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02/11/2024

This week, Dave Segal reviews sweet Afrobeat/R&B/jazz fusionists Kokoroko and Seattle synth-rock eccentric Jealous Yellow. Stop listening to the s**t you loved in high school and try something new!

The best new music to hit Dave Segal's inbox this week.

02/11/2024

It’s a trying time for Seattle’s left. The city’s new council members are rounding the curve on their first year in office, and I don’t know about you, but I’m wishing it was time to pass the baton. It’s depressing enough that City Hall is no longer a laboratory for progressive policy innovation. But it’s the Bad Idea Whac-A-Mole that’s truly exhausting: rolling back minimum wages and renter protections; defunding community-driven development; reinstating so-called SOAP and SODA zones; turning our big business tax into a slush fund. The left is having to fight like hell just to defend the achievements of the past decade.

In between playing defense and scheming to win back Seattle’s voters over the next few election cycles, we should carve out some time for self-reflection. It’s tempting to think of the present moment as a backlash against progress, a temporary deviation in the arc of the moral universe—or perhaps, for the pessimist, to doubt the notion of progress altogether. But was this reaction really inevitable? Read more about it at the link.

In between playing defense and scheming to win back Seattle’s voters over the next few election cycles, we should carve out some time for self-reflection. It’s tempting to think of the present moment as a backlash against progress, a temporary deviation in the arc of the moral universe& #...

02/11/2024

The Best Things To Do in Seattle This Month: November 2024
Sabrina Carpenter, Freakout Festival, and More

The Best Things To Do in Seattle This Month: November 2024 - Sabrina Carpenter, Freakout Festival, and More

01/11/2024

Welcome to November! We're starting the month off strong with a new bento destination, a Green Lake coffee shop, and a Vietnamese cafe and restaurant in Beacon Hill. Plus, learn where to find pan de mu**to and spiced apple chai cake.

This Week in Seattle Food News: Probiotic Bentos, Cà Phê, and Coffee in a Van - November 1, 2024 Edition

01/11/2024

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Join us for our 23rd Annual Breakfast: 'Era of Essential Service' on Friday, November 22 at the Seattle Convention Center Summit!
This is a celebration for Seattle! And an inspiration for us to build the future we all seek!
This year's keynote is Golden Globe-winning actor: Taraji P. Henson! 😵
And she will be joined by award-winning actor, Hill Harper as our moderator!
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01/11/2024

I, Anonymous: Retail Hell
🤫 Words by Anonymous⁠
🎨 Steven Weissman

You treated us like we were the downstairs servants at Downton Abbey, and you're the Lord of the house.

01/11/2024

In this week’s Bad Apples, the whole orchard goes rogue: A Bike to a Car Fight, Cop Laughs at Man in Crisis, More Dangerously Driving Cops

As the City continues to wrangle over budget priorities, both Mayor Bruce Harrell and Seattle City Council Budget Chair Dan Strauss agree that the City can never spend too much money on cops. Strauss’s recent budget proposal even upped the ante on Harrell, suggesting that the Mayor’s $62...

01/11/2024

From “Resist” to “Brunch” and Back Again? In 2017, white suburban liberals flooded the streets to protest Trump’s policies. But after Biden's win, many packed away their pink hats. With another consequential election ahead, will liberals step up again, or will grassroots organizers hold steady in the fight for issues beyond party lines?

After Donald Trump’s 2017 election, many suburban Democrats were galvanized into action, joining marches and grassroots groups. However, with Joe Biden in office, much of that initial momentum faded. Now, ahead of the next election, leftist organizers are strategizing regardless of who wins, f...

01/11/2024

• Oregon wins beautiful bat competition

• Boeing workers will vote on new contract Monday

• Spanish flood death toll rises to 205

The Stranger's morning news round-up.

01/11/2024

Tuesday night’s surprise show at the Black Lodge was the Blood Brothers’ first show in Seattle in a decade, and fans started lining up as early as 11 am to get inside. It was worth the wait.

Tuesday night’s show was the Blood Brothers’ first show in Seattle in a decade, and fans started lining up as early as 11 am.

01/11/2024

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01/11/2024

Our Picks for Seattle Restaurant Week: Fall 2024 Edition

Our Picks for Seattle Restaurant Week: Fall 2024 Edition - Xóm, Bad Chancla, and More

01/11/2024

For her newest installment of Play Date, Nathalie Graham searches for the mythological Screaming Well with the founders of Liminal Earth.

For this installment of Nathalie Graham's column, Play Date, she searches for the mythological Screaming Well with the founders of Liminal Earth.

31/10/2024

Ticket Alert: Tyler, The Creator, Kelsea Ballerini, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale This Week!

Ticket Alert: Tyler, The Creator, Kelsea Ballerini, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale This Week - Plus, Pixies and More Event Updates for October 31

31/10/2024

It’s time for The Stranger’s Holiday Drink Week! From 12/2 - 8th, bartenders craft their most creative, boozy holiday drinks and serve them at a special discounted price (12 bucks!) Which bar should be a part of this jolly good time? Tell us in the comments! 🌟🍷

31/10/2024

In this week’s ‘The Golden Bachelorette’ recap: Three men remain, and it’s Fantasy Suites week! But the true stars are the stingrays and sharks of Tahiti and Joan’s giant blue fur jacket that looks like she killed a muppet.

Captain Kim sightings: 1!

31/10/2024

As roughly 2 million people in Washington prepare to fill in their ballot, sign and seal their envelope, and vote by mail in the closest and most expensive election in history, the state’s Supreme Court is gearing up to decide a question you might assume it had already settled: should your signature be allowed to deprive you of the right to vote?

A lawsuit filed against the Washington Secretary of State claims that signature matching has prevented 170,000 eligible voters from casting ballots in the last 7 years alone, but has not once resulted in a conviction for voter fraud. In other words, “it’s a remarkably ineffective tool for” protecting the integrity of elections, but “it’s an incredibly effective tool if your goal is to disenfranchise voters by the tens of thousands,” says Kevin Hamilton, one of the lawyers representing the voters and advocacy groups that filed the suit.

A lawsuit filed against the Washington Secretary of State—Vet Voice Foundation v. Hobbs—claims that signature matching has prevented 170,000 eligible voters from casting ballots in the last 7 years alone, but has not once resulted in a conviction for voter fraud.

31/10/2024

One night. Two extraordinary artists! LA-based singer/songwriter Joshua Radin finds healing in between waves of acoustic eloquence and dyed-in-the-wool Americana storytelling. Fiercely independent, Nashville-based Ron Pope carved his niche with his breakout hit, “A Drop in the Ocean," and he’s been compared to Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen. https://www.edmondscenterforthearts.org/events/joshua-radin-ron-pope/

31/10/2024

STRANGER SUGGESTS 10/31 - White Center Halloweentown Block Party https://www.thestranger.com/stranger-suggests/2024/10/30/79760714/stranger-suggests-white-center-halloweentown-block-party-seattle-catrinas-festival-gouge-away-the-art-of-studio-ghibli-and-vote-vote-vo

31/10/2024

• The City Council is trying some Reverse Robinhood-type s**t

• North Korean troops wearing Russian uniforms are headed to Ukraine

• Harris and Trump are deadlocked in Michigan

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Seattle's Only News Roundup.

31/10/2024

Maggie Rogers’s first arena tour came to Climate Pledge this week. We drank a spiked Shirley Temple because she told us to.

Maggie Rogers came to Climate Pledge Arena on her first arena tour. We drank a spiked Shirley Temple because she told us to.

31/10/2024

Mayor Harrell’s 2025-2026 budget proposal redirected $200M from the city’s affordable housing fund to balance the general budget, which outraged housing advocates. Today, Council Budget Chair Dan Strauss doubled down on this plan, choosing not to tax corporations or the wealthy, but to cut critical affordable housing dollars. Despite calls to protect these funds, Strauss’s package keeps the JumpStart revenue raided, risking hundreds of millions earmarked for affordable housing.

Last month, Mayor Bruce Harrell’s 2025-2026 budget proposal siphoned off hundreds of millions of dollars from a fund earmarked for affordable housing to balance the city’s budget, sparking outrage among housing advocates. Today, Budget Chair Dan Strauss unveiled the city council’s...

30/10/2024

Engauge Experimental Film Festival at Northwest Film Forum
Nov. 6-9, 2024

Featuring experimental films originating on celluloid. While many films will screen digitally, we also screen 16mm and 35mm film. Throughout the festival, we’ll show work by filmmakers from all over the world, including a two-projector 16mm expanded cinema performance and live music by Lori Goldston and her band.

30/10/2024

Halloween is the season to let your freak flag fly. But if you ask drag artist Scary-Ann, “you can let your spooky little black heart flutter year round.” That’s why she created Bump in the Night: “a monstrosity of punk, rock, horror, drag, and whatever the f**k else we want.” Every last Wednesday of the month, wander down to Pony for a celebration of all things spooky. Never been? Lucky for you, the next one falls on October 30, Halloween Eve.

Halloween is the season to let your freak flag fly. But if you ask drag artist Scary-Ann, “you can let your spooky little black heart flutter year round.” That’s why she created Bump in the Night: “a monstrosity of punk, rock, horror, drag, and whatever the f**k else we want....

30/10/2024

From the Director of A Christmas Story, Here’s the Most Annoying Zombie Movie Ever Made: Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things

"Digging up the past one coffin at a tomb time."