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• Sen. Cantwell will vote against Gorsuch, citing privacy and pro-employer rulings

  30-03-2017 20:59
  
  Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., concerned about "critical privacy rights" and bias toward corporate interests, will vote against confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court.  And, in a decision watched in Washington, D.C., Cantwell she will oppose cutting off debate on the Gorsuch nomination.
  
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• Big Business’ Plans to Put 30 New Eyes on Downtown Streets Raise Data Privacy Concerns

  23-04-2024 18:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle’s downtown panopticon to expand with Downtown Seattle Association kiosksby Hannah KriegThe Downtown Seattle Association (DSA) wants to prop up 30 digital kiosks powered by IKE Smart City to run advertisements, display maps, and to emit free Wi-Fi. The kiosks' ads would raise a projected $1 million a year for DSA and smaller Business Improvement Areas (BIAs) to pay for downtown improvement initiatives at no cost to the budget-challenged City of Seattle. But, as the old saying goes,
  
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• Slog AM: Former Yakima Cop Suspected in Double Homicide, College Students Across the Country Protest Israel, Sydney Sweeney Acknowledges Having Great Tits

  23-04-2024 17:40 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Ashley NerbovigGooood morning! The National Weather Services says the weather today will be partly sunny, high near 68 degrees. Expect some calming winds in the afternoon.
  Texas Attorney General drops challenge of Seattle hospital: In December, a Seattle hospital filed a lawsuit against Texas AG Ken Paxton after he demanded the hospital turn over the medical records of Texas children who receive gender-affirming care from the hospital. Paxton dropped the re
  
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• The Top 47 Events in Seattle This Week: Apr 22–28, 2024

  22-04-2024 19:30 via everout.com
  
  Seattle Black Film Festival, Hanif Abdurraqib, and More Top Picksby EverOut StaffWe've got a special delivery: all of the best events Seattle has to offer this week in one handy roundup. Find details on everything from the Seattle Black Film Festival to the Upper Left Comedy Festival, and readings from Hanif Abdurraqib and Gabrielle Zevin, here.
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  Empress Of Live on KEXP
  Before seeing her magnetic opening set for Carly Rae Jepsen's Seattle show last fall, I was admittedly unfamil
  
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• Younger People Are Planning Their Own Composting Funerals in Washington

  22-04-2024 18:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Today's hottest Earth Day activity is planning to turn your dead body into compost.by Nathalie GrahamRecently, I logged onto a video call to plan my own funeral. 
  A care advisor with Earth Funeral, the newest Washington company to enter the human composting game, walked me through how I’d sign up to give them my body after my eventual demise and how, after a roughly month-long process, I would be turned into soil. It would cost just under $5,500. Terramation, the scientific name
  
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• We Must Save the Climate Commitment Act from Cynical Climate Arsonists

  22-04-2024 18:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Join us to engage Washington voters in the 2024 election.by Kat HolmesToday is Earth Day. But let’s get serious: Every day needs to be Earth Day. 
  What if we all commit to that? What if we see that people and nature are not separate? Then we can create this kind of world, a place in which plants and fungi, kelp and orca, people and eagles, bear and salmon—all of us will thrive. 
  What’s one easy action you can take to make that promised land closer to reality? Vote.&nb
  
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• Slog AM: GOP Nominates Semi Bird for Governor, Supreme Court to Decide on Anti-Homeless Camping Ban, Trump's Hush Money Trial Begins

  22-04-2024 17:30 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Nathalie GrahamSemi Bird wins WA GOP nomination for governor: The Washington GOP convention in Spokane this weekend was positively nutty. Former King County Sheriff Dave Reichert is leading among the GOP candidates in the polls, but delegates seemed to prefer Bird, a former Richland school board member who was recalled for flouting masking mandates deep in the early pandemic. Yet, to the dismay of delegates the GOP candidate committee disqualified Bird
  
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• 10 Essential Record Store Day Releases

  20-04-2024 00:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Not featured: The tortured poet.by Dave SegalRecord Store Day, one of the most contentious of retail traditions, returns on April 20. We've gone over this manufactured holiday's pros and cons many times before (here's one explication; here's another), so let's just say this: every year, RSD yields about 10%-15% crucial titles out of its hundreds. But which 10%-15%, you ask? Well, that varies, obviously, as musical taste is subjective.
  However, as I have spent too many decades crate-digging and r
  
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• I Saw U: Standing in the Oso Oso Merch Line, Kissing My Hand at CS, and Sitting at the Next Table Over at Comedy/Bar

  19-04-2024 20:55 via thestranger.com
  
  Did you see someone? Say something!by AnonymousComedy/Bar Chat Up
  We sat at neighboring tables while both our parties were late. I clocked you as ADHD and you had the same name as my friend. I’d love to chat more! ☺️Riding the Gravy Train
  We chatted at the Yung Gravy/bbno$ show in Seattle back in 2022. I asked you about your koi fish button down shirt bc I thought it was floral.
  keeper of a sweet little beast @ corvus
  you were there briefly with a scruffy little dog and both d
  
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• Seattle Space-Rockers somesurprises' New Album Poised for Meteoric Impact

  19-04-2024 19:30 via thestranger.com
  
  somesurprises' album Perseids is out on Doom Trip Records Friday, April 19.by Dave SegalOf the thousands of bands I've talked to as a music journalist, somesurprises are the most soft-spoken. Their absolutely chill voices barely register on the playback of our interview, which took place in their Fremont rehearsal space, ExEx Audio. And this chillness seeps into the Seattle quartet's extraordinary music, which alchemizes a few of the finest rock strains—space, kraut, and shoegaze—int
  
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• The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: Apr 19–21, 2024

  19-04-2024 19:00 via everout.com
  
  Grass & Gas: 4/20 Celebration, Record Store Day, and More Cheap & Easy Events Under $15by EverOut StaffCelebrate Seattle's favorite holiday, 4/20, by blazing up and heading to one or more of the ultra chill events we've rounded up here, from Grass & Gas: 4/20 Celebration & Car Show with Sol and Chong the Nomad to Record Store Day and from 4/20 Feature: Reefer Madness (1936) and Stoned Shorts on 16mm to The Stranger's Pizza Week!
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• Why Amazon's Just Walk Out Technology Failed

  19-04-2024 18:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Amazon recently admitted that it does use humans in this technology.by Charles MudedeEarlier this month, Business Insider reported that Amazon's Just Walk Out technology was not run by robots, but by the eyes of "1,000 workers in India who review what you pick up, set down, and walk out of its stores with." And so what looked like a new trick was in fact old hat. The work of American cashiers and attendants (a high-income society) had simply been, like service-related jobs, offshored to India (a
  
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• Seattle’s Pay Up Problems May Have Little to Do with the New Minimum Wage

  19-04-2024 18:00 via thestranger.com
  
  If the Pay Up policy widened the gap between the “winners and losers,” then the council could shape policy to uplift bike couriers instead of effectively or entirely tossing out the law.by Hannah KriegAfter a relentless campaign from big corporations, the Seattle City Council appears poised to repeal or dramatically cut a minimum wage ordinance for gig workers known as “Pay Up,” which took effect this year. But interviews with the gig workers themselves reveal that the co
  
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• Slog AM: Israel Strikes Iran, Everett Bikini Baristas Can Wear Bikinis Again, Louisiana Cuts Lunch Breaks for Child Workers

  19-04-2024 17:30 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Nathalie GrahamIsrael retaliates, strikes Iran: In a response to Iran's strike on Israel last weekend, which was in itself a response to an Israel attack on an Iranian diplomatic compound in Syria earlier this month, Israel launched a drone attack against a military base and nuclear site near the city of Isfahan. Israel's allies urged against this retaliation. Now, more world leaders are calling for both Iran and Israel to chill out, take some deep bre
  
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• Ticket Alert: Future, Jon Batiste, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale This Week

  19-04-2024 00:16 via everout.com
  
  Plus, More Event News and Updates for April 18by EverOut StaffRap’s auto-tune auteur Future is coming to Seattle with Metro Boomin to support their second collaborative album, We Still Don't Trust You. Fresh off the Coachella mainstage with Lana Del Rey, Jon Batiste has announced a local stop on his Uneasy tour. Plus, corny dad joker Kevin Hart will attempt maturity on his Acting My Age tour. Read on for details on those and other newly announced events, plus some news you can use.
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• I Joined a Cult at the Oneohtrix Point Never Show

  18-04-2024 22:58 via thestranger.com
  
  Like dropping acid—you didn’t know what the trip would bring, but you knew some crazy shit was about to happen.by Brittne LunnissOneohtrix Point Never, the moniker of Daniel Lopatin, may not be a household name, but you’ve likely heard his work. The Massachusetts-raised producer and composer is a longstanding pioneer of the electronic scene. Having created a variety of scores for heavy-hitting Hollywood scripts—including Good Times (2017), Uncut Gems (2019), and The Curse
  
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• The Anti-Jim Carrey

  18-04-2024 19:10 via thestranger.com
  
  Logan Guntzelman performs at Here-After Friday, April 19.by Dave SegalStylistically, LA stand-up comedian/writer Logan Guntzelman is the anti-Jim Carrey, the polar opposite of Robin Williams. She doesn't manically gesticulate, doesn't contort her face, and she eschews impressions. Rather, she delivers jokes—sometimes quite dirty jokes—in a deep-voiced deadpan and with a poker face, succeeding on the sheer strength of her words and setups.
  Guntzelman's lack of effect compounds the hil
  
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• Slog AM: City Council Keeps "Red Tape" for Affordable Housing Construction, Google Fires 28 Protesting Workers, and 'No on I-2117' Campaign Launches

  18-04-2024 17:35 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Hannah KriegWeather: Who’s trying to have a frozen margarita on a rooftop tonight? WHO? Okay, maybe not frozen, but with the sun in full view and temperatures in the low 60s, I think outdoor drinking weather is truly upon us. Maybe Friday we can spring for the blended drinks since temperatures will be in the mid 60s. Check an actual weather website because this shit is subject to change as I’ve learned from spreading weather misinfo in Slog AM i
  
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• A Relative Relative

  18-04-2024 00:00 via thestranger.com
  
  An ingrate!by AnonymousMy husband and I opened the doors of our home to you and your family. For years we were there for you. We gave you a job, helped you with your kids and your boyfriend. You lived with us until we helped you find a place of your own. Then we babysat for you for free. We did all of this because we wanted to help you, but then you found some lame excuse to be mad at us and to dump us for God knows what reason. 
  Today, you walked in front of us and pretended you
  
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• Stranger Suggests: Oneohtrix Point Never, Record Store Day, Sheer Mag, Tessa Hulls with Michelle Peñaloza and Jane Wong, The People's Joker

  17-04-2024 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  One really great thing to do every day of the week.by Audrey VannWEDNESDAY 4/17  
  Oneohtrix Point Never: Again Tour
  (MUSIC) Oneohtrix Point Never (aka Daniel Lopatin) is part of that elite club of challenging, electronic musicians who've gone on to score high-profile movies, which includes Mica Levi, Robert A.A. Lowe, and Bobby Krlic. (Even stranger, Lopatin also was the musical director for the Weeknd's 2021 Super Bowl half-time performance.) The Brooklyn-based composer's early work&m
  
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• SIFF Unveils Full 2024 Lineup

  17-04-2024 18:54 via thestranger.com
  
  Oh, and Fred Durst pops up too.by Chase HutchinsonIn a world where arts and culture is often devalued, there is truly nothing like going out to experience the transformative power of cinema at a festival. The vast medium boasts works that can move us to tears just as it does those that may melt your face off. This year, the 50th Annual Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) has films that do each of those things and, in extra special cases, both at the same time.
  Taking place in theaters fro
  
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• The Seasons' Canon Felt Like a Religious Experience

  17-04-2024 18:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Best Seats Are the Cheap Seatsby Rich SmithI did not know how Pacific Northwest Ballet could improve on its production of The Seasons' Canon, the ballet that took my head off when it premiered in Seattle a couple years ago, but improve it they did. 
  Last time, PNB Artistic Director Peter Boal & Co. paired choreographer Crystal Pite's masterful, hyperkinetic meditation on nature with some very good but more or less disconnected ballets. This time, the program felt so cohesive it amounted
  
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• Slog AM: Alaska Airlines Grounds All of Its Flights, SeaTac Charges Pro-Palestine Protesters, State Declares Drought in Most of Washington

  17-04-2024 17:30 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Vivian McCallPro-Palestine Google employees protest the company: Workers led sit-ins in Seattle and in other cities on Tuesday to stop Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian and Google CEO Sundar Pichai from providing technology to Israel. Demands included dropping a $1 billion cloud and AI contract with the Israeli military called Project Nimbus, and ceasing the intimidation, harassment, and retaliation against Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim employees who speak out
  
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• Slog AM: Alaska Airlines Grounded All of Its Flights for an Hour, SeaTac Charges Pro-Palestine Protesters, State Declares Drought in Most of Washington

  17-04-2024 17:30 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Vivian McCallPro-Palestine Google employees protest the company: Workers led sit-ins in Seattle and in other cities on Tuesday to stop Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian and Google CEO Sundar Pichai from providing technology to Israel. Demands included dropping a $1 billion cloud and AI contract with the Israeli military called Project Nimbus, and ceasing alleged intimidation, harassment, and retaliation against Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim employees who speak
  
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• Absurdity Slaps

  17-04-2024 02:41 via thestranger.com
  
  Last night Matmos inflated a balloon into a hot mic, which is sexier than you'd think.by Dave SegalInfluenced more by beetles than the Beatles, the Baltimore-based duo Matmos have been underground electronic music's arch conceptualists for nearly 30 years. Every album they release revolves around a different framing idea and consequently, every tour they do presents different approaches and vocabularies of sounds.
  Their latest LP, 2023's Return to Archive, finds Matmos repurposing Smithsonian Fo
  
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• Dave Reichert to Pierce County Republicans: "Marriage Is Between a Man and a Woman"

  17-04-2024 00:14 via thestranger.com
  
  Check out the full video of his remarks.by Rich SmithWhile speaking to a group of Pierce County Republicans in February of this year, Republican gubernatorial candidate Dave Reichert declared that "marriage is between a man and a woman," expressing a stance on gay marriage we haven't seen from him since he proved himself as an anti-gay bigot in Congress. 
  What's a little bit wild here is that Reichert went out of his way to provide this homophobic answer, as he delivered the line in the con
  
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• Slog AM: Dozens of Pro-Palestine Protesters Arrested for Blocking Sea-Tac Airport, SCOTUS Allows Idaho's Gender-Affirming Care Ban to Take Effect, Trump Nods Off at Trial

  16-04-2024 17:30 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Rich SmithPro-Palestine protesters block Sea-Tac airport: At around 3 pm Monday, a group protesting the US-funded genocide in Gaza parked cars along the airport's expressway. Some locked their arms together and sat on the pavement. In response, the airport closed the road, cops hopped on bikes to confront the protesters, and trucks towed away the vehicle blockade as some travelers exited their conveyances to approach the airport on foot, according to footag
  
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• The Top 37 Events in Seattle This Week: Apr 15-21 2024

  15-04-2024 20:07 via everout.com
  
  Chastity Belt, Record Store Day, and More Top Picksby EverOut StaffClear your calendar: With events like Record Store Day 2024 and 4/20 festivities like 4/20's Eve Eve Comedy Show feat. Stoner Chicks Improv and Reefer Madness (1936) and Stoned Shorts on 16mm around the corner, this week is sure to be packed. We've gathered those, plus more of the best things to do, from Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe with Tayi Tibble — 'Thunder Song: Essays' to Chastity Belt. TUESDAY
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• The Top 36 Events in Seattle This Week: Apr 15-21 2024

  15-04-2024 20:07 via everout.com
  
  Chastity Belt, Record Store Day, and More Top Picksby EverOut StaffClear your calendar: With events like Record Store Day 2024 and 4/20 festivities like 4/20's Eve Eve Comedy Show feat. Stoner Chicks Improv and Reefer Madness (1936) and Stoned Shorts on 16mm around the corner, this week is sure to be packed. We've gathered those, plus more of the best things to do, from Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe with Tayi Tibble — 'Thunder Song: Essays' to Chastity Belt. TUESDAY
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• Slog AM: SPD Cop Who Killed Pedestrian Had "Checkered Past," Trump Arrives at Criminal Trial, Iran Launches Missiles at Israel

  15-04-2024 17:30 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Nathalie GrahamSPD hired cop knowing his "checkered past:" The cop, Kevin Dave, who struck and killed 23-year-old pedestrian Jaahnavi Kandula last year while going 74 miles per hour, had a history of bad behavior and reckless driving when he worked at the Tucson Police Department. The agency fired Dave in 2013. According to PubliCola, Dave was the subject of six investigations while at TPD, including two collisions (one deemed "preventable"), two regarding
  
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