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• Doctor killed 25 patients, officials say. Can they prove it?

  06-06-2019 23:54
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Prosecutors face a legal hurdle as they pursue 25 murder charges against an Ohio doctor accused of essentially using his colleagues as weapons by ordering fatal painkiller doses for hospital patients but not directly administering them himself, legal experts say. Critical care doctor William Husel has pleaded not guilty. His lawyer, […]
  
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• Savage Love: Baby Soft

  06-06-2019 23:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage Joe NewtonI'm a 27-year-old, male, adult baby/diaper lover (AB/DL). I've been in the closet about my fetish basically since puberty. As a consequence, I never dated or became romantically involved. I thought if I buried my kink with enough shame, it would go away and I would somehow turn normal. It obviously didn't work, and for the past year, I've been trying to find healthy ways to integrate this into my life. I play around with the kink in the privacy of my home and otherwise le
  
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• Burning Cane Is a Brutally Beautiful Work from a Brilliant Young NYU Film Student

  06-06-2019 22:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeWendell Pierce as a pastor in Burning Cane
  Too many critics have associated this startling work by a 19-year-old NYU film student, Phillip Youmans, with the films of Terrence Malick. But we can do better than that. If we really think about these brutally beautiful images of rural black life in the South, we find a much closer association with the films of the Mexican director Carlos Reygadas. His masterpiece Silent Light exists in the same melancholy universe as Youmans’s
  
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• Coast Guard rescues seaman, hiker in separate incidents

  06-06-2019 22:21
  WARRENTON, Ore. (AP) — Coast Guard officials say helicopter crews rescued an injured seaman off the Oregon coast and a stranded hiker in southern Oregon in separate incidents. The U.S. Coast Guard says a helicopter crew hoisted an injured 26-year-old Ukrainian man suffering from upper-body spasms from a boat about 72 miles (116 kilometers) off […]
  
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• 24 Non-SIFF Movies Worth Watching in Seattle This Weekend: June 6–9, 2019

  06-06-2019 22:11 via thestranger.com
  
  Late Night, Asako I & II, General Magic, and Other Critics' Picksby Charles MudedeIt's movie time! The Seattle International Film Festival is wrapping up (see our list of SIFF picks this week and our full guide). But there are other movies you should know about, like the Mindy Kaling comedy Late Night, the eye-opening Silicon Valley doc General Magic, and the Reagan-era sci-fi blockbuster The Terminator. (The latest Marvel cine-steamroller, Dark Phoenix, is sadly being panned just about ever
  
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• Man killed when dump truck, SUV collide near Oso landslide memorial

  06-06-2019 22:00
  The driver of the SUV was pronounced dead at the scene after the 9 a.m. collision, that shut down the highway,
  
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• 1 killed when dump truck, SUV collide near Oso landslide memorial

  06-06-2019 22:00
  The driver of the SUV was pronounced dead at the scene in the 9 a.m. collision, that shut down the highway,
  
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• Oregon takes steps toward campaign finance reform

  06-06-2019 21:51
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon is one of only five states to have absolutely no limits on how much money can be donated to political campaigns. But lawmakers took a step to change that Thursday, when the House passed a measure approving the state’s first campaign contribution limits in decades. The proposal caps contributions to […]
  
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• He Can't Come Inside Her and She's Losing Her Patience

  06-06-2019 21:49 via thestranger.com
  
  Savage Love Letter of the Dayby Dan SavageHere’s the deal: I can’t make my boyfriend come with my body. He can take Viagra and fuck me for a long time, but in order for him to come he has to jerk off. Usually I lick his balls or his asshole or I finger-fuck him while he jerks it, and when he’s about to orgasm he sticks it deep in my mouth and comes down my throat.He is very attentive to me, and I can have loads of orgasms before, during, or after our “lovemaking.” B
  
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• Seattle man charged with murder, accused of shooting woman, 21, through bathroom door

  06-06-2019 21:45
  Seattle police found the suspect in the front yard of a house on Beacon Hill, covered in blood. The victim, who was found on the bathroom floor, died two hours later.
  
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• Police arrest 2 after offensive graffiti found at school

  06-06-2019 21:45
  Staff at Stanwood Middle School on Monday found the graffiti that police say included swastikas, homophobic slurs and other "shocking symbols and slogans."
  
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• Our Critics' Picks for Festivals This Summer

  06-06-2019 21:15 via thestranger.com
  Our critics' picks for June 10–September 15.by Stranger Things To Do StaffBelow, we've rounded up the biggest and best festivals you need to know about this season, whether you plan on hanging out at neighborhood block parties, ambling around night markets, waving rainbow flags, eating ice cream, seeing cultural performances, taking in films and live music in the great outdoors, or cooling off with local libations.SeasonalJune 8–16Marysville Strawberry Festival Enjoy all Marysville h
  
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• Our Critics' Picks for Visual Art Shows This Summer

  06-06-2019 21:14 via thestranger.com
  Our critics' picks for June 10–September 15.by Stranger Things To Do StaffBelow, we've rounded up the biggest and best art shows you need to know about this season, like Victorian visual revolutionaries, subversive self-portraitists, Scandinavian masters, and other amazing artists, not to mention Seattle Art Fair.
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  Departures and Arrivals: Artists in Abstraction BIMA offers an "intense session in art vocabulary" with this group exhibit focusing on the
  
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• Our Critics' Picks for Readings & Talks This Summer

  06-06-2019 21:14 via thestranger.com
  Our critics' picks for June 10–September 15.by Stranger Things To Do StaffBelow, we've compiled all of our critics' picks for the season's literary events, like fiction writer and memoirist Elizabeth Gilbert, poet Ocean Vuong, New Yorker essayist Adam Gopnik, feminist playwright Eve Ensler, and crime-fiction titan James Ellroy.FictionWed June 12Tara Conklin: The Last Romantics Progenitor of the bestselling The House Girl will read from a new novel about four loyal siblings facing a family
  
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• Our Critics' Picks for Music Shows This Summer

  06-06-2019 21:14 via thestranger.com
  Our critics' picks for June 10–September 15.by Stranger Things To Do StaffBelow, we've rounded up the biggest and best music events you need to know about this season, from Music Under The Stars to the Jazz Port Townsend Festival to Death Cab for Cutie.ClassicalMon June 10In the Spotlight: Hannah Kendall Seattle Symphony presents the U.S. premiere of The Spark Catchers, a luminescent number from British (and millennial!!) composer Hannah Kendall. The composition conveys such a strong sense
  
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• Our Critics' Picks for Theater, Dance & Comedy This Summer

  06-06-2019 21:13 via thestranger.com
  Our critics' picks for June 10–September 15.by Stranger Things To Do StaffBelow, we've rounded up all of our critics' performance picks for the season, including a Black Lives Matter–inflected take on Waiting for Godot, a feminist dramatization of the life of painter Artemisia Gentileschi, a dance meditation on the gender revolutionaries at Stonewall, and outdoor Shakespeare.TheaterJune 6–30The Agitators Concerns about the intersectionality of civil rights movements is not a ne
  
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• Washington Supreme Court rules once more against Richland florist who refused flowers for gay wedding

  06-06-2019 21:05
  The case began in 2013, when the owner of Arlene's Flowers in Richland refused to provide flowers for a same-sex wedding. In today's ruling, the court said the case was about "equal treatment of all citizens in the commercial marketplace" and not about Arlene Stutzman's personal beliefs.
  
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• I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians: Not an Easy Watch But Relevant and Necessary Viewing

  06-06-2019 21:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Joule ZelmanBurn, baby, burn
  Odessa, October 1941: Invaders from Germany and their Romanian allies crush the Red Army’s defenses and murder the Jewish population of the city. According to the director of this dead-serious black comedy, Romania only officially acknowledged its complicity with Germany as a condition for joining the EU in the 2000s, and the average Romanian doesn’t want to talk or hear about it. I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians follows the Romania
  
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• Flavors of the Month: Seattle Food & Drink Specials to Try in June 2019

  06-06-2019 20:57 via thestranger.com
  Pride-themed ice cream cones, rainbow Rice Krispy treats, and more June flavors.by Julianne BellJune has ushered in a host of colorful new flavors, from confetti cupcakes to glittery beer to rainbow-hued ice cream scoops. Read on to find out about all the freshest specials happening across Seattle this month. For more ways to make your month delicious, check out our complete food and drink calendar.
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  For June, the lineup at the Central District ice cream shop known for
  
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• Dude York's "Box" Is Summer Heartbreak Fun

  06-06-2019 20:45 via thestranger.com
  by Jasmyne KeimigToday, Seattle punk trio Dude York released a music video for the second single, "Box," off their fourth album Falling, which is out July 26 via Hardly Art. It's a fun three and a half minutes with tons of local talent. The video stars Samie Detzer, Artistic Director of Washington Ensemble Theater (where it looks like the clip was also shot), who moves funkily around the stage in a routine put together by Seattle choreographer/dancer Alice Gosti (full disclosure: she's also my r
  
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• 4 climbers stranded since Monday rescued from treacherous route on Mount Rainier

  06-06-2019 20:32
  PORTLAND — Four climbers on Mount Rainier, stranded for three nights, were rescued Thursday morning by park rangers using a helicopter. All four climbers are alive but were transported to hospitals because they suffered from exposure to cold. The climbers were seen near the volcano’s top, between Liberty Cap and the mountain’s summit, Columbia Crest. […]
  
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• Department of Energy Redefines Nuclear Waste to Make It Easier to Dispose of

  06-06-2019 19:45 via thestranger.com
  
  What could possibly go wrong?by Katie Herzog JEFF T. GREEN/GETTY IMAGES
  If you've got a problem with radioactive waste, you could clean it up, a costly and onerous process, or you could just change the definition of it. Guess which one the Trump administration has decided to do?This week, the Department of Energy announced that it is revising the classification of radioactive waste at Hanford, the decommissioned nuclear bomb-making site in Benton County, Washington. This isn't because Hanford ha
  
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• Mining company denies Nez Perce Tribe pollution allegations

  06-06-2019 19:26
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A mining company facing a potential lawsuit from the Nez Perce Tribe over pollution at a historic mining area in central Idaho says it has never mined the area and is denying the tribe’s allegations. Midas Gold Corp. in a statement Thursday says more than a century of mining in the […]
  
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• How Are Seattle Politicians Managing Their Money? We Checked the Receipts.

  06-06-2019 18:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Guess which candidate spent nearly $2,000 on glamour shots.by Nathalie GrahamYes, hello, I'd like to purchase an order of campaign transparency please.Rattankun Thongbun/Getty Images
  When Seattle City Councilmember Lisa Herbold filed two peculiar campaign expenditures last month, it piqued my interest.Herbold's campaign paid Kate Brunette Consulting $400 on April 16 for "house party resource development." Then, on April 28, there was a $100 payment for "training on house party coordination."Does
  
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• Suspect in theft of village safe arrested in Bethel

  06-06-2019 18:13
  BETHEL, Alaska (AP) — A man suspected of stealing a safe from a city building in the southwest Alaska village of Napakiak has been arrested. Alaska State Troopers say 52-year-old Alfred Evan was arrested Wednesday in Bethel while at the courthouse on another matter. Troopers on Nov. 12 were notified that someone had stolen the […]
  
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• Effort to repeal Missouri 8-week abortion ban hits roadblock

  06-06-2019 18:12
  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Efforts to repeal Missouri’s new eight-week abortion ban with a public vote hit a roadblock Thursday, the latest development in a fight over abortion rights that’s playing out on multiple fronts in the state. Republican Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft told reporters that the Missouri Constitution prohibits a referendum on […]
  
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• Landmarks Preservation Board Unanimously Votes to Nominate the Showbox for Landmark Status

  06-06-2019 18:05 via thestranger.com
  
  The city's Landmarks Preservation Board voted Wednesday night to nominate the Showbox venue for landmark status.by Lester BlackMembers of the Landmark's Preservation Board Wednesday night. Lester Black
  The city’s Landmarks Preservation Board unanimously voted Wednesday evening to nominate the Showbox nightclub for landmark status. Following the nomination, the board now has 60 days to do additional study on the building before deciding to give the venue a final landmark designation at thei
  
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• Court: No religious rancor in flowers for gay wedding case

  06-06-2019 17:57
  The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously upheld its 2017 opinion in the case against florist Barronelle Stutzman and her business, Arlene's Flowers.
  
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• Health officials confirm first Idaho measles case since 2001

  06-06-2019 17:34
  LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — Health officials say the first case of measles in nearly two decades in Idaho has been confirmed. The Idaho North Central District health department announced in statement Wednesday that a Latah County patient tested positive for the virus. The department says people who were in the Gritman Medical Center’s lab and […]
  
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• Slog AM: Trump Tries to Skimp on Hanford Cleanup, You Can See Jupiter With Binoculars This Month, The 75th Anniversary of D-Day

  06-06-2019 17:27 via thestranger.com
  
  by Timothy KenneyThis is all you need! And maybe for the sun to be down. Koldunov/Getty Images
  Trump administration meddles in Hanford nuclear site: The ballooning costs of the cleanup caught the administrations eye, so they decided to roll back the definition of "high-level nuclear waste" to make the problem a little more palatable. Under current rules, the approximately 56 million gallons of radioactive waste left over from years of making nuclear weapons would have to be sealed in glass logs,
  
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• Auburn man sentenced to 10 years in prison for child porn

  06-06-2019 17:13
  A 45-year-old Auburn man convicted of disseminating more than 2,800 pornographic images of children was sentenced to 10 years in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release.
  
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• Groups seek ban on bear baiting in Idaho, Wyoming forests

  06-06-2019 17:06
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Three conservation groups say hunting black bears in national forests in Idaho and Wyoming using bait should be banned because hunters have killed federally protected grizzly bears attracted to the food. Western Watersheds Project, WildEarth Guardians and Wilderness Watch filed the lawsuit Wednesday in U.S. District Court challenging the U.S. Forest […]
  
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• Seattle weather has something for everyone: High temps in the 60s today, 80s on Monday

  06-06-2019 16:08
  If you're tired of the cool and cloudy weather we're having this week in the Seattle area, just wait a couple more days. By next week, high temperatures could soar into the 80s, possibly breaking heat records.
  
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• Seattle weather has something for everyone: High temps in the 60s Thursday, 80s on Monday

  06-06-2019 16:08
  If you're tired of the cool and cloudy weather we're having this week in the Seattle area, just wait a couple more days. By next week, high temperatures could soar into the 80s, possibly breaking heat records.
  
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• Selective high schools, barriers to success, broken stereotypes: What Education Lab is reading this week

  06-06-2019 16:00
  It’s June in Seattle, which means one thing: June-uary. Enjoy the sun while you can, but if it decides to hide again until summer proper, we have you covered with stories you can read indoors. We’re sharing the “What We’re Reading” section from our weekly Education Lab newsletter right here. Subscribe to the newsletter to see […]
  
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• Before floating bridges, Lake Washington had a ferry fleet

  06-06-2019 16:00
  Before drivers could cruise — or, more realistically, get stuck in traffic — across Lake Washington on Highway 520 or Interstate 90, their only option was to drive around the lake or catch a boat. Going around the lake was difficult, thanks to rough terrain and insufficient roads. And the Montlake Cut, Ship Canal and […]
  
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• UN says about 25% of Ebola cases could be going undetected

  06-06-2019 15:14
  GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says it may be missing a quarter of all Ebola cases in eastern Congo as violent unrest complicates detection. That estimate by WHO emergencies chief Dr. Michael Ryan on Thursday comes after aid groups expressed concern this week that the rate of new cases has been picking up […]
  
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• Stressed out? Your dog may feel it too, study suggests

  06-06-2019 15:02
  Dog owners experiencing long bouts of stress can transfer it to their dogs, scientists report in a study published in Scientific Reports.
  
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• Woman dies in fire in Sweet Home

  06-06-2019 15:00
  SWEET HOME, Ore. (AP) — A 71-year-old woman died when a fire broke out in her home in an assisted living community southeast of Albany in Sweet Home. The Albany Democrat-Herald reports Carolyn Olivier-Pye was found in her unit within the Wiley Creek Assisted Living Community at about 4:28 a.m. Wednesday. Sweet Home Fire Chief […]
  
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• Want ‘love at first slice’ and some fun pie names? Head to Redmond’s Spark Pizza

  06-06-2019 15:00
  Some advice? Go early. Redmond has been famished for wood-fired pizza. In the two months since Spark opened, they’ve often been slammed and occasionally have run out of dough before closing.
  
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• Seattle considering what to do with 4 public golf courses and 528 acres of green space they cover

  06-06-2019 15:00
  What should Seattle do with its public golf courses and the 528 acres of mostly green space they occupy? That’s a question being asked by the city, which commissioned a study looking at the future of the city’s municipal courses — the only public golf courses in Seattle.
  
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• Motorcyclist dies in fiery crash on Highway 167 in Kent

  06-06-2019 14:27
  The motorcyclist reportedly crashed into the back of a state Department of Transportation vehicle and caught on fire. Another vehicle then hit the motorcycle.
  
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• Motorcyclist, 28, dies in fiery crash on Highway 167 in Kent

  06-06-2019 14:27
  The motorcyclist crashed into the back of a state Department of Transportation vehicle and caught on fire.
  
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• Family of Portland woman killed by train sues for $12.5M

  06-06-2019 14:05
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Two years after she was struck and killed by a light rail train, Chance Hoyt’s family is suing TriMet for $12.5 million, alleging that the transit agency could have prevented the Portland woman’s death. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Hoyt’s mother, Lynne, is alleging negligence by both TriMet and Richard Shaffer, who was […]
  
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• Lawsuit: Drugmaker improperly used charity to pay kickbacks

  06-06-2019 13:54
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a pharmaceutical firm improperly used a charity to pay kickbacks that subsidized Medicare patients’ copayment obligations, allowing the firm to keep raising prices for the drug. The suit filed Wednesday claims the scheme was designed to enable Mallinckrodt to raise the price of Acthar from $50 to $32,000. The […]
  
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• The Best Things To Do in Seattle: Summer 2019

  06-06-2019 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Picks from Seattle Art and Performance for June 10–September 15, 2019.by Stranger Things To Do StaffSeattle Art and Performance, our quarterly guide to everything artsy happening in Seattle this summer (between June 10–September 15), is out on the streets now. In addition to the extensive calendars in the print copy, you can now also find lists of this summer's best events online, including:The best theater, dance, and comedy, from The Year of Magical Thinking to West Side Story to A
  
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• The Best Theater, Dance & Comedy Events in Seattle: Summer 2019

  06-06-2019 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Our critics' picks for June 10–September 15.by Chase BurnsBelow, we've rounded up all of our critics' performance picks for the season, including a Black Lives Matter–inflected take on Waiting for Godot, a feminist dramatization of the life of painter Artemisia Gentileschi, a dance meditation on the gender revolutionaries at Stonewall, and outdoor Shakespeare. Plus, find a complete list of theater, dance, and comedy events in Seattle this summer on our Things To Do calendar, or check
  
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• The Best Readings & Talks in Seattle: Summer 2019

  06-06-2019 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Our critics' picks for June 10–September 15.by Christopher FrizzelleBelow, we've compiled all of our critics' picks for the season's literary events, like fiction writer and memoirist Elizabeth Gilbert, poet Ocean Vuong, New Yorker essayist Adam Gopnik, feminist playwright Eve Ensler, and crime-fiction titan James Ellroy. You can also find a complete list of readings & talks in Seattle this summer on our Things To Do calendar, or check out the rest of our critics' picks from Seattle Ar
  
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• The Best Music Shows in Seattle: Summer 2019

  06-06-2019 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Our critics' picks for June 10–September 15.by Charles MudedeBelow, we've rounded up the biggest and best music events you need to know about this season, from Music Under The Stars to the Jazz Port Townsend Festival to Death Cab for Cutie. You can also find a complete list of music shows in Seattle this summer on our Things To Do calendar, or check out the rest of our critics' picks from Seattle Art and Performance. Found something you like and don't want to forget about it later? Click "
  
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• The Best Festivals in Seattle: Summer 2019

  06-06-2019 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Our critics' picks for June 10–September 15.by Julianne BellBelow, we've rounded up the biggest and best festivals you need to know about this season, whether you plan on hanging out at neighborhood block parties, ambling around night markets, waving rainbow flags, eating ice cream, seeing cultural performances, taking in films and live music in the great outdoors, or cooling off with local libations. You can also find a complete list of festivals in Seattle this summer on our Things To Do
  
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