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• The Spice Must Flow

  24-04-2024 21:00 via thestranger.com
  
  We conduct a chili crisp taste test to determine the best non-Momofuku alternatives.by Julianne BellCelebrity chef David Chang, the founder of the famed Momofuku restaurant empire, inadvertently caused a social media storm earlier this month when his company attempted to enforce a trademark for the phrase “chili crunch,” even going so far as to issue cease-and-desist orders to other condiment brands using the term.
  It wasn’t long before Chang was roundly clowned upon by…
  
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• The Smallest Man in the World

  24-04-2024 21:00 via thestranger.com
  
  You are the smallest man in the world.by AnonymousI worked for you for five years. You gave me raises and promotions. The whole team took pictures with my toddler daughter at our all staff meeting, carrying her around like a little football.Later, a group of teenage girls disguised as middle-aged women you hired came forward and told you they wanted me gone so they can hire their friends.I told you two weeks ago that my husband has cancer and I’m pregnant with my second baby. So you fired
  
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• The Seattle Clean Air Collective Is Making the City's Shows and Spaces COVID Safer

  24-04-2024 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  “It’s not some niche thing that doesn’t have an audience—there’s a very large audience of people who want COVID safer nightlife."by Vivian McCallIn the summer of 2022, a COVID-19 infection sent William White to the hospital.
  The drummer for the indie rock band Glass Beach, a proggy, emo-ish four-piece that has amassed a cult following online, White got sick while traveling to Salt Lake City’s Pride Festival, a show they’d debated playing in the first pla
  
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• Why Urbanism Failed

  24-04-2024 18:43 via thestranger.com
  
  Business expectations are condemned to the quarterly. Social expectations have to be generational.by Charles MudedeI'm pro-density, pro-public transportation, pro-walkability, and pro-bike infrastructure. As you can see, these positions are shared with conventional urbanism, a movement that began in the 1960s with Jane Jacobs's famous confrontation with the car-centric city planner Robert Moses. Ten or so years after the latter was defeated, urbanism was codified in, of all places, Florida. In t
  
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• Why We Held Seder in the Streets This Year

  24-04-2024 18:00 via thestranger.com
  
  On Tuesday, over two hundred of Senator Murray’s Jewish constituents and other people of conscience held a Passover seder in the streets in front of the Federal Building where Senator Patty Murray has offices.by Ross KirshenbaumOn Tuesday, over two hundred of Senator Murray’s Jewish constituents and other people of conscience held a Passover seder in the streets in front of the Federal Building where Senator Patty Murray has offices.
  Why? Because on Tuesday, Senator Murray voted yes
  
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• Slog AM: First Seattle Police Shooting This Year, Supreme Court Hears Idaho Abortion Case, Senate Passes TikTok Ban

  24-04-2024 17:35 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Vivian McCallStudent walkout for Palestine: Students across the Puget Sound region walked out of class Tuesday to demand that the US stop aiding Israel and that Israel release Palestinian prisoners and cease its occupation of Gaza. Students at colleges and high schools in Seattle, Redmond, Olympia, Issaquah, Bellevue, and Highline planned walkouts, according to the Seattle Times. UW’s Seattle campus did not participate, but they supported high school
  
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