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• Ticket Alert: Dua Lipa, Deftones, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale This Week

  19-09-2024 23:45 via everout.com
  Plus, More Event Updates for September 19by EverOut StaffCatch her or she’ll go Houdini! Dua Lipa is bringing her Radical Optimism tour to Seattle next fall. Alt-metal legends Deftones have announced a North American tour set for early next year. Plus, experimental rock bands Primus, Puscifer, and A Perfect Circle are teaming up for Sessanta V 2.0, a celebration of singer Maynard James Keenan's 60th birthday. Read on for details on those and other newly announced events.
  ON SALE FRIDAY, SE
  
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• Sonic Guild Seattle Launches Tour Support Grant

  19-09-2024 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Sonic Guild Seattle has launched a pilot grant program called Tour Support, a $36,000 pot of money the nonprofit will give to touring Seattle-area bands next year.by Vivian McCallLast month, while on a self-booked national tour, nature asked Seattle band Beautiful Freaks a question: Tornado or tropical storm?
  It was 4 am in Greenville, North Carolina. While the band’s bassist Tony LeFaive slept in the van, and the rest of the musicians slept in a house that a showgoer was nice enough to le
  
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• Seattle City Council Passes Unpopular Exclusion Zones, Reinstated Prostitution Loitering Laws

  19-09-2024 22:22 via thestranger.com
  
  The Vote Share in Half of the Exclusion Zones Did Not Go to Current Council Membersby Ashley NerbovigOn Tuesday, after more than three hours of overwhelmingly negative comments about the Seattle City Council’s proposed Stay Out of Drug Area (SODA) zones, its Stay Out of Area Prostitution (SOAP) zone, and the reinstatement of the City’s prostitution loitering laws, the council voted 8 to 1 to pass all that stuff. Members of the public, residents of these zones, sex workers, and major
  
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• Six Takeaways from Washington State’s Second Governor’s Debate

  19-09-2024 21:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Let’s chat about the highlights!by Ashley NerbovigFormer Republican US Congressman Dave Reichert let his GOP freak flag fly Wednesday during his second gubernatorial debate with Democratic Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson. The Association of Washington Business hosted the debate in Spokane, and with what sounded like a fairly conservative audience egging him on, Reichert advocated for school vouchers, attacked Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs, and said he believed &l
  
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• Fact-Checking the Seattle City Council’s Claims about Seattle’s Social Housing Movement

  19-09-2024 20:03 via thestranger.com
  
  We want to directly address the concerns council members raised about House Our Neighbors and the SSHD.by Tiffani McCoyToday the Seattle City Council will more than likely vote to place an alternative on the ballot alongside Initiative 137. Still, we wanted to address some of the more uninformed remarks that came out of certain city council members upon introducing this alternative, which was not discussed and drafted in the light of a public process. 
  First and foremost, this council alter
  
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• Have You Seen This Dog?

  19-09-2024 18:53 via thestranger.com
  
  You never know when the Welcome Wiener will wave hello.by Megan SelingHis name is Yo Dawg. Or Blink-Dawg. Or Hot Dog Man, Graffiti Weenie, Highway Hot Dog, or Welcome Weiner. Whatever you call him, you’ve likely seen the smiling, dancing, waving banger in a bun throughout the Puget Sound region. He pops up on trains, behind abandoned buildings, and in the shadows of freeway overpasses.
  Everyone loves Bill Hinker’s friendly hot dog graffiti, and I know this because when I started ment
  
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• Slog AM: A Fun Night on Twitter, Gubernatorial Candidate Dave Reichert Is a Bigot, Larger War Looms after Israel's Pager Attack

  19-09-2024 17:40 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Hannah KriegWeather: Sorta obsessed with the fall weather right now. I love when outside is room temperature. If you’ve also been enjoying the vibes, today should be another nice one for ya! Expect a cloudy start with temperatures in the low 60s. Those clouds should let in some sunshine around 1 pm, and temperatures will peak at 65 degrees in the late afternoon and early evening. 
  Dave Reichert is a bigot: If you watched the gubernatorial debate
  
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• The 15 Best Restaurants in the Seattle Area 2024

  19-09-2024 01:57 via thestranger.com
  
  Hope you're hungry: Here are the best restaurants in the Seattle area.by Meg van HuygenHey, so. As in many US cities, Seattle’s restaurants are in trouble right now. We food writers have lately found ourselves accidentally moonlighting as unlicensed therapists lately, logging countless hours hearing the very legitimate woes plaguing the restaurant industry. It’s rough out there. As I speak with our city’s restaurant owners and employees on the reg, I can’t help but feel a
  
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• Yoga Bonk

  19-09-2024 00:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by AnonymousI was lying on my yoga mat in savasana with my eyes closed just after yoga class started. Then, all of a sudden, it felt like someone had punched me right in the cheekbone. You had dropped a cork yoga block from the top shelf above me right onto my face. 
  I’m sorry for crying and leaving class. It hurt, and I was embarrassed, but it wasn’t your fault! The studio should not put the fucking shelves right above where they expect people to set up their mats. I hope
  
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