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• The Stranger's Gladvent Calendar

  20-11-2024 22:20 via thestranger.com
  
  Countdown to 2025 with One Really Great Thing to Do Every Day in December!by Stranger StaffWow, things got weird this year, huh? Chances are you want to tuck under a stack of weighted blankets and sleep until 2028. Us, too! We have to push forward, but there will be plenty of time to fight in 2025. For now, we party! Seattle is one of the only cities in America that got shit right on November 5, so let’s rejoice and celebrate the fact that We! Are! Great! Chug festive cocktails! Get happy
  
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• A Flurry of Winter Fun!

  20-11-2024 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Well, it looks like we’re headed into unprecedented times—again.by Hannah Murphy WinterWell, it looks like we’re headed into unprecedented times—again. 
  We put this issue together the week after the election, while we were somewhere between the anger and bargaining phases of the seven stages of grief. But part of that bargaining was deciding that we want nice things this winter. We want batch cocktails and potluck dinners and art galleries that make us cry. We want t
  
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• Stranger Suggests: Julefest, Seattle International Butoh Festival, Meow Brow, United Indians Native Art Market, BEAT

  20-11-2024 21:28 via thestranger.com
  One really great thing to do every day of the week.by Dave SegalWEDNESDAY 11/20  
  Following Space Community Opening
  (VISUAL ART) Celebrate the opening of Seattle Art Museum's latest two-person exhibition, Following Space: Thaddeus Mosley & Alexander Calder, for free at this gathering. Curator Catharina Manchanda will offer a 15-minute overview of the exhibition, and pianist/composer Victor Noriega will add a touch of class with layered, complex compositions. Docents will lead tours
  
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• Where to Celebrate Beaujolais Nouveau Day 2024 in Seattle

  20-11-2024 20:14 via everout.com
  Four Events for Fruity Wineby EverOut StaffThe third Thursday of November (November 21 this year) marks Beaujolais Nouveau Day, when France's most famous vin de primeur (a wine that may be sold the same year it is made) is released upon the world, fresh from the harvest. As former Stranger writer Tobias Coughlin-Bogue wrote following Trump's election in 2016, "Amid the sodden misery of November in Seattle, there is always one bright spot: Beaujolais Nouveau Day...Why do you give a shit about som
  
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• Heaven Scent

  20-11-2024 19:00 via thestranger.com
  See Fischersund: Faux Flora at the National Nordic Museum through January 26, 2025.by Lindsay CostelloIf an ethereal falsetto singing in an invented language wafted into your ears sometime over the last three decades, chances are good that it was Jónsi’s. But the Icelandic singer and multi-instrumentalist behind the post-rock band Sigur Rós is also invested in another immersive, ephemeral medium: He creates perfume with his sisters Lilja, Inga, and Sigurrós Birgis
  
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• The City Council Anti-Tax Majority’s Parting Shot Is One Final Middle Finger to the Poor

  20-11-2024 18:23 via thestranger.com
  If this budget season has shown us anything, it's that Seattle City Council's anti-tax majority worships at the altar of their rich donors while working people pray for scraps. They’ve spent their time in office rejecting, limiting, or hoping for the eventual end of progressive taxation with the pompous, unspoken assertion that they are the fiscally responsible adults in the room. But they have no claim to intellectual superiority when yesterday they voted to siphon off $360 million from t
  
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• Slog AM: Big Winds, Boeing Holiday Layoffs, Trump Picks Dr. Oz to Run Medicaid and Medicare

  20-11-2024 17:41 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news round-up.by Vivian McCallThat was a big storm: The winds from the bomb cyclone eased around 4 am, but last night the National Weather Service in Seattle clocked winds of 77 mph winds on Mount Rainier, 74 mph in Enumclaw, 57 mph in Federal Way, and 55 mph at Sea-Tac Airport, a speed that diverted flights. A buoy in Canadian waters recorded the highest windspeed of 101 mph at around 6 pm last night. At least two people are dead. One woman died when a tree fell on her wh
  
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• Do You Want to Color a Snowman?

  20-11-2024 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  We’ll feature your creations throughout the season, and pick our favorites to win a prize!by Stranger StaffThe happy and dapper snowman on our cover, designed by the great German artistic duo Yeye Weller, is hoping you can give him a makeover. So bust out those markers, crayons, glitter, and glue, and make him slay for the holidays!Snap a pic and share it with us on Instagram, @thestrangerseattle, using the hashtag #strangercoloringcontest. We’ll feature your creations throughout the
  
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