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Art Disrupts Illegal Economy: Better or Worse Than Vandalism Disrupting Legal Economy?

Say what you will about choreographer Donald Byrd—and he's been lauded and heavily criticized by myself and Jen Graves and others at The Stranger over the years. But tonight he achieved something I've never, ever seen before with his free and outdoor performance of Miraculous Mandarin, a…

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Watch for cyclists during 'Bike to Work Day'

Watch for cyclists during 'Bike to Work Day' Seattle Post-Intelligencer Copyright 2012 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 11:02 p.m., Thursday, May…

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Towing industry meets with city over price gouging

Remember all the outrage over one man’s $800 towing bill on Capitol Hill? Mayor Mike McGinn sent letters to two state towing associations last month, informing them that the city planned to move forward with regulating rates on private impounds.  City Councilmember Nick Licata said…

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"The Erotic Bestselling Novel, Read by Gilbert Gottfried"

Now that Bea Arthur is gone, nobody says "I'll agree to the fisting, but I'd really like to claim your ass" like Gilbert Gottfried. And if you're wondering: Yes, the book is just as terrible as it sounds. (Via Matt Ruff on Twitter.) [ Comment on this story ] [ Subscribe to the…

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Dog Fucking a Chicken

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Christian Love In Action

Won't marry you, won't bury you. According to Homotropolis, a priest in the Church of Denmark refused to bury a 74-year-old woman earlier this month because she had been in a same-sex relationship for 30 years.“I thought, can it really be true that we should be ashamed of it?” said…

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Capitol Hill Urban Activists Turn Four Parking Spaces into a Temporary Park

A couple months ago, Seth Geiser and Kirk Hovenkotter contributed an idea to an essay contest The Stranger sponsored. Their idea? Rather than sit through "mind-numbing" meetings or wait for "complicated, costly, tedious" permits, neighbors should get together and start reshaping their streets on…

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Anti-Obama Documentary Claims He Wants to Downsize America

Clearly, Dinesh D'Souza has something wrong with him. He's obsessed for years now about President Obama's relationship with his father, and he's claimed that Obama is destroying America as a demonstration of his father's anti-colonialist beliefs. Now, D'Souza's coming out with a documentary about…

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Movie and a beer: Big changes for longtime Seattle theater

Movie and a beer: Big changes for longtime Seattle theater Seattle Post-Intelligencer Copyright 2012 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 11:27 p.m.,…

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Dear Frank Blethen...

The Seattle Times is hiring an "Editorial Writer," and I just applied for the job! Hope this cover letter does the trick: Mr. Frank BlethenPublisherThe Seattle Times Dear Frank, Can I call you Frank? Is that okay? I mean, if we're going to be working together I thought we should be on a first name…

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You Should Get a Whooping Cough Booster Now

Please, please, please—for the love of all that is holy, or at least your neighbor's children—if you live in Western Washington State, get a booster vaccine for Whooping Cough (aka Pertussis, aka Bordetella Pertussis, aka the Hundred Day Cough). The vaccine is incredibly safe,…

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Sightline Report Guts Outdated Rules to Promote Sustainability

Posted by news intern Joseph Staten Last June, local nonprofit the Sightline Institute launched an initiative, called the Making Sustainability Legal project, to weed out defunct laws—everything from parking space requirements at bars to clothesline bans—that are currently blockading…

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The conservationist as casino builder — W. Ron Allen

W. Ron Allen is not known for blowing smoke, although the air was fragrant the time in Vancouver, B.C., when Allen as president of the National Congress of American Indians celebrated a cooperation accord with Canada’s Aboriginal First Nations. Allen is the longtime chairman and CEO…

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Republibutt Plugs

Yesterday, WoW Report introduced the world to a series of butt plugs that a NYU grad student made out of Republican presidential candidate approval ratings. The Santorum butt plug looks like it could produce a whole lot of santorum. UPDATE: Apparently, I don't read my own blog. I am a terrible…

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SL Letter of the Day: Grey Is the New Black Eye

I read Fifty Shades of Grey and I really, really wanted to love it, or at least appreciate its contributions. I forgave the fanfic-quality prose. And the spontaneous orgasms. And the helicopter. But dude. The narrator spends most of the novel trying to decide whether the eponymous Grey's kinks are…

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ABC News Breathlessly Reports That Trayvon Martin Had Drugs in His System

Trayvon Martin, the boy who was shot and killed in Florida this past February, is at the top of ABC News with a headline blaring about his drug use: ABC News "Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old who was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer, had the drug THC in his system the night of this…

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Poachers steal 800-year-old cedar in Vancouver Island park

Wood poachers have invaded a remote park on the west coast of Vancouver Island that is home to Canada’s tallest trees:  Their quarry was a giant cedar estimated to be 800 years old. “I believe the poachers have access to heavy-duty equipment: Firewood salvagers in pickup trucks…

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Opening This Weekend: Trimpin at On the Boards

OtB From the most recent A&P performance calendar: Trimpin: The Gurs Zyklus (May 17–20): The Gurs Zyklus, by composer and kinetic sculptor Trimpin, sounds insane. Trimpin invents instruments, pushing their boundaries: a gamelan whose iron bells are suspended in midair by magnets (which…

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A Commercial for the Navy, Based on a Board Game, Starring Rihanna

I volunteered to go to the preview screening of Battleship in part because I wanted to stare the void of summer movies directly in the eye. Battleship—a movie based on a board game so simple the box assures you that you can understand it if you are 7 years old—surely had to be the…

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Nick Hanauer's TED Talk Now on YouTube

The kerfuffle—over TED allegedly banning Nick Hanauer's talk on income inequality because it was too political—didn't take long to resolve: TED head Chris Anderson says, more or less, that the talk wasn't banned—it just wasn't good enough to be chosen—and accuses Hanauer…

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PHOTOS: A peek inside the Chihuly Garden and Glass museum

There were many opinions voiced over building the new Dale Chihuly Garden and Glass museum at the Seattle Center. But one thing cannot be debated: The new museum is stunning. We had a tour of the now finished museum  Wednesday night. At dusk the outside Chihuly works in the garden were…

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SDOT Releases New, Beautiful Seattle Bike Maps

Posted by news intern Joseph Staten Just in time for our fantastically beautiful spring, the Seattle Department of Transportation has released a new, fully-updated Seattle Bicycling Guide Map featuring every single bike route in the city, including green bike lanes and bike boxes. Green lines…

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The Greatest Book Tour of All Time

Wonkette points out the best sentence in a recent New York Times story about George W. Bush: Two months from now, [George W. Bush] plans to publish a book outlining strategies for economic growth. This is a great gift that Bush is giving Democrats. Before the 2012 election, in which the Romney…

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Feds indict Seattle financial adviser accused in $46 mil. fraud

Feds indict Seattle financial adviser accused in $46 mil. fraud A Seattle financial advisor accused of defrauding investors out of $46 million has been indicted by federal prosecutors.

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Police investigating nurse rape allegation at Swedish

Police investigating nurse rape allegation at Swedish Seattle Post-Intelligencer Copyright 2012 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 10:26 p.m., Thursday,…

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That Deeply Religious College Basketball Star Might Not Have Been Performing Oral Sex On that Child

Maybe he was whispering the Lord's Prayer into her vagina: Former University of Kentucky basketball player Michael Porter has been charged with multiple counts of sodomy and sex abuse, accused of having sexual encounters with a minor, a girl he met at a church function, according to court records.…

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Now That's What I Call a Rally—Baumgartner Edition

Posted by news intern Mike Gore. Mike Gore Chatting with anyone who will listen. The liberal campus of Western Washington University isn’t the first place that comes to mind when thinking about where to hold a rally for a Republican running for US Senate. It was, however, the last stop of…

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Mitt Romney: "I Stand By What I Said, Whatever It Was"

This is why Mitt Romney doesn't do press availabilities: This is a response to a question about whether Romney stands by a statement he made on Hannity about Reverend Wright that appears to contradict what Romney's campaign said today about Reverend Wright being off-limits. You'll be seeing a lot…

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Every Child Deserves a Mother and a Father

The woman, 26-year-old Estrella Carrera, was found at her home in a suburb of Chicago, dead in her bathtub. Carrera was reportedly stabbed to death, still wearing a sequined dress she likely wore to her own wedding reception. Her husband of just hours, Arnoldo Jimenez, is now being hunted by more…

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State Department Can't Handle a Little Nipple

Jesus Christ on a Nipple Cozy, does the state department really have nothing better to do than troll and censor breast cancer survivors? Jennifer Dinoia’s blog, censored by the State Department after an intimate posting on her reconstructive surgery after breast cancer, is back in its…

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What's the Solution for a Bus Stuck at One Light for More Than Four Minutes?

The City of Seattle made a video about a problem bus line: These patches are all great. I love them. I want to have a fucking wedding with prioritized traffic signals, all right? But you know what would really build a better crosstown bus along the 45th Avenue corridor? No bus at all. A better…

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Lakeside-living welfare frauds plead guilty

Lakeside-living welfare frauds plead guilty A Seattle couple accused of drawing welfare while living in a $1.2 million house on Lake Washington has pleaded guilty to defrauding the government.

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