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Tonight’s the night. The annual blowout crowning a new batch of Stranger Genius Award winners—five artists in five genres, each of whom will receive $5,000. Contenders include choreographer Pat Graney, cinematographer Ben Kasulke, artists Rodrigo Valenzuela and Sherry Markovitz, authors Neal Stephenson and Maged Zaher, hiphop artist Katie Kate, composer Jherek Bischoff, and many others.

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Brend an Kiley has worked as a child actor in New Orleans, as a member of the junior press corps at the 1988 Republican National Convention, and, for one happy April, as a bootlegger’s assistant in Nicaragua....