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Laughing Matter

14-05-2024 23:33 via thestranger.com

Laraaji will perform at Seattle First Baptist Church on Saturday, May 18.by Lindsay CostelloIf you’re acquainted with avant-garde music history, you might already know the story. One day in 1979, Brian Eno happened upon Laraaji meditatively busking with an electric zither in Washington Square Park and scrawled a short note inviting him to collaborate. Equally present in the online sphere is the counterpoint that Laraaji “discovered” Eno that day, a sentiment I tend to agree wit

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The Bug Club's Sloshed, Speedy Rock and Kevin Martin's Bleak Amy Winehouse Tribute

14-05-2024 22:13 via thestranger.com

The best new music to hit Dave Segal's inbox this week.by Dave SegalThe Bug Club, "Quality Pints" (Sub Pop)
Sub Pop continues to be a safe space for unsafe non-American rock bands. For a label of its considerable size, that's admirable. The Seattle company's new signing, Wales' the Bug Club, joins other notable foreigners to its roster such as SLIFT, Deaf Wish, Vanishing Twin, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, and, going back a bit, Jennifer Gentle, and feedtime.
The Bug Club consist of bas

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Wet & Messy

14-05-2024 20:09 via thestranger.com

A new episode of Savage Love.by The StrangerHer man used to enjoy chewing tobacco, and it messed up his teeth. He has quit at her behest, but now he really needs to see a dentist. She doesn’t want to shame him for his nasty mouth, but she also doesn’t want to kiss him. How can she gently guide him into a dentists chair?
A trans man is having a hard time finding women to date him. He insists he’s a catch, but the ladies aren’t biting. Why?On the Magnum, Dan welcomes Peggy

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Slog AM: City Council Votes on Seattle Police Department Contract, Everyone Hates Mayor Bruce Harrell's Housing Plan, the Extra Bob Fergusons Withdraw

14-05-2024 17:34 via thestranger.com

The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Ashley NerbovigMorning! Sunny day today, with temperatures expected to reach 68 degrees (so close).
The gays ate garlic bread: On Monday night, about 100 people showed up at Meridian Park in Wallingford to eat garlic bread in a gathering of the gays. I chatted with Queen Anne resident Kairi, who organized the event, as she sat and watched episodes of Star Trek streaming on a projector. She said she'd put up posters advertising "gays eating garlic

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Thunderpussy Brought Abundance and Anarchy to Benaroya Hall

14-05-2024 00:12 via thestranger.com

The coolest 40-year-olds you know were there, their mullets loose, their tattoos on display.by Nathalie GrahamFog coiled above the stage of Benaroya Hall as the Seattle Symphony played the beginning notes of “Misty Morning,” the more than eight-minute-long witchy epic from Thunderpussy’s new album West. The band, clad in velvet, strutted on stage. Lead guitarist Whitney Petty, wearing a red disco suit with black feathers on her bell bottoms, played the opening notes on her guit

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