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• Our Film Critics Recommend These 30 Movies Playing This Weekend

  23-03-2017 21:53 via thestranger.com
  
  T2 Trainspotting, The Seattle Jewish Film Festival, Being John Malkovich, And More Picks For March 23-26by Stranger Things To Do StaffThis weekend at the movies, skip so-so films like The Last Word (which plays like an HBO drama that suddenly turns into a Disney Channel movie) and instead, take advantage of your last chance to see Moonlight in Seattle theaters, celebrate the opening of the The Seattle Jewish Film Festival, check out new releases like T2 Trainspotting, revel in sexy Polish horror
  
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• Stay Mad

  26-09-2024 00:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Stay mad about it. We'll stay in love.by AnonymousTo the dudebro in the blue car with red trim who honked at me and my partner and rolled down his window to shout "F*GGOTS!" at us on a Saturday afternoon at Harvard & E Olive:We kept holding hands on our way home. We held hands while we were at dinner, and while we slept that night. We'll hold hands today, tomorrow, and long after you're gone. Stay mad about it. We'll stay in love.
  Also, your hair is ugly.Do you need to get something off your
  
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• Stranger Suggests: Orville Peck, Spam New Media Festival, Tina Friml, Tu David Phu, Tegan & Sara

  25-09-2024 23:58 via thestranger.com
  
  One really great thing to do every day of the week.by Audrey VannWEDNESDAY 9/25  
  Orville Peck: Stampede Tour
  (MUSIC) After taking the world by storm with his Sub Pop-released debut album, Pony, the mysteriously masked cowboy known as Orville Peck found himself collaborating with country-pop queen Shania Twain, modeling for fashion labels such as Dior and Ivy Park, and rubbing elbows with mainstream names on the Grammy red carpet. Now supporting his third album, Stampede, Peck will las
  
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• Sweetheart Deal Shows What City Councilmember Joy Hollingsworth Didn't Learn in Amsterdam

  25-09-2024 23:20 via thestranger.com
  
  'Sweetheart Deal' opens at SIFF Film Center Friday, September 27by Charles MudedeThe locally produced documentary Sweetheart Deal contains many messages, but if we unfairly reduce it to one, then it is this: The real crime of sex work is its criminalization. And this message has renewed force in light of the present conservative city council. On Sept 19, eight of the nine members of the council voted to impose a “Stay Out of Area Prostitution (SOAP) zone, and the reinstatement of the City&
  
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• Sweetheart Deal Shows What City Council Member Joy Hollingsworth Didn't Learn in Amsterdam

  25-09-2024 23:20 via thestranger.com
  
  'Sweetheart Deal' opens at SIFF Film Center Friday, September 27by Charles MudedeThe locally produced documentary Sweetheart Deal contains many messages, but if we unfairly reduce it to one, then it is this: The real crime of sex work is its criminalization. And this message has renewed force in light of the present conservative city council. On Sept 19, eight of the nine members of the council voted to impose a “Stay Out of Area Prostitution (SOAP) zone, and the reinstatement of the City&
  
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• Person of Interest: Sarah Tudzin

  25-09-2024 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Illuminati Hotties play Neumos Thursday, Oct 3.by Audrey VannEven if you haven’t heard indie rock luminary Sarah Tudzin’s name, you’ve probably heard her work. She’s an in-demand producer, mixer, audio engineer, and, since 2018, performer under the stage name Illuminati Hotties. But her meteoric rise in the industry started three years ago.
  In 2021, she released her third album, Let Me Do One More, on her own Hopeless Records imprint, to critical acclaim. Then she worked
  
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• Person of Interest: Sarah Trudzin

  25-09-2024 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Illuminati Hotties play Neumos Thursday, Oct 3.by Audrey VannEven if you haven’t heard indie rock luminary Sarah Trudzin’s name, you’ve probably heard her work. She’s an in-demand producer, mixer, audio engineer, and, since 2018, performer under the stage name Illuminati Hotties. But her meteoric rise in the industry started three years ago.
  In 2021, she released her third album, Let Me Do One More, on her own Hopeless Records imprint, to critical acclaim. Then she worked
  
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• Person of Interest: Nonamey

  25-09-2024 19:55 via thestranger.com
  
  Nonamey’s work will be on display at Photosynthesis in Olympia as part of the city’s Fall Arts Walk October 4–5.by Lindsay CostelloPlaying on an audience’s nostalgia can feel like a trick, but when Nonamey does it, it’s an invitation. Their pieces reference real objects, but Nonamey’s graphic, stylized aesthetic isn’t trompe-l’œil—instead of merely tricking the eye, they excite it, with artworks that feel joyous and genuine. The Portlan
  
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• Slog AM: Paul Allen's Foundation Drops Nearly $9.5 Million on Seattle Arts, Israeli Attacks Displace 500,000 in Lebanon, Missouri May Have Executed an Innocent Man

  25-09-2024 17:29 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Vivian McCallDa weather: A front will move across Western Washington today, so expect a quarter to half inch of rain. Showers and isolated thunderstorms moved into the interior early this morning. They’re expected to continue until 3 pm, take a two hour late lunch, and resume as showers and possible thunderstorms this evening. 
  Oops, all cuts: Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell’s 2025-2026 budget plugged a $250 million hole with wads of money mean
  
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• Your Guide to Fall 2024 Arts Events in Seattle

  25-09-2024 01:10 via everout.com
  Over 30 of This Season’s Very Best Art, Book, Music, Film, and Theater Eventsby Audrey VannNothing screams 'fall' like the slow, inevitable retreat back indoors—but don’t let the cozy vibes trigger your FOMO. In fact, this is prime time to trade your blanket for a sweater and soak up all the artsy goodness the season has to offer. From the Freakout Festival to the Short Run Comix Festival, Tegan & Sara's Crush Book Tour, Keith Haring: A Radiant Legacy, and Live from our Liv
  
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• Mayor Harrell Sacrifices $200 Million Of Affordable Housing Rather Than Taxing The Rich

  24-09-2024 23:16 via thestranger.com
  
  Harrell chose to appease his wealthy donors at the expense of affordable housing and his workers.by Hannah KriegMayor Bruce Harrell may pat himself on the back for balancing a $250 million shortfall in his newly unveiled 2025-2026 budget without levying any new taxes, but a broad coalition of 35 community advocacy and labor groups say it's not the flex he thinks it is. The Mayor cut 159 City jobs, $80 million in City programming, and most audaciously, Harrell raided $330 million from JumpStart r
  
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• What Are Ya Readin’ This Season?

  24-09-2024 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  We asked some of our favorite local authors and booksellers what they’re reading this season.by Megan SelingWell, the weather outside is… wait. It’s too early for that. But shit is about to get gnarly. Seattle may have experienced a record-breaking streak of 80-degree days this summer, but now we’re entering the rainy season, the gray season, the time of year when the best thing to do is stay home and read. (And watch Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. But also read.) Novembe
  
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• With Esther Perel

  24-09-2024 20:09 via thestranger.com
  
  A new Savage Lovecastby The StrangerShe slept with a lad who didn’t wear a condom when he said he would, came inside her, and wouldn’t help pay for Plan B. The hitch? He’s great in bed, and she is hard up. Should she sleep with him again, if he promises to be a good boy?
  A caller challenges Dan on his personal dislike of massages. “How can this possibly be?” asks the caller.Our guest this week, is the brilliant psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author E
  
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• LISTEN: Savage Lovecast With Esther Perel

  24-09-2024 20:09 via thestranger.com
  
  A new Savage Lovecastby The StrangerShe slept with a lad who didn’t wear a condom when he said he would, came inside her, and wouldn’t help pay for Plan B. The hitch? He’s great in bed, and she is hard up. Should she sleep with him again, if he promises to be a good boy?
  A caller challenges Dan on his personal dislike of massages. “How can this possibly be?” asks the caller.The Lovecast's guest this week is the brilliant psychotherapist and New York Times bestsellin
  
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• The Republican Ideology Driving Seattle’s Budget

  24-09-2024 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Tell me again how this is moderate? How is it anything but Republican tax ideology?by Ron DavisThis post also appears in Rondezvous. 
  Seattle currently dedicates less of its economy to public spending than did in the famously austere recession-era of 2012, but you sure wouldn’t think so based on the histrionics from the Seattle Times Editorial Board, or all the talk from the conservatives on the Seattle City Council about waste and bloat and audits. 
  That’s because they app
  
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• Home Scream Home

  24-09-2024 18:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Watch 'The Influencer' on Vimeo and see 'Dream Creep' at the Gig Harbor Film Festival September 26–29.by Chase HutchinsonFrom Twin Peaks to The Ring, horror filmmakers have long been drawn to the Pacific Northwest’s moody, fickle, gray backdrop. It’s a region that can do foggy, rainy, and dreary dread, just as it can be unexpectedly bright and sunny, making it a malleable setting that can twist your expectations and keep you delightfully unsettled through an entire film. 
  
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• Slog AM: School Closures Put on Pause, Macklemore Said "Fuck America," Council President Sara Nelson Advances Permanent Cop Hiring Bonuses

  24-09-2024 17:45 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Ashley NerbovigGood morning! Cloudy and hot today, not my favorite combo. We'll see a high of 74 degrees and a very slight chance of rain later tonight. Also, today is the last 7 pm sunset. RIP vitamin D. 
  School closure plan halts: After a bunch of parents rallied against Seattle Public Schools' (SPS) plan to close between 17 to 21 elementary and K-8 schools,  Superintendent Brent Jones has backed off, according to the Seattle Times. The plan wou
  
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• Will Doors Open Keep Doors Open?

  23-09-2024 19:35 via thestranger.com
  
  King County's new Doors Open fund is giving art and culture organizations a lot of hope.by Vivian McCallIt’s been a tough year for Taproot Theatre. Rent, production materials, and the price of fair labor are up, and, despite Artistic Director Karen Lund’s best efforts to compensate by slashing hours, positions have been left vacant. Cutting one of the theater’s three big shows a year hasn’t been enough either, with audiences still lagging 19% behind what they were before
  
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• Pacific Northwest Ballet Opens New Season with World Premiere of Very Pretty and Spooky Swamp Dance

  23-09-2024 19:13 via thestranger.com
  
  Get your ass to the show. It’s a good one.by Rich SmithOn Friday, the Pacific Northwest Ballet kicked off its 2024/25 season with a trio of ballets that combined in my own sick brain to tell a back-to-school narrative, befitting not only early autumn’s crisp air and fresh notebooks but also the controversial budget battle on the minds of so many Seattle parents. 
  But enough politics for now. The show, which runs through Sept 29 at McCaw Hall, began with Edwaard Liang’s The
  
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• The Top 50 Events in Seattle This Week: Sept 23–29, 2024

  23-09-2024 19:00 via everout.com
  Green Day, Connie Chung, and Moreby EverOut StaffFall is officially here and with it comes a brand-new batch of don't-miss events from Green Day - The Saviors Tour to Beabadoobee and from Connie Chung to Bob The Drag Queen's This Is Wild World Tour.
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  Green Day - The Saviors Tour
  The Saviors tour is named after Green Day's latest album, but the gel-haired trio is giving the people what they really want—the entirety of Dookie and American Idiot, and hopefully more of Billie
  
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• Get In Losers, We’re Buying the City Council

  23-09-2024 18:59 via thestranger.com
  
  Progressive People Power “Fights Fire with Fire” after Big Business Spent More Than a Million Dollars to Elect Conservativesby Hannah KriegBig business bought the current city council, and progressives have decided to try to buy it back. A group of disgruntled campaign workers and failed candidates launched Progressive People Power (P3) PAC, an independent expenditure (IE) that plans to fundraise for the leftmost candidate that makes it out of the primary. They aim to even the playin
  
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• Slog AM: Microsoft Goes Nuclear, Cards Against Humanity Sues Elon Musk, Israel Strikes Lebanon

  23-09-2024 17:29 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Nathalie GrahamDid you hear the news? It's fall y'all. #wawx
  — NWS Seattle (@NWSSeattle) September 22, 2024That means today it will be cloudy. But, also kind of warmer than you'd expect.
  Carjackings are up: In Seattle and around the US, carjackings are hot right now. Nationwide, the crime has more than doubled over the past few years "from 7,626 in 2019 to 19,258 in 2022," reports the Seattle Times. Locally, we've seen 66 carjackings so
  
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• Community as Rebellion

  21-09-2024 00:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Palestine Will Live Forever: A Benefit Festival for Palestine is Saturday, September 21, at Seward Park Amphitheater.by Marcus Harrison GreenFor nearly a year, Palestinians living in Gaza have faced an endless torrent of death and destruction. Since the October 7 attack by Hamas, more than 40,000 people (at least 16,456 of them children) have been killed in Israel’s assault on the Gaza strip. In all, The Lancet medical journal estimates the death toll will reach more than 186,000. Simultan
  
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• Will a Dramatic Drop in Interest Rates Spark Another Construction Boom in Seattle?

  20-09-2024 23:22 via thestranger.com
  
  And will this dramatic cut impact the presidential election?by Charles MudedeOn September 16, Joshua McNichols posted on KUOW that "lower interest rates could have big implications for downtown Seattle." Why? Because "[w]hen interest rates go down, developers borrow more money. They use that money to build things." I did not give this prognostication much weight until the following day, September 17, when the Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell did something truly surprising and not at all in my
  
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• Black Activist Alleges Assault at Protest Outside Council Member Bob Kettle’s House

  20-09-2024 20:41 via thestranger.com
  
  Alan Meekins Calls Queen Anne a “Sundown Town” after Angry White Man Allegedly Throws Speaker at His Headby Hannah KriegLocal Black activist Alan Meekins claims a Queen Anne resident threw a heavy, rolling speaker at his head during a small protest outside Council Member Bob Kettle’s house last weekend. In an interview with The Stranger, Meekins described Kettle’s neighborhood as a “Sundown Town” and his angry neighbors as a “lynch mob.” Meekins in
  
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• Flore Laurentienne's Elegant Minimalism and Bill Horist's Oceanic Guitar Sorcery

  20-09-2024 19:55 via thestranger.com
  
  The best new music to hit Dave Segal's inbox this week.by Dave SegalFlore Laurentienne, "Autriche III" (Secret City Records)
  A Canadian project led by Mathieu David Gagnon, Flore Laurentienne make electronic-tinged classical music of exquisite sophistication and beauty. Their first two albums—Volume I and Volume II—deal in expansive gestures, with analog synthesizers and strings leading the way. Many of the group's orchestrations evoke the classiest Hollywood soundtrack music and, co
  
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• Coffee for La Cultura

  20-09-2024 19:10 via thestranger.com
  
  Bonito Café y Mercadito officially opened September 14.by Julianne BellWhen husbands Daniel and Ismael Calderón first started their pop-up market Aquí Mercado in April 2023, it was supposed to be a one-time occurrence.
  The couple, who had moved to Seattle from California a few years prior, wanted to kick off the opening of their third photography studio, Aquí, with something personal to them—a joyful party in honor of their queer and Latinx culture. They said th
  
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• The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: Sept 20–22, 2024

  20-09-2024 19:00 via everout.com
  R-Day, Great Wallingford Bratwurst Festival, and More Cheap & Easy Events Under $15by EverOut StaffIt's time to clock out of the work week and check in to the weekend. We've lined up some cheap and easy events that shouldn't escape your attention, from R-Day 2024 to the Great Wallingford Bratwurst Festival and from Luminata to the C-ID Night Market. For more ideas, check out our guide to the top events of the week.
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  Ricci ArmaniLocal millennial and sweet potato brownie critic Ri
  
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• Long Prison Sentences Don’t Keep Us Safe

  20-09-2024 18:00 via thestranger.com
  
  They’re Ineffective, Wasteful, and Do Little to Help Survivors Healby David TrieweilerLet’s get smarter on crime, not “tougher.”
  This time of year, aspiring elected officials insist that we must get tough on crime to keep us safe. “Getting tough” almost always includes imposing more and longer prison sentences.  Unfortunately, most of those claims are based on myths, fear, and half-truths. Therefore, voters should insist that calls for increased punishmen
  
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• Slog AM: MAGA Mark Robinson's Weird Porn Forum Comments, NY Mag Reporter in a Relationship with RFK Jr., The West Seattle Light Rail Could Cost $7 Billion

  20-09-2024 17:40 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Nathalie GrahamWhat the hell is going on? North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, who is running for governor, had a rough day on Thursday. CNN found Robinson's account on Nude Africa, a porn site where he regularly commented on the forums. In those comments, Robinson talked about things like fucking and sucking his wife's sister as she pissed on him, peeping on women in the gym locker room when he was 14, enjoying transgender pornography, his identific
  
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