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• Ice, Ice, Baby: It's Almost Slushie Week!

  02-08-2024 21:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Slushie Week starts August 12.by The Stranger's Promotions DepartmentIt's hot. Too hot for pizza or nachos or burgers. So for our next food week we partnered with a bunch of local bars to bring you Slushie Week! It's seven days of boozy, frozen offerings designed to help you keep your cool this summer, and, best of all, they're just $8 a pop!Just a few examples to whet that whistle: Massive on Capitol Hill is serving MASSIVE Brat, a Charli XCX-inspired bright green concoction loaded with "all th
  
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• The Stranger Endorses Patty Kuderer

  02-08-2024 21:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Vote Kuderer for Insurance Commissionerby Stranger Election Control BoardThe insurance commissioner runs one of the more important agencies you’ve likely heard little to nothing about. This department of nearly 275 people negotiates prices with companies who want to offer health insurance on the state’s exchange, regulates perhaps the most vampiric industry known to capitalism, and investigates all manner of complaints related to those companies. The place is also in trouble. 
  
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• Inhumane Clown Posse

  02-08-2024 20:55 via thestranger.com
  
  See Seattle Opera's Pagliacci at McCaw Hall Aug 3-17.by Adam WillemsAsk the average Seattleite what they think of when they hear the word pagliacci and they’re almost guaranteed to answer “pizza”—or, maybe, “class action lawsuit.” One hundred years ago, though, the average denizen would have almost invariably responded with the word “opera.” And, come August 3, so can you. 
  As this year’s season opener, Seattle Opera will stage Pagliacci
  
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• The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: Aug 2–4, 2024

  02-08-2024 19:00 via everout.com
  
  Seattle World's Vintage Fair, Umoja Fest & Parade, and More Cheap & Easy Events Under $15by EverOut StaffIf you've had A Week (you know the kind), we've got dozens of cheap and easy suggestions to help you unwind this weekend. Read on for everything from Seattle Arts & Lectures' Silent Reading Picnic to Umoja Fest & Parade and from Scarecrow Video's 4th Annual Parking Lot Sale to Seattle World's Vintage Fair. For more ideas, check out our guide to the top events of the week
  
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• Stop Sanctifying James Baldwin

  02-08-2024 18:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Why I can't get James Baldwin out of my head.by Robert LashleyMy mother’s book club didn’t try to take me to see James Baldwin lecture at the University of Puget Sound in 1987 because they thought he was “God’s black revolutionary mouth,” as Amiri Baraka called him. To a person, the members were passionately cranky guardians of his work. They didn’t hesitate to call out Baldwin for the benign but noticeable mid- to late-career machismo he displayed most memora
  
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• Slog AM: US and Russia Swap Prisoners, ACLU Sues Spokane, the Blue Angels Are Back

  02-08-2024 17:40 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Nathalie GrahamPrisoner swap: The largest prisoner swap between the United States and Russia in the post-Soviet era occurred on Thursday. The deal involved 24 people who the Associated Press described as "a collection of journalists and political dissidents, suspected spies, a computer hacker and a fraudster." Russia released 16 people, including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and others facing long prison sentences. Like Gershkovich, many we
  
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