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• Star-Crossed Valentines

  13-03-2024 23:00 via thestranger.com
  
  A few months ago I saw you at a crossroads, but you were headed in another direction.by AnonymousI saw the valentine you wrote for your partner in The Stranger. The nickname you used for them stuck out, as did the fact that you seemed to have gotten engaged. I could be wrong about the valentine being yours, but my hunch is based off of many things—including a little thing I never told you.
  Remember you told me you were Capricorn moon, and I made a joke about my Capricorn dad? The quiet par
  
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• Stranger Suggests: Cat Power Sings Dylan, Eric Kim, Massive: The Power of Pop Culture, Squatters’ Cinema, and Free Daffodils

  13-03-2024 22:50 via thestranger.com
  
  One really great thing to do every day of the week.by Audrey VannWEDNESDAY 3/13  
  Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert
  (MUSIC) Along with being a prolific songwriter in her own right, Cat Power (aka Chan Marshall) has the ability to transform an existing song, breathing new life into old classics (as evidenced by her wildly popular cover of Phil Phillips' "Sea of Love"). On her latest release, Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert, Marshall recr
  
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• The Stranger's Spring A+P Magazine Is Here!

  13-03-2024 18:50 via thestranger.com
  
  The Most Comprehensive Guide to the Spring Arts Season Is Online and in Print Nowby Megan Seling
  
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• King County Prosecutor Leesa Manion Wants to Weaken Protections for Strippers

  13-03-2024 17:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Even if she supports the rest of the bill, her choice to undercut her own request for a veto revealed that Manion apparently feels perfectly comfortable partnering up with Republican Ann Davison to retain power at the expense of marginalized communities, even when she seems to know very little about their needs.by Ashley NerbovigLast week, the Washington Association of Prosecuting Attorneys (WAPA) sent a letter to Governor Jay Inslee asking him to veto a section of the Strippers’ Bill of R
  
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• Slog AM: Biden and Trump Rematch, Tanya Woo Runs for City Council Again, File Your Taxes for Free

  13-03-2024 16:32 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Vivian McCallPrimary results are in: On election night in Washington, 85.6% of Democratic primary votes went to Biden while 7.5% of ballots went to uncommitted delegates. In King County, 10% of people voted uncommitted. In the Republican race, Donald Trump picked up 74% of votes. Nikki Haley, who dropped out of the race but was still on the ballot, is pulling 22%. 
  What’s the national picture: The dreaded general election rematch between Joe Bide
  
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• Your Spring Arts Itinerary

  13-03-2024 12:00 via thestranger.com
  
  There's not a single boring day this season!by Audrey VannNine-Tenths of the Law: Squatters’ Cinema
  Various showtimes through March 30
  Squatters are not a group of folks that I’d previously associated with cinema, but I’m not afraid to admit that I was wrong. “In 2019, a radical group calling itself the Cinéma La Clef Revival Collective forced their way into the derelict building which housed La Clef (The Key), a ‘70s-era cinema,” The Beacon explains. T
  
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• Where to Pickup a Copy of The Stranger's Spring A+P 2024

  13-03-2024 12:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Find it at Hundreds of Locations Around Seattle!by Megan Seling
  
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• What the Hell Is Make Believe Seattle?

  13-03-2024 12:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Make Believe Seattle runs March 21–26.by Chase HutchinsonWhat the hell even is a genre film festival? Is it just for the weirdos (a compliment!) among us who like horror and sci-fi? Isn’t every film festival technically a genre film festival, since every film fits into some kind of definable category?
  To hear it from Billy Ray Brewton, the creative director of Seattle’s genre film festival Make Believe Seattle, genre film festivals leave room for unpredictability or surprises.A
  
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• The Power of Making People of Color Invisible

  13-03-2024 12:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Stephanie Syjuco: After/Images shows at Frye Art Museum June 1–September 8.by Charles MudedeMy appreciation for Stephanie Syjuco’s impressive and influential body of work—the latest of which, After/Images, will be on display at Frye Art Museum in June—begins with Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 thriller North by Northwest.
  The key scene in this movie, for me, is when Cary Grant is on the Chicago-bound 20th Century Limited train. What gets me every time we are in the dining
  
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• Tessa Hulls’s Feeding Ghosts Is Instant Canon Fodder

  13-03-2024 12:00 via thestranger.com
  
  See Tessa Hulls at Elliott Bay Book Company Tuesday, April 23.by Rich SmithIt’s a shame that Tessa Hulls will never write another graphic novel. 
  Even though Feeding Ghosts represents her first foray into the genre, the 400-page odyssey holds its own in the company of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, Art Spiegelman’s Maus, Thi Bui’s The Best We Could Do, or any of the other major comic works that feature immigrants, the children of immigrants, and refugees processing th
  
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• Six Films You Need to See at Make Believe Seattle

  13-03-2024 12:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Make Believe Seattle runs March 21–26.by Chase HutchinsonTeenage vampires, killer deer, and a man pretending to be George Lucas are just some of the terrifying and strange things that await you at this year’s Make Believe Seattle Film Festival. No, they aren’t all in the same movie—that would be too much chaos for one feature to contain. (Or, for you filmmaking maniacs reading this, I dare you to try so we can see the result!) But even when considering the broad strokes o
  
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• Sincerely Joking

  13-03-2024 12:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Chastity Belt play the Crocodile Thursday, April 18.by Vivian McCallIt’s been nearly five years since the Seattle indie band Chastity Belt released a full album, and you can blame that on life circumstances, said drummer Gretchen Grimm on a recent Zoom call.
  For example, school and work has scattered the bandmates across the world. Grimm was calling from Seattle, where she works full-time for a home care and hospice company, while bassist Annie Truscott was calling in from LA, where they&r
  
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• Queen of Our World

  13-03-2024 12:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe will be at Third Place Books Lake Forest Park Tuesday, April 16.by Adam WillemsWith just a handful of pages to go in Thunder Song, a series of essays from award-winning Coast Salish author Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe, LaPointe asks her reader, “Are you listening yet?”
  She breaks the fourth wall, but she isn’t speaking for just herself. With poignant essays that center her own experiences, the Coast Salish landscapes, livelihoods, an
  
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• Person of Interest: TeZATalks

  13-03-2024 12:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Let’s fucking mosh!by Kevin DiersThere is no doubt in my mind that TeZATalks is destined for greatness. Decked out in ripped-up fishnets and The Crow-like face paint, she certainly stands out onstage, but underneath the goth makeup and spikes is a fierce performer who was raised in a church choir. She has a powerhouse singing voice but isn’t afraid to get raw with it and belt out an ear-ringing scream. Did I mention she can rap her ass off, too?
  TeZA won’t go into too many deta
  
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• Person of Interest: Taha Ebrahimi

  13-03-2024 12:00 via thestranger.com
  
  She knows all the secret spots to see the cherry blossom trees this season.by Megan SelingIt was kind of by accident that Taha Ebrahimi wrote a book. Especially an illustrated one about trees.
  “This is a kismet, happenstance COVID project,” she told me. “Basically, during COVID, I had all this extra time, and I was always interested in trees, but I don’t have any background in illustration or horticulture. I always thought people who knew stuff about plants and trees, tho
  
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• Person of Interest: Arson Nicki

  13-03-2024 12:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Arson Nicki is bringing the DIY spirit of drag to the fashion world.by Rachel StevensI stressed for weeks about what I was going to wear to interview fashion expert Arson Nicki. When I first saw Nicki, it was May 16, 2019, on the SIFF Opening Night red carpet. Arson Nicki was in drag and looked nothing short of iconic: she was in a yellow latex dress, a matching pussycat wig, and the mod white makeup of another life form and/or decade. 
  Turns out, I had nothing to worry about. Today, N
  
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• It’s Important That the Bug Undulates

  13-03-2024 12:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Hybrid Skin, Mythical Presence is at the Seattle Asian Art Museum through July 7.by Lindsay CostelloAnida Yoeu Ali deals heavily in dichotomies and paradoxes. As a first-generation Muslim Khmer artist born in Cambodia and raised in Chicago, Ali’s works tease out the spiritual and political underpinnings of her hybrid transnational identity. Her textile works simultaneously veil and draw attention to the form that wears them; in performance, she becomes both dazzling and obscured, a solitar
  
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• Isabel Hagen’s Comedy Strings You Along

  13-03-2024 12:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Isabel Hagen performs at Benaroya Hall Friday, May 31.by Dave SegalIsabel Hagen has made the rare transition from in-demand session violist to stand-up comedian. To be sure, there’s nothing funny about the New Yorker’s sonorous contributions to works by revered minimalist composers Steve Reich and Max Richter, art-pop genius Björk, and jazz-funk wizards Medeski Martin & Wood, among others. But while she was bowing her way through courses at Juilliard and at prestigious conce
  
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• Blowing Minds and Melting Faces

  13-03-2024 12:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Thunderpussy play Benaroya Hall Friday, May 10, with the Seattle Symphony.by Nathalie GrahamThunderpussy almost didn’t make it.
  The future looked bright for the band when they released their debut full-length Thunderpussy in 2018. They earned critical acclaim for their riff-filled brand of ’70s-inspired rock, got featured in Rolling Stone as Mike McCready’s “favorite new band,” and ended the year signing to a major label, Republic Records’s subsidiary Stardog.
  
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• Better, Stronger, Faster

  13-03-2024 12:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra will perform “SRJO Plays Blues and the Abstract Truth” at Benaroya Hall Saturday, April 20, at 7:30 pm.by Charles MudedeLet’s begin with The Six Million Dollar Man. The TV show ran from 1973 to 1978. The star, Lee Majors, played an astronaut who, after his body is damaged in the crash of a test plane/spaceship, is transformed, with the top technology of the day, into a cyborg: part human but mostly wires, circuits, metal gears, and synthetic
  
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• Art, Illness, and Auto Repair

  13-03-2024 12:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Cherdonna & the Bearded Ladies will perform Threesome at Repair Revolution April 18–20 and April 25–27.by Nico SwensonI think there is one thing we can agree on—we love Cherdonna Shinatra. 
  If that name escapes you, let me catch you up. Cherdonna is a self-described “movement artist who works in persona.” She’s been a key component of Seattle’s arts and entertainment scene for years—she won a Stranger Genius Award in 2015 and an Artis
  
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