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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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