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• Seattle Floats Subsidized Housing for Cops in the Face of a Homelessness Crisis, a Huge Budget Deficit, and a Million Other Actual Problems

  15-03-2024 23:43 via thestranger.com
  
  Other Cities Have Tried Paying for Cop Housing, and It Doesn’t Appear to Reel 'Em Inby Ashley NerbovigThe Seattle City Council pitched some ideas on Tuesday for how to retain and recruit Seattle Police Department (SPD) officers. Ideas included higher raises, providing child care, and allowing cops to take home their patrol cars. City Council President Sara Nelson, who has criticized the City in the past for its “unsustainable” spending, floated the idea of the housing subsidies
  
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• Arushi Jain's Blissful Electronic Fusions and Bruno Pronsato's Puzzling Techno Genius

  15-03-2024 21:15 via thestranger.com
  
  The best new music to hit Dave Segal's inbox this week.by Dave SegalArushi Jain, “Imagine an Orchestra” (Leaving)
  As anyone who caught her 2023 set opening for the analog-synth legend Suzanne Ciani at Seattle's First Baptist Church can attest, Arushi Jain is a sublime instrumentalist/vocalist. Her renditions of Hindustani classical music realized on modular synthesizers made her fusions of ancient and modern/Eastern and Western sound like golden silk feels. Also, it's exceptionally r
  
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• BE/ST FRI/ENDS

  15-03-2024 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Lindy West and Meagan Hatcher-Mays will host a live episode of Text Me Back at Town Hall Friday, March 15.by Megan SelingLook, I love true crime podcasts as much as the next Gen Xer who grew up in the Pacific Northwest where the evergreen trees whisper Gary Ridgway, Robert Lee Yates, and Ted Bundy's names. But as the world gets increasingly overwhelming, so can the constant stream of murder. Comedy podcasts can be an entertaining alternative, but I don't always want to completely ignore the hell
  
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• The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: Mar 15–17, 2024

  15-03-2024 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  St. Patrick's Day Celebrations, U District Cherry Blossom Festival, and More Cheap & Easy Events Under $15by EverOut StaffIt's your lucky day—you've found your way to the corner of the internet that's gonna give you the best intel on how to spend your weekend. Peruse solid gold events from the 53rd Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade to Irish Festival Seattle and from U District Cherry Blossom Festival to Ma’Chell M. Duma: 33 1/3rd - Invasion Of Privacy.
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• All Apologies

  15-03-2024 18:00 via thestranger.com
  
  An interview with Dusty Henry and Martin Douglas of KEXP.by Megan SelingI was skeptical when I first heard about KEXP's newest podcast, The Cobain 50. The series, hosted by Dusty Henry and Martin Douglas, is a weekly look at the titles featured on Kurt Cobain’s handwritten list of “Top 50” albums. Cobain wrote the list sometime in the early '90s (it includes PJ Harvey's Dry, which was released in 1992) and it was published posthumously in 2002 in Journals. Since then, it has be
  
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• 'Here Because' Made the Future of Seattle Dance Look Bright

  15-03-2024 17:52 via thestranger.com
  
  The Showcase Featured an Incredible Diversity of Movement and Some Emerging Generational Talentsby Rich SmithLast Friday at 12th Avenue Arts, the Seattle Project and Velocity Dance Center premiered here because, an evening of contemporary dance that aimed to answer a few of the questions implied by the show's title; namely, why are all these dancers working together here in Seattle, and how come they haven't moved to LA or New York yet?
  Though I left the theater still wondering a little about th
  
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• University of Washington Students Bemoan Choices for President, Contemplate Not Voting

  15-03-2024 17:00 via thestranger.com
  
  With the uncommitted delegate protest vote falling short, young voters may see a threat to stay home in November as the only thing that will make President Biden move their way.by Saida NorOn the last day of voting in Washington’s 2024 presidential primaries, the US response to the war in Palestine and a general distrust of the federal government left some University of Washington students contemplating whether they should vote at all. 
  An increase in the number of disillusioned, coll
  
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• Slog AM: Boeing and Alaska Point Fingers, PornHub Bans Texas, Dengue Fever's New Fervor

  15-03-2024 16:32 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Nathalie GrahamAlaska throws Boeing under the (air) bus: Alaska Airlines and Boeing are each facing around four lawsuits for the January mid-flight door blowout. In court this week, Alaska claimed it wasn't responsible for bad manufacturing or design defects and that Boeing should take all the blame for any harm caused to passengers. Yet, while Boeing did massively fuck up by not properly testing, maintaining, or inspecting the plane, Alaska still allowed i
  
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