SEAResults: "thestranger"
Man 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 →
6 days 2 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 →
6 days 2 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 →
6 days 2 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 →
6 days 2 hours agoSlog Poll: Buy That Fetus a Drink!
Thefrisky.com—a site devoted to female troubles and powered by raw estrogen—recently polled their audience and found that 48.6 percent of women would drink while pregnant. The poll didn't mention whether these pregnant women would drink in public or not—just that more women are open to the idea of drinking while pregnant. I have never been pregnant, but if ... read more →
6 days 3 hours agoLunchtime Quickie: Girl Shows Kindness to Orphaned Cow, Saves Internet
After yesterday's puppy-throwing debacle, I think we should all watch this video and remember there *is* still some kindness in the world... [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] read more →
6 days 3 hours agoCrazy Guy Takes Hostage at Discovery Channel, Says Save The Squirrels
WTF is wrong with people. This James Jay Lee guy is crazy. I've been reading his website, SaveThePlanetProtest, where he details exactly how crazy he is. I'm pretty sure this is going to give the folks at Fox News lots of ammo against environmentalists. Accent on 'mentalist'. Anyway, thought this was the real gem from his rants: Saving the environment and the ... read more →
6 days 3 hours agoNeal Stephenson's New Publishing Platform Launches Soon
This interview in the New York Times provides a look at a new take on e-books from Seattle sci-fi authors Neal Stephenson and Greg Bear. Author Neal Stephenson has been credited for inspiring today’s virtual world startups with his novel Snow Crash. Now he’s launching a startup himself: Subutai, where he is co-founder and chairman. The company, based in ... read more →
6 days 3 hours agoTexas Wants to Save Your Gay Marriage...
...by stopping you from getting a gay divorce. Um... wouldn't save-traditional-marriage logic dictate that divorce be legal for same-sex couples—compulsory even—and illegal for straight couples? What am I missing here? [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] read more →
6 days 3 hours agoThe Cosmic Pigeon
Today, I began reading Stephan Jay Gould's collection of essays on natural history, Ever Since Darwin, and came across this passage in the book's fourth essay, \'Darwin's Untimely Burial\':One might think that the first chapter of such a revolutionary book as Origin of Species would deal with cosmic questions. It doesn't. It deals with pigeons.The passage ... read more →
6 days 3 hours agoNOM's Gay-Baiting, Gay-Hating, SF-Bashing New Ad
Watch NOM's new ad... ...and then watch StopProp8.org's thoroughly brilliant takedown. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] read more →
6 days 4 hours agoCartoon Caption Contest: The Winner!
\'All the entries for this contest are so terrible I wish we'd both died in this crash.\' Better luck next time, everyone. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] read more →
6 days 4 hours agoNow Open: Pinto, Staple & Fancy, and a Ton More New Restaurants
There is much to be excited about here if you enjoy eating food. Click through for more information or to write a reader-review. • PINTO THAI BISTRO & SUSHI BAR on Capitol Hill: Super Dave Nakamura is the sushi chef in the sleeked-up former Ali Baba space on Broadway, and he really is super. If Pinto’s owners let Super Dave do his thing—create greatness ... read more →
6 days 4 hours agoSeattle's Nightlife Throwdown Tonight!
Toby Crittenden, already wasted. Throwdown starts at 8:00 p.m. at the Hunter Gatherer Lodge (722 E Pike St—doors open at 7:00 p.m.). Come question politicians, police, and bar owners about what they're doing to improve Seattle's nightlife. Music before and after by DJ Mike Nipper from the Emerald City Soul Club and J-Justice of SunTzu Sound! Hosted by Toby ... read more →
6 days 4 hours agoWin Tickets to Pavement at the Paramount!
Interested parties should head immediately to Line Out. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] read more →
6 days 4 hours agoMOHAI Rejects Mayor's Request to Give Up Funding
(This post is by Leonard Garfield, executive director of the Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI). He is responding to a recent request by Mayor Mike McGinn's office for MOHAI to help the city's ailing budget by turning over money MOHAI has negotiated with the state. — Eds) First the bad news: MOHAI is going to be demolished. In 2012, Seattle’s regional ... read more →
6 days 4 hours agoIrish Wolfhound Needed for Sodo Art Exhibition
Documentation from Martin Creed's 2007 Work No. 748. Your wolfhound could get this kind of fame...and free daycare three days a week for three months. From September 11 to December 18, Western Bridge is staging a 2007 piece called Work No. 748 by the English artist Martin Creed. Creed won the Turner Prize in 2001, for an installation of a light turning on ... read more →
6 days 4 hours agoThis Friday at Spin the Bottle, Someone Will Smash a Pie in My Face
A few months ago, Bret Fetzer (of Annex Theater and Rain City Projects, a local playwrights' organization) asked if I would donate my face for an RCP auction: Hey Brendan: Would you be willing to let me auction off the opportunity to throw a cream pie in your face? Right then, right there, you choose the flavor of pie. I couldn't make the auction, so we ... read more →
6 days 4 hours agoSex Panic In Canada
So... roughly a decade ago the husband of a \'senior Manitoba judge\' posted explicit photos of his wife—photos of her nude, in bondage, performing oral sex—on an adult website. The judge was a lawyer in private practice at the time. In 2002 the judge's husband, Jack King, also a lawyer, propositioned a client of his, a black immigrant to Canada who was ... read more →
6 days 5 hours agoPeople with "A" Names Against Pocket Dials
\'People with names (either first or last) that begin with 'A' are disproportionately targeted, victimized, in this modern day scourge,\' says this small Facebook group created by a Seattle man named Adam. I confess, my phone—my pocket, my butt—is part of the problem. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] read more →
6 days 5 hours agoEverything Is Terrible in Seattle This Saturday
Following last Saturday's TV Carnage showcase, Central Cinema presents another night of found video hilarity and horror, this one curated by the beloved Everything Is Terrible. Tickets here, sample clip below. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] read more →
6 days 5 hours agoToday The Stranger Suggests
Art 'Playboys & Killjoys' Humor and art: Both are better, more themselves, if they can't be readily explained. That's where Playboys & Killjoys comes in. It's the group show that kicks off the fall season at Ambach & Rice gallery, and its list of artists is part internationally famous (Erwin Wurm, Raymond Pettibon) and part ... read more →
6 days 5 hours agoReading Tonight: Why So Serious?
We have a couple of serious readings tonight. First up is Judith Armatta at Elliott Bay Book Company. Armatta is the author of Twilight of Impunity: The War Crimes Trial of Slobodan Milosevic. It is a book about the trial of a horrible human being who was literally one of the worst people in the history of the world. If you are sick about reading about our ... read more →
6 days 5 hours agoThe Iraq War Is Over
So said Obama last night from the Oval Office. Here's the video in case you missed it: [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] read more →
6 days 6 hours agoCurrently Hanging: Charles Parrish and Meghan Trainor
Charles Parrish's carvings and drawing, the late James Washington Jr.'s tools. Parrish's Oprah and the late James Washington Jr.'s machine. Have you been to the James and Janie Washington Foundation yet? At last week's opening, it was a wonderland as always (my photo tour here!), and admission is free. Just call ahead. Meghan Trainor's greenhouse ... read more →
6 days 6 hours agoCapitalism Then; Capitalism Now
Karl Marx on \'the discoveries of an 1863 royal commission into baking\':Englishmen, with their good command of the Bible, knew well enough that man, unless by elective grace a capitalist, or a landlord, or the holder of a sinecure, is destined to eat his bread in the sweat of his brow, but they did not know that he had to eat daily in his bread a certain ... read more →
6 days 6 hours agoRe: Gross, But Consenting Adults...
Apparently it has a name, Dom: Genetic Sexual Attraction. Genetic sexual attraction (GSA) was a term first coined in the 1980s by Barbara Gonyo, who founded Truth Seekers in Adoption, a Chicago-based support group for adoptees and their newfound relatives. The Encyclopaedia of World Problems and Human Potential says GSA is \'particularly noted in the case of ... read more →
6 days 6 hours agoCelestial Music, Sofas, Compound Curves: The Studios of Charles and Ray Eames
You will love this short film tour through the studios of the Eameses shortly after Ray died, and before they had to be dismantled. (Thank you, Tom.) And then there is this classic, which travels mindbending distances in a single shot. powers of ten :: charles and ray eames from bacteriasleep on Vimeo. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] read more →
6 days 7 hours agoGross, But Consenting Adults...
Kirkland Reporter: A Kirkland woman charged with incest for having sex with her adult son she gave up for adoption as an infant, pleaded not guilty Tuesday morning at King County Superior Court. The 33-year-old son told King County detectives in May he had a two-year sexual relationship with his biological mother when he re-connected with her through an ... read more →
6 days 7 hours agoWhere To Start?
I'll start with this: the Fosse estate is going to sue, right? And... when is this set exactly? The 1930s? Does this signal the end of the burlesque revival? Or will Burlesque be burlesque's Whip It? [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] read more →
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