We Also Read The Weeklies: Die, Microsoft, Die
There's Microsoft blood in the water right now and the sharks at The Stranger are taking full advantage, continuing to hammer home their contention that the software company changed their stance on the anti-discrimination bill in response to pressure from Ken Hutcherson. In "The Lying Game" this week they trot out ex-Microsoft empoyee Jeff Koertzen who reports that he was in a recent Microsoft meeting where the bill was discussed and "said that [Microsoft senior vice-president, Bradford L.] Smith's comments at the meeting made it evident to him that the company shifted its position on the bill after meeting with Ken Hutcherson." Seattlest hopes the feeding frenzy continues.
It's good to know that The Stranger feels a sense of obligation to the Microsoft story, but we know they live for stuff like the Fankick vs Streetbeat dance off. That whole event was soured for us when we read in Tablet that Streetbeat straight-up stole their act from their ex-friends and classmates in Fankick, and that the Fankick girls are pretty pissed about it. The fact that they'd agree that it was indeed on seems to refute any actual bad feelings, so Seattlest is just a little confused as to who's being honest here. Anyway, The Stranger is promising a short video documentary on the dance combat by today at noon, which, in Stranger time, means sometime next week. We'll add a link to the video when it becomes available. [Update: The video is available.]
Meanwhile, in actual news, The Stranger also returns this week to the story of Trey Lamont and his unlawfull beating at the hands of the SPD. It turns out the guy was in the process of attempting to join the Seattle Police Department. As noted in Any's comment below, this story is unrelated to the one The Stranger ran recently about a SPD roughing up of Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes who Seattlest believe is the son of a popular Seattle art teacher (ahem, and an artist and art teacher in his own right). Also worth reading is the lengthy feature from Amy Jenniges on the curious lack of skateparks in Seattle despite our resident skatepark building bad asses Grindline. We'd be curious to know why past Stranger skate source extrordiaire and ex www.sleestak.com proprietor, Bobcat, wasn't used for this story, but we know he's had some issues with a few Grindline folks.
The Seattle Weekly interviews Al Franken this week and give him the opportunity to compare himself to conservative radio hosts. There's a good answer to that one. The piece is called, "How Seattle Saved Air America", though, and Franken doesn't really work hard on this aspect.
Monorail, monorail, monorail. Rick Anderson discusses the recent communications flap revolving around Seattle Monorail Project's reluctance to admit that part of the construction team has pulled out of the project. We also appreciate the update on Team Monorail. An obstacle to their bid is a $500 million performance bond mandated by the monorail authority.
Finally, make sure to read Philip Dawdy's "God Life" article. It reports a pretty straightforward cult-type thing based here in Seattle, and nothing in it is all that surprising assuming a basic knowledge of cults and how they work, but it's still chilling to read about the cult master and his underage sex minion dining at 13 Coins. Seattlest is looking twice at the neighboring tables next time we're there.
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