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• Seattle Renters Commission “Powerless” to Advocate for Tenants Due to “Ongoing Neglect” from Mayor Harrell, Council

  15-08-2024 19:44 via thestranger.com
  
  As council members publicly threaten tenant protections, Seattle is holding up $50,000 for the renters commission without giving a reason.by Hannah KriegThe Seattle Renters Commission (SRC) accused Mayor Bruce Harrell and the Seattle City Council of “ongoing neglect” that not only “hampers” the commission’s work but “insults” the communities they aim to serve. For eight months, Harrell has failed to release $50,000 in funds to convene a new tenant workgr
  
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• Only a Psycho Wouldn't Like BOOM: A Film About the Sonics

  10-09-2024 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  'BOOM: A Film About the Sonics' opens at the Grand in Tacoma Friday.by Dave SegalOn Saturday night, special guests (and the lucky few who snagged tickets) gathered at MoPOP’s Sky Church to honor a local legend: Tacoma’s greatest band, the Sonics. 
  The band helped define the sound of punk and garage rock from the beginning. And this weekend, the band had two things to celebrate: a show in honor of their 60th anniversary, and BOOM: A Film About the Sonics, the first definitive doc
  
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• Slog AM: Presidential and WA Gubernatorial Debates Tonight, Israel Airstrikes Safe Zone, and Boeing Machinists May Strike

  10-09-2024 17:30 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Hannah KriegNot bad: Today, Seattleites can expect mostly cloudy skies with temperatures peaking in the high 60s, maybe 70 degrees if you hold your thermometer just right. That kind of weather should stick around for at least the rest of the week. 
  Harris v. Trump: Presidential nominees Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will face off tonight at 6 pm Pacific Time in the second debate of the election—well, if you count the one that killed Joe Biden&rs
  
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• The Campaign to Stop Newly Proposed Prostitution Laws Hits the Doors along Aurora Avenue

  10-09-2024 02:01 via thestranger.com
  
  As It Turns Out, Several Neighbors in the SOAP Zone Don’t Really Like the Idea!by Ashley NerbovigVolunteers wound through the neighborhoods surrounding Aurora Avenue Saturday ahead of a city council committee vote this week on whether to revive Seattle’s prostitution loitering laws and institute a Stay Out of Area Prostitution (SOAP) Zone along seven miles of Aurora. 
  I trailed one of the teams and learned that few neighbors knew about the legislation, and that they’d love
  
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• The Top 45 Events in Seattle This Week: Sept 9–15, 2024

  09-09-2024 19:00 via everout.com
  Art + Culture Week Seattle, Black & Loud Fest, and Moreby EverOut StaffIf you wanna be in the know about all of the top events in Seattle this week, you've come to the right place. Keep scrolling for details on everything from Art + Culture Week Seattle to Seattle Arts & Lectures Presents Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and from Black & Loud Fest to King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard.
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  READINGS & TALKS
  Chelsea Bieker with Danya Kukafka — 'Madwoman'
  If authors like Fla
  
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• John Early Isn’t Afraid to Be the Asshole

  09-09-2024 18:51 via thestranger.com
  
  An interview with comedian John Early.by Megan SelingLast year comedian John Early took his comedy to a new level. His HBO special Now More Than Ever combined his charismatic story-telling with his love of pop classics into a The Last Waltz-inspired concert mockumentary with his band the Lemon Squares. A little comedy, a little music, a little chiding the crowd—and his parents—like an insufferable brat. (Sorry, Charli, but no one does brat better than Early.) 
  It wasn’t a
  
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• Justice for Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi

  09-09-2024 18:22 via thestranger.com
  
  Her family described Eygi as a “loving daughter, sister, partner, and aunt.”by Hannah KriegHundreds of demonstrators gathered in Westlake Park Saturday afternoon to mourn Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, a Seattle activist and recent University of Washington graduate, after Israeli forces shot and killed her Friday morning at a protest against illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. As politicians, including US Representative Pramila Jayapal and US Senator Maria Cantwell, send their co
  
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• Slog AM: Family of Slain Pedestrian Sues SPD and Seattle, Israeli Soldiers Kill UW Grad in West Bank, Waves Gain Personhood in Brazil

  09-09-2024 17:35 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Nathalie GrahamSeattle sued by family of slain pedestrian: Last year, SPD cop Kevin Dave struck and killed 23-year-old Jaahnavi Kandula while he was responding to an emergency call and she was crossing the street at a crosswalk. The SPD SUV hit Kandula while going 74 mph in a 25 mph zone and sent her flying 135 feet. She died at the hospital. In the wake of her death, a recording surfaced of a police union official laughing about Kandula's death, saying she
  
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• Cherry Street Workers Shut Down All Four Locations after Boss Advocated for Subminimum Wage

  07-09-2024 00:06 via thestranger.com
  
  Bosses Can’t Afford NOT to Pay Their Workers the Minimum Wageby Hannah KriegWorkers at Cherry Street Coffee House shut down all four cafe locations Friday morning to put pressure on their boss, Ali Ghambari, to meet their demands for improved working conditions and better pay. 
  Ghambari pushed his workers to their breaking point in July when he testified at City Hall, apparently in favor of Council Member Joy Hollingsworth's bill to retain a “tip crediting” scheme (or &ldq
  
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• The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: Sept 6–8, 2024

  06-09-2024 19:00 via everout.com
  San Gennaro Festival, Art + Culture Week, and More Cheap & Easy Events Under $15by EverOut StaffSummer's holding on tight this weekend, and we hope you take advantage by heading to easygoing events from the San Gennaro Festival to the start of Art + Culture Week Seattle and from Khushbu Shah in conversation with J. Kenji López-Alt to the Northwest Ukrainian International Festival. For more ideas, check out our guide to the top events of the week.
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  Dank Moms Podcast R
  
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• Slog AM: Washington GOP Sues over Recount, Georgia Shooter's Dad Arrested, Bellevue Art Museum Is Dead

  06-09-2024 17:30 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Nathalie GrahamWashington GOP sues King County elections director: That primary race for Public Lands Commissioner got so hot that the Republicans in the state are suing. After a recount, Democrat Dave Upthegrove beat Republican Sue Kuehl Pederson by just 51 votes. The state GOP believes an online tool allowing voters to fix ballot issues such as signature challenges swayed the election results. The lawsuit against King County Elections Director Julie
  
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• Ticket Alert: The Vaccines, Kiss of Life, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale This Week

  06-09-2024 00:29 via everout.com
  Plus, More Event Updates for September 5by EverOut StaffEnglish rockers The Vaccines will bring their upbeat anthems stateside in early 2025. K-pop princesses Kiss of Life have announced a local stop on their Kiss Road world tour. Plus, Canadian folk rock artist Leif Vollebekk supports his new album Revelation at the Showbox this fall. Read on for details on those and other newly announced events, plus some news you can use.
  Tickets go on sale at 10 am unless otherwise noted.
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• I Saw U: Leaving the Metallica Concert, Taking Pictures at Bumbershoot, and Waiting in Line at PAX

  05-09-2024 23:00 via thestranger.com
  
  See someone? Say something!by AnonymousYard House giggle
  August, 29th 4:15pm. U: tall blonde with blue eyes your friend: curly hair Dakine backpack exit Yard House had a giggle over happenings. Let’s hang?You were taking fancy photos every time I turned around at Bumbershoot… 
  Wearing red shoes, red socks. Dunno who was stalking who. Left James Blake early w/ my friend, and there you were escaping from the same side exit.
  hideout pax redhead
  You were at hideout with your brothe
  
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• Council Member Dan Strauss Considers Alternative To Social Housing Tax

  05-09-2024 22:52 via thestranger.com
  
  But He Won't Say What It Isby Hannah KriegThe Seattle City Council only has two more meetings to put Initiative 137, which will levy a new payroll tax to pay for social housing, on the ballot. Supporters of I-137 speculated that the council delayed action last month to suppress the vote by forcing the issue to a lower-turnout election and to buy time to propose an alternate initiative. During a cagey discussion at full council this week, Council Member Dan Strauss implied an alternative to clear
  
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• Four Pizzerias in Seattle with Perfect Salads

  05-09-2024 20:41 via everout.com
  Come for the Slices, Stay for the Leafy Greensby EverOut StaffYou know what's one of the best, yet underrated, parts of going out for pizza? The salads, which tend to be zesty, punchy, and fresh to balance out the heaviness of molten cheese-covered pies. I was first introduced to the concept of "pizzeria salad" via cookbook author Julia Turshen's excellent recipe and have since found some favorites around town—here are a few salads that pair perfectly with a slice but are also good enough
  
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• Meanie Like Sunday Morning

  05-09-2024 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  I wanted to file a police report, but no one is answering the non-emergency phone.by AnonymousI was on my way to brunch with my husband and kiddo, a family celebration for our wedding anniversary. I was driving, and our nine-year-old was in the back seat. The sun was out, birds were chirping, everything was beautiful. 
  Then you pulled up next to us in your large, white SUV. You stopped just ahead of us, blocking the crosswalk at a busy intersection. Hanging your head out the window, you fel
  
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• King County Council Member Girmay Zahilay Campaigned on No New Youth Jail, But Voted to Keep Using Youth Jail

  05-09-2024 18:11 via thestranger.com
  
  “I Did The Right Thing,” Zahilay saysby Ashley NerbovigLast week, the King County Council voted 8-0 to support a non-binding motion to leave the county’s child jail open. King County Council Member Girmay Zahilay joined the council in voting for the measure—with some meager amendments stressing how the county needs alternatives to jail for kids, upstream investments, and to improve the conditions at the current facility—despite running in 2019 on a platform to &ldqu
  
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• Slog AM: Student Kills Four In Georgia School Shooting, Netanyahu Doubles Down On Peace-Deal-Killing Land Grab, And Hot Weather Ahead

  05-09-2024 17:35 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's daily news round-up.by Hannah KriegWeather: Yesterday’s weather, while beautiful, sorta pissed me off. I wore jeans out for my big afternoon walk (25,000 steps btw) and I was sweating! And yet, shorts would have felt silly to me. Classic summer-to-fall transition temperature, amiright? Anyway, the weather picks a clearer lane today—summer, baby. Expect clear, sunny skies, and highs in the upper 80s. Shorts weather for sure. 
  Apalachee High School: In the latest ep
  
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• Back To School Season Is A Great Time To Protect the Capital Gains Tax

  05-09-2024 00:22 via thestranger.com
  
  I-2109 Trades Childrens’ Futures For A Tax Break For The .2% Richest Washingtoniansby Hannah KriegAs Seattle students returned to the classroom today, advocates stood outside of the construction site of the new Tyee High School to remind the voting public that a rich hedge fund guy wants to gut public education funding by an extraordinary $2.2 billion over five years to give the very wealthiest few Washingtonians a tax break—urging anyone who cares about public education, school cons
  
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• Stranger Suggests: Whim W'Him Pop-Up Series, the Softies, Titanish, AFROPUNK Seattle, Stephanie Syjuco: After/Images

  04-09-2024 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  One really great thing to do every day of the week.by Audrey VannWEDNESDAY 9/4  
  Whim W'Him Pop-Up Series
  (PERFORMANCE) Longtime, award-winning Seattle dance troupe Whim W'him specializes in fully intentional movement. Bodies writhe over each other. Hands toy with handheld lights as eased around or through arms, legs, and necks. Members march in unison, and on these marches, each troupe member, in order, might explode into a tense pose, like an inverted firework. On September 4, Whim W
  
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• How Our Distressed Ferry System Got Dragged Into a Ghastly Criminal Case

  04-09-2024 22:09 via thestranger.com
  Washington State Ferries is conducting a formal investigation into the matter.by Charles MudedeWe cannot let this curious sign of the times pass in silence. It says way too much about our current state. It happened on July 25, 2024, at the first court appearance of Interisland Ferry Captain Albert Brant during his son's trial for the ghastly charge of possessing child pornography. 
  The purpose of the post-arrest hearing was to determine "the conditions of release." Prosecutors wanted to set
  
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• How Our Distressed Ferry System Got Dragged Into a Criminal Case

  04-09-2024 22:09 via thestranger.com
  
  Washington State Ferries is conducting a formal investigation into the matter.by Charles MudedeWe cannot let this curious sign of the times pass in silence. It says way too much about our current state. It happened on July 25, 2024, at the first court appearance of Interisland Ferry Captain Albert Brant during his son's trial for the ghastly charge of possessing child pornography. 
  The purpose of the post-arrest hearing was to determine "the conditions of release." Prosecutors wanted to set
  
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• Nintendo Finally Lets You Be the Girl in Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom

  04-09-2024 21:17 via thestranger.com
  
  Women of the Hyrulian world, unite!by Sam MachkovechFor roughly 38 years, Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda series has sold its titular princess short. Basically, her “Legend” has been getting kidnapped or running away under mysterious circumstances in ways where only a dude in a skin-tight leotard can find her, wave a sword around, and calm her down. Great message for roughly half of your potential audience, Nintendo.
  That changes in a few weeks. Starting September 26, Legend of Zeld
  
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• Slog AM: Pier 58 Contractor Sues City, UK Suspends Some Arms to Israel, Emu Missing

  04-09-2024 18:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Vivian McCallOn the waterfront: The contractor hired to rebuild Pier 58 is suing the City, claiming it never paid them for extra work done to accelerate construction. After months of back and forth this year, the City allegedly never delivered Pacific Pile and Marine a promised updated order that would allow it to bill them. That delay allegedly caused “irreparable damage” to the company, which is requesting a monthly 1% interest on the final co
  
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• We Went to PAX West, and It Was Horny

  04-09-2024 17:00 via thestranger.com
  
  It was also playful, demure, and an escape from anything that needs escaping.by Ari AndersonPAX West is horny. In just a few hours we saw people who were horny for their favorite characters, horny for GPUs, horny for swords (we saw so many swords), horny for followers, horny for dice, horny for meeting like-minded friends. Some are horny for Mario. Absolutely everyone is horny for Baldur’s Gate III (BG3)—a steamy ground-breaking character-based RPG that has won countless awards for i
  
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• Everything We Loved at Bumbershoot

  04-09-2024 02:19 via thestranger.com
  
  Twinkies Made of Glass, Sharks With Butts, and Some Musicby Hannah Murphy WinterIf you stopped going to Bumbershoot because it got too crowded, too expensive, and too full of the Black Eyed Peas, it’s time to reevaluate your decision. 
  Gone are the days when attendance topped 150,000, and music fans had to wait in line for hours to ~maybe~ score a wristband to see mainstream radio superstars headline Memorial Stadium. When New Rising Sun brought the once-beloved fest back from the dea
  
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• The Top 43 Events in Seattle This Week: Sept 3–8, 2024

  03-09-2024 19:00 via everout.com
  AFROPUNK Seattle, Jesmyn Ward, and Moreby EverOut StaffWe're back at it, suggesting all of the week's top events from AFROPUNK Seattle to Leslie Jones: Live and from Jesmyn Ward with Ijeoma Oluo to Pink: The Trustfall Tour. For a look at the month ahead, check out our September event guide.
  TUESDAY
  LIVE MUSIC
  Buena Vista Social Orchestra
  In 1996, British record producer Nick Gold, roots rock guitarist Ry Cooder, and bandleader Juan de Marcos González organized the Buena Vista Social Club
  
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• Slog AM: Lynnwood Light Rail Extension a Hit, Protests Erupt in Israel After Hostage Deaths, Humans Lead Bird Migration in Goofy Plane

  03-09-2024 18:07 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's daily news round-up.by Ashley NerbovigGood morning: Cloudy this morning, but that should burn off at some point this afternoon. High of 73 degrees. 
  Seattle Municipal Court (SMC) Judge Pooja Vaddadi returns to work: After several months on maternity leave, SMC Judge Vaddadi arrived back at work Friday and immediately dropped an op-ed calling out Republican City Attorney Ann Davison's attack on Seattle's independent judiciary. In March, Davison's prosecutors began bouncin
  
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• Stop Hiding Behind Small Businesses to Attack Our Most Vulnerable Workers

  02-09-2024 19:09 via thestranger.com
  
  “We refuse to accept the false dichotomy that, in order to succeed, small businesses need to attack our employees’ wages and benefits.”by Seattle's Progressive Small BusinessesWe are a group of Seattle’s progressive small businesses who are against the new City Council’s attacks on our city’s historic $15 minimum wage law. We believe these attacks are the starting point of an attempt to fundamentally undermine the minimum wage and that they must be defeated.
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• The Best Things To Do in Seattle This Month: September 2024

  01-09-2024 19:00 via everout.com
  Childish Gambino, Local Sightings Film Festival, and Moreby EverOut StaffSchool is starting, apples are ripening, and the days are getting ever-so-slightly shorter, but it's technically still summer until September 22. That means you have almost the whole month to soak up those precious last golden hours of the season at outdoor festivals, ease into fall with exciting performances and book releases, and simply enjoy Seattle's ceaseless array of happenings. As we do every month, we've compiled th
  
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