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• A Decade of Debate Ends in Silence

  17-04-2025 02:11 via thestranger.com
  In 2015, city council chambers swelled with hundreds of Hookah Lounge supporters and detractors, there to shout down, up, and over each other as Seattle considered closures and regulation of the “after-hours lounges.” On the table was a bill from then-Mayor Ed Murray to completely shutter the doors of all Seattle Hookah lounges, now and forever.by Marcus Harrison GreenIn 2015, city council chambers swelled with hundreds of Hookah Lounge supporters and detractors, there to s
  
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• The Downfall of the Climate Savior Who Never Was

  03-05-2025 01:25 via thestranger.com
  Elon Musk Was Created by the Government He's Trying to Destroyby Marcus Harrison GreenThere’s a special glee in watching the real-time, self-induced demise of the world’s richest man. Elon Musk, once crowned the boy-king of tech utopianism, has become a tragicomic emblem of what happens when unfettered power meets zero accountability and even less empathy. On Wall Street, his house of electric cards is collapsing: Tesla profits are down 71 percent, shareholders are restless, and
  
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• Seattle Showed up for May Day

  02-05-2025 22:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Yesterday, a coalition of unions, immigrant rights groups, and other anti-Trump protestors took over the streets on Capitol Hill. The rally brought together more than 1,000 protesters at Cal Anderson Park, and then, with the assistance of car escorts and bike blockades, they marched to the federal building, stretching across blocks at a time.by Hannah Murphy WinterPhotos by Brittne Lunniss
  Yesterday, a coalition of unions, immigrant rights groups, and other anti-Trump protestors took over the st
  
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• What Jamie Tompkins Says Really Happened at SPD

  02-05-2025 19:25 via thestranger.com
  
  Jamie Tompkins, the former Seattle Police Department Chief of Staff, is challenging the narrative of her dismissal—and the dismissal of former SPD Chief Adrian Diaz.by Carolyn BickJamie Tompkins, the former Seattle Police Department Chief of Staff, is challenging the narrative of her dismissal—and the dismissal of former SPD Chief Adrian Diaz. 
  In a letter hand-delivered to both Harrell and Seattle City Council President Sara Nelson on November 27, 2024, Tompkins alleges that SP
  
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• The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: May 2–4, 2025

  02-05-2025 19:00 via everout.com
  Windermere Cup Week, Free Comic Book Day, and More Cheap & Easy Events Under $15by EverOut StaffThere are dozens of reasons to leave this house this weekend on the cheap, and we're sharing them all below, from Windermere Cup Week to the Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month Celebration and from the Creative Works Pop-Up Market to Free Comic Book Day. For more ideas, check out this week's top event picks.
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• Slog AM: More than 1,000 March for May Day, Trump Wants to Defund Public Broadcasting, SPD Accused of Sexual Harassment 

  02-05-2025 18:45 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Megan SelingYesterday was May Day: The Seattle Times estimated more than 1,000 people showed up for yesterday’s May Day march that began at Cal Anderson Park and headed downtown via Pine Street. We were there, too, speaking to labor leaders and organizers at the rally ahead of the march. Watch: More Marching: Missed May Day? Want to keep marching? There is an All Labor March Saturday at the Washington State Capitol Building.Trump Continues to Att
  
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• The Best Things To Do in Seattle This Month: May 2025

  02-05-2025 00:26 via everout.com
  Kendrick Lamar & SZA, SIFF, and Moreby EverOut StaffAlong with May flowers, the new month brings a whole host of major local happenings like can't-miss concerts, cultural celebrations, film festivals, and more. Below, we're clueing you in to everything you need to know about during this homestretch of spring, from Kendrick Lamar and SZA's Grand National tour to Outlaw Music Festival with Willie Nelson & Family, Bob Dylan, and More and from the Seattle International Film Festival to The P
  
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• Ticket Alert: HAIM, Bryan Adams, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale This Week

  01-05-2025 23:16 via everout.com
  Plus, Psychic Salamander Festival and More Event Updates for May 1by EverOut StaffGrab your credit card because another batch of event announcements is here. Pop rock sister trio HAIM is bringing new music from their upcoming fourth album on tour. Canadian hitmaker Bryan Adams will “roll with the punches” with special guests Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo. Plus, Modest Mouse is launching the new Psychic Salamander Festival with headliners including the Flaming Lips and Sleater-Kinney.
  
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• Wisconsin Judge’s Arrest Couldn’t Have Happened in Washington

  01-05-2025 19:50 via thestranger.com
  Whether or not Dugan did what she’s accused of, there’s precedent for judges acting in this way. And, no, Attorney General Pam Bondi, this is not “radical leftist judges” standing in the way of Trump’s agenda. These behaviors are a reaction to ICE’s continued presence in US courtrooms causing a chilling effect on the legal system and making it harder for courts to do their job. Washington, still a bastion of sanity in some arenas, tackled this ghoulish ICE beh
  
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• Slog AM: Homeless Swept From Forest, Trump Says Girls Must Do With Just Two Dolls, Earth Might Turn Purple 

  01-05-2025 17:47 via thestranger.com
  Seattle's only news roundup.by Charles MudedeLet's ignore today's weather, which will experience a high of 74 and no clouds, no "merveilleux nuages." Let's instead look toward Saturday, which will be cool and cloudy. That said, here is the traffic report. Today, like yesterday, and the day before, there will be lots and lots of it. Expect misery especially on Denny Way, as every car a nightmare could ever produce tries to squeeze into I-5 all at once. As a consequence, expect the Metro's 8 bus t
  
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• Stranger Suggests: Today's Hardest-Hitting Rap Outfit, the Return of a Seattle Treasure, and ALLLLLL the May Day Protests

  30-04-2025 23:45 via thestranger.com
  One really great thing to do every day of the week.by Audrey VannWEDNESDAY 4/30  
  Clipping., Counterfeit Madison, Dead Channel Sky
  (MUSIC) One of the hardest-hitting, most politically minded rap outfits playing out right now has to be Clipping. The LA three-piece consists of the MC Daveed Diggs and production duo William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes, and they do be comin’ for your preconceived notions of what the hip-hop genre can be. Diggs’s flow can reach breakneck speeds h
  
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• May Day Is The People’s Day

  30-04-2025 22:18 via thestranger.com
  Both locally and nationally, this year’s May Day will be a nexus of labor and immigrant rights—a moment shaped by struggle, sharpened by history, and (hopefully) set ablaze by the fire of solidarity.by Marcus Harrison GreenBoth locally and nationally, this year’s May Day will be a nexus of labor and immigrant rights—a moment shaped by struggle, sharpened by history, and (hopefully) set ablaze by the fire of solidarity.
  May Day (or International Workers’ Day) does no
  
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• Lawsuit Alleges Decades of Sexual Abuse in King County Youth Detention 

  30-04-2025 20:08 via thestranger.com
  The matter is not closed for 36 former juvenile defendants who, in a lawsuit filed yesterday against King County, allege that the County failed to protect them from sexual abuses from the 1960’s through the 2000’s, at the hands of Little and 37 other authority figures.The 36 complainants are suing the County for negligence, claiming that their assaults were “an institutional failure caused by and maintained through King County’s willful disregard for the well-being and sa
  
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• Slog AM: Trump Celebrates His 100 Days, SPD's Hiring Spree, and We've Got a Women's Hockey Team

  30-04-2025 18:20 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundupby Marcus Harrison GreenWeather: Today will be mostly sunny with a high of 64 degrees, which means the goddess Ishtar is in a good mood, just not good enough for 70. Go outside, bask in that filtered nuclear radiation we call sunshine, and remember: the planet’s still spinning… for now.
  100 Days of This Shit. Trump marked his first 100 days by dancing to “YMCA” in Michigan, grinning through the lowest approval rating of any president in
  
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• We Have a Dictator

  30-04-2025 01:24 via thestranger.com
  If you believe we are somehow still living in the same US that conducted elections in November 2024, you are living in a dream. That America is gone. The one we are in now is not run by someone acting like a dictator—or, as Rachel Maddow claimed, “too incompetent” to be a dictator—but is, without a doubt, the real deal.by Charles MudedeIf you believe we are somehow still living in the same US that conducted elections in November 2024, you are living in a dream. That Ameri
  
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• Slog AM: The Virginia Inn Isn’t Closing, Liberal Party Wins Canadian Elections, Man Rescued From Mount Fuji Twice

  29-04-2025 17:37 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Vivian McCallThe Virginia Inn Isn’t Closing This Sunday: The oldest restaurant in Pike Place received a last minute eviction reprieve from the Pike Place Market Preservation and Development Authority (PDA) and will resume “business as usual,” the Inn posted on Facebook. The PDA told King 5 that the current tenant will operate the restaurant until September while working with the PDA to find someone to take over.
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• Slog AM: The Virginia Inn Isn’t Closing, Liberal Party Wins Canadian Elections, Man Airlifted From Mount Fuji Twice

  29-04-2025 17:37 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Vivian McCallThe Virginia Inn isn’t closing this Sunday: The oldest restaurant in Pike Place received a last minute eviction reprieve from the Pike Place Market Preservation and Development Authority (PDA) and will resume “business as usual,” the Inn posted on Facebook. The PDA told King 5 that the current tenant will operate the restaurant until September while working with the PDA to find someone to take over.
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• The Top 33 Events in Seattle This Week: Apr 28–May 4, 2025

  28-04-2025 19:15 via everout.com
  Denzel Curry, Seattle Erotic Art Festival, and More Top Picksby EverOut StaffThey say April showers bring May flowers, but you can also expect top-notch events from Denzel Curry's Mischievous South Tour to Mereba and from the Seattle Erotic Art Festival to Seattle Opera's Tosca this week.
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  If you're waiting around for Solange to release a follow-up to 2019's When I Get Home, resist the urge to send her passive-aggressive Instagram comments that she will never see and inst
  
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• The Leather Runway

  28-04-2025 18:30 via thestranger.com
  Last month, we went to Fetish Ball—home of Seattle's best dressed kinksters.by West SmithPhotos by West Smith
  My grandpa, who was a bit on the uptight side, took my mom to see the musical Hair when she was a kid. At the end of the first act, the performers came out onto the stage naked. My mom remembers his face was “mortified.” My grandfather said he wanted to leave immediately, missing the second half and the show's crescendo “Let The Sunshine In.”If he wasn&rsquo
  
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• Slog AM: Driver Kills 11 in Vancouver, Olympia Lawmakers Land on $78 Billion Budget, Far-Right Youth Groups Crop up Across US

  28-04-2025 17:51 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Nathalie GrahamVancouver Carnage: Near the end of the Lapu Lapu Festival organized by the Filipino community in Vancouver, British Columbia, a black Audi SUV plowed into the crowd. The driver of the car killed 11 people whose ages ranged from 5 to 65. The driver tried to escape, but was restrained by the crowd. Police say they had had previous "substantive contact with him over mental health issues." The police chief did not reveal what they believed his mo
  
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• Overnight at Sakura Con 2025

  26-04-2025 20:23 via thestranger.com
  Did you know: Sakura Con runs 24-hours a day?by West SmithPhotos by West Smith
  When I first moved to Seattle from my small town in Alaska, I was enamored by the amount of 24-hour options this city had. Living right between the neighborhoods of Green Lake and Greenwood, I was walking distance from two classic North Seattle 24-hour diners, Beth's Cafe and Shanghai Room. I was able to get a chicken fried steak with milkshake at a moment's notice, any time of the day.After the pandemic, Seattle's 24
  
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• Going Up in Smoke

  25-04-2025 19:26 via thestranger.com
  Our People Brings 2020's BLM Energy Back to the Opera Houseby Adam WillemsGrammy Award-winning tenor Freddie Ballentine and (equally accolade-laden) Indian-American pianist Kunal Lahiry premiered their recital Our People, a celebration of LGBTQ and Black artists and histories, at Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center in December 2021. It’s a production that Ballentine, who is Black, says was a response to the Black Lives Matter movement following the death of George Floyd. “It was
  
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• The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: Apr 25–27, 2025

  25-04-2025 19:15 via everout.com
  Seattle Independent Bookstore Day, Seattle/King County Clinic, and More Cheap & Easy Events Under $15by EverOut StaffThis weekend will deliver the perfect weather (not too hot, not too cold) to run around to events from Seattle Independent Bookstore Day to the 22nd Annual White Center Khmer New Year Street Festival and from SOUK سياتل Charity Pop-up Market to the Seattle/King County Clinic. For more ideas, check out our top event picks of the week.
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• Film Review: The Shrouds Is a Shallow Grave

  25-04-2025 18:30 via thestranger.com
  With his latest film The Shrouds, the 82-year-old Canadian filmmaker homes in on the reality that these bodies of ours will one day rot away or be reduced to ashes. It’s an unsettling truth that's easy to stuff aside, even as we watch a loved one lowered into the earth.by Robert HamThis review originally appeared in the Portland Mercury. 
  David Cronenberg’s chief cinematic obsession has long been the human body and all the painful, pleasurable, and generally fucked up things tha
  
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• Slog AM: Washington Considers a Tesla Tax, Reykdal Shows Up for DEI, the FBI Arrests a Judge

  25-04-2025 18:17 via thestranger.com
  Seattle's Only News Roundupby Hannah Murphy WinterGood morning! We’ve got three more days of this perfect weather, and the universe very kindly made two of them a weekend. These are the days that out-of-towners don’t know exist here. Go hang out at a street-end park. Look for mushrooms in the arboretum. (But only eat them if you know what you’re doing!) Lock down a grill at Golden Gardens at an absurdly early hour, and text everyone you know.
  But before all that, let’s st
  
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• Ticket Alert: Thing, Band of Horses & Iron and Wine, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale This Week

  25-04-2025 00:01 via everout.com
  Plus, More Event Updates for April 24by EverOut StaffReady for another round of ticket drops? Carnation music fest Thing is switching things up this year with a series of concerts featuring Father John Misty, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, Mon Laferte, and the Roots. Longtime friends Band of Horses & Iron and Wine, who recorded a covers album together in 2015, are teaming up once again for a joint headline tour. Plus, we’re giving you a heads up to snag tickets next week for Modest Mouse&rsq
  
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• I Saw U: Celebrating a Birthday at Phish, Getting Caught in a Hailstorm, and Attending Mariners Games with Your Big Dog

  25-04-2025 00:00 via thestranger.com
  Did you see someone? Say something!by AnonymousFriday Phish show, Row X, 50th Bday party
  I was in your row at Phish, lame dude was being “aggressively enthusiastic” and you asked me to stand between him and ya’ll. Would love to see you!Hailstorm Hottie (ugh)
  You were walking your dog when we were caught in that freak 3/13 hailstorm. The hail was cold, your smile was warm - would love to grab some hot cocoa
  Nerdy Weird Nice Guy
  Hey Andrew from Ozzie’s. Don’t red shir
  
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• Our Favorite Teriyaki Shops in Seattle

  24-04-2025 20:12 via everout.com
  Grillbird, Okinawa Teriyaki, and Moreby EverOut StaffYes, Seattle has market-fresh seafood and one of the best coffee scenes in the country, and is home to the Seattle dog. But there's no denying: Seattle is teriyaki town. In the late 1970s, Toshi Kasahara started serving the masses chargrilled chicken slathered with his signature sauce atop a bed of steaming rice, popularizing the dish and pioneering a wave of teriyaki shops all over the city. Quality, portion size, proximity to your house, and
  
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• Slog AM: Pike Place Market Kind of Bans Cars, People in Washington Keep Pointing Lasers at Planes, Alaska Airlines Loses Millions

  24-04-2025 17:46 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle's Only Morning News Roundup.by Charles MudedeKOMO, rolling its eyes: "Be ready to get turned away from driving into Pike Place Market." Have pedestrians finally won this long and stupid war? Have those in power at last seen the light? Hardly. The Pike Place Market Preservation and Development Authority (PDA) bills this ban as nothing bigger than a pilot program. Meaning, it may or may not last. And, by the way, the program doesn't run the full length of the street. Only half of it. And,
  
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• Forever Friends

  24-04-2025 00:07 via thestranger.com
  Do you need to get something off your chest? Submit an I, Anonymous and we'll illustrate it!by AnonymousThis is a love letter to my friends:
  To the ones who always will revel in my joy.
  The ones who offer their shoulders when I cry.
  The ones who say I don't care it's Thursday, come over and have dinner with us.
  The ones who are silent but I know are still there.The ones who send me pictures of things that reminded them of me.
  The ones I didn't even realize cared about me.
  The ones who let me ven
  
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