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• 8 children in state affected by polio-like symptoms

  28-10-2016 22:41
  
  Eight Washington children have been hospitalized this year for what could be an extremely rare syndrome that can result in limb paralysis, the state Department of Health says.
  
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• The Stranger Staff Debates Seattle's Best Burger

  11-06-2024 02:08 via thestranger.com
  
  There is no best burger in Seattle; the best burger lives in your heart.by Megan SelingI suppose it's my own fault. A few weeks ago, in Slack, I asked my colleagues for their favorite burger and veggie burger recommendations. I was hoping to round out the food section of our city guide. I figured there'd be one runaway option—a burger to beat all burgers. 
  I should've known better.We here at The Stranger are passionate and opinionated. Even a topic as innocuous as "favorite burger" ca
  
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• Eric Hates Beatboxing

  10-06-2024 21:41 via thestranger.com
  
  Memories are more than just tears in the rain.by Charles MudedeThe key to Netflix's new and limited series Eric should entirely be its time (1985) and location (Manhattan). But this key—which concerns the twilight of a period that began with President Gerald Ford refusing to bail out civil New York City from debts it could no longer service (1975), and ended with Jean-Michel Basquiat overdosing on heroin in his Noho flat (1988)—only works on the first half of the six-episode series.
  
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• Let’s Build More Homes Through Every Comprehensive Plan

  10-06-2024 20:35 via thestranger.com
  
  Every jurisdiction in Washington State must take a hard look at their comprehensive plan and recognize its potential to address housing shortages.by Girmay ZahilayIf you're a resident of King County, chances are you've experienced the housing crisis in deeply personal ways. Perhaps you've felt the strain of rising rents, the frustration of searching for an affordable home to purchase in a market with dwindling inventory, or even the despair of facing homelessness. In the day-to-day struggle to s
  
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• The Pro-Palestine Challengers

  10-06-2024 19:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Some Washingtonians could get the chance to replace their war hawk representatives in Congress with progressive challengers running in the name of a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.by Hannah KriegAs some voters discuss third-party candidates and ballot box boycotts for a presidential race that all but promises to install one of two genocidal geriatrics in the Oval Office, some Washingtonians could get the chance to replace their war hawk representatives in Congress with progressive challengers runni
  
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• The Top 36 Events in Seattle This Week: June 10–16, 2024

  10-06-2024 19:00 via everout.com
  
  Cavetown/Mother Mother, The Stranger's Burger Week, and Moreby EverOut StaffIt's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new week...and we're feeling good. Go forth and enjoy yourself at events from Cavetown, Mother Mother, and Destroy Boys to a Solid Pink Disco with DJ Trixie Mattel and from the Seattle International Dance Festival to The Stranger's Burger Week.
  MONDAY
  FILM
  Collide-O-Scope: Pride Edition - Hosted by Shane Wahlund & Michael Anderson
  Collide-O-Scope is the brilliant brain baby of
  
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• Slog AM: Blaze Burns Abandoned Building in ID, Careful of Toxic Clams in PNW, Microplastics Are (Probably) in Your Cum

  10-06-2024 17:30 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Nathalie GrahamFire in the ID: A vacant two-story building on the 1000 block of South Jackson Street caught fire late Sunday night. It's been burning through the night and will likely burn well into Monday morning. More than 85 firefighters are working to stifle the flames. Roads around the fire are closed, including Jackson Street between 8th and 12th Avenues.
  Swimmer in critical condition: A 30-year-old man leaped off a pedestrian bridge in Sout
  
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• Get Lost in TRANSlations

  07-06-2024 23:26 via thestranger.com
  
  TRANSlations’ in-person screenings are June 7-8 with online screenings June 6-9.by Vivian McCallSeattle’s TRANSlations, one of only nine trans film festivals in the world, begins screening films in person today.
  Features and shorts from around the globe screen at Ark Lodge Cinema, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Beacon today and tomorrow, and attendees have the option to stream films through Sunday.
  Produced by Three Dollar Bill Cinema, the festival started as part of a trans confere
  
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• J.R.C.G.'s Angsty Funk Anthem and Louis Cole's Celestial Symphonic Jazz

  07-06-2024 20:52 via thestranger.com
  
  The best new music to hit Dave Segal's inbox this week.by Dave SegalJ.R.C.G., “Dogear” (Sub Pop)
  It's always heart-warming when Sub Pop, Seattle's most famous record label, signs an up-and-coming artist from the region. This the company's done once more with Tacoma's J.R.C.G., the combative band that sprang out of Dreamdecay and which is led by powerhouse drummer/vocalist Justin R. Cruz Gallego.
  With 2021's Ajo Sunshine (on John Dwyer's Castle Face label), J.R.C.G. established themse
  
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• The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: June 7–9, 2024

  07-06-2024 19:00 via everout.com
  
  Seattle Dragon Boat Festival, Indigenous People Festival, and More Cheap & Easy Events Under $15by EverOut StaffThis weekend's forecast is sunny with a sprinkling of festivals—read on to see what strikes your fancy below, from the Seattle Dragon Boat Festival to the Indigenous People Festival and from Georgetown Carnival to Pierogi Fest. For more ideas, check out our guide to the top events of the week.
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  Purple Rain
  I recommend showing up in your most loud-and-proud '80s thr
  
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• Slog AM: Shooting Outside Garfield High School Kills Teen, Reichert Will Vote for Trump, Newcastle Won't Raise Pride Flag

  07-06-2024 17:41 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Nathalie Graham17-year-old dead after shooting outside Garfield: A lunchtime shooting in the Garfield High School parking lot struck a student multiple times in the chest and abdomen. After being transported to Harborview Medical Center, the student later died from his injuries. According to police, the student attempted to break up a fight and then his assailant pulled a gun on him, shooting him at close range. This is only the latest in shootings around G
  
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• I Saw U: Wearing a Paper Bag as a Helmet, Dancing Alone at Monkey Loft, and Skidding on a Scooter

  07-06-2024 00:17 via thestranger.com
  
  See someone? Say something!by AnonymousBeautiful man at LCD Soundsystem show
  at the end of the 5/17 LCD Soundsystem show you made your way through the crowd, before leaving you touched my shoulder and said ‘beautiful man’ ❤️Paper Bag Helmet
  I saw you riding your bike down Pike in the rain with a brown paper bag with eye holes over your head. I admire your ingenuity, did you get home safe?
  Sculpture Park with big White Husky
  Your dog came and said hi to me, you apologize
  
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• Ticket Alert: Cyndi Lauper, Gracie Abrams, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale This Week

  06-06-2024 23:17 via everout.com
  
  Plus, Bob the Drag Queen and More Event Updates for June 6by EverOut StaffFlamboyant singer and cultural icon Cyndi Lauper’s first tour in a decade will also be her final. Nepo baby Gracie Abrams is set to hit the road following the release of her soon-to-be-released second album The Secret of Us. Plus, get ready for Bob The Drag Queen to walk into the Moore Theatre purse first. Read on for details on those and other newly announced events, plus some news you can use.
  ON SALE FRIDAY, JUNE
  
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• I’m a Nondriver—and There’s a Good Chance You Are, Too

  06-06-2024 21:39 via thestranger.com
  
  When I picture the kind of community I want to grow old in—the kind of community I want my kid to inherit—this is what I think about.by Anna ZivartsNearly a third of us can’t drive. 
  That’s the reality. There are people like me who can’t see well enough to drive, and a lot of other people with all kinds of disabilities–physical, sensory, mental health and chronic health conditions–that make driving unsafe. There are also people who are too young to
  
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• 20 Queer-Owned Restaurants in the Seattle Area

  06-06-2024 20:41 via everout.com
  
  Marination, Frelard Tamales, and Moreby EverOut StaffHappy Pride Month! It's a great time to think about how you can put some of your hard-earned dollars toward supporting local LGBTQ-owned businesses, both while you're out and about this June and all year long. From Frelard Tamales to Marination, we've rounded up some of our favorite queer-owned bars, restaurants, and cafes in Seattle. For more ideas, check out our food and drink guide.A La Mode Pies
  Owned by Chris Porter, "Seattle's premier pi
  
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• Slog AM: Seattle Sweeps Increase Threefold in 2023, Georgia Pauses Trump Election Case, Israel Kills at Least 40 Palestinians Sheltering in a School

  06-06-2024 17:24 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Hannah KriegWeather: Good morning. Thanks for being here. Let me tell you a little bit about the weather before we get too rowdy, okay? Okay. So, according to the National Weather Service, Slog readers who live or work in Seattle can expect sunny skies and a high of 69 degrees (haha, sex number). The warm weather will continue through the weekend.
  But wait: I hate to yuck your yum if you are excited about the sunny day ahead, but climate change is bruuuuuut
  
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• Movie Madness

  06-06-2024 00:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Please continue going to movies and having a good time, but be aware that literally no one else in the theater cares what you have to say.by AnonymousWhat is with Seattle movie-goers not knowing how to behave at a movie?! I go to The Beacon a lot–support local indie movie theaters!—and I don't know if it's something the staff puts in the popcorn, but it's like people forget how to behave in public.I get that a movie is about entertainment and enjoying yourself, but can you please do
  
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• Stranger Suggests: Travis Thompson, Seattle Pride Classic 2024, Seattle Bakes Back!, Georgetown Carnival, The Stranger's Burger Week 2024

  05-06-2024 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  One really great thing to do every day of the week.by Audrey VannWEDNESDAY 6/5  
  Travis Thompson
  (MUSIC) There is little difference between Travis Thompson’s character on Season 2 of Reservation Dogs and the reality Thompson describes in his Pacific Northwest hip-hop masterpiece, "Need You." The world we enter in this beautifully booming track is very down-to-earth. These are not the First World problems of a tech and gentrified city. The rapper comes from a place, the suburbs, s
  
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• 50 Years of Queers

  05-06-2024 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  It's The Stranger's 2024 Queer Issue!by Vivian McCallThe first time I imagined the future, I was a seven-year-old boy sitting on an airplane, thumbing through the pages of a kid’s science magazine. Inside, the writers offered a glimpse of what life would be like when I was 40. Their world had flying cars, medicines that healed wounds instantaneously, robots, and, inexplicably, bodysuits. No futuristic vision is complete without rubbery, skin-tight clothing. I totally believed them, but now
  
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• VIDEO: Two Seattle Police Officers Caught on Camera Repeatedly Hitting Suspect

  05-06-2024 18:00 via thestranger.com
  
  SPD policy allows officers to use force, such as hitting, punching, knee strikes, and batons in order to arrest someone as long as officers use necessary and proportional force. Officers may not kneel on a person’s neck, though it’s unclear if that’s what happened in this video.by Ashley NerbovigOn May 31 a person riding the Route 7 bus southbound shot a video of two Seattle Police Department officers forcing a man to his stomach by punching him, kneeing him, and hitting him th
  
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• Slog AM: BIPOC Organizations Embarrass Maritza Rivera, Western Heat Wave, Probably No FDA MDMA for Us

  05-06-2024 17:40 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Vivian McCallSeems a little cozy: In private group chats with Seattle Police Department leaders, Federal Monitor Antonio Oftelie (the person in charge of federal oversight to the department) described a disconnect between what the apparently ignorant public wanted to see from the department (accountability) and the “systemic learning” he wanted to see (no accountability but somehow things get better?). He also replied “Sigh 😖&rdquo
  
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• What’s Next for Denny Blaine?

  05-06-2024 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The trouble started in November when the Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation announced its plan to build a privately funded, nature-themed children’s “play area” at the historically queer nude beach.by Vivian McCallBasil Mayhan stands at Denny Blaine Park before a tangle of Himalayan blackberries. The blackberries like to grow along the shore of Lake Washington and intermingle with native wild roses, but they’ve got to go. So does the English holly and the English
  
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• The Reality Behind the Story I Told The Stranger

  05-06-2024 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  That Stranger article gives an incomplete impression of who I am in large part because of how I represented who I was when Herzog interviewed me.by Ky ScheversOriginally published in Reclaiming Trans.
  Back when I was still a detrans woman, I was interviewed a few times by journalists for articles on detransitioning. An article in The Stranger written by Katie Herzog drew the most attention and the strongest reactions. Many trans people and their allies found the article offensive and transphobic
  
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• The Gays Who Slayed and the Gays Who Betrayed

  05-06-2024 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Not Every Queer Politician Is an “Ally”by Hannah KriegThe Stranger will go on the record saying we love gay people. We love being gay people, being friends with gay people, dating gay people, and, heck, we even love electing gay people!But none of that stops us from critiquing Seattle’s first lesbian Mayor for tear-gassing the gayborhood during Pride Month, and we certainly don’t want to see the likes of former Mayor Ed Murray creeping back into the halls of power.
  Just l
  
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• The Futures of Seattle’s Gayborhood

  05-06-2024 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Big gay cities like ours change, and so do their gayborhoods.by Rich SmithSeattle’s gayborhood, located on Capitol Hill spiritually if increasingly less so demographically, certainly isn’t what it used to be in the early 2010s, which wasn’t what it used to be in the early ‘00s, which definitely wasn’t what it used to be in the ‘90s, or the ‘80s, or the ‘70s. And before that, the gayborhood wasn’t even on Capitol Hill! It was in Pioneer Square
  
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• The Future of HIV Treatment Is Injectable

  05-06-2024 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Promising drugs being developed at the UW could expand HIV treatment—if we get out of our own way.by Vivian McCallAs Sidney Adjetey laid on an exam table at Harborview Medical Center with his T-shirt hiked up, research clinician Phoebe Bryson-Cahn examined injection sites on either side of his belly button. In April, University of Washington researchers at the UW Positive Research clinic injected Adjetey with about a teaspoon of a new and experimental long-acting HIV treatment as part of a
  
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• The Biggest Pride Month 2024 Events in Seattle

  05-06-2024 13:00 via everout.com
  
  Festivals, Parties, and More All Throughout Juneby Audrey VannThe last weekend of June is Pride Weekend in Seattle, when the Seattle Pride Parade sashays through the streets and there are a whole bunch of other events and block parties spread out across Capitol Hill and the surrounding areas. But before going out with a glittery bang, there are plenty of other gagworthy Pride Month events worth getting snatched for. We've rounded up the best and brightest so you can mark your calendars for commu
  
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• Queer Issue 2024 Pickup Locations

  05-06-2024 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Looking for a Copy of This Year’s Queer Issue? You Can Find One at the Following Locations.by Stranger Staff
  
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• Out of This World

  05-06-2024 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  SassyBlack will host a reading of her new musical, Emerald Jett, on August 9 at Northwest Film Forum.by Catherine "SassyBlack" Harris-WhiteWhen I moved to Seattle from the Big Island, Hawaii, in 1997, was 10 years old and expecting to go to school and live a life not unlike Lisa Turtle’s in Saved by the Bell. I thought I would be a cool kid. I didn’t even realize Seattle was a real place until I moved here, I thought it was just a made-up city used as a backdrop for Sleepless in Seat
  
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• Letters to Our Younger Trans Selves

  05-06-2024 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The five trans people sent us five moving letters concerning the body, the spirit, and what joy awaited them in their futures.by Vivian McCallA lot of weirdos want cis people to believe that trans people hate our bodies, which would be laughable if their narrative were not so damn dangerous. Saying we hate our bodies is a lot like claiming your uncle hates the muscle car he endlessly tinkers with. He loves that thing, even when it gives him trouble, or when it’s up on cinder blocks in the
  
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