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More on the Fatal Shooting by a Cop
Seattle Times: Police spokeswoman Renee Witt said the officer was driving his patrol car south on Boren Avenue near Howell Street about 4:15 p.m. when he saw a man holding a knife who was seated on a short wall on the northwest corner of the intersection. The man appeared to be whittling a piece of wood, Witt said. The officer, who thought the man was acted ... read more →
5 days 15 hours agoIf Laurelhurst Can Ban Lifeflight Helicopters...
... delivering critically ill children to Children's Hospital at night, can I ban news helicopters from hovering over my neighborhood during the day? [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] read more →
5 days 17 hours agoMayor’s Office Angry Over $40 Million Given to History Museum
Posted yesterday evening and moved up. The mayor's office says that the Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) is getting too much out of a recent deal with the state, and the city is entitled to some of that money. The issue stems from the imminent expansion of the 520 bridge, which will require widening the freeway through the Montlake neighborhood and ... read more →
5 days 17 hours agoBuying Comics and E-Comics at the Same Time
At a Toronto comic convention this weekend, DC Comics Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Dan Didio said that DC Comics is planning to put a code inside their print comics that will enable readers to download a free digital copy of the comic they just purchased. I've talked with a number of book-buyers who have said that they would go to whatever ... read more →
5 days 17 hours agoLifelong Monogamy or Anything Goes: You Must Pick One
Those are your choices. There are no others. There is no middle ground, no third (or fourth or fifth or sixth) option, no way to balance your desire for a serious commitment with the your concurrent and conflicting desire for some sexual variety. It's lifelong monogamy or the Mine Shaft circa 1978. Pick one. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] read more →
5 days 18 hours agoBlacks Who Fought For the South in the Civil War...
...probably had a hard time getting laid too. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] read more →
5 days 18 hours agoPreschool Depression
Over in the Sunday New York Times Magazine: \'Can Preschoolers Be Depressed?\' Here is a 4-year-old thought to be suffering clinical depression: When Raghu and Elizabeth reminded a downbeat Kiran of their coming trip to Disney World, Kiran responded: “Mickey lies. Dreams don’t come true.” Raghu and Elizabeth may want to consider the idea that their 4-year-old ... read more →
5 days 18 hours agoRedesigning Money
This will never happen, of course, but Dowling/Duncan has some great ideas for a redesign of American money. Here (click to enlarge) is the ten dollar bill: Some of the options, like putting Obama on the $1 bill, printing different-sized bills with vertical designs, and so on, will never happen, but I really like how the $10 lists the Bill of Rights. That ... read more →
5 days 19 hours agoTime Magazine's Anxious, Link-Littered, Attention-Deficit-Disordered Website
Ever try to read an article on Time's website? Not recommended. And not because of the schmaltzy tone. Take that Jonathan Franzen profile I just linked to a couple words ago. You're reading it, you're reading it, you're thinking, \'Why is this article about sea otters? I thought I clicked on a piece about Franzen,\' you get to the third paragraph, Franzen ... read more →
5 days 19 hours agoWhat Recession?
At least one granite shop—they sell kitchen counters—is doing well enough in this economy that it can afford to refuse to serve gay and lesbian couples. Good for you, Southern Style Granite. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] read more →
5 days 19 hours agoNobody Dies at Weiner War 2010
R.B. Tom Douglas, two-eyed Chihuly After a hubbub between a self-important chef and a self-important organization, a competing salmon bake (hosted by Tom Douglas) and sausage sale (hosted by the homeless-advocacy group SHARE) ended without incident this weekend. The events—on their face just about barbecues on opposite sides of Victor Steinbrueck Park—had ... read more →
5 days 19 hours agoSL Letter of the Day: Blown Job Reference
First, your column is awesome. I'm a regular reader along with my wonderful partner and we enjoy the tips on sex, relationships and all the humor & horror that goes along with it. This is a bit pedantic, but it was Lazarus (not Job) who's sores were lapped by dogs. (Shudders.) Job was the lab-rat who's faith was tested by Satan through the removal of ... read more →
5 days 19 hours agoDown with OED
The publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary have said that they doubt the third edition of the OED will be published in a print book format. They expect it will be online-only. Considering that the next edition of the OED will likely see print sometime after 2037, I expect that they are probably correct. The last time I consulted my print copy of the OED ... read more →
5 days 19 hours agoThere's Nothing Gay About The Anal Aisle At a Bible Belt Porn Shop
Most people—we're talking real numbers here—who \'want to use anus for sex\' are straight. A higher percentage of gay men engage in anal intercourse, of course, but when it comes to actual numbers—hard numbers—straight people appropriate the anus for unintended uses in much greater numbers than gay people do. And lesbians, as I've pointed out, don't have ... read more →
5 days 19 hours agoThursday Is A Big Art Walk: Do It UP
Charles Parrish's works in the basement of the Washington Foundation, where he has access to the carving tools of the late James Washington Jr. Parrish's works will be up at Art/Not Terminal Gallery this month. Andrew Rubenstein's Squint Precision It's a big one. Lawrimore Project 2.0 is opening in Pioneer Square. The details are murky but the show will ... read more →
5 days 20 hours agoGreat West Coast Newspaper War Headed to the California Supreme Court?
James Yamasaki When we last checked in on the high-stakes fight between the San Francisco Bay Guardian and its arch-rival, SF Weekly, there was talk of settlement negotiations following a California Court of Appeals ruling that kept SF Weekly on the hook for about $22 million, payable to the Bay Guardian immediately. The Bay Guardian, which won that $22 ... read more →
5 days 20 hours agoAmerican Hate: Then and Now
In a post titled \'Our Classy History,\' Armagideon Time published a real letter that a real human being sent to Life Magazine on the topic of interracial marriage: So what I'm wondering is: Is it progress that our most ignorant, small-minded citizens are no longer threatening murder-suicide in national publications, and that they choose to wear their awful, ... read more →
5 days 20 hours agoFlickr Photo of the Day
Posted to The Stranger's Flickr pool by Lindsey Rae Gjording. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] read more →
5 days 20 hours agoLabor Unions Write Another Round of Big Checks to Income Tax Initiative
Although Bill Gates, Sr. made headlines in spring with contributions totaling a half-million dollars to Initiative 1098, the leading backer of the income-tax measure is now a union of service-industry employees. One of the country's most powerful labor groups, the SEIU has given $735,000 (from national, state, and local affiliates) since the campaign began, ... read more →
5 days 20 hours agoInexpert Opinion: The Seahawks
Over here, the coach says that losing an exhibition game to the Vikings this weekend still contained \'a lot of real positive things.\' What a nice coach! He doesn't want to make the Seahawks feel bad—that's sweet. Especially considering that they scored, then (probably because they were all excited) they immediately let the other team score, which I ... read more →
5 days 21 hours agoThe Supremes' Blue Period
Have you always dreamed of watching the post-Diana Ross Supremes perform a shiny happy version of Joni Mitchell's \'All I Want\' on television? Proceed immediately to Line Out. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] read more →
5 days 21 hours agoThe Yard of the Inhabitants
Now this is city living: It also reminds us of how horrible, how ugly, how vapid, how mean, how little, how everything is so wrong with middle-class lawns. Really, is there anything in that culture—the marriage contracts, the savings, the retirement plans, the tourism, the lawns—that can be salvaged? It appears to be a dry loss. [ Subscribe to the ... read more →
5 days 21 hours agoLunchtime Quickie: Bee... BALLS. It's What's for Dinner
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5 days 22 hours ago"There's half naked girls everywhere. Whatever. Peace, Bye."
The Jersey Circus combines Famliy Circus cartoons with Jersey Shore quotes. Two horrible things, put together, can sometimes be worthwhile. (Thanks to Slog tipper Shannon.) [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] read more →
5 days 22 hours agoMore Ska Bands With the Word "Ska" in Their Name Than You Can Shake a Stick At!
Get your vote on! [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] read more →
5 days 22 hours agoIn My Dreams
Someone would buy one of these motels on Aurora and make it into a great bar/club/eating/fun complex like the Jupiter in Portland. jupiterhotel.com [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] read more →
5 days 22 hours agoDespite AP Fact Check, Murray Campaign Says It Will Keep Hitting Rossi on Earmarks
There's a bit of political trench warfare going on right now between the campaigns of Republican Dino Rossi and Democrat Patty Murray over whether Rossi is a big old hypocrite on the issue of earmarks. For some time now, Rossi has been attacking Murray for being an earmarking D.C. insider, and he's promised not to get into the dirty business of earmarks ... read more →
5 days 22 hours agoGlenn Beckwatch: There Was Some Kind of an Event or Something This Weekend, I Think
So I listened to Glenn Beck's speech at the 8/28 Rally this weekend, and, as someone who has encountered more than his fair share of Beck, I have to say: There was nothing new there. His speech consisted almost entirely of riffs from his radio show, and the kind of people who would come out for the rally had probably heard it all before. It was a rally in ... read more →
5 days 22 hours agoAnother Week, Another Mayor Murdered
This week in international violence begins with the \'end\' of combat operations in Iraq and a fresh round of murders in Mexico: Church in Hidalgo. For the second time in two weeks, the mayor of a Mexican city has been slain by purported drug traffickers, authorities say. Marco Antonio Leal Garcia, the mayor of Hidalgo in the violent border state of ... read more →
5 days 23 hours agoToday The Stranger Suggests
Guilty Pleasure 'Piranha 3D' First, a tremor causes the bottom of the ocean to break open. Then a swarm of prehistoric man-eating piranhas escapes. And what else? IT HAPPENS DURING SPRING BREAK. Five bajillion gallons of fake blood burst out of peoples' (sometimes naked!) bodies while hundreds of little swimming monsters with red glowing eyes ... read more →
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