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• Stranger Suggests: Ijeoma Oluo, Linda's 30th Anniversary Party, Sweet East, She Is Conann, the Only Football That Matters

  07-02-2024 23:38 via thestranger.com
  
  One really great thing to do every day of the week.by Audrey VannWEDNESDAY 2/7  
  Superchunk & Fucked Up
  (MUSIC) Throughout their 35-year-long career, indie rock quartet Superchunk has experimented with the sweet release of loud aggressive music as well as the ease of soft indie pop. On their 2022 album, Wild Loneliness, they move away from the politics-driven aggression of their previous album, What a Time to Be Alive, and into a sense of peace that Pitchfork writer Steve Kandell d
  
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• Conservative Senate Democrats Stiff Renters Yet Again

  07-02-2024 21:25 via thestranger.com
  
  As the Movement to Restrict Rent-Gouging Grows, Key Senate Democrat Blocks Progressby Rich SmithPoliticians spin up nonsense in their press releases as matter of course, but last week Washington State Senator Annette Cleveland may have perfected the form in her statement on her decision to strangle the latest anti-rent gouging bill in committee.Her explanation managed to condescend to her colleagues and to people of color in her district, conflate two related but significantly different policies
  
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• Your Favorite Restaurant Wouldn’t Have to Close If You Actually Went to It on a Regular Basis

  07-02-2024 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  We’re not going to wipe your emoji tears.by AnonymousI’m tired of all y’all saying “another one bites the dust,” or “😢,” or “I have so many memories here…” when one of your local neighborhood restaurants posts their closure announcement. Thank you for your kind words, but where the fuck were you? Haven’t seen you in over a year. 
  If you’re even fortunate enough to live in a neighborhood walkable to local restau
  
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• The Books of Love

  07-02-2024 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  A poem recommendation for every stage of a relationship. Valentine’s Day finds us all in different seasons of the heart. Some of us are gushing with love for one, two, or even ten partners. Others are falling in, out, or around love. Some are mourning love’s loss, some are praising its absence, and some are working hard on learning to love themselves.
  Poets have been thinking about all of this stuff for millennia, and in their carefully crafted or mad little scribbles we can find som
  
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• Slog AM: WA Senate Passes Hog-Tie Ban, Boeing Forgot Bolts on Alaska Jet, Mom Found Guilty of Son's School Shooting

  07-02-2024 17:46 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Vivian McCallWA State Senate passes police hog-tie ban: Hog-tying is already banned in most of Washington because it can suffocate people in custody. In 2020, 33-year-old Manuel Ellis died while hog-tied facedown on a Tacoma sidewalk as he told officers he could not breathe. In December, a jury acquitted the three officers charged with his death. Earlier this month, Ellis's sister, Money Carter-Nixon, testified in support of the legislation. She called hog-
  
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• News Savage Lovecast with Ezra Klein

  07-02-2024 00:05 via thestranger.com
  
  A new episode of the Savage Lovecast.by The StrangerWe are still shocked that Ezra Klein (of the NYT and the Ezra Klein Show) agreed to come on our smutty little podcast.
  They talked about Ezra’s time as a monogamous straight man embedded in San Fransisco’s polyamorous culture. They compare the current NYC hipster version of the poly scene to San Fransisco’s meld of tech bros and hippies. And they talk about how the nuclear family is failing as a functional support system. Some
  
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