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• Belonging Should Be Simple, but It Never Is

  25-11-2024 22:08 via thestranger.com
  Katie Lee Ellison interviews Mike Fu about his debut novel, Masqueradeby Katie Lee EllisonI was lucky enough to meet Mike Fu in a crowd of brilliant writers, translators, and publishers in Tokyo. Lucky particularly because he's not from Japan, but Chinese-American, and because we instantly found things in common: a youth partly spent in New York, and connections to Tin House, his publisher, and therefore, to Portland and the Pacific Northwest. I understood quickly after meeting him is that Fu, b
  
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• The Top 36 Events in Seattle This Week: Nov 25–Dec 1, 2024

  25-11-2024 19:00 via everout.com
  Cyndi Lauper, Kumail Nanjiani, and Moreby EverOut StaffThis week brings Thanksgiving, plus a bounty of other exciting happenings to be thankful for, from Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour to Latto and from Kumail Nanjiani: Doing This Again to the kick off of Winterfest.
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  At this point, the Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Love" should be added to the Great American Songbook. The 1981 banger has been sampled in nearly 200 different songs, including Mariah Care
  
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• Slog AM: Power Still Out for 20,000 in Washington, Gaetz Gets on Cameo, A Garden Gnome of MDMA

  25-11-2024 16:57 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news round-up.by Nathalie GrahamLet there be light: Power is back on for most people—96% of Puget Sound Energy customers—after last week's bomb cyclone. Yet, around 20,000 people are still in the dark. Most of the powerless are east of Lake Washington, in places such as Issaquah, Renton, and Sammamish. PSE crews have been working around the clock to restore what the storm knocked out, but the work is painstakingly slow. 
  Moist Monday: Rain again.
  
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