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• Rock the Riddle That’ll Make Your Body Rock

  11-10-2024 22:10 via thestranger.com
  
  To the hip hip-hop and you don't stop.by Megan SelingHistory will be made on Friday, October 18, when Charles Mudede and hiphop professor Daudi Abe perform their Stranger piece "Anatomy of a Song: The Sugarhill Gang’s 'Rapper’s Delight' (1979)" live! Onstage! At Clock-Out Lounge!
  The world has never seen a performance like this before! As they wrote in our latest Art + Performance issue, "Rapper's Delight" made hiphop accessible to the world. It's the track "that made it possibl
  
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• Flirting in the Sky and Killer Dinner Parties

  11-10-2024 21:35 via thestranger.com
  
  The Seattle Queer Film Festival is back with both in-person and virtual screenings through October 20.by Chase HutchinsonThe Seattle Queer Film Festival is back this week with both in-person and virtual screenings through October 20. Following last year’s impressive lineup, which made it one of the festival’s absolute best, this year has a shorter in-person component, running for just four days as opposed to 10. But it still boasts some solid programming from around the world, with f
  
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• The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: Oct 11–13, 2024

  11-10-2024 19:00 via everout.com
  Fresh Hop Fest, Howl-O-Ween Dog Parade, and More Cheap & Easy Events Under $15by EverOut StaffThe weekend awaits, as do fun ways to spend it, from Howl-O-Ween Dog Parade to Outsider Comics' Goblin Art Market and from the Beer Junction's Fresh Hop Fest to Twilight Soundtrack Halloween. For more ideas, check out our roundup of this week's top events and get some inspo for your next movie night by reading through our recs for Scarecrow Video's 2024 Psychotronic Challenge.
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• Slog AM: SPS Will Soon Announce Schools Slated for Closure, Budget Will Cut Tenant Services, Oregon Names Utility Company in Climate Change Suit

  11-10-2024 17:30 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Nathalie GrahamSchools still face closure: Since Seattle Public Schools' budget deficit isn't going anywhere thanks to a historic underfunding of our schools here in the Evergreen state, Superintendent Brent Jones will still need to close some elementary schools next school year. By the end of the month, he's going to announce the up to five schools that will close—which, while still bad, is a tad better than the between 17 and 21 school closures
  
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• Scarecrow’s 2024 Psychotronic Challenge: Day 10

  11-10-2024 04:00 via thestranger.com
  
  "A slice and dice set in the city so nice they named it New York."by Megan Seling10. NEW YORK NEW YORK: A slice and dice set in the city so nice they named it New York
  Basket Case
  Basket Case, Frank Henenlotter’s1982 directorial debut, has been called a lot of things: “an ultra-cheap monster film” (Variety), “E.T. as written and directed by a psychopath” (Detroit Free Press), and a “hilariously gory cult classic” (Dread Central). But do you know what els
  
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• Lights, Incense, Spontaneous Abstraction!

  11-10-2024 01:53 via thestranger.com
  
  This show was one of the strangest ever in the Paramount's classy confines—and the best-smelling one, too.by Dave SegalAndré 3000's not in the Dirty South anymore, literally or figuratively. The Grammy-winning ATLien rapper moved to LA, lost his urge to rhyme (at least with words), got heavily into flutes, and found some deep jazz cats in his area to augment his epic, enigmatic jams on the surprise 2023 album, New Blue Sun. Nearly a year later, André Lauren Benjamin's taking
  
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• Ticket Alert: John Legend, Kylie Minogue, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale This Week

  11-10-2024 00:26 via everout.com
  Plus, Nikki Glaser and More Event Updates for October 10by EverOut StaffR&B crooner John Legend is coming to town this December to serve holiday cheer, Christmas carols, and special stories. Potty-mouthed blonde and legendary roaster Nikki Glaser will serve up something crass on her Alive And Unwell tour. Plus, don’t forget to grab tickets for Australian national treasure Kylie Minogue as she promotes her Tension album and its upcoming sequel, Tension II. Read on for details on those a
  
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