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• Have You Seen Sadako Sasaki?

  12-07-2024 21:03 via thestranger.com
  
  Someone apparently cut off "Sadako and the Thousand Cranes" at her ankles, leaving only her disembodied feet in Peace Park.by Hannah KriegQuakers from University Friends Meeting ask that Seattleites keep an eye out for a life-size statue of Sadako Sasaki that went missing from her home in Peace Park last night. Someone apparently cut off the statue at her ankles, leaving only her disembodied feet at the park. The statue, known as Sadako and the Thousand Cranes, depicts a young Japanese girl
  
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• Mayor Harrell's Plan to Convert Office Buildings into Apartments Is a Big Distraction

  12-07-2024 20:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Our supposedly broke city wants to throw money at developers to make even more unaffordable apartments.by Charles MudedeOn Tuesday, the city council unanimously approved Bruce Harrell's big plan to encourage developers to convert empty office buildings into apartments. There are, of course, more rational ways to deal with Seattle's housing crisis, which has less to do with supply, and more to do with what the urban geographer David Harvey calls "accumulation by dispossession." But a consistently
  
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• The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: July 12–14, 2024

  12-07-2024 19:00 via everout.com
  
  Ballard SeafoodFest, West Seattle Summer Fest, and More Cheap & Easy Events Under $15by EverOut StaffThis July weekend, sunny weather and enticing events from West Seattle Summer Fest to Ballard SeafoodFest and from Hot Off the Press Book Fair to Seeking Cultura Mexican Filipino Tianguis Block Party are sure to draw you out of the house. Read on for more promising options, and for more ideas, check out our guide to this week's top events.
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  Center City Cinema
  Seattle Park
  
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• Meddling in the Middle Ages with the Society for Creative Anachronism

  12-07-2024 18:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Anyone is welcome so long as they stick to the rules: Keep it pre-17th century.by Nathalie GrahamFremont’s KapKa Cooperative Elementary School smelled of rubber, stale sweat, and nostalgia. The smack of duct-tape-wrapped rattan swords on real steel armor reverberated across the room. Fighters thrust swords and sidestepped blows across faded three-point lines. 
  Every Monday in this gym, fencers, fighters, and rapier-wielders gather for combat practice. On different Mondays, dancers lea
  
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• Seattle City Council Puts Renter Protections in Its Sights

  12-07-2024 18:00 via thestranger.com
  
  If they come for renters' rights, they'll draw lefty wrath yet again.by Hannah KriegAt a committee meeting with affordable housing landlords on Wednesday, Council President Sara Nelson said she wanted to “examine” Seattle’s renter protections. The plain English translation of that politician-speak could mean reworks, rollbacks, or repeals to nominal working-class victories won by previous councils, such as the recent $10 cap on rental late fees, the First-in-Time ordinance, the
  
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• Slog AM: AT&T Data Breach Impacts 110 Million, West Seattle Businesses Protest Light Rail, Biden's Bumbling Press Conference

  12-07-2024 17:40 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Nathalie GrahamAT&T's big leak: Bad news, AT&T customers and probably anyone who's texted or called AT&T customers, a big, fat data leak in 2022 exposed all call and text message records of anyone using their network between May 1, 2022 and October 31, 2022. That's likely 110 million people. AT&T says the leak does not contain any of the content in these texts or calls. The cellular provider found out about this leak in April while they
  
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