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It's Hump Day! Have You Started Your HUMP! Film Yet?
39 days till the October 15th HUMP! deadline! Need an idea? Um, I got two words for you: PORN PARODY. It's the hottest thing since sliced frickin' bread. Video SFW. Clicking \'Porn Parody\' NSFW. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] read more →
3 days 17 hours agoVampire Weekend Reschedules
And this time you won't have to drive/bus/fly to Redmond! [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] read more →
3 days 17 hours agoTraffic Report
Seattle Times sez: Traffic Alert | King County Metro buses are exiting I-5 at Spokane Street and running on surface arterials through downtown due to severe traffic on Northbound I-5 near the convention center. We're getting unconfirmed reports of a jumper off the Olive overpass (photo unavailable). UPDATE: Dear Grim Reaper: Please stop catching up to people ... read more →
3 days 18 hours agoSo...
...Obama couldn't go to Reverend Wright's church for twenty years \'and not share the same ideology.\' Except for Christianity. You can go to a Christian church for 20 years and not adopt your pastor's Christian ideology. The stupid never stops. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] read more →
3 days 18 hours agoDo You Want a Sketch from Stranger Genius Jim Woodring?
Who wouldn't want an original sketch by a bona-fide Stranger genius? And it's easy! All you have to do is go to Jim Woodring's ProjectSite page and donate money toward his plan to build an enormous steel tip pen. If you contribute $50, you'll get a Woodring drawing of a pen mailed to you on a postcard. If you contribute $500, you will get an eight-by-ten inch ... read more →
3 days 18 hours agoCostco Does Not Condone Mistreatment of Baby Cows
...unless you consider eating them to be mistreatment. Associated Press: Costco Wholesale Corp. has condemned a veal producer's treatment of calves after seeing footage shot by an animal rights group. The group, Mercy for Animals, released video this week that it said was taken by hidden recorders at Buckeye Veal Farm in Apple Creek, Ohio. It shows calves ... read more →
3 days 19 hours agoA Very Good Question from Questionland About Attending Readings
I attend so many readings that I often forget that there are people who have never attended an author reading. That's why I'm glad Questionland exists. Danno Davis asks: What should I expect at one of these readings at Elliott Bay? I'm pretty interested in this reading on Milosevic tonight, but I've never been to one before. I'd kind of like to get a better ... read more →
3 days 19 hours agoThe Stranger's Bumbershoot Guide Is Alive!
James Yamasaki You can get to it HERE (or here, or here). Inside: Young People vs. Bob Dylan! (\'I think I'm being pretty generous to the guy. He's got some great songs, but these days, whatever he's doing, not very many people seem to be hearing about it.\') Courtney Love vs. Courtney Love! (\'Having perused several pages of Google search results for ... read more →
3 days 19 hours agoYou Can Make a Model's Dream Come True
Stranger fan Bianca writes: I am in a contest to become Seattle's United Colors of Benneton model. It would be greatly appreciated if you were able to help get me some more votes. Thanks so much, Bianca. This is a Facebook voting thingie. All you have to do is go to the Seattle United Colors of Benneton page and vote for Bianca at #8. As you can see from her ... read more →
3 days 20 hours agoSuspected Shitter Apologizes for Property Damage
Posted by news intern Matt Luby. Do you remember that scene in \'Mulholland Drive\' that featured a mysterious, creepy man hanging out next to a dumpster? In case you missed it, imagine a scene so uncomfortable and bizarre that it has managed to crowd out discussion of the film's initially more famous Naomi Watts lesbian sex scene even in crowds of ... read more →
3 days 20 hours agoWhat Was It Like Standing in MoMA's Doorway Naked?
The Abramovic Stare: COULD YOU HANDLE IT? The Marina Abramovic exhibition this spring at MoMA in New York was huge. Thousands of people waiting in line just to sit across from the Serbian-born artist, stare at her, and have, you know, feelings and experiences. Christiane Amanpour and Lou Reed, Abramovic was looking at you! And a cast of re-performers was ... read more →
3 days 20 hours agoJamie Herrera Wants to Overturn Roe v. Wade
That's Jamie Herrera, Republican candidate for Congress in Washington's 3rd District, who recently told KING 5: Her opponent: Democrat Denny Heck. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] read more →
3 days 20 hours agoSL Letter of the Day: Ex'd Out
My partner of two years just broke up with me. We were living together at his place and after the breakup we decided that I could live with him until I found a job (I was laid off last year and still haven't found anything). I was pretty depressed because of my failure to find a job; the breakup made the depression worse. I was in an obvious state of grief ... read more →
3 days 20 hours agoDangerously in Love
Gretchen Bennett's Drawings of Beyoncé, Drag, and the Places Light Doesn't Reach by Jen Graves A sequence of blown-up stills from two music videos for the Beyoncé song \'Crazy in Love\' showed up recently on Broadway. Each one is a quotation several times removed: big, black-and-white, and grainy. They were taken from YouTube by the ... read more →
3 days 20 hours agoThe Re-Performer
Heather Kravas Was a Famous Sculpture for Two Months at MoMA by Jen Graves What Heather Kravas experienced now is what Marina Abramovic experienced then. Back in 1977, when Abramovic and her lover-collaborator Ulay were not famous, they created a piece of performance art called Imponderabilia by standing, naked, in a narrow doorway at ... read more →
3 days 20 hours agoPolice Beat
The Obscenity of Stealing Tips by Charles Mudede Eastlake/Sat Aug 7/9:55 pm Officer Jennifer Morris reports: \'The victim was standing near the front door at 18 Eastlake Ave E. The suspect, described only as a white/male/30s, scruffy beard, green baseball hat, gray hooded sweatshirt, had walked into the restaurant. The suspect told the ... read more →
3 days 21 hours agoA Dishonor to Be Nominated
Dilapidated Housing Projects May Accidentally Be Preserved as Historic Landmarks by Cienna Madrid Yesler Terrace, Seattle's oldest public-housing project, is showing its age. The 69-year-old wood-frame buildings are decaying. Residents say maintenance is spotty at best. The sewers are disintegrating, according to authorities who manage ... read more →
3 days 21 hours agoIt's a Hit
The Script's Idiotic Folk Rock Snake Oil \'For the First Time\' by Michaelangelo Matos \'For the First Time\' by the Script (Sony) This song is damn near a semiotics essay! \'She's all laid up in bed with a broken heart\': oh, those kind of cornballs, eh? \'While I'm drinking Jack all alone in my local bar\': wow! \'My local bar\'! ... read more →
3 days 21 hours agoData Breaker
Crystal Hell Pool and Blouse (u.s.a.) Drone Alone by Dave Segal Making minimal music is easy. Making minimal music that holds your attention and makes your neck hairs erect—now that's hard. This year's Dead Accents Showcase (www.deadaccents.com) features two local producers who have managed the difficult feat of harvesting sparse ... read more →
3 days 21 hours agoEverything You Ever Wanted to Know About Bumbershoot 2010!
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3 days 21 hours agoUnderage
Ted Leo Is 2010's Saving Grace (So Far) by Megan Seling As far as new records go, 2010 has totally blown it so far. New Hold Steady? Boring. New Against Me!? Insulting. New Arcade Fire? Who the fuck gave them all the Xanax? Pitchfork may have given AF's The Suburbs an 8.6, saying it's \'proof that Arcade Fire can still make grand ... read more →
3 days 21 hours agoSound Check
Ships in the Space Shower by Trent Moorman Ships is a band that lets its songs go where they need to go. They're proficient and aware enough to let the sounds themselves decide the direction. Part pop, part shoegaze and space drone, Ships have released an album called Compulsory Listening that embraces their disparate modes by ... read more →
3 days 21 hours agoUp & Coming
This Week's Noteworthy Shows and Parties by Stranger Staff Thursday 9/2 Climax Golden Twins, Bill Horist, Vance Galloway (Chapel Performance Space) Bill Horist and Vance Galloway rank among Seattle's most inventive, engrossing guitarists currently working. Horist is a fluent master of many styles, methods, and moods; this six-string ... read more →
3 days 21 hours agoMy Philosophy
Summer's Must-Have 206 Hiphop LP, Sweatsuit & Churchshoes by Larry Mizell Jr. What is Sweatsuit & Churchshoes? It's not just the title of late summer 2010's must-have 206 hiphop LP, it's the traditional- issue wardrobe for your unk—your mama or daddy's playa-ass brother way too cool for you to just call Uncle—the one who had ... read more →
3 days 21 hours agoPavement Is Forever
Pavement Is Forever by David Schmader Speaking of nostalgia, allow me to begin this commemoration of the reunited Pavement by recounting a cherished, Pavement-scented memory from my past. This event occurred back in 1992, when Pavement were an underground band with deafening buzz and I was a young man entrenched in a musically ... read more →
3 days 21 hours agoThe Homosexual Agenda
Cyndi Lauper, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, and Bacon Strip by Adrian Ryan THURSDAY 9/2 Cyndi Lauper The Gaga! The fantabulous freakbitch came, oh yes. She saw. She Gaga-ed! The trouble? (Besides eye/lung cancer?) Well, she Gaga-ed in stinking Tacoma. TACOMA! (WTF, Lady?! Someone's manager needs beheading. Ooh la la!) So. I barely ... read more →
3 days 21 hours agoMan Shot By SPD Officer—After Allegedly Ignoring Officer's Orders—Was Partially Deaf
The Native American man fatally shot by a Seattle police officer in a confrontation Monday—after the officer spotted him on the street with a knife—was deaf in one ear. More details on the confrontation here. And via Seattlepi.com (emphasis mine):The man fatally shot in confrontation with a police officer Monday afternoon after he refused to follow police ... read more →
3 days 21 hours agoThe Legal Art of Illegal Artists
A mural in the biennale that includes Christ, a skeleton cop and donut handcuffs, the Green River Killer, and the Barefoot Bandit. In our Bumbershoot guide freshly out, I write about this: Street artists are in demand because it turns out they may be the best weapon against... street artists. They're being commissioned by private property owners and ... read more →
3 days 21 hours agoReally Can't See Myself Voting Republican
I don't care how many Ken Mehlmans come out of the closet or how little gays and lesbians have to show for helping to elect Barack Obama: I can't see myself voting Republican. Because I'm not—despite what you may have read in Slog's comments threads—a single-issue voter. I care about my rights, of course, but I also give a shit about reproductive rights, ... read more →
3 days 21 hours agoProsector Refuses to Charge Cobane in "Mexican Piss" Case
The King County Prosecutor's office announced today that it won't be filing charges against Detective Shandy Cobane, who told a Latino suspect in April that he would “beat the fucking Mexican piss out of you, homey,\' while investigating an incident at the China Harbor Restaurant on South Lake Union. Officers later released the man after realizing he was not ... read more →
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