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• Ask Drippy, the Soggy Paper Straw

  14-04-2025 23:15 via thestranger.com
  Should I get rid of my gas-powered car and get an EV? And other questions for Drippy, the Soggy Paper Straw.by Drippy, the Soggy Paper StrawIllustrations and animation by Karen Hong
  With The Stranger’s 2025 Climate Issue upon us, many of our (very real and not at all fake) readers have been asking us important questions about environmentalism, and how the many rules of reducing, reusing, and recycling have changed over the years.
  We asked a J Pod orca if they would help us answer some of t
  
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• Save Our VHS Tapes

  07-05-2025 02:27 via thestranger.com
  Libby Hopfauf and Annalise Nicholson are in a race against time, and against tape.by Vivian McCallPhotos by Billie Winter.
  Libby Hopfauf and Annalise Nicholson are in a race against time, and against tape.
  It’s a spring afternoon, and we’re sitting in the office of the Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound (MIPoPS), a narrow rectangular room at City Hall. Old audiovisual technology is stacked to the high ceiling. In the corner by the door, there’s a reel-to-reel dictaphone f
  
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• Slog AM: SPD Arrests Pro-Palestine Protesters Who Occupied UW Building, Israel Says It Will "Conquer" Gaza, Canadian PM Mary Carney Comes to WA

  06-05-2025 17:58 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Vivian McCallSeattle Police Arrest About 30 Pro-Palestine Protesters at UW: A group called Students United for Palestinian Equity and Return UW (SUPER UW) occupied a campus building to protest the university’s ties to Boeing, which contracts with the Israeli military and has supplied bombs dropped on Gaza. The company also donated $10 million for the school’s new Interdisciplinary Engineering Building occupied by protesters last night. SUPER UW
  
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• Slog AM: SPD Arrests Pro-Palestine Protesters Who Occupied UW Building, Israel Says It Will "Conquer" Gaza, Canadian PM Mark Carney Comes to WA

  06-05-2025 17:58 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Vivian McCallSeattle Police Arrest About 30 Pro-Palestine Protesters at UW: A group called Students United for Palestinian Equity and Return UW (SUPER UW) occupied a campus building to protest the university’s ties to Boeing, which contracts with the Israeli military and has supplied bombs dropped on Gaza. The company also donated $10 million for the school’s new Interdisciplinary Engineering Building occupied by protesters last night. SUPER UW
  
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• Slog AM: SPD Arrests Pro-Palestine Protesters Who Occupied UW Building, Israel Says It Will "Conquer" Gaza, Canadian PM Mark Carney Comes to DC

  06-05-2025 17:58 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Vivian McCallSeattle Police Arrest About 30 Pro-Palestine Protesters at UW: A group called Students United for Palestinian Equity and Return UW (SUPER UW) occupied a campus building to protest the university’s ties to Boeing, which contracts with the Israeli military and has supplied bombs dropped on Gaza. The company also donated $10 million for the school’s new Interdisciplinary Engineering Building occupied by protesters last night. SUPER UW
  
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• Get Your Back Up Off the Wall 

  05-05-2025 20:11 via thestranger.com
  And Come to This Show About Dance Styles in Hip-Hopby Charles MudedeThere is a scene in Downtown 81 that our current situation (the early days of Trump's second term) can learn from. The year is 1981. Reaganomics is bringing to an end the pre- and post-war policies and programs that vastly expanded the US's middle-class. Interest rates are rising to 20%. Labor is under attack. Cities are rotting. And in an East Village basement (or at least what looks like a basement), we find people dancing to
  
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• Seattle Police Trespassed a Trans Woman for Being Naked at a Queer Nude Beach

  05-05-2025 19:48 via thestranger.com
  On Sunday afternoon, three Seattle Police officers showed up to the queer hangout and nude beach Denny Blaine and told the naked people there that being naked outside, which is legal in Seattle, was actually illegal and that everyone had to put their clothes on.by Vivian McCallOn Sunday afternoon, three Seattle Police officers showed up to the queer hangout and nude beach Denny Blaine and told the naked people there that being naked outside, which is legal in Seattle, was actually illegal and th
  
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• The Top 40 Events in Seattle This Week: May 5–11, 2025

  05-05-2025 19:00 via everout.com
  Rebecca Solnit, Six, and Moreby EverOut StaffWe've whipped up a fresh batch of event picks for your perusal, with options from Rebecca Solnit to Viet Thanh Nguyen and from the Seattle Art Book Fair to Six the musical. For more suggestions, check out our May events guide.
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  Everything Everywhere All At Once
  If you somehow haven't caught the explosive film that earned seven Oscars, here's your chance. From directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, aka "The Daniels," Everything Everywhere All
  
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• Slog AM: Trump Offers $1,000 for People to Self-Deport, Strip Clubs Find a Loophole, Crime Really Is Down in Seattle

  05-05-2025 18:32 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle's only news roundupby Hannah Murphy WinterGood Morning! I’m sure Charles Mudede is disappointed to hear this, but we have two absolutely glorious days ahead of us. Today we’ve got a high of 67 and tomorrow we’ll get up to 76. And let me remind you: this is May in Seattle. Until at least July, the weather can still turn on a dime and break your heart. Get out there.
  But before all that, let’s do the news.
  HIV Research in the Balance: Details are light, but it&rsquo
  
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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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  NonSeq: Imaginary Softwoods + Cameron MacNair
  
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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.
  ICE Arrested Kennewick Food
  
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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.
  ICE Arrested Kennewick Food
  
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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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  Mereba
  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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