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The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Memorial Day Weekend: May 24–27, 2024

24-05-2024 19:00 via everout.com

Northwest Folklife Festival, Big Ass Boombox, and More Cheap & Easy Events Under $15by EverOut StaffIf there's anything we love more than the weekend, it's a looong weekend. Fill your time with fun events that won't break the bank, from the Northwest Folklife Festival to the Crocodile's Big Ass Boombox festival and from Honoring Our Black Wall Streets to the Kinda Bookish Zine Festival. For more ideas, check out our guide to the top events of the week and our roundup of restaurants and bars

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Sound Transit Board Rejects Dumb Light Rail Proposal from Amazon and Vulcan

24-05-2024 18:00 via thestranger.com

Transit advocates got a little nervous about this proposal because Mayor Bruce Harrell, a powerful player on the board, would side with Amazon.by Hannah KriegGet fucked, Amazon. On Thursday, the Sound Transit Board of Directors did their job and picked what’s best for transit riders instead of doing favors for big business.
Last July, the board picked a spot on 7th Avenue and Harrison Street next to Aurora as their preferred alternative for the future South Lake Union station, a stop

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Instrumental Health

24-05-2024 18:00 via thestranger.com

Midpak bring precocious skills and charisma to Seattle's funk scene.by Dave SegalUnder a bridge in that nebulous zone where SoDo bleeds into Georgetown, Seattle quartet Midpak are making all ages of freaks freak out at a benefit show for Palestinians. In the cramped confines of Belltown's Jupiter Bar, the psychedelically inclined funkateers are inspiring a much smaller contingent of folks to bust moves—including bassist Sam Holman's mother. At a packed show at Barboza opening for Colombia

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Slog AM: Top UN Court Tells Israel to Cut It Out, Daily Weed Smokers Outpace Daily Drinkers, Chief Diaz's Defenders Speak Up

24-05-2024 17:27 via thestranger.com

The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Nathalie GrahamTop UN Court says stop: The United Nation's International Court of Justice has ordered Israel to immediately stop its military actions in Rafah, the southern Gaza enclave where over one million Palestinians have sought refuge. Israel will likely ignore this order. The ICJ has no way to enforce it. Still, it is a symbolic moment that will widen the gulf between the countries condemning Israel's actions and those, like the big dumb United State

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When Glamping Goes Bad

24-05-2024 00:13 via thestranger.com

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's Evil Does Not Exist Is a Surprising, Spooky Ecological Parableby Chase HutchinsonThere is nothing quite like the thrill of seeing a filmmaker gain widespread acclaim for a movie and then following that project up with something completely different in almost every way. Just when you think you have them pinned down, they upend all your expectations. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, who recently made the Oscar-winning Drive My Car, has done just that with the ecological parable E

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