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• Stranger Suggests: HUMP! Part Two, Local Sightings, Charly Bliss, Xiu Xiu, R-Day

  18-09-2024 23:00 via thestranger.com
  
  One really great thing to do every day of the week.by Megan SelingWEDNESDAY 9/18  
  Suns Out Ones Out: A Queer Sick Pay Fund Fundraiser
  (PERFORMANCE) The Queer Sick Pay Fund, founded by Betty Wetter and Shane Donohue and Elby Brosch of the Drama Tops, is a safety net for Seattle's queer nightlife performers, and they're hosting a fundraiser and auction on September 18 at the Clock-Out Lounge. Performers include Bosco, Fox Whitney + Will Courtney, Moscato Sky, and Betty Wetter. Donohue d
  
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• Sick Pay for the Sickening

  18-09-2024 22:15 via thestranger.com
  
  qSPF is holding a fundraiser and auction on September 18 at the Clock-Out Loungeby Javi BerkmanBetty Wetter was a month into planning the Queer Sick Pay Fund when she tested positive for COVID-19. She had to miss all her gigs for the end of Pride Month. “I work hard during June, and then I usually take July off because that amount of work is crucial, and so was the income,” Wetter says.
  Wetter has appeared on KING 5, extensively toured with her own shows, and hosted high-profile even
  
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• Anatomy of a Song

  18-09-2024 18:40 via thestranger.com
  
  We’ve decided to dive into one of hiphop’s founding documentsby Charles MudedeThe presence of Snoop, Flavor Flav, and the establishment of breaking as a sport marked the 2024 Olympics in Paris as a hiphop event. This is not surprising. Hiphop is now the most listened-to genre in the United States and has had a huge impact on Korean and Latin American pop.
  But how did we get here? It began in the fall of 1979, when hiphop was an unknown art form to most of the country. That year, Sylv
  
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• What’s So Funny About Disability?

  18-09-2024 18:37 via thestranger.com
  
  Tina Friml performs at Here-After on Friday, September 27, and Saturday, September 28.by Mindie LindIn November of last year, I was scrolling through my Instagram feed when I saw a post by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon of a redheaded woman—wearing clothes I wish I owned—coming out from behind the curtain. A fan of comedy, I held off on moving on before I heard her say, “I am a fully functioning disabled adult living in NYC, I’ve got very ‘You go, girl&rsquo
  
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• Our Fall Art + Performance 2024 Magazine Is Out Now!

  18-09-2024 18:35 via thestranger.com
  
  Welcome to the biggest Arts + Performance issue we’ve ever made. Phew!by Hannah Murphy WinterWelcome to the biggest Arts + Performance issue we’ve ever made. Phew!
  The issue hits the stands today, and you can use our map to find a copy of your very own. And we’ll be rolling out the stories here on TheStranger.com over the next two weeks, so keep checking back. 
  It’s been a rough few years in the world of art and culture. In 2020, we asked our venues, restaurants, and
  
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• Slog AM: City Council Passes SOAP and SODA, A Bunch of Local Debates, Kentucky to Ban Conversion Therapy

  18-09-2024 17:40 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Vivian McCallCouncil passed SOAP and SODA: Yesterday, the Seattle City Council voted 8 to 1 to create six exclusion zones for drug users and one exclusion zone for sex workers. The policies allow judges to banish people from these areas if they’ve committed certain crimes, and the prostitution loitering law they reinstated permits cops to arrest people for beckoning drivers and leaning through car windows if those actions look sex worker-y enough to t
  
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• Art & Performance Fall 2024 Pickup Locations

  18-09-2024 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Our Fall Arts Magazine Is Available at Hundreds of Places Around the Puget Soundby Stranger Staff
  
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• K-12 Education Finance 101: A People’s Guide

  18-09-2024 02:00 via thestranger.com
  
  A crash course on how Washington's schools are funded.by Oliver Treanor MiskaThis article originally appeared in the South Seattle Emerald. 
  If you are reading this article about school funding policy because you are mad about school closures, then you are moving toward becoming an advocate for fully and equitably funding schools. 
  In this 15-part series, we will occasionally venture into the often complicated details of how our schools are funded. Each article that will examine school
  
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• City Council Alternative to I-137 Protects Wealthy Donors at the Expense of the Voters’ Will

  18-09-2024 00:56 via thestranger.com
  
  The original measure funds social housing by taxing the wealthy, and the council’s alternative does neither.by Hannah KriegAfter weeks of beating around the bush, Council Members Maritza Rivera, Cathy Moore, Bob Kettle, and Tanya Woo proposed a competing measure to the citizen-run initiative, I-137, which would fund social housing with a new tax on businesses that pay any employee more than $1 million. Instead, the council wants to avoid imposing new taxes on big business, the interest gro
  
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