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• The Top 47 Events in Seattle This Week: Apr 22–28, 2024

  22-04-2024 19:30 via everout.com
  
  Seattle Black Film Festival, Hanif Abdurraqib, and More Top Picksby EverOut StaffWe've got a special delivery: all of the best events Seattle has to offer this week in one handy roundup. Find details on everything from the Seattle Black Film Festival to the Upper Left Comedy Festival, and readings from Hanif Abdurraqib and Gabrielle Zevin, here.
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  Empress Of Live on KEXP
  Before seeing her magnetic opening set for Carly Rae Jepsen's Seattle show last fall, I was admittedly unfamil
  
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• Younger People Are Planning Their Own Composting Funerals in Washington

  22-04-2024 18:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Today's hottest Earth Day activity is planning to turn your dead body into compost.by Nathalie GrahamRecently, I logged onto a video call to plan my own funeral. 
  A care advisor with Earth Funeral, the newest Washington company to enter the human composting game, walked me through how I’d sign up to give them my body after my eventual demise and how, after a roughly month-long process, I would be turned into soil. It would cost just under $5,500. Terramation, the scientific name
  
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• We Must Save the Climate Commitment Act from Cynical Climate Arsonists

  22-04-2024 18:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Join us to engage Washington voters in the 2024 election.by Kat HolmesToday is Earth Day. But let’s get serious: Every day needs to be Earth Day. 
  What if we all commit to that? What if we see that people and nature are not separate? Then we can create this kind of world, a place in which plants and fungi, kelp and orca, people and eagles, bear and salmon—all of us will thrive. 
  What’s one easy action you can take to make that promised land closer to reality? Vote.&nb
  
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• Slog AM: GOP Nominates Semi Bird for Governor, Supreme Court to Decide on Anti-Homeless Camping Ban, Trump's Hush Money Trial Begins

  22-04-2024 17:30 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Nathalie GrahamSemi Bird wins WA GOP nomination for governor: The Washington GOP convention in Spokane this weekend was positively nutty. Former King County Sheriff Dave Reichert is leading among the GOP candidates in the polls, but delegates seemed to prefer Bird, a former Richland school board member who was recalled for flouting masking mandates deep in the early pandemic. Yet, to the dismay of delegates the GOP candidate committee disqualified Bird
  
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