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• Tip Your Local Drag Queens—They Need It

  21-09-2018 23:45 via thestranger.com
  
  A drag look can easily cost over $500, but queens often go home having made less than $100.by Sam ChapmanThis shit is expensive.Paulo Amorim / GettyThere is perhaps no more repeated quotation in the annals of drag than the famous Dolly Parton declaration: “It takes a lot of money to look this cheap.” There’s a good reason why: doing drag, like being Dolly Parton, costs a lot of money. But unlike being Dolly Parton, drag does not pay well.Once a fringe art form found primarily i
  
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• Local Drag Performers Often Don't Get Paid Enough to Even Cover the Cost of Their Outfit

  21-09-2018 23:45 via thestranger.com
  
  A drag look can easily cost over $500, but queens often go home having made less than $100.by Sam ChapmanThis shit is expensive.Paulo Amorim / GettyThere is perhaps no more repeated quotation in the annals of drag than the famous Dolly Parton declaration: “It takes a lot of money to look this cheap.” There’s a good reason why: doing drag, like being Dolly Parton, costs a lot of money. But unlike being Dolly Parton, drag does not pay well.Once a fringe art form found primarily i
  
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• Does Drag Have a Labor Issue?

  21-09-2018 23:45 via thestranger.com
  
  A drag look can easily cost over $500, but queens often go home having made less than $100.by Sam ChapmanThis shit is expensive.Paulo Amorim / GettyThere is perhaps no more repeated quotation in the annals of drag than the famous Dolly Parton declaration: “It takes a lot of money to look this cheap.” There’s a good reason why: doing drag, like being Dolly Parton, costs a lot of money. But unlike being Dolly Parton, drag does not pay well.Once a fringe art form found primarily i
  
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• A New Wood-Fired Restaurant Opens in Beacon Hill and More Seattle Food News You Can Use: Sept. 21, 2018 Edition

  21-09-2018 23:25 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffHomer, the new Mediterranean-inspired Beacon Hill restaurant from former Sitka & Spruce chef Logan Cox, features a wood-fired oven and a walk-up window with seasonal soft-serve ice cream. Homer via Facebook
  This week, Beacon Hill got a new wood-fired Mediterranean restaurant (with a soft-serve walk-up window!) from a former Sitka & Spruce chef, a new bio-dynamic wine bar opened on Capitol Hill, and chefs will gather for an Incredible Feast at Pike Place Mark
  
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• She's Putting Herself Through Med School Doing Sex Work—What Does She Tell the Doctor She's Dating?

  21-09-2018 23:16 via thestranger.com
  
  Savage Love Letter of the Dayby Dan Savage
  I’m a 30-year-old female in my last year of medical school. I’ve been a full service sex worker for the last three years to support myself through school. I’m out to all my friends and family, and they're all supportive, but I’m not out to anyone at the hospital or who could have any influence on my future job opportunities. I’ve been single this whole time or had casual FWBs who didn’t care that I was a sex worker.I&
  
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• Sheriff’s detectives say a 67-year-old man died from homicidal violence

  21-09-2018 23:16
  The body of a 67-year-old man was discovered by two handymen who went to the victim's residence Thursday evening to do some work for him. A homicide investigation has begun but a sheriff's spokesman did not release details of the man's injuries.
  
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• Earnest and Eccentric: Northwest Local Sightings Film Festival

  21-09-2018 23:10 via thestranger.com
  
  by Joule ZelmanExperience Elvis Presley's It Happened at the World’s Fair with live commentary from Stranger film editor and resident philosopher Charles Mudede, musician/writer Ahamefule J. Oluo, and the bestselling author/Stranger alum Lindy West.Seattle doesn’t often loom large in the national cinematic consciousness: Nowadays, even on the Hollywood screen, it’s usually mimicked by Vancouver. Which makes it extra gratifying that, for Local Sightings Film Festival, the city b
  
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• Veteran Seattle police officer used racial slurs — including ‘N-word’ — while working off duty

  21-09-2018 23:03
  Police internal-affairs investigators have concluded a now-retired veteran Seattle police officer used the 'N-word' and other racial slurs while working off duty.
  
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• Judge upholds Seattle cap on move-in fees for renters

  21-09-2018 22:59
  Landlords had challenged the law, in one of several court cases ongoing between apartment owners and the city of Seattle over recent regulations concerning the local rental market.
  
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• Last-Minute Plans: 74 Cheap & Easy Things To Do in Seattle This Weekend: Sept 21-23, 2018

  21-09-2018 22:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffArtisan vendors will sling all manner of sucrose-laden treats at the Sweet Tooth Pop-Up in Fremont this Sunday.
  Panicking because you haven't yet made plans for the weekend and you're short on cash? Don't worry—below, find all of your options for last-minute entertainment that won't cost more than $10, ranging from PARK(ing) Day to the Smithsonian's free Museum Day, and from Fall for Zines! to the Hugo House Grand Reopening Celebration. For even more options,
  
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• Grisly Murder and Queer Romance Together at Last in Lizzie

  21-09-2018 22:20 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ciara Dolan
  In a revealing interview with the Huffington Post, Chloë Sevigny said she’d hoped Lizzie—the new film in which she portrays Lizzie Borden, who was accused of murdering her father and stepmother with an ax in 1892 Massachusetts—would be a “rousing, smash-the-patriarchy piece,” and admitted that director Craig William Macneill’s final product isn’t what she’d imagined.Building off the wealthy family’s battle over inheritance
  
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• Seattle homeless services providers see mixed results, some to face penalties

  21-09-2018 22:12
  Ending months of speculation and pleas from service providers, city officials said Friday that Seattle would impose financial penalties for missing contracted goals intended to boost the number of people who found "permanent exits" from homelessness.
  
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• Half of Seattle’s homeless-services providers miss performance targets, face penalties

  21-09-2018 22:12
  Ending months of speculation and pleas from service providers, city officials said Friday that Seattle would impose financial penalties for missing contracted goals intended to boost the number of people who found "permanent exits" from homelessness.
  
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• New allegation against Rep. Manweller: Former student says she had sexual relationship with him at age 17

  21-09-2018 21:54
  In the latest allegation of inappropriate conduct against Rep. Matt Manweller, a former high-school student of his says she had a sexual relationship with him in the early 1990s when she was a minor.
  
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• GOP leaders call for state Rep. Matt Manweller to resign after latest sexual misconduct allegation

  21-09-2018 21:54
  In the latest allegation of inappropriate conduct against Rep. Matt Manweller, a former high-school student of his says she had a sexual relationship with him in the 1990s when she was a minor.
  
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• The Multi-National Corporation That Runs Seattle School Buses Regularly Leaves Students Waiting for Hours

  21-09-2018 21:46 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie Herzogasiseeit/Getty Images
  Last Thursday, parents at TOPS, a kindergarten through 8th grade school in Eastlake, received a message. In an email, they were informed by the school that three buses—the 573, 576, and 578 routes—were going to be an hour late in both the morning and the afternoon. For the foreseeable future.The message was not unexpected.
  Kevin Oshikawa-Clay, a parent at TOPS, told me in an interview that over the three years he's had a child in Seattle public sc
  
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• Daron Morris Suspends Campaign for King County Prosecutor Due to Medical Reasons

  21-09-2018 21:27 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithHe's out.JOHN E
  Less than 50 days before election day, defense attorney Daron Morris announced on Facebook that he's suspending his run for King County Prosecutor "due to medical reasons." Doesn't seem like he wants to say much more about it, either: "Beyond that information, I ask for privacy for myself and my family," he wrote.The public defender was hoping to unseat three-term incumbent Dan Satterberg by running with a more progressive slate of reforms. Satterberg was a Republica
  
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• Challenger for King County prosecutor suspends campaign, cites medical reasons

  21-09-2018 21:26
  Daron Morris, 45, had announced his candidacy for King County prosecutor in the spring. He suspended his campaign Friday.
  
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• King County health board recommends disaster response for homelessness crisis

  21-09-2018 21:25
  The King County Board of Health is urging local governments to use emergency homeless shelters in anticipation of the quickly-approaching cold weather. The board of health this week unanimously approved board member Bill Daniell’s proposal to call homelessness a public health disaster and advise local governments to do whatever is necessary to get people inside. The board’s action […]
  
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• Sarah Smith Voted Against the Education Levy in Kent for...Reasons

  21-09-2018 21:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Voting against the levy isn't punishing the legislature for failing to enact an income tax, it's punishing the schools that need the money to retain staff, repair buildings, and modernize their schools.by Rich SmithThe SECB endorses Sarah Smith in this race, but I endorse Rep. Adam Smith's look in this instance. ScreenshotA couple of interesting differences emerged between Congressman Adam Smith and Sarah Smith on Wednesday evening at a candidate forum organized by the Federal Way Mirror. The tw
  
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• Oklahoma astronaut corn maze photographed from space

  21-09-2018 20:39
  HYDRO, Okla. (AP) — It’s apt that a maze cut into an Oklahoma cornfield featuring the likeness of a former NASA astronaut can be seen from space — and has been photographed by a satellite orbiting Earth. The image of Oklahoma-born Thomas P. Stafford is cut into a 10-acre field at P Bar Farms in […]
  
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• Black Girl Magic, Mickalene Thomas, and Being My Own Muse

  21-09-2018 20:35 via thestranger.com
  
  I am my own muse, ripe with meaning, history, and grounds for inspiration to create. I think this is what Thomas is trying to tell us.by Jasmyne KeimigMUSE includes an installation inspired by the artist’s childhood home. Jasmyne Keimig
  A nipple. An ass in tight panties. Arched feet in heels. A furtive glance caught in the mirror. Typically, these are things only lovers see, but it’s something Mickalene Thomas clues you in on too. In MUSE: Mickalene Thomas Photographs and tête-
  
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• Despite Progressive Rebranding, Nike Donates More to GOP

  21-09-2018 20:09 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogOn the roof of the Nike store in San Francisco Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
  Nike has been on a bit of a progressive rebranding as of late. Sure, the company used sweatshop labor until the late '90s, but this month, they launched an ad campaign featuring Colin Kaepernick that has some progressives singing the company's praises and spreading its message for them.
  It was a savvy move: According to Reuters, since the ad was released, Nike has sold 61 percent more merchandise (despite
  
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• Despite Progressive Re-Branding, Nike Donates More to GOP

  21-09-2018 20:09 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogOn the roof of the Nike store in San Francisco Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
  Nike has been on a bit of a progressive re-branding as of late. Sure, the company used sweatshop labor until the late '90s, but this month, they launched an ad campaign featuring Colin Kaepernick that has progressives singing the company's praises and spreading its message for them.
  It was a savvy move: According to Reuters, since the ad was released, Nike has sold 61 percent more merchandise (despite that
  
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• Hugo House, Seattle's Premier Literary Center, Reopens on Capitol Hill This Saturday

  21-09-2018 19:10 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithIt's a ginormous-feeling, climate-controlled facility with 17-foot windows.COURTESY OF HUGO HOUSE
  Walking into Hugo House's new (and permanent!) home on 11th Avenue, I expected a wave of sadness to wash over me. The old house was a sagging, gray-green former funeral home with creaky boards, undulating carpet, chipped paint, horrific bathrooms, strange corridors, and a baby coffin in the basement. It was lived-in. A place only a writer could love.
  Now it is a ginormous-feeling, clima
  
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• Workers Are Fasting Over Darigold's Dangerous Working Conditions: "The Carnage Is Daily and People Need Change"

  21-09-2018 18:40 via thestranger.com
  
  Darigold's workers are fasting after the billion-dollar company refuses to fix labor issues at its dairies, which includes wage theft and sexual harassment.by Lester BlackThe workers said they would collectively fast for 5 days. Lester Black
  A broad coalition of labor groups, farm workers’ rights groups, and dairy workers started a fast Thursday at Darigold’s offices in Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood, demanding that the state’s largest dairy company improve working con
  
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• Oktoberfest 2018 Events

  21-09-2018 18:30 via thestranger.com
  Places to go for German bier, sausages, and other delights associated with the Bavarian fall festival.by Stranger Things To Do StaffOktoberfest began as a celebration of a royal Bavarian marriage in 1810, but now it's celebrated around the world as an autumn festival of bier, bratwurst, and other German-inspired delights. In and around Seattle, there are many wunderbar opportunities to bust out your lederhosen and dirndls from now until the end of October, from the laudable Fremont Oktoberfest t
  
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• Check Out These Oktoberfest Events

  21-09-2018 18:30 via thestranger.com
  Places to go for German bier, sausages, and other delights associated with the Bavarian fall festival.by Stranger Things To Do StaffOktoberfest began as a celebration of a royal Bavarian marriage in 1810, but now it's celebrated around the world as an autumn festival of bier, bratwurst, and other German-inspired delights. In and around Seattle, there are many wunderbar opportunities to bust out your lederhosen and dirndls from now until the end of October, from the laudable Fremont Oktoberfest t
  
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• Inbox Jukebox Track of the Day: The Complex, Uncategorizable "Sex" by UK Kremfest Headliner Djrum

  21-09-2018 18:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Djrum's polymorphously perverse and uncategorizable "Sex" explores strange erogenous zones. Catch him performing tonight at Kremfest.by Dave SegalInsert "Sex" double entendre here. R&S Records
  Djrum, "Sex" (R&S)
  The Portrait with Firewood album by Djrum (aka English musician Felix Manuel), is an intriguing record that refuses to slot easily into any genre—a trait of some of the most interesting music occurring in electronic/club realms. On this nine-track LP, Djrum explores rich se
  
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• Taiwan police arrest 3D gun-maker from Texas accused of sex with minor

  21-09-2018 17:52
  TAIPEI, Taiwan — Authorities in Taiwan arrested the owner of a Texas company that sells plans to make untraceable 3-D printed guns who is wanted in the U.S. over an accusation that he had sex with an underage girl and paid her $500 afterward, official media reported. The Central News Agency said Taiwanese police found […]
  
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• Oregon roads see a 13 percent increase in fatal crashes

  21-09-2018 17:43
  PORTLAND — The number of people killed in fatal crashes in Oregon has gone up by 13 percent from last year. The Oregonian/OregonLive reported Thursday that the total number of deaths on city streets, freeways and county highways was driven up this summer by one of the deadliest crashes in recent state history. Eight people […]
  
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• Slog AM: Make Bike Lanes Dangerous Again, An App Can't Save the Homeless, Washington State Patrol Flexes on HOV Violators

  21-09-2018 17:21 via thestranger.com
  
  Make bike lanes dangerous again . . . Roy Moore endorses Brett Kavanaugh . . . Gouda fan artby Michael BellWill this solve all of Seattle's problems? No.PeopleImages/ Getty Images
  'Planter Removal Coming Soon' reads sign near bike lane: The following blurb has been approved for all audiences. A sign popped up near the protected bike lane on Second Ave. It stated that because of too many people sitting on the planters they have to go.Farewell, planter-protected bike lane. pic.twitter.com/V34WJgrJ
  
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• 32 Oktoberfest 2018 Events in Seattle

  21-09-2018 17:19 via thestranger.com
  Places to go for German bier, sausages, and other delights associated with the Bavarian fall festival.by Stranger Things To Do StaffOktoberfest began as a celebration of a royal Bavarian marriage in 1810, but now it's celebrated around the world as an autumn festival of bier, bratwurst, and other German-inspired delights. In and around Seattle, there are many wunderbar opportunities to bust out your lederhosen and dirndls from now until the end of October, from the laudable Fremont Oktoberfest t
  
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• Walk into my parlor: Greek spiders spin giant web over shore

  21-09-2018 17:12
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — It’s not quite the World Wide Web — but the spiders of Aitoliko in Greece have made a good start. Spurred into overdrive by an explosion in the populations of insects they eat, thousands of little spiders in the western Greek town have shrouded coastal trees, bushes and low vegetation in […]
  
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• Oregon House speaker spurs talks on Interstate Bridge with Washington counterparts

  21-09-2018 16:53
  The project has been stalled since the Washington state Senate refused to consider a funding package in 2013.
  
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• Oregon House Speaker spurs talks on Interstate Bridge

  21-09-2018 16:53
  The project has been stalled since the Washington state Senate refused to consider a funding package in 2013.
  
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• Good rhino news in South Africa, where killing rate drops

  21-09-2018 16:38
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa is reporting some cautiously good news for rhinos after years in which poachers killed them in record numbers. The government said Friday that most provinces have experienced “dramatic declines” in the killing of rhinos. It says poachers killed 508 rhinos in the first eight months of 2018, a 26 percent […]
  
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• Weekend roadwork mashup: viaduct, I-90, I-405, I-5, Highway 167 and more buses

  21-09-2018 16:14
  Drivers will encounter highway and interstate road closures across the Seattle area this weekend.
  
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