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Will Doors Open Keep Doors Open?

23-09-2024 19:35 via thestranger.com

King County's new Doors Open fund is giving art and culture organizations a lot of hope.by Vivian McCallIt’s been a tough year for Taproot Theatre. Rent, production materials, and the price of fair labor are up, and, despite Artistic Director Karen Lund’s best efforts to compensate by slashing hours, positions have been left vacant. Cutting one of the theater’s three big shows a year hasn’t been enough either, with audiences still lagging 19% behind what they were before

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Pacific Northwest Ballet Opens New Season with World Premiere of Very Pretty and Spooky Swamp Dance

23-09-2024 19:13 via thestranger.com

Get your ass to the show. It’s a good one.by Rich SmithOn Friday, the Pacific Northwest Ballet kicked off its 2024/25 season with a trio of ballets that combined in my own sick brain to tell a back-to-school narrative, befitting not only early autumn’s crisp air and fresh notebooks but also the controversial budget battle on the minds of so many Seattle parents.
But enough politics for now. The show, which runs through Sept 29 at McCaw Hall, began with Edwaard Liang’s The

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The Top 50 Events in Seattle This Week: Sept 23–29, 2024

23-09-2024 19:00 via everout.com

Green Day, Connie Chung, and Moreby EverOut StaffFall is officially here and with it comes a brand-new batch of don't-miss events from Green Day - The Saviors Tour to Beabadoobee and from Connie Chung to Bob The Drag Queen's This Is Wild World Tour.
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Green Day - The Saviors Tour
The Saviors tour is named after Green Day's latest album, but the gel-haired trio is giving the people what they really want—the entirety of Dookie and American Idiot, and hopefully more of Billie

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Get In Losers, We’re Buying the City Council

23-09-2024 18:59 via thestranger.com

Progressive People Power “Fights Fire with Fire” after Big Business Spent More Than a Million Dollars to Elect Conservativesby Hannah KriegBig business bought the current city council, and progressives have decided to try to buy it back. A group of disgruntled campaign workers and failed candidates launched Progressive People Power (P3) PAC, an independent expenditure (IE) that plans to fundraise for the leftmost candidate that makes it out of the primary. They aim to even the playin

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Slog AM: Microsoft Goes Nuclear, Cards Against Humanity Sues Elon Musk, Israel Strikes Lebanon

23-09-2024 17:29 via thestranger.com

The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Nathalie GrahamDid you hear the news? It's fall y'all. #wawx
— NWS Seattle (@NWSSeattle) September 22, 2024That means today it will be cloudy. But, also kind of warmer than you'd expect.
Carjackings are up: In Seattle and around the US, carjackings are hot right now. Nationwide, the crime has more than doubled over the past few years "from 7,626 in 2019 to 19,258 in 2022," reports the Seattle Times. Locally, we've seen 66 carjackings so

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