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• Our Top Picks for Halloween 2024 Events in Seattle

  22-10-2024 23:39 via everout.com
  Black Lagoon Bar Pop-Up, Trolloween, and Moreby EverOut StaffThe proliferation of ghouls and gourds can only mean one thing: Halloween cometh. Our Halloween calendar has hundreds of events celebrating the season of the witch, but if you’re looking for all killer, no filler, we’ve curated our top Halloween happenings below. Pick your poison from freaky film nights to haunted houses to parties where you can show off your costume. Check out our roundup of Halloween food and drink specia
  
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• Scarecrow’s 2024 Psychotronic Challenge: Day 22

  22-10-2024 23:00 via thestranger.com
  
  "Wrap your tentacles around a 'weird fiction' tale."by Lindsay Costello22. CTHULHU’S COHORT: Wrap your tentacles around a “weird fiction” tale.
  Annihilation
  Anyone within a 100-mile radius of a bookstore has heard of Jeff VanderMeer's blockbuster Southern Reach series by now, but if you haven't read the first entry, Annihilation, you might not know that it has a Lovecraftian penchant for the cosmic and unexplainable. 
  Love him or "meh" him, director Alex Garland (Men, Ex M
  
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• Mayor Bruce Harrell Proposes Repeal of Blast Ball Ban for Protests

  22-10-2024 18:56 via thestranger.com
  
  Oh great, Mayor Bruce Harrell wants to can the blast ball ban.by Ashley NerbovigLast week, Mayor Bruce Harrell proposed legislation to eliminate a ban on Seattle Police Department (SPD) officers using blast balls, as well as other “less-lethal weapons,” to move crowds during protests. Harrell’s suggested repeal would remove one of the last vestiges of local reforms that resulted from the 2020 protests. 
  In a letter to the Seattle City Council, the mayor said SPD made serio
  
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• The Rich Are Different

  22-10-2024 18:48 via thestranger.com
  
  Podcasts, columns and more at Savage.Love.by Dan SavageI am a 45-year-old woman married to a wonderful 43-year-old man. We just celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary. As we are sexually mismatched, part of our marriage agreement was that I would have my freedom while he would remain devoted to me. How has that worked out? Wonderfully, for the most part. While my husband’s focus has always been his career, which has taken us all over the world, I’ve had numerous lovers during our ma
  
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• Slog AM: Washington Loves a Wealth Tax, Teen Arrested After Five Found Dead, Trump Leads in Georgia

  22-10-2024 17:35 via thestranger.com
  
  The morning news roundup.by Ashley NerbovigGoooood morning: Ok so the government-provided weather says we will see a small chance of a drizzly morning before 8 am, but then kind of sunny day with a high of 57 degrees. 
  Washington loves a wealth tax: A new statewide poll shows that 66 percent of Washingtonians would support a property tax on financial assets of more than $250 million, according to the Seattle Times. The people polled said they'd support that money going to educatio
  
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• Scarecrow’s 2024 Psychotronic Challenge: Day 21

  22-10-2024 01:23 via thestranger.com
  
  "Musicals are hell to endure. Can I get a hell yeah!?"by Megan Seling21. STAGEFRIGHTS: Musicals are hell to endure. Can I get a hell yeah!?
  Deathgasm
  Initially, I wanted to feature Streets of Fire as today’s musical-themed pick for Scarecrow’s Psychotronic Challenge because few things are scarier than the lack of respect Streets of Fire's soundtrack gets in today's world despite the fact that it is full of legit bangers. Diane Lane fronts a new-wave punk band in a neo-noir 1980s
  
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