the last 20 years.by Sean NelsonShortly before getting on the phone to interview Mary Timony, I had a strong memory from the fall of 1997. I was talking to a guy I only ever saw at Orpheum, and I asked what he thought of the then-new Helium record, The Magic City.He made a puckery face and suggested that Timony and her bandmates had sold out to the corporate demand for electronic music by putting a keyboard line on “Leon’s Sp
  
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• I, Anonymous: Dear Landlord, Glad You're Getting Some Sun, Now Will You Fix My Leaky Roof, Already?

  14-02-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  I, Anonymous: Dear Landlord, Glad You're Getting Some Sun, Now Will You Fix My Leaky Roof, Already?by AnonymousBeing a landlord seems difficult, even to an outsider. I couldn't deal with tenants all the time, that's for certain. But when a tenant (c'est moi) has a legitimate issue (the leaky roof that hasn't been repaired after SEVEN FUCKING YEARS), I think it's bad form to send a card from your south-of-the-border vacation home to tell me how much you're enjoying the beautiful sunny weather. I
  
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• How Seattle City Hall Works (And How to Make It Work for You)

  14-02-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  A primer on local government for new Seattle residents.by Steven HsiehThe first thing you need to know is that Seattle leans left. It's probably the most left-wing major city in the country. Elected officials who would qualify as bona fide progressives in, say, Saint Louis or Buffalo routinely get heckled here as spineless sellouts.Seriously, democracy in Seattle comes with a dose of jeers. Just pop into a city council meeting when there's something divisive on the agenda—like an employee
  
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• Gay Dodgeball Melts the Seattle Freeze

  14-02-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  How to make new friends in Seattle while pummeling them with large balls.by Matt BaumeEvery Sunday, dozens of casual athletes meet behind the fogged windows of the Yesler Community Center to melt the notorious Seattle Freeze into a puddle of sweat.Social worker Wayne Smith moved to Seattle from Portland eight months ago, and after struggling to form a new group of friends, he started searching for a queer sports league to join. He was willing to join any that had the word "gay" in it, he said on
  
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• Fran Lebowitz Is the Last Funny Public Intellectual

  14-02-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Fran Lebowitz: "Everyone's been driven insane by the election, and I am also a person who is driven insane."by Sean NelsonThe good news is: Writer, social commentator, wit, and wag Fran Lebowitz is coming to Seattle to entertain questions. The bad news is... pretty much everything else. So let's focus on her.Since the success of her two essay collections, Metropolitan Life (1978) and Social Studies (1981), Lebowitz has been less visible as a writer than as a public speaker. In 2010, Martin Scors
  
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