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• The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: July 19–21, 2024

  19-07-2024 19:00 via everout.com
  
  Alki Art Fair, Seafair Indian Days Powwow, and More Cheap & Easy Events Under $15by EverOut StaffDon't let your weekend go to waste. We're beckoning you out of the house with cheap and easy events from the Alki Art Fair to the Seafair Indian Days Powwow and from the Chinatown Seafair Parade to the Seattle Latinx Pride Festival. For more ideas, check out our guide to the top events of the week.
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  SPORTS & RECREATION
  NWSL x LIGA MX Femenil Summer Cup
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• The Writing Is on the Wall for Seattle's Empty Office Buildings

  19-07-2024 18:00 via thestranger.com
  
  If we turn to a future that's not far from now, we can see why the top capitalists of society are aggressively pushing for Donald Trump's return to the White House. He is likely to do little or nothing about the growing crisis in the CRE market.by Charles MudedeDespite all of the promising talk about transforming commercial buildings into residential ones (a win-win), this sector is likely to crash (a win-lose) some time next year. If you pay attention to the way things are heading politically,
  
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• Slog AM: Global Tech Outage Fucks Up Everything, UN Court Rules Israeli Occupation Illegal, Biden Is Still in the Race

  19-07-2024 17:40 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Nathalie GrahamBoy, slow news week, huh? Hahahhaha. Strap in. Windows update from hell: While you were sleeping, a global technology outage grounded flights, knocked banks and hospitals offline, and quieted media outlets. The Milan stock exchange couldn't compile stocks for an hour. Australia's news anchors couldn't broadcast due to "blue screens of death." Surgeries are stalled in Germany. Olympic uniforms can't make it to Paris. In the US, Unite
  
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• Mayor Bruce Harrell and Denny Blaine Donor Texted about the “Problem of Nudity” at Nude Beach

  19-07-2024 03:24 via thestranger.com
  
  Ultimately, after pushback from the LGBTQ community and an impassioned public meeting, the mayor and city killed the plan on December 8, 2023.by Vivian McCallNewly obtained text messages that Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell sent from his personal cell phone to millionaire philanthropist Stuart Sloan reveal that both men share a mutual “disgust” for the “nudity” at Denny Blaine Park, a long-time queer nude beach. In the texts, Sloan described the beach as attracting a &ld
  
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• Ticket Alert: Don Toliver, Santigold, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale This Week

  19-07-2024 01:24 via everout.com
  
  Plus, More Event Updates for July 18by EverOut StaffBillboard charting rapper Don Toliver will embark on his Psycho tour, his biggest headline tour to date, this fall. Genre-defying gem Santigold will stop in Seattle to support her 2022 album, Spirituals. Plus, set a reminder: tickets for bedroom pop singer-songwriter Clairo are going on sale next week. Read on for details on those and other newly announced events.
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• A Major EDM Club Opens on Minor Avenue

  19-07-2024 00:13 via thestranger.com
  
  VICE Seattle Promises Michelin Star Nightlife Actionby Dave Segal"It's probably a good thing you're wearing a mask," Guy Godefroy tells me as we walk through the main room of the ambitious new Capitol Hill nightclub, VICE Seattle, which is saturated with construction dust. Four days before VICE's July 19 red carpet grand opening, workers are furiously grinding, sawing, drilling, and hammering. Consequently, we had to conduct the interview in a remote, concrete-walled stairwell. 
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• The Stranger Endorses Tana Senn

  19-07-2024 00:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Vote Senn for LD No. 41, Rep. Position No. 1by Stranger Election Control BoardFor someone who represents Mercer Island, State House Representative Tana Senn isn’t so bad. She sponsored and passed a bill to allow the Washington State Patrol to actually destroy the guns they confiscate, ending the State’s role as a gun dealer. On housing issues, she voted for rent stabilization and supports a 7% cap on rent increases. She also passed funding for electric school buses, which she highlig
  
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